Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

I can’t remember if I shared it before but here is the rendering of Emily that will get sandblasted into stone. An artist friend made the sketch, then I scanned it and vectorized it so I could cut the rubber mask on the plotter.

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We are still debating what if any text should accompany it.

Nice...very nice.

 

[daugen]

Probably a lot of hops from your house

Well David does have several beer kegs...

got the car all packed with stuff for work session at Buckingham Friends School tomorrow morning. I'm taking a lot of my Makita cordless garden tools and happily letting others use them.
Plus i was able to fit the rolling garden cart into the car so that makes it easy to haul all this stuff where it's going.

waiting for my sister to start a zoom with me. Enjoying a cup of freshly brewed coffee.
tomorrow will be a long day. Work at clean up day, then check in at church, then get a haircut, then off to help park cars for auction tomorrow night.
Nice weather, we expect a good crowd. Bringing a few of my red cones for car control.

I'm in a hot online auction bidding contest for a small kids step stool, with a small airplane painted on top.
Can you imagine what grandson might like his own plane chair from his grandpop?
Cut off time is 8pm Monday night I think. I'll be logging on a half hour early with a preemptive strike.
No last minute Louise is going to get my stool.

Wind has died down, pretty outside.

 

[Thomas]

41F cloudy wind still howling for the third day.

Got everything done I want to except cutting and cleaning up rooted spruce,yeah I whimp out because of the weather.
Stop in for tomorrow equipment etc. auction took walk around,only saw couple items caught my interest but really don't need,number of subcompact and compact tractor darn nice shape with low hours,quick attach grapples front blades brand spanking new also 6 rear mowers...hmmm,had me wondering"If it's to good to believe than....patio stones 18 pallets some going to get heck of deal.
Heading home notice black object standing 100 yards or so from the road,than 3 little object came dashing from the woods mother bear and 3 little ones,sat watch good half hour 1 cub was trouble maker even mom turn quickly push the cub of it's feet...yep cub got some learning you might say.

Guess I better wash behind the ears comb my brush pile put some good threads on for date night.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Both our daughters just left about 1:30 p.m. and I'm overstuffed with chicken, all the trimming's, and the biggest cookie you ever saw. They were here to celebrate Margaret and my Fifty-seventh wedding anniversary. They had offered to take us out to eat, but we preferred just visiting here.

Beautiful weather, about 74° this afternoon with just enough breeze to keep it from feeling too hot sitting outside for a bit.

Happy happy anniversary Mr. Bird and wifey!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Took the day off from work, so I could work.

Tried to fix an old fan, it works if not in oscillation mode.

Pulled the last 2 rows of plastic from the garden. Hoed out the weeds between. Now it’s almost ready to till. That wore me out After a little break, went at the shed again.

Removed left front siding, lagged the left door to remove the hinges but keeping the door in place. Did it on inside frame this time, so next I can replace the door panel.
Put up new siding.

LS, it’s a landscape picture.
Used the last of the painted pieces, so primed 4 1/2 more which took another gallon of primer.

Ran out of physical energy to paint them, so a job for tomorrow. Probably have enough paint to do these, then will have to buy another gallon. This will be 1 panel short of doing 3 sides, except the top triangle on sides.
Once the front is done, I want to rip off the front plastic gutter and fascia covering, and put up metal fascia and soffit.

After shower ran to town to pick up creole for supper. Wife has a bad cold and didn’t feel like cooking.

Feet up tonight, I’m wore out.

 

[toppop52]

Good morning.
It’s 40 and going to 55 under clear skies today.

Yesterday was a busy day, while the shearing was going on, I prepared a buffet lunch for the troops in the shop and got all the mowing done. Had to take a break in the mowing to accommodate grandson’s schedule, but we got it all done.
They sheared 41 alpacas and were done not much after 1:00

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Managed to get some paperwork done but, by the time I got everything cleaned up it was time to haul the trash and recycling to the street. I managed to get 14,000 steps and 16 flights of steps in before putting my feet up to catch the end of Jeopardy.

Belated congrats on the anniversary Mr & Mrs Bird. We are amateurs by comparison- 48 years coming up in August. Is it just me, or do long marriages seem to be the exception, not the norm these days?

Today will be more paperwork, but I would like to spread some stone in front of the manure bin to make It a bit neater getting in and out with the loader. Then hopefully test it by loading the manure spreader about 20 times to empty the bin. No music tonight, our drummer’s daughter is getting married.

I can’t remember if I shared it before but here is the rendering of Emily that will get sandblasted into stone. An artist friend made the sketch, then I scanned it and vectorized it so I could cut the rubber mask on the plotter.

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We are still debating what if any text should accompany it.

“Best Friend “

 

[Wagtail]

Good morning all. Lovely day with a low of 13C and 2.2mm of rain. Currently 17C, slight breeze and partly cloudy.

Take care.

 

[txdon]

Katy Trail trip in 2 weeks. Still need to get gravel tires back on Trek and start riding it.

Will you also be doing the Katy Texas bike ride in July?

Katy Flatland Century by Northwest Cycling Club #1 Best Ride

Katy Flatland Century by Northwest Cycle Club - The annual Katy Flatland Century website provides event info and photos from previous rides.

kfc.bike

 

[txdon]

Big turkey by the bird watch station today on the new trail.

 

[rswyan]

52F and "Fair" @ 21:00, headed down to a low of 40F overnight. High reached 65.7F today.

Got garden plants uncovered first thing, then brought some plants that were in the dining room (mostly yellow crook neck and zucchini squash) out to the front entryway. That ended up being a good move as they had mostly all popped through the soil by the end of the day probably from the warmth of the sun.

Then I trimmed off old flowers and stalks on the hosta and hydrangea, and gathered leaves and debris from north side of garage hauled up that and dumped it in the compost pile, hauled a dump cart load of screened compost back down.

Used that to make up a full tote of potting soil mix, along with some composted cow manure and peat moss added for good measure.

Then made another trip back up and got another load and spread about half that around the redbud tree on the east side after I weeded it and dug out the rocks. This one isn't looking so good:

The one over on the west side is leafing out, but there are no signs on this one that it's even still alive. I'll give it another couple of weeks or so and if nothing probably transplant a volunteer magnolia into the planting hole.

After that I started weeding around the hawthorn behind the pump house then added screened compost. Used the "new" (large) aluminum shovel that I just put a new handle on the other day - I welcome the relatively light weight of it. It ended up taking 3 1/2 dump carts loads and could probably use a little more. Still needs tamped down:

Then I took the blue tarp I had been using to cover the plants and pinned it down on the lawn using landscape staples on the east side of the little garden bed area where we transplanted the blueberry bushes a couple years ago.

Following that I collected up the nyjer feeders and their pole and took them to the back basement door for cleaning which I will do tomorrow. I had grabbed the sledge, the level, and 3' piece of 1/2" rebar on my last trip down from filling the dump cart so went to the area over the leach field and sunk that rebar there for the new feeder location.

It was getting late enough at that point I figured I better get the oil change done on the Cub which I did. Will do the pre filter for the air cleaner tomorrow.

After that I took Cub around back and (mostly) dug out the tarp that was lying over in the woods covered by leaves. Will get that one stapled down tomorrow.

Here's a couple of pictures of those hosta that were getting chewed on by the deer that I gave the shredded Irish Spring soap treatment:

Not looking too much the worse for the wear ...

Hope everyone had a great TGIF ...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 68ºF for the start, partly cloudy sky, breezy. wind was up to 20-30 mph by noon, speed varied some, partly yo mostly cloudy day, and high temp was 79ºF, DP 66ºF. Bike maintenance to start day, change to Trek as the main riding bike. Wind already kicking up as ride started, wind penalty 1.23 miles. Got pressure washer started, played with tips and some concrete cleaning, and made sure unoader and pressure adjustment working. After lunch got all the wood split that was already sawed to length, then stacked next to garage. Spent some time getting ready for Katy Trail., still need to put gravel tires on Trek, change tail light. Did not get nap in, and helped wife make chicken and rice. Made for good dinner eating.
Randy(wag) Good to hear pump repaired and back in service. hope you get the rain.
Buppies sorry you are up so early, thanks for info. Prayers sent
Bill has to be a bit frustrating light fixed and trailer may be junk
Dennis hope you got back to sleep.
Roy have fun working from home.
Drew understand about headlight washers. Will be interesting to hear if Prozac helps bad ear.
Thomas plenty on plate hope date night went well.
Ken we are close to May. Hope planting went well. Nice pic
Drew good luck with getting muscle to relax
Paul good to hear alpacas sheared, hope they don't get cold now Nice rendering of Emily.
PJ hope the rain slows down a bit, will have the wide gravel tires on just in case. Thanks for the kind thoughts
Ted sorry about the wind, hope nap helped. hope you remember the jugs soon.
RS hope the plants harden up ok. agenda full as per usual. nice pics
David your frequent grilling of cutoffs indicates much work needed. Hope you are getting better at it
Drew hope tomorrow goes well for you.
Thomas glad got most og agenda done. hope date night even better.
Dennis you got a lot done. Shed rehab coming along nicely
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, /mom recovery and breathing, living alone, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /new(2) cancer surgeries /cataract surgery, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife head wound healing, Thomas/gout, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery/retirement, / passing out issues, /family issues, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife's heart /rib and back and torn bicep, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, Paul/ wife's disc issues /dog seizure, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis/ brother "alligallyitus" and improving, James /wife's fall and recovery, Drew /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

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Big turkey by the bird watch station today on the new trail.

Well, it knew where to go look

 

[txdon]

Well, it knew where to go look

He was lonely and looking for a wild turkey, but all that we had was Bud Lite.

While we were there a stinging caterpillar dropped down from a tree and stung my wife. After some Benadryl and an hour, the fire sting diminished. I have never seen one like it before, it was 2" long, brown and spiney. She was in too big of a hurry to get it off her I did not get a pic.

 

[toppop52]

52F and "Fair" @ 21:00, headed down to a low of 40F overnight. High reached 65.7F today.

Got garden plants uncovered first thing, then brought some plants that were in the dining room (mostly yellow crook neck and zucchini squash) out to the front entryway. That ended up being a good move as they had mostly all popped through the soil by the end of the day probably from the warmth of the sun.

Then I trimmed off old flowers and stalks on the hosta and hydrangea, and gathered leaves and debris from north side of garage hauled up that and dumped it in the compost pile, hauled a dump cart load of screened compost back down.

Used that to make up a full tote of potting soil mix, along with some composted cow manure and peat moss added for good measure.

Then made another trip back up and got another load and spread about half that around the redbud tree on the east side after I weeded it and dug out the rocks. This one isn't looking so good:

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The one over on the west side is leafing out, but there are no signs on this one that it's even still alive. I'll give it another couple of weeks or so and if nothing probably transplant a volunteer magnolia into the planting hole.

After that I started weeding around the hawthorn behind the pump house then added screened compost. Used the "new" (large) aluminum shovel that I just put a new handle on the other day - I welcome the relatively light weight of it. It ended up taking 3 1/2 dump carts loads and could probably use a little more. Still needs tamped down:

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Then I took the blue tarp I had been using to cover the plants and pinned it down on the lawn using landscape staples on the east side of the little garden bed area where we transplanted the blueberry bushes a couple years ago.

Following that I collected up the nyjer feeders and their pole and took them to the back basement door for cleaning which I will do tomorrow. I had grabbed the sledge, the level, and 3' piece of 1/2" rebar on my last trip down from filling the dump cart so went to the area over the leach field and sunk that rebar there for the new feeder location.

It was getting late enough at that point I figured I better get the oil change done on the Cub which I did. Will do the pre filter for the air cleaner tomorrow.

After that I took Cub around back and (mostly) dug out the tarp that was lying over in the woods covered by leaves. Will get that one stapled down tomorrow.

Here's a couple of pictures of those hosta that were getting chewed on by the deer that I gave the shredded Irish Spring soap treatment:

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Not looking too much the worse for the wear ...

Hope everyone had a great TGIF ...

I never thought about planting hostas around trees like that, I like it.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 36 and going to a high of 57°F. Wind NE 6 mph. Sunny!

I wonder if winter is actually over?

WOW! KFC sure has gone up in price. Almost $43.oo for an 18 piece bucket. I think that bucket will be the first and last for 2022.

I will load up the trailer today for the dump run tomorrow, then flip it upside down and powerwash the bottom off. With it clean maybe the welder can do something with it.
Maybe I will have to break down and buy one myself and do it myself.

Still no sign of the new Z-turn. The check is here waiting for it.

Have a safe day all

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 40 now, may get to 67 later. Headed out the door to go to Lima, hopefully it doesn’t get rained out.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[wngsprd]

39 going to 70.

Got down to 32 with heavy frost yesterday...my wife thinks we lost 4 of our tomato plants to it.

Happy Anniversary, Love BIRDS.

Hiked a section of the A/T yesterday. Talked to some thru-hikers...left Georgia in mid February. Beautiful day. Springtime creeping up the mountain and some hikers on a cliff below.

 

[wngsprd]

Always fun to find wildflowers.

 

[Thomas]

WOW! KFC sure has gone up in price. Almost $43.oo for an 18 piece bucket. I think that bucket will be the first and last for 2022.

Our local Kan't Find Chicken been questionable last couple months...way to much breading some evening sign on the window...CLOSE TO LACK OF STAFF.

 

[Thomas]

He was lonely and looking for a wild turkey, but all that we had was Bud Lite.

While we were there a stinging caterpillar dropped down from a tree and stung my wife. After some Benadryl and an hour, the fire sting diminished. I have never seen one like it before, it was 2" long, brown and spiney. She was in too big of a hurry to get it off her I did not get a pic.

Glad the wife doing much better.