Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Like may the fourth be with you

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-05-04, 0623

48° right now...high at 50° and rain

Gonna put in for vacation time today...got time from last year I need to burn...just not feeling up to par for the last few days

 

[Buppies]

Hope you feel better soon Roy

 

[buckeyefarmer]

53°
We got .47” rain over night. I did hear one loud thunder once.

One of my great nephews birthday today. May fourth.

 

[daugen]

52 going up to 71 today in light rain this morning.
off to lunch with a friend and school board meeting tonight, that's the plan.
Roy, feel better.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 35 and high to 55°F. Wind N 15 gusting to 23 mph. 30% chance of showers.

Today is cat castration day, IF we can catch the little ninja.
After we drop off the cat, it is off to Princess Auto about 2 hours south of me and get a 26 pc impact socket set in metric. Everything from 10 mm to 36 mm.
https://www.princessauto.com/en/26-pc-1-2-in-dr-metric-deep-impact-socket-set/product/PA0008476061
They've gotten good reviews, and for $220.oo+tax I dont think that is a bad price.
I should get back from there just in time to pick up the cat.

We got the trailer flipped over yesterday and all the connections I need to take apart are all bolted. This IS a bonus! It is only the drawbars that are rotten. The floor could use a little attention. I will use pop rivets for its' patches.

That is my day all mapped out.

Have a safe day all

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
49 with a high of 68. Light rain now, clearing later.

Yesterday’s breakfast with the professor didn’t happen, maybe today.
Did get one paperwork project completed and submitted. Did a little electrical work at the restaurant, and spent a little time with grandson.

Today will be taken up with a trip to Sarasota. The drive to the airport and back takes as long as it does to get to Sarasota. (But not the return trip).

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 73˚F 91%, humidity muggy cloudy day heading to the upper 80s. This weekend the predicted high temps will be 100˚F - or are they just sensationalizing. We usually don't hit the hundreds until June.

I got into a patch of briars in FireWise and when I looked at my long sleeves they were filled with blood. But since it was very humid and warm after the next hour my sweat washed the blood out. Needed to hydrate the rest of the day and did not get to the trail mulching.

Opening trail day is scheduled for Friday the 13th - what could go wrong?

Wngsprd, do we hope buckeye's wife does or does not have "it"? If she is false positive she does not get the natural antibodies with mild symptoms. By the time a third test is given she might be over "it" but it would be interesting to see if another Post Office test now is positive or can those test just be thrown away in the no confidence trash can.

 

[Helogabals]

Bongiorno !
Today again I am flying to Italy. Nothing special, couple days business trip with customer

Nice day, just arrived to airport. But man, you dont want to see fire brigade anyway near your plane ....

At the end it turned out to be baggage conveyor issue. They were (typically for airport) overreacting Anything wrong with the plane.

Have a nice day !

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, rainy chilly.
So drove almost to Delaware to retrieve my folks who are now home and we had a nice dinner and discussed their travel plans.

Today I take them for their rescheduled aligator travel tests. Dinner tonight and them off to airport tomorrow.
My dad has always had an awful sense of direction. He could have ended up in MA just as easily and has trouble using a cell phone or any digital device, like a watch.
Weird as both my brother and I have good sense of direction.

Foot is all black and blue, but getting better. Dermatologist says not skin cancer, so other than 3 hours of driving to get my dad, it was a pretty good day for our family.

BEF - hope test is negative and the MRs. recovers fast

So I don't know if any of you have seen this news, horrendous news.

A woman in our town went nuts and shot her two kids in the head and they are technically dead.
Both kids in the same school our son went to, so all our school kids are freaking out.
Town is in mourning.
No one is certain why this happened and no one seems to know of any issues in that family.
she is in jail now.

 

[PJSprog]

50°F and cloudy this morning, going up to 68° today. More rain coming in the wee small hours of the morning tomorrow and into Friday. Then, it's looking like we may be moisture free for the next week.

I've read that as well about the small mounds, Randy. Interestingly enough, just west of the mounds site here on the opposite side of I-70 is a giant garbage dump ("landfill" is the pleasant name they use) that makes Monk's Mound look like a dirt clod by comparison.

Hope your Wife stays mild, BEF.

 

[mpham]

Phil, is that a pallet of wood pellets?

Yes. Two of the 5 tons waiting to be moved into the garage. We bought next years supply before the price jumps up. They are already 30 bucks a ton more than what we paid.
48 here with rain all day in the forecast. Think it will be a good jigsaw puzzle day after chores are done!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[PJSprog]

I've seen that story, Ken. Women killing their children doesn't happen without some larger issue at play. Sorry your town is having to endure such a tragedy.

 

[daugen]

ken, this is awful. She went crazy...

Update: What we know about the Upper Makefield shooting of 2 brothers in their home

The Bucks County District Attorney on Monday said the children's mother, Trinh Nguyen, 38, of Upper Makefield, shot her 10 and 13-year-old sons before trying to shoot 22-year-old Gianni Melchiondo, a…

www.buckscountycouriertimes.com

 

[pennwalk]

"No one is certain why this happened"

I don't think there has been enough focus on the damage that the virus can do to the brain but I have no idea what could be done about that.
It seems like it is increasingly common but still very sad.

Chris

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 52 now, may go up some. It just stopped raining again.

Got a lot of rain yesterday. I was hoping the driveway would be damp enough to do some maintenance today with the box blade, but it is now likely too wet. Maybe tomorrow.

Yesterday’s “puttering” ended up being somewhat busy time checking squish band on a Bultaco 350 Astro engine. And finding out the piston needs the skirt trimmed on the exhaust side. The squish band was easy, turns out the sand cast head I found /stock was die cast) has a machined combustion chamber and needs no special attention. And the squish is about .002” bigger than the calculated ideal. Of worth the bother to improveit, will actually reduce swirl velocity very slightly, which may keep the head/cylinder cooler.

Piston is from another model, but finding standard bore pistons is tough. So a friend of mine can trim it to match another piston I have for another cylinder that has a larger bore. I need to drill lube/cooling holes too.

Got to talk to a couple of people Saturday that have experience with Kawasaki twin race bikes. My raffle special is, at best, poorly put together. Turns out a lot of the things on the bike are mainstream, just very poorly done. One guy who is now fairly well known for building fast Indians doesn’t live far from me, gave me his phone # and said call him anytime for advice and even some parts! Progress.

Hope your wife is ok BEF.

Not sure what today will bring.

Everyone stay safe out there!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 68F @ 6:15AM. Abundant sunshine. High around 90F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.

Sounds promising on the bike, Rich. Nothing like having a guru in your corner!

How 'bout some pics of your backstop, Billy? I could use some pointers...

Too hot, too early, Don. Didn't you feel those brambles chewing up your arms?

One of the little MIG (GMA) welders available now would be easy to master, and work better, too, on the sheet metal on the trailer, Bill. They call it stick welding because the short, coated electrodes have a tendency to stick to the work and turn orange, especially until you get the hang of it. With MIG, you just point it where you want the weld and pull the trigger.

Punched another hole in the wall to bring the Starlink antenna cable inside, so now don't have to keep the sliding door in that room cracked open to use the link. Still no delivery update on the accessory pieces, other than some of them haven't even shipped yet. Maybe next week.

I did get in touch with the freight company that's handling the flail, and they might be able to deliver today. Depends on if they get it transferred up from Sacramento. Oddly, the origin is in Oregon, so it already went by here once. Contractor has a neighbor that might be interested in buying the old one.

Progress on the driveway, but my measurements still find it too steep in some sections. There's some doubt as to the accuracy of my technique, so the contractor is bringing a laser to do measurements today. Should be interesting.

Got some seat time moving more downed trees around, and getting the forks mounted to the tractor to be ready when the delivery truck gets here. That almost guarantees a late delivery.

Happy Hump Day, folks!

 

[toppop52]

72 going to 81, got .01” of rain.

Went to have the second tumor in my leg removed this morning and it had disappeared, completely. No sign of the external growth and nothing on X-ray. Two weeks ago it still looked just like the bigger one that was removed only smaller. The X-ray from last month clearly showed it, today, perfectly clear.
Sometimes you just have to accept that we aren’t in control.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Good morning to all! Low of 40°, going up to the upper 70's. Strong breezes now, supposed to get gusts to 35-40 mph this afternoon.

Not sure if I'll head outside or not.... usually I will attempt to 'beat the race with the wind', but that doesn't work 90% of the time..... I might just try to do a few simple things that would just take a little time. That way I could just stop if needed to get out of the wind.

BEF, hope the wifey is ok and it's just a false alarm....

Roy, hope you feel better too!

Ken, that's awful news about the kids.... people have problems, but to take it to that extreme is sad. The wifey went to Council Rock.... hits close to home.

RNG, what brand of flail did you get?

Everyone have a great day!

 

[pennwalk]

"Didn't you feel those brambles chewing up your arms?"

I have a long diagonal scratch across the inside of my forearm. Just about healed now. I never felt it till I saw the blood. Hey I was working. I need to take the hedge trimmer up and prune back the briars along the lane.

Chris