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   / Good morning!!!! #176,942  
58°F and cloudy this morning, and pretty much all day, getting up to 80°. 69° and light rain right now, which started about an hour ago.

Finally got the Starlink dish mounted on the roof yesterday. Removed the old HughesNet dish, added an adapter to the existing 2" pole, and on it went. Easy-peasy. It's almost entertaining how much smaller the Starlink dish is ... probably 1/8th the size of the old one. Looks like a full-size laptop computer on a stick. We have even less obstruction showing up there, which is the very tippy tops of our oak trees in the front yard.

Got the rest of the grass mowed after that, while The Wife was out in the pasture dismantling her dog agility equipment. After I finished mowing, I helped her move some of the heavier and more awkward stuff into the barn. Guess she's done out there for the season. Did have to spray a couple of wasp nests on the equipment before we could move it. More stinging bugs ... yay me. No stings this time, though.

Wife has restarted the conversation about the barn ... again. Now it's concrete the floor and add another 40'x40' on the back side for her to use as an indoor training facility. We'll see how far this one goes.

Our Maintenance guy at work is gone all week with the Maintenance Manager down to our facility in Mexico. We have a new, bigger building they just moved into last week, and our guys are there to help connect and setup all the machinery. The amount of constantly changing hurdles we had to jump through with the government down there was astounding. Our guy's absence, though, leaves me as the main "fix it" guy at our facility. Told my supervisors at the daily production meeting first thing this morning, "Don't break anything this week," which they promptly ignored. Fortunately, easily fixable stuff. We'll see how the rest of the week goes. I suspect I'll know a lot more about electronics surface mount equipment repair before the weekend arrives. Nothing wrong with learning, I guess.

Hope everyone is well.

Good evening, gents.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,943  
Good evening all. 69ºF for the start, overcast, and light breeze. Brief periods of drizzle only added up to trace of precipitation. Light wind, overcast broke up in afternoon, and high temp was 88ºF. Putter to start, several false starts for the bike ride, finally go in. After lunch mowed the grass that needed it. No nap :(
Ron nice you could move firewood for neighbor. 43 windows is a lot to clean, nice job. Nice pic, fledglings?
Buppies hope you get rain tomorrow. Nice temps, prayers sent.
Billy good to hear more rain. Nice to hear more seat time and food plots planted.
Mike yes, a day to remember.
Kilroy good to hear doll project progressing. Nice pic of scarecrows. Nice sky watching.
Drew good luck on spare parts. Hope you can get the scrips for PT. Nice story on first boat. Sorry you did not have her very long :(
Kyle I think it's funny you wearing a jacket and I am wearing summer bike gear :) Never been through a hurricane.
Thomas that they(Cowboys) did.
Ken glad mini-split working well. Sorry for all your loss of friends on 9/11.
Don yes it is much nicer outside.
Paul nice amount of rain. Very glad patch worked and fixed leak. Good luck with ceiling repair. Sorry for the loss of your friend. Glad his widow did not have to deal with the airplanes. Hope today was productive and fun.
Paul interesting story.
Frits thanks for the story, I guess you got power back in 10 days, impressive.
Dennis glad you able to go with Tiger and help keep him calm. Isn't that the car that was doing the break ins of the basement areas you were trying o keep the cats out of?
Ted Hope you get rain. Nice cool off, probably won't cool as much without the rain. Glad brisket turned out wonderful. Hope you enjoyed dinner. Glad everything ready for rain. Hope you found stuff to do :)
Dennis got a good chuckle out of that.
Drew thanks for link
Kilroy glad you got in and got out in time!
David glad you got some mowing in. Hope HH nice.
Kilroy thanks for info on storing coffee.
RS hope spraying went well. hope you got a good haul from the garden and rain does not wash away the fertilizer.
David thanks for the link, are there new flows?
Dennis thanks for the pics and explanations.
Frits hope duster w and dust worked as planned.
Scott(vt) sorry about the t-storms. Glad pool is full again.
David sorry about rain delay Glad you are making progress on the pool mod.
Thomas glad you got some seat time. I hear you no hurry to help if he has to deal with trees.
Don sorry you got a 100ºF day.
David sorry mowing put off till tomorrow. Glad new hardware went in without major issues, looks good.
Randy(wag) glad life is good.
PJ glad you got the Starlink antenna mounted where you want it. Glad mowing went well and no stings when moving the dog equipment. Good luck with barn mod project. Hope work goes well as the main fix it guy.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /sleeping, /wife 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, /heart issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /back operation 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.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,944  
I want to experiment with a recipe: I like skirt steak, but sometimes, despite your best efforts, it can be a little chewy. I want to take two full steaks, season them with brisket rub, then wrap them together in a pinwheel and do a slow&low long brisket-type smoke on them. Whaddya think?
I've had good luck with pounding the daylights out of skirt steak with one of those medevil looking tendering hammers from back in my Mom's day. But I suppose if you got it hot enough long enough to break down the connective tissue, that would work, too. Good luck with whatever way you go, KJC!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,947  
Is anyone planning on getting their flu shot this year? Or the Fall Covid shot?
Yes to both... although it's during my Autumn.

Heck, due to my Navy service, I've been jabbed with so many things that (upon retiring) I was half way through my second 'WHO International Vaccination' booklet. :D
 
   / Good morning!!!! #176,948  
Coffee is done brewing. 60° with rain this morning. Heading to 67° with continued AM rain. .91" of rain overnight. Window washing did not go well. Was pulling some garden weeds before starting to wash windows. Mosquito's were trying to eat me alive. This was in same place as window washing was going to happen. Decided I would only kitchen and dinning room windows and get away from Mosquito's. Installed new parts on Bandsaw. Saw is a Craftsman made by Rikon. I usually buy Rikon parts for it. This time the table inert had adjusting screws that allow adjustment for level to table. Nice feature. Now I can make new parts for bird feeders. Suppose to go to neighbors with tractor this morning to move some large limbs that are on their lawn. Will see if that happens. May still be raining.
Looks like dandelion flowers but they are not.
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Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.
 

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