Good morning!!!!

[MossRoad]

this is 21 minutes long but worth coming back to. Happened yesterday near Denver as two small
planes tried to land at the same time on parallel twin runways. Mid-air crash, no one injured, a miracle,
and the first I've seen of the Cirrus parachute system bringing their plane down to the ground.
I thought one needed one's neck on a swivel driving a big truck but I think that is an understatement for
two planes on visual landing competing for the same airspace. What makes this all the more amazing is a student pilot
on his very first solo flight witnessed the whole thing and recorded it on his Gopro.

I think that parachute system has a lot of merit. Too bad they can't build it into a big jet...

Popgadget, beware of parallel runways. Reminds me of going into a roundabout and for sure not trusting the other guy
to yield

does make me wonder why collision avoidance radar buzzers aren't going off like mad but apparently not.

At 8:00 in the video, the narrator misidentified 17L and 17R with his mouse when looking at the Google earth image of the airport in relation to the reservoir.

 

[MossRoad]

They also keep referring to the Metroliner as a jet. It's a turboprop.

He calls it a flying sewerpipe. We used to call them executive mailing tubes, or death tubes, because the stretched versions had a negative rate of climb if they lost an engine when fully loaded.

Good morning all!

 

[rswyan]

45F and sunny @ 08:30, calling for a high of 64F for the day. Five days of 70F or better currently in the Ten Day.

We'll take it ...

Have doctor's appointment this morning, so up extra early.

After I get back from that will remove MMM from Kubota (it may stay off until fall) and put the FEL and box blade on it. Then see if I can't get that cart unloaded from the van.

Thinking about it some last night, pretty sure there's enough room up in the shop that I can shoe-horn it in. Will remove the blower, which is on a pallet, then put the cart in and stick the blower in closest to the door.

Need to do a bunch of tree trimming so I don't end up knocking the lights off the Cub ... but the weeds in the planting beds I wasn't able to get mulched last year are also out of control ... target rich environment.

Also need to run down to Menard's and pick up orders.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ...

 

[MossRoad]

At 12:25 in the video, the narrator identifies the C172 ahead of the damaged metroliner as a cirrus. I know it makes no difference, but small details in things like this are everywhere. I'm sure the narrator is anxious to share the info, however, he's getting things incorrect. Human error at a desk.

Today is most likely the last frost of the season. We're putting our annuals and veggies out starting today and over the weekend.

Planted 300 cana lillies last night.

 

[rswyan]

WOW!!
That is a LOT of lawn to do with a 40" aerator!!!

Was taken with the wide-angle lens on my iPhone ... so it may appear bigger than it does when looking at it with just your eyes. Probably about 3.25 acres all told.

And, FWIW, the coring width on the aerator is 48" (52" overall width)

However, if you're a retired guy...well, you've got the time...and work like that is quite satisfying (to me, at least).

Anyway, tractor (PTO) aerators are big bucks!

Yup, they sure are.

This one seems to be holding up and doing the job thus far and I have no reason to think it won't last if taken care of (although I might go ahead and order a set of those plastic bearings while they are available ... they are only $18 IIRC)

Thanks for pointing out the way ...

 

[kenmbz]

Mornin all, chilly again this morning, around 40, but sunny.
Found some poison ivy on one of the dead ash i need to fell. sprayed it yesterday, but it wraps about 3/4 way around.
Have 3 60-70 foot tall, 20-30" diameter trees to fell, all dead and missing bark, have dozens more that are dead or pretty close. some are dropping branches, 2 more are too close to other trees, so will need to call in a crew with a bucket truck. More $

Eric, we had Carp boiled and ground up as kids, family is from Austro-Hungary (yes came in 1800's on that side), Ukrainian and Lithuanian. Never make it myself, wife is Irish/English/Scottish and not a fish person, not even kippers.

Mostly-glad to hear wife is not having more problems

RNG and the runaway cart- be carefull, I like to side park if I can, glad you didn't get hurt.

My uncle at various times when he lived in England had a 32 Bentley convertible, and many others pre-war Rolls and Bentleys. When he moved back to the states he got a Packard convertible. I remember riding London to Oxford in the Bentley convertible, wow did that body flex, waiting to see if the doors opened by themselves.

Stay safe and be well.

A few plantings:

 

[daugen]

negative rate of climb
unlikely to end well for anything but a mole....

drove over to Lambertville NJ to get gas and pick up what little drycleaning I had.
Owner of gas station greeted me warmly, have known him all his life, and his father.
No problems with gasoline there, yet.

I powerwashed my wood bench outside yesterday and discovered one of the four seating boards was broken.
So my project for today as I do things slowly with one arm is to cover the existing seat boards on both sides with some leftover
cedar I have. Then I can sit down and just sand my way down the bench.

 

[pennwalk]

Talking about Beer the great motivator. I read that places at the beach are offering a case of beer as a signing bonus for summer help. I hope they don't give them the beer until after work.

Chris

 

[MoKelly]

Talking about Beer the great motivator. I read that places at the beach are offering a case of beer as a signing bonus for summer help. I hope they don't give them the beer until after work.

Chris

Innovative. I thought most summer work was by underage kids off school?

Maybe times have changed.

MoKelly

 

[daugen]

nice flowers Ken. The lavender should bring in the butterflies.