Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #194,551  
Welcome back Ken
enjoy today's weather
going downhill later this week

good meeting with landscapers, they are going to build the new garden shed foundation
on top of the old one, the one that never was...
Shed company quoted 1500 for landscaping, these guys will do it for 1000.
And appreciate the work a lot more.

nice blue sky day but heating up
 
   / Good morning!!!! #194,552  
this storm is supposed to stall off the Carolinas and flood the East Coast
ten to twenty inches of rain far inland, and up to 30 inches in some coastal spots.
here we go again

I live on top of a hill. Times like this that's a nice feeling.
though I believe Lake Drew will be back in fine form by the end of this week.
Frits will find out if his neighbor's improvements have accomplished anything
 
   / Good morning!!!! #194,553  
storm in the stock market too
a really ugly morning

stock market 824.jpg
 
   / Good morning!!!! #194,555  
69°F and 0 rain

Sitting in Hilo airport, waiting for 6am flight to Honolulu.

Sophie has surgery this morning to suture cleft in eye.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day
 
   / Good morning!!!! #194,556  
84F and Sunny @ 11:30, heading up to around 88F for the day's high. DP 70F, HU 62F, "feels like" temp currently 88F ...

Woman headed outside a little bit ago and came right back in complaining it was hot. Then headed right back out ...

Got front lawn all mowed yesterday, then mowed the compost/woodlot. Surprisingly, it was all dry enough to mow ... even with all the rain we've recently had.

Refueled right tank on the Cub.

After that I went and got the Kubota, repositioned the soil screen, and went back to screening more compost for several hours. Had to start a new pile in a new spot for screened material in order to leave room for maneuvering.

Came inside, had dinner, and cooled off for a bit after that.

Went back out after a while and started mowing the lawn on the east side. Got that mostly done, knocked off when it was almost dark.

Then headed up to the shop.

Located a piece of steel sheet that had a suitable thickness for that softener bracket that was NLA (original = 0.091", new = 0.100)

Cleaned up the hard water deposits on the original bracket with the needle scaler and then used the old bracket to mark out the shape on the new piece and started cutting it out with the jigsaw. Got that about 1/2 done before I gave up and called it day (arms were tired and getting shaky ... :rolleyes

Headed back down to the house and ran the garage door down to close things.

Ooops ! ... Mrs. Redbird in garage, so had to open it back up and shut off the light for a while.

At some point, somewhere I got into a bunch of dust and debris while mowing and the wind caught it just right pushing it up around my head and into my face. Got some of that crud into my right eye ... which ended up getting progressively more irritated throughout the day.

Ended up flushing it out with The Woman's ReStasis and taking a couple of Benadryl. This morning there was a bunch of crud that had worked its way out of the eye. At any rate, seems to be no further irritation ... so it's all good ... (y)

Not sure what all on agenda for today.

Getting bird feeders refilled is high on the list though.

Hope everyone is having a decent Monday ... (y)
 
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   / Good morning!!!! #194,557  
Almost 14" of rain in a week, is a lot of rain especially for a low lying area.
Wow, our ANNUAL rainfall is only about 10".... but we haven't gotten that much in a year for the last 10 years. Only 7.5" last year!
 
   / Good morning!!!! #194,559  
Good morning! Low of 58°, heading up to 91°, 30% chance of a t-storm. No storms yesterday, tried to form, but just no oomph.....

Up to 88° at 11:00, so no outside stuff getting done. Nothing that pressing....

Started with the "deep clean" this morning.....
jumped right in and forgot to post...

Almost done with one room, just a couple things to clean/polish left. Just couldn't stand any longer, needed to give the knee a break. Almost.... almost.

I am glad that GM is staying under Rural Living.
I sent a reply to Mohammad with one reason it should stay here.... the Front Porch forum has to be requested to join, after so many post counts, otherwise new members would never even see it! A lot of older members don't even know about GM!

Gonna be a lot of flooding up the E coast. Crazy amounts of rain! Hope everyone heeds the warnings. I'm sure somebody will attempt to drive somewhere they shouldn't......

David, all positive thoughts and prayers heading to Sophie for her surgery!

Paul, unit looks good! Duck work looks great.

Welcome home Ken. Hopefully a productive trip!

Drew, saving $500 on the landscaping is great! Pays to shop around.

Time to go finish up with the cleaning.....
 

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