Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 76ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light to moderate wind, Afternoon buildups, and high temp was 97ºF, HI 106ºF. Made coffee to start day, bike rice, 62+ miles did average 14 mph in heat. Nap after lunch and shower.
Ron hope you got your grass cut. Nice moon pic.
Drew glad light day for you. Thanks for RNG update.
Spike56 glad you survived your 3 appointment day. We have rain chances up here Mon-Wed.
Scott(vt) glad good ferry ride. Glad pizza and wine was good. Nice pics.
Bill hope you are able to get ready for winter. Sorry about the loss of strength.
Billy glad z-turn got mowing done.
Thomas hope day went accorsing to plan. Nice Boo pic.
Happy(NC) glad new spindle ready to go on Husky.Hope garage getting shaped up with all the work.
Frits ceramic abrasives should give good wear on belt. Hope wife enjoyed drive, sorry D got stuck by jumper.
PAul hope dogs did well on flight. Grandson growing up fast! You might get more help mowing soon. Amazing gator that far north. Glad good night for playing music.
Dennis sorring long trip on hold because of your dad's health.
Drew sorry multiflora rose gets you consistently.
Mike welcome back! glad FIL and your dad's estates closed out. Sorry froud not dealt with. Hope you find new dishwasher soon. Sorry about bee issues, hope they are taken care of this winter. Hope horse is tempory.
Drew have to wonder how much more flexing slide gets on a ship.
Ken glad mowers gone and you and guy who got them both happy Good luck with stiltgrass battle
Don glad wife may have been false positive, and now several negatives in a row. Hope watering and water volleyball went well.
Dennid glad good breakfast with group. Hope you found something interesting to do.
David glad you could deck off without 4wd. Hope swim meet and mowing went well.
RS glad arborvitae going well. Hope you day went well.
Drew sorry you forgot wallet on way to car show. Glad you got spring and wheels treated on trailer.
Frits sounds like greasing excavator quite the chore. Thanks for old pic
Thomas looks like fun supervisor.
Phil glad yu are working smarter. Love the pic of your wood projects.
Kyle nice you had good trip to Port Aransas, good pics. Hope you get answer to prayers. Hope pond rake is successful.
Dennis when I had electric cart the batteries had to put out about 12V each for charger to work. I would use small charger to get the main charger to come on line.
Dftodd hope you can stay cool in the heat.
Randy(wag) hope church was good.
Thomas glad trim mowing done. How did you make her that mad at you? Hope evening went well.
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 /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Scott(vt) /wife's back pain, 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, Eye recovery, /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, Middle East War, and Country.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning,, the low is 72 and going to 88°F. Wind SW 6 mph. 30% chance of showers.

Another hot and muggy day. I may actually get outside and do something today. Maybe. Don't hold yer breath.

Have a safe day all

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 66° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 89° with mostly sunny skies. Got one project in shop done. Made new brackets for rear directional signal lights. Them mounted on Mule. Rest of the day was spent meeting and tell life stories with a new neighbor that does his daily walks past my house. Hope to get grass cut later today. Then some NASCAR later today.
Got a mouth full.

Riptide, good to have you back posting.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[Happy in NC]

Good morning TBN!!
60 this morning with high around 80 Saw the sun yesterday for the first time in nearly 2 weeks Will be short lived though with clouds building back in and rain probable tomorrow.
Took the mower out for a test drive and spent an hour or so mowing the bottom by the bridge. Mower did good but the grass was quite tall and still pretty wet. Ran over it twice and got it looking respectable again.
Spent a few minutes on the tractor trying to figure out how to cut a ditch. I still need to figure out how to get the tilt steep enough. May have to start a thread to get some advice for it. I'll play some more and see what happens.
Spent the rest of the day piddling (mostly watching TV)
Up too early this morning

Time for a second cup (and maybe a 3rd)
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

 

[daugen]

good Sunday morning all
should be another nice summer warm day with high around 90
probably will wash the rv this morning and mow the lawn this afternoon.

less loud car show traffic than I thought. Every once in a while something very loud would go by,
clearly a vehicle that never saw inspection. Yesterday was domestic, today the fancy ferraris come out.

ultrasound came back saying no hernia or problem found. Now I guess I need a CT to find out where pain is coming from, I need
to walk more and this is holding me back. Perhaps just more arthritis creeping around.

great pic Ron.

sniffling this morning, air quality index posted, need to take antihistamine

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Sound Beach LI, 65 to start going to 82.

Thomas, your wife has a good sense of humor I had a good chuckle on that one.

Plans for today are to head to the south shore of LI around 10 am for Jones Beach. The concert is tonite so we will be there most of the day.
Won’t be heading back to Ct until sometime Monday morning.

Last night we picked up some beautiful steaks from the Cow Palace on route 25, then some potatoes and corn on the cob, nice meal together with our friends on their patio.

Hope all have a blessed and safe day

 

[daugen]

did you know that Scotts Miracle Grow, the folks we buy our lawn seed and chemicals from, is now
a leader in the pot cultivation business? Talk about diversification...
apparently they got into the business through the hardware end, growlights and other equipment.
Scotts sees this as just another green thing to grow. Not quite that simple.
I'm told locally that an ounce of pot in NJ where it's legal costs 275 bucks, plus tax.

soon we'll buy two bags of lawn seed and get a free joint!...
that would be almost as good as yesterday at Harbor Freight with my 22 dollar scissor jack they had a promotion
of freebies at the checkout, white zip ties, black zip ties, and something else. I took the black zip ties.

parents sure have a long list of things to caution their kids about...
pot use among young kids strikes me as sensible as putting your hand on a hot stove.

 

[wngsprd]

55F so sweet. Going to 84. Local weatherman says this August 1 through August 10 period is the coolest on record, going back to 1890. Every day has been below normal.

Kyle, real nice beach trip. Prayers for your mom.

Rip, hope you're back for good. We need you fighting data centers down here.

 

[ArlyA]

About 65 in Houghton MI this morning and NOAA says we'll get up to a horribly warm 84 today. Will be traveling south to look at a camps FS and will get pics posted of those in my "camp search" thread. We've had enough of this hot weather.

 

[Thomas]

How did you make her that mad at you?

She wasn't mad by no means just thought she was being funny,why make 2 sandwiches when you can make 1 I figure.

 

[Thomas]

61F sunny day 90's for high with humidity.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...AM sharpen mower blades give rider bath,clean out ditch line that fill in stones gravel,check game cams. PM find cool spot keep low until evening.

Enjoy your day all.
...................................
Double trouble show up last evening,something about that spot bear like.

 

[m7040]

good morning, 60 going to 84 sunny

Walked Cody and lingered outside in the nice cool morning. Lots of fawns around and smell of skunk was in the air close to the house.

Cutting back some overgrown bushes today

D is talking about coming out with friends to camp in the back area of the farm and then said when asking how many, oh may be 20 or more
Not sure about that

 

[m7040]

Also this morning took this picture of Naked Ladies flowers that practically came up overnight

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
70°, clear sky and on its way to 85° today.

Yesterday I managed to make progress on some chores and still managed some time at the RC club.
Got the dock finished, but that largely my son’s effort.

Trimmed the hedgerow back with the help of youngest son, and got rid of all the brush.

Now I should be able to mow along there on the Lazer and not get my hat knocked off, or arms torn up by multiflora.

Today is our anniversary, so we will probably go out to lunch or some small celebration, but there is still a couple of dead trees I want to take down and cut up. I’ll know tomorrow how the day went.

 

[riptides]

64 outside this AM, will push to a comfortable 80 later.

Yesterday was outside attempting to get a gate in. Turned into an all day event with most of my tools and equipment needed. It was a two gatorade, five water bottle event. The gate was just long enough that it required a fence post to be moved, six inches. LOL. The post was dropped in via hydraulics, so I spent most of my time digging it out before I could get a good grip on it with the tractor. In addition the oak boards all had to be cut for the new fit.

Unfortunate we could not find the lock mechanics for the gate so that may be todays project. We thought we had a set for each gate, it will probably show up after the new purchase and install.

The wife rewarded my efforts with crabs, cod and sword for dinner.

Somewhere along the fence line I picked up some chiggers. Talk about being miserable.

Will see what todays entertainment brings. Hope all are well, be safe. Still in ketchup mode.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 75 going to 89 and sunny.
Going to Sister in Laws for her birthday.

Got another 5 gallons sprayed on the stiltgrass, the rest will be whacked down. The last application seems to be working and not killing anything else.

Got the gardens watered and took do for a walk at pedlars village once I came back from veggie shopping.

I use no sugar ketchup, seems to work fine for me.

Engineer42, happy birthday to the Mrs.

<rant on> I will not buy SCotts products, they don't work well and proliferate lots of chemicals I would rather not have in my grassy areas. They have outmarketed and out distributed all the good companies that I used to buy seed from. I only use fertilizer on my garden. I try not to clog up the water supply and create the mess we see up north with algae filled lakes.
Even the stuff I use for the stiltgrass breaks down in a few weeks.
Last time I bought Scotts grass seed it was more than 50% coating and did not take very well. Bought some contractor seed and it cover the area in no time, for about half the cost. <rant off>

Happy anniversary Paul/PopGadget

Be well,

 

[daugen]

quick trip downtown to use a 5 dollar off coupon on some bird seed.
got the birds fed.
hose dragged all over the place watering everything.

on this day six years ago I was selling my Super A in Washington NC.
It lasted three days til it sold. .

that gigantic carrot cake I made was at least four layers and weighed about five pounds.
I added a ton of extra shredded carrots to the mix and it was yummy
I forget who I made it for, might have been the neighbors

decided rv did not need washing but lawn could use a mow this afternoon.

excellent rant Ken

 

[Looking4new]

She wasn't mad by no means just thought she was being funny,why make 2 sandwiches when you can make 1 I figure.

There is less bread in one sandwich. lol

 

[sodamo]

68°F and no rain

Good progress mowing yesterday. Hopefully finish today

On of the neighbors had a small gathering with live music. A fun time.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning.
It's been a wild ride......
First off, good news on Dona's condition.... but not "official" yet. The results from her PET scan this past week shows "resolution of previously reported abnormalities" ---- very good news for sure. Unfortunately, there is still something shown in the area of her sacrum. They aren't saying it's cancer, but it is 'unknown origin'. It all won't be official until the meeting with her oncologist in a couple weeks.

Bad news is her back pain has gotten worse. Hopefully she will get an "all clear" from oncology and can get to see a back specialist. There is a referral already in place.

Dona is very happy that her hair has grown back in. I told her I was hoping that it would come back blonde.... I nearly got slapped for that one. A slap that I would gladly accept.... I am simply grateful that our prayers were answered and I will still have her for at least a little bit longer... (hopefully a lot longer).

Lots of other stuff going on too, will start to catch up over the next few days.

We had 95-100° every day this past week. Tough to deal with anything outside. Weeds sure like the temps..... they are growing crazy! Considering that I haven't tamed them in over 2 months.... well lets just say it looks like a jungle....
Dona is the priority, so the weeds will either die off by themselves or I might get around to wacking them......

And.... out of the blue.... Dona gave a suggestion for a big project.... then gave a "green light" to start it. A new shop / garage. A hybrid combination of steel building and wood pole barn.
I've been working on the foundation for the past couple of weeks. So far I've poured 18 yards of concrete so far, one yard at a time. I'm getting close to completion of the foundation.... only 6 more yards to go! (I am so done with concrete!)
(Whipping my arse for sure!)

I think Dona came up with this idea to get me out of her hair.... and to try and get me out of the bad mental state I allowed myself to get into....

I hope everyone has a great day!