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62°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 91° today. We were supposed to be getting some rain this evening. Then, it suddenly showed up on radar this morning. We've gotten nothing but a few sprinkles so far, and now it's falling apart around us. Guess I'll get the rest of that mowing done after...

61°F and partly cloudy this morning, got up to 85° today. Got the pasture mowed during the late morning. Decided to let some of the dew evaporate first. It was still a little wet when I got started about 09:45, and dry before I finished about 2-1/2 hours later. Quicker than I anticipated. Some...

Wife sent me a text message that ADT tech showed up on time this morning ... but no one told him he was changing out the control panel 🤬. So, he had to leave to go get one. It's very comforting to know that the people we're relying on for our home security system have their feces so together.

59°F and some light fog this morning, going up to 88° today. Need to get some grass mowed this weekend. I haven't mowed the pasture for a couple of weeks now, so that's going to go slow. Need to take inspiration from Mostly_ and sharpen the blades first. Also want to get the kayaks out and do...

57°F and light fog this morning, going up to 86° today. Stopped for gas on the way to work this morning, and watched a lady walk out of the convenience store, with her cup of coffee, wearing a long winter coat and a knit hat. :rolleyes: No need to rush into that already. Good morning, gents.

My Wife. She has been around half a dozen people who had it, including me coughing and hacking for about five or six weeks back in 2019. Never got it. If she did, she never had any symptoms.

:( Hope you feel better soon, Roy.

My Wife has one of the paper towel holders on her oil painting supplies cart, and loves it.

50°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 86° today. Weather widget on the iThingie now says 95° for Monday and Tuesday. I'm guessing that your pond won't hate a steady infusion of fresh spring water, Frits. Our is strictly runoff from the pasture. Nice-looking place you have. Good...

55°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 82° today. Looks like we're steadily warming until we get back to the low 90s by next week. Good morning, gents.

52°F and partly cloudy this morning, only going up to 78° today. We seem to have entered that period where we need heat for the morning drive, and AC for the afternoon drive. I have no delusions that Summer is finished with us, though. Good morning, gents.

Where did you find this, BEF? I need something like that on the Husqvarna. Mowing the pasture is a lot bumpier than the rest, and makes my compressed disc less happy. Edit: Ah, just found it on Amazon.

53°F and light rain this morning, only going up to 71° today. Still misting a bit, but looks like the proper rain is finished with us and has moved on. We have bungies on the deflectors on the rider and the zeroturn. The rider is always up, but the ztr really doesn't have a good place to hook...

62°F and cloudy this morning, got up to 86° today, and now back down to 72° with light rain. Was going to start mowing early this morning to try to get ahead of the predicted rain, but it got to us about five hours ahead of schedule. Rather inconsiderate. The sun came out long enough to dry...

Used to be a product called Dr. (removed)'s Wart Remover that was a small flat pad outlet on a short cord. It was very popular with musicians for use in the back of racks with rackmount power conditioners. A cursory look about the internet seems to find they may not be available anymore. I have a...

No disrespect intended, Randy. She always seemed like a wonderful lady.

Me, too. Has it really been over four months since we've heard from him? Forum Search says his last post was April 28.

Fixed that for you. We opted out of that a few years back.

57°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 84° today. Good morning, gents.

I wish more parents would teach their children to fight / not fight. It's a great confidence builder. I'd be willing to bet that your daughter never had any bully problems after that.

65°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 85°. Exciting times, BEF. Hope it works out for you. No shooting would be a no-go for me, too, Lou. Good morning, gents.

I only do that with the zeroturn or the rider ... and I seem to do it a couple times a year :rolleyes:. Came close with the tractor once or twice, but have not stuck it yet.

67°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 81° today. Chance for some light drizzle throughout the day, says a voice on the radio. Back to work today. Got about 1/2 mile from the house this morning and my low tire pressure indicator came on. Turned around and went back. Left front tire was down...

That's been the story of our entire summer here. Everything kept going either north or south of us, or just completely disappearing before it got to us. Sometimes, by just a couple of miles. We've finally gotten good rain all weekend. It messed up some kayaking plans, but we're OK with that. We...

67°F and rain this morning, going up to 79° today. NOAA weather widget says we've had 1.8" of rain in the last 24 hours. Our full pond concurs. First time in months we've seen water running out the front through the swale down to the ditch. The ground was actually soft again walking out to the...

67°F and light rain this morning, rained off and on pretty much all day, and got up to 77° today. We've had the same on and off light rain pretty much all weekend so far, and it looks to continue into the beginning of the week as well. It's all been very light, but we'll take it anyway. Lots...

GM is the Good Morning thread ... this one.

62°F and cloudy this morning, only going up to 81° today. Interview went well yesterday. It was a committee, and the room was arranged like a parole board meeting. It was a good conversation. Should hear back from them sometime next week. Thanks to all who offered well-wishes. Sad to read the...

Interesting development in the STL area this morning. Two Academy Sports stores 40 miles apart on opposite sides of the metro area had simultaneous smash-n-grab attempts in the wee small hours of the morning. They drove vehicles into the front of the stores to gain access. Just a few days ago...

I had a similar conversation with my local Guitar Center a few years ago. "I could have done that from home" I believe was the quote. I've only been back in there once since, and that was to pick up a speaker cabinet I'd ordered online from a different store. They charged me shipping from store...

57°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 86° today. No more rain in our forecast until next Friday. Last full work day this week. Taking the afternoon off tomorrow, and we always get sent home early here on the Friday before a holiday. Good morning, gents.

Not yet. Interviewing on Thursday afternoon with company that sought me out. Watched my boss today come to the understanding that one of his poor choices has come back to bite him. I got no pleasure watching it happen. Honestly, I almost feel bad for him. Not bad enough to stay, though.

That's some sketchy feces right there. We have Verizon, too. Sounds like we may need to do a review as well.

Got up to 92°F today, but the relative humidity was down to 46%. Not a terrible day at all. Got the trash gathered this evening and walked the can down to the road. Need to feed the fuzzy butts, then a trip to the store for a couple things from The Wife's list. Good luck with the new project...

62°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 88° today. Storms passing through yesterday brought some cooler air and lower humidity, both welcome. Going to warm back up into the 90s later this week and the weekend. Most of the rain missed us either north or south, but we did get a little...

72°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 92° today. More storms predicted for later today. Rain. We got some of that glorious rain yesterday. A fair amount of lightning and thunder came with it, but the rain was never heavy. Just good rainfall for about an hour or so. We'll take it. Hoping for...

68°F and clear skies this morning, got up to 93° briefly, and is 89° now. Got some mowing done today, felt like I mostly just moved some dust a little north courtesy of the wind. Hauled a pear tree limb off to the burn pile, which had snapped under the weight of an abundance of pears this year...

Saw yesterday that Hammond organ legend (and trumpeter) Joey DeFrancesco died on Thursday at 51.

Been thinking about renting one of those to replace my yard light. Probably less expensive than paying an electrician to come out and do it. Besides, we paid so much to the electrician who completely rewired our house that he retired and moved to Maui.

64°F and mostly sunny skies this morning, going up to 88° today. Already 85° at noon. Got the Cub Cadet push trimmer out this morning and attacked the massive growth around the burn pile, the berm dirt pile, and along the north side outside the pasture fence. Neighbor doesn't mow back there, so...

ADT tech finally showed up around 4:30pm ... so much for taking a half day from work. Same guy as last time, and told us pretty much the same things again. Since he's only a service guy, he can't help us, and was actually miffed that they sent him knowing there is no fix for this except...

We've been looking at other companies, knowing full well that this conversation will have a high probability of going south, based on recent responses from them during phone calls. Abode is one of them. Our system worked great when it was installed in 2017. It only recently started having...

66°F and light fog this morning, going up to 88° today. The pop-up showers that graced that area yesterday evening left us the usual minor moisture, falling apart just as they reached us. In spite of all the recent stories about disastrous flooding in the STL area, we have remained dry as a bone...

Yup, that's what our local u-pick uses.

Same.

Keep an eye on those. I bought a set of their jack stands a few years ago. One day I noticed that they were on a recall notice for slipping out of the latch. Took them back and swapped for the replacements. About a month later, those were recalled for the same issue. I no longer own any jack...

64°F and light fog this morning, going up to 91° today. Warming back up to more typical August weather for the next few days. I've lived in this area my whole life. Honestly, I've never really seriously contemplated moving somewhere else, until last year when The Wife and I considered moving to...

58°F and foggy this morning, going up to 85° today. No rain in the forecast here until Monday. Drew, those Ventrac machines are impressive. Kind of in their own little class. RNG, a quick Google search tells me you probably won't be looking too long at those mowers. "Base models starting...

FINALLY got caught up with the reading here. Whew! Now I need a nap. Read some conversation from a couple weeks ago about mowing on steep slopes, and I've always been fascinated by those guys, too. Recently, I've been seeing some mowers along I-70 through north St. Louis city that I'd never...

The pipe organ company I used to work for built an instrument in 1962 for the Higashi Hongwanji Mission in Hilo. As the only Buddhist to ever work for that company, I spent a fair amount of time trying to convince the President to send me there for a "wellness check" on the organ. Didn't work...

58°F and foggy this morning, going up to 84° today. Forecast calling for chance of rain much of next week. We sure could use some at our place. Actually doing some Quality Jerk stuff in the office today 😮. Now I'm flooded with documentation stuff that hasn't been getting done while I've been...

64°F and clear skies this morning, and got up to 83° today. Been keeping super busy at work, out in the shop. Not much time in the office at all, so no time to check in here in the mornings lately. Still not caught up either. Hope everyone is well. Good evening, gents.

62°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 82° today. Been a busy couple of weeks since I've been on here ... a story I'll relate at some point. Looks like I have about 500 posts to get through during my "catching up" attempt. You guys sure do stay awfully busy. Took a few days off this...

I only ever went to one big BMW rally. Way too much crazy riding going on around that place. Browsed around the site for a few hours, went on one group ride, then went back home. Not for me, either.

74°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 96° today. It was a pleasant 84° with a slight breeze when I got home from work yesterday, so I hopped on the zt and got about half of the mowing done, everything from the road back to the barn. Sun had already set by the time I'd finished the...

Moderation, Thomas. At work, I have a nice air conditioned office where I can cool myself. Same thing at home; when I start getting too hot, I go inside and cool for a bit.

74°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 97° today. There were some very angry red spots on the radar just to the east of us. Glad they missed us. Need to get some grass mowed this week, but the weather doesn't seem interested in cooperating. Happy (belated) BC Day, SC. Happy...

77°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 97° today. 96° and 98° for the next two days before a storms roll in on Thursday to cool us back into the 80s. Wife and I have been using a weighted blanket for the last couple of weeks. She decided she wanted to try one, so we did. I never really cared...

66°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 82° today. We got a little rain in the early morning hours, but it was done well before we got up at 06:00. Going to be in the 90s again this week until we get some rain on Thursday to cool us back into the 80s. Yesterday's plans for studio time were...

63°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 81° today. It's already 80° now. More rain coming overnight/early morning. I took the game cam out of the barn last night and mounted it on one of the back fence posts aimed at the coop. Haven't checked the card yet, but there was no evidence of...

No, Kyle no evidence at all. I haven't had any cameras on the coop for several years now. Never needed one ... until yesterday. So, game cam is going back up. She also set a live trap. In fact, The Wife did some scouting around while I was at work and found the remains of one of the Orpingtons...

Wife sent me pictures earlier this morning of our chicken coop. Something dug a large hole under the fence and went in and killed a bunch of our hens; five dead, two missing. I'm livid. So, when I get home this evening, I get to go have an unpleasant talk this evening with our new neighbors...

65°F and mostly clear skies this morning, going up to 82° today. No more rain in the forecast until Sunday. Thanks for all the well wishes. That place is not in the city. In fact, it's well south down in Arnold MO. Pretty much the same drive, just south instead of west. It's another Quality (&...

69°F and cloudy this morning, got up to 88° today. We had some more thunderstorms roll through mid-afternoon, and got some considerable rainfall from them. Lots of lightning and thunder ran all three dogs down to the basement. Took the day off today for a mid-day interview with another company...

I've been trying to get my Wife interested in a garden since we got married. She never was. In the last couple of days, though, she's suddenly been talking about wanting to plant a garden next year. We've been deciding what we want. No idea why the sudden turnabout, but I like it. I always had a...

Nope. Never met an okra I liked either. Also not a fan of mushrooms (fungi). Fortunately for us, most of the things The Wife or I dislike are generally liked by the other. If I get food with tomatoes or mushrooms, I simply remove them and give them to her. She's not a fan of hot peppers, so...

Not exactly true. I never liked tomatoes. Once they're processed into some manner of sauce, I'm fine with them. Just not fresh. Not a fan of that seedy, snotty goo in the middle. 🤮

70°F and thunderstorms again this morning, going up to 84° today. Been flashing and rumbling since the wee small hours of the morning. Looks like the rain will be with us off and on through tomorrow. "Historic" rains yesterday, or so the media is calling it. Some say it broke a record from...

61°F and heavy thunderstorms this morning, going up to 83° today. Seems our epic drought has been ended by epic rains today. Reports say as much as 10" of rain in some areas since midnight. Lots of flooding all over the STL area, with lots of water rescues in vehicles and even some homes. I got...

We are getting zero peaches off of our tree this year. All of the fruit got just a little larger than an almond and fell off. Guessing it wasn't pleased with our drought this year. Wife has been getting some delicious peaches from a local orchard. Had one today at lunch. Like a juicy sweet bite...

Friend of mine made a spud gun from PVC and a twist igniter, using carb cleaner in the chamber. It was so powerful that it knocked nails out of the boards on the back of his garage.

It's just practice. There are people who do seem to have a natural affinity for music, but even they practice. For most of the rest of us, it's just lots of practice. Reminds me of this meme I see regularly on Facebook: Of course, having the drive to succeed is important as well. I cannot...

71°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 83° today. Looks like we may be in the 80s most of the week. Unfortunately, all of the promised rain has missed us to the south so far. We sure could use some. Lots of errand running on Saturday, including a trip to Tractor Supply for chicken feed and a...

I only have one cello, for now. I keep threatening to get an electric one. I have two walls with guitars, and one with basses, in my studio. There are also several violins and violas hanging on the wall next to the piano upstairs. With bigger strings like a bass or a cello, you can definitely...

The instrument in my avatar is a cello, Drew. You were in the right frequency range.

70°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 101° today. I had the fortune to meet Lee at a Winter NAMM Show back in '03 when I still worked for Ampeg, Paul. He was a super nice guy. Is there anyone on the planet that he hasn't played with? And that beard is just epic. Mine was just...

67°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 99° today. Forecast is for 104° on Saturday. Some rain forecast for Monday, which might drop us below 90° and break the heatwave ... for one day, then back into the 90s all next week. The only bright side here is that humidity has been relatively...

I know they all differ, but I believe I've read that Spotify pays $0.004 per stream to the artist. So, if you listen to the same song 1000 times, the artist gets $4. Radio play pays $0.091 per play to the artist (songwriter, actually). So, 1000 plays on radio stations earns them $91. As for...

The artwork is better, too, Lou.

77°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 99° today. Drew, you might be surprised to learn that physical media is making a comeback, at least in the music industry. CD sales are steadily going back up, and there has been a resurgence of vinyl over the last couple of years. I think enough...

Isn't Princess Auto kind of similar to HF?

It's a shame that a group of otherwise intelligent people can't have civil conversations about something that affects us all. And, that's not just here on TBN. I did go back earlier today and re-click the Watch button on the HF thread.

My Father used to have a Marlin model 55 bolt action 12ga that my Mother bought for him through the Sears catalog as an anniversary present one year, late '50s I think. I didn't get it (thanks to a greedy relative who "borrowed" it and refused to return it), but I do have another one just like it.

68°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 95° today. We did "officially" hit 90° here yesterday, so I'm told by a voice on the radio that our sixth heat wave of the year has "officially" started. Triple digits forecast for Friday and Saturday, and no end in sight through next week either...

I got in a couple of epic naps over the weekend.

68°F and dense fog this morning, going up to 89° today. This will be our only mild day this week, as the rest will be 95-100°. Mowing plans went by the wayside Saturday morning when The Wife decided she wanted to take a trip over to St. Charles MO to hit up a few places to look for better seat...

Our wheelbarrow gets used to clean out the chicken coop, and that's about it.

68°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 93° today. Chance for rain on Sunday has increased to 60% now. We sure could use it here. No mowing last night. It was still 95° when I got home from work, and I'd had enough of that heat for this week. I'll probably just mow the front yard early...

Ouch.

67°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 95° today. Everyone at work enjoyed the relative quiet yesterday. No tires screeching in and out of the parking lot across the street, no prostitutes and drug dealers screaming at each other, no crackheads defecating on our sidewalks, and no...

63°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 92° today. The heat is creeping back in on us here. But then, it is Summer. Big excitement at work yesterday, the kind that doesn't involve bullets poking holes through my office walls. The St. Louis City Police, SWAT, and FBI raided the motel and...

74°F and clear skies this morning, only going up to 87° today. Wife and I got the kayaks wet Sunday. Drove over to Missouri and paddled a section of the Big River near DeSoto MO that we paddled a couple times last year. The weather was fantastic, and the sky was some of the prettiest blue I've...

73°F and light rain this morning, going up to 95° today. More rain possible later this afternoon, then a sunny weekend in the mid-80s. Great news, Thomas. Good morning, gents.

73°F and RAIN this morning, going up to only 88° today. More rain heading our way later this morning. We'll take it. We've been having some regular trouble with our ADT alarm system. It keeps giving an error to "Check Longrange Radio", which is its internal cell phone. It has been replaces...

79°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 99° today. Mid-80s coming for the weekend. Looking forward to that. We officially got up to 101° in St. Louis yesterday. When I was getting ready to leave work yesterday, I walked out to the thermometer in the shop, and it read 104° ... inside the...

We used to have a neighbor like that to our east. Complained every time we shot. Once, he drove out into the middle of his field and sat there in his truck until we stopped shooting clay pigeons out in our field. The last time he called the sheriff on us, we had a long talk with the deputy about...

75°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 101° today. Same for tomorrow. Gonna be hot here this week. You guys are busy. Still have some catching up to do. We had a nice, quiet Independence Day weekend here. Back to work today, though.

Yeah, nothing broke for me, just twisted and bent. The tow truck driver had switched to a ratchet and a cheater bar when he broke the lug nut.

We've had several municipalities in the area suggesting that people water their lawns before attempting to use any fireworks. Been very dry here for several weeks, but there is rain in the forecast for all weekend. Hope we actually get some.

71°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 95° today. Plans for yesterday evening went in the trash after Wife called me on her way to a training about 5:30pm to tell me that she found a young lady driving her personal vehicle for Amazon deliveries (that's apparently a thing now) had a flat...

There are worse ways to spend a day, BEF.

60°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 94° today. Nice pictures, BEF. That all looks delicious, Paul. Good morning, gents.

The statue of Evey on our front porch that I mentioned yesterday.

58°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 92° today. The heat has returned, and the humidity is to follow on Friday. Got the last of the grass mowed after work yesterday evening, just the pasture. Took the walk behind down to the road and did some trimming down there. Also got some cleanup...

I've been thinking about getting one of those HF trailer dollies, LS, since we have a couple of them to move around these days. The kayak trailer is light enough to move by hand even when loaded. However, the Rice utility trailer seems to be getting heavier with each passing year.

More shots fire again today, about a dozen, just about an hour ago. Seems we're in the middle of someone else's feud here.

She always was. She's mama's girl, and her training pride and joy. So much so that we found a BC statue a couple years ago, and she painted it to look like Evey. Thanks everyone for the kind remarks.

58°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 85° today. More big "excitement" at work yesterday morning. Heard some loud banging, and it took me a second to realize it wasn't coming from out in the shop (no echo). It was gunfire outside. Someone pulled up and stopped in the street, pulled...

58°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 82°. We are getting a respite from the heat wave for the next couple of days, then returning to the 90s on Wednesday. Got a whole lot of nothing done yesterday, except laundry. We got some bad news about Evey, the oldest Border Collie, yesterday...

I had that happen to me once. It didn't break my heart, though, because I would never have paid what it ended up selling at. We'll both find one eventually, Buppies.

71°F and cloudy this morning, only going up to 82° today. Lots of lightning and thunder overnight last night, but doesn't look like we got a lot of rain out of it. Another patch of rain is falling on us now, and dropped the temp from 79° back to 71°. Any rain is good rain at this point. Wifey...

Junkyards around here always seemed like they just made up a price on the spot. Even the newer U-Pick-It place does that.

Are you in Rome, Ken?

65°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 92° today. Going to be near 100° tomorrow, and The Wife wants to go kayaking. :rolleyes: Not so sure about that just yet, as there is also a chance for some storms tomorrow. I guess we'll see. I'm also going to need to get some grass cut sometime...

Google suggests it may be a spotted grapevine beetle.

65°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 92° today. Went out to check on the chickens yesterday evening right about sunset, and saw a family of skunks waddling their way over to the back corner of the barn, and under they went. Wife said she thought she saw two the other day. There were...

76°F and partly cloudy this morning, only going up to 92° today. Chance for some scattered storms this afternoon. I sure do miss full service stations, SC. If there are any left in the St. Louis area, I do not know where they are. Haven't seen one since the mid-'80s, when there was one left in...

That reminded me. Wife told me she saw a mama and baby skunks out in the pasture run behind the barn when she let the dogs out this morning. We've not had any skunk problems for a few years now. Hope they were just passing through.

66°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 99° today. We've apparently been downgraded from the triple digits. I guess we'll see. Humidity is supposed to return today as well. Yesterday's 36% made the 95° mostly bearable. Welcome to the GM thread, Busby. Hope this new arrangement with your...

58°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 96° today. Triple digits tomorrow, then 90s the rest of the week until Sunday. A voice on the radio suggested we may get some rain at some point this week, but nothing is showing on the iThingie weather widget yet. 15 steps is a lot of things to...

58°F and clear skies this morning, and got up to 86° today. Pretty much a mirror image of yesterday. Nice respite from the heat. Back up into the 90s here through next weekend. Got The Wife's small step stool finished yesterday morning. Basically knocked it apart and reglued and clamped it. It...

69°F and thunderstorms this morning, going up to 92° today. Front of the storm hit us about 05:30, and caused some damage in the area. All we got was a few small limbs down and some hairs tossed around. Power was out when I passed through Troy IL on the way to work. Rain just stopped here in...

That's kind of how I read that, too, Mark.

78°F and cloudy with some scattered brief showers this morning, only going up to 99° today. Wife sent me a text message this morning that the trucking company arrived at 07:00 to drop the new gravel for the driveway. Looking forward to getting that redone. They are also supposed to be bringing...

Yes, they would, Kyle. All excellent guitar amps. I'd never pay $4K for an amp head, though. That's crazy (and, I'm a cheapskate). My Line 6 Helix has digital models of all three of those, and 70 others, at 1/5 the price.

I've been seeing sidebar ads on the computer lately, over on the right side of the pages. Fortunately for me, it's usually ads for music equipment, which I don't hate looking at. 😁

74°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 100° again today. Looks like we'll get a brief "cool down" to around 90° on Saturday, then back to triple digits again next week. A friend posted on Facebook this morning, "But hey, at least it's a moist heat." 82% humidity this morning. Good...

We have a case going around here where a guy recently killed and beheaded his pregnant ex-girlfriend (baby was due next month), and tossed her head in a dumpster. Police caught him right away. Judge ordered him held on $2M bond. :oops: Really?! I mean, if there was ever a case for "held without...

Nice. I'm still kind of struggling with the current prices, but I know the longer I wait, the higher they're going. Dirt is supposed to be arriving for the new berm this week. Might be the catalyst I need to get me to make the big trade for a .357 lever and start shooting more again.

We've been seeing this around here, too. A Facebook page we follow called Metro East Crime documents the daily criminal activities here on the Illinois side of the St. Louis area, and they seem to be reporting a lot more activity getting closer to us. It used to be mostly confined to East St...

78°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 101° today. Voice on the radio suggested as high as 103°. Current record for this date is 97° from 1952. Got a whole lot of nothing done last night after work. Wife cooked some delicious brats in the air fryer, though. Didn't hate that at all...

81°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 100° today. Same for tomorrow and Wednesday. We're having a Hawaiian Weather Appreciation Week all week. Oh, and in addition to the temps, we also have around 70% humidity as well. Summer in the Midwest. Got the grass mowed Saturday morning...

66°F and light rain this morning, going up to 81° today. Chance for some boomy stuff this afternoon, then we're dry for the next week or so. We're also going to hit the triple digits Monday through Wednesday. Too early in the year for that, but here it comes nonetheless. Mailbox looks great...

When I was growing up, we ate breakfast in the morning, lunch in the middle of the day, and supper or dinner were interchangeable for the evening meal. I never heard anyone use the word dinner for the midday meal until about 15 years ago when I worked for the pipe organ company. I have since...

Me, too. Info on his profile page says he hasn't posted anything in over a month. Hope our Salopian shepherd is OK.

58°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 84° today. A stray small downpour hit us just as we were going to be last night. Heavy rain and some wind, and lasted all of about two minutes, then gone. Good morning, gents.

68°F and heavy rain this morning, going up to 81° today. Rain was over by the time I got to work, but we have a chance for more this afternoon. Sounds like everything went well, Thomas, except maybe the post-op conversation. Mostly_, I was in the fog (literally and figuratively) yesterday for...

66°F and dense fog advisory, going up to 86° today. No rain expected until after midnight.

Best wishes, Thomas.

69°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 77° today. Expecting some rain through the day, and probably most of this week. Appreciate all the concern over my absence. Thanks to those who reached out. I'm fine. Just took a little break. I was still lurking, though. Can't get too far behind with...

Alan White, drummer for Yes (and many others), died today at 72. https://www.loudersound.com/news/yes-drummer-alan-white-dead-at-72?fbclid=IwAR2rMfcUUMSAbad5eqwvEhKK7_2HeqnRyYc0umGUIHl7oMlPwkH1NfybKSc I had the fortune to meet Alan (and the rest of the band) about 20 years ago after a show in...

66°F and spotty rain this morning, going up to 73° today with more rain later. Beyond that, I've lost interest in being in this thread today. Have a good day, gents.

You get to ride in the parade now and throw candy to the platinum members.

66°F and rain this morning, going up to 77° today. Looks like the rain will hit us in waves, and last into Friday. Voice on the radio suggested we may get some severe stuff late afternoon. Wife and I took a walk around the property yesterday evening as she laid out her vision for this year's...

When I was still mowing the pasture with the tractor, I would drop the bucket for better visibility. I've never removed a FEL. Judging by others' experiences, sounds like I don't want to anyway.

Rube Goldberg Machines are endlessly entertaining.

54°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 75° today. Rain and thunderstorms expected later tonight, some severe tomorrow, and lasting into Friday. Weather for the extended weekend looks good, though. Wife got about half of the mowing done yesterday, and I finished it after work in the...

Compressed a disc in my lower back back in 1988. My back pain is certainly no mystery.

48°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 71° today. Nice to see the sun shining today. We had rain and thunderstorms all day Saturday, then cool and cloudy all day Sunday. Not sure we ever made it out of the 50s yesterday. Got a whole lot of nothing done outside this weekend. Don, one of...

70°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 90° today. Looks like they've backed off of the record temp forecast. Storms that blew through yesterday evening did a lot of damage around the area. One confirmed tornado in south St. Louis (Kirkwood), and possibly another in northern Clinton...

Just saw that Greek composer and musician Vangelis Papathanassíou died today at the age of 79.

62°F and some spotty fog this morning, going up to 85°. More storms expected this afternoon. We may break a 120 year old record with tomorrow's forecast of 93°, then more storms and 80° for Saturday, and cloudy and 66° for a high on Sunday. The Spring roller coaster is not done with us yet...

62°F and a thunderstorm this morning, going up to 84° today. Rain didn't last long, but it sure messed up the morning traffic. More coming early this evening. Got the trash gathered and walked the can down to the road yesterday evening. Wife got home earlier than normal, so we started getting...

I hope those people listen to Chuck, because there's a man who knows how to run a successful company. If there's a better music equipment buying experience on this planet than Sweetwater, I have not found it. Free candy with every helicopter purchase?

55°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 87° today. Rain moving through tonight and tomorrow. Warm for the rest of the week (near 90°), then low 70s for highs over the weekend. Went to Highland yesterday evening to buy the Silver Lake boat permits for our kayaks. $20/each for a year, and...

I have my preferences set to 50 posts per page.

Noted this today on the GM thread.

54°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 81° today. Wife made it back home from Texas yesterday afternoon. She left Saturday afternoon, and stopped over in Arkansas for the night, then drove the rest on Sunday. I had to help guide her around the line of storms passing through Missouri and...

Some small but energetic storms popping up this evening, but looks like most if not all will miss us either north or south. "The Arch Effect" I suppose. I could see the top of the one about 45 miles to the north of us, and it was pretty active with lightning. Tall clouds lit by the evening sun...

63°F and partly cloudy this morning, and got up to 86° today. Got a whole lot of nothing done today, and there seems to be plenty more. Decided late morning to drag my golf clubs to the driving range. Hadn't hit a golf ball since 2019, and that was easy to see. Felt good once I got my swing in...

68°F and clear skies this morning, getting up to 86° today. Looks like we have a line of thunderstorms heading towards us for the overnight hours. Cooler temps behind it for the weekend. Put a vent in the new gas can I bought at Rural King earlier in the week, then took it and a couple others...

Our critters are the same, with my Wife out of town this week. The dogs look at me when I'm locking up and setting the alarm like, "What are you doing? Mom's not home yet!" Last night while talking to her on speakerphone, one of the cats meowed into the phone then started rubbing on it. I think...

73°F and foggy this morning, going up to 90° here today. Didn't get as much done as I'd hoped yesterday. I did get the parking area next to the driveway repaired and the trailers rearranged on it. After that, the heat and humidity had me drenched and tired already (did the work with a shovel...

Helogabals, your English is way better than most of our Latvian, mine for certain. And, I was today years old when I learned that Latvian is the official language of the European Union. Did not know that. I'm now a tiny bit smarter than I was 10 minutes ago. Thanks. He graduates tomorrow with a...

Friend of mine bought a rough '67 ElCo back in 2019 and refurbished it. He and his son did all the work, and it was pretty sweet when they were finished. The manager of a popular local hot rod dealer told him it probably wasn't worth what he put into it and offered him $14K. My friend sold it on...

71°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 91° today. At home for the rest of the week. Originally scheduled PTO time to attend the oldest stepson's (and his girlfriend's) graduation from Texas State University. However, our arrangement for taking care of the animals while we were gone fell...

Agreed. A friend of mine had one for a short while back in the '90s. We called it Truck-o-saurus. It was a terrible ride. I had an '86 Bronco II, on the other hand, that rode pretty well. Completely different vehicle, though, more akin to the new Broncos in size.

67° and cloudy this morning, going up to 92° today. Looks like 90s the rest of the week, then cooling Saturday and Sunday. BEF, I had my last car, the '14 Kia Soul, for six years, and it still had the original battery and all the original bulbs 180K miles later. The only things I ever changed...

64°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 85° today. F-150 went to it's new home on Saturday. Can't say I'm going to miss that truck. Still not sure what we'll replace it with, but likely something mid-size. Finally got a local hauling company rep to come out to give us an estimate on new rock...

53°F and rain this morning, going all the way up to 56° today. Rain should end around noon here, then we get dry and in the 90s for much of next week. Not sure I'm ready for that kind of heat already. Got absolutely nothing done yesterday evening. The boy started chatting about meeting a former...

53°F and rain this morning, going up to 63° today. Looks like we'll get more rain most of the day, then boomier stuff tomorrow. Funny you should mention hot sauce, L4N. When I got home from work a couple days ago, I opened the refrigerator door and noticed that something in one of the small...

I've seen that story, Ken. Women killing their children doesn't happen without some larger issue at play. Sorry your town is having to endure such a tragedy.

50°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 68° today. More rain coming in the wee small hours of the morning tomorrow and into Friday. Then, it's looking like we may be moisture free for the next week. I've read that as well about the small mounds, Randy. Interestingly enough, just west of the...

There are mounds all over the St. Louis area, Randy. Every so often, someone will accidentally find another one when they start digging or excavating and find a bunch of artifacts in what they thought was just a small hill. It's believed that at the peak of their culture in the early 12th...

63°F and light rain this morning, only going up to 65° today. Looks like the rain is done with us, at least until tomorrow. We had some mild boomers roll through early this morning, but nothing approaching severe here. iThingie app says we'll be in the upper-80s to low-90s next week. Sounds to...

I should think so. That's literally 100 times faster than what we currently average from HughesNet. Congrats.

46° and clear skies this morning, going up to 70° today. Some rain and rumbles expected overnight tonight. We were under the threat of rain and potentially severe storms all day Saturday. Looking at the radar, almost the entire state of Illinois was under a tornado watch at one point, as well as...

57° and light rain this morning, going up to 75° today. The rain is about done for awhile, only to resume with rumbles later tonight and into tomorrow. Another quiet evening around the house last night. Worked on some re-mixing and mastering for a few recording projects, and threw together a...

Happy Anniversary, Bird.

Good to hear from you, Eric. We were starting to worry.

51°F and cloudy this morning with some scattered light showers, going up to 73° today. Rain should roll through in earnest late afternoon or early evening. Road construction season has apparently begun. It seems every major bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis has lanes closed for work.

Happy (belated) Birthday, Thomas.

39°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 75° today. Seems we're getting into a more Spring-ish pattern; cool at night, and 60s-70s during the day. More rain coming, though, starting either Thursday or Friday (they can't seem to decide). Yesterday was one of those days that just evaporated...

Happy Birthday, Ted.

36°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 62° today. It was a little more brisk this morning than I was expecting, naturally, because we put away the winter coats over the weekend. The boy left shortly after I got home (he has his own transportation again), and The Wife was out training...

55°F and light rain this morning, going up to 62° today. Was able to get some mowing done Saturday, after putting the rear wheels with the new tires back on the rider and the zeroturn. Still pretty soft in a lot of areas. Took one risk in the front between the pond and the road and buried the...

61°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 84° today. We got a little rain overnight, so everything was wet this morning. Boss already told me he's playing golf today. Jerk. Got a bunch of stuff done after work last night. Washed some eggs, put away the clean dishes from the dishwasher, did a...

My trips last weekend to get new tires for the mowers took me east on IL-161 over the Kaskaskia River, which has overflowed it's banks from all the recent rains. The farmland around it in that area is flooded for miles, and it's deep. It looks like a giant lake.

56°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 77° today. Big warm up coming tomorrow and Saturday into the mid-80s. The boy's truck showed up on the back of a flatbed tow truck yesterday evening. He said they pulled it into their shop to do one last check, and it wouldn't start to pull it back out...

Condolences, RS.

I know of no rock guitar player over the last 44 years who doesn't know that song.

It's been very windy here as well this Spring, Randy. We just put ours back up a couple of days ago after about two weeks down.

Not a musician, but still something of a music legend. Read last night that Philly radio legend Sid Mark died at 88. I used to listen to his Sounds Of Sinatra syndicated radio show when it was carried on a local station. Lots of great music and stories from his 65 years of doing that show.

46°F and light rain this morning, going up to 58° today, with rain throughout most of it. The boy is finally getting his truck back from the body shop today, where it's been since he wrecked it eight months ago. I was starting to wonder if that place is run by a relative of RNG's infamous...

We had granite countertops put in the kitchen when we remodeled back in 2017. I wouldn't do it again. They look great, but I've lost track of how many things we've broken just with incidental bumps against it. Besides being expensive, they are completely unforgiving.

Agreed.

It sure is. There is an ongoing situation here in St. Louis with the current prosecuting attorney, who has long been accused of being soft on crime. She's been getting a lot of notoriety lately over the wrist slap she just got over improprieties in her failed case against former MO Governor Eric...

34°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 60° today. Looks like we may be around 80° for this weekend. I'm OK with that. Stopped by the house on after work yesterday to let the dogs out, then headed to Centralia. Traffic problems on the bridge getting out of STL set me back a bit, and I...

39°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 54° today. Wife and I ran some errands Saturday morning. Stopped in the tax place to get our returns completed, signed, and e-filed. We used this place last year, and I wasn't all that impressed with their seeming lack of organization. This year, they...