Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

Where is Chris Farley when you need him to start screaming at the weather, STOP RAINING !!

CCR...Who'll will stop the rain.

 

[Thomas]

50F light rain.

Started raining 9am all day weather station more than tad off forecasting.
Afternoon just slow putter day,date night was disappointing cause to young couple were loud and rude to waitress Mrs. knew I getting PO and took my hand as I was but to get up express myself to them said clam down,located waitress and told manger she was more than polite and couple was rude and overbearing.

Plans for the evening share bowl ice watch oldie movie.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[KilroyJC]

Found a 1 inch split in our 4000 gal poly water tank. The tank is 23 yrs old. I ordered a poly repair kit on Amazon. Should arrive this evening. Anybody have any experience with this?
Is there a thread here with this discussion?

I am going to guess that drilling holes at each end of the crack to relieve the stress and stop it from continuing to fracture would be part of that…

 

[KilroyJC]

NYC is flooding big time, look at the precip totals up and down the Hudson, ten inches of rain in one spot
rats will be crawling out of the subways today

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Well, that is one way to clean all the $#!+ off the sidewalks…

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Saturday) morning. Overnight Low of 10.1C and it's presently 25.9C! Fairly clear with variable winds throughout the day. This warm weather can't last for long... we're only one month into Spring so 'cold snaps' have to be coming.

Tonight is "Spring Forward" an hour on our clocks. I've also noticed (what with all of the sunshine) that the house-spiders have been overly busy making cob-webs. It's a never ending battle but they must be eating something.

Starting next Saturday and, excluding Sunday, I'll be busy all that week manning a 'booth' during pre-polling & polling day for a national referendum vote. I won't say what it's for or how I'll vote due to the wonderful TBN policy of no-politics.

Anyway, that's about it, take care all.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good (Saturday) morning. Overnight Low of 10.1C and it's presently 25.9C! Fairly clear with variable winds throughout the day. This warm weather can't last for long... we're only one month into Spring so 'cold snaps' have to be coming.

Tonight is "Spring Forward" an hour on our clocks. I've also noticed (what with all of the sunshine) that the house-spiders have been overly busy making cob-webs. It's a never ending battle but they must be eating something.

Starting next Saturday and, excluding Sunday, I'll be busy all that week manning a 'booth' during pre-polling & polling day for a national referendum vote. I won't say what it's for or how I'll vote due to the wonderful TBN policy of no-politics.

Anyway, that's about it, take care all.

Spring and Autumn, oh the joy of walking face-first into spiderwebs..

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 71ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, mostly clear to partly cloudy sky, and high temp was 93ºF. putter this morning, then bike ride. After lunch took trimmer for a walk, spool got empty so took other trimmer to finish walk. Did get nap in
Ron glad shopping successful. Nice you could conserve energy after shopping. Hope car cleans up nice. I would think they could maintain tree clearance better. Neat pic
Dennis thanks for clarification. My older GPS uses AA batteries and on the long trips would use lithium, hey would last 1/3 to 1/2 again as long.
Mike glad you can enjoy pool for a while longer. Hope chores went well.
Drew nice rain. hope you get the house tidied up. Nice pics, nice coffee cup collection.
Buppies sorry to hear paver still in shop. Good luck on patch job. prayers sent.
Thomas inquiring minds want to know.
Thomas sorry about owl. hope day and date night went well.
Kilroy congrats on no leaks hope trip to WallyWorld was successful, as well as hive work. Hope dogs enjoyed the woodlot trip.
RNG sorry not much rain. Sorry about DRO may be cheaper to buy new unit. Hope engine rebuild progresses, and PG&E get their voltage act together.
Billy glad you got to hold Izzy . Always like to see a good blacksmith work.
Scott(vt) sorry about all the rain. Thanks for detail on your wood toolbox.
Paul glad TSA project done! Nice BBQ pic. Glad trash and recycle made it curbside. Hope wood work and music went well.
Scotty no experience with poly tank repair, does sound old, does it get sun exposure?
Frits congrats on having blacksmiths in family.
Chris sorry about the wet grass while mowing and Alligators hitting friends and family, glad no hospitalization.
Gstrom sorry about shingles vax fever. I heard that is good sign. Nice pic. Is shop done?
Ken sorry procedure did not find the issue. Interesting details on boiler. Nice pic
Dennis ED of all trades rings a bell. Love homemade ice cream, there was a guy used antique hit and miss motor to churn home ice cream, showed up on several rides.
David hope shopping and H&F went well.
Drew glad planning going well for Florida trip. Hope shots go well.
Ken prayers for your family members.
Scotty congrats on new brush hog
Scott(vt) sorry about the flood warnings. Hope ribs turn out.
Dennis glad you are replacing the old tires.
Drew wow big difference in shipping.
James sorry Jasper does not like the vet. Scoot was not a fan of going to the vet. Sorry it is time to take the boats out, with temps in the 90's here we are nowhere close to winterizing. Nice progress on basement.
Frits sounds like quite the trip
Drew just a little water.
Thomas sorry date night dinner messed with by rude couple.
Randy(wag) nice you are getting warm spell. Our clock change Nov and March. Hope voting goes well.
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, 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.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
up way too early but ?
have to beat Ron once in a while

used to be a race to beat Roy. Sure miss him. Rest in peace friend.

rain is done here, 1.44 on gauge, cloudy day
I have two jobs planned, one to get mums for outside planters and second
to get some good exercise and wash the rv. I did get the chromed bits cleaned yesterday, already starting to
etch from the salt. I would really like to clean the top of the rv, would help with black streaking, but I'm not climbing up there.
That could end very badly. Many things are just more sketchy when you are doing it yourself, with no other sets of eyes nearby.
(like me backing up the motorhome... )

paid insurance bill last night, Westfield, HO and auto, 2100 for car, tenant homeowners and $3M umbrella. Up about 10 percent from last year.
1000 dollar deductibles keep the cost down, but all those years when car insurance was 7-800 a year. Now it's 1500.
of course look at the cost of a new truck or an EV

decided to let my winter beard start while on vacation, so now at point where all white beard is coming in.
I keep it cut at lowest setting, purely for staying warm in winter. It comes off in March for my birthday.

hope you all have a nice weekend.

 

[daugen]

I would adjust them to the heavy setting by turning the shaft while it is bottomed out

Frits, new tech, non adjustable. Bilsteins made for max control, Konis made for max ride. New valving seems to handle impact bumps better.

Are KONI FSD's adjustable? No, KONI FSD's are continuously adjusting themselves. This technology replaces the adjustability by hand.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking warm cup of coffee. 52° with fog this morning. Heading to 74° with mostly cloudy skies. Got car washed. It should stay that way for awhile. No rain forecast until late next week. Got Trak-Vac out of back of barn. Need to get it ready for leaf pickup. Some trees are starting to get color. While I had pressure washer out. Cleaned all the bird feeders. Added a perch for birds to land on to one of them. Did get some conserve energy time in afternoon.
Will see what is needs to be done today.
Sassy wanted out at 11:30 yesterday evening. Harvest Full Moon was shining bright.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

60 this morning high of 80 today lots of sunshine, jobs to look at. Went to visitation last night for good friend very fond of him and his son good people. Hope you all enjoy this son sent to us. Prayers for all our Country

 

[ronjhall]

Drew, look on Amazon for pressure washer accessories. They have some different extensions and tips that will allow you to wash roof from the ground.

 

[Thomas]

53F light misting rain around partly cloudy sky low 70's.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today 4 hours at auto parts dealer,afternoon take trimmer for walk.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[wngsprd]

62 going to 73.

Great photo, Buppies.

Some of you might remember a former TBNer, Ed of all Trades, he did blacksmith work. I met him for breakfast once a few years back.

Good guy...miss him.

Roasted some nice coffees yesterday...quality has really improved from many of the small growers.

Hoping things dry out enough today to start another round of mowing...grass is tall and moist.

 

[Thomas]

Thomas inquiring minds want to know.

Owner of parts store trying his darndest to hire and offering good pay for drivers.

1 person couldn't pass drug test,another well lets just say goof off another was hire last week yet to show up,maybe once the cold weather settles in some might want to come inside and work.
Owner day and I will hang in little longer more.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thomas, pretty unbelievable how people just don’t show up for work
Buppies, nice pic. Sorry about good friend.
Wngsprd, Ed lives in Waynesboro Va.
Ron, nice pic.
Drew, miss Roy also.
I woke up 2 hrs before alarm. Even had trouble going to sleep.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Spring and Autumn, oh the joy of walking face-first into spiderwebs..

They got me while mowing the other day.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 57 and grey outside, not going to change much throughput the day.
Tomorrow begins a week of sun and clear skies.

Yesterday kept me busy, I picked up the sheet of stainless steel that I had waterjet cut to repair the rear deck on the Progressive mower that was rusting through. I made a CAD drawing and emailed a dxf file to the shop.
Somehow the file got a little scrambled and left a few cuts out. It did the bolt circles for the spindles, but not one of the large center holes, and there is one hole missing from one of the bolt circles. I’ll drill that, and plasma cut the big one. He offered to cut a new piece, but he’s a friend, I sent him the file without a drawing to compare, and most importantly, he didn’t charge me anything for the 60 x 24 stainless sheet or his work.
Besides, I can easily do it.
Had a nice lunch with a friend, while we were eating I got a call from the Toyota dealer that my car was ready to pick up. My friend offered to drive me to the dealer, about an hour away.
We made a detour, he thought I might like to see his friends wood shop. He was correct. They had some spectacular high end projects going on, several big pieces that were going to Norway.

Projects — Paramount Wood Co.

paramountwoodco.com

Picking the car up went effortlessly,the paperwork took less than 5 minutes, as most of it was done last week when I actually bought it.
The only catch was that they only plugged it in about 45 minutes before I got there, so I drove home as a hybrid rather than EV. Still registered an impressive 64mpg though. I plugged it in to my new charger when I got home.

Didn’t play music, but not a bad day. I’ve got a lot to figure out, this Prius has more systems than a jet airplane. Got the garage door openers and the XM radio programmed as a start.

This morning, I’ll drive to the airport for another NH trip in EV mode. Be interesting to see how far the charge takes me. I’ll probably plug into 120v while I’m there.

Should get home early afternoon, it’s way to wet to mow, so I’ll be in the shop cutting up wood and building speakers. It’s great not to have any governmental agencies to deal with for a while. Between the agencies and their programs, my head is swimming with acronyms.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly)…

55F going to low 80s, sunny all day.

Admin and shopping excursions went well, work on hives went well - removed supers and reduced back to two deeps on the hives. Busier hive produced almost eight medium frames of honey. I got two pint jars just from straining the cappings! Four frames are inverted in a bin, slowly gravity draining, I put that bin in the back of the Subaru to heat up today in the sun While we do tasks up at the woodlot today. Rest of the frames will extract as the week progresses.

Today’s activities will begin up at the woodlot, Mrs will do more splitting, I will bring up some scaffold frames to start working on the carport, I plan to get some 2x4 spacers along the wall of the shed ( because there is a defunct electrical service that I need clearance over, just in case we ever reconnect), and get the first aluminum rail mounted, so I can exactly determine where I need to put the concrete footings for the rest of the assembly.
Hen we will load up the first of that firewood to bring home and start stacking For ‘24-‘25 heating season.

Then I will be converting all the remaining tomatoes into sauce and making a batch of meatballs and freezing in batches.

And then show tonight at the Performing Arts Center.


I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe productive blessed day!

 

[riptides]

64 outside this AM, heading to mid 70's. 84% humidity.

Got the call yesterday to formally shut down a few projects at the real job. Too bad.

That set my mind racing to complete the wifes wishes here at the house. Today is Milk House attic cleaning day. Chase the squirrels out, clean up the attic floors, hang some gable foam boards and seal it up. Will have to double down on that and get it done, today. Still waiting on one plumber with a transit. To get it fully functional with water and septic hookups we are in the 13 to 25k range. That's rough in only, no fixture hookups. It's a big fur ball for me, but it needs to happen.

Hope all have a great weekend, be safe. Stay or get healthy to those ailing.

Time to tend to the critters.