Good morning!!!!

[newbury]

<snip>
One day before farm sells buyer's attorney now declares there are two more forms I need to sign, and get notarized and back to them immediately.
After all this time they drop this on me, sure hope business office here has a scanner. My attorney already had to drive out here once and get forms notarized and take back, this last batch should have been included. Worse is the attorneys will simply bill out more for their screwups...though my guy is a real gentleman, older fellow who I really like. I didn't think I needed to bring a scanner with me to assisted living, thought my baby printer would be enough...
bit cranky because I don't feel well, this too shall pass.<snip>

Hang in there Drew. That attorney/buyer reads like what we had to deal with when buying our retirement spread. The first place we focused on wanted 3 or 5 K down with closing in 90 days or forfeit. The seller drug things out, it seemed every time we submitted stuff for them to sign it was weeks turn around, then they finally couldn't sign the last papers under the deadline. Later we found out they had done that to other attempted buyers. I chalked it up to an expensive lesson and told them to roll the papers up and stick it where the sun don't shine.

The lawyers can always drag stuff out to penalize you.

But your right, like a bowel movement this too shall pass.

 

[Thomas]

mostly_gas
Birthday today,
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Wishing you many many more trips around the sun.

 

[Thomas]

68F heavy thick fog enough so eve's are dripping low 90's for for high not much of breeze.

Outside chores done E muffin time. :licking:
Plans for today...critter food run and gas for pickup other than that keeping low and try to stay cool.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 67° with some fog this morning. Heading to 91° with sunny skies and possibility of thunderstorms in evening. Got .19" rain yesterday. Just enough to make weeds grow. Went to pickup my prescription at Walmart yesterday. Pulled into a parking space that call this number to pickup a prescription. Called and a few minutes later it was delivered to my car. I was worried about going into store with dog in car and having to leave them out in the heat. Then went to Aunts place and repaired a couple of electronic items that had quit working for her. Well not so much as to figure out how they shold work. My day will start with me installing a new Camera Doorbell on back door. Then stay in the cool house.
Finally yellow lily has bloomed.

Drew, Best wishes you feel better. Hope the papers get done and closing goes good. No sure about Justice being done. There have been 12 shootings on local freeways last 3 weeks. One of the shooter is already out on $500 bond.

RNG, so much going on with not peaceful protest. Starting to see kickback from the silent majority. Sure hope it stays peaceful.

Mostly, Happy Birthday.

Buckeye, did it take 15 minutes to grill Chicken?

Roy, take care with vertigo. Glad you are better today.

David, good to hear Sophie's is healing good.

Wngsprd, what is the leading tick and flea preventative. Sassy is on Serseto collar.

Everyone, stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 73F @ 4M. Plentiful sunshine. High 99F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Looks like today will be the last to stay under the century mark for the next week, with the peak coming on Sunday at 106F. Overnight temps in the low 70s high 60s will at least give the house some time to cool off, though, and the increased overnight humidity will help keep the fire danger down. And with no high winds on the way, it looks like we'll be safe from power shutoffs, too.


Here's a shot of the firetruck in action with my neighbor and I keeping a burn pile under control, Ken. It's a Ford F750 with an on board 750 gallon tank and a 750 gpm max rated pump. Mid '70s production, all Walerous components. Spent yesterday afternoon pouring through installation/operator manuals for all the hardware, and have a roughed out operating procedure put together. Just have to spend time making sure that the labels on the truck match the labels I use in the procedures, then start practicing. Looks like there's some maintenance due as well; it's been almost a year since I got it and I've not touched it other than to throw a tarp over it and keep the water tank full.

Good luck with a smooth closing, Drew. I didn't hear anything in your report about more low balling, and I hope it stays that way. And I hope your reaction is a short one.

One of the coldest Junes I've ever spent was on a motorcycle touring the English countryside, Eric. I think I had webs between my toes before I got home.:laughing:

Happy belated birthday, Bruce. Hope you pedal your way around the sun many more times in the future!

I like Kyle's idea, Drew. Maybe make sure the buyer pays for the insurance premiums, too.

It was spaghetti night here, and I made such a pig out of myself my stomach has kept me up most of the night gurgling.:confused2:

Your soundman's story sounds familiar, Paul. Back in my misplaced youth, I made the mistake of lighting a couple of tablespoons of flash cracker powder with a kitchen match. Lost both eyebrows and most of the hair on the front half of my head, and got a real bad sunburn all over my face. The stump I was trying to light didn't even notice...

Nice to have a button for the power door locks; the install went very smoothly yesterday.

Never heard back from VOX, my luck they'll call while I'm in town this afternoon.

Gonna head outside in a little bit and try to get a peek at the new comet. Then try to get a little more shut-eye.

Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!:dance1:

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 83˚F heading to the high 90s.
FireWise is on Summer furlough but we are still doing cedarcide in the park. It's getting brutal. My chain saw's chain came off yesterday and it had a loop in it that bent the chain, I couldn't get it turning on the bar so I went to put my new spare chain on and it was 2" too short. I double checked the size on the package and my bar and they were both the same, 16". Someone must have switched chains and put a 14"chain in a 16" package. I had to revert back to loppers the last hour. Two 16" chains on order.

Wngspred, Yes Christy still plays with gators.
Mostly, Happy Birthday!

The neighbors are over their covid sickness. His lasted 2 weeks, tested positive. Hers only lasted 3 days, no fever, and she is still waiting for her test results (10 days).

Watermelons are planted and should be ready by Thanksgiving. Time to make another batch of salsa from my tomatoes.

 

[toppop52]

Happy birthday Mr. Mostly!


More of the triple H’s here too, around 90 with heavy rain overnight tonight.
Heading out to dress my clam shell driveway, then see what I can find to get into after that. I need to repair a support on my spraying tractor, might tackle that.
Ordered materials for the next projects, 5 tons of white stone and a ton of all purpose sand, 2 2x12 and 8 4x4s. Hope. I didn’t miss anything.

Have a good day folks.

 

[txdon]

RNG, what size hose do you have on your firetruck and how many feet? What is the flow rate of you our nozzles? I's always good to know how many minutes before you run out of water.

Will you be able to fill up at a FD connection, is it close?

 

[rswyan]

Good morning.

86F and mostly sunny @ 10:00, currently "feels like" 91F ... predicted to go up to an actual high temp of 92F. Today is supposed to be the worst day of our little "heat wave". Also under an air quality alert for ground level ozone.

Was awoken by a big orange cat crawling up in the sack with me a couple of hours ago.

Not sure what all will be on today's menu, but I'm fairly certain that it will probably involve a good amount of time indoors.

Will probably water some plants and flowers at a minimum though.

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day.

 

[PJSprog]

73°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 93° today. Pop-up storms all over the area yesterday kept us in the 80s.

Last day of the work week for me. Company-wide meeting scheduled for just after lunch today. Since all salary positions were cut back last week, I suspect the announcement will probably be the same for our hourly peeps. Tough times.

Tacos and fajitas ... yummy.

Happy (belated) Birthday, Mostly_.