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60°F and some spotty fog this morning, going up to 91° today. Electrician is coming today and tomorrow to finish the electrical work on the house. Going to disconnect the mains and install the new breaker box and sub panel. After that, he'll finish installing the new outlets and coverplates...

57°F and foggy this morning, going up to 88° today. Looks like we're back to the "around 90-ish" temps for the next week or so here. Nice looking work there, DABSGT.

62°F and cloudy this morning, going up to a whopping 72° today. We'll be back in the low 90s by the weekend. Ran into a little light rain on the way home from work yesterday, and it struck me as curious how these gentle clouds and light rain were all that was left of what was just a few days...

59° and cloudy this morning, going up to 77° today with some rain possible later. Looks like clouds from the remains of hurricane Irma arrived here yesterday evening. Eric, over the weekend I noticed one small maple tree along our south fence line had leaves that were well into the color change...

I was at work at a music electronics manufacturer. One of the other quality inspectors stuck his head in my office door and said, "A plane just flew into one of the World Trade Center towers." A few minutes later, he stopped again with news of the second tower. I went to the front office, and...

Mowed the pasture Sunday. 'Twas a beautiful day (sunny and 79°). The machine needs a bath.

52°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 79° today. We had a beautiful weekend here. The Wife got up Saturday morning and decided to get some steaks out of the freezer to thaw for dinner. She was furious to find that the upright freezer in the garage had no power, and most of the meat...

Got in some seat time yesterday mowing the pasture. It was a beautiful day out; sunny and 79°F. Great day for some tractoring. Had a lot of thistle seeds flying around, and had to stop a couple of times to clean them off as the engine started to get hot. First time, I just cleaned the grill...

49°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. Electric company co-op showed up yesterday morning along with our electrician. They brought in a bucket truck to replace the lines, conduit, meter, and box on our pole ... everything from the weatherhead down. The pole was replaced about...

One friend in Melbourne FL was chiding people on Facebook yesterday for the mad rush to buy up all the bottled water, noting that "The water coming from your faucet at home is still perfectly good and nearly free by comparison." He said he's filling every bathtub, sink, and container he can get...

I read that book in high school freshman literature class. Loved it. I actually re-read it again a few years ago, and it's lost none of its appeal. One of my favorite pieces of fiction.

45°F and spotty fog this morning, going up to 75° today. Had to put on a flannel jacket to take the garbage down to the road this morning for pickup. Friends and relatives in Florida are busy bracing for Irma's arrival. I don't envy that.

Yeah, I'm kind of torn on that, Bird. My R100RT is the bike I miss the most, but I'm not sure it would hold up to a side-by-side comparison with a 'Wing. As smooth rides go, I've not found anything better than a Goldwing.

50°F and clear skies this morning, going up to a whopping 70° today. I actually turned on the heater in the car on the way to work (I justified this by noting that the windshield needed it to stay clear :D). Neat screen, RS. I made a mini version of one for my Wife earlier in the summer by...

60°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 79° today. Was 93° yesterday, and a cold front came through in the evening that brought both severe storms and much cooler temperatures. Dropped to 72° almost instantly. Sorry about your Mother, Randy. I went through that with mine 6 years ago...

We had major flooding in both '93 and '95 in the STL area. Different areas affected worse than others in each. Seems strange how neither the Mississippi nor the Missouri rivers ever move, yet flooding is rarely in the same areas. I remember that '93 flood especially well, as I was working for a...

63°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 79° today. Drove through a brief shower on the way to work. We are celebrating our 4 year wedding anniversary today, and 14 years being back together again. We typically go to the local winery were we were wed, but today The Wife decided we would join...

63°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 82° today. Looks like the moisture coming north from Harvey will avoid us this weekend. We could use a little rain here. Can't believe it's the end of August already. Was talking yesterday with a coworker, and couldn't remember any 100°+ days this...

Wow. Looks like you guys are scary dry there RNG. I don't envy that.

61°F and light fog this morning, going up to 84° today. I occasionally see some odd-colored trucks around; '70s-looking burnt orange, lime green, fuchsia. Those canary yellow ones seem pretty popular around our area. We're happy with ours; it's just silver, like the two Kias. No plans for any...

59°F and foggy this morning, going up to 82° today. As long as Harvey's wet ways stay away, this is looking like the forecast here for about the next week. Oldest stepson got the Texas National Guard activation notice yesterday, putting a hold on his police academy progress. He's not happy...

64°F and spotty light rain showers this morning, going up to 82° today. Took Friday off work, as we get an additional PTO day we have to use within two weeks plus-or-minus our birthday. Wifey worked me "like a Hebrew slave" all weekend, cleaning up and weeding around the lake and the barn...

54°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 82° today. Forecast calling for sunny and 80-ish all weekend, too. OK, we'll take it. Had to drive across Missouri yesterday to visit an unhappy customer in Warrensburg, MO. I dislike these visits, but it does help their confidence when the Quality...

The Wife and I sat down and gave that hard look, too. The insurance package I get at work is OK (BC/BS), but expensive for the employees. We crunched the numbers regarding the dental portion, and decided it was more cost efficient for us to not have that insurance. It's turning out to be...

If you go to the Members page and sort by posts, it shows that Bird has some catching up to do.

71°F and heavy rain this morning, going up to 81° today. That 86% humidity we've been "enjoying" recently is supposed to drop off with this front as well. I didn't bother trying to take any eclipse pictures through my welding helmet, as it was flashing a bit trying to stay on, and I doubted I...

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That's the one I learned, too, Rick. (purple instead of violet, though)

72°F and partly cloudy today, going up to 90° today. Weather forecast for today doesn't look so good for all those people who came to the STL area for eclipse viewing. Got a whole lot of nothing done this weekend. Saturday morning was lost to work and a trip to see a friend. Sunday was supposed...

Thanks, I'll have to check out that one. I usually get all my vacuum tubes and electronics stuff these days from either Parts Express or MCM Electronics.

70°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 93° today. Nice sliver crescent moon and Venus just above the horizon this morning, too, with a bit of lightning in the distance to the east. At work early this morning to get a part approved for an unhappy customer. Machine operator insisted it...

Been a tough year for ticks here, too. I've found a lot of them, but fortunately all before they got their little heads buried in me.

68°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 93° today. Sounds like our "eclipse forecast" for Monday is calling for cloudy skies. Potential bummer for all those people making a trek to see it around here. Have a safe weekend, fellas.

70°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 90° today. Storms rolled through here yesterday at evening rush hour, and packed quite a punch. Fortunately, they didn't last too long. That's A LOT of rain at one time, Bird. Hope you avoided any flooding issues.

70°F and light rain this morning, going up to 90° again today with rain expected pretty much all day. And that's OK, we could definitely use it. Thanks for all the kind birthday wishes. I'd tell you it was a wonderful day, but honestly, every day is wonderful. Welcome to the GM thread, Rosie...

68°F and foggy this morning, going up to 90° today. Good luck with the welding project, Drew. That looks like a tough one. Turned 51 today. Doesn't really feel any different than 50 did yesterday. :rolleyes:

:laughing: You know it's wet when ...

Now, if you click on the "Go Advanced" button, it takes you to the advanced editor. Click off the blue format button in the upper left-hand corner, double click on the picture you inserted, and you can select the size you want the picture to be in the post.

Trimmed some trees over the weekend, and used that as an excuse to get out the tractor and use it as an expensive wheel barrow. Why not, huh?

66°F and raining this morning, going up to 86° today. Looks like the August heat and humidity have finally arrived here this week. Had a really nice weather weekend. Got out Saturday and exercised the loppers along the south fence line to remove a bunch of overgrowth of garbage treed and thorny...

66°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. Same for tomorrow. Looks like we're in for a beautiful weekend here. Too bad you can't store some of that up for the dry times, eh Randy?

Driving out yesterday morning, I went a route I don't usually go ... and now I know why. Seems I inadvertently stumbled upon some early morning pallet maneuvers. Worrisome, as this is about two miles from my home. :eek:

64°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 86° today with rain on and off most of the day. Rain against the bedroom windows woke me several times this morning. Going to be a long, tired day. Took a "field trip" yesterday morning to visit a customer's facility in Mt. Vernon, IL. Went there to get...

RNG, your patience with those people is nothing short of remarkable.

60°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 88° today. A little warm today and tomorrow, then back to the low 80s for another week or so. Wife has been collecting quotes for reglazing the bathtub in the basement bathroom. Local guy who lived a block from me when I lived in St. Jacob appears...

Yeah, I heard that one on the radio last week. I guess they feel the need to keep coming up with new ways to say the same things. :rolleyes:

59°F and clear skied this morning, going up to 84° today. Low to mid 80s forecast for the foreseeable future here. Me likey. :thumbsup:

Agreed, David. The level of genuine kindness found here seems unmatched elsewhere. I've participated in a good number of topic-oriented forums over the years. All of them seem overrun with obnoxious know-it-alls and keyboard warriors. TBN isn't that way at all. Sure, there's the occasional...

Bass guitar, maybe. Been playing that song since I started playing bass in 1982. No idea how many times I've played it, but I suspect it is well over 1000 over that 35 year span. One of those songs that's just a rock standard. It's in A minor, and modulates to C minor for the solo ... if that...

64°F and foggy this morning, going up to 81° today. Expecting low to mid 80s all week here. I got the grass mowed Saturday, and the Wife got the basement bedroom painted. Rained off and on most of the day yesterday. Not a lot, but some nice steady rain when it did. Wife and I used that as an...

54°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. (yes, 54° in August) :eek: Again, I'll take it. Going out to mow this morning as soon as the dew subsides a bit, while The Wife starts painting in the basement. She actually likes to paint, and I actually like to mow. Working out great...

61°F and mostly clear skies this morning, going up to 77° today. I'll take it! We had some spotty storms move through the STL area yesterday evening. We only got a little more of that weird sunshine rain, but friends in other areas reported strong winds and plenty of hail. Glad that missed us...

68°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 91° today with a chance for some severe storms this evening. Wife "forced" me to have a date night last night when i got home from work. We went to Olive Garden for dinner, then hung out at the local Barne & Noble for awhile. This is a typical date...

Happy Birthday, Randy! :thumbsup:

66°F and mostly clear skies this morning, going up to 90° today. We got some nice surprise showers yesterday evening. The sun was shining and I was seeing mostly blue skies, so I didn't even know it was raining until I looked out the kitchen window and saw the drops hitting the surface of the...

We looked at everyone's coverage maps, and most have very poor coverage either where we live or where she travels for training. Only Verizon and Sprint had good coverage. Where we live is right at the edge of the good coverage of any carrier. She had Sprint many years ago and found them OK. In...

Yeah, Mostly, those places are around. There's one in Fairview Heights, about 20 minutes from us. He was wanting a newer phone anyway, and knew we'd bought one for the potential change to Sprint. The Wife is convinced that knowledge played a role in the older phone's destruction. So, it became...

72°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 84° today. Some scattered showers around the area. Gave us a nice, colorful sunrise over Clinton County this morning. Carpenter got the drywall up in the basement bedroom yesterday, and started tearing out the walls of the bathroom. HVAC guy...

I had a mouse run out from under the bucket when I moved the tractor out of the barn yesterday. Not as cool as quail, but ... :laughing:

This thread seems to have fallen into disfavor. Thought I'd revive it with a pic of our LS sitting in the driveway. Dropped the blade there to use the bar for pulling, and had just put the blade back on.

Got some dirt moved over the weekend, and leveled out some spots around the yard. Also got a post removed by the lower driveway. It was left over from a long defunct grape row, and The Wife has been asking for its removal for awhile now. I dug around it a bit, and decided to use the tractor to...

Youngest stepson got into another argument with his girlfriend and they broke up over the weekend. In the process, he threw down his iPhone (again!) and shattered it. The Wife had found for him last week a newer iPhone 6S, after we found his 4C wasn't compatible with Sprint, whose service we...

62°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 90° today. Don, my oldest stepson sent The Wife a picture of his dashboard this weekend, showing it was 117° in San Marcos. He always complained about the heat while stationed at Ft. Hood and while deployed to Iraq, and yet where did he move? Texas...

64°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. Beautiful day here so far. We have an outside cat that is about 12 years old. She doesn't do much mousing these days. Mostly just lays around. She hasn't been looking too good the past few months. Losing a lot of weight. We're not...

I have been a huge Yes fan for longer than I care to remember. I was three when their first album came out in '69. Yes and Rush are undoubtedly the two biggest reasons I became a rock musician. Love Roger Dean's work, and have been "friends" with him on Facebook for several years. He's still...

70°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 88° today. Rained on and off most of the day yesterday, and that was much appreciated. Looking like sunny and mid-80s for the weekend. I'll take it. Wow, Randy, sorry you lost so much equipment and a building, but very glad you were not hurt. Stuff...

74°F and raining this morning, going up to 84° with rain most of the day. We can definitely use it. Thunder woke me around 01:30 this morning, and the boy walking around the house talking on speakerphone with his girlfriend didn't make it any easier to fall back asleep. He got a job yesterday...

Friends of mine go to Mexico a couple times a year, and like to post pictures of the alligator warning signs around the courses down there. My new sand (54°) and lob (58°) wedges arrived yesterday. Looking forward to using them this weekend. I've never understood the idea of manufacturers...

74°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 99° today. Expecting storms to roll through over night and into tomorrow morning to push out the heat again. Mid-80s for the weekend. New golf wedges were delivered yesterday. Looking forward to playing a little with the milder weather this weekend.

70°F and partly cloudy skies this morning, 86° now, going up to 90° today. Guy down the road from us has had his property for sale for a couple months now. Asking too much, in my opinion. This week, flatbed trailers showed up from a local auction company, and a sign went up yesterday. He ran...

Nope. Only satellite (or dial-up ... shudder) is available where we are. Sounds like a sweet deal, though.

Yeah, that thread caught my interest from the beginning. I had an AT&T cellular plan many years ago, and couldn't get rid of them fast enough. Rarely did a call over a minute not drop at some point. I was once standing in a parking lot in downtown St. Louis looking right up at the AT&T building...

We are just generally looking at places where we can cut costs. Phone bill was an obvious one. We have 3 phones, a tablet (which line we are dropping), and our home phone, 12Gb data, and unlimited calls and texts ... $269/month with Verizon. The boy eats up most of the data every month (Wife and...

Thanks, Kyle. We'll look into them as well. A couple of people recommended Boost, who also apparently uses Sprint's network, but their coverage map in our area was very weak.

69°F and clear skies this morning, going up to only 90° today. Relatively arctic compared to last week (not to detract from the snow in NZ, though). Back up to 100° on Wednesday, but just for one day according to the iThingie. Severe storms rolled through our area early Sunday morning. We...

Whew! Got up to 104°F again today. It's still 99° here at 7:25pm. Hopeful that the front will come through tonight and give us a little relief from this. Stay cool, fellas.

77°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 104° today. Quite ready for this warm stuff to move on already.

78°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 102° again today (which was the "official" high yesterday). Stay hydrated, fellas. Happy (belated) Birthday, Kyle.

75°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 97° today. Wife tells me the HVAC guy is coming today to finish the new system install. I certainly hope that's true. We're still looking at being around 100° the next three or four days. Stopped about a mile down the road this morning to...

It's going to skim just south of the St. Louis area.

I see a lot of threads about golf carts, but very little about actually playing golf. How many golfers do we have here? I started playing about 1991, after I divorced my first wife. Many of my long-haired friends were playing, so I figured ... what the heck. I'm still not very good, but I do...

66°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 97° today. Looks like it's going to be right at or just over 100° all week here. Carpenter has most of the framing done around the outside basement walls. Kind of at a standstill now waiting for the electrician to wire everything. He said he...

72°F and thunder storms this morning, going up to 90° today and clearing. We got some much needed rain yesterday and overnight. Lightning and thunder woke me at 04:14 this morning, but I really didn't mind. Wife was upset when I got home yesterday. The brand new porch had leaked in the same...

Yup. My commute to my previous job was 120 mile round trip every day. This one is a bit closer at just over 80 miles RT. It adds up fast. I guess I have my settings different, because I see page 1500 on my desktop computer (40 per). Still 60K+ posts. Not too shabby.

75°F and mostly cloudy this morning, going up to 95° with storms moving in this afternoon. On the bright side, said storms are bring relief from the heat. (hit 104 yesterday) Pulled in the driveway after work last evening at 99,999 miles on the '14 Kia Soul. Wife didn't want to cook (house was...

Not a fan of okra at all. Wife loves it, though. Now Brussels sprouts? I could eat them every day. Delicious.

74°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 100° today. Made it to 103° yesterday. One more day of this, then we're looking at mid-80s for Friday. Back up in the triple digits again next week, though. Outstanding news, Drew. Carpenter got most of the walkout porch rebuild framed in...

75°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 99° today. Expecting 100° tomorrow, then back down near 90° by Friday. Threw some strip steaks on the grill last night so we wouldn't have to heat up the house cooking. They came off delicious. We may just eat ice cream tonight. :licking...

72°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 97° today. Looks like we'll hit 100° by Wednesday. Summer is definitely here now. We had a surprise thunderstorm roll through yesterday evening. the iThingie widget showed it was raining, but still said 0% chance for rain. Nice try, Apple. :laughing:

70°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 95° today. Carpenter got the porch pad busted out and removed yesterday. Cement truck showed up in the afternoon and they poured the footing. Coming back today to pour the new pad. The new golf clubs I ordered over the weekend started arriving...

Sounds like you're doing well, Drew. Good to know. You automatically get bonus points for taking an old-school selfie in a mirror with an actual camera. If Roy lets you wear his hat ... all the better. :thumbsup:

69°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 91° today. A shower passed through just before I got up this morning, and we got a nice little soaker last night after dinner. Some much-needed rain. Carpenter got the downstairs porch torn off yesterday, and will be busting out the concrete today...

74°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 82° today with on and off rain in the forecast. Drove through a light shower on the way to work this morning. Weather was nice all weekend here, albeit a little warm. Got some work done around the house, got the rest of the downstairs kitchen removed...

74°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 84° today with some storms this morning. Apparently, no one told Eric's weatherman about global warming. :laughing: Maybe we can get a timeshare over there, Don. You are an impressive man, Drew. In spite of all of your neighbors documented...

72°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 91° today. Drove through a light rain on the way to work this morning. Wife got a call yesterday evening from our carpenter. He says he will be starting on the walkout porch this Friday, then working his way inward. A little earlier than we expected...

62°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 88° today. Settling back into more "normal" end-of-June weather now. Sitting at the kitchen table yesterday after dinner, and I looked out the front window to see a small young doe standing in the front yard right by the house. Probably didn't...

54°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. Last day of the mild weather, as it will be warming to around 90° for the rest of the week. Yes. Yes I do. I have long considered myself "the luckiest guy on the planet." I don't deserve her ... but I'm going to keep her anyway. :D

Thanks. When she gets into her mind to do something, there's really no stopping her. She did most of the work, and will probably finish it while I'm at work today. Just how she is.

The electrician came back Saturday morning and worked for a few hours cleaning up some more of the wiring nightmare. He's ordering new equipment this week, and agreed to move everything from the two breaker boxes into one ... something the other guy just simply didn't want to do. The Wife and...

Finally got around to moving a dirt pile left in the back yard from digging the foundation for the new sunroom. The Wife has been "suggesting" this for awhile now :D . It hadn't been there long enough yet to compact much, so it scooped easily with just the edge of the bucket. Moved the dirt to a...

54°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 82° today. Wonderful weather here over the weekend seems to be carrying on into the week. I'm OK with that. Got the grass mowed Saturday morning, then finally moved the dirt pile in the back yard left there from digging the sunroom foundation...

I think that's a problem pretty much everywhere, CjR. Disaster areas even more so. This guy we called because one of our other contractors recommended him as a replacement for the less-than-reliable guy we had doing the upstairs work. We know this will be the expensive phase of the electrical...

Nice. Yeah, I've been looking lately to replace my '85 Goldwing, and I've let about three really good candidates get away on C-list. I keep telling myself not to go there, but then I get a little time at lunch and, well ...

68°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 82° today with a chance of rain and storms most of the day. Looks like TS Cindy's remnants will miss us to the south, but it's dragging in moisture form the northwest which will not miss us. This is a good thing. We could definitely use some rain. Wife...

Hear, hear!!!

71°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 81° with a slight chance of rain after noon, better chance after midnight. We could use some rain here. Eric, my friend mentioned that there were really no air conditioned homes around London. I'm sure he'll survive just fine. Temperatures in the...

71°F this morning and partly cloudy skies, going up to 97° today. Last scorcher of the week for us; around 80° the rest of the week. Eric, I have a local friend visiting your side of the pond this week. He posted on Facebook yesterday that the house where they're staying in London has no AC...

61°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 90° today with a chance of some spotty showers late. Nice to read that you're getting back into shooting, Eric. I've always found it quite relaxing and enjoyable.

Guess someone convinced the poster of this ad for straw bales to put a tape measure in the picture for size reference ... :laughing: (STRAW BALES $3. - farm & garden - by owner - sale)

64°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 84° today. Played a little golf with The Wife yesterday. Had a good time. Got a whole lot of nothing done over the weekend, though. Burned a small burn pile Saturday. That was pretty much it. We had a nice bit of rain both Saturday and Sunday...

That's mostly true, Randy. I simply don't play enough to ever be truly good. The lessons are fun, though, and I'm learning a lot about what I've been doing wrong for the last 27 years.

72°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 90° today with more chances of thunder storms. HVAC guys showed up just after I got home from work yesterday, and re-ran the drain line for the split unit in the sunroom. Seems to be working as advertised now. Golf lesson #2 this evening after...

I haven't been to a high school reunion yet. We had 850 graduate in the Class of '84 at Granite City (IL) High School, and for the most part, I still talk to and hang out with the same small group of people as I did back then. On a different note, The Wife picked the first bowl of blueberries...

66°F and steady rain falling this morning, clearing later and going up to 90° today. We had a few thunderstorms overnight, but nothing severe at our place. Much needed rain all night, though. It was 82° in our house when I got home yesterday, too, Buppies. Wife was not pleased. We knew we were...

77°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 95° again today, with some potentially severe storms expected later in the day. We could definitely use some rain here. Stopped at Guitar Center on my way home from work yesterday to pick up a new (to me) guitar. It's an Epiphone Dot Studio, and...

75°F and clear skies this morning, albeit rather humid (76%), going up to 95° again today. Went out last night with The Wife and helped her water the new trees. One of the cherry trees is not looking so good. Leaves are starting to wilt a bit. Sure hope it makes it. The rest look pretty good...

Stumbled across an ad today for a 1990 Honda Deerwing 1500 with only 30,XXX miles ... :laughing: Seriously? You couldn't take a better picture of the bike than this?!

I remember being awed by the shear numbers and sizes of the windfarms we saw in Oklahoma and north Texas when we drove through there on our way to the Grand Canyon back in 2011. It's impressive how they just go on as far as the eye can see. Hahaha ... I'll have you know that this old man can...

68°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 95° today. Looks like mid-90s all week for us. Finally got around to playing this year's first round of golf yesterday. The lesson on Friday went very well, and I learned a lot about how wrong I was doing most things. The guy made corrections to my...

We have one of those in white, Don. The original one we bought a couple years ago had some trouble. The screen would go dead or fill with lines, and sometimes it simply wouldn't boot up at all. Sent it back and Amazon replaced it. Every so often the display seems to fade out and turn all white...

57°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 86° today. It's supposed to get into the 90s starting tomorrow and through next week, and the humidity is making a return on Monday. Summer is arriving here. Looking forward to cutting out from work a little early this evening to attend my first...

55°F and clear skies again this morning, going up to 82° today. Wife and I were invited to play golf with some friends this weekend, so she dug the clubs out of the garage yesterday. We haven't touched them since last fall, and they've been buried behind all the house stuff stored in the garage...

Fighting my first cold of the year, too, Roy. Stuffy nose and a light cough; not too bad.

55° and clear skies this morning, going up to 79° today. Just absolutely fantastic weather here right now. Wife mowed yesterday while I was at work. She started to do the trimming, too, but decided that the Husqy trimmer was just too heavy for her, even with the shoulder strap. So, she went to...

Yeah, me, too, CjR. And, it was considerably less painful than I was expecting. Now, we just need to get it completed to get him back on track with the Air Force. He was originally supposed to leave for basic next week, but that's on hold until this is resolved.

64°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 82° today. Wife took the boy to court yesterday to resolve his recent driving indiscretions. He spoke with the prosecutor during a recess, explained his dilemma with his father not forwarding his mail notices since he's been living with us...

68°F and foggy this morning, going up to 93° today. Lots of spotty rain showers and even a few storms yesterday - which helped generate all the thick fog this morning - pretty much squashed all of my outdoor plans. However, it did free me up to knock some of the indoor stuff off of the honey-do...

61°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 86° today. Got home from work yesterday, ate a few tacos, then finished planting the new flowering cherry trees. The Wife actually got the boy to help a little yesterday, but he apparently disappeared during the second one. So she stopped and went...

Nothing morbid about that, Randy. My Father died at 57. I'll be 51 this year. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't thought about that lately, too. We all do.

57°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 82° today. Looks like we're going to get into the upper 80s this weekend, then sunny and 79° all next week. Nice. Had a third party consultant come in at work yesterday to do an impartial Internal Audit for us before our ISO Certification Audit...

No seat time for me, but I made the wife drive the tractor last night to unload out of the pickup truck the new cherry trees she bought yesterday. She sent me this pic this morning of her moving two of them down the driveway and over to the other side of the property to be planted around the...

57°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 82° today. Got some more of the tall stuff cleaned around the lake yesterday morning. It's starting to look semi-respectable again. Had some surprise storms pop up yesterday afternoon, some had considerable wind with them. Wife and I had just...

:laughing: Now, that's funny.

63°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 80° today with some scattered storms. Wife is planning for us to finish cleaning around the lake this weekend, pulling weeds and other unwanted stuff growing in the rip-rap. That'll be a fun task :rolleyes:, but one that needs to be done. Her...

Hahaha ... yeah, I'm thinking that's in the neighborhood of a .30 caliber problem there.

Glad we don't have bears to deal with here (or gators, for that matter). We keep the bird seed container inside the back door to discourage 'coon incursions.

55°F and partly cloudy skies this morning, going up to 75° today. Some beautiful days ahead of us for the weekend, or so they say now. :rolleyes: This is Memorial Day weekend here in the US, and by my assessment during my morning walk through the shop this morning, it has mentally already begun...

Yeah, some have been fascinating, some not so much. I've worked as a piano mover, in a music store, inventory specialist in an office supply warehouse, a contract security company field supervisor, security at a chiropractic college, laborer on a horseradish farm, an electronics tech and quality...

52°F and partly cloudy here this morning, going up to 70° today. That is a magnificent picture, Don. We had a similar "sun-painting" under the clouds on the front of our barn and a couple of trees last night, but not nearly as stunning as yours. Very nice.

You know, David, I used to work for Wicks Organ Company. There was a pipe organ they'd built in the early '60s for the Higashi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple in Hilo, HI. I was always trying to convince the company President that he should send me to inspect/repair that instrument, as I was the only...

I think that same thing every time I walk through our local Ace Hardware store and see the prices on those Big Green Egg ceramic grills. Their large model is $4K. :eek: Do people really buy those?

59°F and light rain this morning, going up to 73° today with rain off and on. My natural reaction to events like this Manchester bombing seems these days to tend towards anger. I'm angry that this still happens so frequently. I'm angry that there are people in this world who believe blowing up...

52°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 79° today. Got the Dixon zero-turn picked up from the repair shop Saturday morning. They had to replace the clutch, all three spindles, a cracked pulley, new V-belt, new blades, and a general tune-up ... $612.93. Ouch. Also got a bunch of items crossed...

65°F and stormy this morning, going up to 82° today, with more storms expected later this evening and overnight. The one that rolled through this morning just after I got out of the shower was substantial. Lots of damage around the STL area from reported 60-80mph winds. Looking to be a busy...

Never been through Love Field. I've made many connections through DFW, though ... a very efficient airport.

CWB, I told my Wife last night that there was still snow falling in Wyoming. She gave me that look that said, "Don't use that four-letter word." :laughing:

68°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 90° today. Looks like we're getting rain Friday and Saturday. My heart sank when I saw that picture, Ron. What was he thinking? These are the guys who connect their PTO with the engine running, or pull a grass clog out of their mower by hand...

68°F and partly cloudy this morning, heading to 84° today with a slight chance of some pop-up thunder storms. Drew, my Wife's Grandmother used to plant the entirety of her 1/2 acre garden by hand (up until about 20 years ago, it was a full acre). She plowed it by hand with a one-wheel hand...

Maple back and sides, spruce top, glue, varnish ... it's a smell I definitely don't hate. :thumbsup:

63°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 90° today. Looks like it will be at or near 90 most of the week here. Did a whole lot of nothing when I got home from work yesterday. After dinner, just sat and chatted with The Wife while she wrapped up a couple of quilt projects in her sewing...

61°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 84° today. What a beautiful weekend we had here in the St. Louis area, and it's continuing into the week. Attended the boy's last high school band concert Friday evening, and man was it a Duesey. Band director decided to put everything on the...

Finally got out in the pasture for the first time this year. It's been a very wet Spring here, too. Grass was already three feet high, but it looks healthy, with very little in the way of obnoxious weeds.

Well then, welcome to TBN and the Good Morning thread, CWB. Great to have you here (officially now). :thumbsup:

59°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 73° today. High school band concert tonight, last one of the year, and last one of Samuel's high school days. At least it's not on a Sunday afternoon (not going to miss this band director) :rolleyes: . Have a great weekend, guys.

... or hardwire a dedicated line with higher rated components.

Correct. Areas along the Meramec had the worst of it. MO-141 at I-44 was under about 10 feet of water for a week. I-44 was closed to through traffic for several days between 141 and I-270, with only local Fenton access traffic allowed. I-55 was closed in the Arnold area for a couple of days. The...

That's a good-looking instrument. Ours is a Premier, made in New York in 1920. She found it at an estate auction for practically a song (pun intended). The family had bought it as a show piece and never played it. For 80 years, it was just a picture stand. The electric is a violin. Long story...

66°F and some rain this morning, going up to 72° and clearing later today. No more rain in the forecast now until next Thursday. Wife had to take the oldest Border Collie back to the vet yesterday. Seems she decided to remove her stitches on her own from the bladder surgery last week, and was...

Thanks. That L-shaped sectional sticking out on the left, and the television, will both be going back downstairs after the basement remodel is finished. This room will be only the piano (and our violins and violas hanging on the wall like they were downstairs), a small couch, and a couple of...

64° and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 84° with some storms expected later today. Took the day off from work yesterday ... to get the piano moved!!! The movers notified me that they would have time mid-morning on Tuesday to do it. So, rather than drive to the city for a couple of hours...

Was off from work yesterday for other stuff, but had time to get the grass mowed. Wife handled the trimming with the push mower, and I just rode around on the Husqy. Teamwork!

59°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. No rain in the forecast until Wednesday. Busy weekend, and we got a lot done. Got all the grass toys ... er, I meant tools ... out and hosed off all the winter crud buildup. Amazes me how dirty things get just sitting there in a barn for...

You guys are being so productive, and I was just happy I found time yesterday to pull everything out of the barn and hose off the winter crud buildup. :laughing: Pretty much the extent of my seat time over the weekend.

My LS came with a leveling arm that has two vertical handles on it. I've never had to remove anything to make adjustments with it, because you can grab it with both hands and turn. I couldn't find a picture (I'm at work), but I did find a drawing that is similar. And, those lynch pins like...

46°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 64° today. First time in several weeks that we have sunny skies and no rain in the forecast. Looking forward to some drying time. Wife started sorting and loading her books into the new bookcases yesterday. Guess I'll be doing the same this...

That's what really worries us, Drew. He seems perfectly content to continue on an unaltered path. He laughs this stuff off like it's no big deal, and almost wears it as a badge of honor. Now he's facing the potential to lose his license until at least August, and possibly until he's 21. I guess...

Never heard of the mustard trick. Thanks for posting that article, Ron. Interesting.

48°F and steady rain this morning, and we may get up to 50° today. Looks like the rain will now continue into tomorrow. So, the boy got his formerly-flooded car started after school yesterday, paid the shop for the tow, and drove a few blocks into town to get some fluids from Napa Auto Parts...

The boy told me last night that the mechanic took a look at his car today, and the fluids look OK. They are going to try to fire it up after he gets out of school this afternoon. Water was up to the edge of the seats, though, so it's going to need some serious interior cleaning. We only built...

50°F and light rain this morning, and I believe that's as warm as we'll get today. Rain expected through tomorrow. More road closures popping up almost hourly around the area. A section of I-44 remains closed, and now MoDOT is talking about closing a section of I-55 this morning. Added to all...

48°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 70° today. Enjoyed a nice, quiet evening last night. Wife made some s'ghetti for dinner, and we just sat around a chatted until we both decided it was bed time. Good to relax like that sometimes. The bookcase fit was a fluke chance. We'd been...

52°F and partly cloudy this morning, clearing and going up to 54° today. We survived the rain onslaught over the weekend with little more than an overflowing lake, which runs down to the road and floods it at the low spot during the heaviest times. It's fed by runoff from our pasture and the...

Hahaha ... that's good. I love tea, Eric. I rarely drink coffee anymore. This morning I'm enjoying a mug of Bigelow Green Tea. The only English tea brand I'm really familiar with is Twinings of London (who sells some excellent teas). Never heard of PG Tips, but now I'll have to look for it. Is...

52°F and drizzly this morning, going up to 66° with heavy rains later. Heard on the news this morning we may get up to 8" over the weekend. Yikes. Our shower was finally installed yesterday. Apparently it posed some challenges, as the contractor was still there when I got home from work. Him...

Reminded me of this instant classic ...

46°F and drizzly this morning, going up to 64° and clearing later today. Expecting a LOT of rain over the weekend here, starting Friday. Flash flood warnings already issued. I guess we'll see how well those new gutters and oversize downspouts really work. Wife got a call yesterday from the...

66°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 72° today. Expecting some potentially severe storms to move through the area later today. Wifey got the grass mowed yesterday. While using the push mower in tall grass around the well house, she hit a baseball-size rock and flung it against the...

48°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. Got home from work last night to find that my dear bride had already assembled the bedroom reading chair and her office desk. No surprise. She's a go-getter. After dinner, we assembled the three shelving units for her sewing room. She...

40°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 79° today. It was cool all weekend here (40s & 50s). We don't normally get such a wide temperature swing in one day like today, but I'll surely welcome the warmer weather. Wife finally got me to go to IKEA yesterday, and we spent the better part of...

50°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 57° with rain expected most of the day today, and into tomorrow. Upper 50s again tomorrow. Cool, considering we tied a record high of 88° just two days ago. Wife and I have been swapping out winter clothes this week, a semi-annual tradition from being...

That sounds like a huge undertaking, MFW. :eek: At least we were able to live in our finished walkout basement until the upstairs remodel was complete. Good luck in your endeavor.

66°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 77° with rain later. Radar shows it moving in already. Wife had a nice visit yesterday morning from the neighbor across the road. She hadn't been in the house since before G'ma died last year, and was amazed at the changes we've made so far...

Ours are the sliding sleeve variety, RNG. She put it in the filler tube and let the weight of the can press it, and of course it went spraying out the sides ... because that's just a sh!tty design anyway, even when not pressurized.

59°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 86° today. Buckeyefarmer, my Wife had her first experience this past weekend with those new cans when she tried to fill the Husqy rider. Sprayed gasoline all over the thing because the can had pressurized as it warmed. She wanted to know who...

52°F and partly cloudy, going up to 79° today. Upper 80s for tomorrow. My Wife's Grandmother was notorious for that over-planting, riptides. Because of it, it takes us about 4 hours to mow the front 2-1/2 acres, and about another hour to trim. We've been slowly eliminating many of those areas...

55°F and drizzly this morning, going up to 72° today. Rain seems to be of the hit-or-miss variety. Got a bunch of "mopping up" jobs done over the weekend; things with small lingering details that just needed to be finished. Wife did some mowing Saturday, and passed it off to me near the end...

Only seat time this weekend was on the Husqy riding mower. Wife did most of the mowing Saturday while I was doing other stuff. Said she missed mowing, so I just let her go (she did it all herself for 13 years before we were married). Once she got back near the barn, she decided that was enough...

Wow. Sorry to read that, Eric. Hope the authorities can get it straightened out so it doesn't happen again.

61°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 81° today. Expecting some rain later. Wife and I did some mattress shopping last weekend, and found a Sealy we both liked. The three-year-old memory foam mattress just wasn't cutting it either for my back or her sciatic nerve. Her and the boy went to...

49°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 79° today. Back is feeling considerably better today. Had a good night's sleep last night, and that's always rejuvenative. I made the change from my laptop in the house just before going to bed, so I didn't get to experience that. :laughing...

39°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 72° today. Left for work yesterday, got about 3/4 of the way there, and turned around and went back home. My back was killing me. Even just moving my leg from the accelerator to the brake pedal was excruciating. I've had a compressed disc in my...

64°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 72° today with a chance for some rain. Beautiful weekend here. Spent much of the afternoon Saturday burning the weeds and grass around the lake. Got my first do-rag tan of the year. :laughing: Finished the closet installs Sunday morning by...

39°F and clear skies this morning, Going up to 61° and sunny all day. Need to get things dried out here so we can mow this weekend. Also need to get some temporary fencing to fence of the muddy areas in the newly fenced-in backyard, and get some seed down on it. The three amigos seem to...

Mine was an '89 that I bought gently used in 1990. I only had it for a few years, then sold it when I had to downsize my life after a divorce. It's the one I truly miss. Great bike. That said, I'll probably just get another Goldwing. I've become quite fond of that ride ... as has The Wife.

I've come to realize that when she's standing there silently staring at me, she's waiting for me to compliment her "new" hairdo. :confused3:

Wife made me get out of bed last night to "rearrange" the rockers on the front porch, as one was tapping against the living room window. Winds here are definitely making a statement. I didn't see any serious limbs down when I left for work this morning, though.

I may as well be, too, CjR. My Wing has been sitting for a year. We've just had no time to ride during the house remodel. Things have not repaired themselves, of course, and now I just don't want to sink the money into a 32-year-old bike with key parts starting to get scarce. Better for me to...

46°F and light rain this morning, going up to 57° today. It rained/stormed on and off all day yesterday, and all through the night. Finally quit on my way to work. Clear skies over North St. Louis. That wind, though! Wow. Howling all night, and no sign it's letting up today. I've had a few...

Yeah, I'm in about 20 years now, and been all through the ranks. Even as a manager now, I still believe I can "make a difference." Sometimes I do, sometimes not so much. The company I'm with now seems to genuinely want to improve the way we do things. Believe me, I'm riding that wave as long as...