Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

Great to have you both back on the same day...and now, if only Dave would get back here where he belongs.

 

[RoyJackson]

2015-09-15, 0305

59 right now...warming up to about 80. Looks like a warming trend for about 5 days...

 

[Eric Salop]

And dave1949 hasnt come back yet..

Good morning and good to have everyone back - except Dave1949. If he doesn't come back soon, then it looks like the rumours may be true - he never really existed.

Conspiracy Theory No 1
Dave1949 was the code name for an advanced military artificial intelligence program. This was designed to prevent inadvertent release of nuclear warheads. When under threat with communications compromised, isolated launch site operators would still believe they were able to contact a senior "person" they trusted, Dave1949, without ever realising he was only a built in computer program. Final test, before putting Dave into active service, was for the software to run unaided by the creators on a public forum - TBN.

Well Dave sure had me fooled. We must have finally crashed the program. Perhaps it was that impossibility that we all kept insisting was true - Dave's addiction to rocks !

Conspiracy Theory No 2
Several other "people" on TBN are also artificial intelligence programs - that's why those that have had their suspicions for a long time always want to see pictures as proof of what we say we have done.

Conspiracy Theory No 3
Actually, you are the only real person on here. All the rest, including the pictures, are computer generated to attract advertisors to a huge potential customer base.

 

[daugen]

52 degrees here, all the warmth must have gone North (?) but a nice day planned.
Johnny Appleseed day. Four red delicious, three yellow delicious, and a persimmon tree to plant today in the orchard, replacing the 8 trees that drowned this Spring.
And a good day yesterday with my neighbor, the ditcher, and he and his son will do swales around the orchard; he thought that would do perfectly well for surface water.
So hopefully what I plant won't suffer a similar fate. He said if that didn't work well enough, they could always drop pipe in the center of the swale but try to let something simple work before one got more complicated. Sounds like a good plan. Plus my neighbor has the coveted Harley rake and he said he has many years practice with it since he doesn't like raking either. Actually his rather large son will do the raking, while Pop runs the machines. And in the midst of this discussion he said I had what they called locally "pig turd clay". I let that sit a minute and gave him a questioning look; I know Hog Avenue wasn't far away, and he said the "real" name was Hog Turd Avenue, but the map folks shortened it. Seems to be an aversion, understandably, to the T word.

speaking of pigs...there is a billboard war going on locally. One shouts Stop Industrial Hog Pollution, Save the Bay! while another shows a pic of a hard working farm family saying something like a good honest day's work... It's of course not the pigs/hogs that are the problem, per se, it's their e coli and everything else pollution going on. But then there are nitrates and who knows what dumped everywhere around here, including constant crop dusting planes. So there are fertilizer and pesticides getting applied over just about everything. The way of the world, but having a hog farm right along the river or a creek leading to it really has some folks upset, and likely correctly. btw, when does pig become a hog? Over a certain age? Male I assume. A hog certainly doesn't sound as tender...

Farmer has the same issues, all those critters put out what they take in...and what to do with it so it doesn't leave one's property in the wrong way. Like through an aquifer...So far I haven't even seen a hog/pig farm around here but they're here or those billboards wouldn't be going up. This might be the leading edge of ecological sensitivity that took over the Chesapeake Bay. Farms along the Bay are very regulated and inspected and pollution is taken very seriously there. Lot of big rivers dumping into the Chesapeake Bay,particularly at the top, coming down from Pennsylvania, bringing farming nutrients and pesticides into the Upper Bay, causing oxygen problems at times. Not sure how serious they are here...yet.
I'll send Dave another PM and see if I can entice him.

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, beautiful day here, into work early for some OT, 63F heading to 79F. Bike ride in was quiet and calming before work starts.

Eric, you think way to much this early in the morning, I could never do that at this early hour.:ashamed:

 

[daugen]

Currently, local time in New York is 5 hours behind London.

not to worry...he's ahead of us
Of course, the Brits always thought that anyway
and were glad to get rid of us

 

[KevT]

Eric, Inquiring minds want to know!!! How does your brain come up with such ideas? There are more times than not I wish mine did.

Larro, I will admit I didn't watch the video, I have very limited data downloads, so music and video is not allowed. I am sure they are great things, but so is adobe (clay, straw, water, sun baked 12x12x4 blocks.) as long as it is kept covered in stucco it will last hundreds of years. Keeps cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and is sound proof. Wont burn, and can't shoot through it with average caliber fire arms. The down side is labor costs to produce and lay up... Concrete block houses don't burn either, what burns down in a FFire is the roof, and interior walls, and furniture (stick frame houses excluded of course).

Drew, I am sorry, I did not take pictures of the camera install on my tractor. Hard to hold the camera and bolt things together at the same. I can take after shots for you if you want and/or explain what I did and why. Still have some bugs to work out like a better way to mount but move front camera between implements (Velcro doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling). I will be happy to answer any questions you have. BUT, I got that project done last night (less modifications), now to finish my wife's shelves.

67 outside right now going to 85 with afternoon rain.

 

[Buppies]

Another cool morning but not as cool as advertised. This dry weather is hard on those with allergys plus yard looks like desert. Two driveways ready to pave that is today's activity tomorrow subdivision road and parking lot tomorrow. New to me service truck Dodge 4500 gets new windshield and oil and filters changed. Something tore up bird feeder beyond repair birds are not happy but new one on the way. Hopefully it wasn't a bear probably a raccoon either way one of us has to go

Riptides glad to see you are still in one piece and still have all parts intact

No serious rain in sight for next two weeks at least so the tea leaves say

Good Morning

 

[Thomas]

51F now low 80's for high.
Going to have to snap my butt after work if I want to finish picking rest of veggie from the garden before dark sets in to night.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Thomas]

Buppies.
"Something tore up bird feeder beyond repair"

Game cam will leave no doubt.