Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

The rider would not start this afternoon, but the mouse debris is gone, the wiring harness is intact, the battery took and held its charge, the spark plugs look to be in decent shape, and fuel pump seems to be working so it looks like the fuel and/or fuel lines and filters are in need of some attention.

Maybe ground line needs some shining?
If safety seat switch try unplugging than replug.
Maybe fuel filter clog?

 

[Thomas]

Did I share this short I put on YouTube?
2.3k views since last night.

We have 2 do the same thing.

 

[Alien]

It is difficult to find a safe disposal for dead rats after removal from the electronic trap. Don't want to put them in the rubbish bin and worried the dogs will find them if I just throw them out somewhere. Solution. I have a drop system on my drone. Fly about 400 meters over the bush away from home. Might hit a Russian on the head if I'm lucky.

 

[jbrumberg]

Maybe ground line needs some shining?
If safety seat switch try unplugging than replug.
Maybe fuel filter clog

Thomas- Yep. I need to rule out everything. I do have a spare fuel filter around here somewhere. Probably my fuel stabilizing additive gelled.

 

[Wagtail]

Looks like Wagtail and Alien have a good choice...

Psilocybin or magic mushrooms are naturally occurring and are consumed for their hallucinogenic effects.

There are many different types of magic mushrooms. The most common ones in Australia are called golden tops, blue meanies and liberty caps.3 Magic mushrooms look similar to poisonous mushrooms that can cause a person to become very sick and can result in death.

<snert> I wouldn't know... heck, I need to be told if there's any codeine in a tablet or cold medicine or I go 'weird'. Even a whiff of marijuana turns my stomach.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Thursday) morning. Overnight Low of 1.5C and it's presently 15.3C, sunny and calm. I love the quiet of an early morning when I can hear a soft, dull 'roar' in the distance. When I lived in various Big Smokes that sound would be that of traffic... out here, I know that it's the sound of surf from the East.

Successful run into town yesterday and, after returning, I got stuck into clearing a wattle branch that had broken and died, entangling itself amongst its neighbouring tree.

An early text from the "Mad Agisting Horse Woman" requesting a paddock shift early tomorrow arvo.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[m7040]

The rider would not start this afternoon, but the mouse debris is gone, the wiring harness is intact, the battery took and held its charge, the spark plugs look to be in decent shape, and fuel pump seems to be working so it looks like the fuel and/or fuel lines and filters are in need of some attention. That was the plan for today so I took a break and watched the bird wars over the suet cake.

Do you have spark at the plugs? Will it run momentarily on starting fluid

 

[Buppies]

Came home watching Perry Mason feel asleep just got up from chair going back to la la land

 

[rswyan]

60F and clear @ 21:45, heading down to around 47F for the low in the overnight.

Made a little forward progress today.

Got front yard mowed:

Woman came out towards the end of that and started weeding around the east peach tree. She got that all done:

But wasn't entirely happy with it ... for some reason which I couldn't pry out of of Her ...

While She was working on that I ran down to Eddie's real quick for some mealworms. Got one of the feeders from the basement after I got back, dusted some worms with calcium, and went out and got it put up and loaded it with 20 mealworms, relatively close to the occupied bluebird nest box:

Just before I borrowed the Cub to go do that She was done on the peach tree ... so we collected up Her tools and equipment and brought them up to the house.

After I finished with putting up the bluebird feeder I dropped the dump cart at the house and went over to the barn and grabbed the Chapin tow-behind spreader and brought it over to the house and dropped it there.

Then I hooked up the dump cart to the Cub and loaded up a rake and the Stihl blower and went up to the compost pile and cleaned off the Cub.

Came in the house once that was done. Woman suggest baked beans and cold chicken sandwiches for dinner ... which was fine with me ...

After dinner I told Her that I was planning on heading down to Menards to pick up the order and asked if She wanted to come along and She said "Sure, might as well ..."

Made the run down there and got loaded up fairly quickly with no issues except that they were completely out of one item: the pelletized lime.

Guy went back inside after we loaded up, said he was going to check when it might be in. Came back and said about three weeks.

So while he was in checking on it, I checked on the Menards app, I got a message saying they were completely out of it: no stores had any in stock ...

That seemed kind of odd ...

I just checked here after getting home with a web browser on the desktop and both the Kent and Cuyahoga Falls (closest to me) show "in stock".

Weird.

At any rate, it might be a sign that the rear brakes on the Sprinter will getting done tomorrow ... rather than liming the yard.

Probably a good thing ...

Some pictures of the dogwoods here, which are now in bloom:

Hope everyone had a good Wednesday ...

 

[sodamo]

Good news at Sophie’s ophthalmologist, swelling down, vision improved to 20/50. Drops looking to be a long term treatment, back next month.

Breakfast was very good. I had a platter called “moco saurus” (Don, don’t read) Bed of fried rice, fried chicken filet, hamburger patty, 2 slices spam, kailua pork, topped with brown gravy and 2 fried eggs. Their take on the Hawaiian Loco Moco. I hardly eat more than 1/3 and the rest comes home for the boys. Sophie got a bacon cheeseburger omelet which comes with hash browns and 2 plate sized pancakes which we share but never finish. The furry boys will each get 3, maybe 4 breakfasts from what we brought home. Pre pandemic we ate there most Friday mornings before hitting Safeway.

Did make some progress on the flail. Current thinking is too just bypass the damaged mount point for now and use the upper set. Looks like I can use the PTO shaft from rototiller without modification. Of course this could mean the damaged mount never gets fixed.

Relaxing in Hot tub this afternoon particularly relaxing.