Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

When I was ready to leave for work my wife just got back from picking 6 lbs of strawberries. They are good with ice cream.

 

[Wagtail]

Good early arvo. It was -1.0C this morning with a frost and heading towards a high of 16C. Clear sky and basically calm.

I had a 'discussion' with Penelope (the cat) last evening regarding keeping an upstairs door closed IOT retain heat. She ended up giving me a swat on the tip of my nose, which drew blood. I reciprocated with a couple of (gentle) swats of my own... all was 'forgiven' by bedtime, and the door has remained closed to this moment.

It's a sliding door and I'll probably end up attaching a latch.

Take care all.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 70ºF for the start, partly cloudy sky, light breeze. Moderate wind until late afternoon, Variable cloudiness with trace rain, and high temp was 86ºF, HI 93ºF. Men's Meeting to start day, then bike ride, After lunch mowed front yard, all mowing done for the week. Need to take trimmer for walk will see if wrist is up for it tomorrow. Bike wreck wounds healing up, Rode bike harder today, Chest does not like to breathe deep, or standing on pedals. Started boat tonight, working on app that disconnects from motor after it is started.
Randy(wag) sorry to hear procrastination failed. Try again soon
Roy sorry about the right foot. Thanks for response.
David hope Starlink works for you.
Roy I trust you are still working from home.
Buppies hope you get some rain. Healing up some chest bruising showed up when I rode bike hard enough to breathe harder and deeper.
Drew good luck with trailer hunt and straps. I am healing fairly quickly
Don hope you day went well, options always good.
Billy glad you are happy with Fiskars pole saw. Hope quail was nesting. Healing continues.
Thomas hope you putter skills are still intact.
Ken hope new fridge works well.
Paul good to hear all good both flights except for lack of sun visor. Hope today went well also.
Dennis nice pics
Rich glad compressor started, hope you got garden planted today
Bill good luck with this summer start up. Why would you not posting be good news?
RS good luck in you opportunity rich environment.
Ted hope you get your rain. Good to hear getting over crud, sorry to hear wife getting it. Hope you got the drip irrigation reconfigured and had energy for mulch.
David hope you got Starlink install finished. Networking is always a challenge, not all equipment follows standards
Drew nice trailer.
Randy sea breeze sounds nice. Good to hear stir fry well received.
RS good to hear progress between the rain drops.
Drew thanks for trailer info.
David good luck trailer hunting.
Drew congrats, a baby broccoli!
Thomas sorry about Boo in Mrs flowers, very sorry to hear about ruffled feathers, not good for ticker!
Drew hope visit with Landlord and MIL both go well.
David hope you got Sophie lined out on where to mow.
Drew hope you can get some good pics with new camera.
Rich good to hear you got some rain.
RS Always learning, I prefer the dark beers. Pics showing a lot of started seeds, I see transplanting in your future
Dennis nice strawberries.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle's daughter/friend PT from Covid, Bird/aging issues/, Don /mom's pipeline process, Randy/FIL living alone adjustments /MIL Covid /son's FIL death /cataract surgery, Roy /palpitations, /angina , Billy /wife fall, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /3 new skin cancer spots and treatment, /wife head wound healing, / Bup and wife fever recovery and buppies's fall, Thomas/gout, /operation and recovery, Phil /reflux, /wife's eyes, Steppenwolfe/son-auto immune disorder, Grev/wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery/retirement, / passing out issues, /family issues, /wife feeling bad, Doug and wife/health issues, /nerve and pain, / wife's hospital stay, /torn bicep, Ken /kids shot tragedy, David(sadamo)/Sophie's new eye surgery recovery, /cataract surgery, /Sophie's hand infection, Chris/neighbor's granddaughter and Covid issues, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, Paul/ wife's disc issues, Gale and KY/ tornado victims, Mike /5 year plan, Dennis /retirement plans / brother "alligallyitus" and improving, Drew /friend cancer diagnosis and recovery, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Ukraine war, mass shooting victims and family, and Country.
stay safe and healthy you all.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 55 and going to a high of 68°F. Wind N 8 mph. Mostly cloudy.

I got the mower back last evening, $389.oo. His labour rate including pickup and delivery is only $95.oo/hour. I am just waiting for daylight and will cut the grass. I would have preferred a little stiffer breeze than 8 mph. But beggars cant be choosers.

Wagtail, if you install a latch on the door, you will have to teach the cat how to close and latch it behind her. Good luck with that.

mostly_gas, I feel that other than the weather (for comparison) I don't bring much to the table.

Have a safe day all

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-06-02, 0513

56° right now...high about 70 today. Damp and chilly, right now...

Mostly, yes, I am still working from home. I can drive as of next Monday and I do want to go on-site (at work) for 3 days a week

Writing about work, quite a few folks are out on business trips or vacation. Not much planned for today

 

[Wagtail]

Looking4new
Well, as soon as I saw your post I looked up and the sliding door was open. so I walked up to close it and she walked through it before I could. So I closed it behind her and am now waiting for her to plaintively meow to be let out.

Looks like the latches (there are two different sliding doors) are going on tomorrow... I simply can't waste heat going into two unoccupied upstairs bedrooms.

 

[Buppies]

69 high close to 90 then cooling off weekend and next week

Prayers for all

 

[daugen]

good morning all
blue sky out now but not for long, more thunderstorms due in this afternoon. High of 80 today, .65 inches of rain last night.

busy day, landlord coming this morning, then an afternoon out with elderly MIL.

Bill, thank you. That's the older broken camera. I need to watch the review on the new one.

marvelous looking strawberries

 

[RoyJackson]

new camera lot larger than older Canon, which has some focus issues.
Ordered a 55mm UV filter for Panasonic, plus now I have a tripod to mount it on.
Will have to sit quietly outside to see if I can get a Ron-worthy picture.

set new camera on IA, intelligent automatic, which is the fancy term for point and shoot.
It has quite a lens on it, 60X zoom and stabilization. Haven't found the button for that yet. Lot of
pictograms that mean absolutely nothing to me.

Is that the Panasonic LUMIX G85 4K Digital Camera?
Looks pretty nice!!

 

[Thomas]

54F cloudy 70 for high good soaking rain over night.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...this morning also take weed trimmer for short walk,afternoon dump run and 2 critter food stops.

Enjoy your day all.

 

[wngsprd]

68 to 92, maybe storms, definitely humidity.

Worked in the garden, mowed some, string trimmed and had time for an Audie Murphy film midday to get out of the sun a while.

Kyle, how'd it go?

 

[pennwalk]

"I'll keep my mouth shut as much as possible, and look interested."

Most of the time that's best even though it is HARD.

Chris

 

[daugen]

Is that the Panasonic LUMIX G85 4K Digital Camera?
Looks pretty nice!!

No. That's a much more expensive DSLR, pretty sure, this does not have interchangeable lens. DC-FZ80
my skill level seems to max out around a 300 dollar camera. Anything more would be a waste for me; I don't have the skills or patience to fiddle with all the settings.
4k 30 frames per second. My friend who videos boats at inlets records in 4k 60 frames per second. I haven't done video before, happy with pics. This is not a new model and is fairly bulky but easier for me to hold. Lens is Lumix DC Vario 1:2.8-5.9/3.58-215 ASPH Perhaps someone can translate that

 

[RoyJackson]

No. That's a much more expensive DSLR, pretty sure, this does not have interchangeable lens. DC-FZ80

Thank you!!

 

[daugen]

Roy, I think today's inexpensive cameras far exceed most of our abilities, certainly mine, and I've been taking pics all my life.
Started off as yearbook photographer in 11th grade. Double reflex Yashica. All those rolls of film, and those proof sheets you looked at
with a magnifier. Now it's so simple to take good pics. It's the shooting into the sun part most cameras have problems with and why I wanted the ability
to use a polarizing filter on the new camera. And my current camera would not focus up close which I wanted for flowers. Pretty sure camera got dropped and was never
the same afterwards.

I posted a pic of two sailboats out in the ocean off Charleston. I could hardly see them with my own eyes. But zoom in, and zoom in clearly, and all of a sudden there is
a new memory. Like you had zoom eyeballs....
As I get older and likely shakier, figured I needed a small tripod also. That plus stabilization should make for good pics.

I don't think I've ever seen any of my pics show up somewhere I didn't expect, good thing, so very confident TBN keeps them internally. Thanks to the Boss for that

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 74˚F cloudy. The wind will change from the prevailing southerly gulf breeze to a northerly breeze at noon. Our chance of rain goes up and the temps are predicted to only get up to the upper 80's. May was a record hot month for us and only 1.5" rain in the month that is supposed to be our wettest.

This morning I was going to take Mom to get her booster but they only give it on Wednesday near her and I missed that opportunity. Will try again next week. I did manage to call my town's pharmacy and get an appointment an hour later for myself yesterday. Sore arm today. My neighbor thinks he might have covid after coming back from a Baltic cruise and one of the people in his group had to stay in Europe because of a positive covid test.

This morning I'll start planting my Summer garden. I'll see what plants look good in the green house. This week they are on sale because they will be shutting down for the Summer on Saturday. FireWise has also taken the Summer off because of vacations but mostly because of the heat. A few of the retired people in the neighborhood head to a cooler state in July and August. The opposite of what Ron used to do.

Drew no translation here but we have a photography club that could.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, lots of boom,boom thunder last night. More rain on call for today.

Went to a band banquet/awards dinner for the son at a country club, sucks not being able to eat anything, but good to see the kids have fun.
New Fridge is in and working fine. Installers were able to use the cutoff valve I installed so the install went quick.

Wagtail - Cat fighting ?
Sodamo - If I told my wife not to go someplace on the property, that would probably be the first place I'd find her

L4N - safe travels and check in every now and then with your adventures.

Drew - sure 3.58-215 is not 35.8-215 zoom? I used to work on a camera that had a 6 foot zoom lens. Needed a plane to carry it.
200 is decent for distance and anything below 50 is wide angle.
I still have my original, all manual, 35mm film Canon A1 lying around somewhere.
If you want to learn more on speed,f-stop, DOF etc. Let me know. It's been a while, but I used to do a lot of photography and worked on spy cameras for the military back in my 20's.

Stay safe and be well,

 

[daugen]

Don and Ken, thank you. Ken, number is correct. On top of lens it says 20-1200
Panasonic has used Leica's fixed lenses; have no idea who makes this
IA setting for intelligent automatic sounds about my speed

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I still got film in an old Konica camera. Have a couple lens, up to 200, but with a 2x attached it makes it a 400. But, need good lighting.

I just use my iPhone any more. Still got a couple canon POS cameras and a nice digital camcorder I no longer use.

Was told Dad fixed the electric wire, put a piece of barbed wire around it to hold it on.

73° and 90% humidity. Not much on radar yet.

Guess I better head towards work.

 

[daugen]

Contact DHL DELIVERY via email for the delivery of your Donation Funds ATM CARD of 750,000usd

nice try bozo, and brush up on your English

I want to know how an empty pail can have at least 6 inches of water in it after we had .68 inches last night.
I walked out and saw the pail and wondered how this happened
lawn is a weedfest