Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #172,621  
From the West Texas Mesonet Thursday: Not easy for find a cool spot these days. Highest mesonet temps today.... hot air is shifting north and east:
113 degrees F - Odell 4ENE
112 degrees F - Wichita Falls 2SSE
111 degrees F - Goodlett 3W
111 degrees F - Crowell 1E
111 degrees F - Knox City 3NW
111 degrees F - Hefner 1SW
110 degrees F - Truscott 2SE
110 degrees F - Comanche Springs
110 degrees F - Estelline 3SSE
110 degrees F - Throckmorton 1SW
110 degrees F - Rotan 5W
110 degrees F - Seymour 3NW

Stay cool wherever you are!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #172,622  
Got a call from my insulation guy about noon on Thursday, said he had an opening and wanted to come out to get the blown-in work done. He and his two sons came out and spent three hours blowing in 16" of insulation. The estimate was for 12 inches "settled". I finished putting up the remaining lights in the 12' ceiling section, before I had to get out of there. They did a good job, on a HOT day, but did leave a pretty good dusty mess to clean up. The kids counted the empty bale bags - I think I heard ~150 as a count. I'm happy with the job and that I did not decide to do that myself...
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   / Good morning!!!! #172,623  
Good Morning
It’s 70 and will top 80 today with an increasing chance of rain throughout the day. Still Smokey out there.

Yesterday was a busy day, started with cleaning up the split tree.
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While I had the tractor out, I pushed back the brush pile before taking the loader off to mow. Hooked up the big Progressive mower and used a tube of grease on it, thank goodness for cordless grease guns. The tires are all holding air nicely.
Ran around all the edges, fences and obstacles with the Lazer with grandson on my lap before climbing into the tractor to do the open areas. He ended up asleep in the tractor.
After the mowing was all done son came up to fly a model, we discovered a great way to wear Zoe out.


Pork shoulders came out of the smoker around 4, got shredded and put in the Cambro for a 7:30 meal. The boys in the band were quite pleased.
What amazes me is that the smoker ran for 19 hours, and I didn’t have to reload the firebox.

Got wife all loaded up for todays farmers market, played music and packed it in around midnight.

Not sure what I’m up to today.
Indeed you did have busy day,bet you and Zoe slept well.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #172,624  
Good (Saturday) morning. Overnight Low of 2C and it's presently 12.7C, fairly clear with a steady Southerly breeze = colder temps.

I did get two large 'garbage bags' filled with jumpers/fleeces/pants/work clothes and took them into town to the 'Op Shop'. They were gratefully accepted.

Thanks for the responses regarding a good N.A. red wine... which, so far, means getting one from anywhere other than N.A.. :D

If the temperature improves this arvo I might clean up Paddock #6. Hopefully it will have dried up enough that I won't 'rut' whilst chain-harrowing. If it looks like it will I can wait.

That's about it, take care all. Oh, and Happy Canada Day!
Yes, indeed, Wagtail, and happy Canada Day to you, too!

Been very busy with the basement, renovations, and the plumbing was just finished yesterday. Installed a pump tank because the exit to the septic is above the level of the bathroom floor. It was amazing amount at work for the plumbers, Working underneath the floor with only about 30 inches of clearance, but they did a good job.

The pump tank itself is a monster. Looks like something from outer space!

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Electrician still has to come by and put his finishing lights and switches on, and then we start on the floor.

Lots of fun! Has anyone ever installed an IKEA kitchen? It comes in pieces and you have to put it all together.

Have a good day everyone, and welcome to the beginning of summer with the kids out of school.

More crowds on the lake.

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But lovely sunsets! Dog can’t figure out why there are two of them, LOL.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #172,628  
Yes, indeed, Wagtail, and happy Canada Day to you, too!

Been very busy with the basement, renovations, and the plumbing was just finished yesterday. Installed a pump tank because the exit to the septic is above the level of the bathroom floor. It was amazing amount at work for the plumbers, Working underneath the floor with only about 30 inches of clearance, but they did a good job.

The pump tank itself is a monster. Looks like something from outer space!

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Electrician still has to come by and put his finishing lights and switches on, and then we start on the floor.

Lots of fun! Has anyone ever installed an IKEA kitchen? It comes in pieces and you have to put it all together.

Have a good day everyone, and welcome to the beginning of summer with the kids out of school.

More crowds on the lake.

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But lovely sunsets! Dog can’t figure out why there are two of them, LOL.
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   / Good morning!!!! #172,629  
Morning all, 70's going up to 85 and smoky , might get a drop of rain tonight, maybe that will clean out some smoke?
Well it seems my liver is back to normal after a big scare last month.

Had some good Malbecs from Argentina, not remembering names though.

I will put forward Dad's hat rye, owner's wife works with my wife.
He has a high end Rye that we were sipping and was really good, was never a Rye person before that.

Vet pissed off wife as Vet was wanting to test her for some weird stuff and then mentioned acupuncture?? Need a new vet. $240 and basically gave her anti-diarrhea pills and sent them home.

Drew, Ron - made it to geek hall of fame by posting a conversation while you were a few hundred feet from each other :)

I buy the Glock e-tool works fine for keeping in the car:https://www.amazon.com/Glock-Entrenching-Tool-Saw-Pouch/dp/B000KOOUOS

Be well,
 
   / Good morning!!!! #172,630  
73F and cloudy @ 11:30, calling for a high of 84F with the possibility of thunderstorms developing this afternoon. AQI = 63.

We just had a torrential downpour about 1/2 hour ago ... not certain how much rain we actually got but the closest personal weather station (< 1 mile) is reporting 3.62" ... :oops:

Then next closest station is reporting 0.98" ... don't see a flood coursing down through the yard, so I suspect something in between those amounts. But it was a lot of rain in a very short period of time ... so things will be well-watered here for quite some period of time. Grass and weeds will be growing like mad ... :(

Woman and I are both in recovery mode today.

She finished weeding the row of asparagus yesterday and we got another 7 tomato plants put in the ground for a grand total of 9 ... so far:

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There's still another 6 to go ... they are the yellow low-acid ones ... which I really love.

Also got the last rhubarb planted. The established rhubarb is looking very good. Might be enough for a pie ... :love:

I ran out to the Kubota dealer's late afternoon to take a break from the heat and humidity and pick up the hydraulic dipstick. When he brought the part out I knew I had screwed up: it didn't include the o-rings ... 🤬

He hooked me up with two different sizes of o-rings, one of which will hopefully work. If not, he'll get the correct ones ordered.

On the way back I stopped at Dunkin' and picked up a couple of iced coffees then stopped by the local garden center and grabbed a bale of straw for mulch which The Woman had mentioned She wanted.

Also got another 5 or 6 buckets of screened compost hauled down to the garden to level out some low spots. Unfortunately did not get all of that spread out and tamped down ... so it's likely to be a mess after the rain.

Put up a fence with step-in posts and 40 lb monofilament line at two levels before we knocked off. Also put a line that had cans attached at the ends sitting a pair of 5 gallon buckets with the line sitting in forked sticks about 20" off the ground, idea being deer will walk into the line - which they can't see - and react to hitting the line and/or knock the cans off the buckets making a racket which they won't like, being nervous creatures and all.

As of this morning all the plants were undisturbed, although I did see a squirrel venturing out from the woods to scope things out.

Got 1 of the new Swamp Milkweeds potted and watered-in last night before I knocked off yesterday, 2 more of those to do today ... along with the 3 Butterfly Weeds. And more strawberries.

Also noticed yesterday that the one entry hole right next to the house that I had filled with used cat litter had been dug out and cleared again ... 🤬

That one is going to get a smoke bomb put into it today and then sealed back up ... :devilish:

Not sure what all on the agenda for today, most likely will be an inside day.

Woman wants a hand with some house cleaning so there's that ... plus hopper and suet feeders need refilled.

Hope everyone is having a good Saturday ... (y)
 
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