Good morning!!!!

[Wagtail]

Buppies, Mate, thanks but this all happened 15 years ago.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Disappointed that storms formed all around, but not one drop! I have never been anywhere that the forecast is so far off.... the way the guessers were hysterically reporting "heavy rain and severe storms", it was for ratings....

Errands were successful, started running the drip irrigation. Even if it does rain, out here it's impossible to overwater anything.....

Maybe tomorrow will be the day for rain.....

Talked with the BIL today. He is in excellent spirits, not giving up. The "new" chemotherapy drug made him really sick last night. He hasn't had that problem before. He has anti-nausea meds which helped. Then got zapped with radiation to 3 different areas today.
He mentioned he was talking with another patient. They told him they have been getting chemotherapy for the past 18 years! I didn't think one could survive chemo for that long!

We are picking him up in 2 weeks, he'll stay with us for 6 days. Wifey really wants some time with him.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

73 going to 99 again.

Took a good hike yesterday with some weight in my backpack...training for a future long hike. Then went on to town for some groceries. Picked up a couple of subs for us...they had a new one...salsa verde chicken cheese with grilled onions...I knew my sweet wife would love that. Then I cut her hair, and she traveled back to son and DIL's house yesterday to babysit again. Della and I played outside, then came in to cool off and chill.

Prayers for your daughter, m70.

Pack a huge thermos of coffee to share with your mountain top casual friends. Della looking great.

They left for the day garage temp 96. They have just have a little trim work to do and door handles to put on. Over 230 sq ft of storage space added to garage. Finishing up tomorrow and then I can organize and load them up.

While they were doing the installation I was busy chipping away rock on the hearth room fireplace in order to remove the glass to clean. It was apparent this was the first clean in since it was built. It took me 4 hours to chip away the obstruction rock so we could pull the glass panel up and out.

The pool looks too good to pass up. Water temp is 90, going to turn the spa on for sore shoulders from all of that chipping with s hammer.

Don, garage looks great! Where are the fishing poles???

Good morning! 77˚F even with cloudy skies we will be in the upper 90s today. I hope the garage cabinet installers finish before noon to take advantage of the 80s temp.

Hospice has me trained, after his breakfast he leads me to the veranda to watch the sun rise while I drink my coffee and read TractorNet.

Today is the one year Anniversary of my Mothers death. May she RIP.

Yes, may she rest in peace.

I feel your password pain, Paul. The past few weeks I've been trying to update the address for my vehicles and driver's license, and the DMV website has been anything but helpful. Finally got a call back from a real person yesterday, who couldn't find anything wrong and told me to wait another couple weeks to see if it fixes itself. And if it doesn't, I'm to photograph the error message on the screen, print it out, and take it with me to a DMV office. Then and only then will I be admitted to their hallowed halls. Yes, they're forcing us to do all our registration and driver's license stuff online. And the idiots minding the store can't even fix a simple password problem.

The previous tires on the Ford came from Costco, and after five years they refused to rebalance or even rotate the tires, claiming they should be replaced. BS, they had tons of tread left and showed no cracks, splits, cuts or other defects. Even when they did rotate them, it took them well over an hour, even though I had an appointment. I won't be back to Costco for tires again.

Sorry about your DMV drama....
Discount tires just told me they retire 6 year old tires.

Prayer for your father both aunts and you Ken

Yes, ditto Ken.

Trip to Costco went well. Left over $600 for what appeared a lesser amount of stuff. We did splurge on a couple of food items, some nice crab legs and the stuffed salmon which we’ll share with friends this afternoon. The hot dog and soda made for a cheap lunch, cheaper than filling the truck with E0.

Yep, a basket of stuff costs $$$ nowadays.

Good (Friday) morning. Overnight Low of -0.2C and it's presently 9.7C, overcast & fairly calm. Rain is predicted this arvo.

Nothing really planned for today except to purchase a couple of concert tickets for PostModern Jukebox who are touring in Aus in February. I'll need to book flights too.

That's about it, take care all.

G'day Scotty. As I wrote and in my case, it was initially discovered via the ultrasound. The next day I was then scheduled for an MRI (the one where they inject you with some sort of 'yucky tasting' iodine(?) solution). A couple of days later I visited the Surgeon who confirmed that it was cancer, just by the size of it, and a week later I had the nephrectomy.

I know that this time-line sounds 'fast', but I was in the Navy at the time. Because of that, I don't even know what the whole thing cost... it was just 'done'.

Easy-peasy... they just, key-hole, popped the 'bad boy' out (along with the associated lymph nodes). No "chemo" or radiation follow-up required.

Thanks for sharing Wagtail.

Thanks all for sharing photos. Still love them.

Work has been very busy, I've been working hard until the afternoons when I take some breaks. I'm not a good multitasker, so I have to write down needed tasks when I think of them, to remind me later.

Wifey made a delicious supper. Pork butt sliders, quartered baked potatoes. She worked hard in the kitchen all day.

Had 1 storm get really close Wednesday night. Not a drop fell here but lightning struck really really close. Then this morning about 8am ish the storms hit giving us over an inch of needed rain. Another very close lightning strike that made everyone jump.

Prayers for our team and our families, our nation, Ukraine and Israel.

The sands of time don't stop flowing, but I know of a great, eternal retirement plan that doesn't cost money. Send me a pm if you want to know more.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 71ºF for the start, overcast, light breeze. Light wind, moderate gusts, sky cleared up to partly cloudy, and high temp was 90ºF, HI 95ºF. Made coffee to start day, puttered a bit then bike ride, then worked on will/estate plan. Nap then missed dinner with group due to extra fish club meeting. Regular monthly meeting followed. 2+ hours
Ron Glad you got some rain and fields cut. Hope grocery shopping and mowing went well. Nice clean up crew.
Bill All the leach fields I have seen in US are flat.
Drew 1 inch rain nice, glad it's cooler. I can imagine quick marriage looks bad, hope it works out for them. I remember Randy being a car guy, didn't his first wife die?
Thomas hope a good day, how long before arm healed?
Phil hope new boiler lasts a good long time. Nice wood projects.
Don congrats on rain, rain gauge dry here. Hope good visit with friends.
Scott(vt) hope your humidity drops.
Ken sorry about leak around fireplace. Easy way to tell if ignition switch, try remote starter switch, and monitor battery voltage before and during using remote starter.
RNG Hope you had good trip to old house, back to the heat
Buppies glad you got rain, Our lake is down .6 feet. Hope you catch up some on rain fall. prayers sent.
Dennis hope you find problem with compressor.
Plowhog glad you were able to see Big boy. It seems like the posted schedule more of a suggestion rather than something they adhere to. The yellow tenders were added because many of the cities cannot supply enough water for it. Nice pic.
Drew and the inside window guy has one rag/towel right?
Bill for me, it is so much cooler on the bike with short hair during the hot season.
Ted sorry you missed out on good rain. Glad garden tractor repair wildly successful. Price of stuff unreal. Hope you can keep it going.
Gstrom glad you found problem, hope you fine good replacement regulator.
Drew first new car we bought was 1980 Pontiac Sunbird, we drove the wheels off it. didn't buy another new car till SL series Saturn.
Ken congrats on getting Jeep back in service. 130K not that many miles. Should be able to start Jeep in neutral as well.
David glad Costco trip went well. Hope you can get update on LS.
Frits glad parts on order for mini split, and it's under warranty. Hope wife's bone are fine. Have fun planting.
David glad you are getting good use out of hair cut kit.
David my HOS would require that it look nicer. City of Dallas would require that I stop. One cannot not collect water that would fall on ground, and that is enforced
Don you get more leeway than we do here.
Paul glad good progress on home. There is a lot going on that wall.Hope the duct work goes smoothly. Hope mowing went well.
Lou never realized gear oil and engine oil used different scales to calculate viscosity.
Randy(wag) hope you got good tickets.
Dennis good chance compressor is bad.
Ted sorry no rain. Ted friend of mine has been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer since 2003. His PSA number went up so treatment strength has increased. Hope you both get good visit with him.
Kyle glad you go some rain. The hard part for me is prioritizing. Glad you got good dinner.
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]

Sodamo/ David, early morning Amazon package was iHealth BP reader. Got a chance to open package this afternoon and use it. Almost as easy to use as wrist BP reader. Thanks for the Amazon link.

Thanks Ron
Envious, none on the items I ordered for Prime have progressed. Earlier arrival date is July 28th.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 51° clear skies this morning. Heading to 78° with plenty of sun. Grocery shopping went good. Lots of full shelves. Grass got mowed. Front tire switch worked. No grass pulled up when making fast turns. PT this morning. Then trip to gas station for some Rec gas. Need to restock garden pond with goldfish. So a stop at Pet Supply Plus store for a dozen of them.
Practicing posing for camera.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

good morning all
nice to wake up and not hear roar of a/c; 62 out now, just lovely and the weather for next
few days is very nice, much cooler than it has been.

I made rv reservations for one night in Delaware next week and I see the forecast is rain the whole time.
I may cancel out, not sure

probably will mow the lawn later today, need to grease the mower deck, sounds a little noisier
I hit a small rock a while back and need to see what kind of dent it made in the blade. Still cuts ok but...
I like sharp blades. So I might take them off today

if you were ordering a new 75k truck today, how much would you want off list price?
They are back to discounting left overs by 5-8 grand in places.
I'm thinking I should stick hard at 3k under msrp.
definitely a changing market, lot of inventory out there now

 

[wngsprd]

67 feels a lot better outside. Going to only 86. Rain was not forecast for us yesterday, but we got 4x as much as the day before... .08".

Don, that lemon tree looks great...30 lemons makes a lot of flavor! Is that the same one you've been growing for years?

LS, prayers for your BIL.

Kyle, supper sounds delicious.

I also got my eufy cams...downloaded the app and set them up...real smart system...the S350 is kinda spooky, looking like ET with 2 big eyes turning its head to watch you walk around. Tested the S340 outside where I want to place it, and it picks up the wifi signal quite well...so will mount it today.

Took another good hike with my backpack yesterday. Hot and humid...didn't see another soul.

 

[ronjhall]

Drew, around my area I would start at 10% discount. I should add that I have family, friends and neighbors that work for all the auto makers in Detroit area.

 

[NHBX]

Good morning all,
60° now highs in the lower 80’s and sunny today. Dew point 53° and supposed to stay mid 50’s all day. Winds WNW 5-10 mph. Hope they’re right, need to get mowing and trimming done before it gets any taller!

A trip to Wally and Lowe’s as soon as I finish coffee and then outside and hopefully some productivity lol, if I can get 25% done of what I have planned today I’ll be happy .

Truck is back home, new brakes on the front and with an inspection sticker, wallet is a bit lighter but I have no desire to work on my vehicles anymore.

Enjoy your day everyone
Stay safe and healthy