Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

67 going to 81.

"Gone Fishing" - 'nuf said.

Worked on digging out sand that has accumulated on and around my bridge yesterday afternoon. I need to return downstream and break up a log jam again - I may be able to get close enough with the tractor to wrap a chain around the big tree that is clogging things up and pull it out.

Lots of apples ripening now, but most have worms or cedar apple rust, since I don't spray. I need to take lessons from Drew.

 

[daugen]

hey Billy at least you have apples; I lost just about every one to the late freeze. But I did get one apple, one little green apple that was sweet and juicy when I ate it right off the tree. That one apple made it all worthwhile.
Growing up in PA we used to spray the orchard four or five times a year. When we stopped, those apples got so buggy they weren't good for much except apple cider. We did that several years, took our own apples down to the cider mill and had them pressed. Yummy bugs!

Fireman helper coming over mid morning to help me get the pto shaft on my finish mower so I can go try out my new tractor. I struggled for hours on that yesterday, first using the expensive LP quick hitch on an LP mower, and for the second time, on a second tractor, I could not get it to work on the top link. So off comes the quick hitch, and on goes the mower with totally manual links. Boy I missed those Kubota extendable links; luckily the mower has four wheels and rolls on the concrete, so I got it done.

I decided that while the $415 to get a horizontal muffler on my Massey instead of a vertical was pretty expensive, my first fueling experience put my shoulder right up against that hot vertical muffler. Fill pipe is a foot away. (?)
That wasn't fun but it did remind me I need to run the muffler down low. Any of my fruit trees and certainly going in the woods would rip that muffler right off.

66 going to 85 today. Have a great day guys, be healthy and enjoy life.

 

[Thomas]

44F now clear sky 70 for high...taste of autumn.

Soon to the grind than hopes mowing the lawn after work before darkness arrives.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

60 this morning high of 80 after 92 yesterday. In this NW flow our rain went poof again

 

[ronjhall]

First cup of coffee has been poured. 56°with clear skies this morning. Heading to 76° with mostly sunny skies. Having a good time making new friends and visiting with old friends.
Eric, good luck.
Good Morning All.

 

[rswyan]

50F @ 06:15, could dip into the 40's before the sun makes it up. High today predicted to be 75.

Deliver refrig to daycarethis morning then haul tools back on the return trip and pick up my new (to me) furnace.

Later this afternoon pick up steel at my suppliers down in Canton.

 

[daugen]

Ron, travel safely and fair, and very light winds directly behind you.

RS, Canton somehow brought up the thought Rust Belt to me.
particularly since you are likely to go buy some rusty steel today...
What's Canton like?

am off to MF dealer to order seat arm rest kit and lowered muffler kit.
Buddy coming over mid morning to help me get mower going.
Life is good.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 70˚ heading into the 90s. Still dark outside.
I have one dead limb hanging over the paver drive about 30' in the air. Now I have to figure how remove it using the new 8' HF electric pole saw without spilling blood.

Looks like we go into the 60s again at the end of the month.

 

[rswyan]

... RS, Canton somehow brought up the thought Rust Belt to me.

Yup ... the Northeast, OH would surely be considered part of the rust belt.

particularly since you are likely to go buy some rusty steel today...

LOL ...

Nah, this is all new, virgin steel ... if anything, it's likely to be oiled ... and have cutting fluid dripping off the ends where they ran it thru their Marvel saw to cut the stock lengths (20', 21' and 24') in half.

It's always a real treat handling it - until I get it cleaned off ... particularly with no gloves.

What's Canton like?

Pretty typical mid-size midwestern city ... smaller than Akron ... but home to Timken and the Pro Footbal Hall of Fame.

Canton, OH - Wikipedia

am off to MF dealer to order seat arm rest kit and lowered muffler kit.
Buddy coming over mid morning to help me get mower going.
Life is good.

Indeed :thumbsup:

 

[sodamo]

Cruising down the Danube:









Wine country