Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Ready to install my polycarbonate panels but just too windy to attempt to wrestle 12 footers while on a scaffold.
From this

To this

Perhaps if I hadn’t taken time to make the scaffold brackets i might have gotten up a panel or 2 before the wind.

Energy conservation ahead.

Tomorrow

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Scaredy, prayers sent for you! Hopefully, you will get a good lawyer to turn this around for you.

Keeping those notes is a good thing. My son went through a divorce with the crazy B doing things to their accounts (clearing them out). She would say things in court that were absolutely false. His notes saved his butt!

All said and done, after the third court hearing, the judge came down on her hard. She stopped her antics real quick! Now she is under a no contact order.

Hope everything turns out ok for you.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Well, all the bulbs are planted! We took a good estimate based on the small containers, and the block border. Well over 500 of those things!

Now, they better grow after all this work.

Mostly, no the wifey was just wore out.....She's had a bad back for years.... the Dr.'s were very surprised when they saw her CT scan 15 years ago. They were surprised that she was still walking.....
The dizziness and lightheadedness went away by the next morning.

Drew, the landscape beds are absolutely beautiful! No wonder the landlady is happy.....

Maybe I can get to that gravel pile now that the bulbs are done. The wind isn't supposed to begin until tomorrow afternoon, so gonna try first thing in the morning.

 

[Looking4new]

Forgot to mention it earlier, but I saw a wild turkey in the field today. Sure hope there are more than just the one.

 

[sodamo]

Extra good thoughts and prayers for you Scaredy.

Reading your ordeal reminded me of my ordeal many years ago. I once had the thought, “now I understand how some might chose homicide over divorce”. So glad that’s so far behind me. Chin up.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 50ºF for the start, light breeze, partly cloudy sky. Light wind, sky stayed partly cloudy, and high temp was 76ºF. Men's meeting to start day, then cleaned interior of truck and SUV. Trip to Sherman to get brake cables replace on Peugeot, had lunch at Red Lobster, pick up bike and went home. Did get nap in, Peugeot ready to ride again.
Ron good to hear mower on tractor hope you get blades ready and trailer tongue repaired. Nice cardinals
Drew hope Dr visit and tire pickup went well.
Buppies sorry to hear not sleeping well. Hope you get some sleep and rain. prayers sent.
Kilroy congrats for making it through tax season. Sorry about accident messing with your plans. Good luck with scaffolding.
Mike good to hear progress on the lawn care side. Sorry about the nail. Hope you get it road tested soon.
Spike sorry about slow grass growth. Nice bit on F-35.
Kilroy thanks for the pics
Frits hope blood work went well.
Paul thanks for repost of pic, glad trip went well. Hope you get your points used.
Ken lot of people are drier than normal. Good luck with cleanup of tree parts.
Bill hope HHO not too expensive. Glad no problem on trip. Hope maple syrup is good.
RNG sounds like overall the construction crew doing good. Glad you got tank cleaned out, have to wonder how all that junk got in there. Sorry about getting stuck. Hope you can get unstuck soon.
Don good to hear more local seat time.
RS glad printer going again. Sorry about all the issues with Cub. Nice progress on saw. Hope today was productive.
Frits aare you putting in fence or think just the holes will work.
Gstrom glad foaming done, and no issues
Dennis glad alerts are now working. Interesting helper.
Drew glad tirerack was a good experience. Hope you found something fun.
David hope not too many showers.
Drew hope the new tires and re-balance help.
Bill sorry about the fuel pricing.
Drew fun story.
Scaredy sorry about the lawyer bailing on you. Hope that is corrected with a good lawyer. very sorry about wife's behavior. Hope you come out of mess ok. prayers sent.
Mark hope you got outside.
Dennis sorry about Costco bill. Good luck finding wasps nest.
Frits thanks for link
Drew nice pics
Thomas glad short day at work, evening plans sound delicious.
Don that is a lot of cedar removed.
Randy(wag) glad the induction service good and post service food was good as well. Sorry about rain changing your mowing plans.
David sorry about the wind slowing you down. Better luck tomorrow.
Ted sorry about your son's bad divorce
Ted glad just bad back, dizziness and light headedness over. Good luck with gravel.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer spot and treatment, /back surgery healing, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /loss of brother, /heart issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's and David's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's healing from surgery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[check]

Doesn't take much to dull a chainsaw chain, Check. Surprisingly little, like running though some mud on the bark, or very briefly touching the ground when you break through the bottom of the cut. The chain will still cut, but it'll take a LOT longer, and as you found, may even cut an arc.

I changed the chain and went out again today. The new chain cut real nice, and I filled my pick up bed with rounds, but then the chain started jamming on me. May have a problem with the oiler on it. It’s a Stihl, and not very old.

 

[scaredychicken]

Scaredy, prayers sent for you! Hopefully, you will get a good lawyer to turn this around for you.

Keeping those notes is a good thing. My son went through a divorce with the crazy B doing things to their accounts (clearing them out). She would say things in court that were absolutely false. His notes saved his butt!

All said and done, after the third court hearing, the judge came down on her hard. She stopped her antics real quick! Now she is under a no contact order.

Hope everything turns out ok for you.

Trusting God - there is a plan. I just need to do my part and continue to do the right thing. I believe that the truth will come out and the emotional / mental health issues will become evident. i'm just crunching all the costs as i go. Trying to be fair, amidst chaos.

 

[two_bit_score]

Prayers scaredy

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee is cooling. 58° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 81° with sunny skies. Got trailer tongue jack repaired and back on trailer. Then started working on garden pond. Got one side of rocks out of pond. Power washed upper filter end of water falls. Then it was to hot to be out in the sun. Grocery shopping this morning. Then cleanup up tool and mess from last 3 days projects. Need to clean up animal barn. So I can move repaired trailer in to it. Hope to get this done before it gets to hot.

Scaredy, Prayers you get thing straighten out soon.

David, building looks very good.

Drew, garden looks nice.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning,
43°F now highs in the low 80’s and sunny today, winds W 5-15 mph. Too hot to early in the season for my liking.

Not much done outside yesterday the wind was howling with gusts near 50 mph, the trees are really taking a beating this year, more pick up stick time in my future. Spent a little time in the workshop cleaning up and putting tools away. Put a new brush blade on the trimmer and will take that for a walk before things leaf out. Need to get to the barber for the spring shearing, haven’t been since last fall and looking a bit shaggy lol. Grocery run this morning and not sure what else I can get into today.

Prayers for scaredy, buppies and others in need

Enjoy your day everyone

 

[Buppies]

55 high of 82 cyst still draining just not as much and going down in size. Got up yesterday really dizzy not sure what that is about. Antibiotic still kicking my rump.

Prayers for all our Country

 

[daugen]

good morning all
51 going up to 87 today, very warm, and low humidity, so fire warning posted

woke up with neck ache, put heat wrap on it, slowly helping
too many miles on this equipment...

bandicoot, had to look that up, aka "snout poke"
Bandicoots are small marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea that use their front feet to dig for food. It's hard not to like an animal associated with the phrase ' snout pokes '. As bandicoots forage for underground insects and larvae , they leave behind a series of small conical holes – snout pokes!
It really is fun having our friends from Australia and New Zealand here.

today I play musical chairs/vehicles in driveway in order to get trailer hooked up to car, around the rv in the way of everything.
Then I take trailer over to relative's farm nearby and retrieve my gravel driveway scraper, bring that back and unload it, then off to get my golf cart and bring that home
also. If I can't use the garage for the car, might as well put other stuff in it...
Friday I hope to go over to Pemberton NJ to retrieve my Gravely. Yeah. After three years, it's coming home too. Really missed that piece of equipment. It will be perfect pulling the driveway scraper. I guess I could do it with JD X370, but I'd worry the mower grade vs garden tractor grade hydrostatic in it would break from the strain.
Nothing stops the gear drive Gravely.

If you could think of one tool or one piece of equipment that was the most satisfying thing you had ever used, for me it would be this garden tractor. I have used it for so many things, really worked it on the farm in NC, and just keeps on going. 1986 model retrofitted with 23hp Vanguard engine.
Even though I loved my dream tractor, the big Massey, this Gravely still has my heart. Here's a fun pic of Paul/Popgadget working on rewelding my rear hitch

 

[riptides]

46 outside this AM, heading to upper 80's.

Need another coat of paint on the Milk House. The concrete is really sucking it in. I did not manage to get out yesterday, so today is definitely a shopping day.

Fox kept me up most of the night, right outside the bedroom window. Also on the nature front, the turkey population seems to have nose dived in my back yard. I saw two Toms and three Hens over the last couple of days. Usually, this time of year there are dozens courting. Will have to keep and eye on it.

Nothing much on the agenda today. Need to get busy again on the Milk House. Will start calling plumbers in for estimates. The big deal will be busting up the concrete and laying the drain pipe and tying into a water line that is about 20 feet away. Not sure if I need a pressure tank or not since it is about 20 feet from the well pump and that has a pressure tank already.

Hope all have a good day. Be safe, get or stay healthy.

 

[scootr]

52º this am. Turned the heater on for the first time in a week. Been warm 80-85 but going back down into daytime high 60s now. Good. The heat can wait.
Buried in work is a curse and a blessing. Been slowly rebuilding the sprinkler manifold. New valves install today. Then the new timer.
Went over to a neighbors place to look at a bit of mowing. Their lawn tractor broke down and the grass and weeds quickly grew too tall for a ride on mower. I'll cut it with the flail mower and they should be able to use their lawn tractor after that. Sharpened the blades on my mower in the evening
I hope everybody has a great day

 

[daugen]

Scootr, I turned the a/c on last night after a day of solid sun heated the house up to 79 inside. More curious just to make sure
it worked, which it did. Will be even hotter today. I can't open windows due to pollen and allergies. Reminds me need to check on
furnace filter.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temp is 49 and it is supposed to hit 70°F today. Wind S 6 mph. Sunny!

The snow tires come off the Dodge next Wednesday and the following weekend the back hoe can go on the tractor. Until then it is a dump/town run today.
I think I have a way to get an extra hydraulic port to the rear and it would double as a front port, too.
Take a hunk of 'T' pipe or make one and put a male coupler on one end and two females on the other 2 ends. Then the necessary hydraulic line to either the hoe of the grapple on the front.
I don't see any reason why it wont work.

That is the en d of my brainy ideas for today.

Have a safe day all

 

[Popgadget]

Extra good thoughts and prayers for you Scaredy.

Reading your ordeal reminded me of my ordeal many years ago. I once had the thought, “now I understand how some might chose homicide over divorce”. So glad that’s so far behind me. Chin up.

 

[Spike56]

I am pretty sure Taiwan has the coordinates for some dams in China. . . They ain’t going Down easy. . .

I am sure there are numerous targets both sides would consider strategic. Without getting into a detailed discussion on a possible conflict, I am afraid it would be very global in nature. At the minimum, thinking selfishly about us, and to assume the US is involved, it would seem to be a world changer conflict that would be hard to stop once started? Ugh.

 

[daugen]

Haven't heard from Lou lately. Hope he is doing ok.