Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

That photo of the Angata Camp reminded me of the John Wayne movie Hatari.

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Is that a fabric roof?

 

[Looking4new]

Tomorrow the Dodge goes into the shop for snow tires and see how much to fix the A/C. The oil was changed last April, so it should be good until April 2024. I haven't done 1500 miles on the last oil change with a synthetic oil blend.

 

[Buppies]

Happy Anniversary m7040

Prayers for quick recovery Don

1970 paid .149 cents per gallon Salem Va gas wars 1966 Ford fairlane GT 390 4spd

Thanks for pictures m7040

have fun BEF

 

[check]

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I walked
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I got discharged
Heading home with ice pack
New knee installed 6 hours ago
Yea!!!!!!

Wow! Do keep us posted, as I think I’m going to do both of my knees.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 69ºF for the start, overcast with 1 inch in rain gauge, breezy. Moderate wind with brisk gusts, overcast with periods of rain, and high temp was 73ºF. Puttered waiting for rain free riding window, only got sprinkled on twice. Nap after lunch. not much done during evening. Pic was from bike ride, local farm had 2 zebras out grazing about 2 years ago. Lowest price I paid for gas was .199/gal STL County and in Rolla,MO.
Kyle Sorry to hear work hectic again/still. Haas not very old, sorry about welder, any idea what is wrong? Sorry to hear you are turning into a grumpy old man. Has to be disappointing on the glasses front. I paid around $400 each for last two pair but I get variable tint, progressive, safety lens and scratch resistance. Tinnitus is not helping your disposition any. Backing in rain is always a pain.
Scotty nice trip, sounds very special. Good to not hear about travel issues. Hope you got lots of pics and family time.
Ron hope winter prep coming along. Nice pose by bird.
Phil hope you can get a removable edge for the bucket. Really nice woodwork and pic
Drew hope errands went well.
Bill glad everything that should be covered has one. Nice setup on block heaters. Hope horn now works.
Drew thanks for sharing on speaker hook up.
Billy thanks for the congrats. Good to hear almost done with grass mowing, but leaf control will require more.
Kilroy nice yesterday visit to woodlot was productive. Hope you are happy with Halloween decorations and can get them all powered up. Hope today went well.
Buppies sorry no rain. Hope partial parathyroid removal goes as planned. prayers sent
Thomas hope parts store time was not too bad.
Kilroy love the sign.
Ken I ask the same question. Price on tank pretty good, had to justify much repair work. He's back
Frits glad you are rid of tires. Hope she got some sleep after hippo left. Congrats on 58 Anniversary. Thanks for sharing pics
Tin hope our mom makes it to century as well.
Drew interesting what can help people who have autism.
David hope meeting goes well, we have to to same thing.
Frits thanks for cool pics
Mike sorry chaos at homestead. How much of that 400 lbs is actual nut?
Scotty 76 years of marriage impressive as well.
Don hope surgery was good, prayers for recovery.
Dennis glad you stayed warm in the trailer. Great pics, and bacon and eggs on griddle sounds good as well.
RNG good to hear successful trip to old house. Sorry about the paint left at new house. Hope you can work out how to get heavy loads up the hill at Yankee hill. Hope wiring session on old van goes well.
Randy(wag) glad you were able to deal with the wine bottles. Hope upgrade goes well on satellite box. Good to hear branches cleaned up. Hope town run all good.
Don good to hear you out already.
Dennis sounds like nice camping trip.
Thomas glad you survived the 8 hour shift.
Don hope no pain from knee flexing machine.
Bill hope you can get A/C fixed on Dodge.
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.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is cooling. 61° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 63° with afternoon rain showers. Got more of garden plants trimmed down for winter. Did some tree trimming for neighbor trees that were so low it was difficult to mow grass underneath. Sat out on back porch and enjoyed the warm weather to finish out the day. Have 3 shrubs to plant today. Then more garden cleanup.
Closeup of bird feeder cleanup.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 53 and the high to 57°F. Wind ESE 7 mph. Showers. According to the long range forecast, the whole week is going to be wet.

Tires and A/C today at the shop for the Dodge.

Don't know what I will get into while I am 'cooling my jets' at the house waiting for the Dodge to get done.

Ron your cleanup crew seems to be doing a good job.

Have a safe day all

 

[ronjhall]

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At home
On automatic knee flexation machine for an hour

The robot cutter did a good job got the measurement of the cut from the CT scan I took a week ago.

BEF those camp fire pics look good. They reminded me of the camp sites we cleared out in the River Ranch Park last year - primitive sites with fire rings.

Surprised you were sent home same day. Have a good fast recovery.

 

[Buppies]

41 high of 78 today still dry. Working on big job town road lots of paving.

Prayers for all our Country Israeli and Ukrainian people

 

[riptides]

...
Mike sorry chaos at homestead. How much of that 400 lbs is actual nut?
...

An amount too small for the effort.

39 outside right now. Looking to be an awesome day. Going to try the weed whacker later.

Getting another alligator prevention/avoidance/reducer/whatever later. Sigh...over-ruled on shots in this house. Not a republic. LOL. But with conditions the way they are, I will submit.

I look up and it's middle of the week already. Time to get busy and do the morning routine. Hope all have a great day.

 

[Thomas]

Hope you had good night rest Don.

 

[Thomas]

40F partly cloudy low 60's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.

Plans for today...AM blow leaves,noonish town for critter food quick lunch,PM blow leaves until...going to be outside day.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[riptides]

Bucket number two. Not shown four 50lb grain bags....lol.
One tree. In this area people are saying bumper crop. I believe.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
weather is warming a little, high in 70's today

off this morning to Lederach to my childhood friend's home there, promised him I'd take a pic of his house
with my drone. I think he wants to make a Christmas card out of the pic.
If we ever get snow here again....I promised to drive up there and take a pic before any tracks were made in the driveway.

as always I wave to Popgadgets bright yellow mailbox as I go by

this afternoon I am going to install, I hope, a water filtration system in rv. Mini version of what I have at home with three filters.
just no room for an RO filter, which would be best. Package is leaning up against side of house....amazon email as of almost 8pm last night.
surprised they deliver so late, though I bet with holidays coming, that will be the norm.
I use a generic Camco inline water filter on the main supply line, which means I don't mind taking a shower in the allegedly potable water and brushing my teeth
in it. But to drink, everyone says never drink the water from your rv tank. Most won't drink campground water.
since I plan on being on the road for longer periods, time to up my water game.

going to hog up a lot of precious room under the sink in rv. Need to rearrange where coffee pot lives.
also means more to winterize; I'll just unscrew the cartridges and take them inside.
At least there will be a little more room here to work. Good time to clean out the compartment, disinfect it, and then put it all back in.
Once stuff is in there, never gets cleaned.

Afternoons are getting warm, going to hit 80 on Saturday. Am hoping I get one more batch of sweet peppers.

Don, we are all rooting for a fast recovery for you. Never knew they had an automatic knee bending machine.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

32.0F going to low 70e,sunny forecast. Was only supposed to go to low 40a, so no fire in stove, HVAC cycling since 3AM…

after Chiro visit, had some admin tasks in town, post office etc. stopped at one of the antiques after having lunch and found a vintage Wheary travel trunk in excellent shape with the wooden hangers — it will be installed in the cabin shed once it gets a good airing and cleaning for regular use as clothing closet.

It has an interesting interlock system with the drawers: the top small drawer has two steel channels mounted at the sides which engage two rollers mounted on the upper ends of two vertical steel arms, which have hooks that engage metal slotted brackets mounted on the sides of the other drawers. When the top drawer is closed, the arms are raised and the hooks prevent the other drawers from opening. When the drawer is opened two inches, the arms drop and the other drawers and move.

It even has all the wooden hangars! The rods for the hangars extend out about 8 inches.

Walked the dog up the mountain, no work done, although I harvested some Choi and chards, as well as seeds for next year.

Today is weigh-in day again plus more admin running around. I need more extension cords to finish the outside Halloween decorating… Hopefully the firewood gets unloaded today since it did not happen yesterday.

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[daugen]

Bucket number two. Not shown four 50lb grain bags....lol.
One tree. In this area people are saying bumper crop. I believe.
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it really is a bumper crop.
Apples are a bumper crop this year, at least around here.

those nuts are good for you. But so much trouble to shell unless you have a machine.
Particularly black walnuts. One seriously hard shell.
I love walnuts though and try to bake with them

Kilroy, very cool travel trunk.
I can only imagine what they would charge you on a plane to check that today, full of stuff.
probably hundreds of dollars.

That trunk has gone places. If only it could talk...
African safari? And who was RBW?...

 

[KilroyJC]

it really is a bumper crop.
Apples are a bumper crop this year, at least around here.

those nuts are good for you. But so much trouble to shell unless you have a machine.
Particularly black walnuts. One seriously hard shell.
I love walnuts though and try to bake with them

Kilroy, very cool travel trunk.
I can only imagine what they would charge you on a plane to check that today, full of stuff.
probably hundreds of dollars.

That trunk has gone places. If only it could talk...
African safari? And who was RBW?...

I am guessing RBW was the trunk’s first owner. And the oval sticker was from some NYC hotel, too little remains to easily identify which one…

 

[Tinhack]

Is that a fabric roof?

Yes, it is. The photo after it (original post) shows the inside.

 

[daugen]

this is for Scootr
lot of nature lovers and photographers will probably convene here soon, flowers in the desert.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/25/weather/death-valley-hurricane-hilary-lakes-wildflowers-climate/index.html

 

[Popgadget]

Good morning.
42 with a high of 66 under clear skies today.

Yesterday found me in the shop all day. I decided to retire the rotary phase converter used to power my table saw, it was replaced with a 4kw VFD. It seems to work well, programming was straightforward, even with the pigeon English manual. Not sure if I’ll bother with a remote switch or not, for now I’m using the controls on the VFD.

Got the jackplates built and wired to the crossovers for the speakers.

It was Zoe’s first birthday, we sang happy birthday to her and gave her a piece of cake.

Her breeder said that one of her brothers was looking for a new home due to his master’s health. We actually considered it, but then came to our senses…

One year old Male Landseer ECT in Wilmington, NC.