Good morning!!!!

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Anna Maria Island, we arrived to our building under renovation! Kathleen is not happy, she called the owner and he can’t give us a better condo to stay at until next Wednesday! Our friends should arrive here in an hour or so, hopefully we can figure out what to do ! Our windows are covered in plastic and scaffolding all around ! Not good !

 

[rswyan]

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?

No ... pick up only.

But a free redbud seedling is included with every order of 12 or more plants.

 

[daugen]

not good at all Scott, little failure to communicate I'd say.

finished planting all the daffodils I was given, guess about 60 new ones, they will be a different color than what I have now so looking
forward to next Spring. Reminds me I have to deadhead some.
mowed the lawn and pushed the trimming mower. Gotta get my steps.
legs and back tired, need to recoup

landlady came over, she just got back from overseas and was checking in.
She confirmed a five year extension of current lease was fine with them.
good
We talked about her two kids selling the rental properties she owns after she passes,
which she is comfortable talking to me about since i worked with these issues professionally for a long time.

step brother just asked me to help him help a 90 yo friend with her finances and this afternoon have to work up
something in Excel. When I was working, I had awesome software that crunched all kinds of factors and showed a range
of probabilities for when the money would run out. Now I have to do it "manually" which is less accurate but
hopefully enough to provide guidance. No matter how much folks have, unless they are very wealthy, usually there is always the
concern do I have enough? At every level. Very important question and wise to answer vs winging it.

my stepbrother is an older retired corp attorney, I have done his planning and he knows how I think.
So, we can help a little old lady together.
I told him I work for food and wanted a small plate of
low sugar oatmeal raisin cranberry cookies
his wife will make something with honey in it I'm sure
maybe some ground dates too

time for some fresh coffee if I'm working with numbers

David/Sodamo hope you are feeling much better

 

[Joel/ak]

Tried to load a few logs onto the trailer. In my dad's yard and wanted to get them to the property where his sawmill is.

Logs didn't budge but the winch moved our superduty and trailer. Heavy bastards.

Gotta go to plan F.

 

[Buppies]

You need a bigger truck ha ha

Nice Drew

RSWYAN Mrs Red Bird is fussy today her topknot is out of control

Scotty that is not right they should move you all hope everything works out

 

[Popgadget]

Wow!
Giving your son a plane!
Will he need a different type of pilots license?

/edit
When I was 17 and going to buy my very first car I wanted a Saab.
My Dad gave me a sob.

To be clear- a Ryobi power planer

 

[Looking4new]

Went out today and scored some more loot from the bank, then went and did a small shopping at two of the local stores while it was more or less nice out. Pissing down rain now and it will continue for the next 5 days. The last two days are 40 and 30% respectively.
I just found out that the GPS defeater that I wanted to get is worth $2600.oo and is illegal in both the U.S. and Canuckistan.
It used to be with the old qualcom system that you could put a galvanized bucket over the pumpkin on the top of your tractor and that would make the tractor invisible to the receiver. Excellent for going to the cat house. We don't have qualcom. The system we have plumbs straight into the OBD port behind the dash. I guess I will have to take a taxi to the cat house. That could get expensive, on top of the price for the cats.

 

[PJSprog]

61°F and light rain this morning, going up to 77° here today. Rain started sometime Thursday evening, and has been off and on since. Forecast keeps changing, but best bet is it will do this through Monday. Rather windy as well, gusting up to 38-ish mph today.

Probably no mowing this weekend.

Been awhile ... again. Hope everyone is well.

Good afternoon, gents.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Tried to load a few logs onto the trailer. In my dad's yard and wanted to get them to the property where his sawmill is.

Logs didn't budge but the winch moved our superduty and trailer. Heavy bastards.

Gotta go to plan F.

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will the sawmill handle them? Some big ones.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

61°F and light rain this morning, going up to 77° here today. Rain started sometime Thursday evening, and has been off and on since. Forecast keeps changing, but best bet is it will do this through Monday. Rather windy as well, gusting up to 38-ish mph today.

Probably no mowing this weekend.

Been awhile ... again. Hope everyone is well.

Good afternoon, gents.

Hey, thanks for checking in. Hope all is well at the "new" job. How long has it been since you changed jobs?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

L4N, yep, illegal to stop them from watching you! But why don't you want them to see you helping at the local animal shelter?

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Drew,

not good at all Scott, little failure to communicate I'd say

Agreed Drew, the owner texted us and is reducing the rate for our first 4 nights and then on Wednesday morning we get upgraded to a nicer unit with better views !
So the guy that owns these units is from outside Toronto ! I sure hope it’s not my buddy Bill, L4N !!

We are just upset that they couldn’t tell us that the place was being renovated before we even got here ! Hard to believe IMHO !!

We need to go out for a basic necessities run , and obviously some adult beverages!

Hope all have a great evening !

 

[Joel/ak]

will the sawmill handle them? Some big ones.

Plan F is to rip them in half. Help with the weight and no, they won't fit. His max is 27" for mill. Biggest is 38"

 

[PJSprog]

Hey, thanks for checking in. Hope all is well at the "new" job. How long has it been since you changed jobs?

Thanks, BEF.

Been there for about a year-and-a-half now. Time sure does fly by these days. They keep me quite busy.

All is not well at the "new" job, but we're dealing with it as best we can. About a month ago, we had an "IT Incident" (what we've been told to call it) that shut us down completely for about a week. Lots of expensive consultants and lawyers and federal agencies involved. We're still not back to 100%, but slowly getting there. This was one of those things that I've read about many times happening to others, but seeing it from the inside is an amazing experience. Wouldn't wish this on anyone. Would be nice if people smart enough to do things like this would use their powers for good instead of evil.

 

[Thomas]

Thomas, working in a parts store, you'll never run out of SeaFoam...
what is the most popular part that gets sold?

Rotors and brake pads and there not cheap.

 

[Joel/ak]

Thanks, BEF.

Been there for about a year-and-a-half now. Time sure does fly by these days. They keep me quite busy.

All is not well at the "new" job, but we're dealing with it as best we can. About a month ago, we had an "IT Incident" (what we've been told to call it) that shut us down completely for about a week. Lots of expensive consultants and lawyers and federal agencies involved. We're still not back to 100%, but slowly getting there. This was one of those things that I've read about many times happening to others, but seeing it from the inside is an amazing experience. Wouldn't wish this on anyone. Would be nice if people smart enough to do things like this would use their powers for good instead of evil.

We had that happen last year. Took almost 2 weeks to get back up. Billion dollar company and we were taking down to our knees. Multiple agencies involved and had to hire an outside IT company to fix it.

 

[rswyan]

Finished mowing front just as it was starting to spit rain. Didn’t amount to much, just enough to wet the pavement and settle the dust.

Doesn’t look like we’ll get much more.

Checked Nest Box No. 2 on the way back down to the house. Five Bluebird eggs …

Nest Boxes 1 and 3 look like they might have house sparrows nesting in them but that needs further investigation.

Probably time to deploy the trap.

Haven’t checked Nest Box No. 4.

Watered seedling trays that were in the greenhouse.

Peppers, broccoli, and cabbage all seem to be doing very well. Those that had true leaves got dosed with a very dilute solution of Miracle Gro.

The tomato seeds I planted to replace the ones that failed are all popping up.

Cauliflower isn’t doing much though.

Probably go finish refilling that one sprayer with glyphosate and the refill the other one with peppermint juice.

Maybe head up to the shop and work on the live trap after that.

Woman just got back from the grocery store, brought me back an iced Butter Pecan …

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning. Overnight Low of 5.4C and it's presently 7.6C (heading to 18C), lightly overcast and calm.

The 'Mad Agisting Horse Woman' & Daughter went for a ride, then dropped their horses off at "Paddock #8" = they returned here to clear up Paddock #3 fairly late, so I'll be cleaning that paddock on Monday.

I'm off to Church in a wee bit and then the rest of the day is His.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We got .15" rain.
Did get caught up on labeling pictures. Still don't like the import method as it is very slow, but it works, unlike the Microsoft Photo app.
Then decided to get the pressure washer out of the basement. Fired up pretty easy, but forgot to turn water on first. Unloading valve still sticking, but the work around is to take the tip off, run some water out, put tip on, then it will work again until you release the pressure. Then it will just put out a weak stream. I did use the weak stream to rinse of the porch siding. Got the mouse guts washed of the porch, until the next one arrives... Did not run gas out of PW, as might use again soon, kept it in my way in the garage to remind myself.
Heated up some taco chicken for supper. That's about all for today.

My son already got a fishing email on his work email, with a power point file. good thing he checked with his phone and didn't open it on the computer. The From email address was suspicious.

 

[Looking4new]

Good Afternoon Drew,

Agreed Drew, the owner texted us and is reducing the rate for our first 4 nights and then on Wednesday morning we get upgraded to a nicer unit with better views !
So the guy that owns these units is from outside Toronto ! I sure hope it’s not my buddy Bill, L4N !!

We are just upset that they couldn’t tell us that the place was being renovated before we even got here ! Hard to believe IMHO !!

We need to go out for a basic necessities run , and obviously some adult beverages!

Hope all have a great evening !

I own one place and it is this place. There is no place like this place anyplace, so this must be the place.

BEF, the company doesn't NEED to know everything I do on my off duty time.