sam5570
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looks good very smart approch being your first trip across the ground.
Good morning!!!!
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creekbend
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07-07-2013 Finally got the yard mowed and raked today, just before the daily evening rains. It's raining now.
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Got done weed eating wife mowed grass then the rains came again. Looks like garden variety showers for week ahead then something tropical for next weekend already eleven inches above normal for rainfall here
Larro Darro
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Got the front yard mowed this morning. Or at least the part right in front of the house between the sheds and the garden. That is close to two acres. I only mow the other five or six acres about three times a year. Right now it is covered in those little white wildflowers anyway. It would be a shame to mow them down as pretty as they are. I used the Husqvarna. The old Yard King is running better, and we just rebuilt the deck on it. But it had three slack tires and I was too lazy to haul out the air compressor.
Before cutting the grass, Margie and I picked peppers. This rain is washing off our dust and the tomato worms are killing us. Even with the worms taking their toll, we are getting more than a shopping bag everyday. Yesterday she did two batches of pepper jelly, today a big pan of poppers.
I didn't have to go to work until three. When I got there the customer had called, saying they were not coming due to bad weather. I wanted to make enough time to make the trip to town worthwhile, so I cut a couple of hours with our new Scag 61". It was my first time using it. [I did the grounds for years, but now I operate a desk.] The controls were as touchy as a backhoe, but it sure covers a lot of ground.
When I got home, we looked for worms in the garden again. We had planted late melons, banana cantaloupes and cukes. There are cantaloupes almost ripe. They are about a week older than the rest. The long melons are about eight inches long and the icebox are the size of a golf ball. But we hadn't seen any baby cukes at all. Then we found two ready to pick. Margie was pretty excited about them. Now she is ready for the melons to get ripe.
Here are a few pepper photos.
Before cutting the grass, Margie and I picked peppers. This rain is washing off our dust and the tomato worms are killing us. Even with the worms taking their toll, we are getting more than a shopping bag everyday. Yesterday she did two batches of pepper jelly, today a big pan of poppers.
I didn't have to go to work until three. When I got there the customer had called, saying they were not coming due to bad weather. I wanted to make enough time to make the trip to town worthwhile, so I cut a couple of hours with our new Scag 61". It was my first time using it. [I did the grounds for years, but now I operate a desk.] The controls were as touchy as a backhoe, but it sure covers a lot of ground.
When I got home, we looked for worms in the garden again. We had planted late melons, banana cantaloupes and cukes. There are cantaloupes almost ripe. They are about a week older than the rest. The long melons are about eight inches long and the icebox are the size of a golf ball. But we hadn't seen any baby cukes at all. Then we found two ready to pick. Margie was pretty excited about them. Now she is ready for the melons to get ripe.
Here are a few pepper photos.
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jmurray01
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Good mornin' folks!
Just poured my second cup of coffee and starting to feel somewhat human.
It's a dreich day here in Scotland this morning (08:17AM currently) and looks set to rain in about an hour or so and probably not stop all day. I'm actually not too upset about that as I had a hayfever attack yesterday evening and my left eye felt like I'd sprayed Quick Start in it - NOT NICE.
Still got a bit of a blocked nose and am sneezing every now and then but it's not near as bad when it's wet out.
Hope everybody is doing OK and will have a good week.
I actually slept pretty decent last night and the night before that actually - I am very happy about this as I know I'll be back to my insomniac self very soon and as such enjoy a good night's sleep when I get it.
I should probably go and clean the car later today but whether I will or not is another question.
The lawn is needing mowed but I no longer look forward to that task since I had to sell my petrol lawnmower and am now using the old 80s Qualcast electric mower. It works alright but uses plastic blades which snap every five minutes. It doesn't care that I'm spending more on a pack of blades every few weeks than I would on a can of fuel for a petrol equivalent!
Yes I know, grumble grumble. I'll get better as the caffeine kicks in.
Not got too much to do today, just the usual pottering about the house then out later on for a short while and back again. Life in penury is a laugh a minute.
I've just read the latest on the Boeing 777 San Francisco crash on Sky News and apparently the co-pilot was in training and had only 3,200 hours experience. From the sounds of things it was the blind leading the blind - a poor pilot training an inexperienced co-pilot. Of course I could be wrong but that's what it looks like to me. Apparently it clipped the sea wall as it was coming in to land and that was what caused it to come down. The question is - why did it clip the wall? If it was landing then it would have been in the control of the pilot(s) and in that case it looks like pilot error for sure.
The black box will reveal more thankfully.
Anyway, I'll go and finish my cup of coffee now.
Have a good day guys,
~Jamie.
Just poured my second cup of coffee and starting to feel somewhat human.
It's a dreich day here in Scotland this morning (08:17AM currently) and looks set to rain in about an hour or so and probably not stop all day. I'm actually not too upset about that as I had a hayfever attack yesterday evening and my left eye felt like I'd sprayed Quick Start in it - NOT NICE.
Still got a bit of a blocked nose and am sneezing every now and then but it's not near as bad when it's wet out.
Hope everybody is doing OK and will have a good week.
I actually slept pretty decent last night and the night before that actually - I am very happy about this as I know I'll be back to my insomniac self very soon and as such enjoy a good night's sleep when I get it.
I should probably go and clean the car later today but whether I will or not is another question.
The lawn is needing mowed but I no longer look forward to that task since I had to sell my petrol lawnmower and am now using the old 80s Qualcast electric mower. It works alright but uses plastic blades which snap every five minutes. It doesn't care that I'm spending more on a pack of blades every few weeks than I would on a can of fuel for a petrol equivalent!
Yes I know, grumble grumble. I'll get better as the caffeine kicks in.
Not got too much to do today, just the usual pottering about the house then out later on for a short while and back again. Life in penury is a laugh a minute.
I've just read the latest on the Boeing 777 San Francisco crash on Sky News and apparently the co-pilot was in training and had only 3,200 hours experience. From the sounds of things it was the blind leading the blind - a poor pilot training an inexperienced co-pilot. Of course I could be wrong but that's what it looks like to me. Apparently it clipped the sea wall as it was coming in to land and that was what caused it to come down. The question is - why did it clip the wall? If it was landing then it would have been in the control of the pilot(s) and in that case it looks like pilot error for sure.
The black box will reveal more thankfully.
Anyway, I'll go and finish my cup of coffee now.
Have a good day guys,
~Jamie.
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67 this morning and drizzling rain this morning. Will get up to low 80s today and only 20 percent chance of showers. Sore from weed eating bank from hades yesterday. Hopefully ground will dry up today so we can go back to work tomorrow. More rain in forecast for Thursday and then watching the tropics. Good morning all
farmgirl19
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jmurray; The 777 is relatively new to the airline fleets, so NO ONE has much time in *that* aircraft yet. If memory serves, this is the same aircraft thast was recently grounded (worldwide) for battery fires. Maybe something else has issues too.
I think all would do well to wait for the investigation to be complete, before jumping to conclusions.
I think all would do well to wait for the investigation to be complete, before jumping to conclusions.
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Mornin all,
I slept in until 0538... Helps I did not hit the rack before 0030...
Had a great day with my youngest yesterday, got a normal work week in front of me.
Be well all.
David
I slept in until 0538... Helps I did not hit the rack before 0030...
Had a great day with my youngest yesterday, got a normal work week in front of me.
Be well all.
David
ronjhall
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The 777 has been around since 1995. Battery problems are on Dreamliner 787 model. Problems have been very minor with the 777. Still not good when any plane has a problem.
daugen
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a happy Monday morning to all. I think I share all of your amazement and thanks that so many folk got out of that plane alive, simply amazing.
In the video it looked like it flipped over, maybe not. Just as our new cars are safer, looks like some good engineering and design here may have saved some lives. Hope so.
hot day today, no rain as expected last night, and less rain now expected, though buppies and toppop always seem to send their water up this way.
off in a couple of hours to see a motorhome, I'm like a little kid before xmas.
In the video it looked like it flipped over, maybe not. Just as our new cars are safer, looks like some good engineering and design here may have saved some lives. Hope so.
hot day today, no rain as expected last night, and less rain now expected, though buppies and toppop always seem to send their water up this way.
off in a couple of hours to see a motorhome, I'm like a little kid before xmas.