Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

successful trip to Wells Fargo.
Changed my no fee one percent cash back credit card to a two percent back.
Eliminated all monthly fees from account.

I figured I could probably duplicate this functionality at Vanguard, I like Vanguard, my father was close friends with Jack Bogle and they are
headquartered not that far away. If I left a bank entirely, that's where I'd go. But now with no fees, staying where I am.
Their bank guy took good care of me, knew my brother and nephew very well, provided the bricks and mortar face time I still want to keep.

drizzly grey day

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning! Low was 60°, going up to 89°. The winds are supposed to gust up to 40mph again today. No precip expected.
There was a severe t-storm to the NE of us last night, probably 100 miles away, but put on a really good light show. Lightning flashes every 2-3 seconds. Glad we weren't under it.....

Last night must have been the "insomnia night". I tossed and turned for about 4 hours. Last I looked at the clock was 03:00. Finally fell asleep and slept in until almost 09:00 this morning. I don't feel rested at all.

Phil, tell your wifey she did an amazing job! Beautiful flowers!

Billy, glad you got to take care of the yellow jacket nest. Assuming it was uneventful.

Don, nice pics from the trip. Sorry about the "friendly fire".

RNG, have a safe trip to pick up the van. Hope everything turns out perfect!

Drew, have fun on your trip too! Sounds like you have a service plan in place.

Today's agenda is to continue with building the planter. Should get it set in place later or maybe wait until tomorrow if it gets too windy (which has started already).

Everyone have a great day!

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .26 inches rain.

Guys trounced at H&F winning only 1 hand in 7. Sophie’s stuffed cabbage was delicious.

Major dump run and PO visit today. Probably replace belts on Scag and flail as the growing grass is starting to call.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

70F, wet, and cloudy @ 12:30, heading up to around 73F for the day's high. Local weather stations in the area reporting around 0.010" of rain so far, hearing it come down last night with the windows open in the house it sure seemed like it might have been more ...

At any rate, we'll take it ... the lawn will certainly like it.

Woman was due to be over at the garage/yard sale @ 07:00, doubtful whether they are seeing much action given the weather. Suspect I will have to hear about the low reward-to-effort ratio.

Went ahead and mowed entire front lawn yesterday. Ten Day calling for good chances of rain for the next 5 days (through Wednesday) and mostly cooler temps ... so probably good to get it out of the way.

Put out 15 mealworms in the feeder for the bluebirds after that since it was cool and overcast most of the day.

Plants in pots sprayed with neem oil.

Trimmed off some vine that growing up through the Colorado Blue Spruce and hauled that to the brush pile.

Used pallet forks to move box blade so I could get to the shrub/stump bucket, then swapped out the forks for the bucket.

Transplanted Woman's Russian Sage plant so that it would be in the same row as the rhubarb and blueberry plants. That should allow covering the east side of the garden area with three widths of 6' wide weed black fabric.

Raked up some leaves and dead weeds out of the garden in preparation for tilling and hauled that up to the compost pile.

Got garden pretty much all tilled up although there is an area between the asparagus and the few strawberries that survived from last year that is all grown up with weeds. It's too narrow to run the big tiller in so the plan is to dig out the strawberries, pot them, and then till all that under.

Got Cub and dump cart put away and pulled Kubota up to front of the house just as the raindrops started to fall.

Kubota now has 5 running hours on it since I put the cooling system cleaner in it, may get that drained and flushed later today and the antifreeze put back in.

Not calling for much rain (0.15") through tomorrow, then more significant rain (1"+) after that ... so will probably try and get rest of tilling done today if it isn't too wet out there.

Still need to collect those bolts for the PHD.

Holland Bulb Farms issued a credit for the strawberry plants that did not survive, actually it may have been slightly more than what I paid originally. Plus they issued a coupon for free shipping the next order ...

Hope everyone is having a Good Friday ...

 

[Thomas]

75F few clouds here and there.

Short work day and with out realizing it Mrs. con me into doing food shopping rest of the morning putter and fill wash out with 2 bucket loads thanloam for the finishing touch...been while since Bota got exercise.

1 kitten doing her best for me to take nap...think she winning.

Enjoy your day akk.

 

[newbury]

<snip> I took some equity mutual funds and bought
some CDs last month with them, and triggered the balance requirements on the account, since I had to go to another bank since
Wells Fargo does not offer competitive CDs. Nor do most big banks.
I have never liked this bank, only wound up with them because they bought out Wachovia, a really good bank.
<snip>

Someone (on TBN I think) recommended getting into "laddering treasury bills".
If you do it through the treasury department it's pretty painless to move funds around, there are no fees or commissions and you can be pretty sure it's safe.
Also if your buying short term bills you can have them reinvested for up to two years.
The rates vary ( see here ) but are beating CD's.

 

[m7040]

Used a credit union for more than 50 years. This credit union had branches at my former employers offices and it was convenient. After retiring continued with it since the company and credit union was local. After they moved out of town still continued online for checking and savings but also set up an account at a nearby bank for access to deposit checks, pay land taxes etc. Has worked well.
For investments use Schwab and has worked well also. Not sure where the market is going. Had expected some weakness due to the credit crises and is into more cash position than normally. But opportunities will surface I am sure

 

[sodamo]

$330 on Amazon with battery. Milwaukee about the same price.
But my tool budget about shot, I ordered rotating laser level today, to take elevations at the lot.
Starlink working right now, except for the mesh unit. Still think I might get the orbi mesh system.

My Starlight has been erratic since last update and when it doesn’t work neither does my Eero.

 

[sodamo]

Safe travels, RNG

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My Starlight has been erratic since last update and when it doesn’t work neither does my Eero.

I think it was an update screwing things up, but can’t say for sure since I don’t know when they happen.