Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

Somebody gets the honor of keeping all those tappers clean.

 

[Alien]

Busy time for everyone it seems. Where did retirement go?
Daughters cabin arrived and went in place OK. Nothing in it except lighting and aircon. She is arranging beds etc. Her dog seems to get on OK with our ones so that is good news. Hers is a 2 year old Rottweiler. He plays well with our Goldador.

Today I have re-plumbed under the laundry tub. New S bend etc. The plumber that did it originally used cheap fittings that leaked all the time. Kept jumping the threads.
Then I re-plumbed under the back laundry tub which was leaking where the drain pipe went through the cement. All good now but a helluva job to fix.

Next job was preparing for the huge rain bomb predicted. Some areas are expecting a months rain in a week. Very sad for those who have already had homes inundated twice already this year due to abnormal rainfalls.
I have a sump to catch excess water but the pump burned out a few years ago so I bought a new pump and installed that temporarily. That removes excess water from the front lawn by the porch. I had to do it as our pooch loves playing in the water and making a mud pie of himself. Hopefully this will work.
Hope Roy has got over his bug and everyone else is healthy.
Orthopaedics tomorrow to recheck my fingers and thumbs. Could be a 3 hour visit so they say.
Lesleys operation about the 19th of the month. Very worrying.

Starlink is working perfectly. No problems. I have mounted the antenna on my roof now. Cancelled the other satellite service today. Starlink gave me 161 MBps the other day when I checked. Others here can't even come close to that. Looks like it is a keeper.

Forgot to mention I am going to be a grandad ... again.

 

[Alien]

Somebody gets the honor of keeping all those tappers clean.

Yeah, I can imagine all the neighbourhood dogs coming along and licking those. LOL
Wonder if the grass will survive?

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 52ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, sky stayed mostly clear, and high temp was 84ºF. Taking SIL to surgery to start day, had breakfast and bought bottle of Windex and paper towels (and a Trains magazine) to clean SUV windows while waiting. Got to read magazine for about 20 minutes before getting text to pick him up. Surgey was successful, he fell asleep on way home. Got to play with dogs for a minute, Scooter really getting white in the face, His tan color about 1/4 white! Bike ride next, then lunch and mow back yard, no a lot of golfers, but found 5 balls. Nap the took rest of day off
Scaredy nice mower, hope you can finish the mods. Sorry about wife delay.
Mike hope you can get some firewood. Neat story on the bald eagle, hope you got a opportunity to get a pic.
Roy leave are falling here, from the drought.
Billy nice day.
Chris hope you got your walk in, Texas would love some rain!!
Drew very nice of Ellen to go through Randy emails. Thanks for calling her and giving here out love and best wishes. Hope morning lab gets good results.
Bill good to hear you are eating with more appetite. Getting the truck back would be load off your shoulders.
Ken hope day job going well.
Buppies glad rain is over for you hope crew gets healthy so everyone can work.
Frits did you power cycle the phone, leave off for about 5 minutes.
Don Congrats on H&F quarter, and good job card! Glad you are getting used to job.
Frits glad you figured out phone issue.
Drew that is a lot of water!
PJ nice weather.
RS Got a lot done yesterday, hope today is better, and trapping successful nice pics
David good luck with remodel project, like the pics.
Thomas wow 101 for turkey!!
Thomas two fish surveys a year normally. Spring survey was rescheduled 3 times then just not done. We have done up to 2 more carp shocking per year.
Thomas sorry about sore arm, pizza sounds good.
David glad you were able to get materiel, sorry about shed moving down list.
Dennis hope you can make clean departure from work. Still hoping Zoning will work with you. Sorry about Jury duty.
Buppies hope you got some wife time as well.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter and family drama, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, , Roy /palpitations, /angina, /alligatoritus, /wife ankle,recover from getting sick, Billy /wife back & hip, mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer spot and treatment, /elbow healing, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Frits/ daughters hip replacement /veteran son with mental issues, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Lou / eye issues, 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 back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery,Mike /spine injury and recovery, Scotty, /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[sodamo]

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The additions at the farm continue to impress me. Here is the new giga keg.
40 types of beer with ipad bartenders.

That’s just a bit overkill for my kitchen.

 

[sodamo]

Congrats, Granddad Doug

 

[rswyan]

45F and clear @ 23:00, heading down to a low of 41F but I bet we beat it. Calling for a high of 74F with sunny skies tomorrow.

Woman made successful pick up of Menards order. Only issue was that I assumed that the trailer coupler I had used on the log splitter took a 2" ball. Nope, it's 1 7/8" ...

She also brought back coney dogs from DQ.

Got new B and D battery put on charger, unpacked the tools.

Checked live trap, nothing in trap but Woman later said someone had been nibbling on the bait.

Knocked apart the precut 2 x 4 joists from the original plan and palletized those.

Got wooden scaffold disassembled, used new B and D impact driver, worked fine.

After She watered her plants The Woman worked over at the barn doing more debris clean up.

I worked on cleaning up screener area, also did a little grading.

After that, I consolidated 3 doors that were on 2 different pallets.

Gathered up hidden hangers for the gutters, screws for the gutter covers, and the rest of the joist hangers and took those over to the barn.

Grabbed a floor jack, Craftsman tow-behind spreader, and bag of trash while I was over there and took the trash up to the can at the road, dropped floor jack and spreader off up at the shop on way back.

Got end of 100' hose pulled around to the back from the west side of the house, checked hopper feeder while I was over there, will need to be refilled tomorrow.

Then I started pulling nails on a pallet of 2 x 4's from the shed I took down for the neighbor. Woman came over to help. Still have a few more to do on that (on yet another pallet), plus strip the plywood off a stud wall and disassemble that. It will all get used interior walls, work benches, shelves, etc. Good amount of useful lumber.

Knocked off a little before dark, we were both getting tired.

Made the run into Harbor Freight to grab an 1 7/8 ball before they closed @ 20:00, picked up dinner at one of the local pizza shops on the way back.

Going to grab a shower and hit the rack.

The clock on the Kubota now has 2,495 hours and change on it. 80 hours since repairs, seems to be fine ...

Hope everyone had a great Tuesday ...

 

[Helogabals]

Good morning !

Last few days mornings were a kind of chill - 5 - 8 ºC. And rather windy.
As I went out instantly got feeling that winter is coming <tm>
Air is "thick", cold, lawn full with yellow/read leaves ... That autumn feeling ...

Anyway - pizza party with builders went great.
Today is coming team with excavators, to fill fundament with clean sand

 

[scaredychicken]

Guess you were on Santa nice and came early.

could be, but more likely an April Fools gift, ... I bought it in April

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, up way too early coughing my brains out, but this is a good thing. Getting all the crud in my lungs up and out.

Low temp 49 and a high if 68°F. No wind. Partly cloudy.

Today will be a good day to clean out the truck and by this time Thursday morning I should be picking up my wagons. 3.5 hours later I will be in the yard. I hope.
If I can land in the yard at 6 or so A.M., then maybe I will have a parking spot I can back into without too much fuss. None of our parking spots are pull through, so us train drivers get to hone our skills backing 2 8 foot wide trailers 35' long into a 10' wide hole and park them straight. It is a challenge, but fun at the same time.

I'm going back to bed to see if I can score another couple of hours sack time before I get up for the day.

Stay safe all

 

[riptides]

51 outside this AM, heading to mid 60's. More rain and just a yucky grey day. Seems like forever ago that the sun was out here.

Will go get my alligator booster today. Wow. Exciting day ahead. LOL. I'll make a beer run at the same time. I stopped drinking altogether for like three months, just to see if I could make a difference in body mass, aches and pains and or mental alertness. Well, it ain't the beer. Must be old age creeping in. LOL.

Eagle showed up again, daughter seems to have got some pics, not Nat-Geo quality. She and the SO are a little disappointed. I ventured out to the back and sure enough, dead racoon was back there. I moved it to a higher spot and better picture setting, hope the Eagle returns today. LOL.

I have some candidates for firewood. Need to get busy and get the equipment together.

Hope all have a good day and get healthy to those ailing.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-10-05, 0634

46° right now, but sure feels colder...wearing jeans, tee-shirt and a shirt-jacket right now. High in the upper 60's today.
Need to do some grocery shopping this afternoon...
Work...well, work is work. I have one customer who has been a real PITA during an audit. Plant manager was initially upset for how I was handling the audit...once he (plant manager) got a taste of this auditor, he was all cool...agreed, this auditor is a chicken**** a-hole.
We come across auditors like this now and then. If this case, I don't think he has much going on and he's milking this audit...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 68F @ 4:00AM.
Plentiful sunshine. High 89F. Winds light and variable.

Sheesh, you folks are nothing if not prolific. Looks like I'm something like 30 pages behind, and not likely I'll catch up. So appologies in advance if I miss something...

Had a great time on the trip, but things didn't go exactly as planned. Had some issues with the charging system on the bike, and my Lompoc friend had a recent dog bite on their clutch hand, so we ended up truck camping with the Airheads. But that meant we spent Friday and Saturday visiting lots of sights, like the General Sherman tree (largest volume tree in the world), Grant Grove (4th largest tree), Giant Forest Museum, Moro Rock (we didn't climb it, but are thinking about it for next year), and lots of overlooks and short hikes. We were worn out every day, and my legs are still sore...

Replaced the alternator on the bike Sunday night, helped my friend with a few little fixits around the house Monday, and had a relatively tame ride home yesterday. I did run into one short stoppage just south of Tres Pinos where a truck carrying a load of carrots over turned. There were two wheel tracks through the foot deep layer of carrots on the road, and I was glad I was on a dual sport bike as traction was a bit scarse.

I'll post a few pics as I get a chance later today.

I noticed that the mailbox was stuffed full when I got home, but the door was left hanging open. Odd, as it's a locking door. On looking closer, it had been pried open, but the mailman just kept stuffing mail into it anyway. Not sure if I lost anything or not, but maybe something will show up on the security cams.

Happy Hump Day, folks!

 

[m7040]

Good morning,

46 going to 64. Fired up to get the chill out of living room

Ordered lumber from HD yesterday to pick up later today for the new firewood shed that will be located to block out the tree cutting neighbor. Needed more firewood storage anyway and beating the price increase from the hurricane is a good thing.
The ignition coil for the chainsaw should be delivered today.
At the dentist yesterday wife had an impression made for porcelain overlay on a tooth.
One of our kids got eviction notice yesterday for the apartment so trying to help her get that cleared up. She starts a second job this week to get back to solvency.
Was clicking on new posts on here and it came up in Chinese characters. When going to forum it was normal. Not sure what happened here?
Daughter that needs hip replacement surgery is now scheduled for October 31. She is scheduled to go home same day.
It is not raining right now so this is a good time to walk a few miles with the dog while wife sleeps in

 

[Buppies]

49 high of 73 today been cloudy all week hopefully better today. Alien prayers sent for wife nice to be a grand dad.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[Buppies]

PJ been something in news about OPEC cutting production and rising prices

 

[PJSprog]

38°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 79° today.

Noticed yesterday morning that someone was kind enough to leave some big, deep ruts at the top of the driveway. Checked the camera, but no big delivery trucks. A certain someone was noticeably quiet when I brought it up yesterday evening, though.

Nothing like someone who is obviously going out of their way to try to justify their job, eh Roy?

Good morning, gents.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 55 and some more rain

Alien - congrats with a new grandbaby on the way

Mostly - glad surgery went well

RNG - sounds like another interesting trip - sorry about the mailbox

meetings, meetings, meetings.
hope your days are better.

 

[Buppies]

Don’t you just hate meetings

 

[daugen]

good morning all
back from hospital and a ton of lab tests. I think she filled four bottles; got there when they opened at 6:15am and thankfully no line.
weather station says this last bout of wet weather racked up 5.39 inches of rain. That will sure hold us for a while, and thankfully it did little damage due
to low winds. Still more showers this afternoon, then clear weather for next week, and much colder nights.

no plans for today, did food shopping on way home, headed out to check on tomatoes. I cut up a bunch last night and made sauce for meatballs, came out really well.
That will be my lunch today. I add Prego no sugar added sauce to the mix, only brand I can find without added sugar. I don't like sweet tomato sauce, rather have some bite to it.