Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

Our firearms regulations are indeed onerous and they keep on getting worse. One of the reasons I started reloading was the restrictions on keeping ammunition. Fortunately there are no significant restrictions on primers, bullets or powder, I just have to show my certificate and can then buy as much as I want.

We have a big issue at the moment with many police forces starting to demand a letter from a doctor that says we aren't crazy before they will renew our firearms certificates, even though no laws insist on that. It hasn't been well thought through, as shooters with even mild depression will be much less likely to go to the doctor to get help. Some doctors who don't like anyone to own guns are refusing to write the letter, or make their fees extortionate and for those living in rural areas, finding another doctor is often not at all easy.

Thanks for sharing this. A good warning.

 

[NHBX]

NHBX.
I need to cut back some hemlock and beech volunteers down the sides of the driveway before winter so may start picking away on that project.
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Yep time starting to run out getting those outside project done before old man winter comes to visit, upper NH been forecasted for snow mix Friday night.

Fortunately we are supposed to get more rain Friday into Saturday but snow will happen soon enough!

 

[wngsprd]

53 earlier...no skunks found on my patrol. Looking for 78 and a lot of wind.

David, glad your network plan is coming together well.

Buppies, was wondering whether that deer got your truck or not. Glad you guys are okay, sorry for your wife's vehicle.

Randy, I "vote" that you keep the deck on.

Eric, I selected a purple stove, just to see what it would look like...$9,100, plus they said they would contact me to determine the shipping costs. So I ordered two. Seriously, it does look like a great stove, and I really like the way they take pride in "Made in Great Britain."

My wife and I went up to Shenandoah National Park again yesterday. Colors were much more developed. We hiked on Carson's Mountain to Ft Windham Rocks, along with some AT hiking. Saw deer, chipmunks and a black snake, but still no bears. Due to the corona virus, the visitor center had moved the rangers outside to offer help, so only the gift store inside was open, requiring the use of hand sanitizer before entering, a one-way path through, and of course, face masks. Then heard on the radio as we were driving home that the CDC had data showing that 71% of people in the study had tested positive for the China virus "always" wore a mask. Another 14% who caught it "often" wore a mask. So, we concluded we should wear a mask, but not slack off on keeping distance and washing our hands. Oddly, the camp store/snack bar/gift shop/bathrooms about 15 miles further south at Elkwallow had none of these restrictions, except masks.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good morning. It was 69° this morning and our high is forecast to get to 90° this afternoon. We're anxiously awaiting a cold front, that should get us to the high 50's in the morning and a high of about 70° tomorrow. Maybe some rain as well.

I'd posted, a few weeks ago, that I'd started looking at a new side by side UTV for the ranch. I mentioned to a few friends and neighbors that my present Polaris Ranger might be coming up for sale. My Ranger has been well taken care of and serves me well so .. it's replacement was "nice to have" rather than "have to do". With that in mind I put a fairly high starting price onto it to see what the market was.

The trailer, I use with the Ranger / haul the Ranger on .. is a 77" x 12' single axle utility with a fold up ramp.



The current side by side UTVs (crew style) are generally about 13 1/2 ft. long and won't fit on my current trailer. That in mind .. I decided to offer my Ranger and trailer as a "package deal".

I sent an email yesterday morning, with the particulars of both Ranger and trailer, to the four folks who'd expressed a strong interest and less than 2 hours later I received a full price offer.

The Ranger and trailer went down my road at 7 p.m. So .. I'm now walking.

Plans for today .. is to stop by one of our three county early voting locations to see how crowded they are .. if not too busy , I'll vote. We have three weeks of EV, in Texas, this election due to the Covid.

After that, a stop at our local Polaris and Can-Am dealers to see what inventory they have. The Can-Am dealer already told me he would loan me one of his used side by sides .. if I had to wait for delivery of a new machine.

Hope everyone has a great day.

Prayers to all.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temp is 52°F and going down to 50. Wind S 14 mph. 40% chance of rain and it is raining now.
Rain is in the forecast right through to next Wednesday.

A dump run and into town is all I have to do today.


Have a safe and healthy day all

 

[sodamo]

70°F and .24 inches rain.

Have to find the breach in my fence allowing some pig to come in and be destructive. Of course that means the little pup could get out. Kekoa did back at that age/size and always a challenge to get him back on right side of fence. Not sure I’d even see Makani if he got a few feet off into the deep grass. Pigs will usually work at the fence bottom until they find a place to squeeze thru. Hopefully it’s close to the damaged area and easy for me to find.

If that’s a reasonable fix then I’ll find something else to get into like attaching T111 to my caretaker project.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[txdon]

Drew, my fine China has dixie on the rim.

Collectors items!

 

[sodamo]

Nice stoves Eric. Back in the 80’s during the oil situation I installed an old wood burner drug from MIL’s barn in our kitchen in Maine. Put the electric in the basement and enjjoyed wood for both heat ad cooking.

 

[sodamo]

Sounds like you are making good progress Rip

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Randy, Ellen wants to go where?
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It’s the town just east of Bird in Hand.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My grandparents house still has a wood cook stove in it.

Early voting here is only 1 week.

Today is oldest sons bday, 25.

 

[kenmbz]

Happy b'day to your son BEF!

 

[sodamo]

Glad you got it fixed Buppies. Sounds expensive though.

Drew I doubt I could repack a box of dishes like it came.

Ron, should get a week before having to do the dogs area, a couple of weeks on the main stuff. Something special about sunrise pics

We no longer have in person voting , all mail starting this year. Should be getting ballots this week, maybe already at PO.

 

[toppop52]

Collectors items!

Yeah, the trash collectors.

 

[sodamo]

Interesting concept, but why? Do you think the AP will get better reception on the tractor than your iPhone does? It'll be interesting to see...:confused3:

Likely another case of not knowing enough to know what I don’t know.

A good strong, steady cell signal is a rare event. Rarely see more than 1 bar and that’s not everywhere. I swear somethings it’s according to the wind. When I first went with the cellular internet it was TMobile, but although I saw a signal it never would connect. Up on the roof I was pleasantly surprised to get a decent AT&T LTE signal on my iphone so switched to that. I regularly see a -90 ish dBm at my Mofi, and -100+ at my Mobley.

I was happy to get fairly decent coverage with my Picostation as an AP, but lots of dead areas. Seriously considered multiple Picos but that required repeater mode as opposed to doing a station with attached router.

Hoping the mesh APs work.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

All of the Unifi stuff is WiFi, not cellular, but you already knew that, right? If your iPhone can't get a cellular signal on your tractor, it would use WiFi if it was available. You can even make phone calls over WiFi with the iPhone if you enable that feature. But the way I see it, in order to work, the mesh AP would still need a decent WiFi signal from somewhere else on the mesh network. And if that WiFi signal is strong enough for the AP, it's probably strong enough for the iPhone. Unless the larger antenna on the AP lets it work on a weaker WiFi signal. Then the AP would boost the WiFi signal enough for your iPhone to connect. You haven't wasted much if it doesn't work, and there's always nanoBeams to extend the network out to specific locations, like Paul was mentioning with his some day rifle range. Your experiment is interesting though, because if it works, the tractor would be a roving AP you could put in a variety of places. "Hey hon, lets take the tractor on the picnic this afternoon so I can listen to the game.":laughing:

That's one thing I wish there was a way of measuring: WiFi signal strength, in dB. There was a hack on the earlier versions of iOS that would let the phones display signal strength in dB, but Apple in their infinite wisdom broke it. Or maybe that was cellular signal strength? I'd like to measure that, too, as it would help in pointing the Yagi antenna on the cell phone signal booster. Maybe there's an app for that? I'll have go digging around some more.

 

[txdon]

Every week I have to feed my sour dough starter. The half that is discarded is made into something each week. This weeks bake turned out really tasty.
Whole wheat, sourdough, jalapeño, bread sticks.

 

[kenmbz]

All of the Unifi stuff is WiFi, not cellular, but you already knew that, right? If your iPhone can't get a cellular signal on your tractor, it would use WiFi if it was available. You can even make phone calls over WiFi with the iPhone if you enable that feature. But the way I see it, in order to work, the mesh AP would still need a decent WiFi signal from somewhere else on the mesh network. And if that WiFi signal is strong enough for the AP, it's probably strong enough for the iPhone. Unless the larger antenna on the AP lets it work on a weaker WiFi signal. Then the AP would boost the WiFi signal enough for your iPhone to connect. You haven't wasted much if it doesn't work, and there's always nanoBeams to extend the network out to specific locations, like Paul was mentioning with his some day rifle range. Your experiment is interesting though, because if it works, the tractor would be a roving AP you could put in a variety of places. "Hey hon, lets take the tractor on the picnic this afternoon so I can listen to the game.":laughing:

That's one thing I wish there was a way of measuring: WiFi signal strength, in dB. There was a hack on the earlier versions of iOS that would let the phones display signal strength in dB, but Apple in their infinite wisdom broke it. Or maybe that was cellular signal strength? I'd like to measure that, too, as it would help in pointing the Yagi antenna on the cell phone signal booster. Maybe there's an app for that? I'll have go digging around some more.

I use network Cell info - even tries to find the towers on a map-I have it on Android.
How did your O-scope work out?

 

[daugen]

Ken, thanks for info on UPS, didn't even know it was there, most convenient spot for me.
Rick, congrats on selling the UTV, nice used equipment always sells quickly
David, these dishes were packed beautifully so with the exception of one leftover piece, it all went back together fine. But not using Kohls next time, though they
did give me a discount coupon by coming in good for ten days.

got a good bit done today, but got so exhausted by end of Best Buys had to tell my friend who came with his van that we needed to go home, I was worn out.
Legs were wobbly and I felt like I had climbed a mountain. Sure hope I get my stamina back. Came home and lay down for an hour and felt better.
Picked up a new chair height elongated bowl toilet at Lowes, and then tried to lift box. No way Jose. Asked for help which they gave me. Then headed to Best Buy and the store was a mess.
They were clearly short of help, big signs saying hiring starting at 15 an hour, but I was patient and got an experienced guy to help me. He agreed I could buy the cheaper 4k Samsung 55 and be perfectly happy with it, which at 400 bucks was a lot of tv for the money. Also bought a tv stand, a Polk sound bar with subwoofer, a Sharp mini 5 CD stereo and a wall mount for the tv, and got out for less than the price of the more expensive tv I was considering.

Got back home and my friend wouldn't let me help him with the toilet, he hefted that 100 pound box all by himself, the tv was half that weight, just a bulky box. But everything is inside, and on Saturday my "young" helper will come and build all the furniture including the tv stand and we can hook up the tv. They didn't have the wall mount I wanted, only ones twice as expensive but were willing to order it and have it delivered. They also wanted 200 dollars to mount the tv on the wall and I said no thank you, can do that myself with my helper when mount comes in. I bought a studfinder at Lowes in anticipation of that. Wall mounts ranged from 50 dollars to 350, quite a range, and I wanted the 50 dollar one which had great reviews and could handle a huge tv, much larger than my 55.

Was fun looking at expensive 75 inch 8k Samsung tvs playing demo video, amazing picture, of course there is no programming out there that I know of. My 55 inch tv looked small compared to some of those monsters but it's a small room and I rarely watch tv, so.... No question Oled tvs were sharper and brighter and had wider angle of viewing. None of which had great value to me since 4k is mighty sharp. I also saw a $2k smartphone that folded in half and became a small tablet. There's an early adopter and gotta have it person for all of this stuff.

 

[pennwalk]

October sure can be a pretty month here. Today was a prime example. I took a ride down to look at the river (Susquehanna). It's still there. There is a very nice recreation trail along the river. The parking lots along the trail and boat ramps were amazingly busy. Why weren't these folks at work? Leaves were falling all along my drive but there is not much color in the trees.

Chris