Good morning!!!!

[Ed of all trades]

Bird, sorry about your little friend passing.

Mrs Buppies, Happy Birthday!!

Don, that's what tractors are for.

Went to the Depot today and got some led bulbs for the old shop lights I had. Git the cheep ones that work with the balist. Tried two bulbs in 3 different fixtures and they never flickered. Put an old floresant bulb in and it worked fine, they go back.

Still praying for you guys. Ed

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Bird, sorry about your dog.

Had a cat yrs ago that would lay around my neck.

 

[jbrumberg]

Ed- I had one of those "energy audits" from our electric company. This (really nice guy) representative came to our house, did the audit, and replaced all our incandescent lights with LED/CFL alternatives and made sure that they worked. He also replaced all our mercury circuited thermostats with programmable or non mercury thermostats. He also gave us really decent "energy efficient" power strips. For once it was really "free."

"For once" I get something free from the electric company and here I sit with 44 snow free solar panels ready to start pushing juice into the power grid and I/We are waiting for them to hook us up. They really do make out on our anticipated electric production on any good "solar" day here. There are days recently that I think that we should have gone with storage batteries and kissed the grid goodbye..... but then there is SWMBO/CFO

 

[DABSGT]

Buppies Happy birthday to your wife hope she had a great day

Bird sorry for your loss, pets always bring something special to our life I believe that every dog I ever owned left me a little better of a person.

Yesterday was a nice sunny day and I was able to do a bit of work around the lake house sure wished I had my John Deere as I was shoveling mud so I could lay 24" X 24" cement tile in front of my door to keep mud out of the entry. My 2 yr old Shepherd got a new nick name "Mud Puppy" as he decided to supervise and laid in the biggest mud puddle he could find. Wife wasn't to happy when he ran in the new kitchen with tail wagging. O well I had a little mopping to do too, and of course he had that what's wrong look,

 

[300UGUY]

Bird, sorry for your loss. I prefer some of my dogs over some relatives.

Pretty nasty most of the day, a very light rain, mud everywhere. Didn't get much done. Gotta hit harder tomorrow !!

 

[Buppies]

The Mrs thanks all who extended birthday wishes. Took her out to eat got her a nice present and all is good

 

[buckeyefarmer]

this was done getting a chain saw unstuck from a very large tree. Blade rated for 35hp on a 20 hp tractor.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all.
Happy Birthday Mrs. Buppies!
Bird sorry about your dog, that leave a big hole to fill.
start temp of 40F, clear sky, gusty wind. High temp of 56F, wind gust up to 40, Sky clear, wind slowed down near dark. Choir practice this morning, brought in wood tarp, nap and dog sitting.

 

[txdon]

Bird, sorry for you loss.

I ended up using a pry bar to get the saw unstuck but used the tractor to move the trunk and to level the land. Pics before, after, and now an unobstructed view looking back the other way.

 

[txdon]

While working on moving the tree they afternoon I saw a very rare creature in the pond. A white as milk albino turtle. I'l take my zoom camera out the next few days and see if I can capture him on film. I tried to get a pick of him with my phone but he dashed off the shore and under water. He held his breath longer than my patience. Or maybe it was a ghost turtle.

I also was affected by the government shut down today while filling out the federal farm census that was sent to my Dad. He died last year and there were questions that could not be answered the way they were asked. When I called the help line they just had a recording that because of the government shutdown they are not there. So I just wrote deceased instead of checking the yes or no boxes and various other responses that were not standard on their 300 question form. Their fault. I included my phone number and will answer, maybe.