Good morning!!!!

[Looking4new]

Happy Birthday LS!

2" of snow coming tonight. YUK! Below freezing overnights until Saturday night.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! I think it was a good one....
The misses and I enjoyed a very good pizza and blueberry filled fresh baked crescents.....
AND.... got the bed filled / completed with fresh mulch! Nice weather for the job! I feel accomplished....

Time for the feets to go up......

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Alien (Doug) ..... I think I have to start a new real estate search in SE Queensland!..... you definitely have interesting neighbors!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Don, I am glad I ate earlier...... when I first saw the pic..... well I thought they were some chocolate covered grasshoppers..... almost lost it....

However, would chocolate covered grasshoppers be considered plant based?

 

[check]

Bare naked Bill in his sneakers mowing the lawn
now there's a vision for a calendar I'm sure...

So Bill is a nudie, eh?

Man, that explains a LOT.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

The wifey kept the pressure on for me to decide on a "birthday dinner"...... I don't want her staying in the kitchen all day, so I told her 'pizza'..... it worked.

Kyle, nice to hear that your daughter is doing well. Those occasional "stern talks" usually work well on sons..... Glad you got some rain.

Happy Birthday Ted!

I believe he's ready for another "stern" talk.


All 5 of us are blue eyed. Born blonde, but migrate to sandy brown hair around as teenagers. My 2 youngest are still blonde, but not as blond as Helogabal's children. I told my oldest daughter, "Your blue eyes are so beautiful, they make me glad I married a blue eyed wifey".....

Might need to get some Hollytone, to give our 1 blueberry bush some love.

I started up a twitter account.

I hope Eric is alright.

I used the bigger tractor to unload the auction 286 Bush Hog off the trailer. Sure is nice not dripping a pint of fluid every 10 minutes....Deere oil is $95./5 gallons, TSC oil is $59./5 gallons.

my friend that bought the auctioned Massey (with a known no reverse problem), finally split it. He's astounded by some of the part's prices. The clutch friction plate is $450. He said there is actually quite a bit of damage, and the tally of parts is up to about $4500. Ouch. He says "at least they are available in stock". I didn't have the heart to tell him I'm him-hawing over spending a hundred bux on the old, old Kohler K301 engine....but now that I made the adapter plate, I guess I will...

That bird flu epidemic is horrible. It is what changed my wife's mind about getting some more baby chicks.

 

[txdon]

Don, I am glad I ate earlier...... when I first saw the pic..... well I thought they were some chocolate covered grasshoppers..... almost lost it....

However, would chocolate covered grasshoppers be considered plant based?

Not even close, you have much to learn grasshopper. Happy birthday!
I looked at the pic again and they do look like grasshoppers, I'm going to change the name of the snack to LS Grasshoppers.

 

[Alien]

Hey Ted, I sometimes miss posts but hope you have a great birthday mate.

Remote controlled solar gate opener kit just arrived. Now I have another job. New posts, concrete etc. I do make work for myself.

 

[Wagtail]

Good early arvo all. Overnight low was 9C and the high will struggle to reach 16C, calm and 0.8mm in the gauge at 0900. It's been raining all day and should continue 'til late tomorrow.

Just got back from my weekly town/groceries run (Wednesdays are 5% Seniors Discount) and I remembered to book a flu shot with the local clinic.

Nothing else planned... take care all.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 45ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light to moderate wind, mostly clear sky, and high temp was 72ºF, DP 36ºF. Bike ride this morning, was nice to have more normal wind to deal with, also still has water over road at LW#2. Nap after lunch then go to CPAP mask fitting, will try it out tonight.
Randy(wag) Enjoy your rain. That was a long day yesterday, you earned the sleep-in.
Don sorry so little rain fell, DFW had at leat 2 inch over most of area. Hope your mom's vision is doing well. Sorry about H&F luck. Glad you and mom did not get hurt messing with garage door. Hope you get your water back soon.
Doug is getting more rain good or bad? Turnabout is fair play isn't it ?
Helogabals nice pic
Roy hope you worked from home todday.
Buppies hope you had good trip to mountain.
Billy nice pics, got a lot done before dinner.
Drew I thing that was a bloom not a fruit. sorry about friends biopsy.
Bill hope dump run and shopping went well.
Bird I was thinking the same thing, 90ºF + days have been rare so far and most 80ºF days were in the low to mid range.
Rich sorry to hear about tornado, good to hear garden shaping up and planting started.
Drew when biking in Weastern Kansas, no trees. You would take off on side road for the illusion of privacy.
KenKen hope the rain held off. Glad no issues with heavy bush.
Paul glad you had a few day of fun projects. Hope today went well.
Don a day od fun projects
Mike glad you could check in. Really sorry to hear insurance woes. And more tree rats will cause more damage.
RNG sorry about your woes at carpet place and battery store. Good news on solar program change, hope undoing the change brings voltage sag back. Hope you are ready to leave on trip soon.
PJ cold has been hanging on here. studio time, aaahhhh
Chris sorry to hear about the bird flu, that soes contibute to price increases.
Ted Happy birthday, good to hear energy conservation worked yesterday, hope mulch went well today.
RS first time I heard of a tom attacking a car! Hope parts washer project went well.
Gstrom looks like plenty of firewood.
Rand hope nothing else gets bird flu. hope you got to enjoy day.
David that is a lot of horizontal surface reclimation. hope today went weel also.
Paul thanks for soft start info.
Thomas lot accomplished today.
Don look very yummy
Doug glad you got track mowed. sorry about the missed opportunities.
Drew good luck with trailer shopping. garden looking nice.
Dennis not much rain.
Ted glad you enjoyed birthday dinner.
Kyle I started as blond till about 6 yo then was brown by HA , kept getting darker til it started going white
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(2) cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /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 heart /rib and back and torn bicep, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, 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, Drew /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[sodamo]

Turned into one of those days, the kind that just seems to disappear without realizing as you slip from 1 seemingly trivial task to the next. Never did get back into the shop though so no cleaner than yesterday.

Seems like a few of us can be parsimonious about wearing out our store clothes too soon. Never tried mowing in just my slippahs, but sure is nice to have privacy.

 

[Alien]

Mostly, rain is ok by me, however we have several towns that have been devastated by flooding twice in a row in the matter of a few weeks. Folks just get cleaned up and it happens again. Many homes have been totally destroyed. It looks like it may be an ongoing thing in the future with many people just having to walk away with nothing.
Rain in moderation we need, but it seems the moderator has gone on long service leave.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-04-27, 0414

A damp, chilly 44° right now...high in the upper 40's today...

Didn't sleep well at all last night...woke up around midnight, tossing and turning the rest of the night

 

[Buppies]

44.5 this morning very breezy high in 60s and low 60s at that

Prayers for all

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp is 24 and going to a high of 39°F. Flurries/rain showers. They are talking about a couple of inches tonight. It wont stay, the ground is too warm.

check will understand the location of this one moreso than the rest of you.
Way back when the Young St. subway was being extended, I was hauling gravel. I backed into the cut with a load of sand fill, hopped out of the truck to check that my spread chains were off (the load before I was spreading stone), the guy in the white hat asked where my work boots were. I had gotten so comfortable driving in bare feet that I had forgotten to slip them on. My response was that God had decided that skin was sufficient covering for my feet and did he think he was better than God. I didn't go back to that job again although I did work for the company for 8 additional years.

I got the dump run done yesterday and the trailer spotted where we need it to clear out some more 'stuff'.

If it isn't raining today, then I will be putting the backhoe on. I've got a walkway to regrade and patio slabs to reset.
The big tree that came down three years ago and I cut up and cleared out has some shoots coming out of the stump. Time to remove the stump. That is also on the agenda for this week.

I called up my furnace oil supplier, he also sells new oil tanks and priced out a 500 gallon fiberglas tank to replace the 200 steel tank. Y'all better sit down...$3300.oo installed with my leftover oil (100 gallons) pumped back in. The fiberglas tank is guaranteed for 30 years. My homeowners insurance doesn't care about the size, just the age. I did my homework first.
I've got a $1900.oo credit with them, but that credit is for oil, not tanks. I can take up to 3 years to pay for the tank at zero interest.
I am waiting for them to come and do the install.

Other than the hoe and stump clearing there is nothing to do today.

Have a safe day all

 

[wngsprd]

42 going to 64 and sunshine. Got some rain yesterday and some lightning, but nothing like where we were earlier in the day, where they got hail and a half inch.

Happy Birthday, LS! Glad you had a nice one with your wife...we went for pizza yesterday, too.

Thomas, did we miss yours? If so, Happy Birthday to you!

I can't even fathom mowing nude. I put on even extra clothes when I mow...long sleeve shirt, hat, safety glasses, hearing protection, sometimes gloves if I'm mowing next to the blackberries or raspberries...when I taught my wife to drive the zero turn after my surgery, I told her that you have to be thinking that everything out there is trying to "get you"...low tree limbs, gnats, deer flies, briars, dust, rocks, fences...that way you are always thinking and anticipating...she knew I was only half kidding. I plan to mow today...maybe I'll consider not wearing underwear.

Drove my wife to the shoulder surgeon yesterday. He's a real nice guy that was willing to see her, even though he has shifted to only working on hands and wrists...he operated on her other shoulder several years ago...x-rays showed same problem on the right shoulder now...but not bad enough for surgery...so got a couple of cortisone shots...I should have gone in with her and tried for a two-fer since my shoulder is waking me up in the middle of every night. We raced the thunderstorm front home, barely making it into the house as the rain started. At least I got some fertilizer down on the pecans, Deodar, and Christmas trees before we left.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, sunny and 48 going down to 35 tonight.

Planted the tree yesterday, watered it well, which of course brought rain.

Put some bird netting over the bedroom windows to stop the birds from fighting themselves at 6am.
Seems to work pretty well.

Tonight kids last band show. So no planting. Garden is not in yet, with 35 tonight, might not be a bad thing.

Got a call from my brother, my dad is coming in this weekend on his way to a cruise. Brother is busy trying to sell his house, so my Dad will be here for a week, gotta go prepare the apartment.

We get more and heavier rains now then we did even 20 years ago, when I checked WU history it proved that we are getting our rain in more concentrations in the spring and summer, Summer used to be dry here, not so much anymore. My grass last year was very green until well into February. No August browning at all.

Stay safe and be well,

Hard to believe from the picture, but that is a 9'+ tree I planted. Looks small in this environment.
Branches are still up, will take a few days to fall back down to normal.
Still have one large hole ready for another tree, just need to find one.
The rest of the trees I am planting, about 10 are 2' tall bare roots. Much easier!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 45 and basically gonna stay here all day, getting windy this afternoon.

Yesterday went by pretty quickly, started with a BJ’s run and ended with Jeopardy. Don’t remember much of what happened in between. I did start working on making a rubber mask of Emily’s likeness that my buddy will sandblast into a piece of stone.

Today will bring me back to that project as well some manuals and get ready for tomorrow’s alpaca shearing. They get 40 of them sheared in about 6 hours. I’m in charge of logistics and food.

 

[check]

Good morning, low temp is 24 and going to a high of 39°F. Flurries/rain showers. They are talking about a couple of inches tonight. It wont stay, the ground is too warm.

check will understand the location of this one moreso than the rest of you.
Way back when the Young St. subway was being extended, I was hauling gravel. I backed into the cut with a load of sand fill, hopped out of the truck to check that my spread chains were off (the load before I was spreading stone), the guy in the white hat asked where my work boots were. I had gotten so comfortable driving in bare feet that I had forgotten to slip them on. My response was that God had decided that skin was sufficient covering for my feet and did he think he was better than God. I didn't go back to that job again although I did work for the company for 8 additional years.

I got the dump run done yesterday and the trailer spotted where we need it to clear out some more 'stuff'.

If it isn't raining today, then I will be putting the backhoe on. I've got a walkway to regrade and patio slabs to reset.
The big tree that came down three years ago and I cut up and cleared out has some shoots coming out of the stump. Time to remove the stump. That is also on the agenda for this week.

I called up my furnace oil supplier, he also sells new oil tanks and priced out a 500 gallon fiberglas tank to replace the 200 steel tank. Y'all better sit down...$3300.oo installed with my leftover oil (100 gallons) pumped back in. The fiberglas tank is guaranteed for 30 years. My homeowners insurance doesn't care about the size, just the age. I did my homework first.
I've got a $1900.oo credit with them, but that credit is for oil, not tanks. I can take up to 3 years to pay for the tank at zero interest.
I am waiting for them to come and do the install.

Other than the hoe and stump clearing there is nothing to do today.

Have a safe day all

LOL - after 1 million years, they’re going to extend the Yonge Street subway again! ( North of Finch)

Stop by and say hello if you have to do a dump run for that. We are there in our condo at Yonge & Finch sometimes.

 

[PJSprog]

39°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 75° today. Seems we're getting into a more Spring-ish pattern; cool at night, and 60s-70s during the day. More rain coming, though, starting either Thursday or Friday (they can't seem to decide).

Yesterday was one of those days that just evaporated for me, too, David. I was mildly busy all day, even after I got home. Got the trash out and hauled down to the road, and a few other things around the house, and suddenly it was time to go to bed.