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   / Good morning!!!! #190,301  
Still in hospital. I expect a week at least
Thanks for the update and glad you are getting care.

Nature can throw some curveballs so you just have to deal with what is thrown. In a related observation, I saw mom/dad geese yesterday. They are down to one gosling from the six that hatched. Sad to see that, although the one has at least doubled in size, maybe tripled.

We might hit a sunny 85F here today. Had an afternoon thunderstorm boomer yesterday.

Everyone have a great day !!!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #190,303  
Rip, looking good, when can I move into the Milkhouse?

decided a good day to sharpen blades on mower, grease it, etc
seemed like it was noisier last time but might have been a plastic cover from the
leaf bagger vibrating. I really need to wear headphones while mowing.
otherwise quite the racket in my brain.

looks like I might need to push the little mower.
haven't been able to do that in a while.
will take it slowly but I need the steps and activity.

first I have to rake up the chunks of the stumps in front hurled all over
the place by the woodpecker
that bird is on a mission
now stumps are so ugly I really have to get rid of them.
before at least they made good holders for big flower pots.

Bill glad you have a smart phone and glad you have all your smarts to use it.
get better soon. You're tough, you'll get through this.

right about now the radiologist is writing up the report on my CT scan from yesterday,
determining my future to a small degree
just not in a rush to find out

radishes to pick and very hungry birds to feed. They empty three tube feeders in a day, lot of sunflower seeds.
no squirrels on them either plus one is truly squirrel proof. Just lots of birds which is nice.
time for me to go get them the good stuff, some treats for awhile.
I have to keep up with the Jones and their fancier feeders.....................
 
   / Good morning!!!! #190,306  
Good Morning!!!! 51F @ 7:15AM. Cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High 63F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.

Hope your move goes smoothly, Don. You already downsized when you sold your ranch, right?

Glad you're showing signs of recovery, Bill. Had an acquaintance that had a stroke while traveling in Thailand. Hit him while he was in bed. Got medical help right away and made a complete recovery. Have they given you any idea of when you'll start PT?

An older fella came by yesterday morning to pick up the cement mixer, but needed more drop to his trailer hitch to tow it. I scrounged around and found one with a couple inch drop, which just barely worked. I don't think the axle I welded to the frame was designed for over the road use, but he said he didn't have far to go. He was back later in the afternoon with my hitch, and to pick up the one he left "as collateral".

Not long after that I got another email from someone that wanted the paint sprayer, then another email from someone with the same last name but different first. I'd already told the first person I'd take $300, but didn't get a response, so when the second email came in I went back to the original $325 price. Half an hour later the second person showed up with $325. It would be nice if all the rest of the junk I've got for sale would go that easy.

In between I got the trailer unloaded and the front lawn cut. My fingers and arms are sore and stiff this morning from carrying all that metal to the back yard. Today I need to find space to stack or hang it in the shed, then unpack and put away the half dozen boxes I brought down this trip. Hoping to have time to swap the diode board on the zebra bike to see if that cures the charging problem.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #190,307  
Good Morning,
Ct, 52 to start going to 78 or more ! Very sunny now with clouds coming in later today !

Bill, glad your back with us again ! Continuing improvement on your health !

Mike beautiful job using that reclaimed lumber ! Milk house looking great !

Phil nice work as usual!

RNG, congrats on the sale of cement mixer !
Got the drain by the pool finally installed, and so I will be calling to get the tanker loads to finish filling the pool !

Need some items at HD, so that and some weed wacking later today ! Just too much stuff to do this time of year !

Hope all have a good day ! 🙏
 
   / Good morning!!!! #190,311  
69°F and .11 inches rain
Seems we missed the storm ravages again. Although we did have about 20 minutes of it yesterday.

Very nice Happy Hour. A couple neighbors who live close to hosts invited. Nice to catch up. One, only built a couple years ago has modified the hot water to include electric tank to take advantage of their excess solar production. Claim it saves significantly on expensive propane. Something I have had an interest in.

Continue today on my list of things to get done before we head out on mainland trip. Need to update my reference manual for the house sitters major systems upgrades since last.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
 
   / Good morning!!!! #190,313  
68F and cloudy @ 13:00, generally cloudy with a slight chance of a showers this afternoon. Better chance (50%) of rain this evening. Calling for a high of 71F.

Managed to get everything mowed yesterday: front, all down around the house, and the compost/woodlot.

And today I feel like it ... 🤬

Timed mowing the front, was 01:25 and some change. Forgot to do that on the other areas though. Probably at least another hour and a half in those.

Did get the cleaned pre filter put on the old air cleaner for the Cub and get that re-installed. Also topped off the oil which was a little low.

The hour meter is almost at 600 ... will need to change the oil and filter.

Woman made sausage gravy and biscuits using Bob Evan's hot sausage for lunch/dinner, She had some but said it was too hot for Her. I had some for lunch and dinner, still a little bit left for today.

After that She came out and worked on weeding the northwest planting bed for quite a while.

I got the 2 tube feeders refilled after I finished the front, also scattered some for the ground feeders.

Also mixed up another 2 gallons of glyphosate and started filtering that into one of the 1 gallon sprayers.

Later when She came back inside She started cooking some chicken for chicken, biscuits, and gravy ... which had been my original suggestion. She offered the sausage as an alternative and I sure wasn't going to turn that down ... :LOL:

At any rate, it's unclear at this point what's going happen with the chicken.

After dinner I potted up some tomatoes: another 3 Crimson Cushions and 2 Bush Beefsteaks.

But I was pretty tired ... so that was it.

Agenda for today:

Filter more glyphosate, finish refilling sprayer.

Probably change oil and filter on the Cub.

Work on loader lift cylinder rebuild.

Woman just headed out the door for a PT session.

Some of the bearded irises:

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A peony bloom:

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First of the Siberian iris blooms:

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Hope everyone is having a decent Tuesday ... (y)
 
   / Good morning!!!! #190,314  
Wife got the hummingbird feeder out, and seen one around already.
61 deg and light rain.
voted
went to town, lunch at chipotle. Wife started choking on food and ran outside, she came back in after awhile and was doing better, but she didn't eat. Stopped at Costco for a few things, filled up the mazda, but gas was cheaper elsewhere.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #190,316  
nice peony RS, pretty red one

woodpecker must have miners in family dna, still going to town on stump
he almost disappears into the holes he's dug, comes up with head all covered with dirt and bits
he picks up small stuff and chucks it to the side like a little excavator working

I'm going to come out soon and find my flower pot swallowed up

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   / Good morning!!!! #190,317  
nice peony RS, pretty red one

woodpecker must have miners in family dna, still going to town on stump
he almost disappears into the holes he's dug, comes up with head all covered with dirt and bits
he picks up small stuff and chucks it to the side like a little excavator working

I'm going to come out soon and find my flower pot swallowed up

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When he gets done with your stump, you send him north aways I have several he could work on :)
 

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