buckeyefarmer
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Couldn’t get to sleep last night, was awake past 2 am.
.5” rain yesterday, looks like more coming today.
.5” rain yesterday, looks like more coming today.
Good morning!!!!
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Popgadget
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PJSprog
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52°F and partly cloudy this morning, only going up to 78° today. We seem to have entered that period where we need heat for the morning drive, and AC for the afternoon drive. I have no delusions that Summer is finished with us, though.
Good morning, gents.
Good morning, gents.
Popgadget
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Good Morning
It’s 66 outside now, might make it to 80 before thunderstorms cool it off late this afternoon. Foggy, damp and dreary now. We got .8” spread throughout the day yesterday according to the Davis, the new Tempest was at .6.
Tempest now has a program to calibrate their rain sensor using nearby data. I gave them the link to my Davis station which is on the same pole as the Tempest, it will be interesting to see how close they get. The Davis actually captures rain in a funnel which fills a spoon that tips when it’s full, the system counts the number of times that it tips. So it’s generally pretty accurate unless birds have clogged the funnel.
The tempest has a haptic sensor on top of it that measures the impact of the precipitation and translates that to inches of rain. No moving parts, and interesting concept, but rarely agrees with the cruder (but more accurate IMHO) Davis.
It will be interesting to see if their calibration brings it closer.
Landscapers got me out of bed yesterday, they showed up at 7 am and worked through increasingly heavy rain before abandoning ship close to noon. They made good progress, about the only thing left is to finish string trimming the fence lines.
Today I was supposed to take some golfers to Gaithersburg for an all day outing. I had planned to Uber to the Udvar-Hazy museum to pass the time. When I told the passengers that we might have to go to Dulles (farther from the golf course, closer to the museum) due to low ceilings and fog, they canceled the trip.
So now I’ve got to figure out how to occupy myself today.
It’s 66 outside now, might make it to 80 before thunderstorms cool it off late this afternoon. Foggy, damp and dreary now. We got .8” spread throughout the day yesterday according to the Davis, the new Tempest was at .6.
Tempest now has a program to calibrate their rain sensor using nearby data. I gave them the link to my Davis station which is on the same pole as the Tempest, it will be interesting to see how close they get. The Davis actually captures rain in a funnel which fills a spoon that tips when it’s full, the system counts the number of times that it tips. So it’s generally pretty accurate unless birds have clogged the funnel.
The tempest has a haptic sensor on top of it that measures the impact of the precipitation and translates that to inches of rain. No moving parts, and interesting concept, but rarely agrees with the cruder (but more accurate IMHO) Davis.
It will be interesting to see if their calibration brings it closer.
Landscapers got me out of bed yesterday, they showed up at 7 am and worked through increasingly heavy rain before abandoning ship close to noon. They made good progress, about the only thing left is to finish string trimming the fence lines.
Today I was supposed to take some golfers to Gaithersburg for an all day outing. I had planned to Uber to the Udvar-Hazy museum to pass the time. When I told the passengers that we might have to go to Dulles (farther from the golf course, closer to the museum) due to low ceilings and fog, they canceled the trip.
So now I’ve got to figure out how to occupy myself today.
txdon
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Good morning! 65˚F with a slight North wind, fall is in the air in the mornings but when the afternoon arrives the mid 90s reminds us "not so fast". Busy week this week with FireWise, removing cedars, and working two shifts (10 hrs.total) at the farm. I guess they want to ease me out of retirement and that suites me just fine. The farm will get busy when we have a truly cool dry weekend in October.
wngsprd
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74 going to 86. Quite foggy here. Last humid day for a while.
LS, congrats on whupping that bearing and getting the job finished. I'm like BEF, lots of tools I've never heard of, but glad to have learned a bit.
Baseball is getting exciting as we enter the end of the season...but can't get over how the World Series will go into November. My fantasy leagues are starting our post-season playoffs this week. I earned a bye for the first week.
LS, congrats on whupping that bearing and getting the job finished. I'm like BEF, lots of tools I've never heard of, but glad to have learned a bit.
Baseball is getting exciting as we enter the end of the season...but can't get over how the World Series will go into November. My fantasy leagues are starting our post-season playoffs this week. I earned a bye for the first week.
RedNeckGeek
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Good Morning!!!! 75F @ 5:15AM. Sun and clouds mixed. High 92F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Your fog looks an awful lot like our smoke, Frits. I'd much rather have your fog because our smoke is reaching unhealthy levels.
Congratulations on your bearing victory, Ted. It would probably have been OK to leave that bearing in place, but also a shame not to replace it "while you're in there".
Glad the CDC is finally catching up with the rest of the world, Don. Better late than never, I suppose. I can't help but wonder, though, if the accuracy of the tests is falling off like the effacacy of the vaccines?
Got a good day's work in on the red G/S bike yesterday, cleaning up and installing the clutch, transmission, and swingarm/driveshaft. Now just have to be patient until the heads are done.
Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!
Your fog looks an awful lot like our smoke, Frits. I'd much rather have your fog because our smoke is reaching unhealthy levels.
Congratulations on your bearing victory, Ted. It would probably have been OK to leave that bearing in place, but also a shame not to replace it "while you're in there".
Glad the CDC is finally catching up with the rest of the world, Don. Better late than never, I suppose. I can't help but wonder, though, if the accuracy of the tests is falling off like the effacacy of the vaccines?
Got a good day's work in on the red G/S bike yesterday, cleaning up and installing the clutch, transmission, and swingarm/driveshaft. Now just have to be patient until the heads are done.
Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!
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Good morning! 67 now, predicted to get to 70. High for tomorrow of 67. Sounds like tomorrow the log splitter is gonna get a work out.
Ted, too late now since you have it out, but in an aluminum case, set it so the bearing faces down and put a heat source under it. I use an old hot plate set on high and ignore it for a while. Almost without fail, eventually I will hear a ”clunk” of the bearing dropping out. Sometimes the more stubborn ones require a few taps on the outside of the case to persuade them to give up.
No the Kawasaki has not been raced since I won it. First problem was the fuel tank was delaminated. It went down hill from there. IMO, it likely wasn’t safe to ride and would have likely been unreliable. In talking to people, they say it was fast but fragile in it’s career. Hopefully I have fixed everything I considered safety related, time will tell about the reliability stuff. I have been getting a lot of guidance from a fairly well known professional tuner who made his name with Kawasaki twins.
I worked on the Kawasaki yesterday. I have a single connection to make on the ground buss, 3 ignition wired to connect, and connect the fuel injectors power lead. Then do some loom protection.
The ignition wire that turns on the coils, fuel system, and part of the ECU, had by my count 9 spices in it. The version I installed has 2. There is a lot of that type of “workmanship” I have found and corrected.
Not sure what I will get into today…
Everyone stay safe out there!
Ted, too late now since you have it out, but in an aluminum case, set it so the bearing faces down and put a heat source under it. I use an old hot plate set on high and ignore it for a while. Almost without fail, eventually I will hear a ”clunk” of the bearing dropping out. Sometimes the more stubborn ones require a few taps on the outside of the case to persuade them to give up.
No the Kawasaki has not been raced since I won it. First problem was the fuel tank was delaminated. It went down hill from there. IMO, it likely wasn’t safe to ride and would have likely been unreliable. In talking to people, they say it was fast but fragile in it’s career. Hopefully I have fixed everything I considered safety related, time will tell about the reliability stuff. I have been getting a lot of guidance from a fairly well known professional tuner who made his name with Kawasaki twins.
I worked on the Kawasaki yesterday. I have a single connection to make on the ground buss, 3 ignition wired to connect, and connect the fuel injectors power lead. Then do some loom protection.
The ignition wire that turns on the coils, fuel system, and part of the ECU, had by my count 9 spices in it. The version I installed has 2. There is a lot of that type of “workmanship” I have found and corrected.
Not sure what I will get into today…
Everyone stay safe out there!
daugen
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picked up three pumpkins on sale at Giant for 5bucks a piece for big ones, put them on front door step, then went and picked the last
bag of potatoes. Not a very positive result. These are interesting bicolored potatoes, just not very large. I'll do it again next year but want to
grow Pontiac reds. They always come out well.
went to take drycleaning to cleaners, closed until an hour later, sigh, but at least I saw the sign saying 30 percent off on Wednesdays.
Took drycleaning home and will wait to Wednesday for sure.
worked for about an hour in basement this morning trying to move stuff away from walls for painting, and lo and behold, there was a fully blooming
amaryllis down there. I had put it away for next year and clearly it had a time clock of its own. Poor thing was dehydrated and almost albino from no light.
Watered it well and put it out, unexpected bloom.
bag of potatoes. Not a very positive result. These are interesting bicolored potatoes, just not very large. I'll do it again next year but want to
grow Pontiac reds. They always come out well.
went to take drycleaning to cleaners, closed until an hour later, sigh, but at least I saw the sign saying 30 percent off on Wednesdays.
Took drycleaning home and will wait to Wednesday for sure.
worked for about an hour in basement this morning trying to move stuff away from walls for painting, and lo and behold, there was a fully blooming
amaryllis down there. I had put it away for next year and clearly it had a time clock of its own. Poor thing was dehydrated and almost albino from no light.
Watered it well and put it out, unexpected bloom.
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Mark P.
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Good Morning, Currently 80° going to 82° with storms this afternoon..
Hope everyone had a great weekend..
Hope everyone had a great weekend..
