Good morning!!!!

[Larro Darro]

And I had to chuckle, here you are, enjoying this legacy food when it was the Brits who persecuted the Quakers so much they came to the US.
And William Penn was their crowning achievement as far as someone in high position. Been on a bit of a slide since then...
Of course your Quaker oats might be made in Northern Ireland.

The persecution didn't stop when they reached these shores. One of Carolina's first civil wars was over Quaker political power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary%27s_Rebellion

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 0805, overcast, 71F with 92% humidity. Forecast high of 73F with 100% chance of rain today, and a low of 51F tonight.

I'm doing the pre-cleaning lady cleaning this morning. Already on the 3rd load of clothes. I got a head start last night, doing a load of thrift store finds. I got into a Cabella's and Carhartt mother-load, at buy one and get two free{$2.00 regular price, so that works out to $0.67 per shirt}. Also found some nice cold weather camo for the grand-nephews out in Denver. I do have to work this afternoon, a set-up for tomorrow's Credit Union event.

You guys have a good one,

Larro

 

[KevT]

72 already going to 80. Who would of thought about wearing shorts in Feb.? This is normally our coldest month, and I know people are having real problems with the winter gardens. Supposed to rain this afternoon and all day tomorrow.

Wife has her first riding lesson today and is mad at me because I wont teach her. What do I know about skill? I have been riding since I was 4 yo and learned how not to fall off. But she doesn't understand "Don't fall off". I don't know how to teach that!

With the rain I will be working on the wagon, it has made changes and is only the beginning...


And I have he wood parts of the seat cut out

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 35F @ 6:15AM. Cloudy with occasional showers this afternoon. High 49F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%.

All this talk of oats for breakfast and not a word of the water vs. milk controversy. Mom always used milk, and whenever I get them made with water in a restaurant, I find the resulting metallic taste not to my liking. Anyone else notice this?

Well, the third ignition trigger arrived in yesterday's mail, and just like the two before it, the advance curve is incorrect. Again no surprise, as modern manufacturing techniques are quite good at producing the same thing over and over, even when it's wrong. The old parts are back in the bike now, it's ready for the weekend and the next, and I'll wait until they can show me a video where the timing marks show up where they should before I bother tearing into things again. Wasn't it Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?

Happy hump day everyone!

 

[mkr7734]

Morning guys, 36 heading to 38,WOW!
Well I just got up for the second time. Wife came in the bedroom at 5:20am and informed me she could not get down the driveway because of a tree fall. So I got up climbed on the JD and headed up the lane in the dark of night. She was right. A 8" to 10" dead Ash had snapped off about 12' up and crashed right across the drive. So I shoved it back into the fence row with the snow plow and will clean up the rest of the mess today.

So I will be removing the plow and putting the bucket and grader on to repair the lane from yesterdays wash-out as well.
Enjoy your day.

 

[txdon]

All this talk of oats for breakfast and not a word of the water vs. milk controversy. Mom always used milk, and whenever I get them made with water in a restaurant, I find the resulting metallic taste not to my liking. Anyone else notice this?

I always make my oats with water (lactose intolerant) sometimes I add almond milk. Eating out I always ask and everyone so far from cruise ships to hotel free breakfasts make it with water. I do not taste any metallic taste. Must be that California water.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Must be that California water.

'Cept my taste for milk was acquired in Ohio...

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .03 inches rain last 24 hours.

Drew, that culvert looks terrible, hope they pay for the replacement.

Awesome looking fish tank

Be safe.
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[txdon]

RNG, that wrench fest sounds fun. Will any wrenching get done? Or perhaps some good ole bench racing? Might have to see if any of that wine ( Menage à Trois Wines | Top Red Wines in The USA ) made it this far east.

Both HEB Bastrop and Elgin carry it.

 

[daugen]

Had a good day today, got a lot done, with one exception. In between various jobs I thought I would drain the hot tub; it had been several months so I drained it and then put a hose back in it, of course catching it in time as I went by. Except I got distracted. Several hours later with a lake in the back yard and an overflowing hot tub, I for sure felt pretty stupid. I'm sure it was all of several hundred gallons but RNG could sure use that. And now of course it's raining and will continue for two days, so I hardly needed to add more water behind the house. Particularly a bit close to a septic system. I added some bromine shock and it will be usable in a few hours. Only 175 gallons. I sure flushed it out today...

But other projects went better, including getting the new gutters temporarily set up for the coming heavy rains. Will be next week before I can bury the pipes but it should be an interesting test to see how the water is kept away from the buildings. Of course with three inches of rain, it's going to go everywhere.
Will join the two downspouts underground and head to the main ditch with one pipe. Reason for the two downspouts is because the top holes are oval and not full size, so two are needed in downpours. But one four inch pipe going to the ditch is plenty, one on each side of the barn that is. Not particularly attractive at the moment but hopefully functional. And of course not glued... I chose heavy wall pipe downspouts not for the size but for durability from misaimed machinery.

My BIL who is an excavator told me a rule of thumb for culverts was 1.5 times the width of the pipe for depth of covering stone. So a foot and a half for a foot pipe. Likely that is sized for excavators...I have at least a foot and I don't think anything more than a loaded F350 work truck will go over this, or maybe 10K pounds. My tractor is half that.