Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Nice cleaning up m7040

streaming services Hulu son says it is the better one

 

[Thomas]

Thomas glad no overtime at work, thought you could mot use backpack blower.

Had good chat with head heart doctor he was fond of the backpack use,but he said "give it try and if you feel something stop" sooo far so good.

 

[Thomas]

Absolutely beautiful day here today. After spending a few hours chasing the wind blown leaves across the yard I decided to get the blower installed and operating. Mower is put away and moth balled till next year.
Think it's time for a nap now!
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Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

That's one heck of leaf blower Phil.

 

[Thomas]

51F cloudy.

Got home from short day of work shortly started blowing leaves for heavy rain and winds coming Thursday night,tomorrow finish last section and make sure ditches are clean...leaves fell at good rate today.

Got the feet up soon share French vanilla ice cream on apple crips.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 11C and the rain started around midnight. There was 19mm in the gauge at 0700 and the predicted High is 15C with continuing rain and high winds (50kph gusts) until early Friday morning.

Now, why I checked my rain gauge at 0700 instead of the usual 0900 is that, for some reason, I woke up early (0610). Standard morning routine and was enjoying my first coffee of the day outside... just enjoying the morning and, subconsciously, surveying the property. I counted the horses = yep, three of them... and then I noticed that the gate to their paddock was WIDE OPEN! BUGGER!!!

So I quickly (and calmly) threw on my wellies/Driza-bone/Akubra and went out to close the gate... a shackle had worked its way loose from the wind, which I found on the ground and was able to re-attach. So, seeing as I was out there anyway, I might as well check the gauge as it was going to rain all day. Lord knows what would've happened with the horses if I had got out of bed later on.

Somewhat lazy day planned, although I have an evening meal/meeting tonight.

That's about it, take care all.

Update: And tonight's meeting has been cancelled & postponed to next week due to the 'extreme' weather event (ie: flooding) going on now.

 

[Dftodd]

69°F and no rain.

FedEx was a no show yesterday. Already got a text saying today. Actually spoke with a person about half hour before they cancelled who told me some drivers were still out including mine and they were absolutely slammed with Starlights to deliver.

Today I expect to get my base cabinet fixed in place and the butcher block counter installed. Could be tricky. Either have to make L shaped or install in 2 pieces. Need a good fit to existing countertop. Only get 1 chance to cut right. No hurrying.

Would like to pick the TBN/GM brain.
My current Dish tv equipment is old, expensive to update. Bill has inflated to $166/mon. Now with better internet (Starlink) and seriously thinking about streaming. Very limited experience, Amazon Prime and AppleTV. Would also need something for local news. OA antenna not an option. Would appreciate any input on cutting the cord. Consumer Reports recently had an interesting article on the subject.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Surprisingly enough, Dish, and Direct TV stream their same programming online now.

There are a few others out there that are cheaper with the same stations including local channels. Heard around $40 for basic, but can't remember the name of App.

Our local utility service (trash, electric, water, sewer, internet) have their own streaming service for the city that is app based. You can access with their box. Or use either a Roku or fire stick enabled TV or stick. Costs $75 for the basic channels. I did notice while setting it up on the Roku that there were quite a few different cable companies with their own app listed.

You might be able to find a company local to your area that has app based programming.

I'm seriously considering asking if we can keep the streaming service when we move back out of the city since there techs can't do anything but log the trouble codes if there is an issue with it.

 

[Dftodd]

This week a new US record for pumpkins was set in Half Moon Bay, CA: 2,560 pounds.

Your farmers are gonna have to up their game...

Your gonna have to break out the power tools to carve that baby

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! 58˚F heading to the mid 80 with lots of sun. Our rain chances continue to diminish this week as our last rain was Labor Day. Wind will be 11mph from the South today. Strange, the more wind the less dusty at the farm. If there is no wind the road dust just hangs and floats in the same place, it is the wind that takes it away, I did not have to use my wolf snout over the weekend.

I Only had one crying child who absolutely did not want to get off the trailer when his parents got off. I also had two stow aways that snuck off from a Birthday party to ride the trailer and snuck on with some other adults. They were caught when their cover adults got off at the next stop and they needed to keep riding to get back to the birthday party. Their excuse story was that their parents always let them do it, but I had to tell them I did not care what their parents did, my trailer my rules - no parent no ride. They reminded me of something "Leave it to Beaver" would get into.

Drew our early shift begins at 8:30, which is doable but I prefer to get things done around here in the morning and have the afternoon/evening shift. Shifts are a easy 5.5 to 6 hours but up to 8 hours on Friday and Saturday. You can have the early shift.

This week hopefully will be the last week of negotiations with the pipeline easement people on Moms place. Kind of a one sided deal since they have eminent domaine in their back pocket, but I think she will be happy with the contract changes and compensation agreement.

Wasn't this the pipeline from years ago? Seems like a long time to settle?

Nice pics Popgadget and Check!

Work was a grinder, but not the bad kind of stress that people are yelling a lot. Lots on my plate.

Dave, I cut the cable many years ago. But I have OTA local channels for news. And the local channels have side stations like The Game Show channel, 2 crime show channels, MEtv and many others. I'm about 50 miles as the crow flies from the antennas, and some channels fade out when there are temperature inversions (or something like that). The apps to show local news online mostly are crummy. My ABC station's online app is worthless, CBS is better as far as working. I mostly miss the MotoGP racing, other motorcycle races, and baseball games, but now, I don't have that much time to invest in baseball. But lately I just don't have much time for TV. There are no weekly shows I watch on OTA channels. I watch a lot of old WWII videos on Amazon Prime as I go to sleep. My wife will change out monthly from Netflix to Disney, to whatever usually only have 1 sometimes 2 channels like that at a time. So we still pay a little. Sometimes we'll pay $4 to rent a movie online. It just depends on what you want to watch. Roku has some free programming of older sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver (nice segway). Also I Dream of Jeanie (who doesn't like Jeanie?). So we pay a lot less than $166, but our internet is $72/month. But we use that for a lot more than TV.

Did anyone see Astros walkoff homerun in the bottom of the 9th? Wow.

IT'S RAINING! Not sure if we will get .1" or not, but it's been coming down decent for 10 minutes now.

Prayers for our team, the sick, our country, 1st responders, Ukraine, and for putin.

 

[sodamo]

Thanks for the feedback guys. The local Honolulu stations get their signals over to Big Island, but last I checked the mountains keep us from getting a good signal.

RNG, we share similar concerns, but after quite a conversation with Sophie I have to chuckle and ask WHY? I remember as a kid, even regular TV (3 channels) would sometimes go out, either just blank or the dreaded test screen (always midnight til 6am). When I was a sophomore in HS my folks got an 8 party phone line, when I first got internet it was dependent on a dial up modem. Maybe a system outage of a few hours could be survivable? YouTube TV seems a decent candidate that includes local channels. Already have Prime and AppleTV. While my initial thoughts was getting full replacement for Dish even to my rentals, I think providing some free streaming and the ability to log into their own accounts should suffice. Doing so, I can keep separate Starlink for rentals, cancel Dish and about come out even.

Speaking of Starlink, Fedex delivered my ethernet adapter this afternoon. Driver said an easier day, only 80 starlight systems today vs 158 yesterday. Given we only hear about this portion of the island, I would suspect we’ve only heard of maybe 1/3 the load.

 

[sodamo]

Time consuming, even a bit a PITA at times. Measure, remeasure, measure again, because you only cut once.

Actually, I made a cardboard template first to test.

Not too bad