Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

Good morning. So many of you up already and I haven't even had my breakfast ! I've being doing a bit of firewood stacking first, always a great way to work up an appetite.


Yesterday I was outside drilling some holes in steel. Quite slow going as there was only room for a compact battery powered drill. Protective goggles were essential, not so much for the metal gradually spiralling out of each hole, more for the stinging grit being thrown in my face by that naughty Helene. It was intriguing to watch as the wind caught the swarf as soon as it dropped. Looked as if it was being teased by an invisible cat, it's slight weight being no match for the invisible paw that flicked and rolled the ends together until finally it became a miniature metallic tumbleweed, with me then joining in the game, chasing after it with a magnet inside a plastic bag.


We are in for an even better cobweb blowout today. I thought this was a continuation of yesterday's windy weather, but now listening to the radio, it would seem this has to have a name of it's own :confused3: "Ali" this time, an almost home grown storm instead of one imported from distant shores.

 

[Buppies]

70 high of 89 hot and humid although changes are afoot. The first part of October looks to be stormy but much cooler

Prayers for all of those in need spoken requests or silent

 

[Ed of all trades]

Good morning all, 59 going to 84 with am fog and then sunny. Need some sunny weather here today so I can mow. I think it has been less than a week and the grass is ahead of me again, it is what it is. Hope to piddle in the yard today, will see. Glad the dentist appointments went well, have one next week.

Hope everyone is doing well and improving, have a great day. Ed

 

[riptides]

Cool morning read, Eric. Thanks.
Prayers to you Buppies. Hope YOU are well.
It is the year of the mower for me Ed. Seeing how mine let me down in the middle of the season. And mommy nature sure watered my lawn this year.
Early bird gets the worm. LOL. Blessed or cursed that I just don't sleep. Long that is. For me 4 to 5 hours is it.

 

[Thomas]

62F cloudy low 70's for high... comfortable.

Trim front field last night had one break only want to finish before darkness arrive,plan to mow field after work.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 73˚ to 93˚ and lots of sun today. Yesterday I tackled bird nest on 3 decorative 6x6 L on the peaks of the house. The previous owners had screened on the sides to keep birds out but did not screen the front triangle hole. Cleaned the nest out yesterday and today will caulk Where the L connects to the house and tomorrow will paint and re-screen but this time also put screen in front triangle.

Eric hope Ali isn't as messy as Flo.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to pour first cup of coffee. 63° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 78° with afternoon sun. Lawn needs cutting again. So that's what will be on the list today.

Kyle, since I mentioned the Auto Save option it has disappeared from Chrome. But when I went to Foxfire the box was there. Clicked on it. It copied this post that I was writing with Chrome. In Chrome I keep seeing a yellow box on right that says Auto Saved. :confused3:

Edit: right click in Chrome does bring up the undo option. Clicking that restores deleted text.

Good Morning All.

 

[daugen]

late start for me, just plain tired this morning.
Gorgeous day, 68 going to 90 in full sunshine.

putting storm furniture back today, trying to get back into normal routine.
Grass is growing an inch a day from all that rain.

 

[daugen]

Drew, I bet you are tired, and have a warm feeling of accomplishment
when you look out over your place today and see how nice it looks.

thanks
funny, thinking about same thing. My hands and wrists hurt pretty badly this morning, no wonder.
I mowed the main front lawn at 3 inches with the vac, a half inch high, then went back the next day and mowed it again without the vac
and with the grass growing so quickly, it's covering over anything left.
It was a lush thick green, just like Toppop's. I have a couple spots of that, my overall lawn
is a green mutt. All kinds of varieties in there, each trying to take over the other.
Darwin playing out on my lawn...

At three inches, which I think is actually a little less, mower height indicators always seem pretty far off to me,
there is zero scalping with the big decks and it really looks nice.
Problem cutting at higher height is it looks bad in two days...so I'm back mowing again or it gets so thick it either leaves clumps
or gets seriously thatched. The thatching forces me out cleaning the yard with a spring rake digging up all that thatch.
By using the vacuum on it this time, it looked about as perfect as could be. Like the picture on the grass seed container...

But since it all changes in a day, if one wanted perfection one would be constantly disappointed.
I prefer to think of Mickey Mantle. He did pretty well hitting only one out of three...
which is what I try to keep in mind when the mower deck digs a nice gouge in the lawn. Ditches, potholes, land may be almost flat but it's an obstacle course out there. Old tree holes keep subsiding, which I find with a neck jarring crash on the mower.

One of these days some pixie dust will fall on me and I'll find good help and who knows even a wife.
Currently scoring myself a C-
Am able to keep in mind that lawns are way down in the overall priority list of life.
Well below growing food for others. Have to time manage, which assumes one has the energy
to go with the time.
energy you all would have by reading less of this...
have a nice day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

65 going to 86...and sunny...nice bright stars outside right now.

We got our last rains from Florence yesterday. Turns out there were 17 tornadoes and 2 deaths Monday in central Virginia. Phil, that's a lot of rain in one day that far north.

Bird and Kyle, glad your dentist visit is behind you.

Drew, I bet you are tired, and have a warm feeling of accomplishment when you look out over your place today and see how nice it looks.

Don, schools and public safety are the bargain made when a community agrees to give the local government a portion of its revenue. I think charging for a fire response is a symptom of a government that doesn't have its fiscal priorities in the right place, especially if it is done where taxes are already high. Sure, charging a fee for false alarms makes sense, but those who suffer a real accidental fire are often the ones who can least afford to pay for the fire response.

Ye$, politicians intentionally underfund fire and police, education, roads, so they can fund their favorite welfare programs. Then they get the taxpayers to pay more $$$ so they can misappropriate more $$$. It's a never ending cycle. Thats why this topic belongs in another thread. In the end, its all a political shell game.