Kyle_in_Tex
Super Star Member
Sounds like a really nice trip. Hope the place wasn't too sentimental...did you find any cool old stuff to keep?46 heading to 76 and low humidity.
Kyle, glad things are looking better for your mom. Terrible about that Golden.
Phil, real nice gift for Buppies. When I was a teenager, always wanted a TR6. My big sister had a Spitfire for a while, before I had a license, but I got to drive it once.
Buppies, we have those flying elephants here, too. Glad Precious is about to come home to you and Holly.
Been down in eastern North Carolina last few days. My wife and her brother sold their family farm. Met the new owners...2 real nice related young couples, one with a 14 month girl and the other with her first baby due in August. They were having a blast riding the farm on their Can-am UTV. We spent all day Saturday cleaning out the stuff stored in the barn, and they helped. My oldest son helped, too. A real dirty job with decades of dust, etc. I could have filled up the Smithsonian with the snake skins.
Added in a nostalgia tour on the way down on back roads visiting small towns in Virginia and NC where our relatives once lived, and the 4 cemeteries where they are buried. Lots of memories for both of us.
Stayed in a nice 100+ year old house near the water in Washington...they have really restored that town since I last walked the riverfront a decade or more ago. A real gem now with a tourist vibe, restaurants, craft breweries, and lots of parks. Della and I walked several miles looking at the beautiful flower gardens in the historic district, and at the boats/yachts along the boardwalk. Della had her first encounter with cats, and even had a deer cross the road right in front of us shortly after sunrise yesterday. Bonus was buying gas at 2.55. Ate lots of seafood.
Came home to grass to mow 10 feet high. Maybe an exaggeration.
2 maybe 3 questions. Didn't they give seniors some sort of extra discount? Aren't they only allowed to raise a max of 10% per annum (which is ridiculous too)? Glad you beat them down. Did you have to make any threats or offers?
I remember fighting town hall here in Lee County when I was (probably still am) a newby nobody. There were 2 old bittys on the peers team that were downright mean. They would just vote no to any discount, but not give any opinion as to why. Finally, the 2 guys were willing to "work" with me and gave me about half of the reduction that I was hoping for. Not that I would've ever done anything or the sort, but I was hoping it would rain roundup in the bittys yards. I remember seeing the newspaper some time later and a storm had knocked a big tree over and crushed one of their cars and hit their home. Glad I didn't wish for that on them. I would've felt guilty for a few minutes.
Now all the old ladies in this town just love me.
Mr. Duck has been in the military and wearing his wrist band.Coffee is cooling in cup. 48° with clear skies. this morning. Heading to 88° with a few afternoon clouds and winds. Got all my lawn chairs out and cleaned them all up with pressure washer. While cleaning chairs a Pallet Fork Safety Cage arrived. That was supposed to have arrived last Thursday. Assembled cage and checked it out on tractor. Had to do some moving around of equipment to make room for cage. That was enough for yesterday. Need to get some weed killer down today. May not get that done because of winds. Always things to get done if that does not work out.
Mrs Duck has found her mate. Looks like he had to work for his position.
Everyone stay well and safe.
Good Morning All.
I don't want an answer and can only guess they were loose.
I had a tree guy go to my mom's house to look at her huge tree. Same as you, he says power company will first have to trim it to clear the lines, then he wants $2500 to knock it down to ground. Another $500 to stump grind. Ouch. It is 1 trunk about 3.5 ft in diameter, but about 4 ft off the ground, it splits into 2 huge branches about 20" in diameter each. I'm worried about the fact that it is a "V" tree, and it could split.89F no clouds but hazy sky from north wildfires.
Been a ho hum kinda day,firewood deiliver at 1:30pm just to darn hot stack wood in the sun
Plans for the evening...deck with feet up enjoying smooth cigar waiting for critters to pass by and stars.
Enjoy your evening all.
...................................
Had good long chat with NuBoo today than he took nap.
A buddy told me to call the power company and tell them we are worried the whole tree could fall into the lines, and give them permission to remove the whole tree. I might try and see what they say.
Don, when a group of my friends worked at the motorcycle/lawnmower/locksmith shop, we used to joke at the lowest guy on the totem pole and tell him to "Go out to the gravel parking lot and pick up all the surface rocks and sort them into 4 piles by size, then mix them all back together and respread them.
Contemplating re-learning Fusion 360 again. Want to draw some not so easy models up and just need to immerse myself in it again.
Thunder and lightning going on outside right now. Had 1 10 minute shower already. dog is hiding.
Son got a whole lot of the fields mowed. He's been on the smaller tractor for a couple/few days now. Maybe got 1/3 of the place done. Need the bigger tractor to do the 10 foot deep stuff, partially exaggerating. Mainly not to get stuck in the wet areas. Will wait some more days for it to dry out more.
Busy at work. Wifey made me a smoothie with strawberries and chia seeds.
Thomas, when you have a talk with that big guy, what do you tell him?
Prayers for all, Buppies and Holly, Ted and wife, our team, our Great Country, Ukraine and Israel.
