Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

71 degrees here for a little while, with fog warnings now posted for coast and inland rivers.

Got a lot done this morning working on equipment, changed the fuel filters on my diesel tank and while it was all apart took the drain valve off and sure enough the guy who built it hadn't used any sealant at all. Cause of constant dripping. Now sealed with liquid Teflon sealer, no drips at all.

I thankfully remembered to fill a spare diesel can before I took the pump filters apart so I had some fuel to fill both filters before reinstalling. Really should keep a small amount in a can anyway. Cleaned the dirt off the DR tiller and am awaiting a replacement engine. When they said proprietary wiring harness I knew I was beat. It doesn't look too hard to replace, will start working on taking the old engine off tomorrow. I ordered another belt for it so I could replace that too and keep the original as a spare.

Then I moved equipment around in my constant board game of where to store equipment. Reminds me I have to call local rv dealer about selling my travel trailer. That will free up plenty of storage. By then I had done too much lifting and had to call it a day.

Meat loaf baking in the oven, starting to smell good.

 

[300UGUY]

Pretty crappy day here, off and on rain. Had lunch with a contractor friend, haven't seen him in months, we have known each other for 30 years. He has worked construction all his life, and says he feels every year of it. He is looking forward to retirement in a few years. Spent some time with the local pharmacist, the insurance didn't go thru. She got that worked out, then I had to go home and deal with them from my end, it seems they changed our id number, but never sent us new cards. Maybe porch pirates? New cards, new number on the way.

Farmer, when I had the flu, my doc told me to stay out of the chicken coop?

 

[300UGUY]

71 degrees here for a little while, with fog warnings now posted for coast and inland rivers.

Got a lot done this morning working on equipment, changed the fuel filters on my diesel tank and while it was all apart took the drain valve off and sure enough the guy who built it hadn't used any sealant at all. Cause of constant dripping. Now sealed with liquid Teflon sealer, no drips at all.

I thankfully remembered to fill a spare diesel can before I took the pump filters apart so I had some fuel to fill both filters before reinstalling. Really should keep a small amount in a can anyway. Cleaned the dirt off the DR tiller and am awaiting a replacement engine. When they said proprietary wiring harness I knew I was beat. It doesn't look too hard to replace, will start working on taking the old engine off tomorrow. I ordered another belt for it so I could replace that too and keep the original as a spare.

Then I moved equipment around in my constant board game of where to store equipment. Reminds me I have to call local rv dealer about selling my travel trailer. That will free up plenty of storage. By then I had done too much lifting and had to call it a day.

Meat loaf baking in the oven, starting to smell good.

With all the work you do, and you cook? Daym, I should marry you....

 

[Ed of all trades]

Ron, I tried that kind but they did not work with my ballast so the new ones cost 2 times as much and you take out the ballast. Thanks for the tip but no Menards around here that I know of.

Don, funny, the piebald deer that we saw last winter is back today. We only see it about 300, 350 yd away but it is nice to see. There have been as many as 30 deer out there this year.

Have a great evening. Ed

 

[RoyJackson]

I'm glad that's just rain for you Roy.

Unfortunately, it wasn't just rain...still a lot of ice on the highways before it started clearing up (just rain and wet) a few miles into Massachusetts. Slow drive in 4WD most of the way. The trip normally takes me about 3 hours (~180 miles) took 4 hours this morning. Hard rain in Connecticut really slowed the traffic going into Hartford.

 

[daugen]

With all the work you do, and you cook? Daym, I should marry you....

I want your Farmall H as part of my dowry!!!

Am trying to cook most of my food myself out of real ingredients, not processed food.
Too easy to eat pizza, stopped buying that over a year ago.

 

[jbrumberg]

"..... when I had the flu, my doc told me to stay out of the chicken coop?"- 300UGUY

300UGUY- Your doctor wanted to minimize your exposure to environmental auto-immune triggers to your immune system while your immune system is compromised by the flu. What I have is similar to Farmer's Lung, Brewers' Lung, Bird Fancier's lung, etc. There is a specific "Lung" that applies to chicken farmers too, but I forget. They never figured out my triggers so they now call it "Cryptogenic Pneumonitis." There were all kinds of "theories" as to what triggered me.

Histoplasmosis is a type of lung infection. It is caused by inhaling Histoplasma capsulatum fungal spores. These spores are found in soil and in the droppings of bats and birds. This fungus mainly grows in the central, southeastern, and mid-Atlantic states.


Around 5PM a UPS truck backs up our glare ice driveway, gets to the house, parks, and then slides 5' downslope. I went out to the UPS truck I do not know how I stayed upright and got the delivery.

With the degree of icing, "warm" temperatures present I had visions of my parked on ice Tundra starting to slide downslope into the Forester again. So it was slip, slide back to the Forester and moved it to of the way.

 

[txdon]

Unusual, but if it was a true albino, wouldn't the neck and legs also be white?

There goes my $5,000.00 dream.

Actually I was kind of thinking the same thing after I was able to see a dark head in the pic. All I could only see before the zoomed pic was his white shell.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

There goes my $5,000.00 dream.

How 'bout turtle soup as a consolation prize?

If it's a snapper, aren't they kinda hard on the other inhabitants of the pond (or do you call 'em "tanks")?

 

[jbrumberg]

That could have been dried clay on the shell. Nice picture. Turtles do not like getting photographed. My camera is never ready when I kayak and drift upon the resident fauna.