Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! 74˚ heading to 86˚ cloudy chance of rain.

Spent most of yesterday mowing on my Dad's tractor with his fairly new 8' mower. I have a 6' and that extra 2' really makes a difference in speed. Of course since his vegetation was already tractor hood high I was mowing in 2nd gear.

A copperhead bit Whipper in the face yesterday and after looking like a watermelon head yesterday she seems fine today.

The snakes are very active around here - lots of frogs and field mice.

Poor whipper. I need to mow again to uncover the snakes.

 

[deerseeker001]

63 with a slight chance of Rain with a high of 70 for the Day.It sounds like normal temp will stick around.

 

[daugen]

Drew, is surfing on your bucket list?

in a word, no.
if it was, I should be heading two hours East to Nags Head.
I bet the ocean and beach scene will be quite entertaining this weekend.
what I should do early next week is take my metal detector and walk the beaches after the storm.
That's when I'm going to find Blackbeard's treasure

 

[sodamo]

65°F and .22 inches rain last 24 hours.

Be safe
Have a great day.

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[daugen]

starting to sprinkle a little here but nothing like predicted, and too bad, nothing for tomorrow, then Monday is up over an inch now. Would be nice to get something before then.
Worked for several hours in the woodshop stapling up insulation. That gets a tad itchy after a while. I finally had to hire a local carpenter to come in and finish what my friendly fireman was supposed to do, including the top of the walls and the ceiling. He should be here next week and will finish the entire thing in one or two days. But meanwhile I can get done the relatively easy insulation part.

That chunk of hard maple is going to be the "desk" on the back wall, a place to sit and do handwork, one big shelf on the left, mini shelf on the far right corner to elevate the drill press up to a useful level, and will add another half inch plywood to the existing top on the right, add supports and then shelving on the wall after the plywood walls are hung.
350cfm fan in wall on left, a/c unit going thru wall on other end, so as not to blow cold air on me. That's the plan...
going back and adding a lot more screws to the framing already done. My fireman friend loves his nailgun but I like screws better.

will be back at it tomorrow in the cool of the morning. Sweating and doing insulation leaves something to be desired...

 

[Larro Darro]

I bet the ocean and beach scene will be quite entertaining this weekend.
what I should do early next week is take my metal detector and walk the beaches after the storm.
That's when I'm going to find Blackbeard's treasure

Drew, Edward Theach, like the folks in his line of work today, left his treasure at the alehouse. The number of thieves who can put any of the ready away for a rainy day are one in a thousand. Here is what it looked like when they got into port.

 

[Larro Darro]

Speaking of liquid refreshment, I have water in the orchard. All the trenches hasn't been filled in yet. And I was two 1/2" spigots short and didn't have the right hardware to put the 3/4" spigots underground, so they will have to be changed when I pick up more 1/2" spigots. But all 15 spigots have been tested, and all the grapevines and blueberry bushes have been watered.

 

[daugen]

Speaking of liquid refreshment, I have water in the orchard.

boy am I envious. I haven't run my line over yet; considering maybe 7 trees croaked from flooding. But I sure have to do it. Will consult with you first. Going to use my subsoiler to dig the hole. Thankfully there are zero utilities on that side of my home. Will you then be able to blow out the system with air at year end? Or don't things freeze there long enough to matter?
Maybe so, that would be nice.

Blackbeard had a home in Bath,NC an old small historic town not too far from my home. So...you just never know
where the stuff might have been hidden, perhaps stolen from him, perhaps, perhaps....
About as likely as hitting the lottery.
I still think it's hidden in my pond.

 

[Thomas]

Time has slip away quickly today..hard to believe its 5:20pm already was outside before 5:30am.
77F sunny now buds are popping and frogs are peeping.

Enjoy the evening all.

 

[Larro Darro]

Speaking of liquid refreshment, I have water in the orchard.

boy am I envious. I haven't run my line over yet; considering maybe 7 trees croaked from flooding. But I sure have to do it. Will consult with you first. Going to use my subsoiler to dig the hole. Thankfully there are zero utilities on that side of my home. Will you then be able to blow out the system with air at year end? Or don't things freeze there long enough to matter?
Maybe so, that would be nice.

Blackbeard had a home in Bath,NC an old small historic town not too far from my home. So...you just never know
where the stuff might have been hidden, perhaps stolen from him, perhaps, perhaps....
About as likely as hitting the lottery.
I still think it's hidden in my pond.

I will just shut off the water to the line and leave all the spigots open. The lines are 12" deep, so the rare night we get into the teens shouldn't cause any damage.

Edward Theach {AKA Blackbeard} along with his friends and neighbors across Bathe Town Creek, Governor Charles Eden and Acting Chief Justice Tobias Knight, had cameos in my little stories, so I have read everything I could find about Bathe Town's most famous resident. {Most of which is pure crap} The one thing that stood out about his MO was the fact he very rarely used force. He went out of his way to be scary so his victims wouldn't put up a fight. Theach had a Royal Pardon and was a citizen in good standing in 1718. When Alexander Spotswood, the Governor of Virginia, sent a force south into North Carolina to kill him, it was more about getting back at Charles Eden. Each of the colonies were like a small nation, so it was an act of war to invade North Carolina. The goods taken from Knight and Eden {slaves and sugar} eventually cost Spotswood his job.

 

[txdon]

Don, glad your dog is ok. If one of those things can kill us, can't be good for a dog either

This evening all her swelling is down and now she is ready to tackle another snake. My wife had to distract Whipper while I shooshed our trophy rat snake into the underbrush. I think he came out to see which direction he was heading.

 

[dave1949]

56F. sunny but cool day in the mid-60's. 39F tonight so I just put buckets over the two Better Boy tomatoes I planted this morning. I planted some cabbage starts too but I think cabbage doesn't mind getting cold.

The Dodge passed the state inspection this morning, sorry Drew one is enough. It has to go back for a recall fix next week. Two recalls, one for the DEF heater connector that may cause a fire, and one for the DEF hose bundle.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. This moving has a lot of busy work. Too tired to post yesterday, 67F this morning made it to 83 before the rain (1.2in) today. Did not get to finish today's ride, rain got heavy in a hurry. Wife mowed lawn will I washed the van and got some pics to post it for sale. Got prelim report on TX house, nothing serious like last time, will be a Texan early June.

 

[mostly_gas]

Buppies, congrats on your son's graduation.

TxDon sorry to hear about Whipper, SIL keeps Benadryl for her dogs when they get snake bit, they have trouble laying off the pygmy rattlers.

RNG tool geometry will affect your boring more than whether or not you use carbide. Maintain a positive rake angle will keep the cutting pressure down and improve results.

 

[Larro Darro]

I took a walk late this afternoon, and cut through the woods on the way back. It was getting dark and I saw a few lightning bugs. The first of the season. Highs in the 90's and lightning bugs. It will be summertime before we know it.

 

[daugen]

summertime, and the living is easy...
66 degrees going up to high seventies, in showers and rain later.
that system is offshore and will come in at some point, bringing much needed rain.
I bet what we got yesterday didn't even register on my rain gauge. Or my grass seed...

off to the Dodge dealer this morning to drive a hemi 1500 and likely trade in my diesel dually if the price is right, and order a new one. while I bought my current truck off the lot, and got a huge discount doing so, this time I need to order it. For example, I never order a sun roof because I never use it. Thousand bucks saved. Rather have a better stereo or something.
and less chrome... Perhaps if I tell the salesman about Black Bumper Mennonites he will not think I'm crazy for wanting a low bling truck.

I've read all the reviews and videos on the ecodiesel, but I drive less than ten thousand a year and the breakeven on the ecodiesel apparently is over 100K miles. Makes no sense for me. One thing for sure, a replacement truck won't be a Chevy. This town is so dominated by Lee Chevrolet it should not have been called Washington, but rather Silverado.... A typical good old boy Southern town where every guy, without exception, drives a truck. And most are Silverados, with some Fords, some Tundras, and even less Rams. I'm fine being different...

may you all have a fine weekend.

Whipper, be careful out there!!

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 57° with light fog this morning. Heading to 78° with some sun and thunderstorms mixed in. Headed to my mothers house to weed the flower beds. Can only do it for awhile before my back that's enough.
txdon, that's looks like the snake we got video of a couple years ago.
Good Morning All.

 

[Thomas]

42F now high low 80's.
Today's plan wash the pickup and motorcycle,than nice motorcycle ride later on maybe catch some of the race tonight.... all plans subject to change w/out notice.
Ground still soft for any tractoring.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[RoyJackson]

2015-05-09, 0645

48 right now...high of 86 today. I have a number of chores today...top of the list is changing the oil/filter in the Z920 (maybe replace the blades too). I'd also like to change the break-in oil in the Gator (just over 60 hours on the Gator). After that...we'll see...

 

[Buppies]

61 high of 80 later maybe a shower or two. Gator broken so off to see about getting it fixed then road trip to Richmond to attend graduation then back home to take him out to dinner.

Thanks Mostly Gas been a long road for him and not quite over yet one more biggy Bar Exam then off into the real world. Mowed grass last night until 9:00PM mower is a mess but have to deal with tomorrow