Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

returned the old golf cart batteries to reclaim my core charge. found original manufacture date of 2020 on them.
Stopped at Lowes to pick up a spare bosch battery , since I have lowes rebate money that needs to be spent by friday. But everything locked up like fort knox, so I didn't want to wait around while things melted in my truck. Stopped on way home to inquire about pellets, they don't have them in yet, don't have a price yet.
one battery had tipped over on the way up, and leaked a little fluid in the truck bed, by the time I got home it was all dry, but I hosed it out anyways.
left top off, in case of rain, to let it wash some more.

Nice storm just hit us finally, got .86" of rain. needed that. still thundering around, but rain has stopped for now.

Sister said dad will be a couple more days in hospital, still on IV for dehydration. He ate some this morning. Sister was there, brother going to see him also today.

 

[rswyan]

85F and partly cloudy @ 13:30. calling for a high of 86F for the day.

Very rough night last night.

Woman cooked up one of the Hello Fresh meals, some kind of tacos. It was very good but the meal made 6 tacos. She had 2 and I was doing well @ 3.

Then I decided to push it and go for a 4th to "clean it all up" as it was tasting so good.

For some reason I always get the call ... "Can't you finish that last little bit up ... ?"

Well ... can't YOU ?



Last night She wasn't pushing though.

But a big mistake on my part ... gave me a stomachache and I was up better than half the night.

After the hand watering yesterday I did pull out the Cuisinart, which worked great for shredding the zucchini ... once I figured out how to lock the lid in place (directions are a little sparse)

Got 6 lbs shredded and vacuum-packed into 1 lb bags for the freezer, which made a dent in the pile ... but there's still a lot more to go.

While I was doing that I hooked up the soaker hose and gave the cabbage a long drink at low flow. Probably around an hour. Had actually forgotten about it until I ran some water at the kitchen sink to wash off the squash and noticed the flow was way down.

Ran downstairs and shut the spigot and well pump off to give it a chance to recover.

We did have a couple of very brief showers roll through, didn't amount to much. Next best chance for rain isn't until next Wednesday.

After dinner last night The Woman dug into the freezer and cleaned some of it out and rearranged some things and were able to get the zucchini shoehorned in.

I'll need to do that again today if I'm going to get any more put up and packed in there.

That all prompted some discussion about freezer space (lack of) and possiby picking another freezer. Mentioned to Her that I had been looking at some online at Menards.

First one I offered up She thought was too small (around 7 cu ft IIRC) ... so went to the next size up (around 10 cu ft and change)

Then it became a discussion of whether to go chest or upright.

Chest has the advantage of being more efficient and not loosing all the cold air when you open it while the upright model allows better access and easier to locate what you're looking for.

No decision was made, but I suspect the upright model will win out.

Don't see us getting into it constantly ... which lessens the efficiency advantage and the upright model will be easier for Her to deal with.

We'll see where it goes.

Agenda for today:

Schedule some more bills for payment.

Probably give the indeterminate tomatoes on the straight trellis a good long drink with the soaker hose.

Front lawn looked like it needed mowed again yesterday ... so might tackle that today if there's enough fuel left in the Cub.

Probably process more squash.

Other than that see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Thursday ...

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Ouch, I think this will hurt !

 

[daugen]

Scott, does yours have a loud rear end gear noise?
I used to think something had to be broken in mine but was told oh that's normal
straight cut gears.
nice looking tractor

been kind of lazy this afternoon

 

[Thomas]

Scott, does yours have a loud rear end gear noise?
I used to think something had to be broken in mine but was told oh that's normal
straight cut gears.
nice looking tractor

been kind of lazy this afternoon

Older Cubs had clucking sound when starting out low when cold.

 

[Thomas]

Thomas how is new job?

Afternoon Buppies you got your feet up and resting.

Job become interesting CEO another shaking the tree, criminal charges will be brought against person maybe another,person quit,least 2-3 people are nervous like cat in room full of rocking chairs,CEO inform me as I turn in audit findings today...hands in cookie jar also selling $$'s items to public.

 

[Thomas]

11:30am once again touch 90's around 12:30pm heavy down pour temp drop 69F,79F light breeze now hoping that will end heat waves for this year.

Good day all in all,work was Mrs. going BBQ hamburgers on the grill with all the fixings,maybe I better get bib to late to apply for building permit.

Plans for the evening deck feet up enjoy smooth cigar wait for the critters to stroll by.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Thomas]

Mostly...have you had chance do any bass fishing this year?

 

[m7040]

Another good day working on this and that. Finished another window and relaxed some. Wife is struggling again but hanging in there
D is considering moving to Casteau, French speaking part of Belgium. She has worked in EU before. Central location to anything in EU and a pretty rural area with farms and hedges around places

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Friday) morning. Overnight Low was a balmy 8.4C and it's presently only 9.3C, mostly cloudy and calm... although we're under a wind warning for this arvo with a downpour.

A busy yesterday arvo was had. Because I'd cleaned the inside windows, the outside needed to be done. Just the spray-on/rinse-off sort of window cleaning and it only took about 45 minutes. Other cleaning was done.

All that's required today is a final vacuuming. Guests should arrive shortly after noon.

That's about it, take care all.