Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

The FDA is neutral on the Moderna and J&J boosters - whatever that means. ???

They said the Moderna was still producing enough antibodies so a booster was not needed unless you were immunocompromised.

 

[txdon]

The hazards of deer are also in suburban areas. This ouch was posted by a neighbor:

"Deer danger.
My wife and I would like to thank everyone and update everyone who stopped to render aid to us last Monday after our golf cart was hit by a large buck deer as we drove down Pedernales just after dusk. We never saw the buck until we felt the violent impact from the side. It hit us so hard it nearly knocked the cart over and knocked my wife out onto the pavement. She suffered a broken leg, ankle, heel, head injuries and cuts and bruises all over but no brain damage. I found out later I had broken ribs. We’re on the mend now and again would like to thank all those who stopped . . ."

 

[toppop52]

Day four of overcast drizzly skies. The wind has finally switched from NE to NW so I guess it’s going to clear out sometime. Low 70’s right now.
Put a new rear wiper on wife’s Edge, made ham salad this morning, I want to install the new carb on the EZGO this afternoon. I need to pull the MMM off the Massey and service the tractor as well.
We will see how it goes, have a good one.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

For the fiddle and violin players.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The doubling glazing production lines finally caught up with our order, we had 11 window panes replaced yesterday. Strange to open the curtains this morning and see through an almost invisible hole in the wall instead of beads of condensation sandwiched between 2 pieces of glass.



No I haven't. My dad was called up to service in September 1939 and was sent to ********* that winter. 4 years and 9 months later he returned home after being hit by shrapnell from a mortar. One of the things I most admired about him is that despite many Germans doing their utmost to kill him for such a long time, he never held any grudge against anyone who had fought against him.

My dad’s grandmother was German, and dad went to fight the Germans.

 

[sodamo]

68°F and only 1.23 inches rain.

Slow but steady progress in caretaker ohana. Decided an extra moisture barrier was better than wasting the already bought Redgard

Wife rescheduled birthday meal with brother to this afternoon. Will take advantage with side trip to brewery for a refill. Will be visiting a very local, Hawaiian place, Kuhio Grill, www.kuhiogrille.com – Home of the One Pound Laulau

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

68F and partly/mostly cloudy @ 12:00, headed up to a high of 74F.

First bulb order was delivered this morning, and The Bulb Inspector approves:

Need to order some plant labels from Amazon.

Sounds like The Squeak is tormenting The Woman and the Big Orange Cat.

We have a new cat that is trying to adopt us:

It belonged to the next door neighbors who left it when they moved (a sad story there) She swears she isn't going to take him in, but she's already feeding him. He's an uncut male ...

Got all down around house mowed/leaves blown off again yesterday ... well except for a little area on the left as you come down the drive.

The Woman got the northwest planting bed weeded. We need to treat it with Preen so we can avoid that in the future.

Also got another two pallets of firewood made up and shrinkwrapped and moved down into the barn. Think that makes 7 total so far. Probably one more to go to completely clear the east side of the shop.

Also cut two 10' sticks of rebar in half, into stakes to use for trees/plants. I cut up a 10' x 3' roll of 1/2" hardware cloth into three sections the other night to make cages to protect various plants. Got one of them completely finished, and another at least 50% done as far as joining the ends together to form a cylinder. Going to deploy one of those today around one of the new peach trees.

Hope to get a couple of redbuds planted today, and possibly the rest of the Roses of Sharon.

Probably have some more tomatoes that are ripe enough to be picked.

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

 

[daugen]

well my Hawaiian chicken moku bowl was good, but a little bland for me. Next time I'll try something
more adventurous. Had lunch with an eight grader (our school's seniors) and it was a delight.
First he had a McLaren hat on and I asked him if his Dad owned one. He promptly replied "I wish!"
Then he asked me about my hobbies and when I mentioned I had been a local fireman many years ago,
he promptly came back with "thank you for your service". My jaw dropped...didn't know kids could be that mature
at that age. It was a quiet and fun break from the prior hour of being way too close to a whole yard full of kids at recess.
All that screeching, but it was all good. Just hard on my tinnitus. So four hours of school board duty now done, I'm going to take a nap
this afternoon.

Gas station that took my audi to Manheim auction left a message my money was ready. The only positive thing about waiting from March to now and accomplishing nothing
ordering that truck was that my car sold for 5500 dollars more in October than it would have brought in March.
So I got a good price on the trade, which is sure helpful since the body shop emailed me a quote for $1399 to repair the rear fender lip rust.
Quote showed 200 dollars for a new panel, and 8 hours of labor to put it on, plus painting, etc etc.
On a truck with this mileage and age, I wanted a bondo and paint job, not a new panel.
So off to another body shop tomorrow morning to get another quote.
Clearly doing rust repairs is one of their least favorite jobs.
I think 7-800 bucks is my limit or I'll settle for doing it myself.
Area is mostly hidden anyway.
Plus we found where the front right fender had already been repaired, same rust problem I'm sure.
Someone did a beautiful job on it though, just a tiny ripple in one spot.
Interesting that rust was on both right wheel wells, left was fine.
More water and salt on the right side?

The rest of this truck is in very good condition; I think an older guy driving around with his big white dog in the truck.
Truck had been maintained at dealership, they had his record, replaced rear brakes, and nothing else major.
But I clearly bought a rotter. Just have to stay ahead of it. Thankfully I did not overspend on this truck.

Next year I hope to get an EV for use around town. Should be some good deals on a Bolt. It is going to cost
LG 1.9 billion dollars to replace those bad batteries. And meanwhile you can't charge your car in your garage or more
than 90 percent. Tesla is smiling all the way to the bank.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Late breakfast at 10 after Dr appointment, so skipped lunch. Even something bland would be good now. Stomach says that doesn’t count as lunch.

There’s still some good kids out there.

 

[PJSprog]

...didn't know kids could be that mature at that age.

Evidence of good parenting.

 

[sodamo]

Evidence of good parenting.

And reinforcement at school

 

[rswyan]

60F and clear @ 20:30, heading down to a low of 58F for the overnight.

Finished up the first pass on screening of compost.

Then installed rebar and cage around the tallest Rose of Sharon while Woman went out to do some shopping. Still need to fashion a cap for it:

After The Woman got back from the grocery run I unloaded the groceries from the car.

Then took the loppers up and trimmed some low-hanging branches by the compost pile that had been slapping me in the face while she made us some sandwiches.

After eating I fed the downstairs cat and we dug out out three of the volunteer Redbud trees and transplanted two:

Gave the third one to the neighbor friend who gave us the Rose of Sharon.

After that I started the second pass on screening the compost that had been run through earlier, got that about half done.

Woman was making brownies when I got back down to the house.

Finishing Amazon and Menards orders, then a shower and head down to feed the fish afterwards.

All three upstairs cats out in garage on Safari, need to be let in.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[philtyler]

A little chilly here in Western Australia South West this morning. A warm coffee and a walk will help. P.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

My dad’s grandmother was German, and dad went to fight the Germans.

There are a lot of German immigrants in Texas. WWI and WWII made speaking german verboten. I don't know any german other than the name of a bra in German....derstopperflappen.

A little chilly here in Western Australia South West this morning. A warm coffee and a walk will help. P.

Welcome philtyler. Are you near the coast?

Just got done doing youth night at church. Had a good group of kids.

Here's a DB song they put out while we were all couped up. PJS, how (other than digitally) do they get the synchronization right? Who led off?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I love Mcfee playing banjo on that version.

Welcome phil.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 76F for the start, overcast, windy. Wind slowed down between cells, first rain about 9AM, period on thunder cells, rain estimate about 1 inch. Raining as I type this. High temp at 5AM, 78F, low temp 59F at 8PM. Men's meeting this morning, then mostly energy conservation, with some gutter maintenance during light rain spells.
Covid update: Cooke 4093 confirmed cases, 27 active cases, Montague 2567 confirmed cases, 30 active cases, Grayson, 15,935 confirmed cases, 227 active cases. Cooke 3, Montague 8, Grayson 38, new cases. Grayson number still don't add up
Don, not sure you understood my question. When I was in the Alzheimer research study, the Dr.s would talk about where the new drugs were in their development, which lead to discussions on how much testing was done prior to full drug approval. The 4 year period to bring vaccine to market was based on the same testing levels. Have you heard or seen if Moderna, Pfizer and J&J are finishing the normal amount of testing?
Don that plate looks awesome1
Roy hope you get your mowing done.
Drew sounds like a long but interesting day, I wouldn't mind trying several of the moku bowels.
Buppies hope the worker do alright in the late heat wave.
Ron good to hear PT is helping your back. Enjoy your conserve energy day. Nice pic
Thomas hope leaf duty is productive.
Billy hope weather improves for adjust visitor attitudes, Willy never was good at catching Road Runner.
Mike cool pic
Paul sorry about the driver magnet issues, good to hear trip was safe, hope container is unloaded soon.
Ken sorry about the short days, neat pic
RNG good to hear wind backed off with no further fire issues. Gotta love the communication. Glad oil leak easy to correct on red bike.
Kyle enjoy the concert
Bill hope the rain lets up to let you get the projects done. Interesting possibilities on Jeep.
Ted you did not get much of a fall.
PJ time to turn that app off. I am impress that any rock musicians can hear the way the crank up the volume
Eric, congrats on your new windows, impressive about your dad.
Don Thanks for the link. Good to hear whipper does no need a lot of medicine to keep on a even keel. Nice whipper story
Don impressive damage from the deer.
David neat story on the 1 pound laulau
RS not sure you want a un-nuetered male cat around. Good luck with "new" cat and agenda.
Drew glad you had a nice day at school.
RS sounds like you had good day
Phil T welcome to GM thread
Kyle thanks for link. my dad's parent both spoke German and English, did not teach dad and brother German so they could talk and kids not understand.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don,whipper/more tests,ring bearer/back broken, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments, PJ/FIL fall and stroke, Dennis /wife wrist surgery and recovery, Roy/ palpitations, angina wife/ankle recovery, David(moss)/remodel/divorce, Buppies/new cancer on arm, Thomas/gout, Phil/reflux/wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted/knee recovery, Doug and wife/health issues/nerve and pain/ wife's eyes, Ken/aunt fall injuries, David(sadamo)/Sophie's eye surgery/Back issues, RNG/fire season, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/injuries from fall, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Mike/elbow pain, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all

 

[philtyler]

There are a lot of German immigrants in Texas. WWI and WWII made speaking german verboten. I don't know any german other than the name of a bra in German....derstopperflappen.



Welcome philtyler. Are you near the coast?

Just got done doing youth night at church. Had a good group of kids.

Here's a DB song they put out while we were all couped up. PJS, how (other than digitally) do they get the synchronization right? Who led off?

40k/25 miles from the coast

There are a lot of German immigrants in Texas. WWI and WWII made speaking german verboten. I don't know any german other than the name of a bra in German....derstopperflappen.



Welcome philtyler. Are you near the coast?

Just got done doing youth night at church. Had a good group of kids.

Here's a DB song they put out while we were all couped up. PJS, how (other than digitally) do they get the synchronization right? Who led off?

25 miles/40k from the coast.

 

[sodamo]

Welcome to GM, Phil

 

[Alien]

A little chilly here in Western Australia South West this morning. A warm coffee and a walk will help. P.

We are under threat of wild weather here in the East at the moment. Still warm though.
Rained all night and a bit of today. So glad my slab went down without a hitch yesterday. Better to be rain on it than hot sun while it cures.
Where I live we are sheltered from the west by the Toowoomba Range so we don't cop anything too nasty.
Anything from the East usually fades by the time it reaches us and the Minden Range stops a lot of it.

 

[RoyJackson]

2021-10-14, 0341

60° right now...high about 70°...

Mowing is done....I'm guessing for the last time this year, but I could be wrong
Question for you guys since I'm writing about my mowing. I've always changed the engine oil at the beginning of the mowing season, but a buddy claims it's better to change before winter storage.
What's your opinions?

Margeaux chewed on on of my favorite winter slippers...well, I found it last night. I was pretty pissed and was probably too harsh with her. Damn...those slippers cost $35!

Well, finally worked out a schedule...stepdaughter has to work Wednesdays, Thursdays and weekends. I'll be at work Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, work from home Wednesdays and Thursdays. I expect some variations due to Doctor's appointments, but this should be a a fairly regular schedule until Suzette is ambulatory and can get around on her own