Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Good Morning! The coolest morning in 6 months at 44F, yesterday the temps stayed below 70 NICE! Today the afternoon high is forecast to be 76˚.

I open the box in the attic where the window screens were kept and realize they have never been used. They have been sitting in the attic for 15 years. There were 3 different sizes of screens for the casement windows. The two arched screens for the study were in an unopened box with a shipping label of the original owners that custom built the house.

So yesterday the windows were opened and cool fresh air blew in, it was so nice.

The nice thing about these side opening crank windows is that the screens fit on the inside so the screens will stay clean.

Kyle hope your son's knee infection clears up.
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That’s the way all my casements widows are. I live on a gravel road. Screens are stored in a back corner of the cellar.

 

[wngsprd]

46 going to 60. Windy again.

Prayers for your son, Kyle.

RNG, you got off easy from Costco...we left after our flu shots, but spent $200.

Don, crazy huge maze. That farm does it right.

m70, I can almost feel the warmth from that stove. I haven't brought in firewood and cleaned the chimney yet...as soon as the wind dies down a bit.

Lunch after Costco run was good...Torchy's queso and tacos.

 

[mpham]

Morning all!
29 going to high 50's today.
Got the gutters cleaned and spent the last couple days fighting the falling leaves. Looks like they should mostly be all gone by the end of next week.
Sister is coming in today for a 3 day visit. It is their anniversary this weekend so I whipped up a quick gift.

Today will be more leaf cleanup and also another check to make sure all the freezable stuff is put away safe.
Coffee with the family tomorrow. Need to get the rebuilt carb reattached to the wife's cousins tractor. Might put it off till next week.
Dentist trip for cleaning next week. Not sure if I posted this gnome I made for her.

Drew. I haven't figured out a northern lights project yet but I took your idea a bit wackier and made this hollow globe:

That's all for now. Coffee time!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[plowhog]

Worried for my son.

Prayers for your son Kyle. Hope it clears quickly.

Got our first rain in months yesterday. Was kind of nice-- we needed it.

An overnight freeze is coming with a dusting of snow Saturday. Fall is here!

Rigby was introduced to a darling little 10-month old female mixed breed. His new girlfriend lol. We couldn't let them off leash where we were, but they could play while on leash which they did. They seemed to enjoy having a "simulated boxing match."

 

[Buppies]

Great work Phil love the space ship or Saturn due to me Star Trek days spaceship

41.7 this morning not as cold as they thought back in 70s by weekend and next week see no rain rest of October not good.

More prayers for son Kyle

Prayers for all our Country Appalachia Florida

 

[Buppies]

Rigby having fun nice

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low temp is 33 and going to a high of 59°F. Wind calm. Sunny! 59 is the coolest it will be for the next 5 days.

At about 10 or so I will go out and fire up the tractor and get the rest of the winter prep done.

Kyle, infections are not to be fooled with.

Kyle, getting my license back is not medical. Most of our medical is covered and some of our prescriptions after age 65, but not all.
Driving is a privilege not a right. Even when you live 40 miles from the nearest medium sized city.
If t is determined that I need 'remedial' driving lessons (which I don't think I need) then the price goes up. $150.oo/hour for the driving instructor plus $450.oo for the final exam and I MUST use their crap can car. Honda civic. I wonder if they supply shoe horns to get into it.

Every cent I spend on this stroke I WILL deduct off this years income tax.

Have a safe day all

 

[daugen]

good morning all
53 and breezy in New Orleans

Phil, that looks like Saturn and its rings
delightful
have you figured out what you are going to do with all that cherry burl?
I assume you debark and then eyeball it?
you just never know what is inside, though if you do this long enough
you know what's possible.
but Forest Gump said it best
“My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get

going to try to get an earlier start this morning, so I can get gas, and then almost get to campground and visit that Air museum. Get prepared for a lot of pics.
and dig up those plane stories to tell

just sipping my coffee and enjoying the peace and quiet of the morning.
woken up at 10:30 last night by gang of loud talking kids roaming around.
rv is poorly insulated for noise. Or maybe fiberglass roof conducts, don't know.
windows are more like windows for your garden shed, not R rated E glass for sure.

today's four season rated rv's have better insulation, including the doors, windows and floors. My portable freezer which sits on floor in front of me could not get back to its setting of -1 for 10 days until recently. Floor was hot enough to heat the freezer.
this style rv meant for short term going places, not for being comfortable when you get there. Need something larger. Maybe Santa will bring me a 30 foot Airstream trailer and a new diesel truck.

my prior Class B Mercedes motorhome had none of the equipment quality and installation issues this one has. I simply wanted a bigger bed and more room.
I got it, but the quality went away. A new class C like Ron had is well over 300k now, unless you buy a stripper from Jayco.
A Newmar Class C about 38 feet is another alternative for Santa.

time to stow, put stuff away. Have to do it carefully, every time I leave
and I walk around rv twice before I drive off. If I leave my favorite set of outside hose pliers some place I'm going to be annoyed. Already lost one regulator.

 

[riptides]

42 outside this AM, heading to lower 60's.

Hope your son is getting better Kyle.

Managed to get the front acreage mowed yesterday, including the leaves around the house.

Hope to get to the back, today.

Wife came home with her parents wagon (steel wheels) late last night. Reminder not to let the woman near a truck with a trailer hitch. Somehow she managed to get a trailer and found some guys to help load it for her. Not into yard art, myself, so I will sit this one out and keep my mouth shut.

I got three barn cars I need to look over, today, tomorrow. Don't think I have ever seen them in running condition. Two are replicas, a 57 t-Bird, a 53 Corvette. The last one is a 40 Ford Coupe. I need to figure out if they roll, what the mechanics look like and get a price for them. Any clues on what I need to look for mechanically are appreciated. Looks like a weekend road trip is in order, again. I don't have a garage, and I really don't want to be messing with auto's at this stage in my trips around the sun. They may end up here, anyway. That's not good without cover.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe.

 

[m7040]

good morning, 36 going to 58

Stove still had glows this morning so easy to put more wood on and away it went. So far like it

Kyle hope the infection gets treated

Took off the rototiller yesterday. Need to lift and move it down in the corncrib for winter storage. Heavy, something around 800 pounds

D moved on to Sapporo the Northern island of Japan. Hopefully pictures will follow soon

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
36° and clear, high of 60. Another day without rain, sprinklers will be on again.
Yesterday’s trip was just the way I like them, uneventful, bordering on boring. The winds at altitude were brisk, well over 100kts. We were hurt going south at 43,000 feet and got a push coming home at 45,000. The winds were stronger lower, but we burn less fuel up high so it makes sense to save the fuel rather than get more tailwind coming home.

Old Folks Home passed its final inspection while I was gone, there are still things to finish up, like move the few remains tools out, uncover the floors, get the closet rods installed and other details.

Today starts with breakfast with the professor, then back to checking more stuff off the list.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Kyle, my sons girlfriend just had a turf burn get infected, had to go to ER.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Lunch after Costco run was good...Torchy's queso and tacos.

want to try them sometime.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 33 to start going to 58 or so !

Kyle, prayers for your son and getting relief from that fever !

Paul, sounds like your almost there ! We will all need some finish panorama shots when your all done !

Don, glad to hear your getting some nice fall weather! It will be cool here for today and tomorrow but warming up for the weekend! We are heading north on Saturday and it even looks warm up there also ! It won’t be quite the same without my Ginty ! He loved Vermont and looking out all the windows we have in the family room !

Some more yard work today down here and then might go and vote early because we will be in the Caribbean on November 5 th through the 20 th !

Hope all have a good day !

 

[masseyrider]

We kissed frost overnight.
The local vineyards have large fans/windmills to blow the air around so the frost doesn't settle on what hasn't been harvested yet. They were running last night.
Sounds like helicopters all over the place. The nearest one is more than a mile away and I hear it at my place like it's in the backyard.
Starting mixed cloud/sun. Goldshine, as a local oldies station DJ calls it, rest of the day. Going up to 60, very light wind.
Overall warming trend until mid next week.
Maybe I'll get some of the stuff I've been putting off done. I kinda doubt it though.
Play safe.
That PTO is your friend and it can kill you in a blink.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers for my son.

Here is last night's pic

This morning's pic, after multiple H2O2 and antibiotic cream applications. Also 1 amoxicillin last night.

About to dose another amoxicillin before we head out. Wanting him to shower with some tea tree oil soap first.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

It was 46F on our back porch this AM. That's cold for us. Used to 80's to 100F...

 

[ronjhall]

Plenty of frost this morning. Does not seem to bother Sandhill Cranes.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 38 going up to 62, sunny , dry , first frost
Went to school financial aid meeting, learned a few things, but not much.
Probably won't get anything from Gov, so need kid to try and get scholarships and grants.

Glad I pulled in the lime tree as we had our first frost. Will check tomatoes later.

Almost all the planes I worked on were destroyed after the project was shut down. Scrap + parts to other planes. The RF series planes were just put out to pasture. We never had our own tail numbers
Satellites took over most of our tasks. I worked on some of that before I left for the big city.

Prayers for your son Kyle, hope the current methods all work.

Paul/PopGadget - congrats on final inspection !

Might get some more wood moved/split, just need not to strain too much for my eyes. Both are a bit messed up right now.

Harris visit to town made a huge mess of the place. Son went down there and hung out with the pro and con people. He seems to love the politics stuff, ah youth.

Be well,

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 52F @ 5:45AM. Areas of fog early, becoming sunny this afternoon. High 66F. Winds WNW at 15 to 25 mph.
Up north Red Flag Warnings go into effect tonight lasting until Sunday, with the usual low humidity and high winds taking the stage. I'll probably see PG&E power shutoff warnings start tomorrow.

very nice lunch, bowl of gumbo so big and full of stuff I could only taste my barbecued shrimp poboy before I boxed it to go. Soup was lunch all by itself.
the shrimp was so fresh, crispy, tender

Dang, Drew, I just had to wipe off my chin. Especially after zooming in on the gumbo. Aside from a few glitches, your trip has been pretty smooth so far. Hope it stays that way coming into the home stretch.

I got three barn cars I need to look over, today, tomorrow. ... I need to figure out if they roll, what the mechanics look like and get a price for them. Any clues on what I need to look for mechanically are appreciated.

Anything rubber will probably be shot, so count on new tires before they're road worthy again. Same with the batteries. If the fuel wasn't drained before they were left sitting, the carbs will need cleaning and the fuel lines may need to be replaced, especially if they're rubber. If the brakes haven't been flushed regularly, count on replacing master and slave cylinders and lines. Anything plastic will be brittle, and if left sitting in the sun, faded. Look for corrosion in electrical contacts and connections and in the ignition points. Keep an eye out for mouse droppings, as they can wreak havoc on wires and the smell is wretched work to get rid of. If you're handy and like working on cars, it sounds like a lifetime of enjoyment. But if you don't have a place out of the weather to work on and store them, it's probably better to broker them to someone that does.

I'm looking forward to receiving assistance applying for the OAP and the benefits that come with it. The Fed Gov upped the application age to 67 a few years ago... naturally a year before I hit the old 'age' of 65.

They did the same thing here with Social Security, blaming it on the actuarial tables predicting that people will live longer. The doom sayers are still predicting SS will be broke; when depends on which one you listen to.

Be mindful of creating antibiotic resistant infections with incomplete dosages, Kyle.

Yesterday I got the tile cutter set up in the mezzanine above the garage and cut two tiles to replace ones I broke on the patio table. I had dust flying everywhere and water leaking down through the floor to the garage below, but no damage done. Don't think I'll do that again.

Got the van mostly unloaded, leaving the two empty firewood pallets inside. It goes to the RAM dealer today for a recall and a couple of warranty issues. It will be a new experience for me to use their shuttle service to get back home, especially when compared to freezing my butt off using a dirt bike to do the same up north.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!