Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

In Texas you can tell April is right around the corner when the Bluebonnets start showing. The state flower.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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It looks like one of the last repairs on this tractor was a muffler pipe repair with an aluminum pie plate and wire.

That confirms it, dad’s been to Texas.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Enjoying the evening with George Jones, George strait, Alan Jackson & a few others

 

[Alien]

Enjoying the evening with George Jones, George strait, Alan Jackson & a few others

Some of my favourites as well

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I am...appointment is on 12 April...

Go to a walk in clinic, if you need to be seen sooner. They can get you to higher health care, if needed, with more expediency.

Billy, if you're worn out, I would be thrashed if I did all you did.

Drew, my SIL had TMJ (gritting teeth), she got some surgery. This was at least a decade or more ago. She's better now, but I don't think tinnitus was a symptom for her.

Popgadget, I love those pictures. Above the clouds, in your own little world, above all the world's turmoil's, if just for a few hours. Does she cruise around 435-450 knots give or take? Maybe more light loaded?

Bupps, praying for your healing and feeling better, and for our team.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 44ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Wind went from light to windy, Sky clouded up some, and high temp was 66ºF, DP 28ºF. Slow start, did go for bike ride, went to Sherman for lunch, bike tires and shopping. Nap after return home.
Kyle good work on your homemade replacement part.
Helogabals really sorry about screw in new tire.
Roy sorry to hear not 100% Thanks for the heads up.
Buppies tell that surgery to heal up right now, $650/ tire, what are they made of?
Bill good luck with tank change over. I stopped wearing glass 30 years ago when I could get the "photogrey" lenses in plastic. safety lenses much lighter in plastic
Bill sounded like a lot of work to reroute, hope it works out.
Drew it is a shame some go to church to find politics. hope rain does not flood new plantings.
Bird good to hear good sleep last night.
KilroyJC welcome to GM thread. What altitude are you at ?
Don hope the shoulder goes as well as the knee.Gas was 3.59/gal in Sherman. Good news on check. After knocking on wood, few flats since cleaning up screws/nails on last construction site.
Ken sorry about the clouds for tonight, making nice dent in the frontage.
RNG Sorry about the water pump job, but not a vane left on the old pump Wow on Death Valley gas pricing
Helo glad getting tire fixed was that easy.
PJ one of my cycle buddies from Wichita, text pic of his back yard, 2 inch snow. Sorry about trip home.
Randy sorry about getting sick so often.
Ted hope you found your motivation. Congrats on weight loss hope you make target.
Drew sorry about no cure, hope bite guard helps.
Don 3.669 not bad price
RS impressive sleep session. Hope target rich environment was "dented".
Bird .02 in gauge, nice. 3.399 more impresivve than Don's price.
Bill gos to near town run productive
Paul friend that lives in ICT got about 2 inches of surprise. glad flight was good, is this annual event? nice pics
Roy might want to see a Dr.
Dennis good to hear feeling better. Homemade chowder sounds good as well.
Randy(wag) sorry about the winds, hope meeting went well.
Randy plow days sounds like fun show.
Don nice shortcut. poor tractors, but nice pics
Don nice blue bells, alway see a lot of them when going to Easter Hill County Tour (but not this year).
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery and breathing, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer recovery, /wife head wound healing, Thomas/gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, / passing out issues, /family issues, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes /rib, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery follow up, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues /dog seizure, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, James /wife's fall and recovery, PJ /wife's uncle passing, Ukraine war, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

https://www.livescience.com/cannibal-coronal-mass-ejection-inbound

I hope some of you get to see this tonight. I was 5 or so the only time I saw the Northern lights in KY.

Scaried the crap out of me. Actually it was my emotional grandfather running around shouting the lord is come that scared the crap out of me.

I thought the green sky was beautiful.

 

[rswyan]

39F with some rain @ 22:45.

Got battery charger hooked up on the van.

Then headed up to the shop and fired up the double-barrel stove.

Worked on doing clean up and putting some tools away.

Also fished the remnants of the other (rear) yoke and u-joint out of the center frame tunnel section on the Kubota. Still need to locate my magnetic pickup tools.

Wasn't much left of the u-joint. Also scraped and blew that area out, had a lot of grass debris that was soaked with hydraulic oil in there. Need to bring up a smaller plastic scraper and a couple other blowguns tomorrow from the house.

Cleaned off some wire clamps and the carrier bearing and housing in the parts washer, need to clean out the parts washer and change the fluid in it ... it's pretty bad ...

Loaded up the stove and banked it down before I left, temp inside the building was 81F ... hopefully will be relatively warm tomorrow morning ...

Will finish up at least one plant order and then grab a shower before I hit the rack.

Hope everyone had a great day.

 

[txdon]

Don nice blue bells, alway see a lot of them when going to Easter Hill County Tour (but not this year).

Texas is famous for bluebonnets and Bluebell Ice cream but not blue bell flowers.

 

[Buppies]

47 high in 50s today .65 in of rain yesterday but wind very strong lost power for a couple of hours

Hope you feel better Roy

Prayers for all our Country Ukrainian people

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-04-01, 0630

45° right now, and that's about where it's going to stay...rainy too
Off work for an appointment today
Figured I'd do some tractor work today, but it's too wet...

 

[Bird]

Texas is famous for bluebonnets and Bluebell Ice cream but not blue bell flowers.

I noticed the first Bluebonnets of the year in my neighborhood yesterday.

47° this morning going for 68° with a 50% chance of more rain late tonight.

 

[toppop52]

https://www.livescience.com/cannibal-coronal-mass-ejection-inbound

I hope some of you get to see this tonight. I was 5 or so the only time I saw the Northern lights in KY.

Scaried the crap out of me. Actually it was my emotional grandfather running around shouting the lord is come that scared the crap out of me.

I thought the green sky was beautiful.

Around 1959-60 we were able to see the Aurora in northeastern NC for a couple of nights. It was fairly faint but distinct enough to see.

 

[riptides]

48 outside this AM. Heading to mid 50's.

Been busy at work and on the home front. Restarted the Milk House renovation. All cleaned out and a "new" door installed. Had to rework the framing from the concrete up. Ordered new windows and they are awaiting install. Had to return one, the big box store messed up and gave me the wrong one. Did not notice it until I got home. No grilles vs grilles. Another hour on the road to return and pickup.

Accessing storm damage from yesterday. Had a microburst that took out some trees, half a run in shed roof, barn windows and more trees. Lucky no animals were hurt. Called the insurance company, and today is clean up day.

Hope all are doing well. Stay safe.

Praying for Ukraine.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 24 going to a high off 30°F. Wind NNW 15 gusting to 21 mph. 60% chance of flurries. We've gotten 1/2" of snow overnight.
It is going to warm up next week, so maybe I can get some stuff done.
Other than the drive south from the bay, I never experienced the 'high winds' that we were warned about.

I've already tucked the block heater cord back in it hole where it lives for the summer under the hood of the Dodge, so it had better not get cold again.

The two day seminar coming up has turned into a three day session. The good thing is the company is picking up two of the motel rooms I had booked. This is a good thing.

One of the stops in the Markham area isn't going to happen...I don't need to sell some silver now, so I will sit on it and maybe buy some more depending on how much loot I have left before my first paycheck of the season.

I don't know what I will get into today, but I can guarantee it wont be much.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

good morning all
50 out now, going up to 53 in clouds and maybe a shower. .87 rain last night, watered flowers nicely.

I'm off to garden center this morning for bags of compost, then to supermarket.
Been studying the 10 day forecast, little dicey to plant outside yet

Rip, sorry you lost that roof.

 

[Thomas]

Hellooo April and good bye March,March indeed was lion of month for us.

45F and just about reach today's today high temp light rain falling.
Last night between heavy rains at times wind warmer temps lot of snow melt.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...Weather radar showing break almost several from rain hope to rake another section were it's dryer,other than that it's date night.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Thomas]

48 outside this AM. Heading to mid 50's.

Been busy at work and on the home front. Restarted the Milk House renovation. All cleaned out and a "new" door installed. Had to rework the framing from the concrete up. Ordered new windows and they are awaiting install. Had to return one, the big box store messed up and gave me the wrong one. Did not notice it until I got home. No grilles vs grilles. Another hour on the road to return and pickup.

Accessing storm damage from yesterday. Had a microburst that took out some trees, half a run in shed roof, barn windows and more trees. Lucky no animals were hurt. Called the insurance company, and today is clean up day.

Hope all are doing well. Stay safe.

Praying for Ukraine.


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Hope the repair go smoothly and quickly.

 

[wngsprd]

53 going to 62 and windy again...only .15" of rain here yesterday.

Don, those old tractors are cool. It's amazing to see some like those get restored and look brand new...an RFD show called Classic Tractor Fever often shows that. Are they on your neighborhood's property?

Glad you're feeling better, BEF.

Kyle, nice work on that rod. How's the job decision coming?

Took a day off, kinda, and did a Costco run with my sweet wife...I say kinda because after lifting 40 lb bags of bird seed, 40 bottle packs of water, and other mega size goods, I feel like I went to the gym. Then went to the Tex-Mex place for a lunch treat. The gas line wasn't too bad, just 2 cars, but the guy in front struggled for over 5 minutes to try to get the pump to take his Amex card. I caught up with him inside shopping and we had a good laugh.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 52 and lots of rain/wind last night, but no power outages. Guess most of the Ash near the lines has fallen?

Didn't get much done, changed the face shield out on my forester helmet.

Rip- glad it was only outbuildings that got hit. Hope insurance covers everything.

Pools guy was here to repair the broken pipe, cement cutting, new fittings on 2 places. Glad he finally came, will be ready for opening day.

Stays safe and be well,