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"have feeling just a matter time BIG Tom's going to get jealous of female turkeys hanging around me and challenge me" Thomas, Just remember, turkey isn't just good for Thanksgiving. ;) Chris

Anyone hear from Bird lately?

Drew, wouldn't it be nice to be able to afford lithium?

"That's a new low for our mailman." It seems like something is wrong at the post office. Have the post people been so jerked around that they don't care anymore? Chris

In case any of you feel like a daily dose of strange. Talk about on the rocks.

How do you know if you are a red neck? Bailing wire. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Rip, Are the neighbors there? They didn't get hauled off to jail or murdered or something? Chris

RNG, I'm wondering if there is a dye type product that would let you change the color of those new tiles. I think there is a product to dye pavers. Chris

The parking garage at Johns Hopkins has yellow low clearance signs right after you enter the garage. Now you tell me. One time I drove the Tundra. I remember thinking I had about 1 inch of clearance. I was a little nervous. On the way out I noticed they have a high clearance garage across the...

Here is a good way to enjoy snow. Now that is a snowblower.

I listened to a talk about convalescent blood plasma as an alternative to paxlovid. The doc. is from Johns Hopkins so he probably knows what he is talking about. People keep getting covid so it is good to know what the choices are, especially if you are a senior. I find it alarming that some...

46°F and windy. Back to winter. The number of crooks in our world is a shame. The scams must work or they would give up. Chris

Got up to 71°F today. We ate dinner on the patio. Seemed strange knowing that half of you guys were out plowing snow. Watch your step. No falls please. Chris

PJ, What a terrible week. So sorry for your losses. Chris

Drew, Nothing like knowing you have really good new tires on your vehicle. Most times stopping distance doesn't matter but sometimes it does. Chris

Doesn't the fluid film label say it is good for making pets coats shiny?:LOL:

"There doesn't seem to be any way to tell what kind of people might be living in the houses around the one you're thinking of buying" When the house on the other side of us was for sale we had two couples stop in to chat. Neither one ended up buying the house. What does that tell you? o_O...

I found out that the owner of the house next to mine that has been partially completed since 2005 died back in March. You got to love the neighborhood gossip. They know everything. Now we will see how long it sits, will a flipper get it, will it be torn down? Will the new neighbors be nice or...

RNG if the recession that the country seems to be trying to talk itself into hits real estate should get cheaper. Roll the dice. Chris

I looked up the degree sign on the mac. option+shift+8 Chris

Kilroy, I was wondering if you could find an expanding foam that would work in that situation. I was imagining how much fun it would be to use mortar. :eek:

"because I will give you honest answers…" Kilroy, I don't know if you noticed this but honesty is not appreciated these days. :(

Buckeye, Are you going to be embaressed if the cat proves to be smarter than you? :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Got up to 66F and windy today. Felt like April. I was on branch patrol at the farm yesterday. Too big to run over with the mower and too small for firewood. I cut them up small enough to chuck into the woods. Kind of disappointing to find that 2 hours of that was enough for me. I felt kind of...

I was hoping it was a net to capture Chinese UFOs.(y)

"I’m more concerned the government seems to have access to the data." You don't have to worry about privacy if you are innocent... But who is completely innocent these days. Chris

About Building. My sense is that while wholesale lumber has come down everything else is still sky high. The problem is how long can you wait for prices to normalize if the ever do? Chris

55F here this afternoon. Very nice day for February. I took the EGO for a walk to chop up the leaves that had blown onto the front yard. Looks a lot better. I doubt if I was cutting much grass. There is almost a dollar spread between the high and low diesel prices here in town. The oil...

One harsh reality is that layoffs are an easy way to trim deadwood. Sounds like that is what some of those west coast tech companies are doing. It can be a real hard thing for some people. Some never get over it. Chris

Jim, It almost sounds if there will be more construction in your future. Chris

"Get Michelin X-Ice!" Yes sir. I had them on a honda accord. It made the car feel like it was velcroed to the road. The tire guys are always trying to tell you how good all seasons are but if you have to go in the snow quality snow tires can't be beat. Chris

"Will ground hog see his shadow tomorrow ??? " Will the ground hog"s handlers be sober enough to know one way or the other?

Kyle, I always thought Texas was southern but you guys keep getting hammered by old man winter. I thought Texas was one of the low tax states. Might as well live in Pennsylvania if you want winter and high taxes. :cry: Chris

"If it's that hot and muggy in January, Drew, what happens there in the summer?" I have been wondering what conditions make a place uninhabitable? Are there places where people can't live? Chris

34F overcast. I didn't see the sunrise. Sometimes the clouds make for a really pretty one. Mighty quiet this morning. We are empty nesters again. Our daughter who has been visiting us had her ACL repaired. Took a long time for her to get moving around well. She took off yesterday with a car...

Rip, you are making good progress. (y) Makes me tired just to look at the pictures. I'll probably have to take an energy conservation day.;) Chris

"All spotless and gleaming" How the heck do they do that? Chris

Looks like the software is still kicking the TBN crew's butts. It's times like that, that I hate computers. Chris

35F and SNOWING. Pretty. The roofs across the street are white but the road is just wet. The snowblower is still up in the barn. My fingers are crossed. I don't know when I will be able to collect downed wood and haul it to my neighbor. I moved a fair amount across the field earlier in the fall...

You gotta love a woman who can dig in. (y)

Morning All and hey PJ. 31F and gray. Likely rain this afternoon. I too have been dealing with downed trees. Wednesday was a pretty nice day so I went up to the farm. The first tree I got to was a 5 trunk ash that had fallen over into a big pine. That ash is heavy and hard. I only got 3 trunks...

"Sorry for the bit of a rant.... I'm just going to bed now.... maybe tomorrow will be better. Ranting is practically a constitutional right. Heck Lewis Black makes a living ranting. Rant on. (y)

'The Danish military on Greenland have active dog sled teams patrolling the coast line at all times." Pretty interesting. I read that they use old bolt action rifles because they work in that environment and that they had to go with more powerful sidearms because polar bears can be pesky. Chris

"20 hot looking guys" I am amazed by Drew's good imagination. :giggle::giggle::giggle:

"Very few people masking up these days in spite of increasing CV19 infection rate" If you have a good mask it is supposed to protect against flu too. It sounds like some of you guys got bit hard by something. It would be well worth it to avoid getting that sick. I hope those who are feeling...

"Here she is chicken out my work:" :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Buppies, Those Boston Whalers look slick. I didn't look up the price but I bet it is HIGH. Chris

I guess the thing about the high cost of labor is that Americans want to live like Americans and we don't want low cost foreigners coming in so there you go. Chris

Drew, that coachman looks like it would be comfortable. Are they hard to drive? The few rvs I have looked at look like the roofs are designed to fail. Chris

Drew, the lines here mark the underground utilities. Green is sewer, blue is water and yellow is gas. I'm not sure what white is. Maybe where to cut? I'm not sure what the project is. You sure are right about not getting road paint on your car. Chris

34F. We are under an air quality alert. The sun is out but the air looks gray. The circus came to town yesterday. There must have been 5 or 6 trucks with flashing lights out front. I guess they are getting ready for some road surgery. They painted green lines and yellow lines and blue lines and...

I remember reading that Oprah had a purse that cost $54,000. I thought she values her dollars different than I do. It seems like there are still a lot of people out there who value their dollars differently than I do. Car prices seem crazy to me. Another old guy who remembers when gas was 25...

Mid 40s & overcast. More rain last night. Daughter number 2 reported a tree down across the farm lane last week. I checked it out yesterday. Yup. It was completely covered in vines. Virginia creeper, honey suckle and poison ivy. The poison ivy looked pretty fresh. The lane was pretty squishy...

"Be careful working at mail box" I am thinking I have seen a mailbox that spins around but I can't call to mind how it works exactly. My neighbor has one of those mailboxes that has a back door. Chris

Buckeye, try to look busy. You don't want your wife to think you are bored. Sometimes it seems if my wife thinks I'm bored she finds things for me to do. o_O Chris

Once they get virtual reality figured out then artificial sound will really make sense. Just think how much gas we will save.:LOL:

54F right now. Thank you Ken! Chris

RNG, Hope I am not speaking out of turn but that doesn't seem as well built as it could have been. Hope the new work will be a little better. I fear the bill is going to be a breathtaker. Chris

Drew, How much, do you think it costs to rent a rock'n roll tour bus? Chris

Ken, I wish you could have got them wrapped sooner because as soon as you have them well protected it will be 50 degrees for the rest of the winter. :LOL:

When I was a kid and it got this cold we would pull the garden hose out to the back yard and make a skating ring. I remember my sisters and the neighborhood girls skating for hours. I haven't been out and about but the Amish kids love to skate on the local farm ponds. Chris

Check, Take care. Vitamin D and sunshine are supposed to be useful. Chris

I thought it was that you weren't wearing your OSHA approved steel toed work boots.:eek:

OH SNAP. Incorrect again. :(

Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday. Did you see this video? Creepy but kind of amazing. I don't really know anything about coal stoves except my neighbor has one. I think there is something different about coal stoves compared to wood stoves and I think there may be some stoves that swing...

Lancaster county has a waste incinerator. I read that they had to upgrade their pollution controls this year. I don't know what happens to the energy that they generate. Some farmers here have been building manure digesters. I guess they use the energy on the farm. Chris

Don, One of the neighbors at the farm uses coal as aux heat. He has a shed in the back yard that they deliver to but I think you can buy it in bags. Chris

4F when I got up 10F now. Pretty brisk out. I picked up a few sticks in the front yard but decided that the rest can wait. Youngest daughter made it into Philly from Seattle. Sounds like an icy mess out there when she left. Alaska airlines offered her $1100 to fly next week instead. I can't...

36F snow, sleet, rain. YUCK. Saw the salt truck go by earlier. It was supposed to hit 40F yesterday. I thought it was the best chance for one final mow at the farm. There were a fair number of leaves on the ground. Still some leaves in the trees. I was surprised to be cutting grass. I got...

"After work stop and purchase dump tickets...$15 up to 40lb bag,if you recycle no charge, electronics $50-$100,freezer refrigerator AC unit,1 tire $30 and the list goes on :oops: Have feel going to be lot more burn barrels." I wonder if you won't get more trash piles left beside the road out in...

Drew, when they get an AI in customer service it will be so slick that you will sign up for 10 more years and hang up with a smile on your face. :ROFLMAO: Chris

"Played Barn Tetris". That's pretty good. :giggle:

About crummy customer service, take heart. There is a new AI that is knocking peoples socks off. Just a matter of time till the human deadbeats can go on unemployment. As an aside how many people would rather draw welfare than work? Chris

Don, I'm convinced you can work outside in any weather if you have the right clothes. Although I remember watching some guys building a steel building in -17F degrees with a strong wind blowing. I was glad not to be up on the steel that day. I guess if you don't work you don't get payed. Chris

34F. winter weather advisory. Looks like rain but I took three steps out of the garage door and started to slip. Turned around and got my yak traks. Those things are pretty useful on an icy driveway. We have our older daughter home with us. My wife and I are really enjoying her visit. She was...

Scootr, You will have to tell us if that red beauty is as much of a chick magnet as it looks. :ROFLMAO: Hope it isn't as much of a cop magnet as it looks. o_O Chris

NHBX, you made me smile. (y) Chris

Phil, Those deer are neat. There is a YouTube channel that shows woodworking projects that you can sell. I bet those deer would sell. Chris

All my batteries came with Milwaukee tools so unless they are counterfeits they are OEM.

About Chainsaws, I got the Milwaukee because I use their power tools. I have 4,5 and 8 amp hour batteries. The 8 will last until I need to take a break. If I try to buck a big log in the summer the battery will sometimes shut down because it gets too hot. It uses Oregon chains so you can get...

Morning tractor folks. Looks like it will be a nice day but colder. Mid 40s. Good air quality. Some darned critter chewed off the wires on the outside Christmas lights. Pretty easy troubleshooting. May be harder fix. Four wires all green. Fortunately my wife had a spare string. In case you...

Its a blue sky day. 43F. Pretty nice afternoon.(Amazing how our standard for pretty nice changes as the season advances.) I got the scattering of leaves in the front yard chopped up. Now I am waiting for the EGO battery to charge up so I can hit the backyard. We went out and got a Christmas...

PJ, Why are there so many crooks in the world? Why is it so hard to make an honest buck? Chris

I have never tried it but I have heard that if it gets cold enough you can use your pressure washer to make snow. Now THAT would be Christmas decoration. Chris

I guess a lot of us are at the age where we are losing friends and family. It is a very sad thing.

Thanks Drew now I have pie on my mind. :giggle: :giggle: :giggle: I don't think I have ever had too much pie. I'd like to go to a pie smorgasbord. Yummmm Our Christmas Lights are on although some people say it is too soon. My wife is a Christmas lover. Gray skies this morning but mild. We...

"2 years in from having @0v!d, I still have very little sense of smell." My daughter did some kind of smell therapy to help her smell return but there is so much stuff about this disease that has turned out to be snake oil. Who knows. I had a nice mustache a few years ago but none of the women...

It is funny that we are still using the alligator expression for the disease that we are not allowed to talk about. Don started that didn't he? :LOL: (y) Chris

LS, My wife and I have been very happy with the Doctors at Johns Hopkins. They seem to be the cream of the crop and I believe they are employees of the hospital. Is there a big city hospital around you that has a good reputation? Chris

are you saying that doing that DOESN'T make them hard to read ? :) incinerate might be the only other option ? This was the land of the paranoid. It was thought that with the right equipment it might be possible to get something off them. I know that there was an FBI agent who showed up from...

"I took platters out and made them unreadable, like with a hammer." I used to have a buddy who had a business buying surplus government computers. Some of the computers came from classified offices. If they had hard drives in them, they took them out, laid them on the floor and hit them with...

"I recently went thru and destroyed a bunch of old hard drives" I went through and disassembled a bunch of hard drives to recycle the metal. I didn't think it was worth the time unless you were bored with nothing to do. The magnets inside can be handy. Heavy duty and seem to last forever. Great...

The question that has been on my mind this morning is what the heck do you do with 77 inches of SNOW??? Chris

"Should get more info as to why he thinks it’s toast" I guess he is your friend so you can't offer to buy it for a thousand bucks. 😱 Chris

Helo, I'm afraid that we will cut and run on Ukraine. It is a shame that people don't remember Ronald Reagan warning us about the evil empire. Chris

Buckeye, Take care of yourself. It is my understanding that the the doctors can do more for you if they see you early. I have wondered if complications from alligatoritis may have got Roy. Drew, surely they make solar powered bird equipment. Feels like winter here. Time to do inside stuff. Chris

This one's for Roy.

"this was the view on the way to the airport from the hotel" In that case I take back my wanting to tag along. :sneaky: Glad you made it back without skidding off the runway. Chris

Buckeye, nothing wrong with taking a break from TBN but I hope you will come back. Chris

Chris I don't care when the go up, it is when they go on is the issue. Well my wife will never let me forget the year (or was it three) that I left the Christmas lights up. Oh the disgrace of it all. :mad:

36F now and cloudy. It may rain after lunch. "I’m headed up to Bangor, ME overnight" I wish I was going with you. I'd like to see what the midcoast is like this time of year. Safe travels. My wife and I have been cleaning the leaves out of the bushes (mostly my wife). There is talk about the...

Blew out the hoses yesterday Thanks for reminding me. We have returned to normal weather for November which means freezing at night. I also screwed the ends together to keep spiders etc. from taking up residence. Chris

David the best thing you could bring to that party is your gopro. The video of that haul out would surely get some views. Good Luck Chris

I was sad to hear of Roy's Passing. We'll miss him. He made a big contribution. Chris

It is an astonishing 70F out now and feels like a tropical 100 percent humidity. Chris

The gutter cleaning pipe sections are about 3 feet so I guess I could reach up about 20 feet with 4 sections. 30 feet sounds about right for the height of the gutter on the high side, although standing on the ground it looks higher. Chris

I have 4 sections of gutter cleaning pipe for my Echo blower. 2 sections will reach the garage, the horse barn and the porch gutters on the farmhouse. I need 4 sections to reach the gutter on the bank side of the barn but the front side is too high and I an not going up there on the ladder even...

Complaining is a constitutional right isn't it.:ROFLMAO: "pennwalk - I understood probably 35% of that". Me too. What I got is that some people may be genetically different so that don't get sick. Would have been nice to know that three years ago. Phil I like those ornaments. (y) The...

Morning Tractor Boys, If you feel like a heavy dose of science this morning here you go.

Drew, a mask can't hurt. I noticed 5 or 6 people at the polling place wearing masks but they were mostly surgical masks. My understanding is that surgical masks are not great at preventing you from breathing in airborne germs. They mainly keep you from coughing or sneezing on other people. I got...

I forgot to say that I didn't have a single number on my powerball ticket. That's probably just as well. That was so much money that it would probably have ruined everyone in my family. Just crazy. Chris

56F now. Temperature dropped 20 degrees from yesterday. Still, it is a beautiful day. I didn't see the full eclipse of the moon. It was just starting when I saw it. When I went out later it was either hidden by clouds or down behind the trees. The big leaf fall was last week. I finished getting...

"Momma on me again" WOH! watch the claws lady!

Another pretty day here. Accuweather says it is 65F. Wednesday I mowed here at the house. I was sweating in a tee shirt. I was bagging them with the ego. I moved a lot of leaves. Yesterday I was chopping leaves at the farm with the zero turn. The oak leaves are harder to chop up than the maple...

This made me smile.

Fuddy, that homemade card is GREAT. (y)

Roy, you got to keep it in perspective, We have enough to eat and no one is shelling us. Compared to other people in the world we got it made in the shade. Count your blessings. Chris

Very nice day here. i think it got up to 60F in the afternoon. I got the lawn mowed at the farm. The grass is still growing. The zero turn is keeping up with mulching the leaves although I have to make 3 or 4 passes to get them well chopped up. It saves a ton of time not to have to make a bunch...

Buckeye, You need to ease up on the healthy diet you are starting to look a little peaked. :LOL::LOL::LOL:

Speaking of people that make the rest of us look bad. RS :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Looks like it's going to be sunny and breezy today. I have been thinking about mowing leaves all week but up until today mother nature vetoed that. I ran up to to the grocery store. I noticed the guy mowing in front of the airport was running over the political signs. That's the way I feel...

One thing that puzzles me is teaching your wife to shoot. How do you know she won't meet your girlfriend? 🤣:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Ron Hall. (y) (y) (y)

why beef prices are so high Doesn't bother Don or me either but I'll tell you if some future medical test comes back with bad news I'm going out and getting a bacon double cheese burger and I won't care what it costs. :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: Chris

Drew, Someone told me that guests actually like a noisy fan because it hides any embarrassing sounds them might be making. We got it covered. The powder room fan roars. Chris

"I'm back !!! " (y) (y) (y)

59F and gray. It's gray because we are under an air quality alert. My neighbor is decorating for Halloween. He strings fishing line between the trees then hangs ghosts and bats and such from the fishing line. We always enjoy it although we never get any trick or treaters. Some people are really...

Roy, I guess your company didn't get the memo. That stuff is over.

Pretty nice day yesterday but a little cold. I layered up and mowed the yard at the farm. I could have put it off for a couple of day but you never know what the future will bring. So far the zero turn has been chopping up the leaves. I have always bagged leaves in the past but I don't have the...

I have a lilac blooming We do too. It is a purple colored one that came from my grandfathers summer place in New Hampshire. I wonder what made them bloom this time if year? Chris

I can't say that I thought the gator blades were much different from the stock simplicity blades on the zero turn. I've got leaves to clean up. What else is new. Have a great weekend Chris

I guess most people are finished with gators but if you want some more science here is an interesting talk. It's long. Chris

One Thing I hear people say about containers is that the condensation can be hard on the contents. Chris

On and off rain most of yesterday. 56F. pretty out but everything is wet. I plan to mow at the farm this afternoon. I have new gator blades for the zero turn. I hope they will chop the leaves a little finer. I ran up to the farm Tuesday to mow the lane. I thought it would be a good idea to...

Thanks Guys! I had a real nice day capped off by Homemade apple pie with dinner. All the stuff waiting to be done yesterday is still waiting to be done today. Sometimes stuff scrolls off the to do list and disappears but not very often. Enjoy your day. Chris

Nice sunny day today. 37F this morning 66F now. I enjoyed the moon last night too. Payed $111 for 4 cans of no ethanol gas for the mowers today. I add 4 oz. of seafoam to each can. Hope it isn't snake oil. It ain't that cheap. I hit the big 70 today. I feel exactly the same as when I was 18...

Well, I got my post plucked It's a waste of time. Everybody's mind is already made up. Better to stick to tractor stuff or what ever it is we talk about here. (y) Chris

Our family used to summer in Stone Harbor when we lived in PA 50 yrs ago. I'm happy to remember it the way it was then with all the little cottages. My wife's family had a cottage in Stone Harbor. The transformation in that town was remarkable. From year to year I could hardly recognize the...

those tractors at the beach are seriously high horsepower for the job. Wonder why they felt they needed 380 hp to pull a sand leveler. Drew, At Stone Harbor NJ all the little cottages have been torn down and multi million dollar beach houses have been built, It means that the town is flush with...

After 5 days of rain it was sure nice to get out Thursday. Of course after 5 days of rain I was mowing. 2 nice days in the 70s. Looks like it is going to cool down a bit. The grass at the farm is looking really green. I'm figuring out when I need to lift the deflector on the zero turn to keep...

Drew, I know a lot of us are thinking of Ellen. PJ, I tried searching for Eric but I couldn't find anything. Hopefully no news is good news. Sometimes you don't want to get your name in the paper. Chris

More rain today. Been raining since Saturday. It may rain tomorrow. This should wash down the hog manure at the farm. I'm thankful that it is light rain. A rest day is good but I'm ready to get some stuff done. I got some more downed trees cut up and moved to my neighbors place Friday. Still...

MAN! looking at the pictures seems like the supply of project boats just got a lot bigger. I predict that the price of building materials is going up. Chris

The word for the day is sh*t. Not because it was a bad day. It was very nice. But because the farmer was spreading manure. Hog manure to be exact. I used to have a friend from Ohio who's father was a hog farmer. He used to say "don't you like the smell of money" Heck no it stinks. Maybe if we...

I was hauling logs to the neighbor yesterday afternoon. I had a good sized black walnut blow over last year. I was using my Milwaukee battery powered chainsaw to cut it into movable chunks. The Milwaukee cuts good but the battery doesn't last as long as a tank of gas in the little Stihl. The...

Yes it's Fall. The farmer cut the corn Friday. Seems kind of early. Looks very different. I would like to know how he did. I got the boat pressure washed, got the motor off, flushed and run dry. The boat is in the barn for the winter. After I got the barn cleaned out and the boat stored I...

67F. We have been having light rain this morning. I'm hearing some thunder. Fall is on us. I mowed at the farm Friday and wore a jacket. I hear the heat running. I moved the long sleeve shirts to the front of the closet. The ground dried out quickly. When I mow I'm raising dust. Chris

Was going to change the transmission and final drive gear oil on the zebra bike, but didn't have enough on hand. And now the stiff I like to use is priced at over twenty-five bux a quart! Can you say Inflation?😩🤬 Or is it gouging? Hard to believe a quart of oil costs 25$ to make. Maybe the...

I did mow the lawn at the house yesterday. It wasn't past due but it looks better now. I noticed places in the backyard that were still wet from the dew at 3. We are eating lettuce from the garden. The green beans and edamame (soy beans) are pretty much done. We are getting a few red...

I had a nice afternoon mowing the lawn at the farm. Pretty amazing how much it grew since last week. I'm still enjoying the mowing. Some years I have gotten tired of it about this time of year. Here is a song called Banjo riff, so you guys who don't care for banjo can skip it. Looks like I...

Very pretty day today. 73F. blue sky. The rains brought the lawn back to life. Looks kind of ragged. I mowed here at the house yesterday. The cut looks a little ragged. I don't know if it is just the fall grass or if I should check the blade on the Ego. I feel like there are a hundred little...

"I'm old fashioned, think there should be a lid on noise on Sunday morning" Me too but it doesn't seem to be a majority opinion in my neighborhood. :( Chris

Cool and sunny this morning. Buckeye, it seems like the cost of everything to do with construction is out of wack. I wonder if people who are building now will be able to get their money back when they sell. I get the feeling people have a lot of money to throw around. Hard to tell if things...

There is technically an HOA, but not in reality. Hopefully you can keep the HOA from coming to life and biting you. Looks like a property with a ton of potential. Best of luck. Still getting delicious tree ripe peaches from the local farm stand. They have a lot less than past years and they...

It rained on and off all night and most of today. There is about 3 inches in the rain gauge. Maybe this will green up the lawn. I don't know what it means but the people at the drug store are wearing masks again. I'm home alone this week since this is girls week at the beach. About the only...

Wahoo ! it started raining. There were masses of green to the west of us on the radar. I was afraid it was going to miss us.(y) Chris Hope I didn't speak too soon.

Thomas, my neighbor told me it is because of all the free government money but I never could figure out how to get in on that so I am suspicious. Chris

Thomas wrote about his boss cutting hours to keep from burning out the help. I have wondered about the whole help situation. I noticed that several of the restaurants in the Deer Isle area work a 4 day week. My wife used to waitress down at the Jersey Shore when she was in High school. They made...

Very sad about Randy. I hope his family is getting by. I wonder if others of the TBN missing have actually passed. I tried spot mowing at the farm. A lot of the lawn is brown. I just tried to hit the places that are green and growing. Makes less dust but I'm not sure about it. The other...

Now that we are back from Maine it is back to mowing but I bet I could have not hired a guy to mow for me. It is so dry here the grass is hardly growing. The corn at the farm looks hammered. I wonder what kind of crop the farmer will get. I did mow the farm lane. The wet spots were pretty long...

We got back from Maine Sunday. Long drive but well worth it. There is a reason so many people head for Maine in the summer. It is cool in the morning. It warms up afternoon and Cools off around dinner time. There are way more stars in the sky in Deer Isle than here in Lancaster. I saw 7 shooting...

Bird. Anything over 90 is too hot but 110 is ridiculous o_O Chris

Larro Darro that's him. He was another of you guys who seemed to stay pretty busy. As for me. I'm thinking about a nap.:LOL: Chris

Drew, Remember Lauro(spelling)? He lost 55 pounds. I think he said he ate a big bowl of green beans with every meal. I guess the idea was to fill up with healthy stuff so you ate less of the good stuff. He was from Florida I think. Anyway it is on here somewhere. Chris

Drew, I remember when I was young going with my Grandmother to visit my Great Uncle. They served pheasant. I remember the bbs but I liked it anyway. I thing Aunt Helen hated cleaning birds. I think of the relatives I have who I wish I knew better. Roy, As we get older we have to resort to...

PJ, I was thinking I have heard of places that have public nuisance laws that allow them to bulldoze a place. It sounds you guys need something like that. My wife said look out the window. There were 2 turkeys trying to figure how to get into the blueberry patch. My daughter asked if we were...

Morning all, Beautiful cool morning here. My wife has been watering the garden. One bewildering thing is how rabbits get through the garden fence. The wire is 2X4 and I wish I had used smaller mesh. The blueberries are slowing down. The catbirds seem to have lost interest in blueberries...

I spent a nice afternoon mowing the farm lane and the meadows. I never get everything but things are in pretty good shape. It is getting dry at the farm so the corn needs rain but the dry makes for easier mowing in the wet places. We are enjoying summer's bounty. Peaches, blueberries, sweet...

Had a nice afternoon mowing the lawn at the farm Friday. I'm getting used to the zero turn. That is not to say I am good at it yet. That Briggs motor is definitely loud. Overall it cuts better. I had my first tree ripened local peach yesterday. Man was it good. The taste of Summer. My wife...

"perhaps my pics of veggies has been too subversive" You guys need to watch your Ps & Qs. This isn't the good old days anymore! 🤣 Chris

Getting dry out west. It Looks to me as if the powers that be ought to plan on building water pipelines. It ought to be easier to get approval cause if they leak it is just water.

Some say that Mother Nature is cruel but today she was helping me sort of. I went to wash the car but I timed it wrong and ended up with the bed full of suds. I looked up and it was raining. Thanks Mother Nature.(y) Drew, Sun may be bad for your skin but Dr. Seheult over at Medcram has a video...

PopG, isn't there a trimmer attachment for the zero turn that follows the fence line? Chris

"But does it really matter if the heating coil is in the bottom of the pot instead of under it?" I thought I read that the new rage is cold brewed. :LOL:

"I went back to the house to get a cheater bar, and even the extra four feet wouldn't budge them" WOW I would have thought you could have just about moved the world with a 4 foot cheater bar. I have broken stuff with a far shorter pipe than that. Chris

Don, you need to post more plant based pics. The meat based guys are winning the picture wars.:ROFLMAO:

The weather here is warming up. 85F yesterday, 88F today, 92F tomorrow. I'll take it. It is way better than 13F in February. I mowed the farm lane yesterday. It was a nice afternoon but I need to work on drinking more water. My wife and I got out 4th jab yesterday. My arm is sore. I was tired...

Drew, there are all kinds of trailer hitches and brackets for lawn tractors on Amazon. Moving the trailer would be pretty easy with the lawn tractor.

"I'm finding out that Miller is NOT John Deere when it comes to keeping parts available for older equipment" Aren't many of those welding equipment companies owned by the Chinese? If so, that may have changed the company culture. Of course is doesn't take Chinese to screw up a company plenty of...

This guy does nice work. He does all different kinds of cars and trucks. If I ever hit the lottery I'll be thinking about it. Chris

PJ, I saw a guy at the auction a couple of winters ago who had a very nice skunk skin hat...Just a thought:giggle:

It is 63F and raining. It hit the mid 80s yesterday but it wasn't too bad because we were under a lot of cloud cover. I got the farm lawn mowed. It is starting to turn brown in places. The corn was looking dry. I tried the zero turn on the farm lane. The lane is too bumpy for comfort even though...

If you use the trailer a lot one nice set-up is a mount that lets you carry a complete hub. https://www.sturdybuiltonline.com/5-lug-galvanized-spare-tire-mount-for-i-beam-boat-trailers-with-84-spindle.html Chris

"On Wunderground they say living in the Rust Belt is the best place to avoid climate change problems." I'm wondering if we Pennsylvanians will need to build a wall to keep people from south of the boarder out? :ROFLMAO: I noticed the new neighbors across the street have Texas plates on their...

Drew, Another way might to drill s 1/2 inch hole in the side of the stake pockets and put in a 1/2 inch shackle. Of course they make stake pocket adapters. I have seen twist drill bits which say in the fine print "not recommended for steel". What is the use of that? Good luck. Chris

Drew, You are scaring me!😱

You want to have the right number and kind of straps because sometimes you get a bored Cop who will write you up. Also it is nice to know if things go wrong nobody will be hurt because of you. finally it is nice to be confident your load will make your destination. If you are not sure a local...

"hospitals are so boring" Unless the nurses are nice and not too busy to talk.;) Chris

It's 64F This morning. It was mid 90s yesterday. It almost feels cold now. My wife hates for me to be bored. Yesterday she asked me if I wanted to wash windows. Today is the second half. There was a time when we could do the whole house in a day. I guess it goes without saying that the lawn...

Randy, I'm thinking of you. Take care and feel better soon. Chris

"I think there's going to be a lot of disappointed house sellers out there, Don, with the interest rates headed up." On the other hand it may be better for buyers unless they just payed a lot over list for a house. I still hope the economy will settle down. I blame the Fed for a lot of the...

"have you ever listened to some of the Playing For Change stuff ?" Yup. There sure is some fun music over there. Chris

When I bought the zero turn the guy at the shop said he just throws a strap across the mower. I prefer a more secure tie down. I have 1/2 inch lifting eyes ( forged eyebolts with a short shank) on the JD 425 and the Yanmar 186D. I bought a set of 4 for the simplicity. There are 1/2 inch holes in...

I know that not everybody likes banjo but these guys can play. The music made me smile.

Here are some cool old machines.

The Equipment Auction I like has a 3% service charge for paying with a credit card. I used to know a lot of trades people who would do side jobs but only if you payed cash. I guess these days guys would take bitcoin. Chris

About Cash. When I bought the zero turn I asked the guy if it made any difference how I payed. He said pay with a check and I will knock $200 off. $200 is $200. I'll take it, Chris

About showers. One of the nice things down at the beach (the Jersey Shore) is the outdoor showers. I could put one in here but I don't think it would be the same. Chris

My daughters do all their banking online. They even have a way to take a picture of a check with their phones to deposit it. I don't think they even have checks. Modern times. Chris

That's a nice looking mailbox. I probably should hose the purple bird poop off my mailbox (darned mulberries) but it never looked that nice even when it was new. Chris