Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

65°F and .13 inches rain last 24 hours.

Be safe
Have a great day

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[RedNeckGeek]

52ｰ going into the 60's again today. Got my shorts on so the ladies can enjoy these legs!

Should I suppose we're fortunate you decided not to share a picture of said legs? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[wngsprd]

Should I suppose we're fortunate you decided not to share a picture of said legs? :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Yes, let's make an exception to the rule that without pix, it didn't happen.

 

[wngsprd]

Just got back from busting out a dam on my creek. Water had been flowing over my bridge much of the winter, and with the snow melt it got up about 6 inches over the top.

I hiked downstream and found a beautiful natural dam...as nicely constructed as if done by beavers...lots of branches woven together with leaves hugging the branches, packed so tightly that no water was flowing through, only over the top...a pretty little 2 foot high waterfall on a "J' shaped dam. A 35 foot cedar had died, fallen over the creek, with its tough, rot resistant branches acting as a frame.

I hated to destroy it. The cedar gave me something to hang onto as I pulled a few strategic sticks and logs out of the way, and kicked at the smaller branches that were holding the leaf-pack. What a rush of water that spilled through...a mini tsunami heading downstream.

After about a half hour, the water level was getting closer to normal levels, and it started to rain again.

The most fun was my Chesapeake Bay retriever bobbing for sticks as they washed through the opening over and over again.

 

[RoyJackson]

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28 right now...high of 39 today...

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. The wind is still blowing steady this morning and we had no significant rain yesterday so it's starting to dry the surface nicely. It won't support my weight but a little dog can now easily skim the surface without getting muddy paws.

Yes, let's make an exception to the rule that without pix, it didn't happen.

Just got back from busting out a dam on my creek. Water had been flowing over my bridge much of the winter, and with the snow melt it got up about 6 inches over the top.

I hiked downstream and found a beautiful natural dam...as nicely constructed as if done by beavers...lots of branches woven together with leaves hugging the branches, packed so tightly that no water was flowing through, only over the top...a pretty little 2 foot high waterfall on a "J' shaped dam. A 35 foot cedar had died, fallen over the creek, with its tough, rot resistant branches acting as a frame.

I hated to destroy it. The cedar gave me something to hang onto as I pulled a few strategic sticks and logs out of the way, and kicked at the smaller branches that were holding the leaf-pack. What a rush of water that spilled through...a mini tsunami heading downstream.

After about a half hour, the water level was getting closer to normal levels, and it started to rain again.

The most fun was my Chesapeake Bay retriever bobbing for sticks as they washed through the opening over and over again.

Dambuster squadron leader wngsprd, sounds like you both had a successful raid. Thanks for describing it so well, I almost felt I was standing on the bankside watching, but no pics ?
Oh I get it - you must have been wearing shorts too

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Just got back from busting out a dam on my creek. Water had been flowing over my bridge much of the winter, and with the snow melt it got up about 6 inches over the top.

I hiked downstream and found a beautiful natural dam...as nicely constructed as if done by beavers...lots of branches woven together with leaves hugging the branches, packed so tightly that no water was flowing through, only over the top...a pretty little 2 foot high waterfall on a "J' shaped dam. A 35 foot cedar had died, fallen over the creek, with its tough, rot resistant branches acting as a frame.

I hated to destroy it. The cedar gave me something to hang onto as I pulled a few strategic sticks and logs out of the way, and kicked at the smaller branches that were holding the leaf-pack. What a rush of water that spilled through...a mini tsunami heading downstream.

After about a half hour, the water level was getting closer to normal levels, and it started to rain again.

The most fun was my Chesapeake Bay retriever bobbing for sticks as they washed through the opening over and over again.

Sounds like cold work, glad you got it done without anyone getting hurt.

And for Topper, I 2nd the "no legs" picture not needed necessity. Will give benefit of the doubt.

I'm up early. Been sick since Saturday evening. Lost 7 lbs in 6 hours. Achy back, shoulders, head ache. I got my flu vaccine back in early December. Maybe this is just one of those "mild" cases in lieu of the full out flu. I missed work yesterday, my gut still feels like I just got sucker punched. I finally have been able to eat a few crackers and some chicken broth. I've been days now without coffee....

 

[daugen]

good morning all, 50 going up to 58 on a clear day.
but...an unexpected .11 rain last night hopefully did not make things slick for the long delayed stone truck at 8am this morning.

Going to be a busy day, gutter men come to put gutters on the new building and the wing sheds of the barn.
And then...I get to play in the mud even more and dig ditches for the gutter water to run underground back to the six foot deep ditch.
Going to use the tree digger attachment for that and lay some corrugated plastic pipe in there and then cover it all over.
Then...and finally then..., I can clean up the area around the new building and make it nice for the duration.
for now it's been clean it up, rip it up, repeat.

Kyle, sorry you feel crummy, keep drinking fluids.
Billy, that must be a sturdy bridge to take running water over it.

 

[Buppies]

Got the base installed on a VDOT turn lane installed yesterday top layer today. A couple of quick hitting showers mixed in between. Today is much cooler high in upper 40s

 

[daugen]

interesting short video just released of the splashing of a new Littoral ship in Marinette Wisconsin. I remember Marinette because for about twenty years, maybe 30, Marinette shipyards use to make aluminum hulled boats for the US pleasure market. Only Burger, also from Wisconsin, who built huge yachts, built in aluminum once Chris Craft went to fiberglass.
Aluminum yachts/ships are high maintenance, very tough to keep paint on them and lots of anti-galvanic corrosion systems on them, but like the Grumman bread trucks, they last forever...and will dent instead of puncture/fail usually but they sink too. Since there are millions of aluminum small fishing boats out there, most of us have sat in one one time or another.

Yes they sink, which all cruise lines know, as almost all cruise liners today are made from aluminum. And who builds many if not most of them? Fincantieri in Italy.
And who does Fincantieri now own? Marinette Shipbuilding. An Italian cruise liner builder builds our warships. I guess we trust the Italians...
The big stuff comes out of New Orleans, Maine or Norfolk I suppose, but once WWII started Marinette was "drafted" and ever since they have made aluminum boats for the military. And I bet they were good boats. Likely a little noisy...not much sound deadening in that material. Any of you real Navy guys I'm sure can comment on hull noises.
Fincantieri Marinette Marine Company Profile

I grew up an hour away from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where old destroyers and other mothballed ships are kept. If you drive North on Route 95 through Philadelphia and look down to the right you'll still see some ships left there. And occasionally a smaller warship would be brought up river for repairs and refurb there. Now that was neat to go boating around. If you got too close, the Navy police would come rocketing out at you but where else could you get close, really close to big armored ships?
Something tells me they keep private boats even further away now...

It's 5:30 in the morning and I wish it were light out. C'mon summer.