Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

I am becoming an expert in retirement.

I find I need to practice over and over again. Still not quite got it.

 

[Thomas]

Quite the show Thomas.

Wish I knew how to post video on TBN,I have short video of Boo getting ready for nap this evening...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Nope, but I did pay $2900 plus tax each. Bought 15 of them SimpliPhi 3.8

My ecoflow supposed to have LiFePo4 battery. I think 85 AH at 12V

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wish I knew how to post video on TBN,I have short video of Boo getting ready for nap this evening...

Have to post to YouTube and put in link.
My brother had several raccoons come into his sunroom to eat cat food.

 

[Looking4new]

Have to post to YouTube and put in link.
My brother had several raccoons come into his sunroom to eat cat food.

"coons really like cat food. They also like lead.

 

[txdon]

The fire is really looking good tonight.
Almost like Christmas in July.
Faux Fire LED flickering fire lights. A four hour charge will give me a 8 hour fire. I really should have a video to show the flickering.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 72ºF for the start at home, partly cloudy sky, light breeze. Light wind, partly to mostly cloudy sky, High temp at Cleburne was, HI 90ºF. Made coffee to start day, bike ride, clean lube chain,lunch nap, pack for trip drive went ok except for traffic. Dinner with one of Saturday morning riding buddies and TBN. 70 mile bike ride starts 7:30 in morning.
Ron glad grocery shopping good and mowing done. Hope PT went well and trimmings got picked up. Sorry about lack of frogs, Their eggs would help feed goldfish.Nice pic.
Buppies hope the out town job doesn't last tn selling house oboo long. prayers sent
Drew good to hear shimmy gone and good visit.
NHBX hope you got all the hornworms. Hope grocery run and mowing went well.
Drew that is a lot of horsepower!!!
Thomas hope puttering went well.
Billy hope rotten apple did bother Della. Too bad no video of turkey flush.
Dennis sorry you had trouble sleeping last night. Sorry about the indoor unit need the odd reboot. Just find a station that sells a lot of gas, I never had a problem with E10 gas that was stabilized.
Paul good to hear progress on home, glad nice visit with friend. Hope you got the mowing and training complete. Any problems if training lapses?
Frits nice morning temp! Hope mini split got fixed. Hope you got some plants planted. Congrats to D on the portrait.
Plowhog hope the upgrade works as planned.
Don have fun making the Ranger work. Hope you get the filter soon and fire it up.
Bill hope mowing went well. Hope you were able to add Epsom salt to stump.
Scott(vt) glad good day on the lake ans more lake time on agenda!
Dennis hope they got the guy. I don't like thieves either.
RNG did you make progress on insurance? Sorry to hear not good prospects on selling old house. Nice pic
Ted hope truck prep is progressing on schedule.
Ted good pic , I see what you mean.
Frits hope they got the hole clean.
Drew good to hear you made it home no problems and no shimmy.
David good to hear paint station relocated, guys won H&F, and hope good trip to town and visit to ophthalmologist.
Drew nice garden haul. Hope you got cooled off.
Dennis hope HVAC guys can do what yu need. I thought you were looking at new bigger unit.
Bill not so fast, we can work on club later.
Bill good move waiting till tomorrow to cut grass
RS good to hear bucket/toothbar finished and delivered. Good you have a lot of screened compost there see,s to be lots of projects needed it.
Lou good you can help find parts for less
Dennis let me know how the UPS works.
Scott(vt) sorry humidity coming back, glad good boat time.
Randy(wag) sorry about the return of Winter weather and price increase at the tip. Hope stain correct shade.
Thomas glad trimmer got a walk. Nice to hear ready for mowing. Mexican good cuisine. Glad raccoons not do more damage. Look like Boo laughing.
David glad good visit for Sophie. Hope surgery not needed.
Don will fireplace give off heat?
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid,blood sugar /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, ******, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning all,
59° now highs in the low 80’s and sunny with low humidity again today. Winds NW 5-10 mph. Dew points in mid 50’s all day.

Yesterday was a fairly productive day, groceries early, short walk with the trimmer, mowing can wait another day or so, some time in the garden weeding and only found a couple of small hornworms not much damage. By 4:00 showered, sitting in the shade enjoying the breeze and a cold beer. Mrs made a salad and burgers for supper. Next thing I remember is someone poking me and telling me to go to bed. Good day

As soon as daylight gets here heading outside to water and check tomatoes. Then off to the dump and just putter around the rest of today.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 60 and going to a high to 81°F Wind SW 6 mph becoming SW 13 mpg near noon. Sunny!

I can't cut the back today. Junior put his laundry on the dryer yesterday evening. That is okay, it'll just be longer when it does get cut. Probably after the grass sees comes. I am going to cut a section real short and top dress it. The moles this spring really did a number on it. But just in one section.

That is about it for now.

Have a safe day all

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 52° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 83° with plenty of sun. Got shrub trimmings and branches picked up. Also did some pond maintainace. Then back on back porch enjoying great summer weather. Need to check with neighbors before taking Back Hoe off tractor. There will either be projects to do or remove it from tractor. Will see which it will be later today.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
cool morning looks to be a nice sunny day in high 80's.
slept like a rock last night, woke up to power going off at 4am, UPS beeping, lights flickering, came
back on a few minutes later. I came home to the stove clock flashing so I know we lost power last night also.

off this morning to have coffee with landlady and to take her some tomatoes.
She sadly is dealing with a return of cancer, colon in her case, and she is being operated on next week.
Her two sons have taken over the landlord business and we get along fine.

if Ken is home later, will take him some tomatoes, have to move the tomato merch...

Thomas's pics of Boo really are amazing. I've never seen such a seemingly tame bear, Boo sure knows he has it good there

 

[daugen]

I guess NASA has finally admitted they don't trust Boeing's rocket to get the astronauts home, worried it will blow up.
There were supposed to be up there for a week and it's now been five weeks. They appear to be stranded. Maybe SpaceX can
send a rocket up and bring them back.

I would not want to be on Boeing's board right now, though I bet they get paid well...

I would like to be out on Scott's boat, that sure looks like fun.

 

[mpham]

Morning all!
A gorgeous 55 degrees out this morning going to a sunny low humidity 83!!
Working on finishing up the wagon wheel this morning and then off to a party this afternoon. Will deliver the wheel at the same time and possibly pick up another for repair.
Managed to join the procrastinator's club the last few days. Did get out in the shop to start on a magic wand project for a buyer and made myself a shot glass out of apple and walnut. Quite a challenge to make it 9 inches long and around 3/16 thick on the stem. Glass is around 1/16 thick on the rim!
Held my breath while making it!!
Even got a few wows from the wife on it!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[Thomas]

53f clear sky low 80's for high.

Outside chores are done E muffin time.
Plans for today...4 hours at part store,afternoon mow front field than putter.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Thomas]

Morning all!
A gorgeous 55 degrees out this morning going to a sunny low humidity 83!!
Working on finishing up the wagon wheel this morning and then off to a party this afternoon. Will deliver the wheel at the same time and possibly pick up another for repair.
Managed to join the procrastinator's club the last few days. Did get out in the shop to start on a magic wand project for a buyer and made myself a shot glass out of apple and walnut. Quite a challenge to make it 9 inches long and around 3/16 thick on the stem. Glass is around 1/16 thick on the rim!
Held my breath while making it!!
Even got a few wows from the wife on it!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!
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Amazing

 

[daugen]

gorgeous cup Phil, that's a pretty big "shot". What are you drinking?
as that was getting skinnier and skinnier I can see you mumbling don't break please don't break

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hoping to take a few kids with me.
not that far away, I'm close to the main road to Flemington NJ but I prefer the back way in through
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[buckeyefarmer]

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The fire is really looking good tonight.
Almost like Christmas in July.
Faux Fire LED flickering fire lights. A four hour charge will give me a 8 hour fire. I really should have a video to show the flickering.

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[plowhog]

Another nice afternoon out on the boat !

That's a great picture Scott. You are a lucky man!

Contractor finished the RV lithium battery upgrade yesterday. He returns this morning to walk me through everything that was changed. He seems to be a perfectionist so everything he installed looks nice and tidy.

Lithium batteries can accept a faster charge than lead acid, so he added a Victron 50a smart charger. This supplements the 80a charger in my RV inverter. So when dry camping I should be able to more quickly get the batteries back to 100% using my RV generator.

Everyone have a great day !!!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thanks to popgadget for steering me in the right direct in finding the geothermal problem. Now have to decide on a course of action. Might replace entire system with high efficiency heat pump since unit is undersized. Will depend on costs. This will put porch ceiling and deck projects on hold.
Been running this system 12 yrs, would like to have gone longer.

The small tube with tiny hole broke from the bottom of TXV valve in middle. The purple wire goes to thermistor above, lowtemp caused by this broken valve is causing the compressor to kick off.

BEF, replacing that is a simple common repair, if you don't want to splurge yet for new. You could supplement cooling with a mini split in your most common room to support the geo unit. I'm drooling over a new heat pump like Popgadget got. It would save me a lot off my heating bill which is electric.

Kyle sorry you don't like cats.

I do like my barn cat about 95%. She sheds like crazy and doesn't like to be brushed. She likes just a little attention maybe twice a day.

I got behind and will have to catchup on Thursday and Friday's posts.

Busy still at work.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Vt, 56 to start going to 80 ! Totally sunny but humidity is back, almost looks like smoke !

Today we will go out on the lake a little earlier, because we have dinner reservations at the Barrows Inn, in Dorset, at 7 pm. Kind of expensive but the food is always very good !

That's a great picture Scott. You are a lucky man!

Plowhog, thanks but I need to remind myself that when she gets me involved in some of these large assembly projects like the bunk beds !

Don, it sounds like you have plenty of good suggestions for your door repair !
The fireplace looks great BTW !

Thomas, great shot of Boo by the DW ! He looks to be quite a character!

Need to get some weed wacking done this morning !

Hope all have a blessed and safe Saturday!