Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

and I knew Popgadget was working hard when I went by his place yesterday morning in the rv going home about 9:30 am and honked three times.
I bet he wondered who that idiot was honking.

as I go off this morning looking for commercial veggies, Bonnie plants five bucks each??
I sure will be motivated next year to do what RS is doing, growing from scratch.
5 bucks for a tomato plant makes the food expensive
3 for 10 is what I'm hunting

RS, do you ship?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 4:15AM. Cloudy early followed by partly cloudy skies and gusty winds this afternoon. High 61F. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
It was pretty windy yesterday as well, real hang-onto-your-hat weather.

The tire mounting machine has four jaws for gripping the wheel rim, and I had adapters installed that allow it to grip larger diameter motorcycle wheels. When I took the adapters off there was plenty of grip to get the trailer tires off, but those old tires were plenty stiff and hard, giving both the machine and me a good workout. The local American Tire store didn't even blink when I went to dispose of the old tires.

Got someone coming from the coast near Big Sur to purchase the DR mower today. Highway 1 is closed due to construction to remove slides, and is only open twice a day for residents to come and go, once in the morning, once in the afternoon. He'll be in the 7AM convoy out, and needs to catch the 5PM one to get home. Sounds like a pretty solid sale as long as his timing works out.

After that, Santa Maria is hosting the Strawberry Festival at the fairgrounds, and seniors get in free today. Looking forward to fresh, sweet strawberries for dessert tonight.

In between I'll be reorganizing the garage, finding spots for the things covering the welding and work benches. Space, the final frontier.

TGIF gang!

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 34 going to 64 and sunny. Feels even colder
Went and trimmed most of the shared road.
Dropped a few smaller dead Ash 4-8" with the pole saw.
better than letting them fall into the road.
Then cut up a few more than were already on the ground.

Hedge trimmed the bushes and pole saw the bigger bush tops away from the road.
Amazing how these can grow 3-4' in a few months.
Still need to trim bushes in front and last third of driveway.

Still trying to think of how to get dad to Dr. and make him think it's what HE wants.
Brother tried to offer help again yesterday to sort out the mess there, but dad pushed back Open to all ideas and experience. He has gotten pretty testy about us helping him.
I am afraid he is not paying bills, seeing DR etc.

I did a career talk to the whole department on Teams yesterday about the 4 different career paths I went through, it went really well.

My tomato starters are still pretty small this year, maybe another week before they go out.
Working on getting peach tree acclimated before planting. Taking it in each night since it's been so cold.

Back to the day job.

At about 40' tall, these are easy to take down. Doing a few a day between cleaning up the bushes. The fire bushes I cut a 4' off last month, have put back on 2' of growth. Keeps me busy.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Back from Uber duty. Decided I'm too sleepy to make breakfast, gonna try for a few Z's....
Good to hear from WoodChuck, hope recovery goes well.

Now if LS would check in.... PJ also.

 

[masseyrider]

Another night below freezing and the local wind machines running in the vineyards.
Poor, poor, poor city folks who have moved to the idyllic country for the fresh air, vegies and the ambiance.
Dragging their bleary eyed buts into work after a second night of Apocalypse Now sound effects.
Boy did they get sold one by their Real Estate people.
PS some of the farmers have been spreading manure this past week. Enjoy your outdoor bbq.

 

[Helogabals]

Good day !

Spring is back here. 12 .. 13 C / 50 .. 55 F, sunny. Really pleasant

Busy week, but TGIF

Second daughter yesterday passed driver's license exam, theoretical part (actually, how it would be correct to say this in English ?)

here we have rather tough system for young drivers.
All that business is split in 2 major parts - theory and practical driving.
At beginning they have to learn what is stated in rules book. It happens in private schools. As course is finished school makes their own exams, once they are passed, young driver can go to like your DMV, basically to pass the same exam
(daughter is here)
Only after "theory" exam is passed driving can start .
Then again students are learning, learning. School has to take care of night, bad weather, etc driving. DMV doesn't check this. Once school thinks they are ready, they pass "school exam" and then they can go to our DMV for another exam. Then - driver's license is in pocket.

In terms if total complexity I would say daughter have covered 1/3 of path to license.

~~~~~~~~~

Today had rather tough meeting with customer and supplier.
Have agreed that supplier will send his engineers back to drawing boards
Not easy decision as some materials for new system is purchased, something is assembled already

~~~~~~~~~~

Continue speaking about nice trucks

That's my youngest daughter

Not really truck, but truck / bus hybrid.
I am wondering, why bother yourself with roads plowing. Let's have buses like this and live happy ))

This pic I just stole in internet

Have a nice Friday !

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 4:15AM. Cloudy early followed by partly cloudy skies and gusty winds this afternoon. High 61F. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
It was pretty windy yesterday as well, real hang-onto-your-hat weather.

The tire mounting machine has four jaws for gripping the wheel rim, and I had adapters installed that allow it to grip larger diameter motorcycle wheels. When I took the adapters off there was plenty of grip to get the trailer tires off, but those old tires were plenty stiff and hard, giving both the machine and me a good workout. The local American Tire store didn't even blink when I went to dispose of the old tires.

Got someone coming from the coast near Big Sur to purchase the DR mower today. Highway 1 is closed due to construction to remove slides, and is only open twice a day for residents to come and go, once in the morning, once in the afternoon. He'll be in the 7AM convoy out, and needs to catch the 5PM one to get home. Sounds like a pretty solid sale as long as his timing works out.

After that, Santa Maria is hosting the Strawberry Festival at the fairgrounds, and seniors get in free today. Looking forward to fresh, sweet strawberries for dessert tonight.

In between I'll be reorganizing the garage, finding spots for the things covering the welding and work benches. Space, the final frontier.

TGIF gang!

 

[newbury]

Was going to have him drive himself, but I’m not doing anything so might as well ride along again.

Ah, quality one on one conversation potential while getting promotion points on Dad duties.

 

[LouNY]

Good day !

Spring is back here. 12 .. 13 C / 50 .. 55 F, sunny. Really pleasant

Busy week, but TGIF

Second daughter yesterday passed driver's license exam, theoretical part (actually, how it would be correct to say this in English ?)

here we have rather tough system for young drivers.
All that business is split in 2 major parts - theory and practical driving.
At beginning they have to learn what is stated in rules book. It happens in private schools. As course is finished school makes their own exams, once they are passed, young driver can go to like your DMV, basically to pass the same exam
(daughter is here)
Only after "theory" exam is passed driving can start .
Then again students are learning, learning. School has to take care of night, bad weather, etc driving. DMV doesn't check this. Once school thinks they are ready, they pass "school exam" and then they can go to our DMV for another exam. Then - driver's license is in pocket.

In terms if total complexity I would say daughter have covered 1/3 of path to license.

~~~~~~~~~

Today had rather tough meeting with customer and supplier.
Have agreed that supplier will send his engineers back to drawing boards
Not easy decision as some materials for new system is purchased, something is assembled already

~~~~~~~~~~

Continue speaking about nice trucks

That's my youngest daughter
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Not really truck, but truck / bus hybrid.
I am wondering, why bother yourself with roads plowing. Let's have buses like this and live happy ))

This pic I just stole in internet

Have a nice Friday !

Impressive bus.

 

[rswyan]

59F with bright sunshine @ 11:15, heading up to a high of around 72F for the day.

Woman just left for a little shopping outing with a relative.

Made decent progress yesterday.

Got all the tomato plants moved outside yesterday. They seemed to do well, possibly because there was some high thin clouds. Moved them all back inside as there was frost warning last night.

They go back out today and probably won't come back in unless we get another frost warning.

Got leaves cleaned up off of planting ring around oak tree, 2 dump cart loads hauled up to compost pile:

Woman sprayed some of the hosta and day lilies with that peppermint extract/water mixture while I hauled the leaves up, emptying out the sprayer.

Noticed one of the volunteer redbuds that we had transplanted was blooming:

Refilled hopper feeder + plus scattered some for the ground feeders.

Mixed fungicide and loaded sprayer after Woman rinsed it out, got both peach trees sprayed.

Woman did some weeding around them before I sprayed.

Did a little testing of the curved draw knife while She was rinsing.

She also weeded around the 2 burning bushes and we got the cage put back up that the deer had knocked off around the one. It's about half the size of the other, due to the deer nibbling ...

After that She headed over to the northeast planting bed and started weeding it and I went back to the house and grabbed the full sprayer that had glyphosate in it and came back and started spraying the eastern side of the planting bed where the forsythia are going to go.

Fought with the sprayer, couldn't get the nozzle adjusted to put out anything but a single stream. Took nozzle off and some stringy goop that looked like snot came out. Once I cleared that, it was off to the races.

Emptied that one out and went back and got the other sprayer which was 1/4 full. Got forsythia bed about 2/3rds done (it's about 350' - 400' long)

Then sprayed around the 2 burning bushes, the Japanese ornamental cherry, the red maple, Nest Box No. 1, and the mealworm feeder.

Nest Box No. 2 now has bluebirds !

Went over to collect up the weeds She had pulled after that. She said the bed needed more mulch and commented that She thought it was helping with the weeds and made them easier to pull (Of course ... )

After that we knocked off, ran over to Maki House and picked up dinner.

After dinner, I headed out to the garage.

Sanded down handle for shovel on the belt sander so it fit.

Got both 1 gallon glyphosate sprayers refilled (making sure to run all the mix through coffee filters ... )

Emptied what was left in the fungicide sprayer out into a gallon milk jug, took about 1/2 gallon to do both peach trees.

And called it a day.

Woman's amaryllis is now blooming ... and it's a twofer !

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Burning daylight, time to get cracking.

Hope everyone has a decent Friday ...