Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

67°F and1.54 inches rain.

Yesterday morning lived up to the forecast, torrential rain making it an inside day, but that proved a good thing. I was able to finish and submit my Supplemental VA application. Took all morning but that’s OK. Weather turned really nice but could still see surface water. Just piddled about

In town Happy Hour was quite pleasant and a great way to close out the day.

Forecast is more rain today but currently looking hopeful I can get some tractor time.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

Thanks for your prayers and concern for my mom. You guys are great.

Unfortunately, she passed away early this morning. I'll be back in touch in a while.

Billy,

Sincerest condolences, sorry for your loss.

 

[rswyan]

Hmmm ... looks like things are working again ...

Yesterday's post that wouldn't post:

Currently 61F with plenty of bright sunshine and heading to around 64F for the day's high.

LWS reports that it only went down to 33.1F so it looks like we dodged the "hard freeze" bullet again ...

Got hopper and the two tube feeders refilled yesterday afternoon, also one nyjer feeder and the suet feeder ... plus scattered some seed and peanuts for the ground feeders.

Went down to the corner and picked up five gallons of gas for the Cub and got it refilled.

Cut and gathered the five largest heads of cabbage. They aren't all that big ... probably didn't get enough sun (and water) where they were planted. Will have to revisit that next year.

Will be no place close to filling the five gallon crock so probably will pick some up from the grocery to supplement the first batch of 'kraut.

Will leave the rest of them go for a while, should have at least another ten days of decent weather to see if they get any bigger.

Picked a one gallon bucket of California Wonder bell peppers, almost all of them no place close to being ripe (still green not red) but we'll use them for stuffed peppers. They made six packages for the freezer.

Also got a gallon bucket picked with the last of the Early Jalapeños, some more Habaneros, Hot Lemon peppers, and a few of those green cherry tomatoes:

Still a bunch more Hot lemons out on the bushes they just need to ripen up.

Got the Hot Lemons and most of green Jalapeños cleaned and packaged up with the vacuum sealer:

Have some more greens and some red Jalapeños still to do, along with the Habaneros. Probably freeze some of those but they supposedly don't keep quite as long so probably will dry the rest of them.

Did some more leaf mulching with the Cub, got back and east side mostly done ... for now anyways ...

Took the trash up to the cans at the road.

Today's post:

Currently 75F and sunny. Chance of rain Thursday night into Friday morning with a big cool down on Friday. Only calling for a high of 54F. Warms back up to the 60's and 70's starting Sunday.

Schedule a couple of bills for payment.

Probably take the Cub up and grind some leaves in the compost/wood lot then work on the west down here around the house.

Then back to getting the rest of those peppers put up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Tuesday.

 

[Looking4new]

You guys are giving me the shivers with all those 40 whatnots. We could have another record high tomorrow. They're saying in the 90s. My air conditioner is still running. Glad this new unit also considers humidity.

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Wait 'til we get into winter, you will find out what real cold is .

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 8.3C and it's presently 17.5C [heading to 22C], partly cloudy & calm.

Well, the first mow of the season is done. The Z-turn 'protested' a wee bit on start-up but fired up and performed great. House/driveway/front-paddock completed.

Today is 'into town' day for groceries, but first there's a 'coffee gathering' for the local Veterans @ 1000. Remembrance Day is not that far off, so there'll probably be a bit of planning going on. I'll reassure them that I can 'take the parade' as commander.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Test,
MD should be UP from there.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Another test.

Muhammad,
I will ask if you will update your pic by the time this thread hits 200,000 ???

 

[sodamo]

LS with 6ft rotary 8:30- 1345 without a hiccup. Well, except for getting stuck again, but I didn’t shut it off and it ran without hiccup. So feeling pretty good. I don’t normally run the tractor but 2-3 hours before taking a break.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 71ºFfor the start, scatter clouds, windy. Winds 20+ gusting 30+, clouds increased to broken then thinned late in the day, and high temp was 84ºF. Made coffee to start day, Grief Share then bike ride, wind penalty 1.34 miles. Nap was 2 hours still tired not much progress on paperwork
Kyle sorry about how hot it is for you. Been warm here, but not like you. Congrats to FB team, sorry son's freshman team facing JV personnel. Sorry about all the interruptions at work. Gas leak sounds very dangerous glad no issues so far.
Randy(wag) have fun stacking the wood. Glad stretching reduces the side effects.
Masseyrider getting old not for the weak of heart
Ron glad you are getting rain. Good to hear tree trimming done. Hope arms and shoulders recover quickly. Hope garden and pond winterizing go well. Nice pic of clean up crew and nice crew.
NHBX Hope progress on leaf control, and shopping went well.
Drew hope good news from dermatologist. Hope leaf control went well.
Thomas sorry Giants are floundering too.
Thomas hope you have energy left at end of day.
Bill hope Jr doesn't regret putting off town trip. Have fun putting up winter plastic. Hope you can still use the short plexiglass.
Happy(nc) sorry 4 wheeler getting you dirty. good luck with other utility buggy.
Buppies glad you got more sleep, sorry not caught up yet. Hope leaf control goes well. prayers sent.
Ken(tin) sorry you are so hot so late.
Scott(vt) glad quack seems to be helping. Can you grill your BRATS? Hope all is well for the cruise. My condolences for the loss if the firefighter.
Ken sorry eye is not healing well. prayers sent. Hope you can get leaves done. Nice pics quite the carving job on pumpkin.
Frits hope piking up groceries went well. Hope you are enjoying the morning fires. Looking forward to D pics
RNG glad you have good weather to work on old house. Glad pump working again. Hope painting went well.
Buppies thanks for the reading of the weather tea leaves.
Drew glad only two freezies.
Mike sorry to hear all the issues going on. My prayer for you is the strength to make it through it all with out bloodshed. Sorry to hear common sense has fled the scene.
Muhammad looks good from here.
Ken nice pic.
David glad you made good use of rain day. Nice HH was good. Hope you got some tractor to test repair.
RS sorry cabbage under performed this year. Hope 'kraut turns out. Nice garden haul. Hope leaf control going well.
RS hope leaf work and pepper work went well.
Bill and we Texans experience real heat that you don't
Randy(wag) hope town run and Rememberance Day planning went well.
Dennis not sure what you are testing
Kyle not giving Muhammad much tine to get new pic.
David glad test two much longer and still good What will you do with tractor working again ?
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues,Mike /BIL in FL, 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, hurricane victims, and Country.

 

[Looking4new]

Mostly, sometimes in summer we get 100° heat, but not for weeks at a time. While unloading in gravel pits I sometimes shoot the ground beside the truck with my laser thermometer and see 105-110°F heat.
The summer that I got a touch of heat stroke the temp was 105 in the shade. The heat stroke was my fault, not enough water and I knew I shouldn't have been outside the A/C of the truck having had it before.
But regarding the cold temps, I arrived in Northern Alberta (west of Edmonton), in February 1980 and brought the warm air from Ontario with me. The day I arrived was the warmest day they had for the previous 2 weeks, -35°F.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Mostly, test didn’t work.

 

[ronjhall]

Frist cup of coffee has been poured. 64° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 76° with mostly cloudy skies this morning. Got pond maintainace done. Cleaned up all my flower gardens and hauled all the remains to mulch pile. Neighbor came for Trac-Vac to start cleaning up our yards from leaves. Sure is a good crop of them.
Where did the squirrel go.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 75˚F, I beat Ron this morning but that. is not a good thing. Might have to head to bed again. We are still on for rain tomorrow as the wind changes from the North but we went down from 70% to 50%.

Rain is also predicted for the adventure farm for Saturday and they have cut personal in anticipation of low turn-out. I did not get cut so I will prepare for mud and a few riders. I was mistaken the dinosaur weekend is not this weekend it is next weekend. This weekend will be the last days of the Fall Festival. The hoopla of the cool weather Fall was dashed by the warmest October. We had way too many 90+ degree-days.

I see I took too long typing and Ron snuck his post in before me. Nice action pic Ron.

 

[ronjhall]

I see I took too long typing and Ron snuck his post in before me. Nice action pic Ron.

Nice try.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
warmer weather coming in, high of 78 today, back on went the shorts

it's always wonderful to read how Wagtail is on the other side of our seasons. We are putting our mowers away, he is
firing his up.

David, wonderful LS behaved, that is some serious vegetation you are chopping up, do you have to go very slowly?

other than a haircut today at noon, not much else planned other than working on a long list of stuff to get cleaned up and put away.
more laundry (dobi?) to do today. JD 390 sucked up the leaves beautifully, they were dry and the system likes dry.
But air flow gizmo doesn't seem to work, doesn't show me when bag is full. Not good to overfill
because as those of you who have these things know the leaves back up the pipe and then you have to dig it out.

had my first local apple last night. Oh my are they good. Big taste, big sweetness and none of that awful
wax they put on store fruit. Must be a good apple year, I see promos/loss leaders for 99 cents a pound.
local orchards are 2.50 a pound. Since I've tended and grown orchards I don't begrudge the local orchards a penny.

RS, those are some fine looking peppers. I hope you don't have or get acid reflux, I had to quit eating them.
Sweet peppers are wonderful, particularly stuffed with something.

Mostly, Don, Kyle and other Texans, hope you get some rain. And send it on this way please.

Ted, I'd wish rain for you but that would be wishing and hoping...
so keep watering all your beautiful plants
are you expanding out with all those new bushes and trees you are growing in your nursery?
the oasis expands...

I bet Ted hums:
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows painting our faces
Traces of romance in our heads
Heaven's holding a half-moon
Shining just for us
Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon
And kick up a little dust

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 58 and going to a high of 64°F. wind S 11 mph. Mostly cloudy.

Today I think we will be putting up the plastic on the inside of the windows. I know it would work better on the outside and if I had permanent/semi permanent storms made with glass, I would put them on the outside.

I think Junior forgot to pick up my dope at the dope store yesterday. That will wait until I get a round tuit.

Ron, it looks to me like your tree rat and dog are playing hide and seek.

Time to get on with my day.

Have a safe day all

 

[Thomas]

43 mostly cloudy day low 60's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...leave clean up...again,if enough zip left some puttering.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Thomas]

Sassy showing her authorly.

 

[daugen]

Sassy has that squirrel treed and he knows who is boss...
got to protect Dad from that terrible squirrel
seems like dog dna to go after a squirrel

 

[daugen]

funny, can't erase wrong post without putting something back in
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