Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG what is the max lake level there at Oroville lake? The website showed the current level @ 850 msl. Hope you are as happy with Internet down the road ad you are now.

Top of the dam is at 900'; the water level'll never get any higher than that.:laughing: Out of the seven years I've been here, it's been at or close to that three of them. This year will likely be the fourth.

As far as Internet data goes, if some's good, more is better, and I'm sure that the 100Gb I have now is just a drop in the bucket if I started streaming movies or tried to "cut the cable" and drop the satellite TV. So for now at least I'll stick with DVDs from NetFlix and Dish Network's offerings. The 10Gb/month I've had up until now just wasn't enough even to watch an occasional short video on Facebook or Youtube and still be able shop the web (lots of images) and keep the computers and devices updated. Add in something new like a programmable remote control or new satellite TV box and I'd end up buying more data when the things hit the 'net to download new software first time they ran. The Internet has evolved into an every day necessity, and it's too bad our government hasn't taken the same approach as other countries and treated it like basic infrastructure like the telephone system was with it first launched. Instead we're left with the whimsical notion that free enterprise will lead to competition that provides the best service at the lowest price. Yeah, just like it did with our deteriorating telephone system and the boom and bust airline industry. Oops, sorry, didn't mean to get on my soap box... :laughing:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I stopped watering the 20'x30' lawn in the back yard three years ago, but haven't yet dug the sprinkler heads up and converted it over to decomposed granite and a shrub or two like the rest of the back, front and side yards. But this is the year, when it stops raining long enough. I don't have much of a green thumb, and the less growing the better for all concerned.:laughing:

I meant for the recently dragged up fire fighting areas. Bermuda can be one of the best deep rooted, drought resistant, erosion preventers.

Woke up at 4 am today for no particular reason. Took a shower. Had my decaf coffee. Damp and cool outside.

I'm watching the kids today. Wifey is going to an event to set up a table and try to sell her essential oils. She has been doing fairly well with learning and selling the stuff. If anyone is interested, I can direct any questions her way.

One of my opportunities to rub elbows with the Robin Leach crowd was back in 1983. I bought a "Captains" level group of tickets to the inaugural Unlimited Hydroplane races in Clear Lake (south of Houston). It included special seating and inclusion to a dinner with Red Adair. Turned out to be a good deal for the number of tickets I got and gave to all my friends who drove up to watch the races.

My friend's family at one time had 6 different boats, but no yachts. Fishing and pleasure boats. I've only personally owned sail boats myself. A J24 and a Hobie 16 catamaran. I love sailing, and all my friends had motorboats, so it would have been redundant to have my own. I used to could water ski for 30 minutes at a time and did some barefoot skiing, but almost got hurt real bad once and gave that up.

I love to go to the marinas and peruse the yachts and large sailing craft. Drew post us a pic when you get a chance.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Woohoo new faster internet and more gigs! RNG, there's probably a Cali law against it, but have you considered getting some hybrid grass seed that is drought tolerant and throwing a little out? I planted a type of bermuda grass in my lawn, but there are better more expensive grasses out there. Give it time and it should creep and fill.

Kyle, is that the Sahara Bermuda. I've had good results with it here.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 45F @ 6:30AM. Sunny. High 52F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph.

Looks like sunny weather for the next few days, then showers on and off for the rest of the week. The weather guessers are threatening snow showers for next weekend, so I better get out and enjoy the sun while I can.

Yet another belated happy birthday to all the Lynns out there!

Eric, we expect a full report on your new gizmo, and as a former Good Morning! denizen was fond of saying, show us pics or it didn't happen.:laughing:

Checked out a new Vietnamese restaurant for lunch with the mechanic yesterday. Food was tasty but wasn't exactly hot, except for the egg roll which burned the skin off the inside of my mouth. Probably won't be going back to this one; there are other better choices just as conviently located.

In keeping with the Friday the 13th theme, by the time we got back from eating, the mechanic's partner had left for home two hundred miles away, taking the spray glue pot with him. WTF!?! So no pop top headliner work on the van, but I was able to deliver it safe and dry and get the rubber edge molding attached to it and the fiberglass luggage carrier, and store them both safely and temporarily on top of the van. Then we pulled a donor radiator shroud out of a parts van to use for the new fan setup the mechanic wants to use, and discussed the modifications needed to make it work. I'll be doing the sheet metal work over this weekend, so it all won't be spent pulling weeds and digging up conduit.:laughing: There's not much room where the new fans will mount, so I'm just going to get things tacked together well enough to see if the new shroud will fit before I spend a lot of time welding and painting. Apparently we're still waiting on some front end parts so not much action there, but the air conditioner looks like it's been installed up front, along with the new BMW brake booster. It was while looking at this new work that I noticed that some of the tape that was supposed to hold up the sound deadening material had come loose up under the firewall, fouling the windshield wiper linkage. So next visit I'll have another go at it with some better tape.

Hope everyone has a safe and productive weekend...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I meant for the recently dragged up fire fighting areas. Bermuda can be one of the best deep rooted, drought resistant, erosion preventers.

Oh! Most of the dozed areas are still pretty barren since the CalFire "experts" compacted the soil by running the dozer back and forth over it multiple times. So it'll need discing before any seed can go down, and they left me with a couple hundred pounds of a barley/rye/clover mix that has worked out pretty well here in the past. I'm just hoping we can get a spell of dry weather long enough to get the tractor out with the disc, otherwise it'll be next fall before that happens and I'm not sure that the seed'll be any good by then.

 

[Buppies]

38 raining this morning but all snow from last weeks storm is gone

This skin cancer thing is getting old thanks for the thoughts

riptides for us personally we will probably never stop renovating or remodeling till we are gone. It's just the way she and I are. For example we are now redoing our bath completely gutted and now starts the rebuild. Took out one tub and shower replacing with one big shower with dual heads. Heated tile floors new cabinets and relocated the windows to a higher point to accord image shower. Hopefully turns out well.

Other items to do as we save up for them redo downstairs, redo fireplace, relandscape back yard, finish inside of Morton Building add 12ft lean to. The list is large and I do not think I'll live long enough to finish but I am going to try

 

[riptides]

38 raining this morning but all snow from last weeks storm is gone

This skin cancer thing is getting old thanks for the thoughts

riptides for us personally we will probably never stop renovating or remodeling till we are gone. It's just the way she and I are. For example we are now redoing our bath completely gutted and now starts the rebuild. Took out one tub and shower replacing with one big shower with dual heads. Heated tile floors new cabinets and relocated the windows to a higher point to accord image shower. Hopefully turns out well.

Other items to do as we save up for them redo downstairs, redo fireplace, relandscape back yard, finish inside of Morton Building add 12ft lean to. The list is large and I do not think I'll live long enough to finish but I am going to try

Hey, meant to say it for a while now, prayers on your battle.

Interesting your thoughts on reno, I guess I am not doing it for me any more, I am just looking at the money side of it. But then when I am gone, what difference will it make. LOL.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good morning. 30° sleet, freezing rain.

Had typed a long update on my phone, then lost it by closing it accidently. Fired up pc to redo, in the middle of typing got blue screen of death, first time I recall seeing that on win10.
Asked the wife of it was still Friday 13th.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I got a partial quote on a gas fireplace. An unfired showroom demo about half off, and then install cost. Does not include gas tank and hookup. Does not include any finish work, including building the box on the side of the house. I have masonry foundation up to hearth level put in when house was built, never built the fireplace.

Might put money towards solar instead.

 

[toppop52]

Kyle, I admire sailors, I never had the patience, it was like watching grass grow to me. My Donzi Z33 Crossbow had a pair of 572 cu in Chevy big blocks. I bought it with stock 540's, but it would only run 77 mph with those!
While we were picking up the boat, we rode up to Sarasota Bay on Friday afternoon, while at the ramp, 7 factory team trucks showed up to play, Scarab, Fountain, Apache, Donzi, Eliminator and I don't recall the others, big tow rigs, big V hulls and catamarans. There was a fuel truck with them, those boys put on a show! It sounded like you were at the starting line at Daytona.
Like Drew, my boating days are over, but the itch never goes away, it's hard to replace skimming over 2' swells at 80+ mph.