88F with abundant sunshine @ 10:30, supposedly heading up to around 92F for the high. High likelihood that we beat that.
Was still 80F @ 22:00 last night, and had only cooled off to 78F by 23:00 when I walked up to the shop to lock up and retrieve The Woman's car.
Was a chill 75F in the shop when I got up there yesterday ...
Got the needle scaling finished up on the new hitch for the Cub while I waited on the top-coat paint to dry before giving it a second coat.
Also ran the file on the edges of the newly sharpened blades to flatten them out.
Ran down to the corner and collected the mail on the way back in.
Fox was sitting in the middle of the driveway as I came back in, scratching himself. It headed in to the culvert pipe that runs under the driveway going up to the gas well.
Finally got the 2nd coat put on late afternoon.
Woman came up and gave me a hand putting the ROPS back in place and adjusting it so I could get the bolts put in and get it bolted down. That went smoother than I could have hoped for. Still need to look up the torque specs for those bolts.
Took measurements of the bolt spacing on the seat to make bracket to move the seat forward then reinstalled the seat.
Connected up the negative battery terminal and just barely ticked the key over to the "Start" position ... and she fired right off !
Purring like a little kitten ...
Woman was hot to trot to get some watering done so we headed down and I showed Her how to connect up the Water Buffalo and get it filling.
Took about 10 minutes to fill that up and then as I was about to connect it up to the Cub to move it into position for Her to water I realized that I hadn't put the old hitch back on ... so I headed up to the shop with the Cub and reinstalled the old hitch.
Came back down and moved The Buffalo over by the east planting bed and She started watering there.
Then I headed up and started mowing the front lawn which had gotten pretty long.
Fox came out again and was lying in the middle of the road, on the paved portion ... about 100' from where I was mowing.
Refueled the right tank on the Cub.
Woman got the east, lower part of northeast, and the hosta planting bed under the maple watered before She had enough of the heat and went inside.
I drained the last 6 or 7 cans worth out of the Buffalo and finished that up before hooking up and moving it around back to be refilled.
Then I went back to mowing the front. Got that about 75% - 80% done before I knocked off and called it a day.
Bluebird in Nest Box No. 2 now has 2 eggs laid for the 2nd batch this year.
Zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, and okra all coming up.
Still no signs of any groundhogs down here around the house.
On agenda for today, in no particular order:
Dole out another weeks worth of meds.
Finish up mowing the front lawn.
Refill the Water Buffalo, do some more watering.
Work on new hitch for Cub.
Get steel cut and drilled for new brackets to move the seat forward on the Cub.
Move friend's grapple up to the shop for straightening.
That will involve using the rosebud torch ... so it will likely won't happen until late at night. IOW, it will be the last thing I do for the day before closing up and leaving, due to the amount of heat it puts out.
Maybe a trip down to Menard's for those additional soaker hoses.
Attic fan just kicked on ... that's about an hour early. Now 90F.
It was still running @ 22:00 last night (usually it shuts off by 21:00)
Hope everyone is staying cool and remembering to hydrate ...
