Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Prayers for your dad and family BEF

70 this morning high of 85 later big rains never showed yesterday.

Glad pups are back sodamo

Hope they find what’s wrong Drew

Mostly prayers sent

Wagtail sounds like fun times coming up

Got plenty to do better get busy

Thomas how is new job?

Prayers for all our Country

Hi Scotty hope sale goes smoothly

 

[Buppies]

Hope things improve riptides

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Thanks for concerns for Dad. Sister said he ate pudding and jello last night.

My IBC tote is full from condensate water, so I drained another barrel from it and took to the garden. Didn’t drop level in IBC much.

Also mixed and sprayed weed juice.

Need to return old golf cart batteries to get core charge back.

Guy backed out on buying the cart, without coming to look at it. Relisted it showing new batteries, new price to accommodate.

No rain here, had storm coming yesterday and it just evaporated before it got this far. Even had flash flood watch posted.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 73 going up to 90, got .75" of rain last night.
Tree fell two roads over and our power went in/out for a while, but eventually stabilized.
Yeah we got rain, I won't have to water today.

Found more army worms on the tomato plant, now moved on.
Can't imagine stinkbugs on the plants, they made a mess of our roses a few years back as did the lantern flys, but seems their population is scarce around here last two years, something must be eating them.

BEF - good sign he is eating, hope to read more stories of your Dad on the farm.

Be well,

Will need to go look for more of these today, trying not to spray veggies if I can help it.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
72° and foggy this morning. Yesterday’s storms brought 1.8” of rain, most of it in a very short time, with a high rate of 6” per hour, so lots of run off. Today’s high will be in the upper 80’s with no more rain.

Yesterday started with biting the bullet and running a network cable to the she shed. Various attempts to place a mesh node at the far wall of the shop nearest the shed were disappointing, even with the wired backhaul.

I attribute that to my insulation method of using foil back ed isocyanurate foam sheets to the outside of the sheathing, under the siding. The two layers of foil make an effective faraday cage out of the building. However that combined with urethane spray foam on the inside make for equally effective thermal envelope.

Just moving the node inside the shed (about a 5’ move) yielded outstanding results. I should have just run the cable out there in the first place, I know from experience about how little WiFi leaks out of the building. Here is the results in the shed with the node in there.

Zoe has no problem making herself comfortable, this is one of her favorite spots, under a ceiling fan. That’s a king sized bed for scale.

Didn’t tackle any other significant projects, put stuff away, cleaned out the garage floor drain inlet, as there was an inch of water above it from the torrential rains. It drained instantly once I lifted the grate to clean the silt trap. It is piped outside to its own french drain.
Finished the day with the airport authority meeting,wife and Zoe were asleep when I got home.

Not sure what’s on tap for today, good chance we’ll play music tonight.

 

[riptides]

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Nice upload speeds. We have fiber all around us. Just...cannot...seem...to...get...

connected.

LOL

 

[daugen]

drove back to my friend's home where I had dinner last night and retrieved
my carry bag, which in itself was not a big deal but it had my nice hat in it.
And I knew I had the rv to wash.
So went and picked that up, dodged around paving crews continuing to work on 413 North of 202
and got home, forgot I went to Lambertville for gas. Been driving a lot, sucking up the gas at 17mpg.

got parts of the rv washed and dried, looks much better
had worked up a good sweat by then and came in, setting the shirt out to dry.
if only the collar was wet, I can live with that slightly damp.
anytime I work outside though those clothes go in the laundry at end of day.
but now I stay inside with no shirt, more comfortable.

if I haven't been working in clothes, just running errands, then I try to get a few wearings out them.
and if I have a reason to wear a dress shirt, and don't get it sweaty or wrinkly,
I hang it up carefully to wear again. Jeans and khakis I wear until something looks dirty.
my local brother feels quite differently, and much of his clothes still come from
dry cleaner/laundry/on hangers, and he only wears shirts once, no matter what.
Kinda like some folks don't like leftovers.

for the record I love leftovers and my food can all touch...

 

[daugen]

feels good to cool off. Waiting for doc to call me and talk to me about phleboliths (allegedly harmless) and
osteophytes, not so harmless, bone spurs. For your medical term of the day, I sure had to look them up, a
phlebolith is a small round calcification aka vein stone, and normal for pelvis area. I have lots of calcification.
The bone spur of course can be irrelevant if not rubbing anything. So I need for him to describe the location
at the superior acetabulum. ?
well looked that up too.
no surprise at all. Crunchy stuff likely getting into my ball and socket joint.
always knew I needed a zerk fitting there...

A superior acetabular osteophyte is a bony growth, or bone spur, that develops on the upper edge of the acetabulum, which is the socket of the hip joint. These osteophytes can cause pain and stiffness by pressing on surrounding nerves, tendons, or other tissues. They are often associated with hip conditions like osteoarthritis.

I wonder what my friendly AI will tell me when I ask how to remove osteophytes.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .01 inches rain

Nothing big planned for the day. Piddle around, some maintenance stuff

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Dftodd]

BEF she is 10 months old presently sleeping on Holly foot. She is a Velcro dog sticks close to us. If we go inside she at the door in less than 3 minutes

My German shepherd does that. She will ask to go outside.

You let her outside and she turns right around and looks back inside

You have to go outside with her.

She does the same thing for walks.

She went over to the door, looked back and cried to my wife and nose her leash.

Wife gets up to take her for a walk. Gypsy walked over to my sister in law and nudges her to get her attention, and then nudges her shoes.

The sister in law needed to go walking as well

 

[buckeyefarmer]

returned the old golf cart batteries to reclaim my core charge. found original manufacture date of 2020 on them.
Stopped at Lowes to pick up a spare bosch battery , since I have lowes rebate money that needs to be spent by friday. But everything locked up like fort knox, so I didn't want to wait around while things melted in my truck. Stopped on way home to inquire about pellets, they don't have them in yet, don't have a price yet.
one battery had tipped over on the way up, and leaked a little fluid in the truck bed, by the time I got home it was all dry, but I hosed it out anyways.
left top off, in case of rain, to let it wash some more.

Nice storm just hit us finally, got .86" of rain. needed that. still thundering around, but rain has stopped for now.

Sister said dad will be a couple more days in hospital, still on IV for dehydration. He ate some this morning. Sister was there, brother going to see him also today.

 

[rswyan]

85F and partly cloudy @ 13:30. calling for a high of 86F for the day.

Very rough night last night.

Woman cooked up one of the Hello Fresh meals, some kind of tacos. It was very good but the meal made 6 tacos. She had 2 and I was doing well @ 3.

Then I decided to push it and go for a 4th to "clean it all up" as it was tasting so good.

For some reason I always get the call ... "Can't you finish that last little bit up ... ?"

Well ... can't YOU ?



Last night She wasn't pushing though.

But a big mistake on my part ... gave me a stomachache and I was up better than half the night.

After the hand watering yesterday I did pull out the Cuisinart, which worked great for shredding the zucchini ... once I figured out how to lock the lid in place (directions are a little sparse)

Got 6 lbs shredded and vacuum-packed into 1 lb bags for the freezer, which made a dent in the pile ... but there's still a lot more to go.

While I was doing that I hooked up the soaker hose and gave the cabbage a long drink at low flow. Probably around an hour. Had actually forgotten about it until I ran some water at the kitchen sink to wash off the squash and noticed the flow was way down.

Ran downstairs and shut the spigot and well pump off to give it a chance to recover.

We did have a couple of very brief showers roll through, didn't amount to much. Next best chance for rain isn't until next Wednesday.

After dinner last night The Woman dug into the freezer and cleaned some of it out and rearranged some things and were able to get the zucchini shoehorned in.

I'll need to do that again today if I'm going to get any more put up and packed in there.

That all prompted some discussion about freezer space (lack of) and possiby picking another freezer. Mentioned to Her that I had been looking at some online at Menards.

First one I offered up She thought was too small (around 7 cu ft IIRC) ... so went to the next size up (around 10 cu ft and change)

Then it became a discussion of whether to go chest or upright.

Chest has the advantage of being more efficient and not loosing all the cold air when you open it while the upright model allows better access and easier to locate what you're looking for.

No decision was made, but I suspect the upright model will win out.

Don't see us getting into it constantly ... which lessens the efficiency advantage and the upright model will be easier for Her to deal with.

We'll see where it goes.

Agenda for today:

Schedule some more bills for payment.

Probably give the indeterminate tomatoes on the straight trellis a good long drink with the soaker hose.

Front lawn looked like it needed mowed again yesterday ... so might tackle that today if there's enough fuel left in the Cub.

Probably process more squash.

Other than that see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Thursday ...

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
Ouch, I think this will hurt !

 

[daugen]

Scott, does yours have a loud rear end gear noise?
I used to think something had to be broken in mine but was told oh that's normal
straight cut gears.
nice looking tractor

been kind of lazy this afternoon

 

[Thomas]

Scott, does yours have a loud rear end gear noise?
I used to think something had to be broken in mine but was told oh that's normal
straight cut gears.
nice looking tractor

been kind of lazy this afternoon

Older Cubs had clucking sound when starting out low when cold.

 

[Thomas]

Thomas how is new job?

Afternoon Buppies you got your feet up and resting.

Job become interesting CEO another shaking the tree, criminal charges will be brought against person maybe another,person quit,least 2-3 people are nervous like cat in room full of rocking chairs,CEO inform me as I turn in audit findings today...hands in cookie jar also selling $$'s items to public.

 

[Thomas]

11:30am once again touch 90's around 12:30pm heavy down pour temp drop 69F,79F light breeze now hoping that will end heat waves for this year.

Good day all in all,work was Mrs. going BBQ hamburgers on the grill with all the fixings,maybe I better get bib to late to apply for building permit.

Plans for the evening deck feet up enjoy smooth cigar wait for the critters to stroll by.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Thomas]

Mostly...have you had chance do any bass fishing this year?

 

[m7040]

Another good day working on this and that. Finished another window and relaxed some. Wife is struggling again but hanging in there
D is considering moving to Casteau, French speaking part of Belgium. She has worked in EU before. Central location to anything in EU and a pretty rural area with farms and hedges around places

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Friday) morning. Overnight Low was a balmy 8.4C and it's presently only 9.3C, mostly cloudy and calm... although we're under a wind warning for this arvo with a downpour.

A busy yesterday arvo was had. Because I'd cleaned the inside windows, the outside needed to be done. Just the spray-on/rinse-off sort of window cleaning and it only took about 45 minutes. Other cleaning was done.

All that's required today is a final vacuuming. Guests should arrive shortly after noon.

That's about it, take care all.