Good Morning!!!! 38F @ 6:30AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 54F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
Partly cloudy most of yesterday except at 5PM when a good sized cell came over and dumped a few tenths of rain. No lightning and thunder this time though, thank goodness. Sure sent the hummers into hiding though. The little dickens are almost getting through both feeders every day, a half gallon of nectar. I'll have to whump up another four gallon batch today.
I think your boy'll remember his eighth birthday the rest of his life. Hopefully he'll make a similar memory for your grandkids. Well done, sir!
When dad's Snapper finally bit the dust (he'd been nursing it along for years) he ended up with a Lawn Boy. When I got old enough to use it I spent a lot of time following it around the yard (it had a crude method of self propulsion that involved rollers rubbing on the rear tires). If the grass was the least little bit wet, the rollers would slip and turn the thing into a push mower. I got a few neighbors to pay me to cut their grass, but boy was I happy to get a paper route. I had hay fever really bad, and cutting grass nearly killed me. Had to move out to get away from doing it at home, and here I am back on acreage with the Kubota, biggest lawn mower I've ever had. At least this place only needs a trim once or maybe twice every spring.
That's some plumber's nightmare you've got there, Drew. Good deal they buried it so you don't have to look at it.:laughing: Cops these days have their hands full just dealing with violent crimes. Petty theft, vandalism, vagrancy, it's open season for all of those shameful behaviors. No way the police are going to spend time busting litterbugs, and probably wouldn't do anything even if you came in with a video showing their face and license plate (not that the geometry of the situation would even permit that). Heck, it took me almost a year to get a dog catcher to come out here and write a ticket to the neighbor who let his vicious animal chase my motorcycle up and down my driveway. And I had to provide them with a detailed incident log and several videos.:shocked: A long time ago, I had a neighbor whose dog would get through the fence and use my backyard for his bathroom. Took me a half hour to fill up a grocery bag with its business everytime I had to cut the grass. Finally I took one of those bags and went next door with it and knocked on his door. His wife answered and I presented her with the fruits of my labor, asking politely that they fix the fence and keep their dog's business in its own backyard. She started cussing a blue streak, threw open the screen door, and tossed her cigarette right in my face. I dropped the bag on her doormat and went home. Fifteen minutes later her old man was beating a tatoo on my front door, so I gave him the same pitch. Fifteen minutes after that I heard hammering in the backyard and the fence was fixed. Real pieces of work those two were. Anyway, if I had a receipt showing somebody's name in the trash they left for me, I'd be tempted to go over to their house and have a little conversation with them. With all the trash I'd picked up that day. But watch out for those flying cigarette butts.:laughing:
Is your new system wireless, Bill? If not, was installation included? And how did they get the wires to everywhere the cameras were mounted? I have seven wireless cameras spotted around the property, and am experiencing a lot of network errors due to all the video traffic. Lots of interruptions and missed images, so I'm looking for something better.
Flushed out the fuel tank on the old motorcycle with parts washing solvent yesterday, and didn't find any leaks. Wasn't able to get the darn thing started, either, but did learn how to tell when it was flooded from over exuberant use of the ticklers on each carb.
Pulled the plugs and blew compressed air into the cylinders and lots of gasoline vapors came out, so at least I know it's getting fuel. It was the end of the day by then so I left the plugs out hoping maybe things will dry enough to work better today. But that'll have to wait until I swap a fresh pallet of firewood into the garage, with all the attendant shuffling of motorcycles and tarps and junk to get things out of the way. But at least it's supposed to be a nice sunny day, a continuation of the bit of sun that came out after yesterday afternoon's shower. Oh, and there was a rainbow for a few minutes afterward, a nice treat for the end of the day.
It being St. Patrick's Day, there could be no more fitting an end than a couple fingers of Kilbeggan with which to watch the sunset, followed by an episode of The Thirsty Traveller where the host explores the whiskey trade in Ireland. Oh, and a Guinness to wash down the evening meal, though I had no corned beef. Costco chicken noodle soup al la Instant Pot or me...
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the weekend!
