Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

61F and clear @ midnight, heading down to a low of 57F. High hit 83.7F here, was beautiful.

But the beautiful days will be soon be coming to end here in the not too distant future ... already starting to see some color on some of the dogwoods and the neighbors sugar maple ...

Got most of the grass mowed yesterday, was getting pretty long with the recent rain ... just a little bit left to do on the west side down here by the house. Might knock that out tomorrow.

Rocks removed from around the pole barn except for the rock pile. May get to that tomorrow. Staged along the driveway, wound up with a pretty good collection:

Started working cleaning out the barn around a week ago and collecting up the scrap metal and trash. Still have some more to do on that but should be getting hauled off here in the next next week.

Woman was helping, she's finally had enough and reached the breaking point - said to call for quotes on getting the floor poured ...

Met with a concrete contractor Tuesday evening that is a friend of another neighbor that has done a bunch of concrete work for him. Just need to shoot the guy an email and spec out what I want done.

Inclined to go with a 5" slab with vapor barrier, air-entrained 6 1/2 bag mix 4000 psi, no fiber. He would prefer wire mesh reinforcing, I'm inclined to go 1/2" fiberglass rebar on chairs on an 18" grid which he thinks is overkill. Will probably have him it quote it both ways. Going with rebar will require a pumper truck which would be an added expense.

He figures around November 15th for a cut off (freezing temps) and he's booked out around three weeks currently.

Me and my helper would do the grading, compaction of any fill, put down the vapor barrier, and the rebar work.

My young helper had a Kubota tracked skid steer he had rented for a week, so had him clean up the manure pile and consolidate it with the compost pile keeping it to one side so I can still mine it for compost that is ready for harvesting:

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I had a couple of large piles of clay sitting up in the woods from when we did the pad for the barn so I had him start digging out the first of those and hauling them to the dirt processing area in the food plot/compost/wood lot (it's the lighter colored pile in the photo above)

As I started to add to it today:

I worked on it more today and got most of the one pile hauled out:

Will probably work on getting what is up there screened tomorrow.

He also cut down most of the weeds around the barn, also dug out three black locust that had grown up. Those were about 20' tall, amazing how fast they had grown. Need to get it raked out over there now and then spray next week.

Expect that I'm going to be pretty busy as long as the weather is nice so I might not be around much in the coming days.

Hope everyone is alright and doing well ...

 

[Buppies]

62 high of 80 today rain for weekend grass needs mowed

Thomas hope not too long day today

Prayers for all our Country

 

[daugen]

good morning all
lovely Fall weather, low 60's at night, 80's during day.

RS, pace yourself and have fun. Rocks looking good.

I believe we will have one sore David this morning.

off to memorial service for lady my age who finally passed from ALS, her 98 year old Mom took care of her
at end, pretty hard on everyone, terrible disease. The mother is close friends of my MIL and in same nursing home so my
attendance this morning is a must. Burying your children must be awful.

need to start giving away more tomatoes, they are piling up. Will probably take some to church on Sunday and give them away.

Wagtail, I think the Queen was highly respected in this country. She was a class act in the world stage of shifty politicians.

 

[wngsprd]

59 and crisp, going to 81. The mountains are calling.

Even though the ground was a bit dry, got two acres tilled and planted in clover...neighbor stopped by to shoot the breeze...I don't think we solved any world problems, but we had good ideas. I told him he could cut the clover in spring to roll into bales for his cattle.

 

[RoyJackson]

Mate, please remember that this is an international website.

I, and many other TBN members from Commonwealth countries, have lost our wonderful Queen. I am in mourning.

Please respect that.

She was a great Queen and a great lady...the world will miss her

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-09-09, 0619

55° right now...high about 80

Damned if I didn't take another fall yesterday. I was stepping up on our concrete front "deck", Briefcase in one hand, 12 pack of beer in the other (no, hadn't had any beer yet, and off the whiskey for a while). Lost my balance (right leg below the knee doesn't work too well) and down I went. It's always a slow-motion fall and most times I can roll away from serious damage.
On blood thinners, so that didn't help.... bleeding like a pig.
Anyway, crawled into the house and used a chair to stand back up. No permanent damage and the bad right leg has let go more than once in the last 22 years (when I had my stroke in 1999).
Couple Band-Aids and some antiseptic, I was fine.
Not fun, but it's amazing what one can get used to...even falling.

Working from home today...hope I didn't damage my company laptop in the fall. I'll find out in about 20 minutes

I'd written a few days ago my neighbor and his son took that tree down and did a lot of trimming. I need to get to the bank to get some money (figure $200 each) for them.... they won't want to accept, but I'll be insisting

 

[buckeyefarmer]

A rather eventful ride from Thunder Bay to home. A flat bed 'B' train flipped over in the ditch and his cargo (looked like wall board) scattered all over the place. A pretty Peterbuilt all smashed up, a write off.

Just north of New Liskeard there was a garage fire right beside the highway.

Just north of Temagami there was a straight truck flipped in the North bound ditch.

Two of us did the 1007 kilometer (626 mile) trip in 11 hours flat. Non-stop other than construction and accident/fire scenes.

Welcome home

 

[Buppies]

Roy sorry about the fall as we age all been there done that. Hope you get over the fall soon

 

[riptides]

58 outside this AM, heading to lower 80's. Looks like grass cutting is on order for today. Should have tracked how many times I cut the grass this year so I don't exaggerate the work in the coming years talking about it. Seems like it was at least once a week if not more right through the summer.

Got some movement on the insurance claim, just bouncing numbers and work off the contractors submittals. One thing that stands out is the estimates for replacing one buildings roof. The cost of material is over ten times what I originally purchased it for a few years ago. That's metal roofing. Going onto the original big box store for the same material, it is no longer being manufactured, and the cost of what they do have in stock (wrong color, not enough supply) is five times what I paid for it.

The good news is, when all the above is taken care of, it will not be an issue in my remaining time, on this planet.

I hope all have a good day and great start to the weekend. Some of you all need to slow down a day or two. Yikes, your work paces and projects are amazing.

Be safe this weekend.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wngsprd, enjoy the hike.