Good morning!!!!

[txdon]

I just planted a late 3 rows in the raised bed garden.
Beans
Okra
Tomatoes

They have taken off this week, a lot of green but no veggies yet.

 

[toppop52]

today's entry in the Tomato Olympics is a tie for Gold, 1lb 7oz.
I'm sure some of you will grow much larger tomatoes than that.

John Deere bush hogging along the Delaware Canal this morning

Get your thumb off the scale! LOL

 

[wngsprd]

Medscape Covid notes:
This week 93% of all covid cases are the Delta variant.

7 day average of new cases June 22 - 11,000. August 3 - 85,000

The Delta variant is expected to have a quick rise and a quick drop as what happened in U.K.
When will Delta start to burn out here? 5 predictions:
1. August 11,
2. mid August - mid September
3. September
4. mid October
5. unclear

As of August 3, 49.7% U.S. population vaccinated (80.1% over 65 vaccinated)

by Nov. 1, 64% of people in the U.S. will be immune to a variant like Delta taking those infected and those vaccinated.

Good update. Only thing I can't figure out is how they know that the 93% are Delta...I was told that the regular local testing most people get only determines that it is C-virus, but not which variety. Maybe this info was wrong, or maybe they are extrapolating from some samples that receive further testing.

 

[wngsprd]

It's official: Lake Oroville broke the all time record low water level last night at midnight. The previous record was 645', as of right now, it's sitting at 643 and getting even lower by the minute. The intakes for the Hyatt Power House are only a few feet from coming fully out of the water, shutting down one of the state's biggest hydroelectric plants, right in the middle of one of the worst heat waves ever...

It is so sad, between this and the fires.

 

[sodamo]

Here is an Alcohol story: (bet they wish they would have had a salad)

"Police said they believed alcohol use was involved: “Alcohol impairment is suspected to be a contributing factor for pedestrians.

Pablo Tiquiram Us, 29, and Chilambalam Tiquiram Us, 20, went to the crossing in Charlotte around 5:10 a.m. Tuesday to remember their brother Baltazar Tiquiram Us, 27, who was killed there when his van was hit by a light rail train a week earlier.

They were walking north on the southbound tracks in the early hours of the morning when they were struck and killed by a Lynx train from the Charlotte Regional Transportation System (CATS) at the same location as their brother."

Two killed by North Carolina train mourned brother who died in same location - LOVEBYLIFE

Two men killed by a train at North Carolina cried their deceased brother in the same place. Pablo Tiquiram Us, 29, and Chilambalam Tiquiram Us, 20, went

lovebylife.com

Maybe a cure for stupid.

 

[wngsprd]

Four years ago when my one building burned, my tractor, which started the fire, ZTR and countless other things were in there. About 6 pm after all the fire related people had gone, my adjuster showed up and looked things over. He asked how I was going to mow grass and some other things. I told him I didn’t have a clue. He wrote me a forward payment of $7500 on the spot so I could replace essential items.
Things like that are why I love them.

My experience with them has been similar.

 

[wngsprd]

Had a good trip down to my mom's yesterday...but it rained all day at the beach and was sunny here. We had lunch with her, my wife pulled up a bunch of our son's wedding pix on my mom's computer and showed them to her, since she wasn't able to make the trip. I did some chores, like replacing some ceiling light bulbs, installed a new cellular modem for her pacemaker box, and unlocked her email account. Tunnel traffic was light, so not bad for a rainy day.

Today went back to the mountains for a longer climb at Sugarloaf and Hogback. Met up with a USGS crew that was surveying the drought impact on the stream I was hiking across...it was dry. They had on waders, said it was dry in the middle section but not higher up, or in the lower section (streams sometimes disappear underground when dry conditions and surface lower down the mountain).

There was that welcome feeling of Autumn in August, knowing it would be back in the 90s rest of the week.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I stopped watching pro sports too. I can’t even get excited for college football either.

Have not watched olympics. Usually never watched much summer ones anyway. Coverage in past years was horrible, about 20 minutes of commercials per 10 min of sports. I hate NBC.

Also read they can’t quickly test the cv variant, they just know it’s cv. Pretty sure they blaming variant for more control. If they make us wear masks at work again I just may retire early, although i sit pretty much alone all day and only wore one if someone came close. MD was under 100 per day for a few weeks, now back at 700 today. Hospital and death rates still down.

Got the new grill igniter button and it works, didn’t have to install the spark end, old one still works. Plus it came with 2 buttons, so got a spare. Less than $20. Now where to store the other parts so I can find them when needed.

home late from work, gas light came on, forgot to stop this morning, so ran into Costco. Since there, went in and got a few things, but forgot oil for the truck. It takes 5w30, my other 2 are 0w20.
Hope to do Subaru Saturday.

Need to rearrange garage, and remove wheelchair ramp. For 20 yrs I had a Labor Day picnic here, some years over 100 people. I supplied and grilled meat, people brought sides. Would clean out garage and set food up there. Haven’t had it in 2 years now, don’t think I’ll resume, but do want to clean garage.
Got an old Sony projection tv that’s gonna get cut up, it’s mostly plastic. Amazing what trash guys take if you make it small enough. I’ve tossed mattresses after cutting into small pieces.

 

[Rich B1]

Coming home from dinner tonight, a young deer jumped the guardrail, crossed the lane and hit the saddlebag of my Triumph. Never went down, but bike felt like it lurched 2 feet sideways. The only damage was the LH saddlebag is toast. The deer had a broken neck.

The adrenaline was pumping, was trying to clear the road and 2 young guys in a Mustang convertible thought it was cute to give me the finger and tell me I was a moron for being in the road removing a dead deer and saddlebag.

A. It is good I don’t carry, because the adrenaline was pumping,

B. I couldn‘t find anything close at hand to throw at them.

Shame they didn’t stop…..

 

[Rich B1]

Good update. Only thing I can't figure out is how they know that the 93% are Delta...I was told that the regular local testing most people get only determines that it is C-virus, but not which variety. Maybe this info was wrong, or maybe they are extrapolating from some samples that receive further testing.

Local health department says it takes 4 - 6 weeks to confirm the variant. So not sure how they “know” 93% are Delta….

 

[MoKelly]

Coming home from dinner tonight, a young deer jumped the guardrail, crossed the lane and hit the saddlebag of my Triumph. Never went down, but bike felt like it lurched 2 feet sideways. The only damage was the LH saddlebag is toast. The deer had a broken neck.

The adrenaline was pumping, was trying to clear the road and 2 young guys in a Mustang convertible thought it was cute to give me the finger and tell me I was a moron for being in the road removing a dead deer and saddlebag.

A. It is good I don’t carry, because the adrenaline was pumping,

B. I couldn‘t find anything close at hand to throw at them.

Shame they didn’t stop…..

Holy cow.

Glad you were not hurt. Very fortunate you didn’t fall after the deer hit your bike.

I’d still have the adrenaline pumping!

MoKelly

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Rich, glad you are ok.

 

[Buppies]

Glad you are ok Rich

Sad story Don

Used to watch lots of sports not anymore too many primadonnas for me. Grew up across the street from Baltimore Colt offense guard, met a lot of Colt players Johnny U, Raymond Berry etc. These guys loved the game told me they would have played for free, not anymore

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 72F for the start, partly cloudy, light breeze. Light wind day, variable cloudiness till rain fell late afternoon, and high temp was 89F, DP 66F. Worked on new computer, getting Garmin programs loaded and updating the devices. Also had dog sitting, bike ride and nap. Dog bell woke me up when SIL came by to pick up dog .
Covid update: Cooke 3350 confirmed cases, 76 active cases, Montague 1876 confirmed cases, 35 active cases, Grayson, 12106 confirmed cases, 286 active cases.
David glad morning good, sorry about rain interfering with the mowing.
David, good pic
Ron don't let the smoke out of the wires. neat butterfly
Eric hope rain is not interfering with the outdoor activities
Drew hope mowing went well, great pics
Bird had one almost land in back yard when in STL. They decide not to after we talked to them. They had to climb about 100 feet to clear the houses on top of the hills. Talked with SIL He felt Liberty Mutual paid but as good as anyone on claims
RS testing the fence again?
Rene hope concrete does not get rained out
Don hope you enjoyed your opportunities.
Ken hope your wife enjoyed the instruction, neat pics
Kyle tell your mom Happy B-day. thanks for link
RNG weather sounds good for a change sorry wiring not going to plan. good luck with improving wiring mess.
Ted save by the bell again do hope you get more rain before end of monsoon season
PJ glad dog alerted you to escaped chickens. Nice the escape path was easy fix.
Drew keep after the exercise and you will get some strength back
David was watch some of the bike racing and thinking how do they know who is winning?
Drew nice tomato and pics
Thomas sorry rain messing with your deck plans
David at least you ate well at H&F.
John it is a classic
Don wonder if that story had a here hold my beer in it?
Don hope the returning heat does not hurt the garden too bad
Billy Glad you helped your mom out, sounds like nice hike today.
Dennis that is half the problem, being able to find spare parts good luck with garage
Rich glad you are alright and damage to bike was minimum. As for the guys in the convertible Karma can be a *****
Buppies sad to say you are right, not as many play for the fun of it.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter, Bird/aging issues/, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, PJ/FIL fall and stroke, David(moss)/remodel/divorce,Buppies/new areas, 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.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I may have posted this before but - it’s a classic to me!

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MoKelly

Truly a man after my own heart.

I gotta get me one'a those!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Maybe a cure for stupid.

I couldn't agree more, or express the thought in fewer words. A Darwin award may be appropriate.

 

[txdon]

Also read they can’t quickly test the cv variant, they just know it’s cv. Pretty sure they blaming variant for more control.

Good update. Only thing I can't figure out is how they know that the 93% are Delta...I was told that the regular local testing most people get only determines that it is C-virus, but not which variety. Maybe this info was wrong, or maybe they are extrapolating from some samples that receive further testing.

I'm not sure where Medscape got the 93% but this article (8-4-21) explains that the test tells the covid virus and then followup test define the variant.

"For the delta variant, Pinsky said, what’s known as the L452R mutation is often a telling sign: About 94% of the samples analyzed by his lab that show that mutation are proven to be delta once sequenced, he said. Moreover, about 90% of all positive samples recently sequenced by his lab are delta, he said."

Sequencing Used to Identify Delta, Other Coronavirus Variants - FactCheck.org

Researchers use genomic sequencing -- not the clinical tests used to diagnose patients with COVID-19 -- to identify and track specific variants of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, including the highly contagious delta variant. But viral posts try to deny the existence of the variant by...

www.factcheck.org

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Coming home from dinner tonight, a young deer jumped the guardrail, crossed the lane and hit the saddlebag of my Triumph. Never went down, but bike felt like it lurched 2 feet sideways. The only damage was the LH saddlebag is toast. The deer had a broken neck.

The adrenaline was pumping, was trying to clear the road and 2 young guys in a Mustang convertible thought it was cute to give me the finger and tell me I was a moron for being in the road removing a dead deer and saddlebag.

A. It is good I don’t carry, because the adrenaline was pumping,

B. I couldn‘t find anything close at hand to throw at them.

Shame they didn’t stop…..

Glad neither you nor the bike suffered too much.

Been there, done that, except the guy driving the first car that came along got out his pocket knife and put the deer out of its misery.

I didn't go down, either, but went way off the road. Didn't hit anything and stayed upright. The aluminum saddlebag on that side took most of the blow. I purchased a bar clamp at a local hardware store, and a large roll of tape. Applied lots of tape to the jaws of the clamp, used it to straighten the bag, and returned the clamp for a refund. Jesse bags rock; I have something like four pairs of them. and most have been crash tested.

You can mitigate many of the risks in motorcycling, but deer aren't one of them. Even the best riding suit won't keep you from, literally, losing your head. Yeah, knew a guy that had that happen, but he was doing well over the ton when it happened.

 

[rswyan]

66F and clear, heading down to a low of 62F in the overnight. Heading into a warmer period for the Ten Day, highs in the upper 80's/low 90's.

Today went a different direction than I had anticipated.

I started off early this morning raking up leaves in the second circle as part of the process of preparing it for further planting.

Got a good bit of that done where I had previously sprayed it for weeds, probably 4 or 5 bucketloads of debris raked and hauled up to the compost pile.

The Woman showed up and after some discussion and a little research, we decided to removed the 10 or so honeysuckle bushes in that area. I had considered replanting them elsewhere because they were really doing all that well under the trees. But opted instead to just remove and get rid of them because: 1. they are old (although the last time we pruned them back they came right back), but primarily because: 2. turns out they are an invasive species.

This opens up parts of the area to a little more afternoon light, which may help the stuff that is already growing in there and whatever we end up planting in addition.

While I was doing that The Woman took the loppers to the forsythia growing at the northwest edge of the second circle. It was originally one bush, but when I excavated the topsoil to add the second circle, it got piled up around the bush and it propagated itself via drooping stems into the soil and there are now about 8 forsythia bushes where there once only one. Probably all of them will get transplanted along the west property line in the lower front to form a hedge ... which should eventually reduce the leaves from the neighbors' trees blowing over into our yard. Still a lot more to do to get them all cut back so they can be dug out and transplant though.

After I finished up digging out the honeysuckle and hauling them up to the burn pile we took a break for brunch. Had an egg, two sausage patties from the pigs that they neighbor raised (was good, but not quite as good as the bacon IMO) and a couple pieces of toast. Woman had an omelette with some medium hot pepper from the garden. I had a bite of that as well - was good.

After that I fueled up the Cub and she went to town on the front, which since the weed and feed has really greened up and started growing. Usually this time of year, it's looking pretty brown and gone into dormancy ... but with the rain we've had it's still growing and looking pretty good. Don't know exactly how far she got, but I'm guessing she got most of the lower front done.

By that time it was around 15:00 and since I hadn't gone to sleep last night I headed inside to take a little nap. Had only intended to sleep for around 3 hours or so but it was feeling soooo good when the alarm went off at 18:00 I just killed it and went back to sleep ... ... ended up waking up around 21:00.

Will probably work on drawing some water for partial water changes and maybe a little kitchen clean up before I head back to bed.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[sodamo]

Glad to hear you are OK, Rich