Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

It's hard to imagine losing everything you own. Makes RNG's efforts at home protection seriously smart, although I hope less fire risk where he is now.

Hard to say if this is urban enough to be absolutely safe or not, Drew. The natural hazard disclosure came back OK for wildfire, but several towns have burned down in both Northern and Southern California with similar topography. If a wildfire gets big enough it creates its own weather, casting ember storms out in front of it that consume everything in the path. And then there are the fire tornados as seen in the fire west of Redding, CA a couple years ago. Noting survived that.

 

[ronjhall]

Beautiful job on the basement, James.

Mind sharing what sort of finish you used on the butcher block counter tops? The ones here don't seem to have much of anything on them and need some attention...

Not sure what others use on their butcher block countertops. I use Howard’s Butcher Block Conditioner. Which reminds me to do my 2 countertops.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

problem resolved, but not diagnosed…

Bad gas. Doesn't take long, as little as a few weeks, depending on the quality of the gas and the conditions at which it was stored.

 

[check]

Beautiful job on the basement, James.

Mind sharing what sort of finish you used on the butcher block counter tops? The ones here don't seem to have much of anything on them and need some attention...

It came stock like that from ikea. Pre-finished. May have to oil it once a year.

 

[m7040]

RNG do you have warranty for your newly discovered items

 

[m7040]

Brunch was omelet with red onions, tomatoes, peas, 3 kinds grated cheese, eggs, milk cream, bacon, spices

 

[daugen]

successful morning.
visit to TSC scored a 40 pound bag of pelletized lime, for same six bucks as the
5 pound organic bag. Got the generator's 40 pound rolling propane tank I have filled, it showed empty, though gen did not
quit, truly running on fumes.
Got the propane out of the car and then headed out again, this time to Lambertville to get mower gas, and fill up the car.
It was starting to get crazy out there. While getting gas a Pantera went by, then a Caterham. What a death trap that is.
I'd MUCH rather have Scootr's car.
Pantera was pretty cool though, looked hard to see out of.

chilling out before I head back out to spread that lime.
Needed to take my good shoes off, usually I forget.

 

[kenmbz]

So this morning Jeep headlight lights up, too much technology just to run lights on this thing.
All the holes I need drilled for the wiring in the basement are done, too hot down there now.
Still have to measure the pipe runs for the heat pump to see what needs to be ordered.

Hot out now and humidity is up there, so maybe some more wire runs later.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and no rain

I did get my new Ubiquiti point to point antenna mounted for the Starlink signal

Of course not as straight forward as originally thought. Plan was to just remove the unused Yagi and place. Unfortunately a nice well grown palm tree with bushy fronds was smack in alignment. Had to come up with different mounting.

Cottage side mounted as planned with my usual fun with the cable. So what seemed a rather straight forward, simple project took way longer. A good signal, but some tweaking and still need to configure the Wi-Fi side.

Need to do a dump run today. Otherwise may stay off roof and ladders for now.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Buppies]

Wife is mowing in observation mode

 

[daugen]

Wife is mowing in observation mode

yours or hers?
if hers better show her where the yellow pto button is...

got all the lime put down and then on a Sunday Walmart delivery came, new outdoor picnic table to replace
existing rotting wood one. This one is plastic, will have to devise a clamp to hold my weather station.
and of course it's in dozens of parts and sitting in the sun. Was nice delivery guy brought the big heavy package to the rear of house and leaned
it up on the trailer. I must have been putting down the limestone and didn't see him. Nice extra touch.

I have to cool off before I go back out and finish it. I started it but too much sweat in my eyes. Need to go back out with sweat band.

then at some point I have to saw up the old rotted wooden picnic table.
Really don't want to put that in the woods, suppose I could put it out in pieces in trash
over a number of weeks.

 

[sodamo]

death toll in Hawaii now exceeds California Camp Fire.
nice to hear ex wife and her daughter's family all got out at 2am, evacuated about an hour before the entire block burned down.
thank goodness.
now she is flying back to NJ, not that far from me, where she/we used to live.
Haven't seen her in 25 years.
Very dysfunctional, more than I could handle. So admit I'm a little leery.
I will likely quietly help with a little money.
I'm sure the call will come...and that's ok, not too many folks have their entire town burn down and lose 100 percent of what they owned.
Time to help. But not get ensnared....

Glad to hear Ex is OK.
I’m afraid that here the news will get more somber the next few days. Only 3% of the area has been surveyed so expectation is significant rise in death toll.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Crazy drivers.

Was the cheap gas at Love's near Staunton? That's where I found it.

Greenville exit near Staunton. I went to pilot. I think Loves was same price. $.10 higher at Raphine exit.

 

[sodamo]

Was watching an old movie where you put in 25 cents and the bed vibrates. Remember those when traveling through AZ and NM many years ago

My new one vibrates. They call it massage. Not a quarter at a time, had to pay all up front

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Looks like golf coarse when your done mowing.

I could put 2 or 3 holes in.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I had a mower that acted like that. The gas tank cap vent hole was blocked.

my husqvarna started dying when it got warmed up, just had to loosen gas cap. Vent blocked.

Coming home from VA yesterday, when I filled up at Costco last night my gas cap was hanging outside the fuel door by its little strap. I forgot to close it at the last station.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

She mows grass with me watching still does mostly ok still careful says it’s her favorite thing to do. Still waiting on toros to get fixed keep old Z as spare

I really need a shed and another ZT to keep at the lot.

 

[sodamo]

Beautiful job on the basement, James.

Mind sharing what sort of finish you used on the butcher block counter tops? The ones here don't seem to have much of anything on them and need some attention...

Home Depot sells a butcher block oil. I used it on some countertops.

Back when I made the counter tops from eucalyptus I treated with a mix of mineral oil and bees wax applied hot.

 

[sodamo]

I really need a shed and another ZT to keep at the lot.

Of course you do

 

[buckeyefarmer]

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/espoma-garden-lime-6-3-4-lb

I'm off to Tractor Supply this morning to get some lawn lime. Researched why my lawn is dying next to the pines.
if you zoom way in on this overhead pic, you can see the dead lawn area at the top left. And another one starting near the septic tank.
All under pine trees.
Like a dead desert. Too acidic.
Small bag covers 100 sf, have a small Scotts spreader I will use.
maybe I should get two bags.........or a bigger bag. Lot of pine trees here.

I had this same thing in NC and didn't research it. Put lawn food down, new grass seed, it all died.
I was told it was some kind of fungus amungus.
I'm thinking I should have tried to raise the PH...

Glad Ex got out safe.
Glad you liking the drone.