Good morning!!!!

KevT · Sep 12, 2015

Lighting and thunder woke me up this morning. Awesome light show. Again it is a weekend and I am up early. 76 now going to 86 and rain all day. Looks like I will be in the wood shop today building a shelving unit to go in the spare BR closet and hold my wife's 600+ jars of canning goods.

wngsprd · Sep 12, 2015

64 heading to 83, and based on a look at the radar and the darkening clouds covering over, rain will arrive in about 10 minutes.

I was hoping to get a little daylight before the rain so I could swap out the burners and heat diffusers on the gas grill...they arrived yesterday and look good...I had time to try the fit of one heat diffuser and it was a perfect fit.

Well, now that I've finished my coffee, I better get out to refill the feeders before the rain arrives.

ronjhall · Sep 12, 2015

Poured second cup of coffee. 47° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 60° with mostly cloudy skies. Not planning much today. House washing project yesterday took it's toll on me. Sore back and arms.
Good Morning All.

Thomas · Sep 12, 2015

54F Clear sky upper 70's for high,showers arriving toward dark.

Not much plan for today,little trimming and mowing,dunp run,might watch little NASCAR this evening.

Yesterday we laid our cat to rest

wife brought cat home 14 years ago on the day of our wedding,we consider cat our child since neither one of us had children...wife took it **** hard..

Hurry home Roy,your going to miss this fine outside weather.

bakerg · Sep 12, 2015

Good morning, celebrating our 28th anniversary today, weekend off from work, so I guess we'll celebrate with a dinner out.

farmer2009 · Sep 12, 2015

60 this morning and headed to 70 today. Rain has disappeared from the forecast.

Going to try to get the roof on my building today. If I can find help. Right now it's just me and dad. Which is doable but will be a slow go running that ladder.

Kyle_in_Tex · Sep 12, 2015

Eric Salop said:
Good morning all.

For a few years now I have promised my wife I would turn the old and now roofless 5 bay cattle shed into a walled garden. It went slightly astray last year when she wanted the soil improving. While a big excavator was here, I had the top 2 feet of dirt removed and stacked in the field, ready to be replaced by lots of well rotted farmyard manure. I thought she would be pleased, but it turned out I have a typical man brain, with virtually no telepathic ability. It wasn't what she had in mind at all - she wanted all the soil back again, with raised beds on top. After being married for 38 years, at least I know when not to ask "why didn't you say ..."

So last winter I set to bringing back the soil, with a scoop on the 3 point link of the fergie. Hard work when the soil is full of stone, requiring it all to be hand shovelled into the scoop. Then winter turned wetter and gave me the excuse I needed to stop, not even half way through.

Each time you all mention your gardens I feel guilty at not finishing this off, so with the old battered brick wall finally rendered and painted, it was time I got on with the job again. Yesterday I set to get back to that blank canvas, though this time with a loader and bucket, the Iseki did all the hard work in return for a good drink of diesel.

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[Iseki didn't want to come over as all smug and offend the old fergie, so declined to be included in the picture]

Now I need to find out some more about constructing the raised beds. Only stipulation from the boss is that they must be made from timber and have good paths between.

Amazing what a drink of diesel can do in the right tool. I was just thinking of that last night whilst cutting down another 6 acres.

Be careful what you raise your gardens with. Treated wood has chemicals in it. Over here, that much garden quality compost would cost more than a few quid and 3 shillings. More like forty eleven dollars.

Kyle_in_Tex · Sep 12, 2015

No coffee yet,,,had to beg the wife to make me some.

Our high school football team won their 3rd game in a row...barely. 28-26 after being up 21-0

Today we are taking the kids to Splashway water park in the tiny metropolis of Sheridan Texas. I haven't been there before but the kids have and they are very excited.

I need to go to John Deere to pick up the parts to rebuild my 4310's rockshaft. I think it came to about $85 with the rockshaft porous oil filter and it's aluminum housing. I'd never cleaned it out before and the aluminum threads just sheared off completely while taking it apart for the first time.

The Texas Aggies get to play in their brand new $475 million dollar stadium tonight against Ball State from Muncie Indiana. They revamped one side and added south end zone stands last year, this year they tore down the alumni side and totally rebuilt that. Complete with crazy season ticket prices. I guess I'll just watch from home as usual.

Hooray for cooler weather. It is 69 right now going to mid 80's. It sure is nicer cutting the pastures while cloudy and 80 something compared to being in the Atacama desert (what it has been feeling like).

Larro Darro · Sep 12, 2015

Good Morning. 0840, 71F with 97% humidity. Forecast high of 79F with 80% chance of thunderstorms today, and a low of 60F tonight. Margie woke early and she tells me the rain started at 0307. We are having a break right now, but it looks like it will be off and on rain all day. FSU are playing very early this morning and about 15 of my Tampa cousins are up for the game. Last night they made a Walmart run for ponchos. I'll stick to the DVR, thank you.

Yesterday I got the gourds gathered, fencing down and plot disced up. Then I started a brush pile there. This was the first day it was cool enough to feel good about cutting brush. Even cooler weather on the way. Lows in the 50's forecast.

You guys have a good one,

Larro