Good morning!!!!

[deerseeker001]

57 with some Sun this Morning warming to 74 with a chance of Rain this afternoon.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 0710, sunny, 72F with 93% humidity. Forecast high of 86F with 60% chance of a thunderstorm today, and a low of 72F tonight. It was a cool 70F when I went out to turn on the soaker hoses a couple of hours ago. If the long range forecast holds up {thunderstorms 8 of the next 10 days} I shouldn't need to water too much.

Today is a good planting day, so I'm going to put a few acorn squash seeds in the ground. Hope to finish the fence moving and start discing the expanded garden. If time allows before work, I'm going to see if Cousin Dee left any blueberries on the bushes.

Gary, nice looking job on deck and cover.

Hope everyone has a good day,

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

Drew- So how many copies of Braveheart do you have?

just one...

probably ought to watch it again, Mel Gibson getting his head chopped off.

so many people died for their freedom. Very brave people.

Drew, it was a good movie. But like most movies it played fast and loose with history. It was mainly a civil war with one side helped by the English. The clan leaders had freedom to decide which side to fight on. They made the decision for everyone else.

 

[dave1949]

The Appalachians were settled by Scots-English "Border Lander's" and brought a long history of civil wars, and of being able to trust no one but kin with them, along with spirits making and Celtic music. Due to the remoteness of the Appalachian mountains and the less than friendly outlook on strangers and ideas from outside, they lived largely in isolation for two centuries until the 1930's or so. They even maintained a lot of the speech and word usage that was common in their homelands at the time they emigrated.

They are still considered Border Lander's politically and socially today by those who study such things.

 

[farmer2009]

73 this morning and headed to 85 today. But not before we risk dropping back into the 60's. Rain moving in really doing a lot of talking. Was wanting to cut hay today and may still between showers. That takes me over a day. So will finish tomorrow.

Boy stars daycare today. Maybe it will cause him to speak. He understands what he's told when he turns his selective hearing on. I know it's selective because when you first start out he'll start to look at you then decide not to, or he'll get a little grin. He just won't talk. Points and grunts. Or that.

 

[rswyan]

Still 76F and cloudy @ 09:00 ... had a little shower overnight ... barely enough to settle the dust tho' ... more to come later today supposedly.

Pulled an all-nighter working on the brushcutter ... cleaned out the carb real good (or so I thought) and reassembled ... still puking gas ... so I did it again (several times) ... eventually used a different needle and lever for the needle ... same deal.

Checked for spark (again) ... looks good (again)

Then I tore into the wiring for the on/off switch in the handle, checked for continuity ... all good.

Then pulled the muffler cover off and cleaned the spark arrestor (didn't seem all that dirty) ... same deal: still floods and pukes raw gas out the muffler ...

Finally took the gas cap off (in case the vent valve in the cap was plugged) ... no diff ...

Here's the interesting thing though, which I found out when I had the carb off ... put carb back on and forgot to connect the fuel line from the tank to the carb ... give a few pulls (well, quite a few) and it fires up and starts running for a minute or so ... until it runs out of gas.

Did that a second time just to be sure ... pull the fuel line, clear the flood, and the unit fires up and runs.

Looks like the carb is kaput and I'll have to pony up for a new one ... could be worse I guess.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

70F, plentiful sunshine. High 101F. Winds light and variable. Yesterday the humidity was in the high 70s during the heat of the day, surprising since low 20s were forecast. With a high of 98F, I worked inside!

Gary, everything looks brand new! See if you get used to the color. If not, paint it to match?

David, is there a Lowes nearby? Or a real lumber store? Can't blame you for contracting out the sheetrock work, though, but around here (mainland) that kind of work can be had pretty reasonably. Maybe it's a rare skill in HI? But if you do go that route, see if they'll supply the materials, as they often get price breaks unavailable to lay people.

RS, try an o-ring under the air cleaner screw. Might keep it tight.

Drew, you're not the only Downton Abbey fan here. Too bad they've announced this will be the last season.

Took a crack at upholstery on the RTV yesterday, starting with the seat back. Found some nice cabinet plywood in the scrap pile, and not a hint of termites under the tarps this time. Insecticide soaking the ground must still be working. Used the old pieces for patterns, though some fudging was needed as not all the pieces were whole (some were mostly hole . Even though the vinyl I purchased is about twice as thick as the original stuff, it still cut easily and was no problem to sew. At least the needle punched easily through the material; keeping it going down the seam lines I'd inked was another matter entirely. I now have a whole new respect for all those seamstresses out there that do this sort of thing at a hundred miles an hour! Things were going along nicely until the bobbin ran out, and even though I managed to wind another, it took me an hour to discover I'd missed a hole when I'd restrung the needle thread, almost causing me to give up for the day. In the process I also discovered that my sewing box has gone missing as well, and a top-to-bottom search of the house still left me empty handed. Talk about feeling senile, the threading error was right in front of my nose, and I've seen that box within the last week or so. Even have some vague memory of putting it someplace "safe" where "I'll be sure to find it". Sheesh.

Anyway, the cover came out better than I thought it would, though it's just a bit looser than I'd like. Sure looks nicer than what was there! Today I'll start in on the bottom part of the seat. No patterns this time, as someone replaced the factory one with a piece of canvas years ago. I think I learned enough on the first one to make some patterns of my own, but we shall see.

Hope everyone gets off to a good start for the week!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Similar thing happened to me when I rebuilt the carb on the old chainsaw, RS. Except mine was spitting back through the air cleaner. Turns out I'd left out one of the gaskets in the stack that is built up on one end of the carb. Found that out by closely (as in with a magnifying glass) looking at the diagram the dealer was kind enough to provide with the gasket kit. All the gaskets in the stack, and I think there were three of them, are the same size on the outside, but all have subtle differences on where holes are located to allow fuel to pass. Those darn holes have to be oriented properly, and the gaskets assembled in the correct order, or fuel goes everywhere it's not supposed to. And yes, I'd carefully disassembled the original, and taken photos, but I wasn't careful enough.

I also remember taking the carb with me to the dealer, and it was a good thing I did. It turned out, at least in this case, that Stihl used two different carbs on the same saw, so the parts man avoided having to guess.

Thinking about that old saw yesterday, I realized something I hadn't before, related to the sale. I put an ad in Craig's List, and a fellow that runs a small nursery and tree service responded. During our banter he let me know he'd had his saw stolen a few weeks before, and even though the thought never occurred to me at the time, now I realize he might have suspected that I was the thief! My saw came complete with case and extra chains, and started on the first pull, so that along with my otherwise sterling character resulted in the sale going through with no law enforcement involvement or blood shed. :laughing:

 

[300UGUY]

Worked organizing my shop last night, going to do the same tonight. Need to help the wife for a bit, then back to .....!

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .7 inches rain last 24 hours

Got 4 areas mowed even with the rain. Hope to finish today so we can do it again this coming weekend LOL.

Be safe
Have a great day

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