Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

had to look it up
good hard rock for road construction

diabase, fine- to medium-grained, dark gray to black intrusive igneous rock.
It is extremely hard and tough and is commonly quarried for crushed stone, under the name of trap.
Although not popular, it makes an excellent monumental stone
and is one of the dark-coloured rocks commercially known as black granite.

 

[m7040]

Hard to believe that’s a trout stream. SMH. They only exist in Catoctin creek because they stock it in the spring.

Was surprised of that as well

 

[m7040]

Frits, you have to play hardball. An immediate neighbor did some "landscaping" many years ago. We attempted to talk about the situation he was creating, but it did not go well. Now over the years part of my property floods regularly because of his actions. I hope for the best in your situation.

Yes it is now in motion and legal action hanging over the neighbor by the State Department of Environment is a powerful incentive to comply with the recommendations But the wheels turn slowly on this so will likely take time to resolve

 

[plowhog]

84F and sunny in Northern Nevada today. Glad it is not 100F.

Kyle-- our neighbors have peacocks. Wow they can be loud!!

Been busy with camping, travel, chores, and picking up our new pup.

Our new little guy is Rigby -- here is a pix with he and his mom. This pix makes him look a bit chunky, not sure why. He has been "home" for 24 hours now and all is going well. More pix coming I am sure!

Everyone have a great day !!!!!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 61F @ 5:45AM. Sunshine to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 89F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Yesterday's Fire Warning is today's Red Flag Warning, starting at 11 tonight and lasting 8PM tomorrow.

I'm doing the limit in a construction zone and you blow by me and screw up busting your mirror on my truck and expect me to pay for it, you are on drugs!

Sounds like the same kind of idiot that cries about hooking something on a trailer hitch on a truck that is head in parked. Maybe they need to pay more attention to their driving...

More puppy pics, please...

Slow day yesterday until it kicked into high gear at 5PM when I went to pick up a 6'x12' U-Haul trailer. That went well enough, except I forgot to get gas before and had to jockey the thing around the Costco pumps. No damage done, but I did scrub one sidewall pretty well. Got home and hitched the trailer to the Kubota side-by-side to get it backed up to the rear of the house, dodging landscape rocks and a fire ring in the process, and there went the first hour. Neighbor came over to lend an extra set of eyes, and actually loading the trailer proved pretty simple thanks to the nylon rope winch. Also unhitched the trailer and put the jack all the way up to get a flatter transition between the drop down tail gate and deck, but almost forgot to put a jack under the back to the front of the trailer from skyrocketing. Hitched it back to the Ford, and made it back out of the obstacle course missing by fractions of an inch. Then just left it on the truck for the trip up the hill in 4WD, then swapped over to the van. Finished by 9:30PM. Neighbor missed his son's party, but I made it better with a Benjamin to show my appreciation. Didn't sleep well last night, so it's gonna be a long drive south today.

Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!

 

[daugen]

RNG,
how about I take you to dinner at La Botte in Lompoc on Monday Sept 23?
I need to be picked up in Buellton on something other than a motorcycle.
I already made reservations there though I could stop and meet you along the way but hopefully not too far away
for a serious traveler like yourself.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g32645-d577312-Reviews-La_Botte_Italian_Restaurant-Lompoc_California.html

or wherever you want to go (that is not too noisy...sorry)
if that means you want to barbecue at the new house, your choice.
But I'm offering dinner.
6pm dinner reservation please unless we can get a blue plate special at 5...
if you could arrange a Vandenberg rocket to be shot off during dessert, well I can't wait.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 69 going to 83 and sunny.
Storms were loud last night, but produced little rain here.

May get out to use the tractor to finally clear up the silt/build up in the trench and take it back to manageable.

I have a lot of coworkers around Toronto, they tell me even the suburbs are big $$

Be well,

 

[Hay Dude]

Good morning
80 and sunny
Cutting some steep ground

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning! Low of 55°, heading up to 86°. Yesterday, got another 1/4" of rain, stayed in the mid 70's all day. A nice break from Thursday, which hit 98°. Should stay in the mid to upper 80's all next week.

GS's 11th BD was yesterday, had a pizza party for him. Ice cream cake for dessert. He got a couple gift cards and a couple Lego sets. Those sets are expensive! His dad got him a large set that he has been wanting..... I'm sure it will occupy him today.
He already assembled the smaller "off road vehicle" at our table last night!

Fritz, hopefully the pond issue will get fixed now that the proper authority will be watching.

Kyle, definitely a neat weather vane.... but, does she turn into the wind?

I, too, am requesting more puppy pics please!

An order came in from Temu this past week, some replacement outdoor solar lights for the driveway fence and some new solar walkway lights. Got them installed but haven't remembered to take some nighttime pics......
The walkway lights are like mini tiki torches, even have a "flickering" effect. Wifey likes them.

Still haven't taken the garden tractor for a ride yet. Maybe today. The grass / weeds are getting really tall, especially over the septic field. Probably cut the fields sometime this week.

The hot weather finally tripped the asiatic lilies to bloom. Only a couple didn't come up in the block, need to get some replacements in there this week. Needed to see which color to use.

Need to trim up some of those willows.... crazy growth this year! Some of the lower branches are touching the ground.

BIL is on the final leg of his cruise to Alaska. He has been sending a lot of beautiful pics. We are glad he had a good trip. The peanut gallery has been relatively quiet.... They only made a couple stupid comments....

Now going out on the porch to finish second cup of coffee, enjoy the cooler morning, and watch the birds empty the feeders.....

Everyone have a great day!

 

[rswyan]

73F and sunny @ 11:15, heading up to around 79F for the day's high.

Got more cabbage and broccoli plants in the ground first thing yesterday until the sun started making an appearance where I was planting.

The ones we had planted the day before were undisturbed ...

Then headed up to the shop and started working on welding up friend's loader bucket in the AC.

Got that done and got it loaded in the van.

Then went back to planting more cabbage and broccoli until dark.

Amazon delivered Lock-N-Lube coupler.

From the looks of the remaining plants on the shelves, we're probably better than halfway on the cabbage and broccoli ...

Woman is out there now watering them.

Agenda for today:

Dole out another week's worth of meds.

Get cleaned up.

Run over friend's place, drop off bucket, tomato plants, and large crescent wrench and pick up the rest of the fencing and cattle panels.

More cabbage/broccoli planting when I return.

Dig up sprinkler timer and get that second soaker hose placed.

Plus whatever else comes up.

Think I'll be spending a good bit of time up in the shop in the AC catching up on stuff in the coming days once the heat wave arrives:

Hope everyone is having a decent Saturday ...