Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Dennis, costly repair, but not over the top when compared to other prices I have heard of getting quoted by others.

Do you think you could tackle it yourself? Might be able to get a pump for a couple hundred $$$

If I was retired and had the time I could do it, but it’s in Ohio, and I don’t have the time to take off.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

If I was retired and had the time I could do it, but it’s in Ohio, and I don’t have the time to take off.

I know (at least used to know) what that is like..... I forgot that it was that far away....

 

[Alien]

Good (Friday) morning. Overnight Low of 2.4C, calm and fairly clear sky. It's presently 14.1C.

Well, the 'horse mad' woman (from a few weeks ago) has gone ahead and bought a horse; it's arriving tomorrow. She popped over for a visit yesterday arvo for a cup of tea and a chat. There's a LOT that she'll need to learn when it comes to owning & caring for a horse... but she'll get there eventually. I've offered to set up a water trough on my neighbour's front paddock (she wasn't aware of just how much a horse drinks) and she was chuffed that she had 10 squares of hay to feed (I said that that might last a fortnight =). Steep learning curve ahead for her.

That's about it, take care all.

Been through the horses 'thing' LOL Hook the trailer up every 2 -3 weeks and go pick up haybales. Luckily it was my wifes thing and not mine. I didn't envy her going out to feed every night rain hail or shine and worse if we got home late. She commented the other day that she doesn't know how she managed to do it for so long. Her love of horses stemmed from her father who was a well known horse trainer. All up we owned about 5 horses but max of 2 at a time. I think I miss a couple of them more than she does. They were very affectionate animals. One of them liked it when we lit a fire and would try and catch/eat the smoke. Very funny to watch the expressions.

 

[rswyan]

69F and clear @ 21:30, heading down to a low of 56 overnight. High temp hit 83.5F here today, had some breeze so it was fairly pleasant.

Cut and made up a 2' tall chickenwire cage first thing, ran that around back to the garden area where The Woman was taking a break in the shade from weeding.

Then ran up and got a dump cart load of screened compost and got that placed along the edge of the flower bed, then gathered up the weeds and hauled those up to the compost:

(That black mulch I did yesterday)

Woman had been hard at it (out in the sun) so I managed to get Her redirected over to a project in the shade.

This is that area underneath the maple up by northeast corner where I mentioned we had planted some plain green hosta before we started on it today:

The evergreen shrub is just about dead, don't think it gets enough light and probably not enough water for that matter. Might try and move it later if it can hang on.

After some weeding and clean up:

Several trips to the compost pile with one stop at the burn pile.

Didn't get anything planted in there today but it's ready to go for tomorrow. Will need some more screened compost though.

Spotted a volunteer redbud tree, which I left:

Need to get a cage around it, probably go ahead and let it grow right there. Could end up being attractive.

Grabbed the partially empty Water Buffalo and hauled it over and watered the 4 Black Scallop Ajuga and watered and fed 2 rhododendrons and 4 azaleas which emptied the WB.

Woman headed over and started some more weeding on second circle where the grape hyacinth are planted.

I went out and took the 2' tall cage off the west peach tree and then took a break for dinner, Woman had fixed some spaghetti, was good, couldn't eat it all and saved for midnight snack (or lunch tomorrow)

After dinner I headed back and got 2 more bell pepper plants planted, watered in and fertilized and caged. Think that makes 5 total.

Picked another zucchini which was ready, gave it to neighbor lady who was down visiting while out walking her dogs. She likes them and so do her dogs (one little terrier and a couple of chihuahuas, all rescues)

New day lily bloom - "Catherine Woodbury" I believe:

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Time for a bowl of ice cream maybe and then to bed for some of that "open window" sleeping weather.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[sodamo]

Man lift cage functional. Have a couple improvements maybe for the future, but want to just get some use as is.

Got my pressure washer secured and started cleaning my PV

So dirty, hard to believe they were producing at all

Had to quit when I blew the turbo nozzle. Couldn’t have been much more than 10 years old.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 76ºF for the start, light breeze, partly cloudy sky. Light to moderate wind, sky clouded up then cleared up, rained south of Dallas, and west of here. High temp was 98ºF, HI 107ºF. Bike ride to start day, then shower and head for Sherman and bike shop. Hit Book store (Brad Thor book) and Bike shop after lunch at Panera Bread. Got home to wat Tour de France finish then nap.
Randy(wag) Sorry about the uncoordinated pick up and drop offs, and no shows.
Bird Cooke county started Monday, and we were one of the later ones to start the ban.
Buppies hope all is well in your household.
Billy Don't think any Texans want to be closer to Sun this summer
Drew hard for you to get away with anything, next you know you will be on short leash like Thomas. 5 hours long time to be in sun.
NHBX sorry about the lack of customer service. Hope you can give ground hog attitude adjustment. Hope Mrs enjoyed lunch.
Dennis glad you got A/C back.
Drew I really enjoyed going to Radio Shack, many of the stores had personal like yours did.
Don hope card club seriously considers your suggestion. Hope Costco visit goes well.
Ken neat pics the train was booking
Roy sorry about the lack of sleep. Hope Margeaux does not get too stress about no mommy.
PJ great to hear lss bad activity near work. Hope it lasts for a while. Good to hear mowing progressing, hope front goes well.
Ted they get too much water, we don't get enough Hope dr visit went well and you got answers.
RNG sorry about the autopay issue. Sorry about the shoe soles not thick enough. Hope trip is fun.
Drew fortunately no neurologist here
RS need to zap hog again. Banana tree getting nice upgrade. Plenty on agenda. Nice rain and pics
Drew glad trailer put away. Nice adjustment to plan "A".
David sorry about rain, and hurricane close enough to rain on you more.
Dennis not cheep repair. Ouch.
Thomas glad god day at work. Glad gas going down for you.
Ted sorry visit with Dr not better than it was.
Randy(wag) hope she learns fast!
Doug my step daughter raised quarter horses when she lived on the farm, later had to move to town, had them for about 15 years.
David nice work on man lift cage. Nice to see it in action. Sorry about nozzle giving up
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /learning new job, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, /fire nearby, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's heart issues, /pneumonia and not posting, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife knee 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, /wife feeling bad, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife's hospital stay, /torn bicep, Ken /kids shot tragedy, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, /cataract surgery, /Sophie's hand infection, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans / brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, mass shooting victims and family, and Country.

 

[scaredychicken]

I feel like i got a whole lotta nothing done today ... not true, just feels that way.
- washed several dozen eggs, and sold them ... need to wash more
- paid a lot of bills this morning (online), before heading into town
- insurance renewal for the car (wife has it out of town)
- counselling appt
- coffee with friend, birthday
- checked on my zero-turn, almost done with the fabrications
- tires / rims should be on my truck early next weekice cream
- continuing my research for the right Leatherman multi-tool
- critters all happy - dog, chickens, rabbits
- now time for some food, and a show
- i keep forgetting to fill a jerry can with gas, for equipment use around the yard
- need to mail out some packages to various people
Seems so quiet here - Sister In Law left for a few days, to attend a wedding

Tomorrow is another day ... Salv Army scraps run and assistance re some new shelving that they have, some errands / shopping, then an ice cream cruise night with the cars gang

Saturday i have plans to meet up with a friend from Highschool. He lives about 7 hrs away, but is camping nearby. Haven't connected in person since Grad in '82. Should be a fun lunch.
Perhaps an ATV, Side-By-Side adventure with other friends later that evening.

One of these days I will get around to that dump run (local dump is only open Friday - Tuesday, from 10-4), it takes some coordinating their hours, and my truck's use at any given point.

That's about it. Prayers & Safety everyone

 

[Wagtail]

Oh, I almost forgot... today (Friday, 15th of July) is St. Swithin's Day!

 

[check]

Woke up to find the county repaving the road in front of our place. Whole bunch of cars everywhere. They don’t use hot mix asphalt because the nearest plant is too far away.

But the wife is coming up tomorrow with her new 4Rrunner. And I am very worried about that tarry crap getting all over her new paint job.

By this afternoon, both sides were brown. I hope they put some more stuff on it, because there is a lot of tar there.

 

[scaredychicken]

NOTE:
lutongdaisy is filling TBN with numerous SPAM posts - x13... injectors etc. joined yesterday.
OTHER than REPORTING it, there must be a way to filter that stuff out - kind of annoying
I know the Moderators are a busy group

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-07-15, 0329

54° right now...feels really good with a with the bedroom window open. High around 80°

Wifey and stepdaughter should be in Florida, but haven't heard from them...that's not too untypical.

Margeaux is doing great...no chewing on anything or stealing clothes out of the hamper. It's taken her a while to settle in, but she's getting there.

I need to make a dump run...that'll be today or tomorrow.

More later, I reckon...actually I just got up this early to take a pee...figured I'd read TBN. Back to bed now as it's 0329 here

 

[Buppies]

65 high of 89 today stray shower possible

Prayers for all Scaredy Toppop LS and his knee Helogabals Eric Kyle our Country

 

[NHBX]

59° now dew point 57° high’s in the low to mid 80’s and sunny today.

The rain we had a two days ago sure jump started the grass and weeds, that will be today’s project to get started on.

@Mostly - we did enjoy lunch yesterday, nice breeze at the coast. Another of today’s projects is to set trap for groundhog. I’ve found melon rinds work very well.

@Ken - When the back yard was fenced in I’ve seen the little buggers climb up and over a 5ft fence. Of course he was a bit surprised when he couldn’t get back out fast enough. lol

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy

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

 

[daugen]

good morning all
65 going up to 85, another sunny hot summer day
next week the real heat comes, whole string of days in mid 90's.

For the driveway, coat all that larger gravel with about 1 1/2-2" of crusher fines.
Good advice, thank you. I have an order in for exactly that, but not so thick, maybe an inch. Landscaper has it on his "to do" list.
This 3/4 clean gravel is driving me nuts, should have been overlaid from the beginning. Hard to pull the trash cans on. Almost impossible to push
that trailer on. Plus 3/4 inch is exactly the width in my snowblower between the auger and the frame and the stones are wrecking my snowblower.
Popgadget came once last year to unbend it. Yes, need a better solution.

social day today, meeting old friend going through chemo at museum in Doylestown, he felt good enough he wanted to do some walking around.
Then meeting another couple for lunch; fun since the guys were all in the same high school class, class of 53, 1967.

NHBX, thanks for prayers for world peace. We sure need it.

David/Sodamo, wow, that's impressive, nice job on the man lift. I spent a lot of money buying an OSHA one, that looks functionally the same. Nice job.
Bet that felt good cleaning off your solar panels. You'll be going all over the place with your new rig. Don't fall off....

 

[daugen]

this picture made me very happy.
My oldest brother Mark has a family lake home way up at top of Upper Peninsula Michigan.
When I moved to NC I had no time to boat, busy farmer, so I gave Mark my 16' Scout.
A beautiful boat, top fit and finish, and for the last month it has been sitting waiting for Yamaha carbs to show up.
Supply chain, yada yada. Carbs came in yesterday, and out on the water he went. Little boat has everything, chartplotter, depth finder and gps VHF.

I loved that boat, wife and I spent endless nights going out the Sassafras River in the Chesapeake until we got out to the end, looked over at Baltimore, then came back
the 9 miles up river to the marina. This was a new motor too when I gave it to him. Old carbs plugged up. New motor carbs now plugged up. All the gas there is ethanol.
So no surprise. Tiny little carbs on those engines with tiny little fuel lines.

If I were to do it again, I would go with the German Torqueedo electric outboards. 80hp.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 69˚ (feels cool may need a jacket) heading hopefully to LESS THAN 100˚ today. Yesterday afternoon temp was 101˚ but then the clouds and wind and lightening (no rain) rolled in and made Whippers walk a 95˚ walk instead of an over 100˚ walk, a real relief.

I could not convince the card executive board to change the way we play hand and foot cards to reduce the wait time between games. I knew change would be difficult and thinking out of the box was a bit too much for them to grasp. Oh, well, no problem.

I have a new pair of hearing aids on order. The hearing test at Costco showed hearing did not improve or get worse. That annoying little voice in my current hearing aids telling me repeatedly that "compilot is on, compilot is off, compilot is on" etc... will be gone in a week.

Ranchers are selling off their cattle because of the lack of grass, hay and water as 97% of Texas is in a drought.

 

[wngsprd]

67 going to 86 and mostly sunny.

LS, sorry you didn't get better news at the doctor. Your condition sounds pretty rough.

Wag, Happy St Swithin Day (I had to look that up...kinda like our Groundhog Day?)

That power wash rig is a real smart build, Sodamo.

Spayed 6 gallons of gly yesterday using my backpack sprayer...it's been impossible to find a no-wind day except when early morning dew covered the ground. Yesterday, I would choose where to spray based on whether the wind calmed, or a breeze picked back up.

Got a shower and then my wife calls out in pain...her back/hip has been bothering her for a couple of months, and her doctor looked it over, but yesterday it was acute, and she couldn't walk without me assisting...took her to the ortho emergency-type clinic...after x-rays and examination, set her up with an appointment with a back specialist, some PT, and some prescriptions. Picked up salads at Chick-fil-A to take home for dinner. Got up at 3am to "nurse" her.

Son and DIL coming to visit tonight.

 

[pennwalk]

Morning all, Beautiful cool morning here. My wife has been watering the garden. One bewildering thing is how rabbits get through the garden fence. The wire is 2X4 and I wish I had used smaller mesh. The blueberries are slowing down. The catbirds seem to have lost interest in blueberries.

Wednesdays job was to put the cap back on the tundra. I wanted a better lift point in the barn. No problem Just throw some 2X8s up in the timber frame, screw them together and fasten them down, hook on the chain hoist. Good to go. Yeah right. Took all afternoon. I can see a time when I need to not be climbing ladders. I was pretty tired. I ended taking Thursday afternoon off. I love a nap. Next job is working on the boat trailer bearings. I don't know if i will get to it today.

If you like to be scared you might like Dr. Greg Poland's latest update from the Mayo clinic on YouTube.

Take care.

Chris

 

[Thomas]

Disappointing visit at the neurologist, no real answers, only speculation.

MAYBE the swelling is caused by the inflammatory response to the pain I'm experiencing.....
MAYBE the pain is present because of the initial trauma and the subsequent 3 surgeries.
MAYBE just due to hypersensitivity from the previous reasons....

I'm now scheduled for a 'nerve block study'. They will inject an anesthetic into the 3 nerve bundles in the knee.... then for the next 8 hours, I will do a "pain scale" during 'normal' activity....
I told him that I can't really do my 'normal' activity. I told him I can barely go up 3 steps..... He said do what you can.

After this 'test' is done, he would then schedule another surgery to permanently cauterize the nerves in the knee. He said he normally would just do the cauterization first, but my insurance requires the first "test" to be done before they will authorize the second.

I just want to get beyond all this. Bad enough that I lost my career and almost $500K earnings.... I just want to get on with life.....

Dang LS...wish the news were positive.

 

[Thomas]

Got a shower and then my wife calls out in pain...her back/hip has been bothering her for a couple of months, and her doctor looked it over, but yesterday it was acute, and she couldn't walk without me assisting...took her to the ortho emergency-type clinic...after x-rays and examination, set her up with an appointment with a back specialist, some PT, and some prescriptions. Picked up salads at Chick-fil-A to take home for dinner. Got up at 3am to "nurse" her.

Son and DIL coming to visit tonight.

Wishing relief soon...very soon for your bride.