Good morning!!!!

[dave1949]

41F. Sunny all day once the clouds moved out this am.

I puttered in the garage this afternoon. The 3pt blower got some TLC and is ready to go, exercised the generator, finally changed the lawn mower filter & oil.

Larro we have been inundated with political calls. The more money they have to spend, the more they feel free to interrupt with nuisance calls.

Drew, Hope your leetle problemo is soon healed.

 

[wngsprd]

the hole is just getting bigger. Time for me to go outside, can't watch, or listen...
like a big tooth cavity getting worked on and the pain is in my wallet.

Looks like a great place to put a new floor safe.

 

[newbury]

the hole is just getting bigger. Time for me to go outside, can't watch, or listen...
like a big tooth cavity getting worked on and the pain is in my wallet.

Looks like room for another hot tub.

 

[300UGUY]

Really tired today. Long day, and more to come.

 

[dave1949]

Really tired today. Long day, and more to come.

And whose fault would this be?

How did your well expert do?

 

[RoyJackson]

2014-11-04, 0335

25 right now...dry cold so it's not too bad. The high is supposed to be 57.

Off to work in an hour and a half....then vote on the way home.

 

[WayneB]

28 degrees right now and heading up to nearly 57 degrees later on today.
will be at the poles today watching an antique fire truck we have on display.
part of a fund raiser for the historical group nice but means someone has to be there to make sure no one damages the truck.

 

[rswyan]

49F and partly cloudy @ 04:30 ... with a high of 63F predicted for today. Could have some rain later today as a cold front moves through.

Just woke up and am enjoying the cup of coffee the wife made for me yesterday afternoon that I forgot to drink then.

Got two trees dropped yesterday morning ... an 7" or 8" ash which had died a year or so ago and a 10" quaking aspen which was still alive ... both of them probably 40'+ tall ... didn't get around to skidding them out though. Will do that this morning.

Wife and I worked on picking up more leaves from the little wooded strip between the lawn and polebarn ... think we got another 2 1/2 Trac-Vac loads out of there before we quit. That area is pretty much cleaned up at this point. In terms of leaf clean up, it's probably the best that it's been in a number of years. Will be nice to not have to deal with the mess come spring.

After that I threw the loader on the Kubota and piled up the all the leaves I had dumped into the compost pile.

Then we worked on finishing up the four ornamental trees we planted last week, Did a little pruning on a couple, wrapped all the trunks with wrap, staked one, and added more composted soil around the bases and gave several of them a drink. Still have to stake two of them and put some 4" plastic flex pipe around three of them to keep the bucks from rubbing their antlers on the trunks.

After that it was about dark and I was dispatched to the Indian restaurant down in Canton to pick up dinner while she went grocery shopping. She got the chicken curry (mild) and I went with the lamb (medium hot +) and some garlic na'an ...

I was gonna change it and just go with hot when I was placing the order ... but she gave me the stink eye ... probably a good thing 'cause the medium + had me drippin' with sweat ... my hair was totally soaked. Fell asleep shortly after that, around 20:00 or so ...

Supposedly my young helper will be by today to work ... think I'm gonna have him cut up some logs for fire wood.

I'm going to throw boom pole on the tractor and pull the snowblower out and move it up to the house so I can service it and get it ready to go.

 

[Thomas]

27F cloudy upper 50's for high.
Vote after work if no surprises maybe PM the snow blower.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[wngsprd]

53 heading to 72 and sunny.

Got some leaves on the ground now to deal with, and definitely will be heading to the polls.

 

[Buppies]

45 this morning high of 68 later nightmare day yesterday nothing went right but now it's a new day. Going to vote then off to work
Good Morning

 

[ronjhall]

Poured last cup of coffee. 49° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 56° with spots of rain throughout the day. Headed to my mothers place to do some more fall clean up. Then visit with friend from work.
If you have not Voted yet. GET OUT and VOTE. :thumbsup:
Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 70˚ heading to 80˚. I tilled the remote garden, the one with the deer fence around it at the bottom of the hill, the one that had a double gate on it till yesterday when the tiller clipped it and crunched it knocked it over to the other side and bent the other gate. AARRRRRRGGGG. Of the four gates and one fence that I have destroyed this Fall I feel like I'm in a destruction derby, however I just don't see the fun in banging things up. ??
The good news is that the tractor and attachments are not damaged. Today I have to gate that 9 foot opening for deer. I'm thinking two kennel panels from TSC to replace the two vertical 8' gates I had.

The garden's soil is very fluffy white sand. I think I'll put down some crimson clover as a cover crop over the winter. I might get it planted before the rains come tonight. This is preparation for a large watermelon patch there in the spring/summer.

For those reading this thread that live in the city and are thinking about retiring to the country and grow your own vegetables - it is very expensive.

Oh, I have to vote at the Fire Station one last time today also. Our Fire department got notification from some federal somebodies that we are not in compliance with the handicap laws and we are being shut down as a voting location.

Now, the election people take the portable voting machine out to the car of the handicap person, but that isn't enough for the feds.

We did get a nice 10 report on how to make the fire station handicap accessible. The fed people did an outstanding report and evaluation lots of pictures diagrams and quoted laws. They even had a handicap van and a disabled person in wheelchair come out to our station and documented all the barriers. They actually figured out the most economical way is not to build a side walk to the front door but use our back door, remove the BBQ pit wall counter top, fill in the cracks in the cement and replace back doorknob. All this for the maximum 60 registered voters that vote, (Maybe one or two handicapped), less on non-presidential election years.

But we decided not to change up our station just for a one day a year non-problem. I think everyone was just irritated that we were federalized. Next voting day everyone will have to drive 10 miles to the next town. Everyone goes there all the time anyway that's where the closest grocery store is located.

(I might figure out how to make that BBQ shelf collapse and that will solve the biggest problem, I have a handicapped BIL and know their frustrations).

 

[dave1949]

32F & clouds this morning.

Glad you guys are voting today. Minding the polls on a low turn-out election is a long day. I have yet to have any exiting stuff happen like someone challenging a voter's eligibility, politicking at the polls, etc. Fortunately there is a manual that describes exactly how those things are to be handled. There is a legal way of doing everything related to voting: opening and closing the polls, how the ballots are handled, voters checked in, ballot box rules, the ballot counting procedure, what gets locked up in what box, etc. Without a good town clerk who is well schooled on this stuff it would be easy to mess up.

Have a good one.

 

[daugen]

40 degrees this morning, going up to an amazing 70 in clear weather. This afternoon will be wonderful outside; first a trip to the new rheumatology doc locally.
this is where they look at my charts and say "you're a mess". I've been told variations of that before...but the trick is to just keep moving. Never stop. Never give up.
No whining. Naps allowed...

My timing is pretty good; tomorrow headed to new pain doc in Greenville, the guy who gives the numbing injections, and I really want to find an alternative to that. I think my skin is getting thin from all the cortisone steroids they have pumped in me. But...if one wants to keep going and boy I do. They told me ten years ago I'd be in a wheelchair by now and I'm not even close. I think. Probably part improved medicine and science and part my own desire to get more seat time on my tractor. And all that goes with that seat time. so I hope my new hot tub will help start and end the day in a whole new way. I'll have a laptop outside near the tub with TBN on of course. That late breaking commentary, sure better than CNN....

RS, as one who enjoys the limitations of acid reflux, your adventures in eating strange hot foods at often strange times is really entertaining. My right hand twitches towards the Tums bottle while reading. Thirty years ago the door of my fridge had twenty different hot sauce bottles in it. Never the killer hot stuff, more a variety of mild to mediums looking for different flavors. No more. Well....somehow one little bottle of Rita's Red or something crawled into the new fridge. Now how did it get there.
Planted a large crepe myrtle with the new pdh. Took it a bit to claw through the centipede grass but once it hit dirt, it just slid down nicely. Never having used that big auger, I only took little bites. I've had those things look like they wanted to go to China and take the tractor with them when they hit a big rock down there on the side and built their own rack and pinion going down. I was running only slightly over idle and never had a problem. And the soil was soft and pulverized; just a delight to plant with. not one rock. Pics this afternoon.

tomorrow is supposed to be warm like today and then rain on Wednesday, finally. We really need it here, been passed over several times.

 

[daugen]

I'm feeling a little unpatriotic here because I don't just vote party line so I need to know the people I am voting for. And all the NC folk are complete unknowns to me.
when I got my driver's license am pretty sure that registered me to vote.
but for who?
Need to do a little googling to see if there are any ballot questions. Usually they are worth going for all by themselves.
Have rarely not voted. Our beliefs need to be heard.

 

[rswyan]

...but the trick is to just keep moving. Never stop. Never give up.
No whining. Naps allowed...

Never a truer word spoken ...

The old man went into work every day until I think he was around 80 or so ... could have been mid-80's ...

After he stopped going in to work he still worked around the house daily for a number of years ... mostly pulling weeds out of the circle and doing landscaping ... having both knees replaced did slow him down a little there for awhile tho' ...

RS, as one who enjoys the limitations of acid reflux, your adventures in eating strange hot foods at often strange times is really entertaining. My right hand twitches towards the Tums bottle while reading.

LOL ...

It's not the hot that usually gets me ... it's the acidic stuff ...

Thirty years ago the door of my fridge had twenty different hot sauce bottles in it. Never the killer hot stuff, more a variety of mild to mediums looking for different flavors.

Oh yeah ... the woman does similar ... she's always looking for just the right flavor ... very particular.

It's a never-ending quest ... but I sure ain't complaining.

I love the hot stuff ... ya know it's good when the beads of sweat start poppin' out on my forehead and the hair gets soaked ...

No more. Well....somehow one little bottle of Rita's Red or something crawled into the new fridge. Now how did it get there.

LOL ... all things in moderation ...

Back a few years ago when I was still runnin' up to Canada I found this restaurant that served flame-broiled Portuguese chicken ... killer stuff, to die for ...

It appears they have expanded into the US.

If ya get the inclination order up some of their Peri-Peri sauce ... comes in different heat-levels, from medium to extra-hot ... the garlic is good:

Sauces - Nando's USA

And if you're ever in the DC area swing by and try their chicken ... it's outstanding.

Planted a large crepe myrtle with the new pdh. Took it a bit to claw through the centipede grass but once it hit dirt, it just slid down nicely. Never having used that big auger, I only took little bites. I've had those things look like they wanted to go to China and take the tractor with them when they hit a big rock down there on the side and built their own rack and pinion going down. I was running only slightly over idle and never had a problem.

:thumbsup:

That's where I usually run mine ... with a hand on the 3PH lever in case it catches and wants to corkscrew in ...

 

[MossflowerWoods]

46 and clear. I will be heading out to vote soon, it is not a right nor a privilege, it is a DUTY to vote and vote intelligently and remind all those politicians they work for us, not the other way around.

I'm a bit sore, spent all evening with a friend working on my little Ford Ranger snowplow truck... There was something goofy with the EFI and it was not starting, seem to have resolved that (not really sure how/why though) and now because I am an honest dutiful citizen we are trying to replace the e-brake cables so I can renew my just expired safety sticker... I could just throw "Farm Use" plate on it, but NOOOOOOOOO.....

My little snowplow truck has a serious case of rust, all pervasive it seems... If I can make it through this winter, maybe next year I will upgrade it...

At the moment it sits on 3 wheels and a cinder block in my carport, every tool I own scattered in the bed and on the concrete and I need to go get more parts...

Should be a great day. My buddy's not available until Thursday or later, so I will wade int this brake job solo for a while (he did most of the heavy lifting already it seems, and this 1988 is pretty similar to the ones I did in Auto Shop in 1980...) This a least should be entertaining...

Be well all,
David

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, 50F heading to 55F. Installed more shelving in garage, now I can see my work bench and can actually use it.

 

[farmer2009]

52 this morning and headed to 69 today. Rain should hold off till after dark. They are calling for an inch. Hope not. Take wife and boy both to doctor today then go vote sometime in there.

Rs go easy on those loaders you'll get old one day and regret throwing them around. Now everyone needs a good jib pole toss in the morning. Stay safe.

Drew oh the joys of using augers. Just wait you'll screw it into a rock and have to take the head off and have to unscrew it with a pipe wrench and a LACB. Not fun.

MFW does Virginia not make you buy tags for a farm truck.