Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Paul and I certainly had a fun morning.
Beautiful zoo, huge, though the heat kept a lot of animals out of sight.
The giraffes were so beautiful to look at and there was a baby giraffe there.

then we headed off to Cahokia Mounds museum but it was closed today.
lot of mounds including one big one.

we had a nice lunch then a trip to supermarket where I picked up a few things, and now back for a nap. Just a lovely day and Paul is a joy to be with.

two galapagos tortoises decided to smooch while we were watching

 

[buckeyefarmer]

72°F and .78 inches rain. Today looking like a wet one.

Yesterday was pretty much in the green house day. Got my gutter garden soaker irrigation put together and functioning. Like the way it works. Now I need to dial in settings. Started with 1 minute run every hour but suspect that may be too much. I’ll have to get a pic.

Also did a major rework of my hydroponics. Just couldn’t get the flow right. After letting the glue set overnight will be giving that a test run this morning.

This has gotten serious, calculated I’ve got about $300 into both systems and that doesn’t count the “free” parts. Looking for some tasty veggies as ROI.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Yea, we all spend a small fortune and lots of time for a $50 harvest.

 

[LouNY]

Yea, we all spend a small fortune and lots of time for a $50 harvest.

I hate gardening, but the other day two good sized tomatoes cost me $7.00 at a farm stand. They were good and made delicious sandwiches but dang 3 sandwiches for $7.00 worth of tomatoes is kind of steep.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good worship this morning at the Spanish speaking church my mother in law attends. They have a translator for us.
Then she treated lunch at an all you can eat grill that has about anything you’d want to eat.
Raining now, might be a nap taken.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Drew, glad to see you and Paul got together! I did notice you are eating healthier with that salad , although Paul’s fries looked pretty darn good to me !

Nice pictures, thanks !

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,

Habanero peppers getting ripe along with the others, need to get those picked

RS, we grew a few red hot cayenne peppers ! Harvest was only about 20 peppers and my oldest son likes hot and made a small bottle of hot sauce with 8 of those peppers ! Well, that sauce is hotb! 2 drops on a cherry clam is about all you want IMO !

 

[Thomas]

it has been 72 hours since surgery, this is the peak of swelling and discomfort. my arm is slightly swollen and discolored but no pain. I have been off pain pills for 24 hours.​

Glad your on the good side recovery now.

 

[Looking4new]

It rained off and on all day, so nothing got done outside or inside either.
We did formulate a plan for the platform for the BH and various implements depending of the season.
The tarp that was fobar from the Dodge garage is going to get folded into 10'x12' squares and put down first, that will kill the weeds and then the platform built on top of that. 4x4s down both sides and across the front will be about 6' of 4x4s laid lengthwise to help support the tractor when I am dropping off and picking up the hoe. I am thinking that if I have enough of them I may close off both ends and maybe the mice will have to find another place to live.
I am not creative enough on the computer to show you all how I make it.

 

[daugen]

power has gone off twice
I dove for the electrical panel to see what tripped, nope, all just fine and no bad smells. My transfer switch was fine. Though the case was warm, not hot.
So outside I go and it was the faulty 30 amp receptacle that failed again.
I told the rv host and he didn't seem too motivated to do much then, ,and now has left for the day.
thankfully I have an easy solution
use my 50 amp adapter on my 30 amp cord and plug it into 50 amp receptacle. Which appears to work just fine.
when I got here the metal cover had broken off the front exposing everything to the rain. No wonder it's messed up.

had a nice rest, thinking about what to make for dinner
can't use toaster oven, still hot and sunny out so cooking will be provided by the microwave.

I cross over the little Eads bridge to get to Missouri just across the Mississippi River, and then head West on 44.
I called Laura Ingalls Wilder rv park to check in the day ahead as they asked and they said no problem but someone was in that site, and would not be leaving til noon. So I'm leaving later tomorrow morning and will plan on 1pm

Paul said land gets much flatter soon
probably why the marketing slogan for this little campground I'm going to,
which is right across the street from Laura Wilder's home, which they have made quite a tourist attraction, is

Bring your little house to our prairie

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Drew, when I was at the arch back in 2013, I drove across Eads bridge just to do it, turned around near your campground exit and drove back across..we went down I44 to Branson. Didn’t realize the wilder place was down that way.