Good morning!!!!

[rswyan]

Ron,

Yeah ... peckin' away at it, bit by bit ... trick will be seeing if I can get the list to shrink not grow.

Drew,

Glad you are finally getting some relief from all the rain.

RNG,

Our waterbed is unheated ... the padded foam cover for it is pretty thick, so it provides a good bit of insulation. The sand in the boot while gluing is sounding better all the time ... steel shot would probably be even better ... of course, I don't have either one

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .60 inches rain last 24 hours. Sun shining

Drew, some interesting pics

Vet decided on surgery for Kalani. Not urgent and will wait until after our return from mainland. Leave in less than 2 weeks so no way to do before without leaving her to recover with strangers.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[KevT]

Even plastic turtles know where life is good....

Well, IMO you have been through enough to know what should be right when it comes to the Doctors you go to. If this guy didn't give you a warm fuzzy feeling, find another.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

The sand in the boot while gluing is sounding better all the time ... steel shot would probably be even better ... of course, I don't have either one

If any of your buddies trap shoot, one might have a sack of lead shot he'd let you borrow, but I have a hard time imagining even lead providing enough clamping force in all the right places. Those overgrown alligator clips artists and woodworkers use might work, but you'd probably have the same problem with distortion I ran into with the bungee cords. I wonder if one of those vacuum food packaging machines could be used? Put the glued up sole and shoe in a bag, suck all the air out, and wala! Boot stuck inside a plastic bag! :laughing:

 

[rswyan]

Log pile:

Largest stump end of the sycamore (actually looks like there are two stump ends) is 42" across at the largest point:

 

[riptides]

Log pile:Largest stump end of the sycamore (actually looks like there are two stump ends) is 42" across at the largest point:

Me and the axe are out of the question. LOL. Good luck with that stuff, be careful.

 

[RoyJackson]

2015-06-04, 0845

Finished mowing the lawn...still looks like a recently mowed hay field! I'll probably mow it again this weekend so it looks a bit better...beautiful day for mowing though.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

evening all, still rainy and cool here in MD. Rain is good for the garden.

 

[dave1949]

56F. Only 66F today, sunny this afternoon. It dipped down to 38F around 1 am this morning. Low 40's forecast tonight. The average low-high for the date is 47-73.

RS that is some big wood you have. You should probably hang a turbo charger on your splitter. I just read that firewood dries faster through the end grain than from a split face. Makes sense I guess since that lines up with the trees water transport structure. Maybe you could saw 8" thick slices off those bigger ones and split the slices into chunky blocks.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Save The Salmon!

Here is a very brief overview of water use in California which sounds reasonable to me. I am about as far from CA here in ME as one can be, so I don't pretend any expertise other than knowing salmon cannot live in dust.
Water Use in California (PPIC Publication)

There are many options to use before letting rivers turn to dust, which is really a false choice. Getting cheap produce at the cost of destroying something else that may be irreplaceable is nuts--or almonds. High water demand agriculture in a desert isn't cheap. Do enough of it for long enough and the costs become apparent even in normal times.

Statewide, 80% of water consumed for human purposes in California goes to agriculture. Statewide, 50% of the total water supply goes to natural environmental uses. That means that even in the best of water times, half of the total water supply statewide is diverted to human uses: shipped out of state as water content in foods, evaporation from lawns and fields, expiration from people, plants and animals, and ~10% routed through sewage treatment plants.

To put that in context with something closer to home, imagine half of the water supply being removed from New England and the resulting impact that would have on rivers, ponds and lakes. I don't think most people would care for that or think it is feasible, so why suggest taking even more than half as a solution for California?

Why put the onus on tree huggers and environmentalists? Aren't they the people that have warned about potential calamities for decades? Now it's their fault they were ignored I guess? Sorry, but that rubs me the wrong way.

Rant Off.

For decades here in Texas, the Colorado river has been dammed up by multiple dams with Lake Travis being the body of water that they let rise and fall the most. It was built way back with the purpose of helping the downstream rice farmers during the summer. Even in years with plenty of rain, they still, by contract, had to release X amount of water whether the farmers needed it or not. In the last 25 years, the municipalities have had tremendous population growth and demands on the same water. After years of drought and the lake at all time low levels, I believe last year or the year before the LCRA somehow changed the charter contract document for the water and the rice farmers got drastically reduced water amounts. I think that if the lake is very low, they don't have to give the farmers ANY water now. It has also been determined since the dam has been constructed, how important the freshwater inflow is to the coastal bay ecosystems. We don't have salmon, but many species are dependent on the freshwater. It is a very tough situation to have to govern who gets water when there is not enough. I am thankful that Lake Travis has come up almost 40 feet in 30 days and now they are in much better shape.

River Report

I pray for rains to come to California.