Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2016-05-04, 0318

44 right now. High of 56 today...maybe some rain.
Long day yesterday...0530 until 1730 (or so) which ncluded about 5 hours of driving from home to Manchester CT and back. A bit tired today...

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 50° with rain this morning. Heading to 60° with rain and thunder storms all day. Got Garden Pond up and running yesterday. Needed to fix a leak. Changing the lighting in pole to LED. Should be a good day to install the one light that has arrived.
Good Morning All.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all. 53 here this morning going to 65, 80% chance of showers here today. Will be a nice temp. for moving furniture today. Having to lift it out of the back of a 45' box trailer, about shoulder high. Big desk and dresser are going to be fun. I keep thinking that I am working my behind off, for me any way, so i can move to the city and have less work to do. Truck is a Dodge with a 318ci in it and it has to work mighty hard to run a interstate speeds. Lot of shifting up and down more than when I used to drive the big boys.

Don Yep the joys of city life. In my way of thinking what you are doing is fun and city life does not seem to have the adventure country life does. But that is not where my life is headed so I am going to enjoy it. I guess I can get used to setting by the pool sipping iced tea. I would get a portapower and use the short cylinder and a piece of plywood between the boom and the cylinder rod and take it a little past straight and see if you can improve it a little. You could be pleasantly surprised. Ed

 

[wngsprd]

57 and drizzle, going to 67. Ground is getting soggy a bit. Already need to mow and bush hog again.

Roy, those 12 hour plus days are tough. Hope you don't have too many like that.

Finally found a pressure washer part I needed - the hose connector to the pump...the hose side is threaded normally, but the pump side had a male connector that was slightly less than a standard half inch, and with a very narrow pitch on the threads...this piece is plastic and the threads finally wore out.

Over the last couple of months, checked several retail outlets when I'd be in their neighborhood, including a specialty pressure washer outfit, and looked at many websites before finally finding a Karcher parts manual...turns out to be a $4.95 part, but 7 bucks shipping. Hopefully will receive it by the time I need to use it...although the washer is 9 years old, it has a great Honda engine and not many hours.

 

[Thomas]

41F cloudy low 50's for high good chance PM showers.
Started stacking this winter wood last evening,4 more cords to go.
Ground slowly greening here and there,lots of winter kill nothing can't fix w/seeds and pellets.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Buppies]

53 this morning high of 67 later slight rain chances today much better tomorrow but cool only in 50s with 1.5 inches of rain. Glad you found your part wngsprd

 

[daugen]

61 going to 77 today, with some showers around Noon. Then another inch of rain tomorrow.
We were so dry that the first round was sucked up by the ground pretty well. As long as not too much comes down
in a few hours, the soil seems to handle these one inchers just fine. Now if we could get 1.5 inches per week, on Tuesdays only.
With guaranteed beautiful weekends. Instead mankind is likely to mess up our weather, not improve it...
however...
If you could set up Mother Nature's sprinkler system, how much rain would you want, and how often?
Don't we need those inch plus rains to get to tree roots?

Perhaps if I ask the politicians that instead of a chicken in my pot, how about better consistent weather and
let us grow our own chickens...mixing lots of metaphors here for sure. This year, anything and everything will get promised.

off to the lawyers to go over paperwork for buying the acre next door. Will finally have real farmland, if only a tiny bit, maybe 2/3 of an acre. I'm going to grow sunflowers this year, after we settle June 1. Got six packs of seeds in yesterday, need to plan the layout based on height and colors. Done this before, sunflowers are fun if they don't get blown over in a storm.

 

[Buppies]

Have gotten four inches of rain since last Friday but ground has soaked up all of

 

[yankeerider]

Weather forecast suggests it'll be Monday before we see any significant sun. Cloudy and showers between now and then.:smiley_aafz: I built a fire in the woodstove in my shop yesterday because it was so chilly out there and I wanted to do more tidying up in preparation for reassembling my '66 Honda 160 Scrambler. I'm gonna try to take the Mustang in for its biennial emissions test today-needed to renew its registration.

Don-glad you past the dicey part of the cedar incident.

Kevin- I sure sympathize with your shoulder issues. I have similiar issues-probably not as bad as yours-that can make sleep difficult. Pain seems to come and go, possibly related to what activities I've been doing.

 

[txdon]

Don-glad you past the dicey part of the cedar incident.

Good morning! 51˚ unheard of in May, and sunny skies, heading to 80˚ a good day to dry out.

Yankeerider now I can concentrate on fixing it. A new cylinder is $580, and a hose probably around $150, the tree removal was $150 (well spent), I need to see if my homeowner's Ins. can be applied and if so what deductable, or go the repair route instead of replace route if possible.

The tractor started right up every time yesterday (about 10 times) so today I'll spray the connections for corrosion with DeOxIt. If I turn the key and the dash comes on it will start, if the key is turn on and the dash does nothing it does not. The dash does come on when I'm not in the seat so I think the connection (or the switch itself) at the starter switch is the problem. I don't know what what the part the relays play.

Ed, I sure was thinking of the tea and pool as I was walking back from the back forty leaving the stuck tractor to get equipment. You are right about an adventure every day, too bad they are not ALL enjoyable but if they were that predictable the adventure would be gone.