Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

great pics buckeye, you have a good eye for this

campground in Salida Co I'm going to tomorrow for two days welcomed me and sent me this pic of elk that are grazing nearby.
sure hope to get some pics of them

my stepbrother was a high end auto restorer who retired out here, built a Swedish oriented home himself with his two sons. I'm sure with impeccable quality and then a geodesic dome greenhouse for his wife. I can't wait to see it.

I wonder what an elk burger tastes like...
though that Wagyu burger I had at the restaurant with Ted was enough red meat for me for awhile. Maybe til lasagna tonight.
My stepbrother's wife is off in UK hiking with two sons, and he has said he's cooking so this should be interesting.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

great pics buckeye, you have a good eye for this

campground in Salida Co I'm going to tomorrow for two days welcomed me and sent me this pic of elk that are grazing nearby.
sure hope to get some pics of them

my stepbrother was a high end auto restorer who retired out here, built a Swedish oriented home himself with his two sons. I'm sure with impeccable quality and then a geodesic dome greenhouse for his wife. I can't wait to see it.

I wonder what an elk burger tastes like...
though that Wagyu burger I had at the restaurant with Ted was enough red meat for me for awhile. Maybe til lasagna tonight.
My stepbrother's wife is off in UK hiking with two sons, and he has said he's cooking so this should be interesting.


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I have driven thru Salida and alamosa. My avatar picture taken just west of there. I regret not stopping at sand dunes nat park.
I have seen elk there.

This week We saw lots of elk crossing signs, but didn’t spot any.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 1.7C and it's presently 17.1C, clear & calm.

Lovely Spring day yesterday. The High got up to 24C. It was so nice that I decided to give myself a haircut & beard trim.

Today is 'into town day' for groceries. I'll putter a wee bit this arvo.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. Light wind with moderate to brisk gusts, mostly clear sky , and high temp was 88ºF. Trip back was uneventful, filled up with 2.409 gas in Sherman TX. No nap, unpacked suitcases and bike.
Dennis neat pic, any idea how old?
Dennis wonderful pics, how far north of Ron are you?
Drew sorry about the new leak. Hope you don't fall through before the floor is ruined.
Ken glad dog is fluffy again. Neat pics
Don glad the water temp is holding in at 82ºF. Hope you get the hang of running the pool. Hope the Dr appt goes well.
Friendwithtractor glad you are getting some time with the new grandchild. Good luck with grass. Got to spend some of last weekend with granddaughter and great granddaughter.
Plowhog sorry about the bout with Covid, and sharing it with your guest. Last time I had Covid almost no symptoms. nice pic.
Bill better luck tomorrow with the government.
Drew hope the adventure continues and you remember the camera.
Oosik brisk start to the day.
David sorry something got you seedlings. Hope find a way to protect them while letting light n. Congrats on 41 years, glad lobster celebration rescheduled. Hope HH was good.
PJ glad good weekend. Looking forward to a good story.
Lou no stick bugs here.
Paul Happy birthday! Love the Zoe pic. Good to hear progress on home continues.
Thomas glad good day and good Boo story as well.
RNG triple bypass, wow. Glad he is still around after being sent home. I hate sand burrs. Glad solar system working well up north.
Drew glad you had a great time. great pics.
Drew nice pic of Ted and family.
Drew Nice pics. Like the Jackalope.
Dennis nice light house.
Randy(wag) glad faeries finished their job. Nice the the shop fixed bead for free. Glad you now have plenty of Teflon tape
Bill glad you got shelter rearranged and room left over. Thermostat sticking in tractor?
Masseyrider glad you got go for drive in GT, and maybe another soon.
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, ******, Ukraine war, and Country.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 46° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 65° with mostly sunny skies. Late afternoon a thunderstorm came thru and dropped .5" of rain. Got Tiger Lillies next to house thinned out and delivered bulbs to neighbor. Started pressure washing house siding. Got front of house done. When fields dry today will get flail mower out and cut side and back fields.

Everyone stay safe and well.

Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 45 and going to a high of 63°F. Wind NNW 2 mph.

Last evenings T-storm didn't happen, but the rain poured down for about 15 minutes. Just enough for the two tom cats to decide they wanted in...NOW!

I think today I will dump the gas out of the Z-turn, maybe. Maybe I will conserve energy. Too early to tell.

Have a safe day all

 

[m7040]

good morning, 59 going to 69 and raining pretty hard

Up too early. Work out scheduled for this morning using the strong rubber straps
D called last night. Her trip is coming up soon to Japan but first a trip to Berlin Germany

 

[daugen]

good morning all
a chilly 44 in Alamosa CO.
waiting for coffee to finish, then going to shower and kill some time before leaving.
Will visit Great Sand Dunes park first, only half an hour from here, then on to Salida.
first to the Walmart there, need a new outside rv doormat, mine ripped, and some minor food items. Then off to Salida campground

woken up with more leg cramps. Drinking more water, think I need some more mustard on stuff.

I sure like those gas prices Mostly. It's about 3.40 around here

 

[Thomas]

45F mostly cloudy day mid 60's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...most of the day leave control and that should be enough.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[daugen]

Peets coffee sure tastes good...little milk and my one teaspoon of sugar.
makes the first cup sweeter of course but then no more sugar
I don't think one teaspoon a day is going to drive up my AIC.
it's the incredible number of teaspoons in our food that I have to avoid.
Every box gets read for "added grams of sugar". When they are adding white sugar to
your food, which sadly seems to be done to almost everything, it's like we are all hooked on some crack sugar. When we don't get it, it doesn't taste good.
We've been conditioned to keep eating and buying, eating and buying.

I used to take my boat up the Patapsco River in Baltimore and pass the big Domino sugar plant there.
Unfortunately the substitutes the food industry has provided us have consistently been investigated to be bad for us, like me finding erithrytol in my Truvia. I'm taking heart medicine and I want to eat that chemical that is hard on the heart?
no, so I went back to plain sugar, just using it as sparingly as I can.

can anyone recommend a sugar that is not ten bucks a pound and doesn't add a lot of flavor, like honey does?
maybe I need to learn to like honey more.
put some medicinal New Zealand Manuka in the first cup.
by the second cup, probably fine.
maybe
sure don't want to muck with a good cup of coffee

 

[daugen]

I like honey in tea
coffee seems to be a battle of tastes
bet we have a few opinions on that...

my sister's herbal tea with honey made my throat
feel better, good stuff.
coffee is more like a drug, how we wake up, hydrate since water is boring.
but water is better for us

doing leaves Thomas, sounds like a Fall job, enjoy

 

[m7040]

Peets coffee sure tastes good...little milk and my one teaspoon of sugar.
makes the first cup sweeter of course but then no more sugar
I don't think one teaspoon a day is going to drive up my AIC.
it's the incredible number of teaspoons in our food that I have to avoid.
Every box gets read for "added grams of sugar". When they are adding white sugar to
your food, which sadly seems to be done to almost everything, it's like we are all hooked on some crack sugar. When we don't get it, it doesn't taste good.
We've been conditioned to keep eating and buying, eating and buying.

I used to take my boat up the Patapsco River in Baltimore and pass the big Domino sugar plant there.
Unfortunately the substitutes the food industry has provided us have consistently been investigated to be bad for us, like me finding erithrytol in my Truvia. I'm taking heart medicine and I want to eat that chemical that is hard on the heart?
no, so I went back to plain sugar, just using it as sparingly as I can.

can anyone recommend a sugar that is not ten bucks a pound and doesn't add a lot of flavor, like honey does?
maybe I need to learn to like honey more.
put some medicinal New Zealand Manuka in the first cup.
by the second cup, probably fine.
maybe
sure don't want to muck with a good cup of coffee

In my earlier life spent several years in the design/building of plants for making Dextrose/glucose and white sugar. Today I avoid sugar and sweeteners if at all possible. When used to not using it is not missed at least my experience

 

[NHBX]

Good morning,
48° now highs mid 60’s mostly cloudy and maybe a few sprinkles later today.

Nothing exciting going on just making slow but steady progress on junk clean up in the yard. Mowing needs to be done but sort of waiting for more leaves to come down, two birds one stone. Pick up critter food this morning and load the truck for a dump run later. That’s about it for the day.

Enjoy your day everyone

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct, 50 to start going to 67 ! Looks to be another nice fall day.

My youngest son wants me to take his pickup to the dump and get rid of all the garbage from the BD party they had on Saturday!

Will do some puttering around the house trying to get things ready before the cold weather comes !

Hope all have a blessed and safe day !

 

[daugen]

Native American dream catchers
have to have a hoop in them to catch your dreams
like a net for fish
was a symbol of Native American unity.
now folks earn a living making this. Or reselling it

one for each of the ladies who have been watering my gardens

 

[daugen]

I wonder what Phil is making now. Glad he is marketing his extras, some would be hard to part with.

Popgadget, Ted and I passed an alpaca farm in NM. They must do ok in the heat which surprised me with all that fur. Maybe these are short hair alpacas?

 

[wngsprd]

64 and cloudy, rain has stopped, and heading to 73.

Rained 9 of the last 10 days. No complaints, since we had such a dry summer.

Wife got a text from our youngest son while he was at Costco up in NY...said extremely long lines and sold out of the usual popular basics like TP, much like during the C flu...said likely due to the East coast dockworkers strike, and concern over Iran attacking ******. She was at our local Walmart, so stocked up a little bit.

Rained all day until 5 pm, so worked inside...did a very thorough cleaning of my coffee roaster...then started a batch and got an error code...did some quick troubleshooting and just needed to recalibrate the fan motor...then it ran like a charm...roasted 3 batches of brand new coffees that I know my wife will love.

Prayers for Helene victims and ******...approaching 1 year of them getting attacked...hard to believe there are still Americans being held hostage by the terrorists.

 

[Engineer42]

Peets coffee sure tastes good...little milk and my one teaspoon of sugar.
makes the first cup sweeter of course but then no more sugar
I don't think one teaspoon a day is going to drive up my AIC.
it's the incredible number of teaspoons in our food that I have to avoid.
Every box gets read for "added grams of sugar". When they are adding white sugar to
your food, which sadly seems to be done to almost everything, it's like we are all hooked on some crack sugar. When we don't get it, it doesn't taste good.
We've been conditioned to keep eating and buying, eating and buying.

I used to take my boat up the Patapsco River in Baltimore and pass the big Domino sugar plant there.
Unfortunately the substitutes the food industry has provided us have consistently been investigated to be bad for us, like me finding erithrytol in my Truvia. I'm taking heart medicine and I want to eat that chemical that is hard on the heart?
no, so I went back to plain sugar, just using it as sparingly as I can.

can anyone recommend a sugar that is not ten bucks a pound and doesn't add a lot of flavor, like honey does?
maybe I need to learn to like honey more.
put some medicinal New Zealand Manuka in the first cup.
by the second cup, probably fine.
maybe
sure don't want to muck with a good cup of coffee

I've never cared for sugar or cream in my coffee. Plain old black coffee works for me. Occasionally, when out to supper, an after dinner coffee with a shot of Baileys is the only time I add anything.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 59 going to 70 and cloudy.
Got the lawn aerated. Some areas mowed
Moved stuff around to get the walk behind blower out.
One tire is flat, was dark by the time I found that. Tried wrapping bungie cords, tie down straps , no luck, but I was tired and it was dark. Put away Simplicity and massey and went inside for dinner.
Will revisit tire today.

Since I became lactose intolerant at 25, I got used to plain black coffee, never liked sugar in it.

Even though it rained for a week, it wasn't much total rain. Ground was still a bit dry for aerating. Had to use extra weight to get the tines to sink in.

BEF - looks like you are getting to see a lot on your trip. Nice pics.

Drew - the ladies will like those dreamcatchers.

Back to the grind, be well,

 

[txdon]

Wife got a text from our youngest son while he was at Costco up in NY...said extremely long lines and sold out of the usual popular basics like TP, much like during the C flu...said likely due to the East coast dockworkers strike, and concern over Iran attacking ******. She was at our local Walmart, so stocked up a little bit.

The port of Houston is on strike also I'll check out the local panic buying at the grocery store latter.
Thanks for the heads-up.

Good morning! 61˚F East wind, cloudless sky, heading to the 90s.

PT then grocery shop then house maintenance and get things ready for the neighborhood mega parking lot garage sale Saturday.

One of my EGO batteries started to not charge. I called them and they had me go through several test and determined the battery was defective. They sent me a new battery and it is charging for the first time now. This is the third battery to go bad in the last 10 years but they do stand behind their warranty by sending out new replacement batteries.