Good morning!!!!

[Bird]

72 (which is nice) but going for 97 (which ain't very nice) today with a 20% chance of showers. I had something new happen yesterday. I drove the old 2012 Ford Escape to the store and discovered my key fob would not lock or unlock the doors. I figured it was either defective or had a dead battery, so I stopped by my Ford dealer and the assistant service manager just very quickly "reprogrammed?" it. He said, no one really knows for sure what sometimes causes one to lose its contact with the car; some electrical or atmospheric anomaly maybe. Then of course he told me that now my wife's key fob wouldn't work since they have to be programmed together, but that he'd do it if I just stopped by with both keys. So I came home and got my wife's key and figured I could do it myself with the instructions in the owner's manual. But fortunately, I gave it a try first and found that both keys worked just fine.

As I mentioned yesterday, besides the 4.05" of rain, we had lots of thunder and lightning and the lights in the house flickered once. I'm only guessing that was what caused the little problem.

 

[Eric Salop]

Have had to keep looking at the sky before doing things outside today as one minute the sun is enticing me to come outside and the next we get a downpour. I think the weather wants to keep playing this game but I've had enough and thought I would come inside to say Good morning .

... Seems like a good day to "lay low and watch from behind a stump". Don't know about the stump but I plan to law low.

Ed, I've been keeping my eye on this stump for a while, ever since I first saw what looked like a pressure creosoted electric pole burst into leaf



The pole was cut down 11 years ago and must be over 100 yards from the nearest trees, so I guess a bird must have helped that seedling find a place where it could start life without being chomped by rabbits.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Interesting day.

Got the shelves mounted, pretty much as expected. Wife couldn't tell which one was my problem child. Barely got started on my Ohia trim when sears finally showed up.
Culprit seems to be water in the gas. Bet there was at least half a cup in what we drained off. Got it running, but rough. Tech wants to replace the carb so will return in a couple of weeks.
My Blitz gas containers are getting old. Already took 2 out of service as they started leaking last refills. Now I wonder if they are allowing water to get in as well? Any suggestions as to replacements? Believe Blitz went bankrupt a few years ago due to idiots pouring gas on fires and blaming the container company. Not a fare of the newer, hard to use spouts.

After Sears left, I mowed about an hour around the banana trees. I know, not really trees, but I still call them trees.

Are you forced to use ethanol contaminated gasoline in HI? If so, you might try treating with Stabil Marine 360. I add to gas cans before going to fill them. It's eliminated all my gasoline problems.

 

[PJSprog]

68°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 93° today.

Sounds like our "eclipse forecast" for Monday is calling for cloudy skies. Potential bummer for all those people making a trek to see it around here.

Have a safe weekend, fellas.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 43*, yesterday high was 85* with a 15 mph breeze. Today will be back to the 80's, it doesn't show any rain for the next few days.

The plans for today are helping the neighbor move his processor to a new spot. And do some fishing some time today. We made it to the the charcoal kilns yesterday. I think the grandkids had a good time. They had quite a few questions about the town.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB

 

[Thomas]

63F raining now showers on/off most of the day,low 70's for high.
Clean out old ditch last evening w/hand hoe and by the time I was done needed to remove 4 ticks.

Not much plan for after work,might do little trimming tomorrow morning before it gets hot and sticky.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[PJSprog]

Clean out old ditch last evening w/hand hoe and by the time I was done needed to remove 4 ticks.

Been a tough year for ticks here, too. I've found a lot of them, but fortunately all before they got their little heads buried in me.

 

[hawkeye08]

Farmer that rents our few acres started wheat harvest last night.. we'll be glad when that is done.

Mowed lawn last night... new blades sure cut nice... snagged a clothes line wire with ROPs bolt, pulled the pole over without even noticing until I turned. Unhooked wire from ROPs, pushed pole back up, removed the rest of the now down wires, took a break and had some dinner and went back out after dinner and finished mowing.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .08 inches rain

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

started welding at 7am and had to come in an hour ago, it just got too awful out. Home weather station says 114 degree heat index.
Made some progress welding, truly a try try again exercise. Will post some pics later.

 

[sodamo]

Are you forced to use ethanol contaminated gasoline in HI? If so, you might try treating with Stabil Marine 360. I add to gas cans before going to fill them. It's eliminated all my gasoline problems.

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Thanks
I pay the extra few cents and run ethanol free in everything. Last I checked with the Tundra I got better mileage.

 

[riptides]

Ugh, third tee-shirt and I lost count on the Gatorade bottles littering the fence line in the front. And when the sun pops out, it burns. Ouch!!

Another shirt, more water and got to get it finished.

Stay hydrated, my friends!

 

[farmer2009]

65 this morning and currently 85. Humidity a lot lower today than the last few. Half inch of rain last night. We needed it.

Running errands today. Then back to work on a fencing project so I can move cows.

 

[toppop52]

Hot and sticky as a honeybun in a hot car! Took an old boat from the woods to the dump, never knew they would accept them gas tank and all.
Been rearranging stuff all day, cleaned up around the burnt building, crew coming to take it away this week, I hope. Then cut the burnt trees and clear them an put the new building up. Tired of looking at this mess!

 

[txdon]

Good afternoon. 102, it burns outside. We need an eclipse to cool down. A pic of us putting up tents for next weeks fish fry. This is tent 2 of 4. We start when the sun is setting.

 

[daugen]

Don, your firemen have a knack of having that event on the world's hottest day.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
in expectation of a Ripley's Believe It or Not award,
for:
World's Ugliest Weld
I hereby present to you my first weld at 7am.
First time I had used that rod...sucker drips but I got the hang of it. Sort of...
Did everything three or four times, and by noon it was presentable. Ridiculous amount of time to weld one piece
but this was my training time too. Gosh did I grind and grind and grind and get unbelievably filthy. Shower felt wonderful.

guys in welding forum following this, having fun with me and being very helpful. Not too often a noob is willing to embarrass himself...
Some of the welds are laughable. I missed the whole crack once. Looked like a drunken sailor was doing it. Then I got positioned better, smaller length rod
and it all started to feel like a tool. My penetration was I'm sure poor, but even new this deck wasn't full length welded, now it is. With a few holidays...but it's
plenty strong. It's a collector piece anyway.

This is what the primer is for that says it fills in imperfections. Oh yeah.

114 heat index, a/c in office upstairs can't keep up, at least it's at 76.

 

[rswyan]

85F @ 16:00, high was 86F. Strong chance of thunderstorms tomorrow ... sure hope we get some ... we got almost completely missed with what came through yesterday. Just north and south of us got hammered and we barely got enough to settle the dust.

Day before yesterday I went out spraying and got overheated. Came in the middle of the afternoon to cool off and rehydrate ... ended up being done for the day.

Yesterday I decided to work on some CAD/technical drawings I told a friend I'd do for him. That involved installing the program again, since my install of the current version got et when the drive it was on decided to go **** up.

Reinstalling it is a bit of a PITA ... since it requires an installer program that resides on a floppy disk (which none of the more recent machines have) Then I couldn't find the floppy for the most recent version of the program ... ... but I was able to locate the floppy for an slightly earlier version.

So I fired up an old machine (PowerMac 9600/350) and used the floppy drive on that to create an image file of the install floppy ... and then hooked up a CD burner to it and burned the image file onto a CD.

Thankfully that worked and I was able to install the program onto a somewhat newer machine (PowerMac G4/450 Dual)

Just finished the three drawings, turned them into PDF's, and sent them along via the email. Done well before the "requested by" date even ...

Didn't quite finish the entire tank gly off so I'm probably going to go see if I can find a couple of spots I can get rid of it on and then drop the sprayer and clean it out and then mebbe stick the loader on and start working on the SSQA repair.

 

[sodamo]

Don, your firemen have a knack of having that event on the world's hottest day.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
in expectation of a Ripley's Believe It or Not award,
for:
World's Ugliest Weld
I hereby present to you my first weld at 7am.
First time I had used that rod...sucker drips but I got the hang of it. Sort of...
Did everything three or four times, and by noon it was presentable. Ridiculous amount of time to weld one piece
but this was my training time too. Gosh did I grind and grind and grind and get unbelievably filthy. Shower felt wonderful.

guys in welding forum following this, having fun with me and being very helpful. Not too often a noob is willing to embarrass himself...
Some of the welds are laughable. I missed the whole crack once. Looked like a drunken sailor was doing it. Then I got positioned better, smaller length rod
and it all started to feel like a tool. My penetration was I'm sure poor, but even new this deck wasn't full length welded, now it is. With a few holidays...but it's
plenty strong. It's a collector piece anyway.

This is what the primer is for that says it fills in imperfections. Oh yeah.

114 heat index, a/c in office upstairs can't keep up, at least it's at 76.

Look better than mine

 

[lostcreekranch]

Thanks
I pay the extra few cents and run ethanol free in everything. Last I checked with the Tundra I got better mileage.

You're lucky, we have no real access to ethanol free gas here.

 

[ronjhall]

Another very productive day. Grand kids and I got the 2 fence lines cleaned and replaced 12 t-post and removed 500' of rusted out fence. Replaced two tongue and groove boards on rear of barn. Removed couple old 8' florescent fixtures. I am tired. The kids are too. I can rest tomorrow.
I did not get any tractor or golf cart seat time. Never thought I would let someone else do the driving.