Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 9/11 I was in STL, had taken a day of vacation to go watch PGA golf with wife on the last practice day. We were watching the news when first plane flew into the skyscraper. Wife and I were discussing how that could happen when plane #2 hit the second tower, and realized both were deliberate. It was such a sad moment. Hard to believe the mindset it took to fly plane into the towers. And all the first responders getting sick from being downtown trying to help the survivors.
64ºF for the start, overcast, light breeze. Light wind, sky cleared, and high temp was 81ºF. Chapel to start day, made pancakes for breakfast, then put new tube in back tire of Peugeot, put new cabin filter in truck, plugged in battery charger for trolling motor batteries but they did not charge. Also found my good multimeter is MIA, and got a short nap. Watch some Cowboys on TV, going to be a long season for them
Buppies sorry about rain interfering with job quoting. Hope you enjoyed the football.
David sorry about the debris on the air screens. Glad flail mowing done. Does the flail mower chop up old dead grass?
RS sorry about the stings swelling again. Wonder if some stingers still in you and leaking venom. Glad benadryl helped with sleep. Glad rocks almost done. Hope you go some rain and rest.
Randy(wag) glad you got caught up, being caught up does not last long
David nice to hear Sophie still likes having you around. Thanks for map. Found your house on google maps.
Drew sorry about the noise on Sunday morning. Does not take many loud people to disrupt a quiet morning.
Drew nice looking omlette.
Thomas thanks, I think
Drew with me it is use it or loose it. Thanks for the compliment.
Billy glad you got to go to luau, hope sanwich good at Potbelly's.
RNG good to hear some moderation in heat, glad you have some inside work to pass the time
Drew thanks for sharing memory and pic.
Mike really sorry to hear about spine, prayers sent Praying for quick healing
Frits hope you can work out a lift in barn.
Buppies quite the story. Just wow is right! I was on Saturday ride with group, we stop for lunch just outside gate. Heavy rain starts call wife, she comes with the van, backs in to the porch so I can load bike without getting soaked. The guys have since embelished the storu
Frits nice upgrade
Bill safe driving.
Buppies I trust snake was worse for wear after getting run over. I doubt my wife not happy with snake on mowing deck either.
Roy glad mowing not too painful. Good luck with cleaning up tree.
Rich hopefully new saw not have smae proble with coils. Has kawasaki been raced since you have had it?
Ted my guess is heat the case.
Ken safe trip to Loundon and back. Sorry about the lsot friends and coworkers.
David glad you can have an easy day.
PJ glad you got some rain, good luck with next interview.
Dennis glas PS worked on computer, weird how two wrecks so close together same morning.
David what is your heart rate after 6 m. on recumbant?
Roy sorry about the alligatorus in the house.
Ted congrats on getting bearing out. Good to hear transfer casr quiet now. Sorry about no rain.
Randy(wag) Hope the chain harrow goes well, and trips to town are productive.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter and family drama, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy / RIP /condolences to Family, Roy /palpitations, /angina /wife ankle, Billy /wife back & hip, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Frits/ daughters hip replacement /vetran son with mental issues, 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, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /wife not feeling well, /marriage, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans and land purchase and development, / brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery,Mike /spine injury and recovery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[scaredychicken]

Those bikes must have some serious speakers in them.

yup, the Goldwings do, I want a GW Trike, but I'd probably not even play the stereo unless on a long road trip

I also advocate no loud noise (construction, mowing, etc) before 7am weekdays.

that's in the local bylaws to, for most areas of the province

she's alligatorus positive. And yes, she is vaxxed

??? no idea ? take care though

BEF - you should buy my El Camino

I will never forget 9-11 either, watching the news that morning as I was getting ready to go to work often in my thoughts.

Good Night All

 

[daugen]

good morning all
Beat Roy up, maybe; he's probably up already looking for his supply of masks. Hope you don't get sick Roy.

.30 rain last night, power went off for about five minutes based on having to reset stove clock.

no plans for today other than getting basement ready for painter to come in. 850 bucks to paint basement plus materials and landlord
will split cost with me. Good deal for her.... It's a yukky job, hasn't been done in likely over 40 years, I had no desire to do it and I like to paint.

What I'd like her to pay part of, but not going to work, is the 1700 estimate I got for putting down
3/4 modified on the driveway and rolling it. I have to solve the snowblower problem, not doing another winter of wrecking snowblower on those stones.
I asked about just adding screenings and he stuck with his recommendation of modified and rolling. Ok.

Mostly thanks. I've already lost it....
as long as we keep our sense of humor, we will get through the day

more rain and thunderstorms late today, can't see it on radar but forecast is for strong storms.

 

[Buppies]

63 high of 80 today rain after lunch

Hope you do not get sick Roy

Prayers for all our Country

 

[daugen]

hoping the driveway scraper I ordered for church comes today, that will give me a project for the garage.
I think it weighs too much for me to deal with, though wheels might help.
We have a lot of gravel driveways, small roads back through graveyard and the grass tends to grow over.
We put vinegar on it, and the cycle repeats until it looks so bad we put more gravel on it. Which as usual promptly disappears.
You have to dig it back up and basically recycle it.

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This scraper with a couple of heavy cinder blocks on it pulled behind my old Gravely 8199 will be a solution I hope, and about a third the cost
of a decent land plane from EA. Which was four months out or I would have spent the extra money. But why, here's an admittedly lighter weight solution that
is idiot proof in operation, just ride round and round the circled roads. I've had DR equipment before. Real instructions. Nice finish. Nice people to deal with.
Kinda expensive. But truly you get what you pay for. That EA land plane looks mighty nice, one with electric or hydraulic lift for scarifiers would be nice.

nothing like a new tool/toy/tool; seat time ahead!

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-09-12, 0558

61° right now...high in the low 80's

First order of business (once the shop opens) is to find out what the company policy is currently. After that, get the test I reckon. I've had the sniffles all summer, but that's likely an allergy. Stepdaughter is pretty sick.
Once I find out (from our safety engineer) what current policy is, we'll go from there

 

[daugen]

Roy, if I read that right, current CDC guidance is just to wear a mask for ten days. No quarantining any more.
Businesses of course can set their own protocols.

 

[riptides]

71 outside this AM. Heading to lower 80's. Took the day off yesterday to re-energize. LOL. Back still hurting, but manageable.

Wife got stuck in a 12 hour trip due to accident on Beltway. Should have been 4 hours. When she gets back home, I am sure she will not be very happy for the next few days. Got to look at them traffic reports when you are on the way to anywhere these days. This area is so busy, one accident can set you back hours.

Hope you avoid the alligator Roy.

Nothing on tap this week, Milk House and maybe the contractors show for the new roofs.

Hope all have a good start to the work week. Be safe.

 

[m7040]

No rain this morning but lots of fog. Daughter arrived in Vienna Austria yesterday and almost burned down a 5 star hotel because her heating pad went on fire. Going to take wife to the clinic to get her monthly infusion to keep her RA condition in check. I am getting the new booster covid shot later today at our local library

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, if I read that right, current CDC guidance is just to wear a mask for ten days. No quarantining any more.
Businesses of course can set their own protocols.

Yes, and my company does...I know of one guy who was suspended for violating the policy (at the time).

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Couldn’t get to sleep last night, was awake past 2 am.
.5” rain yesterday, looks like more coming today.

 

[Popgadget]

Lot of tools I’ve never seen before.

I saw this when looking around, looks like a worthy addition to almost any mechanics tool box.

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[PJSprog]

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.

 

[Popgadget]

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.

 

[txdon]

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]

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.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

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!

 

[Rich B1]

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!

 

[daugen]

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.

 

[Mark P.]

Good Morning, Currently 80° going to 82° with storms this afternoon..
Hope everyone had a great weekend..