Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Thomas I don’t have enough leaves to blow yet

Bad news about coyote

 

[Buppies]

Riptides mia wonder what’s up and hope he and family are ok

 

[Jim Shooz]

Good morning all. It is relatively quiet here this morning, the concrete pecker has fallen silent and a stiff breeze is carrying away most of the other sounds of the wreckers working on the old dairy site. .

Eric are they anywhere near where they had that Shower of shyte over Shropshire which this guy mentions:
Stand Well Back _ Blaster Bates (1991) - YouTube
Takes him a while to get to it.

 

[Bird]

54 degrees this morning, going for a high of 58 (not much range). Yesterday, the forecast was a 90% chance of rain today and 80% tonight, but now the NWS says 100% today AND tonight, after 7 a.m. this morning. I was hoping the yard would be dry enough to do a little lawn work in another day or two, but that doesn't seem likely now.

 

[daugen]

Eric, first the noise, then the dump trucks, then the Land Rovers...which will require more police, who will give
you a ticket for not fully stopping at the new stop sign. Am wondering when they will start complaining about that
awful lamb smell. You'll need to install large fans along the edge of your property, and of course put in a new half million dollar
sanitation system so that not one lamb dropping can offend...

Simple fact of human nature if you live in a nice place others will want to live there too.
Solution is to plant more trees. Lots of trees. Of course one of those seriously cool woven wall fences helps.
Who knows maybe enough benefits will outweigh the crowding, like high speed internet and a new pub...
Oh, I know. Start a little petting zoo down by that property line, charge them ten pounds to pat a lamb. :thumbsup:

I am reminded of the Japanese tourists who stopped at the end of our farm lane in the 60's, in blue suits and loaded with cameras, asking if we had a cow. They had never seen a cow and wanted to see one.
No sir, drive on down the road a bit and the next farm down has some Black Angus.
And you'd better not try to pet them over the fence.
Same farm raised Great Danes, huge dogs they sometimes let run loose. If you saw one of those dogs galloping at you,
I'd like to see anyone not get back in their car pronto.

Ural's Newest Sidecar Motorcycle Has a Built-In Drone

this is for RNG...a nice upgrade for his BMW sidecar.

 

[daugen]

54 degrees this morning, going for a high of 58 (not much range). Yesterday, the forecast was a 90% chance of rain today and 80% tonight, but now the NWS says 100% today AND tonight, after 7 a.m. this morning. I was hoping the yard would be dry enough to do a little lawn work in another day or two, but that doesn't seem likely now.

Bird, I'm just amazed how much rain your area is getting, big misconception I had that Texas was a dry state.
And now you have hurricane remnants heading at you, even more rain.

 

[RoyJackson]

2018-10-24, 0713

40 right now...high, about 44.
Boy, I've pretty much determined this cold has turned into the flu.

 

[daugen]

Sounds like you ought to stay home and rest Roy.
Sorry you feel cruddy.
I'm still congested but not like that.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 56˚ rain today. Bed for extra bedroom is being delivered today and need to put window tint on SW facing garage door windows. Wife's uncle had his 3bypass yesterday and his daughter wants us to talk to him about a plant based diet. Probably won't, unless he ask and wants to change, but will give cousin all the references she can handle. I wonder if she is willing to change her diet? He is a heavy machinery operator that can't wait to recover and get back to working again at 75.

Hope you start feeling better Roy, just got over my 5 day cold.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 4:45AM. Partly cloudy. High 73F. Winds light and variable.

The price paid for progress; it it too high, Eric? Hopefully the pecker is done, and the worst of the din is over, at least for a while.

A friend has a Ural sidecar outfit. He says it'll do 60 MPH, but isn't very "happy" at anything much over 45 MPH. He and his wife love it, but they confine their trips to secondary roads, and even then he keeps an eye on his rear view mirrors so he knows when to yield the right of way. Not sure a drone would do much to speed things up.

The work on the bike went smoothly yesterday, but it turned out I didn't have the correct head gasket on the shelf, and that meant a trip to town for one. I was also able to get new rubber bumpers for the seat, but only after the shop manager rummaged through his parts bins, as BMW has for some inexplicable reason started deleting the part numbers from the parts book exploded views for many "classic" machines, even though the parts themselves are still shown and are still available. The bad news is he only had three in stock, the seat takes six, and it'll be a week or more until they arrive. Same with the circlips for the side stand, and rebuild parts for the fuel tank petcocks. There'd be real He11 to pay if Ozzie, the dearly departed founder of the business, could see the current state of affairs. :muttering:

Also picked up five gallons of E0 "real" gasoline for the small engines here, but paid about $2/gallon more for the privilege of purchasing fuel that won't hurt the engines. More progress, I guess.

Finished the day by reassembling and running the engine for a few minutes to get the first crush done on the new head gasket, so the day will start with another head re-torquing and valve adjustment, and hopefully another ride. It usually takes three or four ride/re-torque/valve adjust cycles before everything settles in.

Then I'll pull the wheels off the van so I can take them in to be balanced tomorrow. I mounted them, but can't recall if I was able to use my balancer on them (it was almost two years ago), and there's a bit of a shake in the steering wheel. After the last time a "mechanic" drove the van and messed up the shifter adjustment trying to get it into reverse, it's safer just to take in the wheels. I guess not many people still know how to drive a standard transmission these days, and fewer still that VWs need the driver to push down on the shifter before trying to engage reverse gear.

Can't believe it's Wednesday already. Happy Hump Day, folks!