Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

strange that it is 60 degrees and mostly sunny
and will be 19 tonight

Bill keeps leaving the door open!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 7:00AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 66F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

I use Open Office all the functions and features of Office with no cost and no subscription fees.

+1. Been using the Mac version for years. I won't allow anything from Microsoft in the door.

Realtor #3 turned out to be very competent and a good communicator. But a real steady-as-she-goes type, meaning not much get-up-and-go. She would probably work out in the end, but take longer getting there. I need someone that is going to advertise in more than just the MLS, as the buyer for this place is probably going to come from a major metro area looking to get away from the rat race. Had a number of another realtor I got from a neighbor, but it turns out she's far enough out of the area she wouldn't be available to show the house to prospective buyers, and I don't want just any realtor wandering around alone in the place. So it's back to the beginning with realtor #1, and should get his price estimate Monday and start the ball rolling for the listing.

Realtor #3 pointed out the dirty firnace filter in the hall ceiling and the dirty screens over the air intake for the inverters in the garage. The filter was easy to clean, but the grill was stained, so it got a coat of paint that I just happened to have on hand.

From there I got in a round of weed spraying, also killing time waiting on the tow truck driver to haul away the Vanagon parts car. He showed up right on time, had no trouble loading or with the paperwork, and left me with a hundred dollar check. Way easier than giving it away, which was the original plan.

Got going on one of my least favorite jobs of limbing trees. I'm good for about an hour before my arms feel like they're going to fall off, so I got started just before lunch. Right off the bat I found that some knuckle head put the chain on backwards, and unlike the Makita chainsaw, the Makita pole saw needed a wrench to flip the bar. It was all up hill back to the garage lugging that thing. Then I discovered that one of the Makita batteries wouldn't hold a charge, so there was another trip. But when finallly going, the saw worked well and I only managed to get clobbered by one branch. And instead of piling them on the side-by-side, I put the grapple on the tractor and logged some easy seat time. And since I had the tractor out, I dragged a couple of downed trees down to the burn pile.

At that point I finished up the weed spraying, going through almost all 2 1/2 gallons of RM43. Ouch, the price of that stuff has more than doubled in the three years I've been using it.

That got me to sundown and a hot shower. One of the trees had some poison oak growing at the base, so parts of me were already wet from hosing off the log chains anyway.

Today I'll pressure wash some patios, and finish loading the van for the trip home tomorrow. Might have a campfire tonight, but maybe won't feel like fooling with it.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

58 deg and the wind has cranked up. peak 25 mph so far, on my semi protected gauge.
Will drop and get cold tonight.

Got 1 broken fence post dug out of the ground, was able to dig beside it, then push it over some with digging bar and get a chair around it, and let hydraulics do the rest. If I had put post hole digger on tractor, would have been easier yet.

Hope power stays on, printing out tomorrows class just in case..

Took ranger for a spin down to the creek, everything looks ok. Ranger started sputtering again once I got down there, ran good at first. put some more E0 gas in it when I got back. Some of the gas in it is very old, trying to get some new mixed in.

 

[sodamo]

66°F, still no rain

Fun day with my honda EU7000 generator. Was amazed how much water in the tank. Even more so how much rust given this tank is just over 2 years old. Gave the inside a prolonged acid bath with muriatic acid., followed by a baking soda rinse, soap and water, final swish of Heet, then a good dry. Took advantage and cleaned up and painted exterior rust. Quite pleased when back together and it ran nice. Until I refilled the fuel and it was leaking. Thought, crap, it’s toast. Did some research on possible repairs, then started to remove again. Found the leaking was at the fuel pump. I had to reuse the old seals and apparently didn’t get seated quite right. Carefully reinstalled, problem solved. What should have been a simple project took me to end of the day.

Today I will get it wired back into auto start/transfer switch

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Kids went sliding out in the field this morning ! I guess that’s a good thing because it’s snowing now and temperatures will be dropping steadily throughout the afternoon!
Snowing now, I guess a squall coming through in front of the cold front !

Couple pictures of the kids out in the field !

 

[daugen]

got my sister off with her/my car, she was very pleased with it.
I can't get her to use cruise control much less adaptive cruise, she is a seriously
nervous driver that always seems to have her foot well planted on the accelerator.
She has definitely had a lifetime of speeding tickets too, which she could totally avoid
by using cruise. No sale...

thankfully she has a year newer volvo in California and almost all the controls were the same.
Difference was her husband never got the nice model, which I bought as a CPO, but I doubt she will use
all the features. Hopefully her phone will pair up since I have zero idea how to do that.
if I'm driving I don't want to be on the phone anyway. Maybe she can get SIRI to talk to her; I saw an Amazon
connection in there somewhere.

Sat afternoon, time to put feet up. And listen to wind howl through the woods behind my home.
I'm sure the variety of the wood might matter, seems local ash has a certain "hard" sound to it.

Ken, what musical note/frequency is the wind noise through the woods?
He's got the same woods...
would be fun to have a frequency analyzer.
hmmm, I wonder if Popgadget has one.

speaking of whom, I need to go watch him play. I bet I'd like the music.
I just shun loud noise due to my ears, but maybe I could listen a little while.
or hide in the corner and put my noise cancelling headphones on.
He's got a big gig today.
nice to have friends who are musicians when one has zero talent.

 

[daugen]

actually I'd like PJS to come to town and we'll find the largest church organ in Philadelphia.
And he could play it.
A TBN exclusive...

I'll never forget getting goose bumps listening to organs in several huge cathedrals in Europe.
almost like they would give you religion just listening to them, which I'm sure was part of the motivation.

have a Klipsch 10" sub under my desk.
bring on the organs, music with real notes in the 20-40hz zone
I read that some pipe organs can go down as low as 3.5hz with peaks around 7 hz, and we can't hear that
pretty sure we can feel it, moving a lot of air

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning. Overnight Low of 14.9C and it's presently 15.1C [heading to 20C], overcast and fairly calm.

All's well and Paddock #2 was chain-harrowed yesterday.

As per usual, I'm off to Church in about a half hour and then the rest of the day is His.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Drew,

He's got a big gig today.
nice to have friends who are musicians when one has zero talent.

Drew, I think that’s a bit of a stretch to say you don’t have any talent ! I think you have plenty of talents, just maybe not many musically ! But I’m sure you can discern good from bad musically !

 

[Buppies]

Thanks wngsprd great idea

Prayers for Ken and family

59 presently very windy big storms next week clash of hot and cold spring coming heat to start in April oh joy.

Wife picked up by police again getting divorced so she says told police I was monster.

Prayers for all silent or spoken our Country