Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

Good morning! Beautiful day in central Texas - a few high clouds, 49˚ heading to 69˚. WOW!!!

I was wanting my alligator Niece to send me a action pic for the local newspaper and I needed to get a few words with her for the caption but that did not happen. She made me get in line. Apparently after getting on ABC World News Tonight yesterday I will have to go through her agent. - No, just kidding about the agent, but I did get through to her Mom who said she was getting so many texts per second she could not keep up, and started naming off all the news agencies. I guess our weekly local rag will just have the weekly high school football game and automobile crashes to report again.

Just google "Christy Alligator Sugarland" to see all the news agencies that beat me to the story.

With the 1.5" rain this weekend, on the already soaked ground, my sand hill is like a wet sponge, so no ground engagement activities today.

"Today's Minimal Achievements" I like that expression Farmer2009. So the TMAs of the day will be: mulching, weed eating, removing fence and taking the Farmall steering apart. If I get at least one of those done that will be an achievement.

 

[riptides]

38 out this AM. Mid 50's today, rain might make an appearance.

Yesterday we looked for Mr. Beaver. Walked over a mile along the creek bed and did not find them. They must be upstream from where we started.

Too bad for my trees.



Feeding area, pretty new.



They will not get these...

 

[farmer2009]

44 this morning and headed to 50 today. Light rain moving in.

Need to start calling around to see what everyone has. I put a set of Michelin M/S2's on wife vehicle back in the spring. Really like them but I want something more aggressive.

Drew thanks for the link. I like those m/t BFG's. Will just see what's in stock. I know a couple of people with the Goodyears and they would rank them higher than that.

Riptide becareful what you say. We have beavers here that would try to cut that tree. I've had them drop 18"+ trees.

 

[300UGUY]

New install on the woodstove.

Really surprised at the mileage you guys get with tires. I thought anything over 50K would be a gift.

 

[daugen]

I sure wouldn't want a diet like those beavers have...talk about al dente
very destructive rodents but kinda cool too
do beavers only eat/use part of the tree? What are they looking for? food? building materials?
and did I hear that sometimes they are protected so you can't shoot the things?
Now if they used 100% of the tree, somehow that wouldn't bother me. Just an animal in its domain.
I wonder if all beaver pups need to take structural engineering classes...

farmer, if you get sidewall wear banging in to things I think those Goodyears with the reinforced sidewalls would be a good choice. If you don't mind the noise, even these open aggressive tires today get pretty good wear. I've run up to AT's, never MT's. When I was a fireman we all ran AT's because we needed to get out into fields at times responding to brush fires. And of course in snow. Where I live now there a large number of 2wd trucks, which is interesting and very different for me. Hey, flat terrain and no snow, well, very little, and if it does snow, most people stay home. Even a hint of snow shuts things down here. So this winter, which is supposed to be wet, should be interesting. Since 98% of the males here drive trucks, it's a mix of street and offroad. Lot of cruiser chrome dripping Silverados. Glad Chevy is reintroducing painted grills...and some of the younger guys with the fronts jacked up and the rear down. Very strange to see go by. How do they see?...
Lot of used tire dealers. Never saw those before, lived in too affluent an area before. Hispanic and black used tire stores with piles of tires outside.
Simply a function of a low income economy. Not everyone can afford four new 230 dollar truck tires, for sure. So they wait for someone like me who thinks his tires are starting to ride hard at 40k, and get the new and improved model, and some other guy now drives my old tires for another 40K. The second half of the tread life wears longer so if one doesn't drive in a lot of rain, owner number two got a good deal. I always like deep tread...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 45F @ 7:30AM. Periods of rain. Thunder possible. High 52F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 90%.

Don, your niece made the local news show out here, you know that humorous bit they show right at the end? I'd say she's got bigger balls than that gator...

RS, customer service is a dying art in this country. Besides, who needs to be nice to people when everyone knows that the world owes you a living?:banghead: I've had good luck buying used appliances off Craig's List, but I always make sure that replacement parts are still available before dragging any particular one home. If they're of fairly recent manufacture, it's also easy to find reviews on line, too. And as far as LEDs go, no way I'd drop to anything near 60W equivalent. As my eyes age they need more light to see anything clearly, so I've held off replacing anything until the 100W equivalents start dropping in price. And even then I'll be comparing lumens. But even that isn't always accurate as demonstrated by the 4' florescents I just replaced. The rating on the LEDs was actually lower than that of the florescents, but in practice the LEDs appear much, much brighter.

Yeah, Irv, I used to climb trees like a monkey when I was a kid. Now when I get half way up an extension ladder my knees shake so bad the ladder top almost bounces off the gutter.

Farmer, hope you're feelin' better soon! Both front Coopers developed the same problem on the F250 last month, and I ended up with Michelin X-Radials from Costco. Reviews said they're the same as the LTX M/S, and they come with a 70K mile tread life warranty. So far I like 'em. They work find on the jeep trail that passes for a driveway here, but they're not mudders. You couldn't pay me to buy Goodyears: Last set I had took way too much weight to balance and never did run right.

Eric, the trial and error can be frustrating, but practicing on an old gas can has helped. The real payoff comes when I see the final result. It may not be perfect, but it's better than it was, and there's a lot of satisfaction in knowing it came from my own hands. As for music, mostly 60s and 70s rock'n'roll, but some days smooth jazz is better, others folk, and when things go really sideways, silence is best as music would only interfere with my own enthusiastic vocalizations :laughing: I got the same lecture on decimal precision in a freshman physics class. At the time a new four function calculator cost upwards of $100, and those that owned them were quite proud of the eight digit display.

Yesterday was cold and wet outside, a great day to spend inside stoking the wood stove, watching a good movie, and cooking a nice dinner. Today looks like it'll be a carbon copy of yesterday :thumbsup::laughing:

 

[txdon]

Don, your niece made the local news show out here, you know that humorous bit they show right at the end? I'd say she's got bigger balls than that gator...

Yep she finally answered my e-mail and sent me a few pics and told me she will get a pic for me when they release the gator today.

She said CNN and other world news agencies have been contacting her, here is the one from Germany.
Auf Parkplatz in Texas: Mutige Blondine überwältigt Riesen-Alligator - News Ausland - Bild.de

Eric, she also said to look for her story in the UK news.

Just remember the "Good Morning" group knew her before she got famous.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 51F this morning and overcast, light north breeze. Forecast for 64F, partly cloudy and not much more wind. After bike ride mostly putter jobs today or as Don puts it TMA.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and 2.05 inches rain last 24 hours.

Exciting morning planned. Drop wife at dentist for her permanent filling at root canal site, small trip to HD, and visit the AT&T store to get a new sim for MIL phone.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[sodamo]

Don,
Your niece and her gator were on the Honolulu news last night.
Of course I had to tell my wife, Hey, remember the tractor forum guy that..., she's his niece.

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