Good morning!!!!

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Vt, in the low 40’s with a little breeze ! The 2 plus feet of snow has shrunk down to only a few inches here and there !

Off to Manhattan today to take the family out for easter and do some business on upper west side, then down to union square or therabouts.

Ken, they are talking about a $15 dollar toll to enter Manhattan ! Don’t know if it will fly but it’s getting more expensive by the day to go to NYC ! We usually take the train if going to Manhattan or Yankee Stadium !

That Bridgeport is like a greeter when you come into Popgadget's shop.

I spent many hours behind a Bridgeport Miller ! Especially the last 20 years in my trade at Pitney Bowes ! Although mine was retrofitted with an Anilam control and I had a computer on my work bench with MasterCam, so I could download files to my machine ! My own personal Hardinge
lathe, surface grinder, internal and external grinders, 4 ft shear with a variety of bending brakes, gear hobbing machine ! I used to joke with my wife that I could make anything! A bit of an exaggeration but funny just the same ! Sure do miss all those fancy tools ! The best I can do these days is to make it out of wood !

Just got the wood stove going ! We are going to meet our oldest son later today at a German restaurant about 45 mins south of here, should be fun to see if I can practice my German on anyone in the restaurant!!

Hope all have a Great afternoon !

 

[riptides]

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going to work in the morning....a small amount of fog on the right

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coming home from work...

Notice anything annoying?

You have bug guts on your windshield already? LOL.

Congrats to your son.

Good score on the cow parts. I saw 20ish dollars a pound in the store and hour ago. LOL. I thought I wonder how much a riptides portion would cost? And then I went and bought more chicken. LOL.

 

[two_bit_score]

Hope everyone is having a Great Good Friday Morning!
77f here and windy. Been real nice outside today.

The wife is buried with the final tax preperation before sending to our accountant. So, I tread lightly during these times.

Buppies - prayers for your health and your wife's memory. I experienced that with my Dad.

plowhog - hope things work out with contractor. If he has done a good job so far I would let him finish but keep close eye and advise him to get the license, etc before any insurance work can be done.

TxDon - congratulations on the sale of the parcel. Sounds like a win for everyone.

Kyle - enjoy those steaks! Hope your family has a Happy Easter!

Kenmbt- have a safe and great trip into the Big Apple and a Happy Easter to your family.

scott-vt - enjoy the German food, speaking German and good company with those friends and family this Easter!

Everyone have a wonderful Easter weekeknd and those who celebrate Easter - He Is Risen!

 

[Popgadget]

That Bridgeport looks great, Paul, and heavy. I'll be moving my slightly larger Lagun in the coming weeks, and am somewhat dreading the process.!

I am lucky that I have an overhead hoist in the shop. I picked it up off of the truck, which then drove out from under it. Then lowered it onto 1” sched 40 pipes to move it into the other room and into position. Just recycled the pipes as it rolled off of one, started the next one in the front. Steer the pipes with a sledge hammer. Lifted off the last pipe with a Johnson bar. Was pretty much able to do it myself.

 

[txdon]

What brand of squeege did you end up with, Don? The Loves filling stations along I5 here have 'em with four foot handles that make cleaning the windshild on the van easy. I ordered what I thought was the same thing on Amazon, made by Mallory, but it streaks and the scrubby side doesn't cut through the bugs very well...


TGIF gang!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088Y4F597?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

 

[Thomas]

Son won his 800m track race Tuesday night.

going to work in the morning....a small amount of fog on the right
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coming home from work...
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Notice anything annoying?

Poles on the left than the right.

 

[sodamo]

Less than good news from the LS dealer. Unable to duplicate my intermittent stalling issue. That has been my concern all along as I was never able to duplicate, except the stalling would occur when under load, using the flail. Sure hope he finds a way.

Expanded my vehicle flight. Bought my moving neighbors 2020, 30k mile Chevy Spark. Talk about back to basics, 5 speed manual, keyed entry, roll up windows. But also 40 mpg.

Thought is to offer to granddaughter if she decides to go to college here. We are going to offer to pay tuition, books, and fees. She has yet to decide if to remain at home and attend local community college or come here. If she comes here the commute to school will be 20 miles each way, not something we would sigh up for, hence getting this vehicle. If she doesn’t come here I can easily recoup my money (bought at favorable price).

Need to make a dump run.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Saturday) morning. Overnight Low of 12.3C and it's presently 22.7C, clear & calm.

Easter Weekend 'madness' is in and around St. Helens! I needed to pop into town to the newsagent as opening hours during this long weekend are 'all over the place'; vehicles, a lot with caravans, and people were everywhere! We're a wee town of, maybe 2500 and the population looks to have doubled. There's been at least 20+ side-by-sides & trail MC's drive by the front of my property heading into the State Forest.

Oh, and my front paddock/equine exercise arena are currently occupied by at least 9 vehicles with horse floats as the local equestrian community are also off for a ride in the State Forest (which is my 'neighbour' to the West). Permission was requested days ago.

I quiet day for me is planned.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[txdon]

Expanded my vehicle flight. Bought my moving neighbors 2020, 30k mile Chevy Spark. Talk about back to basics, 5 speed manual, keyed entry, roll up windows. But also 40 mpg.

Thought is to offer to granddaughter if she decides to go to college here. We are going to offer to pay tuition, books, and fees. She has yet to decide if to remain at home and attend local community college or come here. If she comes here the commute to school will be 20 miles each way, not something we would sigh up for, hence getting this vehicle. If she doesn’t come here I can easily recoup my money (bought at favorable price).

How are her manual transmission driving skills?

Wife went to the grocery store this morning, traffic was backed up blocks before the store then no parking spaces could be found, she turned around and came back home.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good trip today.
Cameras all still there. The game cam still had good batteries, but changed them anyways. The cell cam which died 3/8 came alive with new external battery. Thought the large external would last longer, but it was Jan and Feb and pretty cold.
deer carcus in the field will need to get moved before mowing. . Some pics had well over dozen deer
One dead pine tree broke off and fell in a good position.
Boy did it get windy.
Coming home we stopped to walk the suspension bridge over the James River. It was bouncing and swaying so much from the strong winds I only went half way then came back. The video doesn’t do it justice.

 

[B7510HSD]

Drew,
Any update on the Hot Tub?

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. will catch up after I get home. 62 Miles today, we cut it short. Still didn't get done and back to hotel till 4PM no nap and no lunch

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

How are her manual transmission driving skills?

Wife went to the grocery store this morning, traffic was backed up blocks before the store then no parking spaces could be found, she turned around and came back home.

Yes, I did my shopping Thurs evening. HEB will be closed on Easter.

Good Friday. Was talking with my young student worker. We were talking biblically about Easter. He said the words, "Very Humbling". I agree.

Got 2 vehicles hand washed today. Changed the oil in another. Changed out the headlight bulb in MIL's Traverse. Son mowed lawn with the Steiner Beast.

Made another hydraulic manifold for a Capstone team yesterday, which hopes to compete in a hydraulic bicycle competition next week. It is mounted on our 5 axis tilt rotary in the Haas VF3 mill. They will use small electric solenoids to divert flow. It will have regenerative braking, which will store hydraulic pressure in a nitrogen filled accumulator tank.

 

[rswyan]

34F and partly cloudy @ 03:00, heading down to around 33F for the low overnight. Possibility of a little wintery mix around sunrise, then rain throughout the day.

Just fired up the torpedo heater out in the garage, was 50F out there.

Need to go make a pot of coffee.

Marathon session out in the garage yesterday, went for more than 24 hours straight.

Tool arrangement on pegboard on back wall mostly complete at this point. Have started on towards the pegboard on the south (kitchen) wall.

Shelves underneath west and north workbenches cleaned off and organized.

Finished clean up of Grandpa's old Wiss shears and got them put back together.

Finished Danish oil treatment on the last 2 edges of router table top and cedar shelf for aquarium planter stand.

Also drilled holes for some thread inserts in a piece of 2 x 12 SYP about 16" long I was planning on using as base for a HF hose reel that I have the 50' 8 AWG extension cord stored on, which should allow it be moved around and unspooled more easily. Still need to get the inserts installed and the reel bolted down.

Some of the holes for the bits in the Forstner bit holder still a little on the snug side, but I'm calling it good for now.

Repotted Woman's Amaryllis' yesterday afternoon. It was neglected for some period of time after She initially got it. She managed to salvage and bring it back.

After growing for a season, She split 2 bulbils off of it and has kept those alive as well.

All were at the point where they needed repotted so I did that yesterday afternoon. One of the two smaller ones:

The larger "parent":

None of them had ever been fertilized so I worked a little bit of Schultz's slow-release "Bloom Food" into the soil after I had them in the new larger pots and gave them a good watering.

Brought in the aquarium "planter" stand and put it in front of the sliding glass door in the dining room where it will get plenty of sun. Then got the flat with the tomato seeds set on it, wasn't long before condensation was forming on the clear plastic cover so I chased up the hand sprayer and gave all the holes a soaking.

While I was doing that The Woman ventured out for some shopping with one of Her girlfriends.

She came back with some new pillows, 2 more elephant ear bulbs (but not the black ones she really wanted), along with some pansies ? (... I think)

I think tonight's adventure will involve prepping at least one flat of seed trays, with peppers and eggplant seeds. I have 3 different colors of cauliflower if I get really ambitious and decide to do a second flat.

Don't want to get too carried away with getting stuff started - still have at least a month to go before the average last frost day (Apr 30) - otherwise will end up running out of room when things have to be repotted to larger containers.

Hope everyone has a decent Saturday ...

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 30° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 45° with rain most of the afternoon. Yesterday turned out to be a nice day to finish the chipper pile. Hauled some of the twigs left from branch pile to a neighbors burn pile. Spent way to much time telling bad stories with 3 of my neighbors in the afternoon. Back to more cleanup in Pole Barn today.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

32F cloudy but sunny afternoon ahead low 40's for high,gusty winds now slowing towards evening.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today 4 hours at part store afterwards couple stops for goodies,after noon some puttering.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

After breakfast with the gang, I get to lead songs for a memorial service. Maybe I can get some mowing in afterwards, before the rain comes. Grass getting tall.

 

[wngsprd]

34 going to 72.

Congrats to son, Kyle. Never heard of a hydraulic bicycle, but sounds cool. I have one of those long handle windshield squeegees, too...telescoping job sold as the Rain-X brand at Walmart...I like it.

BEF, looks like Buchanan. What was the name of the restaurant?

I was in the mountains yesterday, too. Did a killer hike...near the top of the ridge, the reported wind gusts were 50mph. Felt like a hurricane. Part of my hike took me through the area burned in the "Quaker Run" fire that consumed 4,000 acres back in November. Saw a turkey and a woodcock, and most of the big trees seemed to have survived...were budding or flowering. They had used the hiking trail as a firebreak...widened it with equipment, so it is pretty torn up, but it looks like no fire made it to the other side of the break, so was a terrific job. They had done a lot of chainsaw work to take down any dead trees that may have had embers, and to remove trees that may allow spread across the firebreak.

 

[wngsprd]

The fire damage varied...this is about an average area...

 

[wngsprd]

Saw some beautiful brooks...but no people except a few flyfishermen until I got here...see folks on the trail in upper right.