Good morning!!!!

[Happy in NC]

What is the surface of your porch?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What is the surface of your porch?

Concrete

 

[txdon]

The yard dry riverbed actually serves a function during a flash flood. ” this morning after ” the last few days.

Also had to pump water OUT of the pool. First time in a year.

 

[daugen]

was sunshiny for a little bit but now clouding up and looks like more afternoon thunderstorms rolling in.
got some gas for mower, filled up car, picked up a squash plant on way home,but not the pattipan I was looking for, and
now watching the grass grow about an inch a day

Don, glad that water diversion channel was there.
all that wet weather I think you have been having was part of the big system that beat Teds plants to
bits with hail. He has a lot of specimen plants that he waters carefully, needs rain a lot more than hail.
at least Texas got well watered or parts of it.

and the rain has started again. Up to .85 since it started yesterday, more would be welcome

 

[kenmbz]

You got .85 and we got .25 , amazing the difference a few miles makes.
Seems the clouds get stuck on the ridge here and either don't make it to us, or get stuck and it's deluge.

Turkeys came through earlier. Biggest females I've ever seen, pictures did not come out though.
Been hearing them every morning, guess we'll have some new little gobblers soon.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

No mowing today, more rain showed up. Had to run out to pick up meds at pharmacy. Did get the little table assembled, that goes with the new chairs. Also the chair covers came. Was sitting on porch, but got too cool 59 deg and breeze blowing.
.55" since midnight

 

[daugen]

Don, how was the burger?
any better than ones you make yourself?

I think the rain has stopped for awhile
was thinking I need to check oil level/age in generator.
doesn't take much to lose power around here
gen takes same full syn 10/30 as lawn mower which is convenient.

I'm waiting for them to finally admit, perhaps after the latest GM 6.2 V8 debacle, and generations of Rams
with hemi tick, all these 0-20 oils should get retired and lets
get back to 15/40 and have everything run on that. I'm pretty sure it can.
Giving up half a mpg and winding up with widespread valvetrain and bearing unreliability is ridiculous.

I also find it interesting that Ford oem spec is for a semi-synthetic, not full synthetic, 5W30
seems like they are hedging their bets
though they do seem to offer fully synthetic as a super premium alternative
pretty hard to go wrong with any name brand full synthetic oil, I use Valvoline usually

when you want a small air cooled engine to withstand heavy long term loads, usually you run straight 30W in it, particularly in warmer climates.
I remember running straight 40 weight in my detroit diesels. Just seems thick oils and longevity have historically been related.

I thought with modern tighter tolerance engines thinner oils worked fine.
just hope engineers haven't been overruled by emissions requirements pushing machinery beyond happy limits.

 

[txdon]

Drew the veggie burger was better than mine, they put a lot more spices to make it more flavorful. They are GG Southwestern veggie burgers. They are the most expensive item on their menu. $1 more than their beef burgers.

 

[LouNY]

Don, how was the burger?
any better than ones you make yourself?

I think the rain has stopped for awhile
was thinking I need to check oil level/age in generator.
doesn't take much to lose power around here
gen takes same full syn 10/30 as lawn mower which is convenient.

I'm waiting for them to finally admit, perhaps after the latest GM 6.2 V8 debacle, and generations of Rams
with hemi tick, all these 0-20 oils should get retired and lets
get back to 15/40 and have everything run on that. I'm pretty sure it can.
Giving up half a mpg and winding up with widespread valvetrain and bearing unreliability is ridiculous.

I also find it interesting that Ford oem spec is for a semi-synthetic, not full synthetic, 5W30
seems like they are hedging their bets
though they do seem to offer fully synthetic as a super premium alternative
pretty hard to go wrong with any name brand full synthetic oil, I use Valvoline usually

when you want a small air cooled engine to withstand heavy long term loads, usually you run straight 30W in it, particularly in warmer climates.
I remember running straight 40 weight in my detroit diesels. Just seems thick oils and longevity have historically been related.

I thought with modern tighter tolerance engines thinner oils worked fine.
just hope engineers haven't been overruled by emissions requirements pushing machinery beyond happy limits.

It is fuel economy requirements doing the push for the 0W-20 oil fad, the 5W-30 is the minimum that I like to use. It's hard to beat the old standby of 10W-40 synthetic. But then the warranties will squawk.
If I didn't have the extended 125,000 mile warranty I would be using at least a 5W-30 full synthetic.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 12.2C and it's presently 18.1C, mostly clear with a bit of a breeze. There was 1.5mm in the gauge @ 0900.

It did indeed rain yesterday arvo, so I concentrated on indoor tasks/clean-up stuff.

I did notice that the wombat had returned to the front paddock later on in the arvo. Binocular observation showed a white crusty 'substance' around it's ears, neck and shoulders. That and the fact that it's a nocturnal animal indicated that it has mange. I drove over to the local Tassie "Parks & Wildlife Service" depot and, short story, they gave me a website/mobile # to call.

You would've thought that, what with "Wildlife" being in their name, that they would come over to the property to have a look at the critter. But no. <smh> Heck, I'm only a few kilometres on the same road from them.

So, today is 'into town' day for mail & groceries. I'll probably top up the ute with petrol. This arvo I have to have my Winter flu shot so more sign dismantlement will need to wait 'til tomorrow.

Temperature is predicted to be below 5C tonight so I'll put on the first fire in the woodheater tonight.

That's about it, take care all.