Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

102 degrees in Washington NC right now, oh my....all my vegetables. Isn't going to be pretty.
back for a rest before I head out again. Lovely day here.

 

[Thomas]

66F cloudy nice breeze.
Lawn trim and got its first hair cut of the year,lawn still soggy in many places which meant longer trimmer time.
Heavy pickup load 3/4" ledge stone shovel in place,now I am clean shaven and plan on doing next to nothing or nothing until pillow time.
Holiday weekend begun so please be safe if out and about.

Enjoy the evening all.

 

[Thomas]

daugen
102 degrees in Washington NC right now, oh my.
.....................
:shocked::confused2:

 

[daugen]

I checked again, 104 degrees, that's just nuts for May, much less August
And here Claye is getting snowed on again.
I set my hvac on 78 degrees before I left, they will be sucking up some electric for sure.

about ready to head out to dinner, had nice lunch with old doctor friend, truly good to see old friends. We sat out on his patio in 75 degree weather and looked over the lush green lawns.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Extra prayers for your daughter Kyle.

David, I hope the last 8 feet is not as bad as last weeks last few feet.

Thank all of you for the prayers. She is remarkably better today. Last 10 days have been rough for her.

Ron- hope y'all enjoy your trip.

BEF - I would be looking for cover under that storm, awesome pic. Hope your mower is a good one.

Bird, staying around the house ourselves.

Don- wondering if she liked the booties or not?

Jay- happy wife, happy life. Hope the movie and food was good.

Drew- glad your getting to see old friends and enjoying the weather.



I've been "Drew" busy, and now I'm "Drew" wore out.

Got my mom's car A/C repaired. Turns out it just needed a new blower motor resistor module. But every now and then, it seems the fresh air/recirculate blend door gets confused. Maybe because I was punching the buttons too fast and it got confused.

Went to wally world to test drive it and so far, so good.

Ordered the dump truck guy to bring some sand for the pool pad. Did some shredding prior to him getting here. Then put the box blade on the tractor, and started on the pad for the equipment carport.

Put the pole saw together and sawed off some limbs that were over the carport area.

Came inside to rest up a bit, and my mom and daughter had started making some more dewberry jelly. I ended up getting in the middle of it so that it would come out right. Recipe called for 7 cups of sugar, only had about 5.5, hope it will jell ok. Tastes so delicious. I wish y'all were here for a taste.

I need to go back outside and work on the pool pad...good thing sand is easy to spread.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 76F this morning, overcast, moderate wind. Wind was gusty again today, clouds cleared off, and high temp was 87F. Bike ride this morning, after lunch and nap, trip to town and get the paperwork started so they will bring car down.
David forgot to mention what a nice job you did on the saw job:ashamed:
Don, tell whipper nice boots
Drew hope your helpers will take good care of your garden. Have fun up north.
RNG my money is on the dirt bike work first
prayers for all.

 

[sodamo]

Opted for energy conservation/mental health day after getting back from town.
Amazing how an $85/day tool rental ends up being $160.94.

Took the backhoe off tractor, put on middle buster then changed point to subsoiler. Quick test and looks like it should get remaining concrete. I did have to cut a section of rebar that was deeper than saw cut. Cold chisel and hammer to get surrounding concrete so reciprocating saw could get to job. PITA, but happy to see the concrete was about 6+ inches this at this edge with the rebar replaced. Only about 10 minutes, so hard to count as real work.
Need to fashion a 4 inch point to trench for the pipe. I think the subsoiler can be more efficient than me digging by hand.

Thanks for all the support and good thoughts.

 

[Eric Salop]

Well, you're mostly right, Eric. I tried out the Nice'n'Soft to keep the mosquitoes away last night, and I'm afraid all it did was give them a scent trail to follow to dinner.

RNG, I was thinking about Don's coyote (why does that remind me of a Spanish knight ? - Don Quixote !) when I said no one got bitten.

Nice'n'Soft could be more effective on one of those critters - if you threw the bottle hard enough :laughing:

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, this could be our last day of fine weather for a while. I don't mind as I am just about on top of spraying for a while.

Despite me spot spraying to get rid of as much ragwort as I can at rosette stage, most other spring flowering plants are welcome in the hay meadow. I try hard to nuke only a tiny amount of ground with my sprayer lance.

 

[wngsprd]

65 going to 85, rain storm hopefully this afternoon.

Eric, good one.

I tried Skin So Soft years ago to keep no-see-ums away at Cape Lookout - didn't like the results...some others did, however. I found the best approach was to just leave the island .

Kyle, you've been busy!