Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Mostly, is this you?

 

[Fuddy1952]

If you really zoom in you can see the flower faces.

 

[rswyan]

69F with light rain @ 21:00. High hit 90F here today, HI 98. Cold front coming through now, high tomorrow only supposed to be 79F.

Knocked off around 17:00 with the dirt moving as a thunderstorm was coming in. Did get a little rain with it but barely enough to wet the pavement. Tried to mow down around the house around 18:30 but it started sprinkling again after I had been out there only a few minutes so I called it quits.

Later, after Woman got home, the big line of thunderstorms moved through and we got dumped on. Timberlink station which is a little south of us shows they got 1.43", Portage Lakes station which is a little north recorded 0.89" ... so we're probably somewhere in between those two numbers.

Had to remove a couple of trees that were growing out of the dirt pile:

Still a lot left to go.

Will probably roll the lawn tomorrow, since it's bound to still be wet. Possibly core it afterwards.

Gonna grab a shower and hit the rack, hopefully get an early start tomorrow.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 75F for the start, partly cloudy and light breeze. Partly to mostly cloudy, windy, and high temp was 95F HI 101F, and DP 66F. Cleaning lady prep to start, bike ride, then nap, and down to Pilot Point to see Big Boy. It was 2 hours late, got to talk with a guy who had radio to monitor train and tracking website. crowd had thinned a bunch. no cockpit tours Took wife straight to dinner after we got back to Kiowa.
Covid update: Cooke 3449 confirmed cases, 128 active cases, Montague 1917 confirmed cases, 38 active cases, Grayson, 12312 confirmed cases, 257 active cases. Cooke 7, Montague 7, Grayson 0, new cases.
Dennis no dog in the field of Dreams game, Cardinal fan. Glad you are still enjoying the corn
David I like your spin of the loss as a strategic win
Doug have fun at car club
Ron have fun mowing and glad you didn't have much damage. Lot of rain, nice flower pic
Buppies 105F and no heat index will still wilt most people
Thomas what no pics of the hens?
Drew What do you think we are doing in Texas?
Ron I saw a couple faces
Bird I always thought it was the res streaks that gave them their name.
Drew half the fun of watching them is the buzzing of each other.
Billy Have not seen Rick on TX summer thread either, but he was goon a few months earlier this year.
Paul enjoy practice tonight
Ken you realize it takes years for poison ivy to break down. Sorry about your allergic reaction
Ted that is a pile of branches off the tree, glad not more damage to truck.
Randy I read somewhere that the gulf stream stops several times a year.
RNG hope you air quality improves beyond red ball peeking through smoke. Hope you get the extenders running, and sorry to hear about the solar guy dropping the ball and blaming you.
Drew glad mowing done hope you can cool off.
David good to hear you got new belts
Don i suspect the older you are the more the vaccine will help you. It will take some time and honest data to really get a handle on Covid.
RS sounds like some good seat time.
Thomas sorry to hear about knotheads, lot of TLC to mowers.
John fun way to dog sit
Dennis glad you got rain, cheesecake sounds very yummy
Dennis no my bars are 6 feet across
RS nice rain big trees in your dirt pile!.
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,Thomas/gout, 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.

 

[sodamo]

The rainy morning proved just right for running errands to town, PO, and dump. Even a treat at Baskin Robbins.

Dried enough to get another couple hours mowing in afternoon.

Just my area far right left. Hopefully tomorrow.

I don’t have the green thumb of many here, but we do have a wild flower (orchid) I find delicately pretty. Not the best photo, but

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-08-14, 0350

72° right now...high in the upper 70's today. Rain showers (heard the rain hitting the sunroom skylight windows a few minutes ago).
No chores planned, but if the rain moves out, I do need to finish mowing and string trimming.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 60° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 76° with sunny skies. Dr visit went well. PSA numbers keep going down. Grass is mowed and trimmed. Going to do shop projects today. Nice that it has cooled off.

RNG, hope you get link to last camera working.

David, I do not know which pictures is better. I do like flower pictures.

Mostly, glad you got to see Big Boy.

Don, they do look like cow faces. There is one rabbit to the right.

Fuddy, yes you do need to zoom in to see faces.

LS, rain.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Been doing quite a bit of grass and weed cutting with the rotary topper. All 4 blades had dings in their cutting edge, so I took them off and dressed them. Picked the last one up to put on the balancing jig and for some inexplicable reason, tested how hot it had got during grinding by putting my finger on the nicely polished steel. Answer was "very" ! I suppose I should just be glad that while my brain was in stupid mode, it hadn't wondered how sharp the edge was too...

I sure miss the old TBN emoticons

Me too, maybe we are too old to appreciate the subtleties in what younger generations prefer ?

Mostly I'm amazed at the time and caring you take to make your list every day.
From all of us, thank you

Ken, please, no more talk of bugs so large that you need to slow down and tighten your seat belt - my dreams are too vivid to cope !

 

[daugen]

good morning all
72 out now going up to high 80's with storms this afternoon.
Not going to be good for all those cars at car show today, not sure I'm going.
Will see if coffee motivates me...

Mostly, very cool train pics, what a huge beast and hearing that go by must be amazing.

need to go food shopping early, then might make a run back down town for a few hours at the car show.

hope you all have a great weekend.

 

[daugen]

rumblings from Congress about reducing incentives for EV's for wealthy folks, who they define as
annual income over 100k. They also want to only offer the tax credit for cars under 40k new.
Yet most EV's cost more than that.
And in a year I've read that China will be exporting high quality compact EVs that will price undercut the entire
market by $10k. Seems like the new incentive rules may have some unfortunate results unless more tariffs raise their ugly head.

if you've been considering a nice new Tesla, sounds like now's the time to buy one.

David, another great pic of Paradise. When you come up "over the rise" and look down at the ocean going off into the horizon, that field would
never get mowed if I was there, I'd just be staring at that view. But I'll be glad to try.

Ron, resolution on last pic amazing, little bronze neck hairs arranged in pretty pattern, looks like shells lined up

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Everybody including me is up early for a Saturday. Well, Eric is 5 hrs late.
Thanks for the big boy pics.
Rooster is crowing and doves are singing.
Went to bed a little early last night, body just aches. Still aches this morning.
Have a company picnic at a coworkers house this afternoon. He lives up my way, so not a long trip. Calling for 60% chance of rain, not sure what they will do for rain.
Need to get Subaru oil changed this morning, it’s overdue. Not looking forward to laying on concrete floor to get plug out, but it doesn’t take too long.
I give the sermon at worship at the end of the month, I do it once a year. gotta get working on that. Hardest part is usually deciding on a topic.

 

[Thomas]

72F cloudy and will be most of the day chance afternoon t storms than clear cooler temps,upper 70's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Right on time last evening Boo show up had quick snack at critter cafe than headed to get cold drink of water from the over flowing well than curl up under spruce trees took long nap.

Plans for today...trim spruce tree and bank also ditch line,than see what the rest of the day has to offer.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[Buppies]

.14 in of rain yesterday very cloudy this morning. Change oil in truck then see what I have to do

prayers for all

 

[mpham]

Morning all! 70 here with a partly cloudy humid 82 forecast.
Will be going out to breakfast with the wife to start the day.
Nothing planned for outside work. Will be going to the apartment house to watch an electrician fix a faulty, slightly melted wire to a refrigerator plug.
After that take it as it goes.
Hope everyone is safe and healthy!

 

[wngsprd]

70 and humid going to 92.

Ron, good news on your PSA. Nice hummer pic.

Mostly, I get excited when just a modern train comes down our nearby tracks, so know seeing that one would be sweet. Nice handlebars on your bike, too.

Caught up all the mowing yesterday...another 3 hours blowing grass and pollen and dust.

Last night was deemed to be "game night" by our oldest son and DIL...they came for dinner and to spend the night. We were outside and I was showing them the bee tree and telling the story when a huge storm starting blowing lawn chairs around and leaves off the trees...we got only a sprinkle, but nearby got a good soak.

We stayed up 'til after midnight playing table games and had a lot of laughs (the best medicine). I woke up a couple of hours ago, anyway...doesn't matter when I go to bed...still wake up early. So, fed the birds and made coffee and a gallon of hummingbird food for later in the day.

 

[daugen]

Thomas, you take very good care of Boo

 

[Popgadget]

Good morning.
It’s 75 and only going to 85 with rain and thunderstorms likely today. Another good day to spend inside.

Yesterday started with some electrical trouble shooting, son said outlets didn’t work in his room, computer switched to UPS. He checked the breaker, it was on and not tripped. Culprit turned out to be a bad connection in a wire nut. Apparently it got hot enough to melt the wire nut.

Spent the rest of the day in the shop, made good progress both on speakers and tidying up the cables in the music room. Rehearsal went well, son, DIL and grandson stopped by, grandson loves music, and is a very animated listener. We made a lot of progress on songs that we’ve been working on. It’s interesting as a song takes shape to see how near or far from the original vision it strays. We took one pretty far last night.
Someone sent me a picture from a show a couple of weeks ago, I thought it funny that my rock and roll t shirt was from the Grange Fair and had a Farmall on it.

Today will be another shop day, hope to get the finish on the two speakers nearing the end of the production line, I can tinker with last night’s recording as well. Maybe go to BJ’s with my wife.

 

[rswyan]

69F and mostly cloudy @ 09:30, headed up to a high of around 80F for the day.

It appears that we got an additional 0.25" (almost) of rain last night.

Today and tomorrow will be dry and then we go into higher chances (30% to 60%) of rain for the rest of the Ten Day.

First thing on agenda for today is to replace a leaking hose on one of the lift cylinders on the Kubota and top off the hydraulic fluid. It started dripping yesterday and by the time I knocked off it was approaching constant. I have all four hoses for the lift cylinders, so if it goes well on the one that is leaking I may go ahead and just do them all.

After that I need to take a bucket of dirt up to the neighbor so he can backfill the last little section of his utility trench.

Then I'll probably fill up the lawn roller with water and roll the lawn since it should still be good and moist. May follow that with coring again.

Followed by completing the mowing down here around the house.

If it dries up enough over around the pole barn may try moving more dirt down to there.

I suspect the area around the creek crossing is probably a muddy mess and it will take at least a day to dry up enough to work over there.

While the high(er) probability of rain for this coming week are great for the lawn and plants (especially this time of year), it doesn't do a whole lot for being able to work in areas that are prone to being muddy.

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

 

[daugen]

nice pic Paul, you were grooving along

there is use for us old farts after all...

not looking healthy for Louisiana and Florida
And now the spread is among the young which makes sense since
they aren't vaccinated.

"This is starting to look really ominous in the South. ... If you look at rates of transmission
in Florida and Louisiana, they're actually probably the highest in the world,"

decided not to fight the traffic or take the jammed packed variant laden shuttle busses from parking lot in, so passed on today's
car show. Too bad they don't have a live cam...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 77F @ 7:00AM. A mix of clouds and sun. Hot. High 106F. Winds light and variable.

What a great neighbor, RS. And that dirt! Not a rock to be found in it!

Now we have two Pauls that play the bass...

Nothing Ideal about that wire nut though. Down right scary.

A week or so ago I installed a new sensor on the automatic gate opener, and so far it's been working reliably. The wire was just laying on the ground, so yesterday I slipped lengths of PVC around it and used wooden stakes to pin it in place. Once the trench is filled in, I'll dump some of the extra dirt over the PVC and avoid having to dig yet another trench.

Not much luck with the camera at the upper tank yesterday. Got one camera to work, and it even updated its firmware, but then it quit. Brought it back down to the garage and it worked fine when directly attached to the network with a patch cable, then brought down the Ethernet extender pair and they worked fine, too, even through almost 900' of cable on three different reels. Thought I'd try a different camera that draws less power, and again it worked fine in the garage on the reels of cable, but not on the line running up to the tank. Got out the Ethernet tester, and the line to the tank tested fine in several different ways, even picked up a network address via DHCP. But still no joy with either camera. All that fooling around wasted pretty much the whole day. I have one or two more things to check this morning, but at this point I don't have very much confidence in the extenders and will try to get a refund for them.

Word this morning from the Dixie Fire is that radar spotted rotation in the thunder clouds over it yesterday afternoon. Might have been a fire tornado like they had over Redding a few years ago. Several new fires in the area caused by lightning strikes. More evacuations were ordered, Lake Almanor is almost completely surrounded and firefighters are prepping the small town of Westwood for fire. Hope it goes better for them than it did in Greenville, which was an almost total loss. The fire is now closing in on 520,000 acres, no time estimate for containment.

Edit: Fire size just updated to 540,581 acres & 31% contained.

Hard to believe it's already the weekend. Hope everyone enjoys it.