Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

56° and cloudy this morning, dropping through the day to 30° tonight. Wind is supposed to be rather substantial today as well, 35-40mph.

Woke last night to the sound of thunder. Actually, about 3am. Oh well, I was going to get up at 4:30 anyway.

Wife found a chicken coup she likes at Tractor Supply. It's $449 at one of the local stores. Curiously, though, she can order it online for $399 and have it delivered to the store. She's going to drop in there today and ask what's up with that. After much discussion last night, we decided on getting four Buff Orpingtons to start our chicken flock.

Still undecided on the pasture's future occupants. We go back and forth over cows vs goats. Goats had been the talk for awhile, but it seems to be swinging back to cows now. No hurry on that, though, as we still have to completely redo the fence line out there. That likely won't happen until next year.

 

[freedomlives]

I guess I shouldn't be trying to read Russian. I only partially understood what they wrote. There was a dealer in Slovakia, and now they've quit, and according to a new EU regulation they can't sell tractors directly in to the EU.

Or in other words, Brussels constantly works to screw everything up for the common person.

 

[freedomlives]

We go back and forth over cows vs goats.

Goats are great, as long as they never get access to anything you don't want destroyed. Especially if they have horns. They somehow know that despite in the field tons of volunteer saplings, that the sapling fruit tree you just bought for 20€ is the one they should scrape off all the bark from in under a minute.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Hyundai is an amazing company. I believe they still build the largest supertankers in the world.
They must know how to hire good engineers and for sure the Koreans have copied the Japanese as best as they can.
For a while the Japanese and the Germans set the standards for world cars. Now it seems to be a much bigger
playing field. And if you look at Buick's repair frequency, you can still get a reliable American car, as much as any tech laden gizmomobile
can be reliable. Fond memories of having to park my truck on the side of an out of state highway, turn it off, wait, and then when rebooted the nav got its brain back.
Surprised they don't have control alt delete on the dash...

I never quite understood the overlap between Kia and Hyundai, used to be Kia was the economy brand of Hyundai. Not any more...now they are like Chevrolet and Buick.
And Kia even makes their own version of a Cadillac, like a Hyundai Genesis. Very sophisticated cars.
A real Asian success story. I'm sure helped by a national work ethic that is not exactly what I see when driving through my small city...

Before I retired, I spent a lot of time with Hyundai, Daewoo, and Samsung shipyards, negotiating contracts for Drilling Equipment, Cranes, Blowout Preventer Packages for the ultra deep water drill ships being built there.

I’d fly to Busan and driver would pick me up in a Hyundai Equus. The Equus is as comfortable as any Cadillac I’ve ever ridden in. Don’t know if the Equus is available in US.

 

[Looking4new]

deoxoit at $100.oo/ 2 oz can will stay right where it is. It is too rich for my blood.
That is on amazon.ca

I will continue to use CRC contact cleaner $7.49/can from Home Hardware.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Maybe a Android problem?

I think so. I saw the end of your post when i first quoted it, when i look back at the post now, the quoted version is cut off also. Must be the characters from the link that followed.

 

[jbrumberg]

Thanks for the additional car reviews. I did like driving that Tucson in CR; a lot of our friends have Hyundai's. We'll see.

40F and partly sunny skies with mixed mid and upper level clouds. The cloud decks should be thickening up as this next weather system moves in tonight bring rain to the lower elevations and mixed precipitation turning to possibly all wet heavy snow through Saturday. The NWS has issued a Winter Storm Watch for this a area. It will be messy around here. So one low pressure system is still hung up in the NW CONUS and the other will track to the coast transfer its energy to the NE coast rapidly intensify ("bomb") and track close to the 40N70W "benchmark" and continue to "bomb" as it slowly travels northeasterly; might even retrograde back over the weekend. This storm will be windy too. There was serious "scatter" last night with predictions of accumulated snowfall from the different "model groups." NE PA, NY, western/northern NE were the areas to be most impacted by snow. My location is close to the predicted snow/rain line. At ~1400' elevation I may see ~6" of snow. I saw one snow map that clearly showed the "elevation effect." We'll see.... I am ready (unless we lose power).

Freedomlives- Good luck with the water and tractor challenges and I hope even more for you, your wife, anticipated child to be, and the rest of your flocks.

My + thoughts, wishes, and prayers for all.

 

[CWB Wyo]

The low this morning was 11*, yesterday was mostly sunny and in the high 30's. Looks like it's going to be partly cloudy with the high back into the 30's and a light wind.

Going to make another trip to town today. And see if I can fix a light over the reloading bench when we get back.

This is the first time in 16 year's that we are not on our way to Las Vegas this morning for the NASCAR weekend. The friends that we go with, the husband had a stroke last November and is in a V A home in Ogden Ut. We didn't feel right about going by ourselves. We always had a great time, it feels strange not going down.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[PJSprog]

I guess I shouldn't be trying to read Russian. I only partially understood what they wrote. There was a dealer in Slovakia, and now they've quit, and according to a new EU regulation they can't sell tractors directly in to the EU.

Or in other words, Brussels constantly works to screw everything up for the common person.

Sounds like you need a "Slovexit" movement.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

45 high in mid 50s rain most of the day 60mph winds tonight and tomorrow

Kyle is that a stereo amp you referred to very good stuff in its day

Thomas it sounds like you get off easy with this storm others not so much and there is another coming saw skunk at bird feeder last night but no smell he just ran off

Prayers for all of those in need

Yes, oldy but goody McIntosh MC2205 amp.

 

[freedomlives]

Sounds like you need a "Slovexit" movement.

There is at least one Slovexit movement. Unfortunately it isn't exactly a "let's leave the EU and institute a policy of unilateral free trade" type movement, but rather "let's leave the EU and be self-sufficient again like we were under Communist rule". Which they weren't actually, but let's leave this detail off and head back to the good ole days of the CSSR, when everyone had a job, and you couldn't always be sure there would be toilet paper on the store shelf. :-D

The past decade or more has been one long, drunken orgy fueled by subsidies from the EU that have greatly enriched a small portion of the population here. Others have not benefited as much, so they grumble and ultimately the blame will get placed on free trade or free markets instead of the tax-and-redistribute system as well as the entire Euro/banking system. I just started reading last night Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles (Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles | Mises Institute) . A reminder that the fractional reserve system is in itself unjust and immoral-- not that I haven't known that since highschool when I started skimming the surface, but a useful reminder nonetheless.

I do need to put my fingers to the keyboard and write a blog on how leaving the EU and engaging in real free trade would be not only what is just, but also benefit us overall...

 

[ronjhall]

Snow has made it here before lunch. Maybe some seat time soon.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 44F @ 8:15AM. Rain tapering off through the day. Rain and wind. High 47F. Winds S at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall around a half an inch. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

We picked up 0.6" between 6PM and midnight last night, and another inch already this morning. First real Pacific storm of the year, with southeast winds in the mid 30MPH range rattling the porch cover and throwing the rain at the south facing sliding glass doors. Hasn't slowed the hummers down at all, who continue to slurp their way through their quart a day, through hitting those tiny holes on the swinging feeders is interesting to watch.:laughing:

Between the heavy rain and the bobbling satellite dish, the Internet connection has become intermittent. I keep threatening to install guy wires on the antenna pole, but somehow never get a round tuit, but there's not much to be done to stop the rain, not what I'd even want to.

Sorry about those high prices in Kanukistan, L4N. As far as I can tell, the CRC stuff is just a solvent, and contains none of the deoxidizers and preservatives found in DeOxIt. It was recommended to me by a friend that has an electronics repair business, and would do a good job on your McIntosh, Kyle. But not on Don's Macintosh, or mine, either.:laughing: If you can find another, more reasonably priced, source of DeOxIt, it would be worth it. Dielectric grease will keep tight fitting connections clean by sealing out the water. So if you spend the time to polish and tighten up the connection to begin with, it will work until it gets hot and runs out. That's why I don't like it for automotive type applications.

Reassembled the other carb and got it installed on the old motorcycle yesterday, then gritted my teeth and started the electrical install. The vendor told me I had mixed up the two grommets and holes in the headlight shell, and had the wiring harness going into the speedometer hole/grommet, and vice versa. Got that straightened up and all is well now. Need to work out the routing for the rest of the harness as well as a few of the wires, none of which are marked, and as I found out yesterday, have colors that are either illegible or are out and out wrong. Fortunately the continuity tester doesn't lie, so I'm making notes about what's actually there in case I ever have to go back in to fix something. Once again, the books I have all seem to assume that I made good notes and took pictures of the wiring as I disassembled it, but since the man that did that isn't around to ask questions to and didn't pass along any documentation, I'm left to suss things out for myself. :confused2::laughing: Work like this is best taken in small doses, so yesterday I'd work at it a bit, get stumped, then go back inside to warm up and do something else for a while. Usually after mulling it over for a bit, I'd try something else and it would work, and then it would be off to the next wire. Slow going for sure, but there's no hurry. More of the same for today, but I think I'll start things off by taking a swing at the income taxes. I'm sure that will be a smooth and rewarding experience, too!:laughing::laughing::laughing:

Hang in there, Gang! Friday's comin'!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

There is at least one Slovexit movement. Unfortunately it isn't exactly a "let's leave the EU and institute a policy of unilateral free trade" type movement, but rather "let's leave the EU and be self-sufficient again like we were under Communist rule". Which they weren't actually, but let's leave this detail off and head back to the good ole days of the CSSR, when everyone had a job, and you couldn't always be sure there would be toilet paper on the store shelf. :-D

We have a similar movement here with the State of Jefferson folks. They want a chunk of Northern California to be a new state that will be composed of mostly rural land. I'm not sure how they're going to pay for widely distributed infrastructure like the roads and utilities with such a small tax base. They must think they can make up for the drastic cut in income by stopping most of the social services programs that are supported by funding from the existing state government, but that's going to happen regardless when they're no longer part of that state. Wouldn't be long before our shelves were bare of such necessities as toilet paper. But maybe we're all supposed to go back to the land and do what the pilgrims did. What did the pilgrims use for TP, anyway?

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .89 inches rain. Wonder when I’ll get to mow.

Did make a run to town for gas and diesel so at least I’m ready.

Continued prayers for all

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[jbrumberg]

RNG -- It happens here in MA too, but w/o the "political energy". Periodically in western MA there is a "Baja VT" movement from the "enlightened ones" living down in MA's CT River Valley area. I do not think that they have thought through the potential consequences of ceding from MA either; lot's of magical thinking going on.

Freedomlives- I enjoy your political perspectives.

 

[freedomlives]

Well, there are always dirt / gravel roads as an option. The very existence of the subsidized government road networks has certainly retarded the development of flying cars and other unimagined alternative modes of transport. If anyone is looking for a bit of bedtime reading, I would suggest Frederic Bastiat's collection of essays, still relevant more than 150 years later, "That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen".

Like most people living in rural areas, we are net "winners" on the tax vs. benefits equation. There is 5km of nice, paved road financed by the national government that I doubt our property taxes in the village would cover maintaining, given that the road in the village is the village's responsibility, and it has quite a few potholes. Yet it is an unjust situation, that those people living in cities, some in a sea of bland, socialist designed apartment buildings have to subsidize those who live in, at least from my perspective, a much nicer environment. Were there not the government subsidy on roads here, the 5km long road would likely deteriorate, and we would build a gravel road to the nearest village, 1km away, and from there connect onward to civilization. At least in our case-- a village of little more than a 100 people-- a gravel road would both serve our needs and be affordable, especially given that I am sure there are people on this forum who maintain driveways much longer than that in rural parts of the US.

Indeed these secessionists may not be thinking things through all the way, but secession would indeed lead to a much leaner, more efficient usage of resources in those places. Taxes might end up being even higher, but possibly a majority of people there would find it "worth it" to not have to deal with whatever they find so unpleasant now from the California government (I imagine restrictions on AR-15s, but I suppose there is other stuff too). Unless they are seceding from the Union though, they can't cut off trade with the rest of the US, as our comrades here would want to do in certain areas.

I don't know what the folks proposing Jefferson State want, though I've heard of the different movements out there, but the toilet paper issue was a result here of state planning. And I guess a really pathetic failure when it happened in the 80's and there was a shortage-- socialism as a so called economic system cannot work very well, due to the lack of possibility of economic calculation when producer goods have no prices, but ordering production so that the basic necessities are always in surplus, while wasteful, should be possible.

 

[lostcreekranch]

56° and cloudy this morning, dropping through the day to 30° tonight. Wind is supposed to be rather substantial today as well, 35-40mph.

Woke last night to the sound of thunder. Actually, about 3am. Oh well, I was going to get up at 4:30 anyway.

Wife found a chicken coup she likes at Tractor Supply. It's $449 at one of the local stores. Curiously, though, she can order it online for $399 and have it delivered to the store. She's going to drop in there today and ask what's up with that. After much discussion last night, we decided on getting four Buff Orpingtons to start our chicken flock.

Still undecided on the pasture's future occupants. We go back and forth over cows vs goats. Goats had been the talk for awhile, but it seems to be swinging back to cows now. No hurry on that, though, as we still have to completely redo the fence line out there. That likely won't happen until next year.

PJ, since this is a Tractor Forum, you might google “chicken tractor”. Lots of good DYI ideas for coups that can be easily moved around.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Between the heavy rain and the bobbling satellite dish, the Internet connection has become intermittent. I keep threatening to install guy wires on the antenna pole, but somehow never get a round tuit, but there's not much to be done to stop the rain, not what I'd even want to.

!

Here ....... you can borrow mine.

 

[toppop52]

Drew, here is a very quick synopsis, but note it’s written from a Hyundai perspective.
What is the difference between Hyundai and Kia?