Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

Mowing is done...giving it a more thorough looksee, that tree is way too much for me to work on. One of my wife's relative's husband, a jack of all trades kinda guy, wants the wood so, he's welcome to it. I'll slip him a couple hundred bucks to go with the wood...he'll earn it.
Wife and stepdaughter went out for some grub...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Today we are having a picnic with one of our kids at the Penn Mar Park on the Appalachian Trail. A beautiful little park. parks-pen-mar
It has an outlook point overlooking a vast area of southern PA and it is close to our farm. Our farm is also located next to the Appalachian Trail but further south of Penn Mar.

I had lunch at blue ridge summit, just a couple miles from PenMar park. Had I known I could have crashed the party.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thanks for that Scotty. Always interested in reading about batteries. Love my Lifpo batteries here at the house SimpliPhi 3.8s, 48v- 3 yo this Nov.

Yes it has been 3 yrs, I remember because I was recovering from GBS at that time and I still had my bed set up in my family room, and I was diagramming your setup based on your description.

 

[m7040]

Here is the view from Penn Mar park today

 

[rswyan]

Currently 89F and sunny @ 15:00, HI 92F, DP 65F. High hit 89F here today (so far)

Up very late today after a very long and blissful sleep recovering from yesterday.

I ended up taking a couple hour nap yesterday afternoon due to limited sleep the night before. Got a text around 14:00 from young neighbor that he was on his way down.

Got all the gutters and downspouts on the house torn off and removed after he got here. Now the trim that they were mounted on can have the holes from the spikes filled and it can be stained before the new gutters are put up.

Probably will replace the roof before putting on the new gutters though. And before that is done the chimney needs some tuck pointing done and the mortar cap around the flues (3) needs replaced.

After that he cut up the long branches from the tree trimming he did the other day and I hauled and added them to the brush pile in the back. Only thing left at this point is some leaves and twigs which I'll handle with the Cub and/or the Stihl blower later today.

Then we started cleaning out the pump house for the frog pond and got some of that palletized and moved out of the way. Next step there will be to start removing the exterior cedar siding so the OSB sheathing can be removed to allow access to the pump, filter, and heater so those can be removed before the pump house can be demolished.

The only thing salvageable on the building is probably the roof ... since the doofuses that constructed it originally built it with the wood resting directly on the concrete slab which caused the bottom to rot out.

Then he started removing all the concrete slab on the west side and got that largely done and the concrete hauled back to the woods:

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Concrete chucks will be used to fill in that ditch that is eroding across the back of the property.

He's due to get his big truck back here shortly after which he'll bring down his 22' dump trailer and we'll load with all the scrap metal I have accumulated and it will get hauled to the scrap metal dealer.

All in all, not a bad day production-wise, considering how late we got started.

Agenda for the rest of today is to get the service completed on the Cub and then start catching up on the mowing.

Probably about all I'll get done.

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday ...

 

[Buppies]

HAPPY belated ANNIVERSARY Mr and Mrs Kyle

Easy day today over $200 at Walmart today maybe more weed whacking

Prayers for all

 

[Thomas]

Wishing Mr. and Mrs. Kyle many many more trips hand in hand around the sun.

 

[Thomas]

"giving it a more thorough looksee, that tree is way too much for me to work on"

Did your doctor warn you not to run chainsaw or sort even backpack blower with in 3' of your heart because ICD,good chance the sparkplug send single to device and zap the heart.

 

[Thomas]

76F partly cloudy sky...starting tomorrow 3 days in the upper 80's to low 90's with high humidity.

Been good quite day...relaxing puttering even mow the side field,Mrs. treaded me too early Mexican dinner and all I had to do was drive,never been all that keen on Mexican food I will give this restaurant BIG.

Share bowl ice cream with kittens than wait for the critters and stars,but early to bed out front door early for pt. job.

Enjoy your evening all.

Stand off...Skunk always wins with buff charge.

First year sibling been on their own good chance they shall den up together.

 

[PJSprog]

68°F and clear skies this morning, got up to 93° briefly, and is 89° now.

Got some mowing done today, felt like I mostly just moved some dust a little north courtesy of the wind. Hauled a pear tree limb off to the burn pile, which had snapped under the weight of an abundance of pears this year. Some were already pretty big, but most were about lemon-sized.

I w3as whining to The Wife earlier today about how dusty and hard the ground is from lack of rain. My phone just beeped with one pop-up notice of a lightning strike nearby, and another of rain staring in 15 minutes. Nothing in the forecast, but radar shows a small line headed our way. Hope this one holds together long enough to gift us with some water.

Happy (belated) Anniversary, Kyle. Ours is coming up on Thursday.

Good afternoon, gents.

 

[RoyJackson]

Did your doctor warn you not to run chainsaw or sort even backpack blower with in 3' of your heart because ICD,good chance the sparkplug send single to device and zap the heart.

Both my chainsaw and leaf blower are EGO battery powered implements...as are most my other yard tools.
I just really like the ease of battery powered tools.

Most of the lawn is mowed, so I did accomplish something today

 

[scaredychicken]

Good Afternoon,

Church was good.

picked up a tax file while i was in the area
stopped at a garage sale that sounded promising - didn't open my wallet
home for about 30 min now

thought i'd share a photo or two of the baby chick that hatched in the incubator on Thurs night. it was about 20 min old at the time of the photos - still soaked wet. it is now a yellow fluff ball, pre-feathers, doing well.
a second chick hatched in the incubator at about 7 AM this morning, it is a black one (no photos yet)

 

[txdon]

Happy Anniversary to Kyle and his wife.

Whipper's evening walk at 6:30PM still at 97˚F. No temps breaking below the 70˚ barrier in the 10 day forecast.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Here is the view from Penn Mar park todayView attachment 760118

Both times I’ve hiked the AT from there it was cold, snow on one of the trips from there to Rt77. Also hiked from there up to Caledonia.

 

[m7040]

Did not know there was a program of entertainment when we were at the Pen Mar Park but there was music, dance , antique cars etc. See attached program

 

[m7040]

Also a lot of vintage Ford A's

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Monday) morning. Overnight Low was 5C, it's partly cloudy and fairly calm. Presently 16C. Rain is expected tomorrow.

Probably some 'tractor fun' late this arvo putting out a round of hay for the agisted horses. Other than that it's dhobi-day. I bought 9 pairs of socks at AGFEST and will need to wash them up.

Take care all.

 

[rswyan]

73F and clear @ 22:00, heading down to an overnight low of around 71F.

Got Cub air cleaner pre filter oiled and put on the air filter and the assembly reinstalled. Did not get oil changed. Might do that tomorrow.

Took Water Buffalo and used the rest of what was in it to water the new plants up in front of the shop + gingko tree and both peach trees. Then took it around back and dropped it to refill.

Then started mowing, mowed entire front + the west and south sides down here around the house, got east side 90% done before it got too dark to see. Still have to do the compost/wood lot ... but there is far less of that to do these days ...

Baked breaded fish fillets for dinner, plus I finished off the leftover spaghetti. Maybe a bowl of that peanut butter swirl ice later after I've had my shower.

Calling for a high of 91F tomorrow with shower and thunderstorms later in the afternoon and through the night. Will be good if we get some rain because it's still dry here at least in spots.

Will be interesting how the rain works out with no gutters on the house. Don't anticipate any issues. If anything, probably less issues lol.

Might try and get the seed put down for the food plot before it rains.

Congrats to Kyle and his woman on the anniversary.

Hope everyone had a great Sunday ...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 75ºF for the start, partly cloudy, breezy. Moderate wind with some brisk gusts, Partly cloudy sky, and high temp 94ºF, HI 102ºF. Chapel to start day, made pancakes for breakfast, swept back porch and front porch, was working on north sidewalk when moving extra trash can got stung by wasp that had made nest on can's handle. Hit the nest with wasp spray, then let them settle down, knocked nest down when I found wasps back on nest,. While waiting for wasps to settle down, worked on replacing cabin filter, then found had wrong filter . Came in cooled off and took a nap.
Buppies sorry about your service experience, hope the new glasses frame available soon, Hope vehicle service completed soon. Hope wife likes new dishes
Roy I recall having that nightmare more than once, and at least once it was Monday!! Hope mowing goes well.
Drew hope you got cleaned up for church. Hope your having fun working on Gravely. Nice pic
Thomas hope the day brought you some fun.
Frits hope the hope turns out like you want it to.
Don sorry Whipper bothered by thunder. Our rain chances have almost evaporated.
RNG good luck with the repairs on red bike. Glad temps are cooler, making easier to stay on it. Wonder if something happened on PG&E end to stop power sale? I use same hand cleaner.
Paul hope you get welding project completed.
Scotty thanks for the additional info. There is a lot more going on than I realized.
Kyle Happy Anniversary !! Seems like you hit a flat spot in the repair business. Good to hear son is listening to you. Nice to hear the bird bath story.
gstrom sorry about the lack of sleep. Hope some of rain soaked in. Good luck with roof repair.
Frits glad you can pass on wisdom to next generation.
Drew sorry you and Paul did not connect. nice pic
David good to hear reunion went that good. Hope you get a chance to mow.
RS you two got a lot dome yesterday. Hope servicing and mowing goes well.
Buppies expensive day at Walmart. Hope weed whacking went well.
Thomas sounds like good day. Thanks for pics. Glad you enjoyed Mexican restaurant.
PJ hope you got some of that rain. Happy anniversary next Thursday, Ours is Friday.
Roy glad you got most of lawn mowed.
Scaredy glad church god, like the chic pics
Fits glad you got the added bonus and shared pics with us.
Randy(wag) hope not to much rain tomorrow. Hope you had fun with seat time.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's heart issues, /pneumonia and not posting, Roy /palpitations, /fall injuries, /angina /wife ankle, Billy /wife back & hip, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife knee healing, /getting dehydrated and cramping, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife headaches, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, /Sophie's hand infection, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgury, 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, and Country.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-08-29, 0405

62° right now...high in the upper 80's

Back to work...have an audit tomorrow through Thursday