Good morning!!!!

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 74F this morning, light wind and overcast sky. Wind became moderate with brick guts, sky cleared to partly cloudy in the afternoon, high temp was 93F HI 98. Bike ride to start the day, then putter in garage. Was going to buck logs for firewood but wife took early nap. Did get more 2 stroke gas mixed and another chained sharpened, cleaned terminals on trolling batteries and checking charger operation, seems to be working at this point. Grilled some brats for dinner again .
Buckeye sorry about your nerve pain, is that from nerves reconnecting or something else?
Randy i would like to be dine with hot and humid but the dome has not left yet :confused3: Also good news on the therapy front :drink:
Don, nice job on the cards.
Rick, glad you got some rain
RNG must be nice to have the sprinkler system done, sounds like the red bike is going to work out well, have fun with brewing.
PJ Cards are looking good when it counts, could be interesting post season.
Hawkeye, gets so hot here hard to get started on much especially projects that are longer than 1/2 day.
Drew, sorry your get RV day was soooo disappointing ! :thumbdown: Hopefully all the issues cam be easily worked out.
prayers for all.

 

[sodamo]

Congrats on RV Drew. Sorry to read it was (is) such an ordeal getting proper support. Bet you enjoy it anyway on e you get it all settled.

 

[RoyJackson]

2019-09-11, 0320

58 right now...high about 80 today (Summer's last Hurrah, I guess)

 

[Buppies]

69 high of 93 today I think it is endless summer and the predictors agree lasting at least until mid late October

Prayers for all in need

 

[Eric Salop]

Slightly dull, with a few fine raindrops in the air that seem reluctant to come down to earth, but much warmer. This is the remnants of Dorian, most of it seems to be passing to the north.

Drew, hope you are over the disappointments of yesterday and now looking forward to the next adventures. Is 70 mph the normal speed for travelling in an RV on your roads, or were you just trying to blast out those squirrel nuts ? Here you often see camper vans going slower than cars. Not sure if that's to get a better ride with less tire and wind noise, or simply a consequence of our higher fuel prices.

BEF, your potatoes are doing better than ours. My wife is in charge of planting and she's decided this will be the last year we bother with them when there are tastier things to grow. Just picked the first corn on the cob and they are full of flavour, better than anything we can buy in the shops.

Randy, great progress !

Hawkeye, thanks for being so considerate at taking your time over each project - it really does help some of us under achievers feel slightly less guilty.

 

[Thomas]

62F raining 80 for high.

Last evening able to remove dirt etc. main culvert area also widen path for the water all done by hand...whew,just not enough day light anymore for such projects after work.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[DABSGT]

Good morning 70 heading to mid 80's
Let us all remember all who were lost 18 years ago 9/11 and their familys

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 64° with some fog this morning. Heading to 83° with thunderstorms in PM. Another trip to Port Huron to visit my aunt. That will be about all today.

Drew, your motorhome looks great. Sorry you had very common service for the RV industry. Hope that the end of your problems.

Buckeye and LS, best wishes and prayers sent.

Randy good new on your recovery.

Good Morning All.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

A few showers early but nothing notable. Very warm and humid for the next few days with some more 90s, I thought we were past them.

BEF, glad you’re doing better all the time.
I’m walking almost entirely with a cane or nothing. It’s giving my legs a workout!
I drove to the drugstore and doctors office today, first driving since late July.
I filled out papers to try and get a better deal on my Brilinta, cheapest now is $167 month copay.
Ron, thinking of you bud.
LS, I hope you get those knees fixed soon.
Prayers for all.

Its been years since i had a frozen burrito. Not sure what compelled her to buy them, but i know not to complain.

My nerve pain is terrible tonight. Even took the stronger pain med.

Yankees just eliminated Red Sox from playoffs, sorry Jay.

He will be the first to admit the Astros have a great team.

So much to catch up on, too little time....

BEF, I wonder if the pain is the nerves coming back online? Keep getting better. Prayers.

Ron, prayers for you and your family too.

Randy, glad you're getting mended and released. Prayers.

LS, hoping a new knee will solve your situation. Prayers

hawkeye, back problems are big problems. Prayers.

WE FINALLY GOT .3" OF RAIN YESTERDAY!!! Possibly more today. Hallelujah!

Need 3" or more....

Have to get ready for work.

Have a great day all.

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
68 going to 89 in dense fog this morning.
After my last foot doc appt this morning back to mow and work on rv.

Eric, I'll normally run the rv at the speed limit plus maybe 2mph, but never over 70 on a pass and normally 65.
This rig was built in Indiana and driven to NC about 800 miles. I guarantee you that delivery driver wasn't driving slowly so
figure the engine was nicely broken in. Pretty hard to hurt this understressed diesel I think. Redline on diesel looked like 4100 rpm so relatively
high revver. Slowing down saves a lot of fuel, less wind and road noise, and easier to drive.
Americans have heavy right feet, you have to keep up at the light. My truck with a hemi engine and a travel trailer could almost out accelerate the guy next door.
Not in this, slow off the line and gradual build of speed, just like a big truck. Transmission does have a very low first gear gets it moving adequately.
One is driving a little house, try to minimize g forces.

I haven't worked my way through all the display screens but I know rv has cumulative mpg but don't know if it has instant mpg.
I'll be trying different speeds to see how much I can save, both in fuel and noise.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, I wonder if the pain is the nerves coming back online? Keep getting better. Prayers.

.

Drs have suggested that, but not very convincingly. The pain is stomach, chest, back, hands, palms, feet. The GBS affected feet to hips.

 

[wngsprd]

68 going to 91. Fog starting to burn off.

Get well, BEF! and Toppop! and LS! and others.

Prayers for all 9/11 families.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 4:30AM. Plentiful sunshine. High 88F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.

Sounds like mice were the first occupants of your motor home, Drew. Consider going over that engine compartment with a fine tooth comb, looking for tooth marks on wires and hoses. Some manufacturers are using plant based insulation on their wires, and mice find it irresistible. That was the case with the Vanagon, which apparently sat for quite some time before it came to me. Quite a few wires were replaced, and lots of turds cleaned out on that one.

The days are getting shorter, Thomas. It's nice not to have to go to bed while the sun is still shining!

Got the spraying done yesterday, but it took longer than I'd hoped, so clean up work is still to do.

Got word over the weekend from a German rider buddy of mine that the pistons I used in the red bike may have been fitted with the wrong rings. From the vertical scoring I can see on the cylinder walls while peeking through the spark plug holes with an endoscope, that seems to be the case. He gave me the URL to a web page that details the problem, but I don't read German so good, so today I'll see if I can find a translation. This explains the high oil consumption, too.

Happy Hump Day, folks!:dance1:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Just found this recap of current fire activity in California. It's been pretty quiet up until now, but things look to be catching up fast. I better make some time to read the manual for the fire truck.

#LimeFire Klamath NF
1620 acres
#Kidder2Fire Klamath NF
141 acres
#KNFLightning Klamath NF
40 fires - most less than 5 acres. Largest are Lime and Kidder.
#LoneFire Modoc NF
5737 acres 87% contained contained
R-6 Fire Lassen County - BLM
260 acres 80% contained
#WalkerFire Plumas NF
47,340 acres 12% contained
#SouthFire Shasta-Trinity NF
2746 acres
#HenthorneFire Mendocino NF
244 acres 20% contained
#CowFire Inyo NF
1975 acres 30% contained
#BroderFire Sequoia NF
370 acres 30% contained
#TabooseFire Inyo NF
9235 acres 30% contained
#ForkFire Modoc NF
12 acres
#RamshornFire Shasta NF lightning fires
279 acres
#MiddleFire Shasta-Trinity NF
350 acres

Cal Fire
#RedBankFire Tehama County
8838 acres 55% contained
#TenajaFire Riverside County
1926 acres 94% contained
#SwedesFire Butte County
400 acres 60% contained
#DuzelFire Siskiyou County
15 acres 70% contained
#McMurrayFire Santa Barbara County
200% acres 30% contained
#DuzelFire Siskiyou County
15 acres 90% contained

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 72˚F heading to 92˚F cloudy change of rain. We only got a few drops of rain yesterday but the cooler temps were nice.
Survived the first FireWise clearing of underbrush yesterday and the leader served a nice cold watermelon at the conclusion.

RNG can you drive the firetruck and spray water or are the pumps attached to the motor and you have to be stopped to put it in pump gear?
What is your strategy with the firetruck when there is an approaching fire storm?

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 48 this morning---- WOOO-HOOO! Made it into the 40's! Going up to 80 today with a 50% shot at some t-storms. We had a brief downpour last evening from a close by storm. I didn't confirm the amount of rain, but around a quarter inch. Temps will hover around that 80 mark all week.

That means cutting the grass and whacking those weeds back into line.... I get some tractor seat time, the son gets to do all the walking with the trimmer! Good deal for the knee, should help me out a bunch!

Today is 9/11..... Please remember all those first responders and innocent lives lost in NYC. I can't believe it's been so long already. Seems like last week....

The sun is coming up... I need to go get motivated and get the knee moving....cool temps and moisture must be affecting it this morning.

Everyone have a great day! Prayers sent out for all!

 

[check]

well I made it, but a day that was way too long and had too many bumps.
Young guy doing the training didn't know any more than I knew, which is fine for the stuff that's the same from rv to rv.
But when I start asking the stuff I don't know:
how does the mobileye accident avoidance system work?
I don't know, that's new.
Does this come with Sirius/XM?
I don't know, it should
How do you get to the nav part of the radio?
I can't find it.

At that point I found my salesperson, gently said the trainer wasn't helpful to me because he understood none of the electronics,
which is what a young person is supposed to know, right?...
So it turns out there is no navigation in the rv at all. Wrong radio allegedly installed at factory. Thankfully they had the right one in stock.
Now it's noon, I was supposed to be gone by then, owner not happy, gives me keys to loaner and 20 bucks and said please go have lunch on us.
Nice ride in a tiny beater Fiesta with 103k miles on it and a hole in the muffler. This was not a Lexus moment...
So thankfully the new radio works, and the trainer has zero idea what the icons do, quote from the owner "this stuff just all changed and it's all new
to us". Well, maybe that's true and maybe they need to do a better job of training the trainer.

I admit my humor was fouled from the very beginning when I popped the hood to the engine compartment and was a bit ticked off to find half an inch of grime over everything, must have driven here from Indiana in a rain storm, and two large piles of squirrel nuts stacked up around the hood latches. Clearly no one in the dealership had ever opened the hood. I looked at the trainer and just shook my head and quietly said this should not be. And left it at that. And it was still dirty when I drove out of there.
It will be cleaned tomorrow.

these were really nice people at D&H RV in Apex NC. But nice doesn't cut it enough if your business practices are sloppy.
I kept waiting to be impressed, and sure wasn't.

Ok, that's done, off my chest. Ride home was fine, very maneuverable, but much, much noiser than I thought. Lots of wind and tire noise.
Part may be due to my tinnitus, but I bet it quiets down a bunch when the new Michelins go on, oem tires are awful.
Engine had plenty of power, just had to ride the torque wave, picked up speed nicely. I drove between 65 and 70 on mostly 70mph roads, you could tell the faster you went the more you had to really keep your foot in it. Cruise control worked nicely, just wish Germans would not put it on a separate stalk that's close to turn signal.

oh, when I got it home the auto leveling system seemed to work, but error coded saying excess slope, which is absurd, look at the picture, maybe one degree, and it picked the front tires an inch totally off the ground and the rears over two inches off the ground. So I will fiddle with that tomorrow. Doesn't seem very stable perched up on those stork legs.
Outside looks nice, the plastic finish was well done.

time for dinner and an early bed. Will be less grumpy tomorrow.

OK, so who splashed the paint all over it?

 

[daugen]

RNG can you drive the firetruck and spray water

from memory I think he has a pumper and not a field/brush truck with the nozzles up front. Maybe?
Maybe they make their field trucks bigger in California, need them more...

 

[daugen]

OK, so who splashed the paint all over it?

they are very proud of that splashed paint, says their paint job is best in industry.
something tells me a few others say the same thing.

I would have preferred the model in all beige tones, less red but this was the show special and I've learned you snooze
you lose with the nice ones.

 

[check]

they are very proud of that splashed paint, says their paint job is best in industry.
something tells me a few others say the same thing.

I would have preferred the model in all beige tones, less red but this was the show special and I've learned you snooze
you lose with the nice ones.

Yup. I snoozed and lost a couple of times getting my F150 pick up trucks over the years. They would have these killer deals in the spring, and by the time I would do all the negotiating, the real best deals are gone. Never mind. I wanted the 3.5 eco-boost, but had to take the 5 L V8 instead. I am very happy with it, however.

Nice rig you have there. I’m sure you’re going to have a blast driving it all over the place. They are getting extremely popular up here in Canada, and it seems that every time we drive up to Cottage there’s another new dealer with these things growing like mushrooms on the lot.