Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

So far a whopping .01” of rain, with flood warnings out.

 

[Buppies]

Pickup bird feeder and got it back together very lucky

 

[rswyan]

The plan, a whole lot of words to say nothing. But the joke was funny, how they rapidly delivered millions of test kits. It took at least a month to get mine.

I think it’s time to shut down the USPS.

I have a better idea:

Let's get rid of the guy - with the questionable ethics and obvious conflicts of interest - that's presently running it.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

yes, new 9 spoke polished aluminum wheels with much larger tires

my favorite McGyver came and fixed my generator this afternoon. Desoldered and resoldered the rocker switch, changed out a fuse, and vrooooom.
yeah.
we get by with a little help from our friends.

I think it is great that many of you live in the same area. (my grandpa's old stomping grounds).

Pop's saying is "If I can't fix it, it ain't broke"

Work is still busy with so many to do's, and still more HR paperwork. The more I learn about things, the more I find out that things need to be fixed, updated, organized, etc....

Today is my oldest daughter's birthday. (The one that still needs prayers, thank you Mostly) She a great young person. I thank the Lord for her. She took all social media off her phone, only does texting now. She wanted to bake her own cake/s, and she wanted to BBQ chicken quarters. I told her they cook best slowly, I've been pulling some of them off as they reach 165F. But there are still maybe 4 or 5 quarters still cooking...for 3 hours now.

 

[Wagtail]

Good morning. Another night of yoyo overnight temps; Late evening, 2.3C, bedtime 0.8C, 0230 5.8C and morning 1.1C. Currently 12C, clear with a gentle breeze.

Take care all.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Kyle, say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to your daughter for us! Neat that she wants to do her own cake / cooking.. (at least I think so).
Sounds like you'll be busy at work! Were they just lazy or were they too busy to take the time to update everything?

Drew, chrome spokes and gnarly tires.....are you getting one of those Rolls Royce grills? .... sorry, couldn't resist! I hope you get a bunch of good rides!

Well, the skies clouded up and got darker, breezes picked up, and I thought for sure we were in the storms path..... NOT! Didn't get one drop of rain! At least the cloud cover kept the temp down to 86°.

Finished up giving the rest of the landscaping a good drink, then got to clearing out the area of the backyard expansion and finished that up. Hauled the material for the raised bed over to the shop. Found out that might be a waste.....wifey is now having second thoughts about them being in the backyard, she may want to put them in strategic spots in the courtyard landscaping..... I didn't pursue the discussion....


Everyone have a great evening!

 

[Buppies]

Happy Birthday to your daughter Kyle and prayers sent

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Happy birthday Kyles daughter.

Just got tracking info for Dishy, coming next Tuesday.

Now got .06” of rain.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 75ºF for the start, overcast, light breeze. Overcast most of day, light wind, and high temp was 81ºF, HI 86ºF. Front came though, but rain stayed north of US82 until east of here, then slid more south . We dropped of cart for a tournament this morning but did not get used, so we picked it back up later in day. Men's Meeting after cart drop off, then mowed front lawn. Nap after lunch, then after dinner start in on updates to document control system at work.
RS good to hear progress on Kubota, hope you got the assist today
Randy(wag) glad the vampires were successful, hope shopping went well.
Bubbies sorry about all threats no rain same thing here today rain stayed north of us.
Drew hope wrist feel better today, trip to Catskills sounds like fun
Drew hope you friend wants to go, sounds dangerous taking checkbook
Thomas hope hospital appointments went well.
Billy glad you got some hiking in. sorry about diesel price. Fried chicken festival sounds delicious, great picks
Paul mailbox looking very nice, air chamfer tool on the deburr, going to be a very nice mailbox.
Don sorry about the gas price increases.
Ken hope you don't flood.
Dennis hope Starlink showed up.
RNG hope you made some progress either way.
PJ I would have expected the worst fog in river valley. Cape Girardeau used to have a lot of river fog at night.
Chris mail service a pain here. neighbor us gone a lot in RV, the mess up hi holds more often than not.
Drew congrats on new cart. Hope Paul can help shoe horn cart on trailer.
David Sophie has 25 hours on BX already.
RS Good to hear you had help on Kubota, and spraying worked.
Ted good to hear bed not started before plans changed, hope you get some rain
Dennis sorry about no dishy in order
Don looks like good snack
David good you did not get hurt with filled tire. Did they put rust inhibitor in?
Drew good to hear generator fixed
Drew broccoli looks yummy.
Chris hope you got some more rain. Good to hear you are getting used to Simplicity.
Buppies sorry about bear, at night or during day.
Roy hope you get chipper rigged.
Drew that is how it goes here, rain chances goes done 9 times out of 10. During Summer Rain chances just don't show.
Fuddy sorry about bear, hope it moves on.
RS sorry about the mis-routing of drive shaft. hope goes better tomorrow. Glad mowing under control.
Dennis you know how bad it floods after .01 inch of rain
Kyle happy birthday to your daughter, prayers will continue. Hope you can get HR stuff done and get to the real job
Randy(wag) weird temp profile.
Ted sorry about no rain. Hope wifey can decide on where to put beds.
Dennis glad you got tracking info for dishy.
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, /ultrasound of kidneys result /wife head wound healing, 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 /foot heel issues, /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.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We had a 30 sec burst of rain and more than doubled our rainfall to .14”.

 

[sodamo]

Happy Birthday to your daughter, Kyle.

 

[scaredychicken]

So, I negotiated a deal on a used Cub Cadet Zero Turn rider mower today. I need to get ahead of this yardwork again. This will give me access to most of the mowing areas. The machine has about 300 hrs on it. The seller is my local agri-repair dealer, and it was their personal machine - it is well maintained.

Before Delivery, some fabrication will be done in the days / weeks ahead ... custom hand controls for direction and braking, and a grab bar to make it easier for me to step on/off. He seemed eager to get a chance to do some fabricating for my needs (and probably would have done that "gratis" but I offered $200 clams. I think that i will also add a hitch ball for convenience; a basic toolbox, and a single LED headlight at some point.

While I wait for the fabrication to be done, I have hired a neighbour to give the yard a good once over with her JD Ride On Lawn Tractor ... tomorrow is the plan, and that should buy me 2-3 weeks, ... enough time for the Cub Cadet to arrive.

I think this will be a good investment. Eager to put it to work.

 

[scaredychicken]

it's still me
changed my TBN avatar, that's all

 

[RoyJackson]

2022-06-09, 0418

55° right now...high in the low 60's and rain today. The forecast for rain has dropped from almost an inch to about ¼". I hope we get more than a ¼.
Another day at work...urinary issues still near, but not too bad last night

Have a great day, all!!

Edit: Just updated the forecast...now the rainfall is to be ¾"

 

[daugen]

good morning all.
Roy, .71 inches here, sounds like your new forecast, coming at you right now

woke up at 2am, rain pounding on roof, sounded wonderful, promptly went back to bed

no plans for today other than getting a haircut this afternoon.

thanks Kyle for thoughts. I'm blessed living between two super capable guys, Ken and Paul.
I'll let Paul post pics, but he has another grandson pic of worth; I bid on a little stool at a church auction and won it.
Knew as soon as I saw it was perfect for grandson and son of pilots. Has a little plane (DC-3) carved into top and painted.
Probably one of a kind. Paul has such a good heart and is so giving of himself, good he gets something back.

rain is pulling out, should be warm humid day later

 

[Buppies]

59 high of 80 brezzy rain tot yesterday .14 in of rain yesterday. Will try bird feeder again today

Prayers for-all

 

[wngsprd]

71 and muggy, but that's an okay price to pay for the half inch of rain we received and needed...looking for 86 later.

Kyle, prayers and big birthday wishes for your big girl. I bet that chicken was extra tasty.

Buppies, sorry about your bears...I have coon problems, not bear ones. Now having to bring in 6 of the hummingbird feeders every night...she has a sweet tooth...problem is the hummingbirds want to eat until dark, so just a small window of time between them.

Pop, real nice looking mailbox...and there's room for a little alpaca artwork on the side.

Thomas, hope you're not going crazy being restricted, but grab the opportunity to rest and heal...maybe your wife would be up for a car trip up to Franconia Notch or Mt Washington, or somewhere closer that you like.

Still have a very slow leak in the rear Zero tire...I plugged it a couple of weeks ago, but guess I'll have to try again...just not sure the best way to get the plug out now. Now that we got some rain, also have some tractor tilling to do.

LS, your place is looking fantastic.

I miss the daily dose of English humour.

 

[Thomas]

Storms came and went .14 inches of rain got wet but dried off

New bear with young came for visit got bird feeder again getting expensive bad bear

Momma bear showing youngster where the really really nice people live that's all.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 70 going up to 80 and sun is out.
Lots of thunder and lightning last night to make sure we knew it was raining again.

Went to a retirement dinner for wife's coworker. Lots of speeches, but decent evening.

Drew - bigger tires with spinners and one of those california remote hydraulic lifters so you can make the cart dance ?

RS- getting the shaft up in the right position, frustrating to have to remove reinstall pins, but how often do you do this. So minor in the big picture of things. How much more work to get the tractor back in service?

Kyle - Happy birthday to your daughter-good she has the drive to do the cooking. My kid just microwaves most things....

Well, back to the day job and Math study with son later.

Stay safe and be well,

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s 71 and will get close to 80 today. Rained about 1/2” overnight, should be dry today.

Yesterday was a typical day, spent the morning in the shop on the mailbox project, ended up ordering stainless hardware from Amazon, supposed to be here today.
Tried the local hardware stores without success, sadly it’s getting hard to expend the effort to tour TSC, and the hardware stores and not find what I want, and then be able to get just what I want over night for less money.

Grilled a nice lunch for myself and a neighboring farmer before finishing up in the shop and heading over to Drew’s. We got his generator fixed up, it was surprising that the new switch came without a harness and had to be soldered in. I did not expect that or bring a soldering iron, but Drew had a very nice little kit with everything I needed. I blew a fuse in the process of soldering in the switch when I shorted the battery wire to ground with the soldering iron. Took longer to dig up a fuse than it did to install the switch, and all I could find was a 3 amp to replace the 10amp one that I blew. But it worked and tested ok. Drew was kind enough to send me home with a very nice stool for my grandson.

He seemed to really like it.

Sprayed some sevin on recently hatched bag worms in a juniper bush, had a quick dinner and joined a Zoom meeting for the Airport Authority before calling it a day.

Today will be a bit slower, a trip to Concord, NH where it will raining and not so nice just to drop a single passenger off, then right home. Will spend more time driving back and forth to the airport than flying.

No music tonight, one of my band mates just tested positive for alligatoritis.