Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

morning all, going to be a hot day today.
doing my "wonder what I'll forget this time" list
and about to pack a cooler with some freezer bags.
My friends in DE have grown organic lettuce that I will then take to my sister in Princeton
who will devour it happily. And tomatoes and asparagus too. Yum.

Back Monday night, probably offline but maybe I can get the laptop to cooperate.
Security software ran out, I bought a renewal, it wouldn't load as copy two of three, and I got infected.
Horrible popups, spend all your time killing them like targets in an arcade. Maddening...
Then there was something about Flash Player not working and that freezes the laptop every 15 seconds.
This thing definitely needs some work.

Otherwise I plan on a non rush trip today and hope the traffic doesn't back up too badly on a Sat morning at Portsmouth before the bridge/tunnel. At least the worst of the construction is over there; anyone who has gone through that area in the last few years knows all about it as they were building a large overpass to reroute the traffic. And now it is completed, though the gps still has fits trying to figure out where it is.

Have an enjoyable weekend and careful in the heat.

 

[Eric Salop]

Had a really enjoyable day at the boatyard yesterday. One to one tuition with a friend who is a great welder. He has his own business, cutting the bottom off tired canal boats and then fabricating replacement hull sections so they look like new again.

With the stick welder, at first I was trying to move too fast and with the rod too far away, but it got a little better with time. He also has a very expensive 3 phase Lincoln MIG welder, which is what he uses most of the time and let me loose with it for a few minutes. Very impressive machine, even a novice like me managed to do a weld that passed inspection with it.

It has made me determined to get a welding machine of my own and then get some practice in. I can almost hear my wife groaning now as there are already too few hours in the day without me starting on some welding projects. My barn has a 230V 13A outlet and that looks to be plenty for what I want to do. If I was doing it for a living I would look seriously at MIG. A stick welder should easily meet my needs though, it's just going to take a lot more practice and I think that challenge is part of the fun.


Thanks for tips RNG. I will make a note of those rod types. Not sure of the type I was using, although I did take a "my first weld" pic for future nostalgia and it shows the rod packet for future reference.

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, 59F heading to 75F.

 

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

Clear and warm/hot today near 90 with chance of pop up showers. I'll spend the day topdressing N on corn. I'll have another guy trying to catch some Roundup resistant Marestail in a few spots in the beans. Also need the spray the cows for flys and fill up the creep feeders.

 

[KevT]

Good Morning all, it is 70 right now, and headed to 98. Way to hot this early in the summer.

Drew - drive carefully, there are crazies out there
Farmer - Wish you lived closer, that sounds like a heck of a deal on the hay, and perfect size for the goats. and a weeks worth for the horses with less weather waste.
Eric - You will never regret learning to weld. I am no pro at it, and mine may not be all that pretty, but they hold up and that is what counts.

A neighbor/friend hurt his leg and has some downed trees, so I loaded the tractor up on my trailer and will head over there to help his brother and Dad move them to a burn pile. Learned I need a bigger trailer. This is the first time I have taken the new tractor off property.

 

[ronjhall]

Need to get coffee brewing. 57° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 73° with chance of some sun in afternoon. Need to get up on roof and clean eavestroughs. Water was pouring over top in couple of places. Then some garden work.
Good Morning All.

 

[sseelhoff]

Good Morning, TBN! Up early this a.m. Horses fed. Waiting for the sun to rise so I can get on the bike and get my ride in. Upon my return, I'll need to hook up the trailer. SWMBO has a training session at noon. Trailering in, lesson, then trailer home. Should be gone about 8 hours. Then I have to clean up and put the trailer back. My day is pretty much shot, doing nothing really by transportation director. Maybe I can get some mowing in this evening if the rain holds off.

 

[300UGUY]

Need to get coffee brewing. 57° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 73° with chance of some sun in afternoon. Need to get up on roof and clean eavestroughs. Water was pouring over top in couple of places. Then some garden work.
Good Morning All.

Your day sounds a lot like mine. Except I gotta go help my wife in a bit!

 

[txdon]

Good morning! Saw our first fawn of the season under the Post Oak tree. 73˚ partly cloudy.

 

[dave1949]

Had some nice rain showers last night. Around 80F and dry today & tomorrow.

I need to pick up some garden fertilizer this morning.

Nice fawn pic TXDon.

Safe travels Drew.