Good morning!!!!

sodamo · Sep 24, 2018

70°F and .34 inches rain.

Trip to PO this morning. Castle nut for mower and belts for flail supposed to arrive, then install.

Happy Hour in town later with friends.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

PJSprog · Sep 24, 2018

68°F with light fog and some drizzle this morning, going up to 77° today. Expecting some rain tonight and into tomorrow.

Wife and I finally got to a point with Deckasaurus this weekend that it's now a usable space. Got all of the top deck boards in place, with the exception of that last two at the end, which come up about 1-1/2" short. Checked around all the usual places, and no one has anything over 5-1/2" wide. So, going to check with a local lumber yard and see what they can do for me. Still need to get the steps and railing in place, but we did actually eat dinner out there last night ... take-out Chinese, as we were both too pooped to cook.

Looks like a fun ride, RNG. Love the paint job on that one.

toppop52 · Sep 24, 2018

buckeyefarmer said:
Ive always heard buckeyes were poisonous to eat. We have a couple buckeye trees on the farm.

The outside cat is wanting in this time of year.

Took 2 hrs to get to work. The last 15 minutes took an hour.

How many seconds on those minutes? LOL

RedNeckGeek · Sep 24, 2018

wngsprd said:
Nice ride! Pretty country.

Were you really going 80? Ssshhh! I won't tell anyone. Great gate at your drive entrance. Is that Chico?...looked very busy. Nice exhaust note until you had too much speed/wind to drown it out.

Thanks for reminding me, Wng, the gate opener needs a new battery. Had to edit out a long pause while I fumbled around trying to get it to work.

Yep, that's Chico. Much more traffic when the college is in session. That slow down was caused by a CHP on the shoulder with his blue and red lights going. No idea why people would slow down; the speed limit there is 65 mph.

The speedo reads about 10 mph high on that bike. I generally try to stay with the flow of traffic, and let someone faster lead the way. I stand a much better chance of getting a beep in the radar detector that way...

daugen · Sep 24, 2018

that driveway is long enough I think keeping gravel on it would be a challenge. Tar and chip?
Enjoyed the ride RNG. You run 7000rpm on the freeway? There really wasn't all that much traffic in the beginning, countryside was nice.

watching a batch of chocolate walnut brownies in the oven, taking them to food pantry tomorrow morning for volunteer day.
Of course, those crunchy end bits usually fall to QC.

Ed of all trades · Sep 24, 2018

RNG, never been to Ozzie's before, Was hoping to see the wizzer of Ozzie's.

Nice ride makes me miss a bike. Thanks.

Drew, you are making me tired, almost need a nap.

Buckeye, Glad I don't do that anymore.

Ed

RedNeckGeek · Sep 24, 2018

daugen said:
that driveway is long enough I think keeping gravel on it would be a challenge. Tar and chip?
Enjoyed the ride RNG. You run 7000rpm on the freeway? There really wasn't all that much traffic in the beginning, countryside was nice.

The "driveway" is about a quarter mile long. The base is solid rock, with a few inches of very hard compacted gravel and dirt over top. I scrape most of the gravel to the side once the rain stops in the spring so it's easier to get a motorcycle up and down it. Then once it starts raining in the fall again, I'll push that gravel back over the wheel tracks. PITA to have to mess with twice every year, so when I win the lottery, I'll concrete the whole thing.

7000 RPM is redline on that engine, Drew, but there's good power from 3000-6000. At 4500 it's moving along pretty well with traffic in the 65 MPH zones, so that's where it spends about half the time on the way to town. The first half of the ride is indeed the most fun, even bouncing up and down the driveway.:laughing:

RedNeckGeek · Sep 24, 2018

Ed of all trades said:
RNG, never been to Ozzie's before, Was hoping to see the wizzer of Ozzie's. Nice ride makes me miss a bike. Thanks.

You'd like Ozzie's, Ed. There's more floor space devoted to his old racing bikes and workshop than to new bikes and BMW boutique clothing offerings. Ozzie was a real wizzard with the old bikes, both working on them and racing them. Unfortunately he rode off to the great racetrack in the sky a few years ago, and we all miss him a lot! The cable I went down there to pick up was one of the few things they didn't have in stock in the eight years I've been getting my parts there. Not bad for twenty and thirty year old motorcycles!

toppop52 · Sep 24, 2018

66 now, 65-67 allday, drizzle, rain and showers all day, low tonight, you got it 66. Warmer the next couple of days. Had a very busy weekend, but did get time to see my Redskins beat the Packers and another one of those stupid roughing the passer calls. Good evening everyone, enjoy your night.