Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

this is one of those be careful what you ask for deals.
I really hate heights. I almost lost bladder control at the top of the three story training ladder at fire school forty years ago, and then swinging out onto a roof, no line attached (they've improved that...)and grabbing onto a roof ladder for proverbial and literal dear life. I thought the other guys could hear my knees knock a mile away. Our little town didn't have a ladder truck so I was mostly ok with three story work. Being up on a roof and looking down is not a good idea for me. oh no.

So yeah this should be an adventure. Am figuring with steel cage around this should be ok. And I'll take lots of pics. I personally can't take it all the way up, but I will send it all the way up with a helper in the middle of the property on the very flat pavement for security, and boards..., with a camera to take pictures. I'm hoping that's really cool, though the surrounding trees are very tall, not sure what the view will be. Would be nice to get a raised view looking down on fruit orchard.
I'll keep it as long as I can, gets cheaper per day the longer you use it and 875 a week. Pro with chipper would charge three grand for what we are about to do.
Well, I have a tractor and a grapple and a chipper and I know how to do this. With help...
Big limbs up high hanging out over my new nut orchard. They have to go, particularly since the other side is where the electric lines are and that side is closely trimmed
by pro arborists hired by utility company, so trees lean too much to one side, right over the nut trees. They are about to get a serious hair cut.
Slowly and carefully. One of them is right over a nut tree and that one I think I need to throw a rope on and give some guidance. That for sure I'll do with help, though
if I actually knew what I was doing at heights I would do it single handed. Have to know your own limitations. Mine may start at about twenty feet.

I've looked at a lot of Youtube videos of cranes falling over catastrophically. Sure going to make sure I get full lessons on stabilizer feet. We have mostly dead level hard sandy soil.
In some cases a one or two degree slant, mostly for water drainage. Spread 'em wide. That's my stabilizer motto...

 

[PJSprog]

72°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 84° today. Some scattered showers around the area. Gave us a nice, colorful sunrise over Clinton County this morning.

Carpenter got the drywall up in the basement bedroom yesterday, and started tearing out the walls of the bathroom. HVAC guy finally got the new return duct connected to the air handler. Progress.

The boy sliced his arm open at his second night at the new job last night, half-hour into his shift. They took him to the hospital where he got 10 stitches. A sobering "welcome to metal shop work" for him. (figured I'd not share that photo)

 

[PJSprog]

PJ aren't there places in STL area that put new glass on phones? Thought that was starting up when I moved out.

Yeah, Mostly, those places are around. There's one in Fairview Heights, about 20 minutes from us. He was wanting a newer phone anyway, and knew we'd bought one for the potential change to Sprint. The Wife is convinced that knowledge played a role in the older phone's destruction. So, it became another opportunity to teach him a valuable financial lesson.

Speaking of Sprint ... The Wife called them and Verizon yesterday. The "unlimited" calls, text, and data advertised by Sprint for $90/month ... isn't. It's only 4Gb of data, with no rollover. Not sure how they get away with that. She called Verizon and got the same deal from them, except with data rollover. So, after dropping the boy, her tablet, lowering data from 12Gb to 4Gb, and paying off our phones, our bill went from almost $270 to $114 - which includes $24/month for home phone.

 

[PJSprog]

You might give some thought to keeping the Verizon plan in place long enough to verify that the new Sprint plan has coverage everywhere you need it. Verizon's network is the most extensive in the nation (in spite of not working well at my house!), and outside major metro areas, carriers like Sprint often don't have any coverage at all. :2cents:

We looked at everyone's coverage maps, and most have very poor coverage either where we live or where she travels for training. Only Verizon and Sprint had good coverage. Where we live is right at the edge of the good coverage of any carrier. She had Sprint many years ago and found them OK. In the end, though, she got Verizon to match Sprint's deal and we're keeping their service.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 77F @ 5:30AM. Abundant sunshine. Near record high temperatures. High 108F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Nice sunrise, PJ. Hope it doesn't get too hot for you back there!

Got a little more work done on the van yesterday, hooking up the heaters for the power mirrors, and troubleshooting the connections for the auxiliary wiring switches. Turns out I had two wires reversed, on all four switches. :ashamed: Hey, at least I was consistent.:laughing: Also got the wires run for the power door locks, what I hope is the last of the under dash wiring. Just in time, as the hippie that installs the A/C is supposed to start on the wiring for that today. Also helped a helper install the condenser lines and heater hose lines that run the length of the van. Fortunately my role was confined to handing him things while he got stuck using the hole saw overhead while laying on his back. Finished the day by installing seals on driver/passenger side doors and on the rear hatch. Still have the side slider to do, but it was late so that'll have to wait 'till Thursday. Oh, and the heads were back from the machinist, and the mechanic says he worked on them a little this past weekend. Hopefully he'll get more time in on them between now and Thursday, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. I'll feel a lot better about the whole deal when I see the block mounted on an engine stand and parts starting to get bolted on. The mechanic knows that, and with the fella with all the vans out of the picture for the next few weeks, he's running out of excuses for not finishing. Or at least I hope he is, as he's pretty good at coming up with new ones.:laughing:

I think I traced the speed problem on this 17" Macbook Pro down to not enough memory, so ordered an upgrade for it earlier. Also installed the latest OS upgrade on the laptop that monitors the weather station and security cameras, and hopefully that clears up some issues with dropping the wifi signal. It always seems like it's one thing or another, huh?

 

[txdon]

Good morning!
Whipper was acting strange so I went for a cart ride to see if anything is amiss. Then I saw it, a light brown streak through the woods. By the pond it was leaving there were some large cat prints. Mountain Lion? I need to see If I can get a pic of the prints by the wet sand.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The overnight low was 47* the high yesterday was 86*. Today is going to the high 80's, no rain in the forecast.

Got the fence done yesterday. The woman that owns the place is going through a nasty divorce. She had her husband evicted last month. She hired another neighbor to work on the house. We were leaving and the neighbor stopped to get something from the garage. The ex was at the gate . I was talking to him, he was going on how she was out to screw him over. Told him I didn't know anything about what was going on. I was there to work on the fence. He said that he had kept up the fence. I asked him if he was afraid of nails because he had tried to fix the fence with bailing twine. Guess that was the wrong thing to say, he come unglued. Started to cuss me out for helping her. I got mad and a few more words were said. I new I had better leave, went back up to the garage,and told the neighbor there about what was said. Those two have had a long running feud and the sheriff called a few times. He said that it was best to call them again. We started to leave and got on the road and the ex had his 4 wheeler setting side ways in the road. A few more words were said and the neighbor got out and pushed the wheeler off the road. We went down to his house and the sheriff showed up. We told him the story he said that there wasn't much he could do about it but would go up and have a talk with the ex. This guy has been doing stuff like this for over a year. Hope he moves on when this is over.

Hope everyone has a better day then mine was yesterday. Lol
CWB

 

[toppop52]

Don, sounds like you have a cougar scrounging around.

Heat and humidity is back today, still in the middle of the insurance trials and tribulations.

 

[hawkeye08]

90s today, did not cool off last night until after 2am.. was after that I feel asleep. Alarm went off too early.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .08 inches rain.

Wife has her annual OBGYN this morning.
Got some good mowing in yesterday, continue today.

Be safe
Have a great day.