Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

all these porch pics,seems I painted my porch in NC on this day.
53 linear feet of old fashioned wood porch. At least the rails were plastic.
Painted that porch every year with sticky grey porch paint.

planted a lupine on a lovely cool morning, in this case "West Country towering inferno".
it's a perennial so hope it comes back.

also seems one year I was digging ditches in the front yard, probably to get rid of that lake shown in
a previous pic. I had several Long implements, very heavy duty, more designed for the larger Massey.
My Long grapple was really too heavy for Kubota but worked perfectly on larger tractor.

 

[Buppies]

That was one fine looking porch Drew

 

[Buppies]

The pup is on guard duty m7040

 

[masseyrider]

Slow start today, closing in on 10AM.
Predicted potential for a record warm day for the date. Could hit 75F.
Cooling off for the next number of days only making upper 40s and mid 50sF.
I sort of feel like I'm running in deep mud the last while. Not getting much of anything done.
This late in the day and I haven't even had brekky.
Oh well!
I am reti/arded. Only one letter off.
Hug a dog today. They won't slap you like a strange woman.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and 0 rain

Uneventful day yesterday except shock loading of the new Costco credit card. Let’s see how that cash back works.
Also a notice from UpS that my oil cooler has been damaged and reported. No clue what the means as for delivery and if usable.
Off to Hilo this morning. 6 X-rays, 3 each knee for VA disability evaluation.

County replacing our road today, but I expect minimal impact as my drive is the starting point. That’s where they finished 12 years ago.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Drew,

change the oil in the injector pump.

Yes, supposed to do every 200 hours

 

[daugen]

stopped by Popgadgets on way home from picking up rental car and stopping at TSC for 8 tomato plants.
the range seems to be
cheap stuff in front of supermarket 3.99
Tractor Supply 4.99
Bountiful Acres nursery 5.99
cost to grow them from seed .10

Paul was very nice to make lunch for me, everyone else had cleared out and I missed the alpaca shearing.
His wife Erica had been going for almost 12 hours and I told Paul he needed to rub her feet. She looked too tired to smile.

my furniture covers came, so I finished the last of the pillow stuff, hauled all the pillows out and then covered them in new
vinyl cases. Could have gone a size smaller but they have drawstrings which I did not get into.

looked at those 8 tomatoes and said I'm just too tired and came in.
turned a/c on, over 80 outside and it seems to take a long time to switch from heat to a/c.
probably won't need heat anymore, as i sit her sweating the a/c feels good.

Scott, thanks, learned something new every day
4.7 ounces not too terrible...
I'm sure it's for durability

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evening,
Well, got oil and filter changed on both the ZTurn and tractor. Also got the blades sharpened and even managed to do a quick cut of the front lawn

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Got the stuck tree unstuck, and partly cut into firewood.
Used BH to pull multiflora roses along the creek.
Sams club run, and filled two 5 gal cans for mower.
Amazon says if joist tape doesn’t come by tomorrow, I can cancel. I tried, but only see a return option, and it hasn’t shown up.
Did manage to order 4 rolls of same kind as before, supposed to come Saturday.
Should have bought roll at Lowe’s today, might run out tonight, so I can work tomorrow.
There’s stuff I could do, decided to do other stuff today

Good talk with dad.
His electric line to his well got taken out by excavator being hauled out.
Pipeline crew temporyfixed it, my brother drove over to check.

First load of pipe came last night, along with a trench burner, used to burn brush and stumps in a pit.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Friday) morning. Overnight Low of 15.5C and it's presently dipped down to 15.0C, overcast with some sporadic rain & calm. There was 4.2mm in the gauge @ 0700.

Yesterday ended with a 'quick' paddock transfer from #5 to #6. A surprising wombat showed up in the horse exercise area! It's the first one that I've ever seen here at Wagtail Park.

I then, after supper, went to bed early (1945) as I needed to get up this morning by 0300 for the ANZAC Day dawn (0545) parade & ceremony. Huge turn-out by the public and the rain pretty much held off.

I'll head back into town @ 1000 for the 1100 parade & wreath laying ceremony.

Then I'll come home & load up the ute with pre-polling paraphernalia for an early start/set-up tomorrow morning (0800). I may be able to chain-harrow Paddock #5 depending on the weather.

That's about it, take care all.

Lest we forget.

 

[Looking4new]

The only things I did today was confirmed the repairs for the Dodge (May 12th at 9), the repairs for the tractor (May 13th float to pick it up on the 12th) and sold $4000.oo worth of silver. My old foreman called me, he just came back up from Toronto on his way to Timmins...Got a tattoo of the Ford blue oval on his shin. Was supposed to cost him a grand, but when the girl that did it got done she only charged him 600.oo. He is a dyed in the wool Ford guy. I told him he should have gotten it tattooed on his butt. The 'F" on his left cheek and the 'rd' on his right. It would have cost him less. One less letter.
He told me that as of last January the train that got wrecked labour day 2023 is still sitting at the tow yard where it went after I unhooked from it.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Had a regular convention at the farm after they knocked down the electric line. They put the flags back up, that had been down, they raised the lines higher using temp poles. Our pole at the corn crib got knocked over when they hit the line.

The temp water line is already installed across the other side of the property. It's not the solid HDPE as I usually see.

At the far end of the field, they have exposed an older shallow well gas line. The yellow line is the approx property line there. They were supposed to put the logs down the right side of the treeline, they have then on the left, which will be on the other side when they start trenching.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 66ºF for the start, .1 inch in gauge, overcast and rain, moderate breeze. Light wind, rain in morning gradual clearing in afternoon, high temp was 73ºF, low temp at 10AM and was 62ºF. Made coffee to start day, oatmeal for breakfast, replaced motor in CPAP, first test had motor in backward so it suck air out of the mask. Fixed that test #2 went much better. Trip to bike shop to get repaired bike, then nap.
I want to thank you all for the thoughts and prayers after my brother passed, they really helped me get though this.
Ron sorry legs are sore hope easy day helps them. Hope groceries and bike prep went well. Nice feeder pic.
Phil glad wife got appointment for this morning. Good to hear BIL at home and resting. Hope they can deal with kidney stones without bladder removal. Cool monster bowl. Prayers for BIL and buddy.
Thomas hope day went well.
Buppies sorry poor sleep. Hope you get more work for company. prayers sent.
Drew hope your days are as nice as they sound.
Scott(vt) sorry poor sleep. Hope walk helped wake you up for trip north. Hope trip went smoothly.
Mike hope you got the grass work done and progress on wood work.
Bill glad you get another conserve energy day.
Paul hope shop is decluttered enough for the feeding of the shearers. I take it you are fabricating a new shaft for the manure spreader. Hope lunch went well.
Drew thanks for story on going to beach.
Frits glad you got a good sandwich for lunch. Sorry wife can't make it up the stairs. Glad you got some mowing done and glad you could get some time with her. Enjoy your fish for dinner.
Ken sounds like you have a lot going on with work and son's college and keeping the property up.
Drew thanks for pics and the stories behind them.
MasseyRider sorry you are mired in mud. no dogs or strange women to hug.
David sorry to hear oil cooler damaged in shipping. Hope Costco card survived the shock. Hope trip to Hilo for xrays went well. Hope road work not too inconvenient.
Drew sorry you missed shearing, glad you got lunch. 12 hours very long day. Hope covers work out.
Scott(vt) glad oil changed and blades sharpen. and some grass cut.
Dennis glad you can work on stuck tree safely. Hope tape shows up. Hope you got the single roll for tomorrows work. Glad they fixed electric line to well, hope no damage to pump.
Randy(wag) hope ANZAC day was a good celebration.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, 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, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /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.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 50° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 75° with evening thunderstorms. Got grocery shopping done. Rest of the day got changed. Helped neighbor get all their lawn equipment running after winter storage. All of those started and ran as they should. Pickup had a dead battery. Will get a new one today. Also got some seat time. Used my tractor to move.a couple of trees from another neighbors yard. Today will be some garden pond maintainace. New battery install.
Forsythias are in full bloom here in Michigan.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
birds are chattering like mad out, get up! get up!

another warm day today, 50 now going up to 82
never called by dealer last night, but at least I have a rental.
they gave me a Ford Bronco Sport, the smaller of two Broncos, and it looked really nice,
and drove ok, but not a comfy ride. Stripper rental didn't have nav in it, and no automatic hvac.
guess they couldn't sell this one so put it in rental fleet. Dealer owns half the rental agency.

today is tomato planting day. Carefully looking at ten day forecast, lowest temp is 48
did not find any pattipan squash plants available, still a little early, want several of them for my one raised bed.

if my truck is fixed this morning, I'll go pick it up and go down to wash my rv. Lot of rain coming in tonight and tomorrow;
fallback is washing rv when rain stops on Sunday. I'm guessing they ordered parts which will come in today so I might not get truck
back. They were still at the dreaded No Problem Found when I talked to them last, though service writer did say one guy did hear something once.
Granted hard to fix an intermittent with no codes. I authorized recharging the a/c system; average cost I googled was 150-300 dollars to put that machine on it that sucks everything out and puts it all back in. Something tells me they will charge on the high end. If they can't fix this, pretty sure
I'll be trading this truck on something else, newer with less miles. Sad that a modern car at 70k miles has so many problems. Too bad, getting to like driving it but this back and forth to dealer is aggravating regardless of who is paying for it.
Right now my car is in the same timeout as David's LS.

Buckeye, thanks for all those pictures, most of us have never seen pipeline work.
almost like you want to tell them in the morning
try not to break anything today....

 

[Thomas]

45F cloudy day might reach 70F

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Last evening was the fourth time this week I saw NuBoo sleeping against pickup driver side front tire hope he/she doesn't nibble on the tire stems,may have to spray tire with WD40 etc.

Plans for today...4 hours at part store,put new curtain shower rods,may try try straightening 4 driveway poles.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[daugen]

RNG is fine, just overwhelmed by move and unable to keep up with us.
I'm sure we'll hear from him soon.
wanted to make sure he wasn't tied up in a basement someplace...

Thomas, maybe spray tire stems with DeerOff?

 

[mpham]

Morning all! 50 going to a cloudy 75.
Spent the day outside yesterday.
Picked up lots of sticks. Dug out the mower and gave it a good going over. Figured I might as well get it mounted. I took off the snow blower and put it away till next season. Mower is attached and ready.
While the forks were on I swapped a bunch of wood around on my rack.
Put the bucket back on and cleaned up a few waste piles. Took a much needed siesta after that.

Still no joy on wife's tooth. They took an x-ray and made a mold then told her see you Monday.

Not sure what I will do today. Should do more outside as we have 2 days of rain forecast.
Gathering up all the loose pellets we have sitting around and will burn them all up today and shut down till fall. I will give it a good cleaning then pick up all the related stuff and store in the cellar.
Need to pressure wash the deck and cement pad. Maybe start that today. Need more coffee to decide!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 42 and going to a high of 50°F Wind ENE 7 gusting to 17 mph. Mostly cloudy.

Not much on the books for today, so I'll conserve energy.

BEF, which side of the cut the logs go on depends on your perspective. Standing face to face your right is my left.

Have a safe day all

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 68˚F, S wind, heading to the mid 80s. 0.04" rain yesterday.
Drew thanks for checking up on RNG.

Four schools and seven busses at the "Farm" yesterday, could not keep up but several hundred kids did get a tractor wagon ride. Nice surprise e-mail from the Farm advising me of a raise, nice to be appreciated. After work I used my employee 50% discount to pick 2 pounds of strawberries, They are good tasting but so many left in the field. I'll pick a few pounds each day that I work.