Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

Thanks for the well wishes, had a club meeting tonight and I do feel better, the crud is starting to break up when I cough. I also feel somewhat better.
My buddy Took the IH 234 apart, ordered a bearing set and ball and tube set for the steering box.

 

[sodamo]

Well, I think the ortho appt went pretty well. He disagreed with Primary, saying hip joint itself looked pretty good, nothing abnormal. That said she could have arthritis or something else I forget the medical term. So he ordered a cortisone injection and MRI which would should either of the conditions. Hopefully get those scheduled next day or so.
While wife isn’t reporting a lot of improvement, she is only describing pain as 4-6, not 8-10 or worst as previous. Plus she is only medicating 2x a day instead of 4x. Thinking the meds and the CBD are having a positive effect. Not seeing the anguish in her face or movements either. Makes ME feel better.

 

[sodamo]

Happy Birthday to Jay’s wife. And many more

 

[sodamo]

Wife is a bit hard to gauge at times concerning surprises, some go well, others not so. The main road thru Hilo is along the Bay so Hawaiian rowers/Paddlers quite often.

 

[sodamo]

Have dug a lot of fence posts and other holes with my 12” on PHD, some with 18”. Also have a 24” I got for trees and never used. Have often wondered about a 6” for smaller stuff. Have run the gamut of screwing completely into ground, requiring tedious manual removal, to not being able to make it those the turf.
Had to do 9 12” holes just over 60” deep for my tractor shed supports (4”x15’ galvanized pipe) had to build extension for auger to get depth. Clean out was even more fun.

 

[sodamo]

Nope much of an island hopper, Drew. Maybe been to Oahu less than 10 times since 2005 not counting flight transfers. 1 week Oahu vacation for Sophie’s 5 years ago, 1 to pickup Flash at airport when he came from New Zealand 10 years ago, 2 for my first knee replacement 7 years ago, 4 for Sophie’s cancer 12 years ago. Every now and then talk about making a trip to Oahu, sometimes Kauai (never been) but usually talk ourselves out of it. Oahu is just so busy, but does have some good memories and places I like to see again. Maui too expensive, too touristy, but maybe the drive out to Hana. Would like to try Lanai and Molokai at least once. Friends have good reports on Kauai to visit, less so to live there. So much to do on this island, no compelling reason to leave.

 

[sodamo]

All this fence talk... also on my list. Since before we bought the property it was cattle pasture. Unfortunately the fences weren’t maintained and when opportunity came also I allowed some sweet potato farming. Last year the county decided to review some sat pics and revoked our pasture status. This will result in a tax increase. While I can’t reclaim the whole as pasture, I can add new barbed wire fencing to two areas that have pig fence on two sides possibly totally around 10 acres and then get my neighboring rancher to let his cattle on the property again. He was too busy to maintain the previous fencing and it was his cattle. I think they use 5 strands of barbed with the separators, steel posts every 10 ft, wooden posts every 4 or 5. Prefer hog wire depending on price. Length about 2000ft. Only 1 new gate to worry about. Need to get done this summer for next tax year. If I have to do my own cattle, the county has more requirements such as shelter, source, etc. much more challenging than just expanding the existing pasture.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-04-25, 0348

48 right now...high in the mid-50's and rain coming in.

Well, backhoe is gone...an old (inoperative) PTO genny is gone, the wood chipper is gone. Got my asking prices for the backhoe and wood chipper...gave the generator away. So, now I've got some cash to deposit, part of which is going to be used to buy a Woodmaxx 8H chipper (already on order, due here in early May).
All went well, except I fell off the equipment trailer (guy who bought the backhoe)...boy, I thought my legs were 6" longer. Bit bruised up, but nothing broken.

Got some bad news...found out my neighbor's wife has stage 4 breast cancer. She has had cancer for 3 years (that I know of...)...metastasized to the lymph nodes and liver. Not that old...55 years old. I'm not a religious man, so I'm not going to be a hypocrite...but my thoughts are with her, and her husband. Obviously, we'll support them in any way we can.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Sorry to hear about your neighbor Roy.

More rain to come today, looks like the remaining harrowing is going to have to wait a little longer.

When I first started going out with the teenage girl who is now my wife, we would often go together to the Castle market in Sheffield and buy meat for the family dog. Every week the same butcher and always ox cheek, a cut of meat I had never tried - until last night. The smell of that slowly cooking often filled their kitchen, though it took me a few visits before I realised it was only ever their dog that would be tasting it.

It was raining heavily and had been all yesterday afternoon, which gave particular appeal to not going far and trying out the pub a couple of miles down the road, which has been rebuilt over the last year. I was sipping a pint of bitter and scanning down the menu, thinking of going for a relatively healthy option, when my wife nudged me to point out the "Ox cheek and tail pie", made with suet pastry. For several years now I haven't been able to order food without thinking of how Don would rate it's potential heart stopping effects, but this time curiosity easily beat caution. The pie came with a jug of gravy to pour over the crust and inside the meat was both tender and tasty. It has taken 45 years to appreciate just how lucky was that dog !

 

[daugen]

Eric, marvelous story about the ox cheek.
Kyle, awesome coop, now we need some action photos!

warm 58 out, headed up to low 70's, ten day weather is super, the cold is gone.
Thunderstorms later this morning, lot of moisture out there, but I'm headed to the garden anyway.
Remember the country song about the guy who lost his farm because he wouldn't hoe corn?
Not me..........
I ordered a new hoe last night online too.

Got my grubby clothes on, waiting for sun to come up, then headed out to get muddy. All good.
All the tomatoes and peppers going in, if they die they die, and most will, learned a huge lesson about need for greenhouse and not
trying to grow vegetables inside a house. Live and learn.
So tomorrow I'll make the rounds of local plant places and I guess buy a bunch of Bonnie tomatoes. The six Bonnie tomatoes I did plant already are doing fine. All I did was grow defective tomatoes that act like vampires, go up in a puff of smoke when the sun hits them.

Will try to turn the cultivator around 45 degrees and see if that works better on the Super A.
And then my really big challenge is getting the ancient fertilizer hopper on that thing working again. Shop says "it should work".
The big steel chains running it are really loose and floppy, normal? Bet this contraption makes some noise too, the tractor is already amazingly noisy due to the straight cut gears in the trans, wow what a gear howl. But it works....

Hope toppop is feeling better this morning. No walking pneumonias please.
The good news about visiting friends and family, particularly kids, is the wonderful joy and friendship, etc. The bad news is the
handing around of infectious diseases. Airplanes and little kids do me in.

David/Sodamo, hope Sophie is feeling better this morning.
Riptides, same for your wife. You guys have really been a rock for your wives.