Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

. We don’t have a nuclear power plant, it is Geothermal.

I had to chuckle at this, when I first saw the photo of the plant I thought it was a desalinization plant or a pumping station of some kind,
having worked in the power plant business for several very interesting years, I knew that wasn't a nuke plant. Then I read the article and
saw geothermal. Expensive plant to lose, supplies one quarter of Island's electricity I read. Maybe that's wrong too...
And you don't have to worry about any of it being totally independent.

Perhaps in some ways this will keep development out and nature in, just what the local residents want.

This geothermal plant is another political football. Some have fought it tooth and nail since the beginning and blame it for anything they can. Others bemoan the fact it is under utilized.

 

[sodamo]

David, is that where Elton John lives?

Not a clue, Randy

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-05-24, 0329

42 right now...high, again, in the mid-70's...

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 60 this morning going to 82 with fog and then sunny. Got the LA 145 running well with a mustard bottle tricklleing gas in the intake. Ran for about 3 min until I ran out of gas in the bottle. Went out and bought a fuel pump and hope to mow grass with it today. We will see if that is the problem. Guy is coming today to give us a price on the new ac/hp. Wondering what it will be.

Prayers for all in need, have a great day. Ed

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. Just been moving the sheep out of a couple of fields ready to do something about the patches of stinging nettles while the weather holds. Little Max was on top form and when we came back he decided he needed to take a nap before finding the energy to eat breakfast.

The diagnosis is in the Tv is terminal at a $450 repair.

$450
Your TV hospital must have costed for a full internal transplant. I suppose all of us consumers that constantly demand new "improved" electronic gadgets are responsible for the lack of sensibly priced replacement boards.

Mostly, unless your truck was ancient, $750 for an ABS module sounds a rip off. That's worse than Don's spare parts pricing as the OEM will be fully aware you have little option other than buy one from them, with zero competition. No option but to make the ransom payment.

 

[daugen]

My did it rain last night. .32 inches? No...ten times that, over three inches of rain in just a few hours.
No watering today for sure.

69 going up to 86 in nice clear day. Once the Garden Club ladies leave, my to do today is firing up the orchard sprayer and doing both orchards and the azaleas around the house, as they always grow some kind of mold on them. The orchard spray is mostly organic and pretty mild so I can use it anywhere.

One small unpleasant job, sharpening the blades on the JD mower, made oh so necessary by my hitting a small wire tree cage that was over in the shadows under the tree line (should have been put away of course...) and I wrapped that metal cage right up into the mower deck. Made a horrible noise, I immediately shut the deck off, drove the mower back to the barn and parked it, took out the old Gravely and finished the job. Today I need to lift the JD up with the Kubota FEL and see what a mess I made underneath. Only thing worse is hitting barbed wire, and I've done that too.

Ed, hope the estimate is not too high. Buppies hope the leg is better and LS is getting around better.

 

[Looking4new]

36 and going to a high of 81. Wind ESE 6 mph. Sunny.

I gotta go to town this afternoon. Lots of running around between SR and Sundridge

I disconnected the ABS module on my Jeep back in 2005 (the Jeep is a 2001) and it stops just fine. I just need to remember that IF I pile on the brakes hard that they will lock up. I drive in order to get the very best fuel mileage I can out of my aerodynamic phone booth. 25 mpg highway.

Have a good day all

 

[Buppies]

Ed about a year or so ago a 16 seer unit we replaced was about $6000 and it was 11 years old

65 high of 81 today another day without rain and lots of sunshine but on horizon a lot more rain next week something we do not need

Leg is still sore but healing very slowly and cyst healing nicely according to better half

Prayers for those in need

 

[Buppies]

36 and going to a high of 81. Wind ESE 6 mph. Sunny.

I gotta go to town this afternoon. Lots of running around between SR and Sundridge

I disconnected the ABS module on my Jeep back in 2005 (the Jeep is a 2001) and it stops just fine. I just need to remember that IF I pile on the brakes hard that they will lock up. I drive in order to get the very best fuel mileage I can out of my aerodynamic phone booth. 25 mpg highway.

Have a good day all

That's really good fuel mileage for a jeep

 

[Eric Salop]

I disconnected the ABS module on my Jeep back in 2005 (the Jeep is a 2001) and it stops just fine.

LFN, is that still legal ? Here that would be an immediate fail on the annual test. Almost certainly would invalidate my insurance too.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 49° with clear skies this morning . Heading to 83° with sun all day. Got weed killer put down on 2000' of fence line. Only did about 400' last year. Worked very well. Afraid to get close to fence with flail like I can get with front mower. After a short distance my neck starts to hurt from looking back at flail mower. Wash house window today. Then check neighbors place to see if ground has dried enough to complete project.

RNG, I would tell the buyer to stuff it. :thumbdown: Unless he want's it as is per listing. :thumbsup:


Prayers for all those in need.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

That's really good fuel mileage for a jeep

it sure is, but L4N, disconnecting the ABS module might expose you to serious liability if you are in a crash and
the other attorney finds this out through discovery. For an off road farm vehicle, who cares. But Federally mandated safety equipment
is nothing to fool with. Perhaps the Canadian legal system is more flexible.
I know this may make you groan, but after thirty years in insurance industry I think you may be putting a bullseye on your back.
Back to regular programming...

rain gauge says four inches of rain, digital says three. Have no idea which is right, though seems hard to believe something without moving parts can get it wrong...

 

[daugen]

in looking at the latest Hawaii volcano pictures, down at the bottom of the Weather Channel page was something
I hadn't expected.
IBM owns both Wunderground and The Weather Channel.
Hopefully they will stay independent. In this area at least, Wunderground
can get awfully slow, particularly on pulling up radar, while the Weather Channel pops right up.

Now if I got rid of my AccuWrong and got a decent unit (gag at 500 bucks...), I might have
a more usable system. Despite little fan it overheats in direct sun and consistently disagrees with my
udometer aka glass rain gauge tube. Maybe it's like tire gauges, need to get another cheap manual rain gauge
and prove the other one works properly. One inch rounded hole at top, how can they screw that up?...I don't think they can,
which makes me be appropriately confident in my AccuWrong unit.

Land here was dry enough it sucked up all the rain just fine, now headed out to see what the garden looks like.
Have arranged for bunny rabbits to stroll on by for the Garden Club ladies. :dance1:

 

[daugen]

too funny, both Eric and I were writing on L4N's brakes, berating the poor man for his simple repair...

I'm trained to recognize risk. It's what you do as an insurance underwriter. So my antenna went buzzing
Eric comes at it as an engineer but we both arrived at the same spot.
Of course, we could be making as much sense as two drunks at a bar.

Laughter is the Best Medicine.

Give More
Expect Less

 

[Looking4new]

LFN, is that still legal ? Here that would be an immediate fail on the annual test. Almost certainly would invalidate my insurance too.

No annual safeties here in Ontario. You get a safety when the vehicle sells and then whenever the insurance company wants one, which with my insurance currently is never. They didn't ask for a safety when I signed on with them, either. The Jeep was 10 years old then.

I will keep it plated and insured and drive the Dodge in summer and the Jeep in winter.

 

[ronjhall]

Now if I got rid of my AccuWrong and got a decent unit (gag at 500 bucks...), I might have
a more usable system. Despite little fan it overheats in direct sun and consistently disagrees with my
udometer aka glass rain gauge tube. Maybe it's like tire gauges, need to get another cheap manual rain gauge
and prove the other one works properly. One inch rounded hole at top, how can they screw that up?...I don't think they can,
which makes me be appropriately confident in my AccuWrong unit.

My LaCrosse weather station is working good. The big complaint I hear on the ACCURITE is temperature. LaCrosse has solved that problem by having a separate sensor for temperature and humidity. I like the App for my phone. The model sold at Sams Club is no longer available.
When I first got the unit the App did not work. It is working good now.
I did have a problem with rain gauge. But that was caused by the dry we had in April and all the dust from county road commission not putting down dust control.

 

[wngsprd]

57 going to 83 and crystal clear. Definitely need the SPF 50 out there today.

Still big areas that are squishy so will have to pick the sections to mow later today.

Thanks for the info on air compressors...started looking into various models and think I need to do as Drew suggested and determine the cfm needed on the torque I will need to break and set. Customer ratings on some of the compressors I read about are all over the place, so not as helpful.

Cleaned up a section of the tool shed yesterday and installed some better hangers than just the long nails that were there when I moved here decades ago. Now there's nothing on the floor in that corner.

Our "resident" blacksnake made an appearance yesterday...under my wife's SUV while she was unloading groceries.

 

[daugen]

I have now seen three different snakes in a month. Thankfully all black/rat/chicken snakes in fact I don't care what family they
come from as long as they aren't poisonous. Otherwise if I step on a snake and it bites me, fair enough. If a giant stepped on me,
I think I would do something similar. Looking at this from a snake's point of view.
Watch where you are going you big oaf!

I may have watched Babe one too many times...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

You could just buy a big walmart above ground pool, cover it, and treat the water like pool water fairly cheaply, running the pump to circulate.....just for fire water.

Saw a place once that had a big pool, just for that purpose

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Personnally i wouldnt worry about disabling ABS, they are not the brakes, but just there to keep you from locking them. Took a driving class yrs ago where they had a car that you could switch off the ABS, and we drove a test course with and without. The test showed better braking with ABS on, but not too significant a difference.