Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 38 going to 50, rain later, ground getting mushy.
Making my plans to go out to San Diego for next week.

They have not paid homeowners of car insurance for a long time. Brother is taking care of that. I will go down to follow up on anything he hasn't been able to, like did they pay fed/state/property taxes , HOA etc. His GF is totally gone mentally from the stress, but still being a PITA.

Happy birthday Dan

M7040 - happy birthday to the Missus

Be well,

 

[Buppies]

When I look out our bedroom window ice storm destruction almost naked not sure what to do with it. Pine trees took down poplar trees and some water oaks. Might plant in wild flowers just not sure yet. Nature decided for a reset

 

[Buppies]

Prayers for you Ken

Happy Birthday Mrs M7040

 

[Engineer42]

There has been a lot of development around me as well. Fortunately for me, I’m surrounded on 3 sides by hundreds of acres of preserved farmland, the fourth side is the road. But with in 5 minutes, I can be stuck in traffic looking at 4 story luxury apartment buildings being built.

The only real upside to the urbanization is that I can leave my oasis and be in a grocery store in 5 minutes or so with only one stop sign to impede my progress. Lots of choices of restaurants, a Wawa, a large new hardware store (that unfortunately doesn’t have number drills, but has a great selection of Yeti tumblers).

Must be an Ace. I think ours has an entire aisle dedicated to Yeti items.

 

[Buppies]

Yes Ace are big yeti dealers like one whole dedicated isle

 

[NHBX]

Happy Birthday to Mrs m7040!

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Again,
Paul, nice job on the DRO on the lathe ! Smart move to pull the lathe out from the wall ! Nice job !

Frits , frohlich geburtstag zu deinen frau!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 6:45AM. Sunny. High 72F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
I was awakened about an hour ago by the wind causing the range hood flapper door to bang in the kitchen. Got up and went outside to retrieve a large sheet of cardboard I'd been laying on under the firetruck yesterday. It had only gone four feet from where I'd left it, but it was on its way to nowhere.

Did some paperwork yesterday to start, filtering out receipts on the solar power system to up the cost basis for this house at tax time. Then the last realtor showed up with pretty much the same story as the others told. Properties are in short supply, but demand is down because both interest rates and asking prices are way up. Add to that the super high cost of homeowners insurance, and not many buyers are left. Still some people are either financially blessed or have to move into this area for one reason or another, and the only way to tell if a property will sell is to get it on the market. A neighbor passed along another realtor's name, but after a few minutes on the phone with her I was still left thinking the first realtor I interviewed will do the best job. He was supposed to have a proposal to me on Monday, and unless he screws it up, he'll get the job.

Got a tank of RM43 sprayed before a neighbor showed up to work on the firetruck. He'd brought along a spare fuel pump, but we couldn't get anything to come out of the tank. Used my transfer pump to empty the tank and got seven gallons, so it wasn't for lack of fuel. I heard bubbling in the tank when he blew through the fuel line, so there must be some kind of check valve in the line. There's a 1/4" pipe thread plug in the bottom of the tank, so we'll use that to run a new line to an inline filter and then on to a new fuel pump and into the carb. Probably get everything from Amazon and finish it on the next visit.

Ran another five or six tanks of RM43 before the side-by-side overheated and I had to stop. Not a new problem, but one that wasn't remedied by replacing the water pump last year. It's not a problem until I start running up and down the hill at slow speed while spaying. Easy to live with because I don't spray with it very often. If the wind calms down I'll finish spraying this morning, otherwise tomorrow.

Power washing and limbing on the agenda for today.

TGIF gang!

 

[ronjhall]

Happy Birthday Mrs, M7040. and Scotties son Dan.

 

[sodamo]

65°F and no rain. Seriously dry.

Nothing major accomplished yesterday.
May have to remove fuel tank from honda EU7000 generator to remove water and clean.

Guys lost at H&F. Won 1st hand decisively and downhill from there

Made an interesting turkey meatball with eggplant, pupils, and sweet potato casserole.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day