Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2 slices of bread mayo on both sides 3 thick slices tomato salt pepper,it will make top ten list.

Toasted?
I prefer a toasted 'mater samwich

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low was 58°, going up to the mid 80's again. No rain, storms all around again, but never made it here. Some areas had flood warnings. Maybe today will get some.....

BEF, I pulled one front wheel and there was at least half of the pads left, so didn't go any further.... no brake job needed.
Finished up with the detailing on the car. The cheap PW actually worked good, for my uses. The oil change didn't happen.... the oil filter was for the truck, not the car.... A trip to the auto parts store is in order today....

I attempted to polish the car's headlights by hand.... not going to happen..... my hands started cramping. I will get one of the 'kits' made for the job. I watched a few YouTube videos, that kit will make life much easier.

Did get half of the irrigation zones watered, second half will be done today.....that should make it rain....

Bunch of things to do.... need to transplant some trees into bigger pots, need to transplant some shrubs out of pots into the ground. Need to layout the courtyard walkway. Truck maintenance due shortly. Still need to find a home for the dust collector. Need to start taking the string trimmer for a walk again.... Plenty of stuff to pick from.....

Everyone has a great day!

 

[txdon]

Good luck on your new tractor job.

The train has a vegetarian option...not to your standards. (You have to pick from a drop down menu when purchasing tickets).

Here is Wong's

WONG'S TACOS

Buckeye mentioned the veggie burgers, but 90% of the time those burgers are store bought and have way too much fat or cheese or eggs added. Like most places around here I would have to inquire and decide if the person on the other end of the phone knew what they were talking about and actually found the ingredient list on the burgers they serve.
Wong's tacos is also a questionable place. Some sides might work if they don't have meat broth or oils added, again too many question to ask and I might as well make it myself. At least when a "Vegan" option is listed on the menu the question list starts out to be very short. When a vegetarian option is offered there is some possibilities if they can produce the plate without some ingredients, like not putting on cheese.

Some day it will be as common as a non-smoking area option but probably not in my lifetime.

 

[txdon]

After the discussion about PEX earlier, I forgot to mention that I used PEX A for the airline that I ran on Monday.

Good thing you added a pic, I was wondering where you would put PEX in an airplane, then I saw the air (space) line.

 

[txdon]

First handful of tomatillos I have ever harvested. Now I need to find a recipe.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .86 inches rain.

Yesterday I tried a dilute mixture with the foam gun. Today I want to try a more concentrated mixture. Thinking straight Dawn/Bleach 1-4. PW adds significant water. Anybody any experience doing this?

Still not breathing as deeply as I should which is a bit concerning.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[PJSprog]

Do you like baked or fried okra? After enough heat the "seedy snotty goo" dries up.

Nope. Never met an okra I liked either. Also not a fan of mushrooms (fungi).

Fortunately for us, most of the things The Wife or I dislike are generally liked by the other. If I get food with tomatoes or mushrooms, I simply remove them and give them to her. She's not a fan of hot peppers, so those get shoveled off to me. It evens out for us in the end.

 

[txdon]

I just found out that the tomatillos in the pic above are overripe. They are overripe when the paper-like shell cracks and they turn a pale yellow. I am modifying my recipe search on how to prepare "over ripe" tomatillos.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My wife baked some yellow squash pieces mixed with potatoes. Normally I don’t eat squash, but decided to eat some to please her. It was ok. Nothing special. Love fresh tomatoes, none ripe yet.

Yesterday we had first of our own corn. Still young, but good. First time doing it in microwave which turned out well. Figure we might as well start eating it before the coons and groundhogs get it.

 

[Popgadget]

Good thing you added a pic, I was wondering where you would put PEX in an airplane, then I saw the air (space) line.

Good catch!!

 

[daugen]

three kinds of tomatoes, looking forward to a nice salad tonight plus will cook some of my own squash

 

[PJSprog]

Yesterday we had first of our own corn. Still young, but good.

I've been trying to get my Wife interested in a garden since we got married. She never was. In the last couple of days, though, she's suddenly been talking about wanting to plant a garden next year. We've been deciding what we want. No idea why the sudden turnabout, but I like it. I always had a garden growing up, and I was always the one in the family tending it. Her grandmother always had a large garden on this property, up to about the age of 94, when she finally stopped planting it. I told her the next year that I'd do it for her the following year, but she died that winter. Hers was about a half acre. I doubt ours will be that big, at least not at the start. The Wife wants corn, so it already won't be small.

In a bit of irony, I always grew fantastic tomatoes ... or so I was told.

 

[sodamo]

RNG
That’s not encouraging re your UDM. I still haven’t attempted to integrate my USG, just have my Unifi switch coming off SL router and everything from that, but I don’t have cameras.

Any update news on your solar remedy?

Changed all my water filters yesterday. I have 2 pressure gauges installed that I monitor, pre and post filters.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Also the last row of corn is next to pole beans, blocking them. Wife said very few blooms on the beans. I told wife let’s pick that row corn first to remove the corn plants.

 

[txdon]

The Wife wants corn, so it already won't be small.

If you have raccoons in your area, forget corn. They have a special skill of knowing the day before you pick it and demolish it all. I tried growing corn for 5 years and the coons are the only ones that got any corn. I even planted the corn is a cattle panel cage and they pried the seams apart. When corn is in season it's so inexpensive (<20¢ an ear) so I gave up.

 

[rswyan]

77F and cloudy @ 14:00, HI 79F, heading up to a high of around 81F. No rain yet, but there are areas off to the north and east and south and west, the latter looks to be headed this way and WeatherBug issued a notification that "heavy rain will be starting within 15 minutes" ...

Slow getting rolling this morning.

Spun up the tiller yesterday, sounded pretty smooth and quiet.

So I went ahead and started tilling. Will probably regret that, as the loose dirt will really absorb the rain and hold the water.

Also brought down around 10 bucketloads of screened compost and dumped it where I had tilled:

That will get tilled in ... once it dries up enough to get back in there. Still need to bring a lot more down to amend the soil and raise the bed.

Did managed to find a buried 2" metal pipe while I was doing that, suspect (hope) it is just construction trash. It was not in an area where there should be any piping.

While I was getting the screened compost last night, neighbor came down with his Bobcat TL 870 with another bucket of manure. Looked real good (mostly composted at this point), although it did look like it had some small gravel mixed in (probably came out of the barn) I ran about 3 buckets worth through the soil screener and it looked like that was taking a lot of the gravel out. Think he brought a couple more buckets after that.

Woman made zucchini bread yesterday, wasn't happy with it - thought it was too dry. I thought it was pretty good (although dry) except for the fact that it didn't have any raisins in it.

Last night at sundown the conditions were just about perfect (zero wind) so I brought up a couple of lawn chairs and we set off the burn pile:

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The two of us sat out there until around 22:00 just enjoying the evening.

Woman just got back from talking a walk up there and having a look, reports that it is largely burned down and gone at this point but still had some embers. If the rain doesn't put it out, I got a bunch more wood (mostly ash) that I'd like to get rid of.

Just had a huge downpour roll through, which has now tapered off to light rain ... which will probably continue for a while.

Agenda for the rest of the day:

Dole out the meds for this coming week.

Probably head up to shop and work on welding those plates on the bottom of the floor/deck of the B2910.

Maybe finish up the new frame for the soil screen.

New grease gun is "out for delivery" (via USPS), so will get that loaded up and primed if it shows up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Hump Day.

Prayers and speedy recoveries for all those ailing.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If you have raccoons in your area, forget corn. They have a special skill of knowing the day before you pick it and demolish it all. I tried growing corn for 5 years and the coons are the only ones that got any corn. I even planted the corn is a cattle panel cage and they pried the seams apart. When corn is in season it's so inexpensive (

Every year I say no corn this year, but here I am.
It is over $.50 each now to buy. Some places $1 an ear

 

[wngsprd]

If you have raccoons in your area, forget corn. They have a special skill of knowing the day before you pick it and demolish it all. I tried growing corn for 5 years and the coons are the only ones that got any corn. I even planted the corn is a cattle panel cage and they pried the seams apart. When corn is in season it's so inexpensive (<20¢ an ear) so I gave up.

We've had the same experience with coons. We grow tomatillos, too. and different types of peppers, tomatoes, okra, eggplant, squash, zucchini, pumpkins, flowers. We need to try potatoes, like you. Haven't grown them in 20 years.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Got my generator today.
Was immediately disappointed to see THD <23%. One of the online reviews claimed <5%. Now to read up and get it set up, but not tonight (unless we get a storm).

 

[txdon]

I have not tried corn here, but I will if it gets up to $1 an ear. On the farm I even planted an extra corn garden for the coons outside the cage area and they demolished both. One or two bites out of each ear.

Buckeye was that your corn that got knocked over by the storm?

Wngsprd, what do you make with the tomatillos?