Good morning!!!!

[NHBX]

65° now, dew point 59° with high’s around 90° today. Maybe slight chance of some quick passing thunderstorms late afternoon.

When mowing yesterday put up quite a dust cloud lol. It’s to bad the rains couldn’t balance out around the country, it’s either feast or famine (to overstate the obvious).
Not much planned for today, finish mowing the front this morning, the rest of the day will be conserve energy time.





Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy

Prayers for those in need, our country and peace around the world

 

[wngsprd]

66 and clear, going to 94...nice outside but not as good as yesterday's 56, which "made" me go to the mountains early, after waving good morning to the Space Station flying over at 5am.

Randy, so good to get the occasional check in...hope you're up to posting soon!

Kyle, work hard, and come back when you get a break. Sounds like they really need your talents.

Ken, that was quite the landslide.

Buppies: shrimp and grits...one of my wife's favorites. I need to mow, too, but we got less than half an inch from those storms.

 

[wngsprd]

I've never baked, but saw a recipe last week called The Chocolatiest Brownies which really captured my interest. So Sunday made a batch from scratch after finding the right dark chocolate at Wegmans.

I'm not a big dark chocolate fan, but my MIL is, so my wife took a bunch to her yesterday. After I texted this photo to my DIL Sunday, she drove right over to pick some up and some fresh roasted coffee to take home. Then put some in the freezer for my other DIL this weekend.

I've only had one, but saved one

 

[wngsprd]

Walked right up on this girl hiking yesterday while coming around a curve. She startled me as much as I did her.

 

[wngsprd]

But it was this rattler beside the trail I almost stepped on that gave the best turbo boost of the hike.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 80F @ 4:30AM. Mainly sunny. High 104F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
Yesterday's 106F high thankfully didn't materialize, but it only fell short by 5°. Not sure I'd have been able to tell the difference.

You folks sure have been busy...

I now know what happens to a car when rocks fall down a mountain in Switzerland.
Still waiting on the bill from the rental car company.

Yikes! Glad no one was hurt. Had a similar experience on Tioga Pass many years ago on the motorcycles. Managed to time it so the rocks flew by in front of and in back of us. We were the last ones to get across that day.

Still around, more later.

Glad to hear you're still with us, Randy. Hope you're back in the pink soon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B095VHD61B/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

even though last time I finally got the lock n lube fitting on problem mower zerk, decided to experiment with other
style fittings. This seems like a pretty good value for the price.

Looks like a nice set, Drew. Hope they don't just make a mess. Please let us know how well they work for you.

Thursday is the day...appt at the neurologist . I'm going to take Thomas' approach.... tell the Doc that I want answers to why the knee is still giving me trouble.

Hoping you hear some good news, Ted. It's about time...

Good chances of rain tonight and tomorrow..... hopefully some will find its way here.

The satellite images of AZ and NM on the news last night looked pretty promising,..

Nice trip south over an extended weekend, especially enjoyed missing any new mechanical misadventures. I was a bit surprised, what with over 150,000 miles on the clock. I gotta say the weather was maybe the best part, at least temperature wise. Not a big fan of overcast and fog, but Lompoc was experiencing "June Gloom" in July, and the mornings were gray and cool, and a sweater felt good outside in the evenings. Yesterday on the trip north, the mist was heavy enough I could turn my head on the freeway and the wind would clear the droplets from the face screen. And it was cold enough that the heated jacket and grips were set on high. But by noon I was over the mountains and back in the Central Valley, hammering up I5 in 100F+ temps. Thankfully that only lasted a few hours, and temps rose to "only" 98F by the time I rolled down the driveway. A cool shower and a colder beer sure hit the spot, though.

We got lucky and last Sunday's SpaceX launch beat the fog, but not by much. We picked a spot on a nearby mountain ridge and joined a whole bunch of other space fans to watch. This one went south and away from us, so it wasn't as loud (and dramatic), and the booster landed on the android barge off the coast of Baja, so we missed the sonic boom on first stage reentry, but I was still glad to experience my first launch in person. I don't think it'll be my last.

Gonna see how far I get finishing up the permanent installation of the StarLink dish today. I'm thinking I'll get the wiring done, but it might get too hot before I get enough clean fill dirt screened to start filling the trench. But I've got plenty of inside jobs to keep me busy.

 

[kenmbz]

morning all,

Happy belated birthday Mostly!
Happy birthday Aunt Gladys!

When we did Rome we decided to do something different on top of the usual locations.
So wife got us a Fiat 500 tour. It was fun getting used to shifting while dodging in and out of Rome traffic. We drove the red one and the guide the black one. Once he saw I wasn't going to panic, we went to the coliseum and other crowded sites.

 

[daugen]

looking forward to your pics Ken, shifting a 500 must have been fun.

groan, carb overload
NJ blueberries are in
Simply the best blueberries, have a wonderful slight floral taste, have enjoyed them all my life.
They just don't taste the same from Chile.

 

[pennwalk]

I spent a nice afternoon mowing the farm lane and the meadows. I never get everything but things are in pretty good shape. It is getting dry at the farm so the corn needs rain but the dry makes for easier mowing in the wet places.

We are enjoying summer's bounty. Peaches, blueberries, sweet corn, green beans and zucchini.

I don't know if you guys are still following this stuff but there is a new Medcram video. The short take is that sunshine and hot baths probable boost your immune system.

Even though it is a little dry at the farm here at the house (17 miles southeast) the grass is still growing. Guess what I will be doing this morning?

As my neighbor always says- Be good.

Chris

 

[PJSprog]

74°F and clear skies this morning, only going up to 87° today.

Wife and I got the kayaks wet Sunday. Drove over to Missouri and paddled a section of the Big River near DeSoto MO that we paddled a couple times last year. The weather was fantastic, and the sky was some of the prettiest blue I've seen in a long time, with white puffy clouds. The river was a little lower than normal because of the lack of rain around here, but still navigable for the most part. We put in at the Mammoth Access ramp again and took out 11 miles downstream at Brown's Ford Park Access ramp. We stopped once for lunch on a pebble beach, and then once again to check out another boat ramp near Fletcher MO called Merrill Horse Access. Another option for a shorter or different trip in the future. There were a lot more people on the river this weekend than we'd encountered the last two times. We even chatted awhile with another member of one of the local Facebook kayaking groups. It was an excellent day all around.

Took yesterday off work to take my car in for the 60k mile service. It was scheduled for 07:15. I finally got out of there at 11:17. Wasted half of my day. The only bright side was The Wife took hers in as well, so we walked over to Cracker Barrel for breakfast.

Lots of catching up to do here.

Good morning, gents.