Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

71F and "Fair" @ 11:30, heading up to around 76F for the high today. Rather windy though. Mix of sun and clouds. Chance of rain this evening as front moves through.

Hopper feeder refilled first thing yesterday, also two suet feeders.

Moved cleaned fluorescent fixtures back over to barn.

Pallets juggled around.

Three sheets of OSB put up and pin nailed into place. Still need screwed down.

Some bird/critter block installed with new pneumatic Arrow staple gun, other sections had more staples added.

Lights moved and relocated.

1 1/2" and 2" foam board installed into two bays and screwed in. Insulation now flush with the interior edge of poles in those bays.

All three work tables moved and juggled around, reclaimed shorter wooden saw horses for use with taller table. Still need to set that one up.

More leaves and debris clean up.

Electrical outlets on north wall and north end of back wall vacuumed and then blown out with compressed air. The holes those are will get sealed up with Great Stuff today.

Came over and ate dinner around 20:00, went back over and worked until 23:45. Long day.

Located two (hopefully good) cans of Great Stuff when I came back over to the house. Best used by dates of Jan 2022, those will probably work better than the ones that were over in the barn which had use by dates of 2006 ...

Agenda for today:

Dole out meds for this coming week.

More clean up over at barn, haul trash from barn up to can at the road.

Three more sheets of OSB to put up.

Put up more bird/critter block on eave openings.

Seal up around electrical outlet boxes and front man door with Great Stuff.

Get 2 x 8 x 14 put up across center overhead door opening.

Move two pallets of 2 x 4's inside.

Move other pallets which I don't want to get wet inside before rain gets here.

Big cold front due in this coming Thursday/Friday, calling for low temps on Saturday/Sunday only in the high 20's with highs only in the low 40's ... ...



That may spell the end of barn activities for the year. Just have to see how it works out with it sealed up - if there is sun it does get pretty good heat gain so it's possible we might get some more work in.

Hope everyone has a great Saturday ...

 

[sodamo]

70°F and 1.0 inches rain.

Dryer this morning, but will it be dry enough to finish mowing?

I do need to pick up at PO.

Managed to expose some of the work bench
surface, but not all of it.

Meeting our LA/Happy Hour friends in town for dinner.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[mpham]

Afternoon all!
70 degree day but the wind is so strong leaf duty is held off till another time. Wife's ankle is much better! Hopefully doc appt. on Thursday will be good news!
As for me...every step forward I take I get knocked back two.
Fingers and toes are better but changing off of that med has my heart going bonkers! Trying another med now. (this is expensive) Needs to settle down or doc will send me to specialist. Going to give it a few more days.
Did manage to play in the wood shop some this morning.
Hope everyone else stays safe and healthy.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sitting in apple store, 1/2 hr after our appointment and no one helping us so far.

 

[RoyJackson]

1432, 2022-11-05

Inventory is done...at least my part (actually counting parts) is done...
Now it's up to the bean counters...

Nice day...low 70's and a bit cloudy. Doggo is on the deck...obviously, I'm typing this on a living room table (actually, a smaller round dining room table) about 10' from the open deck door.
I'm debating, do I want to do some outside work...or, take a nap? 0500 reveille was pretty early. I think the nap on the sofa is gonna win out...in a bit.

Added:
Just received a Blu Ray set from Amazon...5 WW II movies, all British:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084DGQHKC?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

These 1950's Limey war movies are great...never watched on I was disappointed in...

 

[Popgadget]

Good afternoon
It’s a wonderful day in the 70’s both at home and in Concord, NH where I’ll be until a bit after 5.

Yesterday’s trip to HF was productive, I think that the light I got will work well.
Seniors came and visited the alpacas without incident, and bought a lot of alpaca products.
Got all the bulk mowing done and a good start with the Lazer. Got to play music, and had a good time last night.

Today I had to go to work, if you can call this work. I’m typing this at a restaurant waiting for my chicken pot pie to cool off.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Apple employee who checked us in actually cancelled our reservation. Guy eventually came to check when we were about only people left.
He put us at top of list.
Turns out sons iPhone had a screen protector, and it was only thing cracked. Son bought phone refurbished, didn’t know it had screen protector. Saved him $200.

Eating at Red Robin. Yum.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning. Overnight Low of 9C with a predicted High of 22C. Sunny and calm.

Not much planned for today, just Church in a wee bit although I may get a request to put out a round of hay into paddock #1.

Take care all.

 

[RoyJackson]

As expected, the nap won out...very refreshing
Fed Margeaux and she'll chow down when she comes in (been out on the deck and back yard since I got home).

Got the plastic tubing I ordered to extend the length of the funnel to fill the tractor's windshield washer fluid. I should have ordered a larger ID (9/16ths or 5/8ths). Hard to find those ID's. I can probably slit the tubing and force it on, then use a hose clamp...project for tomorrow, I think. Getting dark now...
An English Muffin and a bottle of Boost a while back (before the nap). That pretty much filled me up. At least I am regaining my appetite and taste...

 

[Thomas]

70F cloudy.
Gave homestead good leaver blowing at time work up good sweat but as I look out the window wind swirling oak leaves flying here and there,winds blowing leaves from the woods almost wasteful effort today.

Will be setting on the deck soon with feet up with enjoying warm temps.

Turn your clocks back.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Looking4new]

kenmbz, tell me about it...I live in the center of 5 acres of pine and tamarack trees. The pines aren't the problem, the tamaracks are and we are right in the middle of needle dropping season.

Roy, I have The Dam Busters and have enjoyed it many times.

 

[daugen]

now that's daylight savings time, Wagtail is getting up already...

wasted afternoon, got to my 4:15 hair appt ten minutes early, and was told they had me down at 1:15.
No...but he was tied with doing perms on two women and clearly had no time for me. Goofed that up I guess but I remember wondering
why it was so late in the afternoon.

but I did remember to buy Powerball tickets. 1 1/2 billion dollars or something foolish.
if you actually win it, probably have to go in hiding.
No problemo, Out Islands in the Bahamas here I come.
where I can drive a tractor on my own beach
I'll be polishing this fantasy until I wake up tomorrow morning and find that, as usual, not one number matches. None.

Thanks for reminder Thomas. Thankfully pc and smart phone automatically do it to remind me. I have three more clocks to change.

I always thought grandfather clocks were neat. dong dong dong no automatic resets there
only have room for a mantle clock but have my eye on one that chimes.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I can hardly tell I mowed leaves behind house couple days ago.

No visual crack that would indicate leak at top of camper , but I spread a whole tube of Dicor. Once you open it, might as well use it.

I did wipe down with rubbing alcohol first to clean the surface. Also stuck some above the front marker lights, and where coax goes thru from tv antenna, and around radio antenna.
There’s no way it’s coming from further back.

Had it all cleaned up last spring, stuff comes back quick.

 

[Looking4new]

daugen, how about a Chelsea ships bell clock? They also come in hourly chimes.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, I have The Dam Busters and have enjoyed it many times.

I have "The Dam Busters" as a blu ray too. It also came with this collection which also includes:
Went the Day Well
The Colditz Story
Dunkirk (1950's version)
Ice Cold in Alex (which I also have as a solo Blu Ray)

I've never seen "The Colditz Story", but I have seen the rest...I just really enjoy movies and some I enjoy repeatedly...annually or biennially.
Christmas season, I always like the 1950 version of "A Christmas Carol" (British flick) and "It's a Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart.
I like American war movies too..."They Were Expendable", "12 O'Clock High", 30 Seconds Over Tokyo", "The Enemy Below" (free on YouTube) and "Destination Tokyo" are my favorites.
Another good one is based upon a true event..."The Man Who Never Was"...this was recently remade for one of the cable channels...didn't much care for that, so look for the 1956 (give or take a year) British version. The event was a WW II operation:

Operation Mincemeat - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[txdon]

We saw on the news there was a tornado in Paris, Tx. The strange thing about it, I was looking online at some property there yesterday morning..... wifey said that property has been scratched off the list.....

There's always Sulphur Springs, just baby tornados there.
Check out the cows at 1:49 in the video.

https://flipboard.com/topic/texas/violent-tornado-rips-through-texas-farmland/a-etb-1MyATWe-qH38lymBHQ%3Aa%3A3483337730-bf9c2b3778%2Fflipboard.com#:~:text=Dramatic%20footage%20shows%20a%20tornado%20ripping%20through%20farmland,Office%20said%20at%20least%20four%20homes%20were%20damaged.

 

[scaredychicken]

emptied out the truck - 8 banana boxes of produce, 7 banana boxes of bread, 45 pumpkins ... the chickens are going to love it. started on the garbage load for a dump run

a friend assisted me in moving an extra stove and a small bar fridge from the garage into the shipping container

i started moving some things around, organizing the garage, sorting a few tools, still working towards the workbench

a bit of snow today, but pretty good temp

now watching some hockey and calling it a day. need coffee

 

[Looking4new]

Are there any recommendations for weather stations with wifi capabilities that can be had off amazon?

 

[Popgadget]

Are there any recommendations for weather stations with wifi capabilities that can be had off amazon?

Tempest

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 37ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light south wind, mostly clear sky, and high temp was 63ºF. Bike ride to start day, almost full winter gear, and had flat, back on road 18 minutes later. Had to shed most of winter gear by time ride was over. Nap after lunch, and Mexican for dinner with stepdaughter and her hubby.
Dennis sorry you had find out about leak the hard way.
Doug exterior grade should be good enough, with a good UV protection.
Drew good to hear good sleep. Your black berry plant has done well for the first year.
Ron hope you get to oil change today. Nice job on pole saw. Good luck with laundry. Squirrel must think he is a ostrich
Bird you win the north Texas rain fall derby. Glad no storm damage. I heard there was tornado near Durant OK.
Spike Welcome to GM thread. I think all the Texans were hoping for more rain.
Roy hope you got the inventory knocked out.
Billy nice weather, did you get hike in or was that observation from last hike?
Bill hope you don't get the wind. Hope day works out for you as well.
Buppies hope you had good trip to Waynesboro.
Frits glad your relationship with neighbor is on better foot now. You must be working Cody too hard
Thomas any video of kittens fighting? Sorry about yard boss beating up maple tree. Hope today went well.
Dennis sorry about cat claws. Hope you can find leak and fix it.
Ken(TinHack) Welcome back. Hope you got tree cutting/ trimming under way.
Drew i would bet money it does, flight restrictions as bad the ground traffic disruptions.
Don would expect some mud today at Farm.
Drew good idea to protect the trailer wood. Don't ask me how I know
Dennis hope not too much money to get screen fixed.
Rick nice job on trailer. Sorry about material lead time.
Ken hope forest leaves pack in soon. No bike ride, because of forecast rode Monday through Thursday. Nice pic
Ted glad winds have slowed a bit. Glad you got some entertainmant on way to town. Hope today goes well.
RS bet birds glad feeders filled. good to hear OSB getting put in place. Hipe you can make good progress on barn.
David hope the day goes well for you.
Phil glad your wife's ankle is better. Sorry to hear about hear not happy with new meds. Glad you are getting some wood working done.
Dennis sorry about delay at store.
Roy good to hear inventory done, hope nap was good. Hope you like new movies.
Paul glad trip so far is good, hope the hcicken pot pie is as good. And trip home as good as flight out.
Dennis good news except for the person that deleted your reservation.
Randy(wag) hope church went well.
Roy glad nap was good, wish I had your lack of appetite.
Thomas sorry wind undoing all your hard work. Hope decl time was entertaining.
Drew sorry about haircut mix up, running calander on phone really helps me keep on track.
Dennis hope sealant works.
Don thanks for link. Interesting view.
Scaredy glad you had a good day.
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