Good morning!!!!

[m7040]

All the factors you listed, warm bodies, asphalt & Concrete, a/c, loss of trees contribute to more heat and are due to humankind.

The tree plantings on the slope down to the creek are now 30 to 40 feet tall with a complete canopy and it is substantial cooler around there. The deers like to stay under there during the day and come out early evenings to the open grassy fields. I think we are up around 10000 trees planted with 80 to 90 percent survival rate
When the canopy is established there is little maintenance needed and no weeds. Someone will be able to harvest some valuable wood after we are long gone

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The tree plantings on the slope down to the creek are now 30 to 40 feet tall with a complete canopy and it is substantial cooler around there. The deers like to stay under there during the day and come out early evenings to the open grassy fields. I think we are up around 10000 trees planted with 80 to 90 percent survival rate
When the canopy is established there is little maintenance needed and no weeds. Someone will be able to harvest some valuable wood after we are long gone

If trees planted as part of a MD program, probably can't legally harvest the trees...

 

[m7040]

If trees planted as part of a MD program, probably can't legally harvest the trees...

Per program can be after 15 years

 

[rswyan]

85F with a mix of sun and clouds @ 13:00, DP 74F, HU 67%, feels like temp = 94F.

Woman is off to PT appointment.

Got live trap repaired and redeployed yesterday afternoon.

Then mowed compost/woodlot.

Put the Light Material Bucket back on the Kubota and brought down enough screened compost to build up the entire eastern edge of the garden.

Shot groundhog and hauled him by the compost pile and deposited him with his sibling.

Woman came out and was watering while I did that.

After that I started working on planting the dozen or so eggplants. Got those mostly done, until I let the thunder and a few drops of rain run me in around 20:00. Think there are 2 cells left.

I was hungry anyways and the fish was done and sitting on the stove. Had one piece of cod and one of tilapia. Both good but I prefer the cod.

After dinner I took the Cub up and parked it in the shop so I wouldn't have to start it this morning and the engine would be cold for the valve adjustment today.

The shop had been 82F when I turned the AC on, it was down to 73F when I parked the Cub.

Came back down to the house and headed out back and put the game cam up and turned it on. Just retrieved the SD card out of that, looks like the only thing it recorded was my futzing around with it when I turned it on.

UPS just delivered the 4' bamboo plant stakes. They look decent. Most of those will need to be cut in half and pointed on the belt sander.

Woman is back ... but heading out again shortly for lunch with a relative.

Need to head up to shop and get the AC cranked up.

Then come on back down and watch the video from Kohler on how to adjust the valves.

Hope everyone is having a decent day ...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Flew the drone around a little just to experiment on flying and not signing into the account. It limits me to 30m up and 50m out. DJI keeps records of all your flights, some are in chinese, some appear to be encrypted files. crashed it again, hit reverse instead of down...lol

 

[m7040]

87 going to 90 feels hot for sure

Bought a bunch of groceries for son and DIL. Out of work for medical reasons so this will help them out.

Ran the second AC on the roof of van to keep Cody cool in the back

Mowed some more yesterday in the upper plantings

Flowers look good this year. They are very old bushes

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Son got to work today and found it closed. No one told him, and he had to take leave.....

 

[sodamo]

Maybe making progress. Talked with dealer tech and he is working on a way to come to me vs hauling tractor back to dealership.

Anyone know where OBD2 connector is located on my XR4140?

 

[sodamo]

Happy Birthday, Ron

 

[sodamo]

Good Morning David,
Curious what was the problem with the SCAG ? Sorry if I missed it earlier!

Apparently the Electronic Control Module Which I had replaced only a short time ago. We found removing the 2 black leads from the coils solved the problem. Those leads go back to the ecm and possibly are part of shutdown function. We could see spark at plugs but guessing too weak. Now it runs until carb runs out of fuel, just a few seconds. Got a new ecm but not in hurry to replace,ace as long as it runs.