Good morning!!!!

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 56 going to 65 cloudy, dry.
Spent the moving moving tree trunks around then watering.
Added 60+ gallons to the sprayer to do the sides of the shared road.
Ran sprinklers on the grass, but mostly to get water to the bushes and ground cover that's dying off.

Then on to the dog walk at peddlars village where they were having their oktoberfest. Really crowded, dog had a lot of fun with kids and other dogs.

Then off to a big fancy landscaping/cafe place called Terrain. Wife really liked shopping there.
They had pumpkins from $8 to $80 each!, we did not buy any though.

We found in a lot of Asia, Thailand, China, India, was cheaper to rent a car with a driver. Though we did a lot of trains and planes too. Some of the car trips were good to get the heart rate up.

Rip - we still put the air on recirculate in the car when we head up through North Jersey. Just remember the smells from the meat rendering plants there as a kid.

Still getting tomatoes in since it's been pretty warm (81 yesterday) they are all starting to ripen on the vine.

Happy Thanksgiving to our northern friends and columbus day here.

Drew - the old church in NO and the tabasco island are some great places. Drive through bourbon street so you can at least see the french quarter- they do have horse buggy rides.
Don't forget to get a Beignet, very NO doughnut.

Be well,

Adding to the stack of wood for slabs, or firewood. Getting to be a lot of these piles.
If it wasn't so dry we'd be running the firepit most nights.

Area is starting to open up as I remove the tree parts and brush

My new career as water hauler.

Multiple Ompah bands on site. Here is the main stage at Peddlars village.
huge filed of bier gartens, food and kid stuff.

Some of the stuff I moved out

So I can get a better view

Still plenty of trees to fall and plenty of large branches and Ash trunks to move.
Seems like it will take a few more years to finish up there is so much stuff and I don't have a lot of time during the week.

 

[masseyrider]

Happy Thanksgiving from here in the Great, the best, nothing better, largest, superior White North.
Stand by my decision to go cruising Saturday which was a beautiful sunny if cool day.
Sunday sucked. Barely got to 50, cloudy and spotty rain that became steady until this morning.
Today starting with showers, 40ish and wind.
Cloudy all day with high of maybe 50.
Furnace is on to stay for the rest of the week if not longer.
Just some housework until I go to the neighbors for some deer roast this afternoon for our Thanksgiving meal.
Enjoy your Columbus day south of the border.
I mean the longest, most peaceful, greatest border.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The booster rocket "catch" was amazing. start about 30s into the video.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Ct,46 to start going to 62 !

Wngsprd, thanks for kind words !

I’m kind of at a loss for words today ! We had too put our very loved cat Ginty down this morning !

Farewell good friend, may we meet on the other side !

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Scott, sorry about having to put Ginty down. Always hard to do, but best for them.

Wind is strong. 20 MPH gusts so far.

 

[LouNY]

Well a good late morning to all;

Yesterday was a cool wet sour day and evening today is going to be more of the same.
Yesterdays high was 45F and down to 37F with an almost constant drizzle of rain with some heaver showers, today is more of the same. Currently 45F and lightly raining, calling for 32F tonight.
Going to be a slightly expensive day today, fuel oil truck supposed to come. Will be better then most years, my tractor usage has gone down and I'm going to try and get by with no additional tractor fuel and the house main tank is only going to take around 500 gallons according to my measuring stick.
So pretty much a lazy day of reading and maybe a bit of tire pricing, when I was using the Branson the other I noticed some cracks/ splits in the center of the tire. The sidewalls have had some cracks and checking for a few years but when the center of the tire starts to split like is was cut I guess it's time to start looking for a couple of tires. Been disappointed with these Titans that came on the tractor. The rears have been holding up fine and still look good but the fronts have not been as satisfactory.

Drew, Texas has always been a state of contrasts. I'd swear that West Texas you could get dust in a sealed Mason jar, then the high humidity of East Texas. I always preferred the dryer West Texas myself.

Well time to get going and maybe even do something halfway productive, maybe.

All stay safe and get well.

 

[Buppies]

Sorry about the loss of Ginty scotty I know it hurts but you all will meet again

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 57 @ 8:30AM. Areas of fog early, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High 69F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.

Pretty quiet weekend here, with weather just on the warm side. Went out to a beach that has been closed most of the summer because "they" say the plover birds lay their eggs there. They do, but they lay their eggs all over the coast and those beaches aren't closed. The truth may be that the Vandenberg Space Force Base doesn't want people that close to them, and would close that beach permanently if they could. The weather was warm and sunny when we left home, but it was almost raining at the beach. Very thick fog, which quickly dampened our clothes and wet our glasses. I'd call it bracing and not at all uncomfortable. Lots of driftwood on the beach, and a lot of erosion, too, from all the high tides and winds.

Afterwards I took a look at my friend's wall oven to see if I could figure out why it wouldn't light. Pulled out the igniter and it looked fine, resistance was within normal limits. Same with the safety switch. That left the wiring between those two and the control board, but I ran out of time before I could figure out how to slide the oven out of the cabinet in which it rested. Maybe next visit.

Sunday we tried to patch our leaking bicycle tires, but couldn't get any of the patches to stick to the first tube. We found six pinholes from the burrs we'd run over, though, and dug out more pieces of burr from the tires. At that point we gave up and will order new tires for both bikes, along with new tubes with spares. Amazon refused to allow a return on the patch kit, but was OK issuing a refund. The poor performance of the kit has me wondering if the Kenda tube we were working on was even made of rubber. Have inner tubes changed since I last patched on fifteen years ago?

Substituted a long walk with the dog around the neighborhood for the bike, and that pretty much killed the weekend. Today I'll get started by ordering tires and tubes, then not sure what I'll get into.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a good start!

 

[m7040]

2 dead, at least 35 injured after chemical release reported at refinery in Deer Park, officials say

I don't know if you remember the ammonia leak accident in Houston May 11, 1976. It involved a tanker truck carrying anhydrous ammonia that crashed down on Southwest Freeway and killed 7 and injured 200
Wife was in her car on the way to an appointment and was just a few seconds away from the overpass that the truck crashed down from. Very lucky indeed

 

[sodamo]

7°F and no rain

Fur boys and I glad to have Sophie home, she is too. Says I may have enjoyed the event more than her. A nephew and wife did a redux of marriage vows at the Mob Museum in Vegas. They had lots of younger friends in addition to family.

Making my Curry roaster kabucha soup for Happy Hour. Theme is anything coconut. My soup has coconut milk.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day