Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

56 sweet degrees. But going to 85.

Buppies, sorry about your medical issues. No fun.

Don, good breakdown on your high temps. One thing our weatherman did once, was a breakdown on the lowest high temps...something not often reported...but amazing how even though there are hot days, some record breaking, there have been other days that broke the record for being the lowest high on record for the date.

Looks like the forecast is for the hurricane to downgrade to a trop storm before California.

Spent most of the day doing inside paint prep and painting the primer coat. Today apply the finish coat, which might finish me. But I need to get outside and enjoy the weather.

 

[daugen]

those are beautiful green peppers you grew Buckeye.
I like them stuffed

 

[KilroyJC]

Good Morning!

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

58Fgoing to low 80s.

anecdotally, this summer has been one of the “coolest” for our location, with temps in the 90s only two days so far.

Truck is spending the weekend at the shop, I am a big fan of “The Triangle” and in most cases “fast” is not the one I pick (although cheap would be nice once in a while… it never seems that cheap is really option anymore…).

opened up hives, one was ready for another medium box, the other barely had drawn comb in the first medium I put on last month. So even though it is summer I will probably start feeding some syrup to give that hive a boost. No obvious signs of any problems. I may have a more experienced beekeeper come and do an inspection with me in a week or three.

I have to pick up some new exterior doorknobs, the ones we have are original to the house and are sticking terribly and hard to turn, and Mrs. Is really having problems with her arthritis… and thanks to YouTube University I can now remove our old cylinders and swap them into new handle sets and keep the same keys. So that will be a trip to BigBoxBlue today. I should get some more boiled linseed oil to treat all the tool handles for the fall.

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

 

[Buppies]

Sorry about mri issues Drew only been in once got very hot

 

[Thomas]

About time you had long run of good luck Buppies.

 

[Thomas]

Dang...those high temps would make me go under ground until September,hope the jet stream takes big dip down for you folks Don.

 

[Thomas]

59F cloudy light wind slight chance shower upper 60F for high,most important of comfortable humidity.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Wife and I setting on the deck last wife spotted Little Boo slowly walking towards the apple trees than disappear into the woods,couple mins. later Little Boo came running from the woods across the front field making lot of distance from BIG Boo BIG Boo stop the chase halfway of the front field return back to clean up rest of fallen apples....Mrs. and trouble focusing camcorder of the action...dang it.

Plans for today...talk trimmer for nice walk maybe mower lawn here and there that needs it.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 60 with a high of 75 and sunny. A nearly perfect day in my opinion.

Yesterday was spent doing repairs and finding more damaged stuff from the lighting strike.
Apparently the limb that was burning Monday that I doused with water was a symptom, not the disease. My DIL and grandson were out for a walk and saw smoke coming out of a tree about 50 feet in the air. Apparently the tree was partially hollow and was burning, another limb burned off and was on the ground smoldering as well. After consulting with the fire chief, he said to call 911 so they would dispatch them. They came with a pumper and a field truck, and of course the police responded as well, even though I made it clear it was a non emergency.
Grandson had a great time, he had been in the Pumper before, and knew right where the air horn was. He made sure he had on his fire hat, and was part of the crew.
Hopefully it’s out now. I called someone to climb the tree and top it just to be sure.
After that excitement, I went back to replacing the camera in the barn. I set it all up on a laptop before putting it up, but it gave me fits once it was on the network. Turned out to be an IP conflict. The address for the camera was assigned by DHCP to another device when the router was reset. I try to set up as much as I can with fixed IP to avoid that.
Drove a ground rod at the barn just for the Ethernet cable, and checked that one off the list. Hopped on the Lazer and finished the mowing that I started Thursday. Had a great time with the band, and slept like a baby afterwards.
Son just called me, he wants me to come down with the tractor and grapple for what ever he is doing. Grandson is on his way up to help me.

 

[gstrom99]

High yesterday was 78, and a good breeze. Perfect. Forecast is not so nice...

93 today, Sun and Mon.
104 Tues, 105 Wed, 102 Thurs.

I should mow this morning, before it starts to get bad.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Guys,
50’s to start going to upper 60’s with much reduced humidity ! Some spotty showers early !


Drew, sorry you had issues with MRI ! I had to have one last year at our local hospital. Long story short, I got there the morning of appointment after having filled out an extensive form detailing my previous back surgeries! I was at the location that had the most powerful MRI machine in the system ! Problem is, I have a Harrington Rod in my back, and this machine could have caused me significant problems if I had the MRI on that machine ! I informed them them previously on the form before I had gotten there ! I guess no one read all of that. So I ended up having to reschedule to another less powerful machine ! Would have liked to see the expression of the MRI operators face had the rod in my back come flying out in that procedure! Well maybe not, I would be dead ! Best of luck in the future !

TxDon, Thankyou for that breakdown on temps ! Very interesting! Wonder what kind of spin the news media put on hot summers back in the day !

BEF, we also grew some nice green peppers this year ! Would love to have you post your and the Mrs recipe for your stuffed peppers on TBN !

All have a blessed and safe day !

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 71˚F heading to 103˚ which will be cooler than yesterday. The irrigation system can still be used only one day a week (stage 2 restrictions) so I have to supplement with legal hand watering after 7pm. This is helping the grass stay mostly green but it is growing uneven so I will mow the front this morning. My neighbor has let his yard die so there is a definite line of demarcation - brown/green between us. "They" say the grass goes dormant and will come back but I have places in the yard where it has not.
The HOA has formed a committee to explore artificial grass which is now banned.
No rain for July or August.

My tomato plant is blooming, I water it twice a day, and it's in the hose shade half the day, but it has been nibbled on. First by the deer and now by tomato worms. I finally found the two worms and re-homed them so I hope that solves the case of the disappearing leaves.

 

[riptides]

55 outside this AM, heading for mid 80's. 90% humidity.

Grass and weed whacking are the agenda. Dump and pool chemical run if the day moves along.

Hope all have a good start to the weekend, be safe. And a run of good luck is in order for all!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

those are beautiful green peppers you grew Buckeye.
I like them stuffed

They will get stuffed, then we will get stuffed.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I also finished mowing around barn and other half of field yesterday, and picked 1 of the 2 tiny apples on the Paula red tree and had a tiny bite.
Snagglepuss is off chasing birds now.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning, 60 going up to 80 and sunny.
Sheetrock out for delivery today.
Sons other band here for practice today. Tomorrow they play a bar in south NJ.

Last nights VFW concert went well, he's sad his 2 friends are off to college and this is the last concert with that band. He is over the one kids house a lot and that kid here.
They put out the album they recorder on bandcamp last night, TBOT is the band name (The Bottom OF This). One of our friends from a few towns over showed up, and we caught up a bit after the concert.

Did a quick takeout at Halal Brothers for Gyro's after that.

Buppies, prayers for you that this all heals up

BEF - I used Fusilade on the STiltgrass. It did kill some of it and slowed the growth on the rest. Only spray I found that even affects that stuff without killing everything around it.

Drew - sorry to hear about your experience, seems quite common from people I know who have gone through it.

Will try to get to the Grange fair tonight after dropping the kid off at work.

Well, delivery is 5-10 min away.
Be well,

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My auto insurance, USAA has a discount program (safepilot) that tracks various driving aspects, one being cell phone use. Not exactly perfect as I got dinged 1 time using the Map program. But I’m on track for a 15% discount.

too much overwatch for me. I sometimes "nail it" to pass people.

Thanks, Ken. I seriously wanted to do this when we built the pool initially but various factors dissuaded me. Sophie has confirmed we should do it. She is the primary user. Expensive, but going with the Circupool Core system as it appears it can take advantage of working with just my DC pump (direct solar powered)as well as the 240v pump. 39k gallons I guess will take a lot of salt initially. The pool is self draining but rain provides about 1.5-2 refills per year. Except pumps, all plumbing is pvc. Gonna be a new adventure.

Would there be a problem for overflow of saltwater into your lawn?

Humidity is a problem further South in Texas. We are North Of I35 the humidity is only in the morning and has been mostly around 30% during the hottest part of the day 1-5 PM.
We keep the AC on 77 during the day and 73-74 at night.

Good morning! 73˚F 75% humidity, heading to 105-107˚, it's going to be a scorcher, the outside furnace will be working overtime today. We have 2 alert warnings today, excessive heat and an air quality alert - high ozone.

Humidity here has been abnormally low in the 20's late in the day, thus the high temps.

Good morning! Low of 59°, heading up to 89°. The guessers are predicting a 60% chance of a t-storm. Saw some lightning last night, storm never reached us.....

The addition, as planned, is a "go". Now need to try to plan around any 'weather guesses'..... so far, I don't have any faith in their guesses....
Not going to cut a hole in the house if it's going to rain... wait---- does it rain here?

Today's agenda is to take a ride with the wifey and Max up to Santa Fe. The family has pitched in for our anniversary and and are getting us Meyers Lemon and Mexican Lime trees from a nursery there. We'll stop for lunch somewhere.....
I can't believe that it will be 40 years together this Saturday......

Need to finish watering 2 zones when we get back. Yesterday's irrigation schedule went ok, except for the one zone that I shut off the timer...... then forgot about switching zones. Flooded out 3 planters and some landscape beds into the driveway. Is that considered a "deep watering"?

Everyone have a great day!

Sounds like a sure way to attract rain....opening up a hole in the house. Maybe I should consider it. I'm sure y'all need rain too.

Successful trip to the nursery, lemon and lime trees have a new home.
They got the stock in a couple of weeks ago, only 2 lemon trees were left. Both had a little 'crook' in the trunk about 8" up..... probably why they were left. Wifey always fights for the underdog, so it has "character"..... as the wifey called it.....

It even has a lemon growing on it already.....

They won't survive much of a freeze if it gets below 25 degrees. They say 20, but I'm suspect. My friend lives 25 miles inland from the gulf coast and his lasted for 20 years but died in our big freeze of Feb 2021. I hope yours do well.

Headed south, to work on my mom's a/c in her car. Hope to be able to just put a can of Freon in it to get us past the hump in these hot days.

RNG, good report. Sorry for the DMV bureaucracy.

I had to skip ahead for time saving this morning. sorry if I missed important stuff.

Shop light sitrep. I took down the aged 2 bulb 8 foot fixture. It had a bad ballast. Main problem is I don't like being on my ladder at the peak of my barn maybe 16'? I have 1 fixture that holds 6 T5 bulbs in it already installed maybe 2.5 years ago, with 2 bulbs burned out. I had another "spare" fixture w/bulbs waiting to install. I went ahead and installed it. These bulbs may say 50,000 hours but they are nowhere near that longevity. Now I'm seeing T5's are about $15 each at the box stores, or $5 each if you order qty 25 online. I don't need 25, but if the ballasts hold up, I guess I could use them. T5's are going away, as are most other fluorescent bulbs. They gripe about the tiniest drop of mercury in the bulbs, but don't have a problem injecting it in our bloodstreams.

sorry the Springsteen concert got cancelled.

Glad the hornets are done in.

Prayers for our team, our country and Ukraine.

 

[check]

good morning all
cool morning, 61 only going up to 80 today, very nice Saturday

I'm off with rv this morning to BIL's commercial shop, where his son will put rv up on lift
and install suspension parts. His son is very slow and methodical and this will take all morning I'm sure.
Two holes have to be drilled through the frame, hard stuff, glad I have that new set of super hard drills.
His father and I will be double checking his lift points; visions of rv falling off lift...
I know nothing about heavy truck lifts, but father and son do.

had a surprisingly bad experience at hospital getting MRI last night. For first time in my life, after having many of these, granted most
in larger machines, I had a real panic attack in the machine. Made mistake of opening my eyes when inside, top 1/2 inch from my nose,
I'm not a small guy and really fill up that space. Felt trapped, suffocating, heart pounding and hyperventilating.
Pushed the button and he got me out quickly. We settled, and I tried again. No luck. Embarrassed, had to say I couldn't do it.
Need to find an open MRI. Thankfully the tech was good and did not make me feel like a jackass. Which I did.

I keep in mind Mickey Mantle only hit one out of three. I sure swung and missed on this one.
will find a plan B and keep on trucking

Drew a small dose (.5) of Lorazepam will help. Ask your doctor for a prescription before you go to the next MRI. I am getting one in November, but only for my knees. I guess I’m going to bite the bullet and get the replacement for both knees!

 

[scootr]

Good Morning. Much needed rain on the way today! Category 4 hurricane off the coast of Baja Mexico due to hit Southern Cal this afternoon and evening. Rains lasting for 2 days. Boy we need the water. Last good rain was in April or May. Hope there is not too much damage with this storm.
Going to finish up some retention pond clean and shape up at a neighbors place this AM. I took 5 hrs pay but the job keeps growing - dunno if I can get it all done to my satisfaction in the time aloted. Homeowner asked if I can move dirt over there last night instead of just concentrating on storm prep. That cut my productivity on the pond... as I explained.
Got my own preparation to finish too.
Tentatively excited for a big rain event.

 

[txdon]

Buppies what do you think of this weather guy?

 

[scott_vt]

55 this morning double nickels got several things to do

mostly if cancer more surgery some results came back some better some worse

Prayers for all our Country

Good Morning Buppies,
Our prayers to you on further biopsies ! Praying for good outcome !