Good morning!!!!

[Wagtail]

WOW! I just popped over to Facebook and 17 minutes ago (1900 local), AGFEST has suspended ticket sales for Saturday due to the horrendous parking-paddocks situation... even 4x4s were getting bogged.

They haven't officially cancelled the last day of the event and I don't know what the parking situation is or will be for those who are attending (they may have to park "out the back of Bourke" and hike in). Perhaps those who do make it will get great deals as the vendors will prefer to sell instead of cart it home.

The place must be a quagmire for this to happen. This is the first time that, due to the alligatoritis scare, they moved the dates from May (late Autumn) to August (late Winter).

 

[Bird]

sodamo said, "And some I have thought about from time to time.
I guess in many ways we are what we grew up. As a kid we moved fairly often, especially when my Dad worked construction. Mom put her foot down after my freshman year in HS and they relocated to 110 acres just 10 miles up the road. But again, a new place, new school, new church, etc but also a complete break with all the old. By the time I finished HS I was still considered an out of towner. I’ve pretty much continued the pattern over the year, just longer intervals."

Sure sounds familiar to me. I changed schools 12 times, went to 8 different schools in the 12 years; yep, went to some more than once from which we moved and later moved back. And then I started going to colleges when there was something I wanted to learn and could fit it into my schedule. That ain't easy when you work rotating shifts; used to work a month at a time on all 3 shifts. So I got some college credits from 7 different colleges and finally graduated with a bachelor of science degree "*** laud" (or as my Dad said, "Come Loud") when I 35 years old.

I made a lot of friends over the years, but not many with whom I stayed in contact in later life, and now . . . . well, even all of those are gone and at age 82 I'll probably be gone before long, too.

 

[Buppies]

Alien prayers for impending surgery, prayers for Toppop God speed old friend LS and knee, all others our Country

70 high of 87 today it’s Friday hard to believe huge rains last night in Hollins last night flooding. Curious about all these heavy rains world wide global warming cannot say but the under water volcano in Tonga put massive amounts of water into the atmosphere what goes up must come down food for thought

 

[daugen]

good morning all
Alien, glad you aren't still stuck in the mud. Sounds like a fun day and very tiring.

I'm off early to dermatologist. Have worrisome area of my chest, something growing there on top of scar where they
took my port out. That shouldn't be, and another spot an inch away. Looks like I may be losing some unintentional weight, maybe I'll get
away with just getting frozen. One on my chin too...that will look wonderful when I go to lunch today with another school board member.

just read that California has now banned sales of new gasoline powered cars in ten years.

Gravely used to be perfect but a lot of hard hours on it since then, just good work. Paint job pretty dinged up but with the exception of a sticking choke
cable, runs great. When they put the new engine in, I think mechanic crimped the choke cable, has been super hard to pull since day one. Worse, I'm afraid the
choke isn't going to full off position. That won't be good for engine, so one small task. Soaked cable in penetrating oil yesterday, seemed to accomplish nothing.
I only have the 50 inch deck left, used to have two wing mowers. This is the do it yourself version of Popgadget's nifty trailing mower. I was going to learn how to weld by fabbing up
a custom attachment for second mower on right side. Nobody had done that before. Was going to show it at the Grange Fair.
Never got to it, all got sold when I got sick. Sigh.

if you look carefully at left side of seat, note the lumbar control knob. Excessively large seat for little tractor but my is it comfortable. Genuinely orthopedic, still bouncy due to lack
of suspension but when I sit in that seat, I just go ahhhh. Truly an old friend of the mechanical kind.
pretty sure I special ordered that seat at TSC a dozen years ago. Never seen one since. I believe it's extra thick Sunbrella, nice to not have vinyl underneath. Of course for a little more padding, that towel always helped.

 

[Thomas]

61F cloudy near 80F for high,much needed rain after noon into evening

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...Finish trimming main lawn and bank than fingers cross have mowing done before 11am or so,that's when heavy rains arriving not much after that until date night...guess I better shag butt head out.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[m7040]

Nice weather this morning 69F. Today installing a new yard light at the barn that will help light up the area in front of the barn. Also installing an electrical breaker panel in order to add two minisplit systems. I am behind on stacking firewood. Plan to work on stacking a little every day. The pile of 10 cords of firewood looks huge but eventually I will get it stacked. With the oil prices up I will likely burn more firewood this winter. The basement furnace is dual fuel so burning wood will save on expensive oil fuel fill ups

 

[RoyJackson]

It came from Amazon

Amazon.com : people skills tshirt

 

[m7040]

I looked at adding a standby generator from time to time but have not been able to justify it. The reliability of the power supply has improved. The utility company is more progressive with tree trimming and repairs. Used to have several outages each year but now it is very seldom and they don't last long. When we lived in Texas we went through a hurricane where we were without power for more than a week and being without AC in Texas is brutal.
Used to have a trailer mounted Lincoln welder that also could serve as a generator and I used it on several occasions. But that Deutz Diesel engine was extremely loud.
PTO generators are less expensive and easy to use but it sits for long periods of time and I am worried about storage and moisture etc

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-08-26, 0753

60 degrees right now...windows and deck door are open...feels great!! Also, like Thomas, we're looking at some heavy rain...I hope it's a good soaker since we really need it.
Working from home today...typical for a Friday or a Monday. I have a project to do as a continuation of the audit finding I'd written about previously. I'd be done by now if I was any good at typing.
Got a call from a tree trimmer I had contacted...to cut down that fallen tree I posted about a day or so ago. He wanted $850, but that would include dropping the tree, sectioning the trunk and chipping. All I want is the tree dropped. My neighbors and I can do all the rest...I can chip the smaller stuff (6" or less), my neighbor will want anything larger to burn at his camp site (for lack of a better description). Anyway, I'd written my other neighbor's son is a logger. If he's comfortable with using a chainsaw on a ladder, I'll pay him a couple hundred bucks.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
68 on its way to 90 today.

Yesterday’s trip was actually fun, went quickly, I was home for lunch, mostly because of commuting with the little plane.

After lunch, I removed the loader and put on the 3pt finish mower to mow inside the small pastures. I have mentioned in the past how easily the loader comes off with the multiport hydraulic QC, so out of curiosity, I started a stop watch when I opened the cab door to start up the tractor, and stopped it when the loader was disconnected, and the tractor was ready to back out.

Less than two minutes. And a lot of that is walking around the tractor to put the legs down, and again to pull the pins.

The connector is the huge timesaver.

Today will start off getting some propane tanks filled, and picking up a pilot and some teeth for a well worn, but free 12” auger a friend dropped off yesterday. He sold his business and is cleaning up his yard.

Going to run some errands afterwards, looks like it we are going to play music tonight.

Wife is continuing to do well, life is good!