Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

One quarter inch of rain today needed wish it was more kinda chilly 52 for high

 

[kenmbz]

My trench/brook finally dried up to just mud, no running water.

We had so much rain it took 22 days to drain from the top of the hill.

I talk to my western friends and they are scorched.

We have a burn warning out now and had some brush fires across the river.

So this is spring ??

 

[buckeyefarmer]

One door on.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Some drone flying also.

 

[Buppies]

Beautiful home BEF

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Ken, I thought about taking down a dead locust tree behind my house, but didn’t. I have another dead elm up near the corner of my property, the bark is starting to fall from it. I’m gonna let it go on it’s own.

Didn’t get the oil changed today in Subaru. Need to change ZT oil also.

Thanks Buppies. Wish I could move my house to S. VA. it will be hard moving from here. I built everything.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Son mowing

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 67ºF for the start, mostly cloudy cloudy to start cleared up for afternoon, breezy. North wind, strong morning, eased off some in afternoon, sky mostly cloudy morning, cleared off in afternoon. High temp 80ºF, DP 44ºF, Low forecast for 59ºF at midnight. Bike ride in morning, 62 miles, 3 bad dog encounters. Used dog spray 3 times. Trek ready for Katy just need gravel tire on(next week). Nap after lunch then Kiwanis fund raising BBQ, it was good.
Randy (wag) you are having some very nice weather.
Don did not know about that ride, thanks for the link.
Don nice pic from new trail
RS we planted 3 red bud in STL, only one made it. hostas are looking good.
Don sorry about the stinging caterpillar.
Bill sorry about the price of KFC, hope Z-turn shows soon
Rich hope you get your racing in at Lima
Billy sorry frost got some tomatoes. how long for hikers to finish? nice pics
Thomas hope you got your spruce cut up.
Roy hope trailer assembly goes well.
Buppies can you handle all that water?
Dennis hope you get all that done
Buppies maybe bear will talk nicer now
Paul glad the rock worked for the manure pile. Wish you were along for today's ride had some very aggressive dogs that needed to stop mid stride.
Randy hope the caddy helps with getting fuel in the machines.
Ted hope you used your windless day well.
David hope energy conservation goes well.
Drew sorry about the digging with hand tools, should teenager be doing that? have fun with all the rechargeing
Roy naps are always good!
Dennis nice pic hope painting went well.
RS sorry sleep issue messed with nice day, hope battery ok.
Dennis good Saturday pastime, watching paint dry
Roy good to hear mower started. Still hope cart assembly goes well.
Randy glad grass is mowed sorry to hear about apple and fig tree. Wish I was closer no B25 close here.
Ken good to hear ash tree in the way are down and you are still upright nice pics
Ken glad your trench dried up, bet the hill dried up much faster.
Dennis nice progress, and drone flying yea!
Dennis hope you get the oil changes done.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery and breathing, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new(2) cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife head wound healing, Thomas/gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, / passing out issues, /family issues, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife's heart /rib and back and torn bicep, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, Paul/ wife's disc issues /dog seizure, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, James /wife's fall and recovery, Drew /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

He was lonely and looking for a wild turkey, but all that we had was Bud Lite.

While we were there a stinging caterpillar dropped down from a tree and stung my wife. After some Benadryl and an hour, the fire sting diminished. I have never seen one like it before, it was 2" long, brown and spiney. She was in too big of a hurry to get it off her I did not get a pic.

I've seen some brown ones, but not with multiple spines.....maybe a "kink" near the front end and back end of the worm. But mostly we see the little green stinging worms, which are prevalent right now. Sounds like a bad bite. Makes me wish for a cabbed tractor.

My friend has his "new to him" 2012 Massey Ferguson 2670 split apart right now. Bought it at an auction, knowing reverse was out..If only it was a couple of gears and a shaft...It has an Eaton 8x8 Brazilian made transmission. He only has the transmission apart right now, and the parts are over $5000. He intends to pull the rear differential apart next and is guessing maybe another $3000 in parts. More later as I find out.

Free EGO mower update. I did not do much tinkering, but did take it apart to inspect a number of wires, but did not find anything suspect. I put the stuff back together and plugged in a battery, and it fired up, but only for a maybe a minute, then flashed the amber light like it has too much load. From what I could find online, this is a documented symptom, but nobody has put forth a 100% fix other than possibly just needing a better battery. I was thinking that possibly a better battery might make it work, and asked the extremely kind individual if I could maybe just borrow a known good battery for just a one time test....Well, the extremely kind individual dropped off some other batteries, that are in better shape. And now it will run for maybe 10 minutes on each. But I found some perfect uses for it. I can trim around the home/garden/trees with it, and even better yet, use the bagger attachment and put the fresh green clippings in my compost pile. I'm back in the compost business again!!! What a great thing, a recycled, electric mower, contributing to my compost pile! But, if the kind people who gave it to me want it back, they can have it back since it seems to be working fine now. Oh, and I used it for another task, with the bag, I vacuumed up the red tip photinia dead leaves that are falling right now. Thank you kind people.

Speaking of dried red tip photinia leaves, I don't put them on the compost. They are like JET FUEL on a fire, so I put them in my burn pile. They burn fierce like dry juniper cedar branches.

Popgadget, nice rendition of "F"d up. Isn't it funny how many names a pet like that can pick up over their lives.

Really nice hiking pictures wing. Your energy level is amazing.

Drew, sounds like you're trying to overdo it. Please be careful.

Mowed with the Steiner Beast today, maybe about 4 acres. It really mows nicely. Then, on the Deere little tractor, I took off the boxblade and put on the shredder. It must have dull blades, because it couldn't touch the quality of cut compared to the Beast.

The garden is doing well. The bush green beans are sprouting up after Monday's 1.4" rain. Tomatoes are silver dollar sized now. White onions are nearly ready to pick. Potatoes have their first flowers. Zucchini seem to have outgrown the aphid infestation.

Mostly, hope the dog spray works well. I hate when dog's come after me on a bike.

It got up to 90+F today, and very humid. Looks like some small showers are popping up late now. I hope we can get more rain.

Prayers for the sick, for our country, and for Ukraine.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

'maters are doing well.

 

[Wagtail]

Good afternoon. Lovely night with a low of 12C, 0.3mm of rain in the gauge and some wind. Overcast. High of 20C but the wind chill makes it more 17C.

The woman who agists her two horses took one, early this Sunday morning, to help muster some cattle over in Pyengana... which means that the remaining little black mare is pining for her paddock-mate.

If all goes well tomorrow, I'll chain-harrow and then mulch (with the Z-turn) Paddock 6.

Take care all.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp was 37 and going to a high of 63°F. Wind E 9 mph.Mainly sunny!

I got the implements out of the field that I want to convert to 3 point. The drag disks came out in two pieces, so I will use the front half and use the pans on the rear half as spares. The 'V' plow is set up for the welder guy to do his thing with, as is the back blade.
The trailer is loaded for the dump run today. After that I will flip it upside down and take a good look at the frame.
I may have to buy a welder and do it myself.

Got a phone call from the people that are selling me the Z-turn. It is in their shop getting put together and I should see it by Wednesday.

Time to see if I am a millionaire. Not likely, but a couple of million would be nice right about now.

Have a safe day all

 

[Helogabals]

Still rather cold for May. 10°C

Started little rain so cancelled grass mowing, cancelled terrace deck replacement
I have moved to shed, will do deck for entrance door of greenhouse.

Yesterday was rater nice. Went to shop for mulch, ride motorcycle for annual inspection

 

[Buppies]

50 degrees .29 in of rain yesterday high 70 today storms possible maybe severe

Prayers for all Ukrainian people our Country

 

[daugen]

good morning all
39 going to 73 today in warming weather, sun and clouds
bit sore this morning, no surprise
off to church and my zoom czar won't be there to help, it's all on me to turn all the switches on. I did it once before, should be ok.
We have a microphone system running through a separate mixer jacked into the pc, think I'll turn that on last.

Ken, remind me please where and when your son's car wash is. Might be able to swing by after church. I'll be near Newtown anyway and that will save me coming home
and doing it myself this afternoon.

when I bought the Makita chain saw it came in a package with two 5ah batteries and a big double battery charger, latest model.
That was working hard as was my other charger but everything should
be charged back up now. Sure is nice to carry four or five batteries and be able to exchange them easily among tools. Now if they could only make those battery packs lighter.
I use the 3amp one instead of the 5 on my drill. Leaf blower is the real hog, uses up juice way faster than shrub trimmer or weedeater. It's only the single battery model; they have a larger double battery one but I wanted the lighter weight unit. It still has plenty of power for what I use it for.

RS, have you always been an avid gardener or did you get bit by the bug? You have done amazing things with that property, must be a real delight to look out and see things you planted bloom.
Or at least still be there and not munched...

look at those tomatoes, Kyle I'm envious.

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-05-01, 0729

36° right now...high in the upper 60's today
Reckon I'll continue the chores I started yesterday...and clean up some stuff in the garage. Once it warms up, I'll go back to aerating the lawn

 

[daugen]

Roy, how are you feeling?

 

[Thomas]

34F clear sky upper 60's for high...afternoon t shirt weather.

Hellooo May kinda hard to believe 1/3 year has pass already.
Outside chores done E muffin time.
Sat on the deck last evening with kitten enjoying smooth cigar listening to peepers.
Early run to store this morning for the Mrs. diesel OTR $5.86 gallon,Friday afternoon gallon gas $4.09 now $4.29.
Spruce tree finally clean up,try pulling both stumps out since they were up rooted,ground was way to soft maybe July give it another try.
Plans for today...remove tire chains from Kubota than wash them spray the with oil hang until late fall,check game cams,putter,do some grilling late afternoon.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, how are you feeling?

Pretty good, actually!
No angina in several days

Thanks for asking!!

Since I'm posting...while working in the garage, I really had to acknowledge I'm not only a packrat, I'm an impulse buyer as well. Actually, I've known both for years. I really need to have a garage sale!

 

[Buppies]

Everything is wet too wet to mow or get tractor out have more fallen trees to cut up motivational thing