Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 70ºF for the start, overcast, light breeze. Light wind some showers heavy at times, High temp was 80ºF, HI 86ºF. Made coffee to start day, putter, bike ride, lost wallet off bike somebody I did not know picked it up and called me and gave me his address and I picked it up. Made trip into town insurance and grocery shopping. No nap. VFD board mtg, then grilled brats. 69th birthday today.
Resuming with 7/4 6:25 AM CDT posts:
Scott(vt) When the grands or great grands get up. everybody gets up .
Bill sorry about the rain. Hope the mowing went well.
Paul seems there are a few changes from 50 years ago.
Drew nice veggie pic from garden. I meant to grill mu squash from step daughter's garden but got in too big of hurry and no prep on squash.
Rom glad you proved priest wrong I understand about missing your mate.
Plowhog glad you got generator running sorry about the 1K parts bill.
Don sorry about all the problems installing new keypad locks. Hope you got all your chores done, especially pool plunge.
Drew my first wife was sure a winner, and she made sure I worked as hard at making marriage work as she did. The ones that grow are are the one that both partners are not all in.
RNG glad you got old house about cleared out. Good to hear firefighting is making progress with fires. Hope good trip south.
Paul sounds like good progress on old folks home. Nice pic. Hope you agenda worked out.
Dennis sorry about software lookout.
Dennis glad you had weather for the morning anyway.
Buppies sorry about no SC trip. prayer sent.
Ken sorry about rain. Hope call to your dad went well and table progress continues.
RS hope rain did not mess with your day. Sounds like day went well.
David hope celebration went well.
Ted hope you get more rain. Hope the heat doesn't awnings down too much. Nice pic
NHBX who would eat you tomatoes before you get them inside ?
Paul thanks for offer but no room for then here.
Dennis glad you beat rain with your grilling early
Thomas sorry Boo got nap but you and I got no nap
Frits Hope the grilling turns out. Sorry no rain. Glad you were able to water bushes. Good news from eye Dr.
Randy(wag) Glad you got quiet day.
Buppies glad you got some some rain.
David glad good celebration. sorry not all samples.
Postes from 7/5 3:55 AM CDT posts:
Ron glad good weather foe parade. Sorry meal interrupted. Hope you got SSQA done and grass mowed. Nice pic
Drew sorry not much rain, about the same here. Glad good fireworks.
Thomas hope day went well.
Drew glad grilling went well.
Bill hope day went according to plan
Plowhog hope trip to CA and back went well. Nice Rigby pic
NHBX Glad no big plans.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid,blood sugar /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Israel, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[sodamo]

Happy. Birthday, Mostly, and many many more

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 65° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 81° with rain. .26" of rain over night. Remontants of hurricane Beryl will arrive early evening. Forecast is now over 3". Got shop cleaned up and tools put away yesterday. Today will be a conserve energy day.

Saw a report from Eddie Walker. Over 6" of rain and power outage.

Everyone stay well and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

Happy Birthday Mostly!

 

[wngsprd]

71 going to 97. No rain yesterday, but getting closer.

Happy Birthday, NHBX and Mostly! Many many more!

Mostly...lucky one of the many good, honest people found it.

Roasted 4 batches of coffee...enough for my wife to take plenty to my son and DIL when she goes to babysit today for a few days. I'll have Della duty 100%.

 

[daugen]

There is a lot more to the Ft. Worth Stockyards then cows.
Things To Do | Fort Worth Stockyards

agreed!
though this does look pretty cool

The Herd: Daily Longhorn Cattle Drives in Fort Worth, Texas

Watch the world’s only twice-daily cattle drive every day at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District.

www.fortworth.com

 

[NHBX]

Good morning all,
68° now highs in the low 90’s cloudy humid and scattered boomers this afternoon.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes.

No plans for today again just take it easy.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy
Prayers for those affected by Beryl

 

[NHBX]

Happy birthday Mostly!

Glad you got your wallet back intact.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
Happy Birthday Mostly! still a young pup...

another very hot day, 96 predicted.
I'm taking that rv hydraulic ram to a local service shop to see if they can fix it, then will stop
to visit a disabled friend at his new home. He can no longer get out easily so good to visit him.

bet my electric bill will be a doozy with all this a/c use. Don't care, can't live without it.
I would have been a terrible pioneer in the old West.

 

[daugen]

John Deere appears to be trying to reinvent itself, no longer considers itself a tractor/ag company
but now due to farming AI, they are a tech company first. Really?....
And now they are laying off 600 US workers and sending work to new plant in Mexico.
Demand for farm equipment is down after going bonkers for a while

I'm guessing like Microsoft JD wants to sell tractors with such proprietary software that you have to pay a subscription
fee every year to use it. Except for the largest agribusinesses, have to believe there will be pushback on that.

I wonder if those half a million dollar class 9 JD tractors are going up in price as fast as our cars.
I read in a variety of places that the cost of fertilizer has really jumped and is hurting the small farmers.

thanks for input on trip. I'll never get home if I try to see too much but equally true unlikely I'll ever do this again, so........

I'm spending lots of time in Badlands and Mt Rushmore area. Hopefully I'll get some bison pics there

here it's bad enough if you hit a squirrel or small animal, won't wreck your car like a deer.
I'm beginning to think hitting an armadillo would not be good, like a giant turtle.
I usually get out and carry turtles off the road...except for snapping turtles. Good way to lose a finger.