Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

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 five last night. One is mostly white. Turns out, that's exactly five too many skunks for our barn. Looks like I've added another task to the weekend list. Got them on video, but can't figure how to load that here without it being somewhere else first. So, here's a grainy screen capture of them on the run along the pasture fence.

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Avon ladies coming to visit.

 

[Popgadget]

If you use the trailer a lot one nice set-up is a mount that lets you carry a complete hub.

5 Lug Galvanized Spare Tire Mount for I-Beam Boat Trailers w

www.sturdybuiltonline.com

Chris

That’s a great option. Trailer wheel bearing failures are almost as likely as a flat tire.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low was 56°, going up to 79°. a few more sprinkles last evening, but nothing heavy. Just a stray T-storm possible for today. No further accumulation in the gauge.... I'll call it

Somebody turned on a super bright spotlight this morning......oops.. that's the sun... haven't seen it for a few days. At least the ground will get warmed up, maybe triggering one of the 'stray' storms. Tomorrow should be much of the same.

Buppies, nice to hear the Mrs. is slowly getting better.

Hope we hear from Toppop, hope he's getting better.....

Roy, good luck at cardiologist. Fingers crossed for no stress test needed.

PJ, NOT something that I would like to see going under the barn.... gonna be tricky solution for sure!

Thomas, hope the wildlife show was better last evening.... who showed up for the program? Funny about the "Avon ladies" coming....

Today's agenda has a choice.... take string trimmer for a walk or work on the backyard picket fence.... I think the trimmer might win out, being the ground is still moist... that will cut down on the dust cloud from trimming.

Yesterday, I made a quick local trip to the PO to mail a package, then a stop at Walmart for a few things.... now I'm getting as bad as RS... picked up a couple of shrubs. One 'fire and ice' hydrangea, and one 'little princess' spirea. I just couldn't resist the temptations.....

Everyone have a great day!

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 65 and won’t make 70. Light rain started last night, total is .47 inch so far. Davis station is reporting rain properly, Tempest is pretty close.

Yesterday was daughter’s birthday, she came by and we went out to breakfast.
When we got back, I put the 3Pt mower on the tractor and mowed inside all the small pastures. I managed to pick up a piece of 4x6 fence wire that was laying in the tall grass. Boy did that make the mower shake, I thought something grenaded. About 15 aggravating minutes with bolt cutters and fence pliers got it running smooth again, and have a basketball sized wire sculpture as a souvenir.
Next was to go along all the fence lines with the Lazer. Lastly was to take the string trimmer for a walk around the pasture fences. I have thousands of feet of pasture fence, so it would be a significant undertaking to do it all. I started along the lane and walking paths. I was pretty impressed with how much I accomplished with one battery change. I tried the Makita out of curiosity, fully expecting it would be hopeless, and I’d have to pull out the big gun, a 4 stroke Honda trimmer, but I’m not sure now. I’ll try the Honda to compare the production, but I really like how light the Makita is.
In the process of clearing the fence line, I discovered that I had some repairs to make.
So headed back to the shop, loaded some tools into the carryall and went off on that mission. After that it was time to call it a day.

 

[pennwalk]

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

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

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

Yeah, that really white one would be unique!

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .27 inches rain

Good Costco run yesterday prices must have gone up as I sure spent more than I would have thought.

Need to make a PO run this morning.

H&F this afternoon.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[riptides]

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My area got pounded, pounded again yesterday with storms. Half the county is without power. Hundreds of trees down and lots of roads are impassable as crews are working to remove them. Seems our weather people have now caught on to the new classifications of thunderstorms. The ones yesterday were classified as "destructive".

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The pics are rolling in now from my area. 1/3 county still without power.

 

[rswyan]

Mike,

Sorry to hear you got slammed yet again.

Hope you are able to resolve things with the insurance guys.

 

[rswyan]

there’s no way the front u-joint can be assembled out of phase with the rear.

ahhhh, the sound of famous last words
We have faith in you RS

Drew,

Are you suggesting that I should be on the lookout for the ever notorious Murphy ?