Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #210,161  
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
 
   / Good morning!!!! #210,163  
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.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #210,164  
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.
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   / Good morning!!!! #210,165  
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.

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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.

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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.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #210,167  
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...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #210,168  
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.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #210,170  
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
 

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