Good morning!!!!

[m7040]

good morning, 50 going to 72 sunny

Ground is wet in all the usual spots. Should dry out in the next few days

Rounded up some more 2x4's from storage stack to use for the barn project. Worked some more on barn project and wood stacking. Really need to finish it

 

[Buppies]

Drew I believe you were a legend in Washington NC sounds as if you miss it. I sold the equipment in the jail there. Home of Fountain Boats and Reggie Fountain. Used to see prototypes running up and down the river. Very high end clients for sure.

Hate to see family farms sold wngsprd.

 

[wngsprd]

Hate to see family farms sold wngsprd.

Yep, me, too. Neither my wife nor her younger brother live close by. He grew up there, but she had moved out as an adult before they bought the farm.

As their dad grew older, he knew he would not keep farming it, so planted trees on most of the farm that wasn't already forest. He was a retired professor and loved farming/hunting as a sideline...he planted sawtooth oaks and long-leaf pines. One section of the forest has bald cypress trees that are hundred of years old...very majestic. Some of the oldest ones in the world are in southeast NC, where researchers have found some over 2,600 years old.

 

[Buppies]

Wngsprd it’s odd we have some NC long needle ones here not sure why. Great story about your FIL

 

[Buppies]

That one doe looks pregnant m7040

Riding Holly around yesterday evening we saw more deer than I’ve seen in a long time grazing beside the road. They have lengthened season to cull the herd but it’s not working young people do not seem to be taking to hunting sad. Great father son family bonding time

 

[Buppies]

Good morning Ken driveway looking good

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 55 going to 74 and sunny.
10pm no aurora , but it seems the smoke from up north is making the sky strangely lit.

First corn plants are up, tiny but there.

Spent a few house power washing pool deck, about 20% done.

Peddlers village mini car show, by the time we got there many cars had left.

More PW later.

Be well,

 

[daugen]

That one doe looks pregnant m7040

yes, my impression was that was one fat deer
must not have taken her birth control pills...

 

[FriendwithTractor]

Good Morning to All who Celebrate! 61° going to a high of 76°, clear and sunny until the weekend.

A slow weekend, Spent most of a rainy Saturday not doing much of anything. Sunday, dragged my campground owning friend up to the property to do a proper walkover. It's not perfect, but good enough. Views over the mountains, a few boggy spots, the power right of way isn't as bad as it was made out to be, next door neighbors are a ski community and the 17 acres I was originally interested in. Looks like there's already a good level spot for a house. If I were a rich man, I'd buy both plots, but sadly I am not. We also discovered this massive maple tree that's on the way out, friend for scale:

If trees could talk, that one could certainly tell some stories.

I'm trying to get the offer letter in my grubby little hands so I can look over it before submitting, but I'm still waiting on the realtor. Farm Credit approved me fortunately and I need to talk to them about a building loan for the house. I'm thinking either Log Home or Modular. Will need to look into a fairly heavy duty brush hog for this land too, as it's again the remnant of an old hay field that's already being started to be reclaimed by the forest. I'm thinking borrowing a post hole digger to put trees in along the property line...again, I'm getting ahead of myself. Haven't even bought the place yet, but I am excited about this place. So cross your fingers for me!

Goals for this week: Finalize offer letter, look for some modular homes, survive work week, continue mowing.

Prayers for all ailing and recovering, also praying you guys in the Great White North get those awful fires under control. I really do hope we (USA) are sending mutual aid, It's a well known fact Canadian water bombers regularly fight fires out West here in the States.

Y'all stay safe out there and be well! Enjoy the week!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 85˚ heading to the low 90s, no chance of rain.

A busy stressful morning at the tax office protesting my property tax valuation. They went up 17% from last year and I got it reduced 18%, so success!

 

[daugen]

excellent news Don!
my morning went well too, body shop fixed my loose panel in ten minutes, a bolt had fallen out and
that sure went easily. Then talked to local garage and they put car up on lift to look at shock. Its a strut and only issue is
whether their spring compressor will handle it, but they are willing to try. I also saw little to no evidence of the leak dealer wanted two
grand to fix. But the big surprise was that i found out my car had KDSS, some acronym for sway bars that can disconnect for greater
articulation. Articulation I and likely the prior owner never used in suburbia. For serious off roaders, a nice feature, for me just complexity and
a point of failure. No other leaks and only very light rust underneath.

I'll go back later this week to get shocks put on. For now, headed outside on a very nice day to wash my car
and maybe cut a few roses for a vase.

 

[Buppies]

Now you can truly off road Drew Moab awaits

Good luck with land FWT hope it all works for you

Good job Don impressive

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,

somewhere between 2500 and 4000 seems to be the range, depending upon what else is available locally.

Thanks Drew
Busy day, doing that long Honey Do List !

 

[rswyan]

71F and sunny @ 12:00, heading up to around 76F for the day's high.

Went to bed around 23:00 woke up a little after 04:00 oveheated, was up for a couple of hours and then went back to bed around 06:00 and slept until nearly 11:00 ... which is throwing my schedule off ...

Haven't shaken whatever I picked up, congestion still hanging around in my upper chest but no longer have the constantly runny nose.

Big progress on garage clean up yesterday.

Got Cub pre filter re-oiled and installed on air filter and filter swapped out for the old one.

Also got underside of Cub deck largely cleaned off in preparation for mowing today. Was pretty bad ... but not nearly as bad as I have seen it.

Going to give it a final "polish" before I start mowing by running it over some woodchips I spread to dry out last night. Curious to see what that does.

Blades appear to be in great shape, only one had a slight nick in it. I think I put those on last year ... so they seem to be holding up well.

Used forks on Kubota to bring radial arm saw from barn and tarped it with a brand new tarp.

Then swapped out forks for light material bucket and took bucketoad of screened compost down to neighbor's.

Big guy out on the suet feeder:

He was probably out there for at least 10 - 15 minutes ... on both suet feeders.

Have been hearing him calling a lot lately.

Might explain why the suet cakes are disappearing so fast ...

Need to get moving.

Hope everyone is having a decent Monday ...

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .07 inches rain

An almost relaxing day yesterday. Our Dolphin pool vac has been hit and miss, mostly miss. So decided to troubleshoot. It’s out of warranty

Power supply and cable check out. Good thing as I’d pretty much decided I wasn’t spending $300 to replace the cable.

So as of now I have $1200 of parts totally disassembled, cleaned and sitting on the table. I didn’t take apart the motor assembly , yet.

Happy Hour in town this afternoon at one of our Mexican eateries.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Little more deck work. Nice cool breeze. Ran out of material, so need a Lowe’s run.

 

[daugen]

David, have fun at happy hour and then come back
and reassemble that pool vac. Try not to have parts left over...

had a successful day and got everything I needed to do done.
need to go out and water the spinach seeds.

 

[Thomas]

That's one for the good guys as they say Don.

 

[Looking4new]

Back from town, one guy on the Northbound part decided that Bullwinkle did NOT have the right of way. He went away on a tow truck.
One guy on the southbound trip got a high speed award. Sux to be him.
This is the annual hassle the truck drivers week/AKA safety week.
I did a steady 110 km/hour (66 mph) both ways except for the construction where the speed limit was 80 k (50 mph).
Tractor is back. Works like a new one. Already tried it out.
Fresh oil and filter. Fresh fuel filter and both hydraulic filters and the leak fixed. Almost $1700.oo, but a far cry from what it would have been IF it needed a new pump.
Bought a new 10x10x8' shelter for the 500 gallon oil tank.
$451.99 all in. Now to cut down some trees to put the shelter on.

 

[Thomas]

66F partly cloudy.

Been good day for outside puttering.mowing front field was touch and go soggy mowing 8" high thsn again to clear lot of clumps, unsuccessful trying to get tractor cut up maple tree just to muddy.
Plans for the evening going to play by until ZZZZ time.

Enjoy your evening all.
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Mrs. said here noise just outside kitchen window while making her coffee for work,NuBoo slept under BIG spruce tree near house Mrs. thought he was dreaming,she turn on porch lights and NuBoo slowly walk of disappointed,