59F and cloudy @ 12:30 ... heading up to a high of 62F with a slight chance of a light rain shower in the next six hours.
Yesterday's high was only 62.2F, still well below normal temp (70F) for this time of year. But I enjoyed the sun.
Slightly below temps will continue until next Friday when the bottom drops out, with highs only in the low 50's and lows in the high 30's. There are a couple of days (Wed, Thurs) with highs in the 70's though.
Thankfully, it's predicted to be mostly dry throughout that period, with only a slight chance of of a little rain today. Historically October tends to be one of our drier months.
Looks like a high pressure system to the north will keep the rain from Ian mostly at bay. Hurricane Center now predicts that what is left of Ian will turn and head southeast so it would appear that we've mostly dodged the bullet from that as far as rain goes.
Started moving stuff out of the barn and sorting it, once that's done will need to work on getting it tarped up.
Got hay wagon moved over to the house yesterday, along with much of the dimensional lumber that was stored in the barn. There are still a couple of pallets of lumber left to move however before I can finish sorting and organizing that.
Also gathered up and staged more scrap metal for the trip to the recyclers.
Continued grading work in front of pole barn.
Located rippers for box blade and got those installed, although I still need to grab a linch pin for one of the retainers and lock it in.
Rental company dropped off rough terrain scissor lift, guy that dropped it off said he didn't see any issues with where I plan to operate it:
It's fairly easy to operate if a bit unnerving from 5' up while on the platform. The only issue I had was taking care to go light on the joystick on the clay I added on the front side of the barn to avoid digging in. I had run over the clay with the Kubota to compact it, but the dirt was a little dry for proper compaction and the additional weight (>8,000 lbs vs 2,500 for the Kubota) makes the scissor lift want to dig in.
The ground has continued to dry up down there yesterday with the sun we got. That will continue over the next five days.
Agenda for the rest of the day:
Check live trap which I rebaited yesterday.
Get that linch pin put in on the box blade.
See if I can locate the 2" hitch ball so I can move the log splitter out of the barn. If I can't (easily) find it, will probably just run down to Harbor Freight and pick up another one.
Probably grab another 4 gallons of diesel if I go out.
Get vapor barrier and geo-tex unloaded from the van and sweep out the cargo area.
Continue working on moving stuff out of the barn and work on sorting out stuff I have already moved out.
Finalize and place Menards order for some additional items.
Hope everyone is having a good Saturday ...
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