Good morning!!!!

[two_bit_score]

On a forum that constantly touts no politics and has this for a popup ad

Everyone comes around for money.

 

[sodamo]

Caught up with postings. Had hoped to see one from Bill. Extra prayers he is OK.

 

[newbury]

Lot noisier than a chicken

And the eggs are a lot bigger!
My Dad raised peacocks, geese, ducks, chickens (of all sizes) and pigeons.
He often cooked breakfast for us on weekends and had a fondness for mixing egg sizes so if we asked for 2 eggs over easy it could be feast or famine.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Newbury,

He often cooked breakfast for us on weekends and had a fondness for mixing egg sizes so if we asked for 2 eggs over easy it could be feast or famine.

That was excellent !

 

[two_bit_score]

Good Afternoon!

Got in last night from E. Texas and the wife wanted to go eat BBQ. I knew there was a reason I picked her. That was her Mother's Day meal.

She left this morning to go East. I'll be tied up for a few weeks here. She called me when I was on the way home yesterday and said her Yukon needed a battery. So I picked one up on the way in and put it in this morning and she took off, happy as can be. I need to take the core back today and get my core fee. Checked around the place this morning and everthing looks good. Poured out an inch and a quarter from the rain guage.

Prayers for L4N. That sounded serious. Hope he is getting treatment.

Buppies, prayers for you and Mrs. Buppies, too! Thomas prayers for your decision. All needing healing and help have my prayers. As well as Our Nation!

Have a great Sunday evening and enjoy the ice cream.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 11:30AM, still in Orcutt, CA. Partly cloudy. High 66F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph.
No sign of the aruroa last night or the night before; fog came in right after sunset. Probably too far south to see anything, anyway. I did notice a gap in the Davis weather station reporting on May 10th at around noon, but have no idea if that was caused by a Starlink outage or not. It's been steady ever since.

Disturbing news from Bill. Hope we hear from him soon.

Wait'll that thing starts talking and squawking, Kyle. You might start wishing it kept on going.

Move wise, Kyle, I'm down to some big heavy things, each requiring a trip by themselves on a rented trailer, with room in the van for pretty much everything that's left. But the list of fix up stuff is pretty long. One is to paint the little 5x8 trailer, and I'll use the FEL to tip it up so it's sitting on the tailgate so I can paint the underside first. Then lay it down to do the rest. I wanna do that up north because the tractor won't make the trip south. So that's at least another week delay. Another is to replace the main valve on the water softener resin tank that controls the thing, but it won't be delivered here until Wednesday. I've given up predicting a finish date, and can only keep chipping away until I get there.

So far this trip I've only managed to unload the van, the majority of which is lengths of steel shapes that will land on new hangers in the shed out in the back yard. Lots of lifting and walking to get 'em back there, and there's another load of the same in the trailer.

The lawn was also getting toasty, so I fooled around with the four sprinkler controllers to get the water going again. That got me wondering about how much it will cost to irrigate things, as I'm not used to paying for water. Here are the rates, to which are added about $25/month of administrative and tax fees:
Tier 1 - 0-14 CCF or 10,473 gallons - $4.318/CCF or $0.5772/100 gal. or $0.0057/gallon
Tier 2 - next 28 CCF or 20,945 gallons - 44.966/CCF or $0.6639/100 gal or $0.006639/gal
Tier 3 - over 42 CCF or 31,418 gallons - $5.711/CCF or $0.7634/100 gal or $0.0076/gal

Water ran for about 45 minutes during the tuneup, and the Flume Water meter said I used almost 1000 gallons. I'll have to keep an eye on that meter over the next week to get a better handle on what that'll do to the water bill.

Last Christmas I spent a few days glamping at a lodge outside of Kernville, and purchased some chandelier type crystals in antique shops in town. A few days ago I found them hiding in the bottom of a courier bag I use when traveling, and finally this morning rigged a ladder to get up into the skylight in the living room to hang them. Woohoo, sparkly rainbows all over the walls and ceilings, but only when the sun hits the right angles. As my old 6th grade teacher Mrs. Mauer used to say, "It takes so little to amuse some people".

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend.

 

[daugen]

Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 11:30AM, still in Orcutt, CA. Partly cloudy. High 66F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph.
No sign of the aruroa last night or the night before; fog came in right after sunset. Probably too far south to see anything, anyway. I did notice a gap in the Davis weather station reporting on May 10th at around noon, but have no idea if that was caused by a Starlink outage or not. It's been steady ever since.

Disturbing news from Bill. Hope we hear from him soon.

Wait'll that thing starts talking and squawking, Kyle. You might start wishing it kept on going.

Move wise, Kyle, I'm down to some big heavy things, each requiring a trip by themselves on a rented trailer, with room in the van for pretty much everything that's left. But the list of fix up stuff is pretty long. One is to paint the little 5x8 trailer, and I'll use the FEL to tip it up so it's sitting on the tailgate so I can paint the underside first. Then lay it down to do the rest. I wanna do that up north because the tractor won't make the trip south. So that's at least another week delay. Another is to replace the main valve on the water softener resin tank that controls the thing, but it won't be delivered here until Wednesday. I've given up predicting a finish date, and can only keep chipping away until I get there.

So far this trip I've only managed to unload the van, the majority of which is lengths of steel shapes that will land on new hangers in the shed out in the back yard. Lots of lifting and walking to get 'em back there, and there's another load of the same in the trailer.

The lawn was also getting toasty, so I fooled around with the four sprinkler controllers to get the water going again. That got me wondering about how much it will cost to irrigate things, as I'm not used to paying for water. Here are the rates, to which are added about $25/month of administrative and tax fees:
Tier 1 - 0-14 CCF or 10,473 gallons - $4.318/CCF or $0.5772/100 gal. or $0.0057/gallon
Tier 2 - next 28 CCF or 20,945 gallons - 44.966/CCF or $0.6639/100 gal or $0.006639/gal
Tier 3 - over 42 CCF or 31,418 gallons - $5.711/CCF or $0.7634/100 gal or $0.0076/gal

Water ran for about 45 minutes during the tuneup, and the Flume Water meter said I used almost 1000 gallons. I'll have to keep an eye on that meter over the next week to get a better handle on what that'll do to the water bill.

Last Christmas I spent a few days glamping at a lodge outside of Kernville, and purchased some chandelier type crystals in antique shops in town. A few days ago I found them hiding in the bottom of a courier bag I use when traveling, and finally this morning rigged a ladder to get up into the skylight in the living room to hang them. Woohoo, sparkly rainbows all over the walls and ceilings, but only when the sun hits the right angles. As my old 6th grade teacher Mrs. Mauer used to say, "It takes so little to amuse some people".

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend.

RNG, not sure my decimals are in right place but does mean a range of 5 to 7 cents per gallon?
Or one tenth that? I'm hoping one tenth

 

[daugen]

I can remember paying 50 cents per gallon for water.
Abacos, I forget which one island. My bucket list trip in my own boat with just my wife and I at least fifteen years ago.
and what terrible water it was, full of sand that I spent three or four years getting out of my boat's systems.
Finally had to get tank professionally cleaned. And that in Ft Lauderdale thankfully is possible but sure is not cheap.
In NC my memory is the rate was half a cent a gallon. And then I got some kind of farm rate lower than that.
Some of you may remember I wrote to the head of the local water department and asked for a better rate so I could afford to
water the vegetables going to the well known local food pantry. And the next month my bill dropped in half.

faith in humanity maintained

 

[daugen]

I mean in California right it could be one tenth of a cent basic but add on 13
different taxes and levies for righting ancient wrongs of all conceivable types
and you now pay a nickle a gallon...
Those commercial growers sure don't pay that.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, not sure my decimals are in right place but does mean a range of 5 to 7 cents per gallon?
Or one tenth that? I'm hoping one tenth

$0.5772/100 gal.
Move the decimal point two places to the left and you bet $0.005772/gallon.

But even if you used no water at all you'd pay a $20.78/month service charge.

Then add on:
CAP Prog Adm Surcharge - $0.107/CCF (A CCF is 748 gallons)
SMWRAM Surcharge - $0.042/CCF
WRAM/MCBA Surcharge/credit - $0.31/CCF
CPUC Fee - 0.7% of the total of everything else on the bill

This last bill was for only 1 CCF, and the total was $26.01.

Only $4.32 was for actual water usage!