Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

70°F and partly cloudy this morning, going up to 90° today. Humidity is at 80%.

Got a lot of stuff done around the house yesterday evening. Opened up the studio and fired everything up when I got home, but didn't get back in there until about 10:30 to shut everything down and go to bed. So it goes. Sometimes, adult life gets in the way.

We have a big name lawn care equipment customer coming for a visit today at work. Hope everyone is on their best behavior. Could be a pathway to a good deal of new business for our tube bending division.

Congrats on the sale, Doug. And, glad nothing too serious with your wife.

Welcome to the GM thread, Stephen. I've been wearing DeWalt bifocal safety glasses at work for a little while now. Much easier for my aging eyes to read small print on drawings when out on the shop floor. I don't have to zoom in with my phone camera nearly as much any more to see if that tiny print tolerance in the title block says ±.030 or .060.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Those are neat pics of the hawk. Saw some buzzards the other day spread out to dry themselves., they’re not so pretty.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I like the DeWalts the best. It has the best balance between far sight and reading magnification. Plus it comes with a protective sleeve that doesn't fully cover all the lens but it's something. So I got these and they are perfect! Good price, very comfortable and I can see up close when I need to do my job safety.

Welcome to TBN.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

One for PJ

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 7:45AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 79F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

The sky looked promising for some rain yesterday evening, but we got not a drop. I did hear a few thunder claps, but fortunately no new fires were started by it. Two new ones did start nearby, for other causes.

Meet one of the newest members of the lizard family. Stubby and Tasty have been busy. This little guy wasn't much more than an inch long...

Got most of the terrace cut yesterday, just have a little more scraping on it to get it all level. That back wall is about 12' high, about twice as high as I thought it would end up. The dirt pile is HUGE! Lots of good things to do with it, but it's gonna take a LOT of trips to move it. Today we'll see how good I am with the box blade spreading gravel. Backhoe guy sez he'll give me a lesson. That should do it, just in time for the tank delivery tomorrow morning.

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

 

[rswyan]

Good morning.

77F and partly cloudy @ 10:30, headed up to a high of 83F with showers developing this afternoon.

Spotted male bluebird on Nest Box No. 5 just a bit ago, apparently no objection to the new location.

Before I came in last night I was sitting out back while everyone was making their final run on the feeders for the day ... must have been 8 - 12 cardinals, mix of male and female.

Just placed Menards order, will likely run down later and pick it up, and hit the mower shop on the way down (or back)

Might also see what's out there as far as additional veggie plants go - I'm thinking we could really use another bell pepper plant or two, possibly an eggplant as well.

Will put string trimmer head back on the FS 66 and take it for a walk up by shop to mow down dead grass where the day lilies transplants will go.

Check for ramps up at the shop so I can get under the deck on the Cub to remove the blades and clean the deck.

Grass probably needs mowed down here around the house again.

Hosta/shrubs need dug out on northwest corner of shop.

Calling for thunderstorms again tomorrow, followed by an extended period of fair weather with some cooler temps which I'm looking forward to.

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

 

[two_bit_score]

Every Day is Saturday when you are retired.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Spoke too soon on yesterday's rain. I was just up at the terrace and the dirt was damp. Turns out we had a brief shower last night around nine o'clock, with 0.07" of the wet stuff. Think I'll put the landscape rake on the tractor and make a path up to the cut that the tank delivery guy can follow. The dry grass clippings up there are pretty slick when they're dry, and if the tractor's been slipping on them, the pickup truck they'll be using for the delivery won't stand a chance, even if it is 4WD...

 

[PJSprog]

One for PJ

I only need X+1 guitars (or basses), with X being the number I have now.

 

[daugen]

nice back roads trip to local TSC, picked up a mower lift on sale.
Now waiting for friend to come take it out of car and assemble, and we can fix the loaner mower I have, and change
it from mulching to discharge.\
I used to use the FEL for all my lifting. No more.

 

[toppop52]

Good morning.

77F and partly cloudy @ 10:30, headed up to a high of 83F with showers developing this afternoon.

Spotted male bluebird on Nest Box No. 5 just a bit ago, apparently no objection to the new location.

Before I came in last night I was sitting out back while everyone was making their final run on the feeders for the day ... must have been 8 - 12 cardinals, mix of male and female.

Just placed Menards order, will likely run down later and pick it up, and hit the mower shop on the way down (or back)

Might also see what's out there as far as additional veggie plants go - I'm thinking we could really use another bell pepper plant or two, possibly an eggplant as well.

Will put string trimmer head back on the FS 66 and take it for a walk up by shop to mow down dead grass where the day lilies transplants will go.

Check for ramps up at the shop so I can get under the deck on the Cub to remove the blades and clean the deck.

Grass probably needs mowed down here around the house again.

Hosta/shrubs need dug out on northwest corner of shop.

Calling for thunderstorms again tomorrow, followed by an extended period of fair weather with some cooler temps which I'm looking forward to.

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

Good to see you!

 

[toppop52]

Talk about miserable, temp is 87 with 85% humidity making it feel like 106.
Met friends for breakfast and BS session. Always enjoyable.
Nephrologist appointment @ 3:45 so I’m probably not going to do much before that.
I’ve got to replace my tow behind spreader so I might go to Lowe’s and look at one that’s on sale and pick up a bunch of Spectracide bug crystals.
Have a safe day.

 

[daugen]

Ha, it says no assembly on mower lift box.
This I have to see to believe...
I picked this model due to capacity and it can hang on the garage wall when not being used.

Pruned the branches hanging over the driveway, had to use hand pruner vs lopper so could only do so much.
Then cleaned that all up and lugged cart to rear of property to dump in pile in woods.
Cut some poison ivy/sumac on one tree; made sure to soapy double wash my hands when I came in.
Going to go spray some Roundup on what I could not cut; it may not kill it but it sure won't like it...

Also have to fill two big pails of water and take them out to water new butterfly bushes.
Very pretty day but sweat band going on. But then I can sweat easily at 60 degrees when working hard.

My current work load is inimal, I think I'd be worn to a frazzle if I did all that RS does each day.

Keep the heat down there Toppop. Pretty nice out here, slightly hazy blue sky

 

[RoyJackson]

nice back roads trip to local TSC, picked up a mower lift on sale.
Now waiting for friend to come take it out of car and assemble, and we can fix the loaner mower I have, and change
it from mulching to discharge.\
I used to use the FEL for all my lifting. No more.

I have a Mo-Jack too...even though I think it's quick safe and robust, I still use jackstands...
As far as using a FEL....remember mikim (probably spelled that nick wrong)? He was using his loader to hold up a zero turn, and his wife found him under the mower. This has been 2 or 3 years ago...(2015, so closer to 6 years ago)
I never depend on tractor hydraulis

 

[Bird]

Roy, I have a Mo-Jack, too. I liked it when I had a riding mower, but it's just in the way now. Wish someone would make me an offer for it, and it wouldn't have to be much of an offer either.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and .14 inches rain

Bunch of stuff to pu from PO

Ease back into my project, but also have to start thinking about mowing.

Hand & Foot this afternoon

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Alien]

71F and partly cloudy here @ 23:00, heading down 66F for overnight low.

High reached 83F but wasn't quite as bad as yesterday - probably due to more cloud cover throughout the day.

Rain was in the area but none fell here at the house.

At the point where the sun really came out this afternoon she took a break to visit with a friend that stopped by and I mowed the lower front.

Her friend delivered two peach trees ... which we'll now have to find a spot for and plant.

Did get the planting bed pretty much finished up, two remaining blueberry plants seem to be making a decent recovery ... one more so than the other. Got soil acidifier and peat moss put on the closest one in the picture below and worked into the soil.

Had to relocate Nest Box No. 5 a few feet further south:

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Finished up around dusk by the time we collected everything but we did managed to get all the plants in the ground and watered:

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A couple of "Early Girl" tomato plants, one zucchini, one yellow squash, one cucumber, one medium hot pepper, one yellow bell pepper, and a sage plant which was really supposed to go in the herb garden but she wanted to get it in the ground.

Getting very low on screened compost so will need to get to work on that in the coming days.

No trip to mower shop or Menards ... will probably do those tomorrow as it looks like we have better chances for rain.

Gonna grab a shower and then hit the rack.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

Those pics make me jealous of your beautiful black soil. Wish we had that here. Haven't had any luck with gardens at all. What the bugs don't get the horse does. (when we had a horse) He ate all our corn by reaching over the fence. Even potatoes are a challenge to grow. Flowers grow OK but you can't eat flowers.

To be totally honest, I am just not a gardener.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

nice back roads trip to local TSC, picked up a mower lift on sale.
Now waiting for friend to come take it out of car and assemble, and we can fix the loaner mower I have, and change
it from mulching to discharge.\
I used to use the FEL for all my lifting. No more.

I have a mower Jack from TSC, works great. Did have to move the tire baskets out a little for the ZTR by putting a couple washers where they bolt on. Still need them a little wider, but need longer bolts.

Pro lift HD. 500#

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Saw friend at work ask me if I wanted to buy his little used car and I asked him what do you got? He said it's an 08 Toyota Yaris plain Jane no options except for AC and a radio. But he said it drives great air conditioning blows cold tires are good. And he said he only wanted $1,500. I told him yes. So I guess now I'm in the used car business. But actually, I believe my daughter wants to drive the Yaris instead of the old Impala. I will have to teach her how to let out a clutch, because the Yaris is a manual transmission.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My son at The Oasis parking lot.