Good morning!!!!

[shetland sheepdog]

35 and cloudy here in srn NH. Partly sunny, with a high near 49. Light west wind becoming northwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph, forecast for today.

 

[scootr]

Not real warm. 53º yesterday but the sun felt good after so much rain. So Cal averages 300 sunny days a year. My old old friend is coming over this AM to get the injection pump that just came back (USPS) from a rebuild. He will put it back on his old FORD 455 Skip loader. Getting it running again will allow his mobile mechanic guy to determine why the 3PT won't lift. Getting ready for the massive weed abatement that is about to follow all this rain. Too many invasive plants doing well. The yellow Mustard. Thank you early missionaries who sewed it while walking the coast of California. I guess they got tired of eating what they brought and decided to plant it ? The Tumbleweed brought by Russian immigrants who also brought a thistle and a cockle berry - ugh. Seems the weeds do the best in a harsh environment.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 42 and on,y going up 5 degrees under mostly cloudy, but dry sky today.

Yesterday was pretty much consumed by the TV project. Got new one on the wall and the old one in the shop. And got to use a tractor in the process. Got fiber optic cable run to receiver, this room has a good surround sound system installed with all wires and components run through the walls and ceiling. Had to add a wall plate with HDMI and optical connectors behind the rack for the audio equipment, but it’s all done.
That’s more than I can say about my project for the Bridgeport, which hasn’t been started, other than digging up the material for it.

Maybe today after breakfast with the professor and a likely Costco run.
At least now I know what I’m going to do with the TV, the fresnel lens is worth infinitely more than a working TV. And I’ll get to play with it in the meantime.
It’s large wooden cabinet with decent speakers, I might salvage them as well. It might be possible to save the entire speaker enclosure and grill, I’ll know better once I start the demolition.

RNG, I don’t have the challenging environment that you do, but I’m still faced with the reality of not being to take care of this place by myself in the future. My oldest son lives essentially on the same property, but a quarter mile away. I subdivided the original farmhouse and seven acres for him, he has been on this land his whole life. We are trying to figure out how to get youngest son to live with us, and he can have it after we are gone. He is the mechanical engineer, and would put my shop and tools to good use. But we have to figure something out before he and his wife become invested in somewhere else. Fortunately I have a good network of friends and neighbors to help when I need a second set of hands in the meantime, but I’m fiercely independent and hesitate to admit that I need help. Hence using the [AFFILIATE=1, nofollow=true, newwindow=true, title="Kubota"]Kubota[/AFFILIATE] to pull the TV out of the basement.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Have you looked for places out of CA?

Yes, Ron. Last March I spent a week in Oregon, with a couple days in Eugene and the surrounds. Rained almost every day, and Eugene is a BIG city, with big city traffic and big city hustle and bustle. Not for me. Oregon used to be inexpensive, but now it's been Californicated and real estate prices are comparable to here, unless you find a place way out in the sticks, which I'm trying to avoid. I'd also like to not deal with harsh winter weather, having done that growing up back in the midwest. So that eliminates a lot of places, too. Get too far south when you go inland and the summers can be really hot and muggy, don't go far enough south and you're back to snow in the winter. And the farther east I go, the more complicated the moving process gets. I've got a lot of junk! A fair amount I need to go through and get rid of. Hard to overcome the "never throw anything away" mindset.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Here is a good YouTube on burning things with the lens.


When you get through playing with it, people are buying them on e-bay.
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I had no idea these were worth something.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 42 going up to 50 and full on clouds.
Worked a bit in basement cutting back on overfill from the foam seal.
Had to quit early as son had friends over to practice for school talent show. Audition is tonight.

PopGadget. using tractor to lift TV is extra points on TBN, or it should be.

I worked in Ontario California, many items sent to us made their way to Ontario, CA (Canada)!

When we worked in Japan, one of my coworkers was going to be staying a while so he boxed up some clothes for work to send on for him.
Box never arrived, when he got back to work he found the box right next to his desk where the mailroom had sent it. They thought it had come from Japan, not to Japan, though it was clearly labeled to/from.
The box made it all the way from the 4th floor to the 6th in it's long journey.

Back to the day job and I still need to order wire and parts for the garage

 

[RedNeckGeek]

LOL. I am sort of done collecting more stuff.

Blasphemy to some ...probably...

I have turned into a new person. Simplify, declutter and no more stuff. I'll rent my friends back for comradery and a six. LOL.

That's a good mantra, Mike, one I'd do well to emulate. I usta haunt Craig's List looking for orphans that a little TLC and cash would get back into running condition. That's pretty much how I built up my shop. But each of those purchases came with a mortgage, not just of money, but of time. So each one takes a little slice, and when it gets out of hand you spend more time tending to machines and property than you do enjoying them. I've been very fortunate here to have neighbors with big iron so I didn't have to rent or buy an excavator or bulldozer, and now I'll be able to hire a contractor to take care of the roof damage instead of scrounging around for used roof tiles and climbing up there and doing the work myself. I like the idea of being near a maker space, like Don has, and that I've seen in larger cities, for access to 3D printers and laser/water jet cutters, and if I play my cards right, that might be available where ever I end up. It's a new way of thinking, of doing the same kinds of things but in a different way. Of being an old dog that hopefully can still learn new tricks, instead of sitting around watching TV all day with nothing else to do...

 

[m7040]

But I can get my shop crane (which is a folding/dissasemble-able one) into my house.

That isn’t to say that you can’t get an excavator into the house, but it might be a bit “awkward” explaining it to the insurance company

They make retractable track excavators just for you so it can go through the doorway

 

[Buppies]

Interesting stories and challenges, our 22 acres gets challenging when it’s only me, son off doing something, wife not well.

49 high of 66 rain tomorrow

Prayers for all our Country

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I hope everyone has a happy healthy productive blessed HUMP DAY!
I wonder if BEF can recall what that even means

No idea.

I’ve been frying eggs almost every morning for breakfast. Almost ready to open the 5 dozen package I bought. How long are eggs good for in the fridge?

 

[m7040]

Good Morning
It’s 42 and on,y going up 5 degrees under mostly cloudy, but dry sky today.

Yesterday was pretty much consumed by the TV project. Got new one on the wall and the old one in the shop. And got to use a tractor in the process. Got fiber optic cable run to receiver, this room has a good surround sound system installed with all wires and components run through the walls and ceiling. Had to add a wall plate with HDMI and optical connectors behind the rack for the audio equipment, but it’s all done.
That’s more than I can say about my project for the Bridgeport, which hasn’t been started, other than digging up the material for it.

Maybe today after breakfast with the professor and a likely Costco run.
At least now I know what I’m going to do with the TV, the fresnel lens is worth infinitely more than a working TV. And I’ll get to play with it in the meantime.
It’s large wooden cabinet with decent speakers, I might salvage them as well. It might be possible to save the entire speaker enclosure and grill, I’ll know better once I start the demolition.

RNG, I don’t have the challenging environment that you do, but I’m still faced with the reality of not being to take care of this place by myself in the future. My oldest son lives essentially on the same property, but a quarter mile away. I subdivided the original farmhouse and seven acres for him, he has been on this land his whole life. We are trying to figure out how to get youngest son to live with us, and he can have it after we are gone. He is the mechanical engineer, and would put my shop and tools to good use. But we have to figure something out before he and his wife become invested in somewhere else. Fortunately I have a good network of friends and neighbors to help when I need a second set of hands in the meantime, but I’m fiercely independent and hesitate to admit that I need help. Hence using the [AFFILIATE='1, nofollow=true, newwindow=true, title="Kubota"']Kubota[/AFFILIATE] to pull the TV out of the basement.

We have set up our property in a living trust and one of our kids is named to take it over.

 

[Spike56]

I want one of these for our moles:

Gopher And Prairie Dog Control Using Propane And Oxygen Pest Control

rodentblaster.com

Try one of these: I have had terrific results and it is easy to use. FWIW:
https://www.amazon.com/Yard-Butler-Applicator-Eliminate-IGBA-1/dp/B00EOMCJE0

 

[buckeyefarmer]

50° and sunshine.

Had my 2 fried eggs. At least cat didn’t knock over my glass of OJ like yesterday.
Going with wife to Costco. She even mentioned picking up lunch somewhere. Looks like closest torchys taco is Richmond or Charlottesville VA. Guess we won’t go there today, but sounds good. Might try a new local place.
My dad is 98 and living by himself on the farm. I hope to go and do more of the mowing this summer.
I made a huge to do list here, but don’t want to spend all my time working on the house. I need to set aside time to go hiking and doing other stuff.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 39F @ 5:45AM. Partly cloudy skies this morning will give way to cloudy skies and rain during the afternoon. High 51F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch.
After tonight's rain, the rest of the 10-day is all sunshine.

Started the day down the hill taking apart the flying porch roof. I put it together with deck screws, and the little Makita impact driver and a Philips bit slowly but surely had it all apart in pieces. A lot of the lumber is split and broken, but some is still usable, but rather than find a new purpose for it here, I'll instead find a new home for it. Ended up with a big tomato can full of screws, some still straight, but most bent and rusty. They found a new home in the garbage can, just like the gasketed screws that held the sheet metal in place. How unlike the old me that would have found a place on a shelf or in a drawer for them while they waited for just the right project.

Things are greening up pretty good here, too, Scotty, and mostly with weeds. The RM43 and Preen have worked pretty well, but there are lots of spots that need touched up, so that's on the to do list for after this next storm.

Rode the tractor for a bit, using the box blade to fill in some ruts in the driveway and mix a little more dirt into the gravel. Then got more seat time on the little roller compacting it so maybe the ruts won't be so bad next time.

In between I pressure cooked a top round roast in the InstaPot, then shredded it and started it slow cooking with a jar of Mexican mole mix and some garlic. It was supposed to have cocoa in it, but cocoa was so far down in the list of ingredients the flavor was almost nonexistent. It still had a little spicy kick to it, so I'll see how it tastes this morning and go from there.

Got an email that the insurance check was waiting for bank information, so logged onto their website and took care of that.

Gonna use this afternoon's rain as an excuse to get in a grocery run, but this morning I need to move the bits of gutter and roof metal that came apart yesterday to somewhere they won't blow around when the wind kicks up. Maybe gather up the wood and move it up off the hill, too.

Happy Hump Day, folks!

 

[gstrom99]

30 degrees and cloudy this morning. I rec'd four notices of Winter Storm Warning via email and texts. They're saying 5 to 9 inches of snow, with a bit of wind, starting later today and continuing to Thursday. Got grocery run and garbage burn done yesterday.

SIL had an excavator crew come over and knock down an old hog barn and the silo. I saw the silo video they took. They cut the lower three or four "holding rods/straps" then pulled the silo over with a chain, then knocked the rest apart. Much less dramatic than I expected. They dug a giant hole and buried everything and leveled it out nice. A pole barn of some sort is being planned.

 

[kenmbz]

It's snowing in London again, coworkers are in panic mode
Still no snow here though and 20 degrees warmer than London right now !

 

[buckeyefarmer]

30 degrees and cloudy this morning. I rec'd four notices of Winter Storm Warning via email and texts. They're saying 5 to 9 inches of snow, with a bit of wind, starting later today and continuing to Thursday. Got grocery run and garbage burn done yesterday.

SIL had an excavator crew come over and knock down an old hog barn and the silo. I saw the silo video they took. They cut the lower three or four "holding rods/straps" then pulled the silo over with a chain, then knocked the rest apart. Much less dramatic than I expected. They dug a giant hole and buried everything and leveled it out nice. A pole barn of some sort is being planned.

Would like to see the video.

 

[IXLR8]

Good Morning all,
It was 46F when I woke up this morning under sunny skies after an overnight low of 43. Forecast high of 54 with clear skies.

Received a text from contractor late Tuesday afternoon saying he would be here about 8:30 today... He showed at 8:35, close enough for me. Plan is for him to mark location of posts today. It is going to rain Thursday and he would be back on Friday to dig the holes for the posts, inspection on Monday and poles set on Tuesday. I'm not holding my breath as the inspection team here is not the most cooperative.

Started pulling my chainsaw apart to get the carb off, when I pulled the cover off the throttle lever a bunch of stuff flew all over the place. Going to be fun trying to piece all that back together.

Liz called and said she is coming home today... spent time this morning cleaning up the place so she doesn't have to.

Have a good day all, be careful out there.

 

[Thomas]

They make retractable track excavators just for you so it can go through the doorway

[AFFILIATE=1, nofollow=true, newwindow=true, title="Kubota"]Kubota[/AFFILIATE] also offer sliding tracks on the smaller models.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Tractor chase

Man in stolen tractor leads police on hours-long chase, hitting a dumpster and a church: 'What a day'

A now-viral TikTok video shows a police chase in North Carolina involving a John Deere tractor, reaching speeds of up to 20 mph, in the city of Boone Tuesday

www.foxnews.com