Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Buckeye sorry I missed you being in town and maybe next time

Toppop for some reason I think you need cheering up so here you go :cool2:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 71F @ 7:30AM. Partly cloudy. Areas of smoke and haze are possible, reducing visibility at times. High 93F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

You're a better man than me, Eric, to go two hours with that pole saw, especially wearing waders and in the water. And the longer you make the thing, the more it takes to loft it. I'm good for an hour at most unless I police up the branches as I go, which gives me a little seat time in the RTV to rest. But like you, I can't seem to avoid the aches and pains the following couple of days.

Yesterday about 4PM the "clouds" to the west started to thicken, and by 5 o'clock the sun was gone entirely. It was smoke from the Mendocino complex to the south, thicker than I've seen it before. It's still hazy this morning, but prevailing winds are from the south and I expect another dose as fire intensity increases during the day.


Here's the latest, Kyle. The little red square in the back window is the temporary license tag, good 'till the middle of next month. With all his employees gone, the mechanic has one less excuse for being interrupted. If he continues to drive his customers away, he'll have none at all.:confused2: But hopefully I'll be down there this afternoon or tomorrow for more drive testing, but first he needs to formulate a plan for resolving the issues with the engine computer fault codes. We shall see.

In the mean time I'll keep chipping away on the old BMW; yesterday I got the other bracket roughly mounted and the two bags aligned pretty well. Today I'll see about fabricating the missing passenger foot peg mount (the factory incorporated it into the old muffler that I'm not using). So out comes the cardboard and marking pens and scissors to make a template, and then when that's working, duplicate it in steel.

There's what looks like a thrush industriously scratching duff in the back yard; I should follow it's lead and get a start on the day. Hope everyone has an industrious new week!

 

[Thomas]

daugen
Today was 22 pounds, yes each box gets weighed when I come in, no idea of total, but will when they send me a receipt for total pounds.
Had a nice 1.1 pound German Pink tomato to give plus my first purple peppers.
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Nice :thumbsup: do have way keep them fresh for the winter months to enjoy....root cellar?
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[daugen]

no Thomas, that's a real problem here. No cellars at all...and high Fall heat. My potatoes promptly rotted and stunk up
my garage.
Now the veggies I am chopping up and freezing with a vacuum sealer. Need to put more tomatoes away but I'm eating them as fast as I can.
I get the cracked, buggy rotten ones, which I cut off the good parts of course and then freeze them. These are mostly dark tomatoes so worth making effort to put away.

I finally had one melon, I think from Turkey, whose four predecessors had all blown up from the rain. I didn't want to eat the whole thing so I gave it to the food pantry this morning to make their display more attractive. The ladies love arranging my fresh vegetables, something different than bags of limp leftovers from supermarkets and Walmart. These are very small melons, mostly fun stuff to brighten up the monotony of week to week staples.

made a big mistake while picking early this morning, talk about a wake up call, saw a pepper with a bad spot on the bottom, thought it was a bell pepper, and turns out it was a fat jalapeno. Spit that out and almost had to come back to the house, but washed my mouth out with hose in garden. Tiny bit of that in a salsa is fine. Getting it full strength all over your tongue is like vegetable flames. And these are really mild varieties, allegedly.

 

[Buppies]

Thomas you are the wild animal whisperer. This was taken locally

 

[lostcreekranch]

Thomas you are the wild animal whisperer. This was taken locally

Golf Goats? Who knew?

 

[daugen]

Thomas you are the wild animal whisperer. This was taken locally

wow, that picture is amazing, almost like a painting, thanks Randy

 

[Buppies]

Rick and Drew that is a local coarse know for its goats links style Ballyhack Golf coarse beautiful setting that picture is on either 4 5 or 6 I cannot remember. Holly took that picture

 

[sodamo]

71°F and .14 inches rain
Got a solid start on bushhogging my former sweet potatoes fields. Tall, wet, and thick. Did get a perimeter path cut on the Hiloside parcel. Hopefully a few more productive hours today. Time consuming having to do a lot of back cutting as I don’t know where the actual edges are.

Wife off to her morning scheduled obgyn checkup.

That’s going to be a nice setup Ed

That’s quite the wood shop Don

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[riptides]

LS congrats on the anniversary.

Buppies. Thanks for the kind offer. I Hope you are doing well.

For some reason...no motivation today. Waiting on the dealer to come get my mower. Grass needs cutting again.

Hope all are having an OK start to the week.