Good morning!!!!

[KilroyJC]

I also have a small culvert that needs cleaning.
I ran across this video -

Looks like an excuse for a new tool An HF auger.

We got the Horrible Fright auger several weeks ago and so far it has vastly exceeded my expectations (which are based upon a years of HF stuff meeting (or not even meeting) my already low expectation). It is nice that it includes a mixing bottle for your two-stroke fuel mixing pleasure. So far, I have only run it on my VP Pre-mix chainsaw fuel, which may have an effect, too. I have only used it with the 6” auger, I did not get the larger diameter bit. I think I will go back and get the extension shaft, though.

 

[Buppies]

46 this morning high of 82

Prayers for all our Country Ukraine

Nice birthday surprise sodamo nice wood working rswyan

 

[KilroyJC]

Good evening all. 66ºF for the start, overcast, breezy. windy with brisk gusts, overcast all day, and high temp was 81ºF. Men's Meeting to start day, then bike ride, wind penalty almost a mile. Nap after lunch, dinner was to be at Mexican restaurant, but they were closed. Got some upcoming event announcements posted for fish club.
Ron good to hear prep for tank install ready for the install. Sorry neighbor has to work during weekend, ruining install plans. Hope branch cleanup can continue soon. Neat color on finch
Kilroy sorry about no more sap. Hope you can enlarge puppy corral.
Buppies your gas prices are close, diesel higher. prayers sent.
Billy hiking with wife sounds fun. My wife and I have biked together in past but she has lost interest. Nice pics
Spike sorry no rain, we have rain forecast for tomorrow. Interesting bird.
RS good progress yesterday. should have your workbenches done soon. Hope today went well.
Ken nice pic, really cleaned the area up.
Bill weather is warming up
RNG nice you are still getting rain. Glad homeless person has left. Sorry about tractor work being rained out. Good luck with van search.
Paul did you have the cab doors open? Hope you got finish on speakers and lime tilled in.
Frits hope sill in good shape. Good luck with phone line noise. Hope you can garden using x and save your shoulder. thanks for pic of the brace
David you had full day with PO run mowing and surprize birthday party for Sophie. Hope weather cooperated.
David how thick was original? My guess is 3/16 probably thick enough.
Thomas glad short workday. hope plans worked.
Ted sorry about the idiot working to make road worse, Good luck with fixing it. Enjoy family visit.
Bird it was nice day, humidity higher than I want to see.
Drew sorry for lack of support today. Sorry about valve stem. Good to hear finally fixed. Good to hear you are safe and sound.
Doug good to hear from you. hope inspection of flail has good results.
Kilroy how true!
Ron neat pic.
Randy(wag) hope recycle trip was successful. Hope church dinner went well.
Buppies sorry to hear long day. Hope you sleep well tonight.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /learning new job, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /new skin cancer spot and treatment, /elbow healing, /wife knee healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /loss of brother, /heart issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's and David's new eye surgery recovery, Chris /neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Paul/ wife's healing from back surgery, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, / brother "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /foot heel issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's healing from surgery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

No biggie on no more sap - it was just a lark this year, more FS&G than anything else. Next year I will start earlier and on more trees —- and will have time to haunt the fleas and get a couple stainless steam-table trays to build an evaporator on-site to pre-condense sap before bringing it home for finishing.

 

[daugen]

82 degrees Buppies, can you take that?....

I'm going to find out today, off comes the long sleeve shirt.

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly…).

51F and foggy, going to 70s and sunny.

yesterday’s rain, which was supposed to end by 6-ish did not end until sometime after we went to bed, so unloading vehicle feom shopping run did not happen until just now (except for perishables - they came out for the mad dash).

Even with rain and resulting mud, we are taking Bailey up the woodlot for what is likely her final solo enjoyment of the walk - 36 hour countdown on the arrival of the puppy into her domain. . . I think she will do fine once she gets over the initial shock.

They just announced “overtime lite” at work, which gives the part-timers a $3 boost on time over regular scheduled hours, and it becomes a $4.50 premium on regular OT for the 40hr employees… and we just told them we are going to be cutting back a bit because of new puppy right in the heart of crunch time for taxes. Oh well - family comes first!

speaking of which, time to get ready to head to cube farm (only 25 days left - yay! Then we get to work on our stuff in earnest).

have a happy healthy safe productive blessed day!

 

[wngsprd]

50 heading to 79.

Sodamo, looks like a great group of friends to celebrate Sophie.

Ron, nice robin pic. We have robins year-round, but they stay in the woods most of the winter. They are in the yard now, in force. The winter birds (juncos, yellow grosbeaks, white-throated sparrows) are still here, but many of the year-round birds are starting to pair off and nest. We have goldfinches all year, but a huge flock of 100+ (really) have stopped by, maybe migrating. Birdfeeders empty so fast now.

Split my wood and moved the pallet out from the shelter as fast as I could. The phoebes are nesting right above my splitter again this year, and weren't happy I occupied "their" space.

Mowed almost all of the yard for the first time this year...smelled good last night. Primarily was mowing wild onions and patches of fescue. The warm season grasses are still dormant.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temperature is 36 and the high going to 43°F. Wind SW 8 mph. Periods of rain or drizzle this morning then 40% chance of rain this afternoon.

Today is dump and town run, I think a trip to Sundridge is in order to wash the salt and crud off the Dodge.

Two winters ago I acquired two kittens one orange and white and the other one gray and black. Last spring they were both castrated/fixed or whatever you want to call it, they didn't think they needed fixing as they weren't broken. Last winter in the middle of a cold snap the orange one decided to take a powder for 3 days and came home a very cold kittie. Since then he has hung fairly close to the house. Well yesterday his brother did the same thing, at 9 this morning he will have been gone for 24 hours. I hope he is sleeping off the effects of a fat mouse or rabbit, but I am also realistic and realize that house cats are at or near the bottom of the food chain and we have wolves, coyotes, foxes, fishers, owls, eagles and hawks. All will take a house cat for a lunch.

Breakfast time, have a safe day all

 

[riptides]

50 outside this AM, heading to 78. wngsprd is one degree warmer, expected, he is south of us. LOL. Rain pushed through a few hours ago.

Nothing on the agenda. Need to let hands and fingers recover from all the construction work these past few weeks. Numerous splinters and cuts. Dry too. Not helping.

Set up game cam in back last night. Coyote captures are the hopes.
Nothing on the Owl cam. Guess the Owl box is still vacant. Too bad, that was quite an effort getting it built and hung in the Silo.

Hope all have a great day today. Be safe, get or stay healthy.

Safe travels to those on the move.

 

[Popgadget]

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Paul did you have the cab doors open? Hope you got finish on speakers and lime tilled in.

I have found that running with the cab doors open is a recipe for broken glass. Fortunately not firsthand though!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
Happy belated birthday Sophie, and welcome to the seventies, which is different then asking if you remembered them.

45 and raining out this morning.

Yesterday was busy and productive. Got lime spread

Welded new chains on the back door of the tiller and put it to work,

Got the finish on the speakers-

Even pulled out all the driveway markers after a totally snow free winter, well at least none that required plowing.
Loaded the feed bins with grain, and basically kept moving all day.

Today I’m off to Punta Gorda, and then Martha’s Vineyard, so it’s a good thing yesterday was so productive, I’ll be sitting all day today.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all , 47 going to 66 and heavy rain.
Keep hearing from relatives and friends about heavy rains in Southern Cali,

Got some time to do pick up sticks and chipping yesterday, nice day to be out.

Drew-add to the adventure. safely got blown tire fixed without accident. Anytime something goes wrong and no real damage is better than the alternative.

Scaredy- be strong an know you will make it through, life suck sometimes, but grandchildren will be growing and you will get to watch them mature.

Sodamo - glad surprise party went so well, good work!

PopGadget - safe travels.

Back to day job, be well,

Only did 2 small areas, got a few of these plus some bigger branches.

Now reduced to chips. The little chipped has worked well so far on anything up to about 3" and starts pretty easy. Still have the larger areas to do and need to move quite a few larger chip piles before they break down too much.

 

[check]

On a lighter note, Sophie has had me laughing since coffee this morning when she realized this is her last day being 69. Told her I’d welcome her to the septuagenarian club tomorrow.

LOL! I have 9 more days to be 69. (70th birthday is April 1.)

 

[gstrom99]

Good Morning all. We got 3" of snow overnight, with lightning and thunder (lightning alert came up my phone, dog alerted me before that, at 2AM). I had put the rear blade away just the other day. Forecast for the next three days is 43, 47 & 49. I'm debating whether to hook it back on and tear up my gravel, to clear it. I may try to just "lightly" scrape it... ??

 

[m7040]

Good morning, warmer today with light rain

Got 16 feet of flower boxes in yesterday. Still have to fill them up and plant them.
The sill inspection called off since they changed it to be inspected from the outside by taking down sections of the brick wall.
Also wanted 8000 dollars deposit and open ended fix - it contract. Don't think so

Strung a line for fencing at the property line to the neighbor and set some flags for fence poles every 8 feet. Have many 10 ft by 6 inch diameter poles to go in there

The Danuser PHD is mounted on the MF tractor already and the tiller is mounted on the other tractor ready for the garden plot.

 

[rswyan]

RS
Tried posting this to your pm

David,

Thanks ... appreciate it ! ...

Give Sophie Best Birthday Wishes from us.

 

[rswyan]

55 and currently cloudy @ 10:00 but it's been raining on and off overnight. Looks like we got a little over a quarter inch. Heading up to around 60F for the high.

Need to refill the tube feeders, little guys have been hitting them hard.

Got all the drawer bottoms cut to length for the workbench and router table, plus the drawer frame fronts, backs, and sides all cut to length for the router table.

Some of those done for the workbench as well but still a ways to go on that one. Need to rip more 3/4 ply ... that I just buried on the storage rack ... and use the table saw ... which is also buried ...

Also got the pocket hole jig positioned on its mounting board and the holes drilled to mount it, and got it screwed down. Now just need to map out where the recesses need to be routed and make up templates.

Hope everyone is having a good Thursday ...

 

[Looking4new]

Good Morning all. We got 3" of snow overnight, with lightning and thunder (lightning alert came up my phone, dog alerted me before that, at 2AM). I had put the rear blade away just the other day. Forecast for the next three days is 43, 47 & 49. I'm debating whether to hook it back on and tear up my gravel, to clear it. I may try to just "lightly" scrape it... ??

If you can turn your back blade like this )> then you will save a lot of your gravel. The arrow being the direction of travel

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 48F @ 7:00AM. Cloudy early, then off and on rain showers for the afternoon. High 59F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
After today we get a dry weekend, then more rain to start the week.
Lake Oroville is still over Top of Conservation (TOC) storage, indicating that they're trying to hold on to flood management water. This early in the rain year, with so much snow load in the Feather River basin, I worry that's a bad idea.

If those are right angle extension valve stems, Drew, my experience is that they often fail. Better to carry an extension piece and screw it onto the regular valve stem only when adjusting air pressure, and keep it in the glove box the rest of the time. You got lucky on road service; my last round took more than 24 hours. Yes, I complained, and got crickets in return.

Funny story about the MH trip, Bill. Sorry your mom didn't think so.

Got a call from another neighbor asking of my security cams had caught any packs of dogs running together. It seems he's lost a calf and a cow to dog packs, and other neighbors have lost livestock, too. And last week on the old boat launch road below the house here, a homeless guy that was supposedly camping down there let his dogs loose on another neighbor that was hiking down there. Fortunately that neighbor had a cattle prod with him, so he wasn't hurt. In the video from the gate camera, I saw the homeless guy go down the boat launch road in a gold colored Suburban, then a few minutes later, the hiker followed. Saw the Suburban leave, but not the hiker. Video wasn't clear enough to get a license plate, as the camera is focused mainly on my driveway entrance. But body damage on the Suburban should be enough for a positive ID if it's ever located, and now the rest of the neighborhood knows what to watch out for.

Yesterday I had still gotten zero replies to four requests for van price quotes. So I found the sales manager's email on the dealer's website that had the best feature match, emailed him, and got nothing back from that. Then I tried the instant text message service, and still nothing. I guess today I'll try calling them to see if anybody answers the phone. Business must be good at Ford because they act like they don't need my money...

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!

 

[Mark P.]

Good Morning - currently 61° going to 80°

Drew - sorry you had tire problems - hopefully this trip will work out any future problems, so the rest of your trips will be a breeze..

David - Happy Birthday to Sophie.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Mark

 

[pennwalk]

"Even pulled out all the driveway markers after a totally snow free winter"

Now you did it! We will probably get 2 feet next week.

Chris