Good morning!!!!

[KilroyJC]

Congrats on belated Anniversary LS, and your GS!

I had to take my kid out for chicken tenders (his favorite) when he aced the Texas bench mark test last week. I still have to teach him common sense.

It is good to learn from your mistakes.

it is far less painful to learn from the mistakes of others.

But pain is a great teacher…

 

[KilroyJC]

yes, something for farmers to grow, has natural strength, think hemp ropes

growing hemp, growing renewable pine trees.
I wonder what the final "carbon footprint" of those two options are
both are known for strength

Don’t forget that the Photosynthesis Cycle require thee things: Sunlight, Water, and Carbon Dioxide.

Decreasing CO2 starves plant life.

 

[KilroyJC]

Paul, a cause for celebration for me whenever I get an ethernet cable to pass first time - a rare event.

I found that a good crimp tool and a straight-jaw nail clipper for final trim of the individual conductors worked best for me.

 

[daugen]

Decreasing CO2 starves plant life.

makes sense. Increasing it too much clearly isn't so wonderful either at least for us non plant life.

need to order some kites to take with me on next trip.
I love flying kites at the beach.

 

[KilroyJC]

Well that’s weird. I typed r ippy (without the space) , not riptide and it got changed when I posted the reply.

Autokowrecked

 

[KilroyJC]

Good evening all. 76ºF for the start, mostly clear sky, light breeze. Light wind, partly cloudy sky, and high temp was 104ºF, HI 107ºF. Putter to start day, bike ride, then lunch. Mowed back yard parts that needed it. Did get nap in.
Ron hope you can slow the herons down. Sorry about no frogs, wonder if heron got them. Sorry about the heat. I used a neck cooler with ice to help with heat this afternoon.
Billy sorry knee is acting up. hope you got some good pics on trail cam.
Drew good luck with garage. Not sure if tofu is any better for you, the more a food get processed, the less likely it is good for you.
Frits goof to hear knee still improving. Hop you enjoyed your easy agenda day.
Buppies I understand about the heat. prayers sent.
Thomas hope your chores work out. Yes not good idea to pick on Mrs.
Drew hope you got your exercise and drone pics. Yes would be nice if knees more durable.
Paul glad you had nice day yesterday. Good to hear P51 flew well. Can you reset the controls/servos to be less sensitive? Love the GS pic. Glad you got cable good on first try. Hope today went well.
Don sorry no sub 100 day. Hope we get rain soon.
Scott(vt) enjoy your cold front.
Kilroy hope you get pickup back soon and oil change went ok.
Mike sorry work is starting on sour note. Glad yesterday was good. Hope roofer has good news.
Dennis hope you found something good to do.
Gstrom you going to get hot! Hope the items some in and shop work can resume.
Drew if you have some plastic bags you can line paper with them and reuse them more
Scotty glad not a lot of damage from storm. I find your graphic funny and true.
Ken sorry not a lot of people to watch concert. Hope calm day at work.
Dennis in Ozarks was an old cold blast furnace, used 80 cords of wood per load. Forest have grown back now and some logging for charcoal.
Ted Sorry no rain from Hilary. Glad driveway coming along and dog food made for another month.
Drew sorry hike was so taxing. Nice drone pics.
David hope trip to HD productive and HH good.
Dennis I found the same thing.
RS sorry about yesterday deteriorating. Sprayer sounds very frustrating, hoe you can get it working consistently again. Hope new sprayers work better.
Phil nice pallet of turning material. Glad mowing went well.
Scotty glad you can take it easy.
RNG glad no problems from hurricane. Hope yo can get on the emergency system. Good luck with all your projects, especially garage door track. I have never moved a track or reconfig the rollers.
Dennis thanks for posting the price increases, I think.
Don different ash try. We used to have some ash trays that were made at the family business.
Thomas sorry about gas prices. Hope back pockets not dragging too much.
Randy(wag) good to here all is going well.
PJ hope you are careful in heat as well. Sorry wife overdid it out side. Hope Starlink change over not too bad.
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /friends upcoming new baby, /son's migraines, Bird /aging issues, Ron /heart, Billy /mom hypertension & congestive heart failure, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /sleeping, /wife healing, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /dad possible dementia, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, Doug and wife/health issues, / hand nerve and surgery, /fall and recovery, / wife headaches and heart eval, / David(sadamo)/Sophie's hip or leg pain, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /land development, /favorable winds not in the forecast there "alligallyitus" and back in hospital, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, mike /wife's healing from surgery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /second opinion, /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, and Country.

Pickup should be back today. Seems that, upon further review, it was not the factory negative battery cable that got chewed, but the main for the winch. New cable would have been almost $400 just for the part! It must be a heckuva cable… so they are going to repair that cable and we are going to save almost $500 off the estimate. YAY!!!!!

 

[KilroyJC]

Decreasing CO2 starves plant life.

makes sense. Increasing it too much clearly isn't so wonderful either at least for us non plant life.

need to order some kites to take with me on next trip.
I love flying kites at the beach.

Fossil record shows that it was more than triple during some of the most prolific biosphere activity on this planet. And it was almost double during the height of the Roman Republic… must have been all those diesel war chariots…

 

[m7040]

Good Morning!

Hod has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).

67F going to low 90s, sunny all day.

we got up to the woodlot reasonably early, when it was cool. Mrs took dog for walk, I cleared out and leveled a spot immediately behind the shed to build a lean-to shed off the back, then cleared out a load of brush and thorny grabby stuff to get to the opposite corner of the property. Luckily, I didn’t quite hit the 50 hours for initial service, as I didn’t have a metric Allen that sit the drive motor plugs… so I need to buy some more tools…

Anyone know what size Allen the drive motor drain plugs are for a Kibota KX033-4?

I am definitely getting better with the excavator, especially with jump turns. I reversed my way of thinking about them and it has made a huge difference: instead of deciding which tread has to go forward and moving the swing handle toward it, I now decide which way I need to swing the boom and activate the tread in forward closest to how the swing handle points. It sounds trivial but it works for me.


The rest of the day was porch time.

Made an appointment for spa guy to come out and look at leak on hot tub, so today is a general clean up on and around the screenporch. And whatever other house putterings can be squeezed in.

now to catch up on all the GM posts since yesterday that I am behind on…

I hope everyone has a happy healthy safe blessed day!

Takes an 8 mm Allen bit

 

[KilroyJC]

Proof of Bidenomics?

Best economy ever, Jack!

 

[KilroyJC]

Takes an 8 mm Allen bit

THANK YOU! Especially since most hex socket sets skip the 9mm unless you go for the high-dollar master set… so i figured that it would OF COURSE be the one that isn’t in the cheaper sets…

 

[KilroyJC]

good morning all
boy did I sleep like a rock last night, but everything works this morning so onward
only high of 80 today in clouds.
plumber coming at 8:30 to install back up sump pump. Once he is done, then have day to myself, probably
will mow lawn and wash the car. Car wash is over twenty bucks now if they vacuum inside and clean windows.
During the winter I treat myself but no excuse now.

now I know why fig newtons were so expensive last time I bought them...
good spreadsheet Dennis

RNG, slow but steady, enjoy the ride, like your bike...but you'll get it all cleaned up and fixed up.
Glad you did not have issues with storm.
just make sure you prioritize that "rv access path"...could I fit my little motorhome there?
Work on those full hookups too...

August 22, where did the summer go...

We get the Walmart Great Value fig newtons, four sleeves in a pack, just as good as the name brand and both cheaper and more in package.

 

[newbury]

Fossil record shows that it was more than triple during some of the most prolific biosphere activity on this planet. And it was almost double during the height of the Roman Republic… must have been all those diesel war chariots…

Any links?

What is the historical record of CO2 levels?
7. Is the current level of atmospheric CO2 concentration ...
Measurements of air in ice cores show that for the past 800,000 years up until the 20th century, the atmospheric CO2 concentration stayed within the range 170 to 300 parts per million (ppm), making the recent rapid rise to more than 400 ppm over 200 years particularly remarkable [figure 3].

link

For the last one million years, CO2 levels slowly oscillated between 180 ppm and 300 ppm, as Earth’s climate transitioned in and out of the ice ages, with the dawn of agriculture and human settlement only establishing when CO2 and climate stabilized at the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 years ago, Rae said.

“In the last 100 years, fossil fuel burning has driven CO2 from 280 up to 414 ppm,” he said.

link
This discussion should be held elsewhere

 

[mpham]

Phil you really are talented. If you did an online store, I'd sure buy one of those. I love wood...

Projects listed in the for sale section.
60 here heading to 75.
Need to do a little more tractor work this morning and then I have a meeting to go to later in the afternoon. Going to be a laid back kind of day!
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy!

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Guys,
50's to start going to mid 70's.

Started off spraying glyphosate along the driveway heading up towards the shop. Then the pump on that new Greenwood sprayer from HF wouldn't pump up ... no seal at the o-ring on the plunger.

rswyan, I bought an o-ring kit through amazon, it has a surprising variety ! Very well priced also !

The black phone one the black tailgate got curled too much to still work when I tried to shut the tailgate.

Gale, really sorry to hear about your unfortunate experience ! Last time I ruined my phone, was running my flip phone through a washing machine !

Hope all have a blessed and safe day !

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 66 with a high of 76 under partly cloudy skies, another day with no rain.

Yesterday started in the shop cleaning up and putting away tools and supplies from the past weeks activities.
Had a couple of Zoom meetings that were not very productive, but I’ve always said that meetings were where minutes are kept and hours are lost.
We got a hay delivery, but I didn’t have to stack it, they loaded it up into the loft, and filled the hay shed. I did have to unload bags of feed into the bins though.
When I was out with Zoe, I noticed that she doesn’t look like a puppy any more, she is 10 months old.

Started a spreadsheet for the lightning damaged stuff, it’s up to $3k now, so I guess there will be an insurance claim.
Went over to model field to watch a friend make the first flight of a plane that his dad built 30 years ago and we just converted to electric.

It flew great, it’s bigger than it looks, he made a great landing.

Today will start with a trip to Costco, the parts for the standby generator are coming today, I’ve got to cut some sandblasting mask for the rock man and I’m sure there’s more that I’m forgetting.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 75˚F heading to just 100˚ today not 108˚ like yesterday. Got a little more done in the estate garage yesterday, getting ready for the estate sale but had to stop when the temp got to 103˚. Glad we got a month to get things ready these hot August days are making short work days.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, a chilly 69 going to 79 today , cloudy
Worked more on cutting down and pre-drilling furring strips and even got a few put up.
Nothing more exciting to report.

When I was working in Cali in the late 80's I went through a 7.2 and a 6.8 earthquake East of where we were (East of LA) one was rolling, one was a shaker. The second one blew out windows in a friends office building and collapsed part of a bowling alley. Not a great way to wake up.

My wife tracks all groceries and we even see that what used to be the higher priced stores are not that much different than the "lower" priced ones. Her bill is up 30-50% from a little over 2 years ago, so we had to cut back on some items.
The stores that have raised their prices the most, also show the most profit hikes in their quarterly reports. So even with inflation jumping through the roof, the grocery stores by me are managing to keep up with price gouging.
Its not all inflation that is hurting our wallets, but it sure aint helping.

Be well,


More Home depot wood from the bent forest, not sure how I missed this:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 60F @ 5:15AM. Sunny. High 78F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph.

SpaceX delayed this morning's launch until 2:40. I know this because the rumble woke me up. Then as I was drifting back to sleep, the water softener in the garage decided to start recharging, ensuring I'd get busy doing something on the laptop while it finished, and that I'd be awake until now.

Thanks for the thoughts on the garage door, Fritz. Makes perfect sense.
I uncovered the following videos that proved helpful on the SmartKey stuff:
Rekeying without the original key:

Doorknob disassembly:

Dunno why, but the the speakers in all of these have a strong Russian accent...

I moved to the SF Bay area in '81, rode out a couple of 5 something quakes in the first year or three, then experienced Loma Prieta which took out the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Structure, ruining the rest of my day and leaving a big dent in my brand new Toyota pickup's left front fender where the dart board jumped off the chimney and landed on it. Orcutt is supposed to be somewhat seismically stable, enough that I'm not bothering with earthquake insurance. Appropriately, in places where you really should have earthquake insurance, it's very expensive, and of course if you really don't need it, they almost give it away.

Slowly getting everything in the house changed over to connect to the new Starlink wi-fi. Wife got some of the cameras switched over, but some are being stubborn. Downside of having two different systems. Need to look into changing that.

Starlink sells an Ethernet adapter cable that should let you use your own wireless router, Paul. I say should because that may mean you get forced into having double NAT, which slows down the internet speed. At least that's the way it worked out at my old place with the Unifi network stuff. But at least I didn't have to go around changing the WiFi SSID on all the WiFi devices when I ditched HughesNet.

just make sure you prioritize that "rv access path"...could I fit my little motorhome there?
Work on those full hookups too...

So far I've spotted a hose bib and 120VAC outlet next to the RV parking pad, and they left a pair of short plastic ramps to get up and over the curb. I haven't tried them out with the van yet, as I want a spotter for the first time. And yes, you're more than welcome to visit either location should you and your MH find yourselves nearby when you get to the West Coast.

My buddy took off early yesterday morning, right after breakfast, so I got an early start on the day, too. Got the last lock rekeyed, one that I didn't have a key for and that the twist button wasn't working on, either. The handles were levers, and I had to find a different video that showed how they came off, too. And once I got it all back together, I had to take it back off because I installed the part with the key slot upside down.

Then I started fiddling with the alarm system, ending up in a long chat session to figure out how to keep the outside cameras from triggering an alarm. I want to use them for viewing, but don't want wind, sunshine, animals, bugs, or passers by being the cause of law enforcement dispatch. I had to ask the same question about three different ways before I got an answer I could use. Pretty sure there was a language barrier in there somewhere, or someone was picking things out of a script and throwing them at the wall to see of they'd stick. Eventually got it figured out, then ordered additional smoke detectors and cameras to flesh out the system. Even got the special 40% discount offered on the original purchase.

Then made a call to the sheriff's office to make sure that they were the ones to respond to an alarm, and make sure they didn't require a permit. They don't, and there are no fines for too many false alarms. But you do get a good talking to.

Also figured out how to stop mail delivery at the new place. It required another account at the Post Office website. And surprisingly, there was no validation that I was who I said I was. Hmmm...

Did a partial disassembly on the broken microwave, enough to see that whoever else had been in there broke off the mounting tabs on one side of the control panel, which is why it was left flopping around. Looks like there's a broken micro switch in there that's preventing the thing from running, but getting to it was going to be a huge chore. Much easier to plunk down $200 at Lowe's for a new one. I'd have to wait a few more weeks to make a home warranty claim, and have a tech come out to look at it which would cost another $80. Not worth the time or hassle on a 12 year old appliance.

Tomorrow I head back north, hopefully picking up a new-to-me box trailer along the way. Need to finalize those arrangements today, along with packing up all the empty boxes to use again.

 

[check]

Not a good morning. Septic backed up at the rental property, and I am meeting the honey wagon there to see what the problem is. Looks like the fluids are not exiting the tank, because the renter said that the area was flooded with 4 inches of water. I have to find my rubber boots!

 

[daugen]

oh dear Check. Hold your nose, lots of bleach

mowed the lawn, pushed the trim mower everywhere, then good excuse to bring Gravely out to tackle the tall weeds in the
drainage ditch. I knew there was still water in it, but the tires on the Gravely won't get stuck.
It mowed it easily. Almost all my neighbor's grass, this is an unrented unoccupied home, and I try to help the owner out.
He has a Gravely ZT that would get good and stuck in that ditch.

daisies happy

resting before I go back out and wash the car

Before I put the mowers away, going to hook up grease gun and have a grease festival, all zerks invited