Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

I have kayaked to Cumberland island several times to camp with the wild horses. I find them amazing in that environment. I didn't know you had them in NC.

the lighthouse is the Cape Lookout lighthouse, very bottom of the Outer Banks. They trailered their boat there and put in.

worked in the woodshop this morning, mowed lawn for three hours, then showered and took a nap. Just made dinner, might go online at TSC and see what their 10% off sale might be used for.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Drew, that is the kind of boat I could really enjoy. Heck if you saw the flounder rig we took out the other night, you'd laugh so hard, you might fall over. They have racks on the front to hold the lights and give you something to hold onto. When you get where you want to flounder, you trim up the outboard and start a air cooled 15hp engine with a 24" prop. This gives you enough propulsion to gently glide over 4"-6" deep water with nothing dragging. Aesthetics are put on the back burner.

BTW, the tide was out, the water was murky, we only saw 1 fish that was a possible keeper. They have to be 14" to keep. Staying on the water until 1 am, I only saw 1 meteor.

 

[txdon]

Good evening! My wife is so tired of the heat and lack of rain she insisted on driving someplace where there was rain. So we got in the car and drove and drove and drove - about two miles away from the house she saw a rainbow and we heading in that direction about five minutes later we were in rain. Then we came back home to the dry, dry, dry hill to finish our sunny Sunday. That was refreshing.

Last Spring the rubber top of a bridge (not mine) down the road wash off in the floods. Tomorrow I''ll try to grab it out of the creek with my grapple and replace it. Maybe a photo opportunity.

 

[KevT]

Yesterday I managed to get the front yard, driveway, and easement mowed with plans of doing the back today... didn't happen. I did get some more trees to the burn pit, went to Lowes and got materials needed for the work week, and pitted enough cherries for my wife to make 10 pints of jam, and 4 quarts of pie filling. The rain kept me from doing anything outside.

So what did you do in your shop Drew? Again, I have a mid size wood lathe if you want to take up turning, you just have to come get it.

 

[300UGUY]

Went to a wedding yesterday, I was surprised by the lack of drinking. Open bar, but few took advantage, most stuck to pop or water. I think the location was part of it, everybody had 2 hours or so to drive. A lot of folks had hotel rooms, so they could stay over. Good times. Went to HD this morning, then lunch with a elderly couple, been friends for years. Had a good time listening to them, they had some good stories. Decided not to do much today, pretty hot, and I was tired. Try again tomorrow.

 

[RoyJackson]

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Mowed some of the bamboo on the field...knocked off when I ran low on fuel. It's slow going since I know there are some drop offs in that area...just not sure where they are.The bamboo is too thick to walk through.
Altogether, not a bad weekend. The biggest drag was the podiatrist gave me some antibiotics last week which worked, I suppose, but really upset my belly.

 

[Eric Salop]

My Dad loved sheep so growing up with his little herd, I swore I would never raise. They were destructive, stupid, stink, the wool itches, loaded with ticks, don't like the taste. Maybe that is because it was my job to cut tails and castrate.

Kev, I am lucky, the wool on these sheep is soft and they don't stink much worse than me. It is also a lot easier now with no cutting, all it takes it is a little rubber ring fitted at birth around whatever needs to drop off.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. I intended to finish painting the outside wall yesterday (honest), then got an unexpected call to ask if I was available for more hay making.

The Iseki is starting to clock up a few hours, have to order filters today for a 200hr service.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking second cup of coffee. 67° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 87° with chance of thunderstorms. Sad day yesterday. My mother passed away.
Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

69 degrees in hotter weather now, going up to low 90's.
Eric, you really have put some hours on that new tractor, all good.

a diffferent carpenter comes today to finish up the last of the drawers in my woodshop; I'm not confident doing them and want them to roll out properly. Once they are done I can finally get everything put away properly, and then start to build. I believe my first project will be a run of blue bird houses. I've built about a dozen birdhouses so far, most were left at last home, so time to build some more. Great way to use up scrap wood.
Maybe after today I might take a pic in there; no room for the table saw; it's outside on wheels and I found that works just fine. The chop saw, vertical sanders and band saw connect to the shop vac hose so using them inside keeps things clean. Not that a woodshop shouldn't have some sawdust here and there...if I had the room I'd put a small dust collection system in there but want to get used to the layout first. Haven't bolted down any of the benchtop equipment either, might want to move them around a little.

I replaced the old dying a/c unit in the woodshop with a newer version of the same thing, standalone unit with an exhaust hose, except this one has a drain hose that I forgot to, uh, drain, and I looked up and my shop floor had a big puddle in it. No no no, out the door went the little hose. Now I have to run it outside where it won't make a mess. I was thinking of planting some roses near there; might want to run the condensate hose to that area and let the a/c water the roses.


Oh Ron, terribly sorry. A big hug to you from all of us.