Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

RNG, looks like you are making a Mad Max mobile there!

storm is skirting just North of here, will see what afternoon brings
spent three hours working on security analysis for church.
now maybe go for short walk before rains come down and then work on cleaning up my office.
My administrative assistant has been MIA, and my piles are starting to keel over. No excuse, I have a file
cabinet here, but as I've said before, I'm a much better piler than filer.

 

[PJSprog]

In my post above, I somehow managed to leave out the most important part; today is our 8/18th Anniversary ... 8 years married / 18 years back together.

37 years total, give or take 19 years.

 

[daugen]

PJ, that sounds like the "new math" but it's all good for sure. Congrats. Enduring love is the best.

deadheaded some roses and zinnias, picked a green pepper, looking for something to do outside until the heavy rains come around 2pm.

have to figure out what to do with the next batch of tomatoes. These are the vining/indeterminate tomatoes, second stage in my two stage
tomato booster rocket outside. Picked them early in case of high winds or too much water from storm.
Sadly tomatoes are like alcoholics
they just don't know when to stop drinking...and split they will.
They ripen up pretty quickly inside

 

[daugen]

a friend made a BLT for me using my tomatoes that was so good I bought my first bacon
in over a year and that's where at least one of those tomatoes are headed. There's a big one on the bottom
that may be calling my name.
I also picked up another container of fresh mozzarella cheese. That sliced up with tomatoes, fresh basil, olive oil, dijon mustard and red wine vinegar is
one of my favorites.

 

[kenmbz]

PJS - happy anniversary and many more!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

PJ, happy Anniversary.

Interesting to hear about the musicians also.

1.5” of rain, still coming down.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good afternoon.

Other than seeing a batch of lambs off to market, this is turning out to be a pretty lazy day, partially because we are still recovering from grandkid visits on Bank Holiday Monday, partially also because I just can't find the bottle of special oil that I need to turn burnt sand into pliable mastic to repair gaps around the windows. It does look a bit like chainsaw oil - maybe that is why the Husky has not been cutting as well recently


Ron, little Sassy is brave to stare down something the size of a deer. I don't think our Max has any concept of size, he will pick a fight with anything that trespasses.

Wng, 2 out of 3 sensible quotes is good going. Around here many building trades seem to have so much work booked in advance, they don't even bother giving a quote.

David, not just supervision, looked like they were discussing quality of your workmanship - hope it passed !

Kyle, good to hear your friend is starting to recover

 

[Rich B1]

Good afternoon. It is only 66 right now. Still predicting 73 for a high. Rained most of the night into this morning. Was very light rain when I drove into town this morning.

Before I switched to DeWalt 20V Max tools, my wife had bought me some Craftsman 18V tools (driver, trim saw). I liked them, but battery life was not great, worse the chargers had a short life too. Switched to DeWalt and didn’t look back. I thought she had tossed the Craftsman tools, but she didn’t. Recently, been working on the trailer and thought it would be nice to have a w2nd driver to use. Looked around for batteries/charger for the Craftsman stuff. Hard to find and expensive.

Found a seller on fleaBay who 3D prints adapters to use modern batteries you can buy to older battery powered tools. For $35 figured I would take a chance. Assembled the adapter using parts from the old battery, some wire, and some soldering last night. Worked great first time. Both the saw and driver work fine using the DeWalt battery.

So if you have older tools with dead batteries, might be a way to get more use out of them.

Only one answering the phones today at work. Hasn’t been too bad. The PIA is not here which always makes it more pleasant. He had to travel to resolve a couple of messes he created because he doesn’t know as much as he thinks he does. Must not have been any auctions recently, haven’t gotten those calls yet this week

Everyone stay safe out there

 

[rswyan]

69F and partly cloudy @ 12:00, heading up to a high of 75F for the day becoming more sunny as the day wears on. Similar forecast for tomorrow but more sunny to start. Fairly breezy both days. Neither day is particularly suitable for spraying due to the wind.

Soil temps are on a downward trend, currently at 73F down from a high of 79F back on the 28th.

Revised Ten Day weather forecast shows we're likely going to experience much cooler temps throughout the period. High for next Wednesday only expected to reach 71F.

The Woman went outside 15 minutes ago to check if her weed killer application had killed anything and came back in and announced that it was beautiful working weather and "we" needed to get moving. She even changed into her work clothes.

Went back outside 5 minutes ago (after the sun came out) and came right back in, proclaiming it was now "too hot" ...

Now she's off to the grocery store ...



Have to go take a look, but I suspect lawn mowing will be on the agenda for today.

Might get some more soil screening in as well.

Beyond that not sure.

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

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .01 inches rain.

Need to check my clean up from grouting. Ran out of daylight so I suspect there is some. Now that it’s painted probably should seriously consider tying in the electricity and hang some lights.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

70°F and .01 inches rain.

Need to check my clean up from grouting. Ran out of daylight so I suspect there is some. Now that it’s painted probably should seriously consider tying in the electricity and hang some lights.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Only grouted once, hated it. I think the instructions call for too little water, it was really thick and stiff. Never tried to grout again.

I got drywall to do, but can’t get myself motivated to do it either.

 

[sodamo]

It’s beyond me why everything else is open and doing business as normal, but essential government offices still operate like this. I’m really surprised it’s happening in TX.

Not just Texas, here too. Yet no gov employee has been laid off. My DL expires 11/24. 3 weeks ago I was able to make appointment for Dec.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Hard rain now, up to 1.8”

2”, 5 min later.

 

[sodamo]

Happy Anniversary, Paul. And many more

 

[sodamo]

David, not just supervision, looked like they were discussing quality of your workmanship - hope it passed !

Guess I should be glad they are too young to note my quality has fallen off.

 

[wngsprd]

Happy Anniversary PJ and wife. Sounds like an interesting place that you worked.

RNG, sorry your travel plans have to change...but the Oregon coast sounds nice.

After the roofing company guys left, decided to race against the forecasted incoming storm bands from Ida...started tilling the front 2 acre food plot...got about half done and was run in by a hard shower. Once it stopped, I went out in boots with a rake to work on one bad spot...got drenched...but I had forgotten how nice it feels to get rained on while working where I didn't need to care about protecting anything from the rain...at first it felt good since it was so hot and humid...Then the rain drops got much bigger and very cold...so walked back to the barn, and the sun came out in 5 minutes.

Decided to plant this section so the rain could wash in the crimson clover seeds...I was almost finished and my wife comes out and yells that we have a tornado warning over us...all of our phones are alerting. So I finish up and come in...by then the TV weather map showed it had moved north of us.

The most interesting thing during all of this is that near the door of the barn I walked up on a blacksnake that had its mouth down in a little puddle of water that had collected on the edge of a tarp...I watched its throat pulsate like when you drink from a straw...repeatedly while it sucked up water...was there 20 minutes later when I came back, still drinking. I'd never seen a snake drink before.

 

[sodamo]

Only grouted once, hated it. I think the instructions call for too little water, it was really thick and stiff. Never tried to grout again.

I got drywall to do, but can’t get myself motivated to do it either.

I carefully measured the water to mix according to directions for the Polyblend, Nonsanded. No way. I added more water to get to a peanut butter consistency.

Grout clean up ranks right with drywall mudding in my book. I find both very frustrating. When we built the house I used my tile cutoffs and extra tile for baseboard. I mixed white thinset with sanded grout and set/grouted tile in one operation, one cleanup.

 

[fiddlearound]

Happy Anniversary PJ. Sorry you don't enjoy the banjo, it's a fine instrument, difficult to play. I know many truly great players, including Bela Fleck. He was formally the BIL of a good friend. Met Sierra Hull (mandolin), and Michael Cleveland ( fiddle) at a festival in Guthrie, OK. also.
Love that music!

 

[Buppies]

Happy Anniversary Mr and Mrs PJ and here’s to many more

 

[PJSprog]

Sounds like an interesting place that you worked.

It certainly was. St. Louis Music Electronics (SLME) was the manufacturing division of St. Louis Music, Inc. We made amplifiers, speaker cabinets, and PA equipment under the brands Ampeg, Crate, and Audio Centron (and Crate Pro Audio for a short while). The Ampeg brand was the big money maker and most recognized name. It's the big name in the bass amp world, though some consider it something of a dinosaur these days. I had the fortune to meet a great many musicians, famous and otherwise, either during factory visits, R&D consultations, or industry trade shows. Mostly rock guys, but some jazz and R&B as well. 99% of them are great people who just happen to be famous. There were a small handful who were the very picture of an arrogant rock star, but most were very down to earth. Interestingly enough, the most talented ones were generally the nicest ... as opposed to the ones who were, say, more famous for their on-stage makeup than their musical abilities.

I was only there for 10 years, but it was a very transformative period in my life, and gave me some cherished memories, and more than a few good friends. It's the one job I miss.