Good morning!!!!

[RoyJackson]

2021-08-01, 0657

55° right now...high about 70 and rain (about ½") today...afternoon, per the forecast, but pretty overcast right now.

Other than more weed trimming, not much planned today

 

[RoyJackson]

wow it's August already...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

i wonder how much rain all at one time it would take to put out the Californian and Oregon fires.

Probably about the same amount that caused the landslides in Santa Barbara a few years ago. Once the fire takes out all the grasses, brush, and trees, there's nothing left to hold the soil in place in the mountains. Last week there were thunderstorms north of here that caused flash flooding in some of the burned areas. Big problems, too, with the rain after the Camp Fire. Gentle rain that has time to soak in, then clear skies to let things dry out, is what we need. But as long as the Pacific High stays in place, we'll continue to have hot and dry weather. Last year, it lasted into December...

 

[toppop52]

I'm starting to think the fuel pump is over-pressuring.

I asked you if you’d checked the fuel pump yesterday, because it seems like a delivery problem.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, gator is still spewing out fuel.

Have you checked the float needle tip and seat? If the tip wears, the notch may no longer seal. If the seat is damaged or dirty, same deal. If dirt gets in the seat, sometimes you can get in there with a pencil eraser and clean it up.

I bought one of these test kits a while back when I was chasing fuel pressure issues on the van. Worked well...

 

[Tinhack]

Pretty soupy this morning. Cut grass yesterday so this should help bring more. No rain but fog is evident out the back windows. What happened to July? Did I miss it?

 

[wngsprd]

71 going to 83, and probably more rain. We got about 0.3 welcome inches last night. My wife made me promise to water the garden at sunrise today if the rain I promised didn't come last night. So I'm drinking coffee instead.

LS, it sure is good to hear from ya again. You've been busy. Glad you got your shots, and good luck on the lottery...I wonder how many new shots are prompted by that offer? ...and then the cost per new shot produced? I hope it works to get more folks vaccinated.

Kyle, good luck getting the Gator fixed...sounds like you have good help here. Years ago I bought my first gas blade cutter - it was a McCulloch, and I frequently had to clean the muffler screen or it wouldn't run.

Thomas, congrats on that roof. You need to send those squirrels to electrical school.

BEF, pretty place. Hope your feet feel better this morning.

Finally got some seat time yesterday...about 2 hours. Also got a nice 5 mile hike in, and noticed a lot of red, yellow and brown leaves on the trail already...and a few green acorns...it has been very dry the past month, so I think some types of trees are shedding a bit.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 75F @ 4:30AM. Sunny. High 102F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Air quality is pretty good now, but the wind is out of the northeast, and it's likely to get much worse.

Good to hear from you again, Ted. Sorry to read the knee isn't doing better, but glad you got some rain. Isn't it monsoon season down there now?

August 1. July has been a scorcher, I can't wait to see what August brings. Out of the frying pan, into the fire?

Sounds like a pretty challenging ride, Bruce. Especially with the heat. Did you soak your jersey to stay cool?

Finally got some clean air yesterday, and made a start on the wiring. Mostly prep, laying out and marking a path to uncoil the wire, and doing a little clean up in the garage. Decided to mount a junction box on a pair of t-stakes, so found a couple of bent up stakes and got them straightened out, then wasted 45 minutes looking for the stake pounder. I'd put it somewhere I wouldn't lose it.

By then it was lunch time, and too warm to work in the sun afterwards. FedEx had dropped off the new drive shaft for the red bike, so I went up the hill to get it. The Knack box was unlocked, and the mail man had left two parcels in it, but the drive shaft was left laying in the driveway. Glad we don't have porch pirates in this area, that would have been five hundred bux out the window. The day before I'd installed a new exit sensor on the gate, and the side-by-side didn't have any trouble tripping it. A fox had left his calling cards on top of the hockey puck shaped sensor, making is territory.

U-joint on the new drive shaft is nice and tight, so that should be the end of the vibration problem with the old one. Had to call a friend for help getting a circlip into place, got schooled in proper use of fingers and screwdriver. Then the usual routine fighting the rubber boot around the u-joint to get the four bolts installed, and got lucky with a magnet stick when I dropped one by mistake. By then I was too tired, hungry, and hot to wrestle said boot back onto the mounting flange of the transmission housing, so adjourned to the patio for a margarita and a cool shower.

Still no sign of Stubby, and it looks like his girlfriend Tasty might have a new friend. She isn't sharing her meal worms with him yet, though.

Can you find the helicopter returning to base after a long day fighting the Dixie Fire?

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

66° now at the campground.
My sister and family stopped at campground for a visit last night. They were on their way to Lancaster and Hershey area for the week.
So we had s’mores ready for them.
Will be checking out after noon sometime. Calling for some rain anytime.
Simple breakfast today, heat up leftover sausage from yesterday, cereal and pop tarts. Lol.

 

[LouNY]

Morning all;

RNG, just a comment when you pull your wire it will pull much easier if you pull from the high ground to the low.
It's surprising how much difference it will make, also wire lube will help a lot.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Do you need to wear a mask where you live? Understand the CDC's new guidance

The CDC advises wearing masks indoors if hospitals are overloaded and the coronavirus is spreading widely where you live. Find out the level of virus transmission in your county.

www.npr.org

Thanks for posting that, David. My county is ranked High. No wonder, with about a 50% vaccination rate.

Delta is said to have a much higher infection rate, but it doesn't appear to be any more deadly, in large measure because of the new therapies available, and lower impact to those that have been infected before or had the vaccination already. What hasn't been pointed out is that those that have chosen not to get vaccinated also chose to accept a higher risk of severe complications and death should they get CV19. Bad decisions lead to bad outcomes. Why should those that have already been vaccinated have to go back to wearing masks to protect those that have chosen not to protect themselves?

 

[Bird]

Rain in the forecast for later today and tonight, so I mowed the yard this morning and HOPE it does rain.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 64 and sunny now, headed to 75 and rain. Thunderstorms are likely as well.

Yesterday was a glorious day weather wise. Temps under 80, low humidity and a gentle breeze. Just perfect for an outdoor festival.
It was a good time, but I sure don’t envy the stage manager trying to get acts on and off the stage in a timely fashion. One band in particular must have tried his patience. The refused to use the provided back line gear, so their setup time chewed up a batch of time, as did their breakdown. To compound that they went way over their allotted time, and continued to play even when
“given the hook”. The icing on the cake was that their stage volume was insanely loud, making it impossible for the sound engineer to get a decent mix. We went on and off without a hitch except for launching into the first song before the drummer was ready….

I did get the contactor mounted on the airplane with the help of my son, but didn’t get it cowled up yet, that’s an easy job, possibly for today, as there isn’t much else planned.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I sure appreciate the help guys.

I asked you if you’d checked the fuel pump yesterday, because it seems like a delivery problem.

I don't have a fuel pressure gauge. This uses a 12v diaphragm pump, that is supposed to pump at a very low pressure. The OEM Nippondenso pumps are VERY expensive, the china crap pumps (which I have) are cheap. I can buy about 6 cheap pumps for the price of OEM. The OEM's last a bit longer, but break too. You can hear my pump change frequency as it gets to the point of the carb being full, as it keeps pumping. It sounds like you would expect a pump getting to max pressure, then struggling.

Have you checked the float needle tip and seat? If the tip wears, the notch may no longer seal. If the seat is damaged or dirty, same deal. If dirt gets in the seat, sometimes you can get in there with a pencil eraser and clean it up.

I bought one of these test kits a while back when I was chasing fuel pressure issues on the van. Worked well...

I did look at the old rubber tip in my stereoscope. It was slightly worn at the point of contact. The orifice that the rubber tip goes into to shut off the fuel, is maybe about 1mm or smaller. It is not replaceable, it is just a drilled hole with a very small chamfer. A guy online spun a toothpick to clean it. Another in lieu of an electric pump, adapted a vacuum pump off of a lawnmower.

So a side issue is it seems the cooling system is not flowing. I pulled out the thermostat and checked it in a pot of boiling water....all good. Then I took off the water pump to check the impeller. I was thinking it was like a rubber outboard type, that made contact with the walls, but it is actually a hard plastic type, and doesn't contact the walls. Now I'm waiting on new gaskets to replace it. So I need to figure out how to bleed the system to make sure there are no air pockets.

I found this online, some have said to elevate the front end of the unit too.

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Another possible symptom online was a clogged exhaust. I had to take the muffler off to get to the water pump, so I took off the tailpipe spark arrestor, it was clear so I'm calling that OK. I even tried to start it with the exhaust off to see if that was the problem, and that's when I noticed the huge amount of fuel coming out of the exhaust ports. So now at least I know it's a flooding issue.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. Weather update tonight
Yesterdays Covid numbers:Covid update: Cooke 3316 confirmed cases, 66 active cases, Montague 1843 confirmed cases, 23 active cases, Grayson, 11886 confirmed cases, 197 active cases.
James, glad power loss no issue, always nice to know when new item works correctly. If generator had not started, could that make it harder to start?
Don your right would have made a great flip side
Doug then again without firm location, Jim could be anywhere
Roy hope fence posts went well
Oosik hope you got the house cooled off.
Ron what is a base plate? hope install went well. Nice moon pic
Billy sorry about paper work. Glad not trying to over do hikes. I soon learn the joys of FM radio and far less song overplaying
Bird hard to sleep here w/o A/C, to me getting stuck in rush hour traffic with no A/C was as bad
Drew enjoy your weather, hope mask meeting goes well.
Paul glad trip went well. Hope you got to hanger and made progress on contactor, and performance went well.
Dennis glad A/c not needed, and cat doing better.
Don, our hedges are doing better now that the dead tops are gone.
Randy hope you got your list done. sorry about the lousy forecast
RNG glad filling shall commence and hop you can get the long run pulled.
Kyle good luck tracking down the gator issue, had a truck with plugged cat converter, it was loud on way home! hope you got to enjoy concert.
John check printer to see if wired printing is enabled and driver configured to find printer
Dennis nice morning, pretty farmhouse, sorry about nerve issues
Ted good to hear from you. sorry the knee is not healing the way you would like. pics would be nice
Drew hope you had fun mowing, short grass really slows tick down except in the woods
RS you had plenty on plate yesterday
David glad you could take good batch of spaghetti to neighbors. Hope push mowing went well.
Eric interesting tractor, love to hear story behind it. Good to hear not too hot for chainsaw work.
Thomas sorry about squirrel knocking out power. The 21 mile trip for 6 screws almost as bad. Glad shed roof is done.
Doug glad you got some family time, sorry it was cut short. Sounds like they will be back to help you enjoy new toys
More posts tonight with normal post
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Bird/aging issues/, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes,Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Do niece/son/Covid, Bill/DIL home care, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/uncle, Drew/tendon healing, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery,RNG/fire season, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[daugen]

Tinhack, that's a nice weather display.

Picked two 1 pound tomatoes a few minutes ago to take to my brother's home tonight for dinner.
1.04 pounds is the current leader in the tomato olympics
I've grown much larger before but that's just bragging rights, I'd rather have good flavor.
One tomato I picked tasted pretty bland and flat actually. I have four varieties out there, need to pay attention
which ones I like best.

started raining earlier while church "service" was on, and since our doors are open for ventilation with lots of fans moving the air,
we are at the mercy of Rt 413/Durham Road which goes right next to our church. And on a nice day the noise of dozens and dozens of passing
motorcycles in the quiet of quiet worship is really hard to tune out. But let it rain and most the motorcycles of course stay home. And it's Sunday so the local
quarries are closed which keeps almost all the trucks off the road. So all I heard this morning
was the gentle hiss of car tires going by, very soft and soothing actually. So I didn't mind the rain at all.
Same thing with snow. Always slows down the traffic and makes everything quieter.

About half of us wore masks this morning to show solidarity with the kids of the three families that came, particularly when two of the three parents were masked.
Just our way of showing respect
We are at 2.6 moderate, going to watch that number like a hawk.

 

[sodamo]

70°F and only .01 inches rain.

Don’t know if it made the news, but unfortunately we joined the wild fire group. County evacuated 2 populated areas on the Waimea side of Mauna Kea.

I did get the dogs area mowed yesterday, just later than planned.

Need to do some clean up in the construction zone.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[txdon]

We are at 2.6 moderate, going to watch that number like a hawk.

I don't know if we have the same numbering system.
Our GA32 Total TSA is 8.24%
We are level red (the highest level) - uncontrolled spread.
Our county is 69% vaccinated

Yesterday Austin's new soccer stadium was well attended - sold out. No stores are requiring mask but about 1/3 of the customers and a few employees are wearing mask. Church was as usual one person wore a mask. Basically I think people are just tire of it all, I know I am. I continue to sanitize my hands after out in public but have not worn a mask in over a month, and don't miss it.

92˚F (HI102). clouds to the North 70% chance of rain tomorrow.

 

[two_bit_score]

I don't know if we have the same numbering system.
Our GA32 Total TSA is 8.24%
We are level red (the highest level) - uncontrolled spread.
Our county is 69% vaccinated

Yesterday Austin's new soccer stadium was well attended - sold out. No stores are requiring mask but about 1/3 of the customers and a few employees are wearing mask. Church was as usual one person wore a mask. Basically I think people are just tire of it all, I know I am. I continue to sanitize my hands after out in public but have not worn a mask in over a month, and don't miss it.

92˚F (HI102). clouds to the North 70% chance of rain tomorrow.

They say vaxxed people are the super spreaders.

 

[txdon]

They say vaxxed people are the super spreaders.

Who is "They"?