Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

71 and thick skunk-perfume-filled fog. Going to 83 and maybe storms.

Unfortunately, Coco took a skunk shot in the face this morning while we were out. I saw it with a flashlight (Eric, a torch) and thought it was a cat, but the nose doesn't lie. I need to read up on the best way to wash her...heard tomato juice doesn't really work...don't have any anyway. I'm glad the smell isn't extremely objectionable to me, just mildly offensive. I've always thought a certain major coffee chain with a green logo had coffee that smelled like skunk, and I used to drink a lot of it.

PJ, real nice looking job on that deck.

Roy, enjoy that nice warm weather while you can.

Changed the hydraulic fluid and filter on the tractor yesterday. Don't understand why, but it took almost 4 hours for all 4 drain bolt holes to drip dry and then get the new fluid poured in. I did a few other things in between, like greasing.

Taking my wife's vehicle in for inspection this morning.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 64° with partly cloudy skies. Heading to 83° with afternoon thunderstorms. Now that the snow blade is on tractor. Not much else to do today. Sit back and relax. Enjoy the last warm days before fall really arrives.

Roy, glad audit is going good.

Looking, lots of liquids and rest. Get well soon. Maybe some chicken soup.

PJ, moving your step son to Breese. Do you think that is far enough. Best of luck with the move.

Drew, no oaks in my yard. We do not have any Hickory tree either. But squirrels crack open hickory husk all over the place. They leave a nice brown stain wherever they are dropped.

Kyle, I use Power Service year around. Which reminds me to make a trip to Wally World and get a new bottle.

Prayers for all.

Good Morning All.

 

[ronjhall]

Unfortunately, Coco took a skunk shot in the face this morning while we were out. I saw it with a flashlight (Eric, a torch) and thought it was a cat, but the nose doesn't lie. I need to read up on the best way to wash her...heard tomato juice doesn't really work...don't have any anyway. I'm glad the smell isn't extremely objectionable to me, just mildly offensive. I've always thought a certain major coffee chain with a green logo had coffee that smelled like skunk, and I used to drink a lot of it.

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Oh Boy! I remember some long threads about getting rid of Skunk smell on TBN some years ago. Maybe some Febreze Fabric for anything Coco touches. But not on the face. I found that Febreze Fabric works to get Diesel smell off a pair of my work gloves.

 

[daugen]

Power Service and Pri-D. Some of the smelliest compounds known to man, probably seriously toxic, and my do
they work well on your diesels. My old Detroits in the boat always started easily and I think it's because I had them liberally dosed
with Pri D which raises the cetane a little. I like additives now because they add a lubricating agent for the fuel pump and whatever else needs lubricating along the line.

I've been blowing them off the driveway every day for the past week or 10 days. You bet, Bird, and they go crunchety crunch under the golf cart tires. I'm headed out shortly with my gas powered pull behind blower to send all those acorns or parts of them flying back into the woods at hopefully high speed... It's where my driveway is in full shade by the woods.

 

[toppop52]

Yesterday I washed the house, all the decks and both garages, sprayed the driveway and briars along the woods line with the tractor, also washed clothes, watered plants, took the cushions off the deck furniture, now today I need to mow the grass.
Very warm and humid this morning, 74 with 99% humidity. 82 or so today, rain from the storm later this week, then fall arrives.

I have a skunk coming at night eating the outdoor cat food and leaving the feeding box smelling like skunk. Wish I knew how to get rid of him.
Drew, nothing smells much worse than skunk or gear oil, I’ve never been able to get the smell of gear oil out of clothing.
You folks with colds and other ailments, get well soon.
Good day, God bless.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Saw this yesterday and thought of Eric.

 

[CWB Wyo]

Coldest morning of the season so far 19°. Yesterday was in the mid 30's with light snow showers most of the day. It's clear this morning but they are say it's going to become cloudy with a. 50% chance of more snow this afternoon with the high in the 30's.

A neighbor called yesterday afternoon and needed help loading some things on a trailer. He going back to Denver in a few days for the winter. He is trying to leave by the weekend. He is only up here about five months of the year. I'll be helping him off and on for few day.

Making a trip into town this morning. Have a few things I would like to get done when we get back.

Hope everyone has a nice day.
CWB.

 

[farmer2009]

Wng. The only thing that has worked for my house dog that’s been sprayed twice this summer has been.
1quart peroxide
1/4 cup baking soda
1 tablespoon Dawn dish soap.

It has taken us about 4 baths over 2 weeks each time to get the smell off that dog. But my wife is very sensitive to the smell. To me it stinks but it’s not gagging. I won’t let the dog in the house though.

72 this morning and headed to 84. Last warm dry day looks like.

Birds are gone. Now the real work begins. Finish washing today and help horse riding program get hay in barn. Then maybe time to put litter in windrows.

 

[Buppies]

Henry TV | Henry Repeating Arms
Drew you enjoy the manufacturing process shown

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Drew, if you bought the wrong mower, you can drop it off at my house.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 62F @ 8:30AM. Sunny. High 78F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Sewed a couple buttons on during yesterday's power outage, then moved outside to catch up on the kindling situation. I collected all the chips when I put up ten cords of firewood back in '13, and filled up a 3'x3'x4' Knack box with them. Finally made it to the end of 'em last winter, and with about five cords of wood still remaining, there's no need to split and stack more. It was time to try out the new Kindling Kracker. I went out to the wood yard and found a nice 12" round about knee height, and used a portable drill and a couple of lag bolts to mount the Kracker. While down at the yard I also found several 6"-8" long rounds of oak to add to the too big pieces that remained in the kindling box. Started off with a 2 pound maul for a hammer, but it got too heavy pretty quickly. Switched out to a 16 oz. ball pein and it was just right. I like the kindling small, as small as pencils, so it took a while to get a pile going, but by the time the power came back on at 1PM, I had about a bushel made. Not enough to get through the winter, but enough to get a good start on it. I learned that the twisted live oak chunks are miserable to split, as they are also full of knots. In fact I can't think of much nice to say about live oak. The twigs and leaves are sharp and tangle together, making it difficult and sometimes bloody work to limb them. All the wood is curved, which complicates splitting and stacking and loading the fire box. And when it finally burns, it smells like a skunk somehow got in there with it. Unfortunately, the majority of the oaks here are of that variety.:confused3: Anyway, I figure two or three more sessions and I'll have a nice supply put up, and can then take the rest of the winter off.:laughing:

The bumpers for the van were supposed to be delivered yesterday, but when I called the trucking company they said they were still waiting on authorization to change the incorrect address I informed them about last Friday. The shipping broker corrupted not only the address, but the phone number as well, and this time when I explained the situation, the gal on the other end was able to make the changes. Just got word of that this morning, but now the bumpers have to be shipped from Sacramento to Redding before they can be put on a smaller truck and sent here. The funny part is that the bigger truck will pass within a few miles of here on the way to Redding, and I have forks on the tractor to unload the thing.:muttering::duh:

Finished wrapping the wiring harness on the old BMW yesterday, and will get everything tucked under the frame tubes and reconnected today. Then I plan to spend some time on the Vanagon wiring harness for the engine, as there seems to be a problem with the Vehicle Speed Sensor signal. The van seems to trigger a rev limiter when it hits 67 mph in 4th gear, and from what I've read that means that the VSS isn't working or isn't connected correctly.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

L4N, you probably were working too hard and your resistance was low. Hope you can cut yourself some slack and slow down and get well soon. PITA when there's so much to do to get ready for winter, but there it is...

Drew needs to keep an eye out for gold diggers at his age and station in life as he quests for his new princess. The one I met would have nothing to do with a mop, clean or dirty, and knowing what I do now, that would have made a good litmus test to pass before walking down that long isle. She wouldn't get on the tractor, either...:irked:

 

[sodamo]

68°F and 2.47 inches rain, been a soggy one, but sun peeking thru

I did get serval hours mowing yesterday.

PO run this morning. Meeting BIL at Pizza Hut for belated birthday lunch.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[PJSprog]

70°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 84° today. Rain moving through overnight tonight will bring to an end our "Summer-on-overtime," as the local weather guys seem pleased to call it.

Wife looked at the apartment for the boy yesterday. Said it was OK, but had a musty smell. Landlord also showed her an adjacent place which was a little bigger, but she said that one smelled like the previous tenant had a cat but no litter box. Looking at another place in Highland today. And no, Ron, I don't think Breese is far enough away. His job works out of a shop eight miles east of Carlyle, which is 16 miles from Breese. I've suggested he should be looking for a place in Carlyle.

Guy from Terminix was already there when I got home from work last night. Wife wanted to get a quote on mole control. He was getting in his car and leaving already when I pulled up. She had "that look." When she told me the quote, I understood why. $900 a year for poison and traps. Uh, yeah, no thanks. We'll just keep using the poison worm bait and spring traps we already have.

Like some others here, I'm a big fan of building with oak. Red oak was the standard material we used at Wicks Organ Company to build the organ chamber casework and consoles. It's really wonderful wood to work with, and lasts a long time.

 

[Thomas]

txdon
Yesterday a breaker tripped in the kitchen and refused to be reset. Four kitchen electrical outlets are not working. One or two outlets have been tripping the breaker occasionally the last few weeks. Is there a short and where, or is the breaker bad? The breaker is the type that has a GFCI test button on it instead of on the outlet. Time to call the home warranty people.
..........................
Depending on GFCI rating most are good for so many trips.
Maybe outlet has loose wire cause trip problem.

 

[Looking4new]

I just finished cutting the grass and refueling the mower. I prefer to keep them full over winter. Hi-test gas only.

According to the build sheet, my new to me 2013 Dodge Journey came with a block heater, so I just had to go hunting for the cord. I found it all wrapped up and tucked in the space between the fuse box and the inner fender.

Thursday afternoon (3:30P.M.) I have an appointment to get the snow tires on....$1170.68 tax in.
The summer tires stripped off the rims and the snows put on. That is mount, balance and reuse the tire pressure monitors and install.

As for this cold, I am a firm believer in 'feed a cold' & 'starve a fever'. I also believe that a good sweat doesn't hurt either. I got that today.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

txdon
Yesterday a breaker tripped in the kitchen and refused to be reset. Four kitchen electrical outlets are not working. One or two outlets have been tripping the breaker occasionally the last few weeks. Is there a short and where, or is the breaker bad? The breaker is the type that has a GFCI test button on it instead of on the outlet. Time to call the home warranty people.
..........................
Depending on GFCI rating most are good for so many trips.
Maybe outlet has loose wire cause trip problem.

Chances are an outlet burned out and needs to be replaced. That is stopping the others from working down the line.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

L4N, you probably were working too hard and your resistance was low. Hope you can cut yourself some slack and slow down and get well soon. PITA when there's so much to do to get ready for winter, but there it is...

Drew needs to keep an eye out for gold diggers at his age and station in life as he quests for his new princess. The one I met would have nothing to do with a mop, clean or dirty, and knowing what I do now, that would have made a good litmus test to pass before walking down that long isle. She wouldn't get on the tractor, either...:irked:

Fwiw, my wife won't get on a tractor, but she keeps a very clean house, and does most of the flower bed weeding and mulching. And is an excellent cook.

 

[txdon]

txdon
Depending on GFCI rating most are good for so many trips.
Maybe outlet has loose wire cause trip problem.

He thinks the GFCI breaker is bad. He has to find a replacement and come back another day. If it still trips then he will check outlets. Apparently the GFCI breakers are notorious for going bad.

 

[Bird]

Only once in my lifetime have I thought that I had a GFCI breaker go bad. I learned that a bathroom outlet was on the same GFCI breaker as an outdoor outlet on the patio. And when I removed the cover from the outdoor outlet, I found cobwebs in there. I blew them out with my air compressor, put the cover back on, and no more problem.