Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Thanks Thomas

 

[LouNY]

Good Morning,

GM Drew, a welcome break in the weather for sure

GM Lou, sorry to hear that Lou, hoping the scooter enables you to get around better and not miss the fairs. Is that the Washington County Fair ? I have been wanting to go to that one for years

Yes, It's the Washington County Fair. Just a few miles from the house. I used to routinely cover all the exhibits, every barn and tent and display. That would entail several miles of walking plus enjoying much of the motor sports. The out of the field tractor pulling, the super stock pulling all the pickup pulls and the antique pulls. The antique pulls can get a bit boring when the JD 2 bangers are running as the action is rather s----l-----o----w.
Most years I went out every night and a couple of days, and that is without going over to the carnival side.

 

[m7040]

good morning, 69 going to 79 cooler

Had a shower and thunder in the distance yesterday. About 1/2 inch of rain on top of one inch the day before.

Wife slept good for a change and feels a bit better today. Made her coffee and she is in her chair with heat, massage running and legs up.

Installed a hydraulic wheel chair lift inside the side door in the van. It sits flat on the ground so is easy to drive up on or stand on

Not sure what to get into yet

 

[Engineer42]

Tom(eng) much better this time. Very cool fire truck.
Tom(eng) hope you can get boiler certified.
Tom(eng) cool re-engine of the Wheel Horse.

Neither are mine, Mostly. The 1909 is owned by East Hampton NY Fire Co. The 1904 is owned by a private collector.

 

[FriendwithTractor]

Good Morning to All Who Celebrate! Currently 68° going to a high of 75° and cloudy. Had several rainstorms pass through last night, a welcome break from the heat.

Weekend went well, dog didn't run away. Spent a lot of time with my aunt and grandma up at the cabin. The closer we get to Labor day, the less and less people are up at the mountain. Last few hurrahs before school starts in earnest. Think the boss's kids and his wife (elementary school teacher) go back this week. Brought some firewood in for him so they can have an end of summer campfire and make some last minute s'mores.

Saw something interesting this weekend, while walking the dog, I saw an all black wooly bugger, then maybe 300 yards later, an all white one. Obliviously, one of them didn't get the memo.

Otherwise, not much else on the agenda, need to talk to the realtor about another place, but I'll wait until the morning crazies wind down before firing that up.

Nothing much on the agenda this week, just the day job. Parents want to install an antenna to antenna wi-fi from the house to pole barn, so I'm going to have to help with that tonight. This weekend I take grandma out to her great grandson's first birthday party. He's already proven himself to be capable with the combine I got him, so adding a bulldozer to his little plush fleet will be good. Die-cast models are coming as soon as he can be trusted not to eat them.

Y'all stay safe out there and be well! Enjoy the cooler weather!
Prayers for all Ailing and Recovering!

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low was 51 and going up to 68°F. Wind ENE 11 gusting to 19 mph. Sunny!

Yes, a welcome cool down. Breezy enough that the bugs stay hidden. Time to get some stuff done outside.

Stay safe all

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 66 going to 73 and cloudy. got 1/4" of unexpected rain last night.

Started the morning out front trimming back the bushes. Got the first side done, cleaned up and moved to the larger section.
Made good progress and on the last bush was trimming when my wife came out and asked if I want anything from the store. Shut down trimmer, just as a Yellow Jacket stung me on the back.
Put everything down and moved away to see a huge entry with lots of YJ activity right under the last bush. Did not get to cleanup most of the area as I needed to go ice the sting.
Luckily happened at the very end of the work.
Nest dusted last night, but the rain may have messed that up. Will need to check later.
Once the nest is gone and everything dries will need to go back and cleanup.

Still need to do the bushes out back, but know there is another nest by the gazebo, so a few bushes may go untrimmed for a while.

Found a tree up front that looks like it got hit by lightning, will try and get a picture later.

Lou - we went to the Washington County fair when we were in Western MA at my uncles. Hope you have fun and the scooter allows you some freedom to move around.

Be well,

First set of bushes went easy

Got all the way down to the last bush on the left before the YJ decided they had enough of me.
Got the blower out and moved the trimmings by the path out, but the trimmings behind and around the bushes will need to wait until the YJ are vacated.

 

[gstrom99]

We just went to practice and he had to use a heavy racket, and he said he liked it a lot. We'll know more how he plays in his games tomorrow.

Heavy rackets are like heavy bats, golf clubs, etc. Harder to swing, but send the ball farther...

Had another heavy rain this morning. I think I figured out the water getting into the shop, by the door. Heavy rain sends the roof water mostly OVER the gutter, splashing down, to wash in past the base. I took a video, to show the potential gutter fixer guy but I can't post it here.

 

[ArlyA]

Good morning folks. NOAA says we have a 70% chance of rain here right now but the radar shows little, but maybe the Huron mountains are blocking the sweeps. Looked at a camp property yesterday and here is us having lunch in its yard.

 

[gstrom99]

Had another heavy rain this morning. I think I figured out the water getting into the shop, by the door. Heavy rain sends the roof water mostly OVER the gutter, splashing down, to wash in past the base. I took a video, to show the potential gutter fixer guy but I can't post it here.

Here is a screen shot of the gutter and splashing down by door.

 

[gstrom99]

Here is a screen shot of the gutter and splashing down by door.
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and the inside of shop wall/floor.

 

[daugen]

I always know when the downpours come because it usually moves some of my garden mulch around.
small foodshopping trip, picked up some cash for housecleaners and dropped off some tomatoes to Popgadget's wife.
Their dog Zoe is the nicest dog and just wanted to play with me. It's just a lot of dog to greet you, all super enthusiastically.

now off in a bit to the dentist. Fingers crossed only a cleaning

 

[wngsprd]

72 and low clouds...heading to 80. Hope things dry out, behind on mowing.

Ken, we had lots of yellow jacket nests a couple of years ago, but have only seen a single yellow jacket insect so far this year. Hope you get them under control. We have seen much above normal honeybees this year, a good thing. Landscaping looks great.

Kyle, as much rain as we've received this growing season, I'd hate to try to bush hog our fields right now...waiting until late winter/early spring after the winter freezes and frost prep them for the bush hog...I run a 6 ft Woods behind my 31 hp...never had a problem mowing that time of year.

 

[wngsprd]

We hiked one of my favorite sections of the AT yesterday...Cole Mtn and Tar Jacket Ridge.

 

[Buppies]

Great picture of Della thanks for sharing

 

[rswyan]

74.4F and clear @ 11:30, heading up to around 82F for the day's high. Looks like the overnight low was around 60F, humidity way down.

Put forks on the Kubota yesterday and moved the pallet in the back of the van with the 2 bales of straw on it over to the barn.

Then moved a pallet with fertilizer and blacktop patch over to the house and unloaded the blacktop patch.

Took that pallet back over to the barn and moved the straw onto it and then brought the empty pallet over to the house for the old washer.

Then moved the aluminum extension ladder from the barn around back for further limb trimming.

Made the run down to Menards in Massillon and picked freezer and coffee filters.

Got the old washer moved out onto the pallet then moved it out of the way.

Unloaded freezer from van onto pallet forks and brought it up to the entryway and with The Woman’s help got it moved inside, unpacked, and moved into the kitchen.

Kid at Menards who helped load it into the van tipped it up pretty good … so giving it 24 hours for the oil and refrigerant to flow back to where they belong before plugging it in.

After getting the freezer moved in I headed outside and brought the Cub around for The Woman so She could get a pair of hand pruners out of the tool bucket.

Then headed around back to start trimming limbs.

All it took was one trip up the ladder with the battery-operated chainsaw to decide I wasn’t going to be doing any more of that:

Much easier and safer just to give the young neighbor who is an arborist a call and have him go up with his climbing gear.

After that The Woman and I contented ourselves with raking up debris and trimming off small saplings coming up out of the ground.

Swapped out forks for the Light Material bucket and got several piles of debris loaded into the bucket and hauled that up to the compost pile.

Brought back another bucket load of wood chips for mulching on the return trip.

More spreading of mulch done.

Did some glyphosate spraying back there as well.

Moved the Cub over to the garden after that to block deer.

Then checked to see what was available to harvest, got a few things: another zucchini, a few tomatoes, some more okra and a bunch more cukes.

On today's agenda:

Need to dole out another week's work of meds.

Get Menards rebates sent off in the mail.

Refill bird feeders.

Clean out interior of new freezer and get that powered up this afternoon.

Run down to corner and grab another 5 gallons of gas for the Cub.

Tomorrow is trash/recycle day so will need to haul those up to cans at the road at some point.

Give large peach tree a good watering with the Buffalo.

Buffalo is probably getting close to empty ... so maybe a refill there.

More glyphosate spraying if wind is cooperating.

Maybe get the last few holes (re)drilled with the 2' auger.

Beyond that just see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Monday ...

 

[sodamo]

71°F and .58 inches rain

Divine intervention guided me to energy conservation yesterday. Who am I to argue

Need to mow the Cottage area. Our Canadian friends coming in Thursday for a short stay.

Zoom Happy Hour this afternoon.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[Dftodd]

Let's try this again. Posted in Humor the first time. Before the second cup


Good morning TBN!!
66 now but it's going to be hot and humid again today. HI over 100. 98% humidity right now.

Spent yesterday with the 3 pt QH. Ended up having to cut a piece of the top link connection on the box blade. A modification made to beef it up. Still have a bit more to work on before the top link will catch it.
Also I brought a cut part of the tank up to the shop to weld a hook to it so I can swing it in to place today. Concrete coming Sat so I have a few things to finish up with that.
It's not getting any cooler so I better get to it.

Time for a second cup
Everyone have a great and safe day!!

I figured you must have been short on coffee

 

[LouNY]

Well Morning again at 1 PM.
Sitting here this morning and wasting time when the power went out. The UPS's kicked in keeping my wife's work computer going and the other one on the Starlink and Mesh router. Guess I'll have to replace the batteries in the older unit it didn't last very long not quite 40 minutes and out of power. I had gone down to check out things and saw that the line fuse for the line that we get power from was blown, drove back down the road and saw the wire down in a corn field. Went back up and visited with a neighbor for a minute. Was just started up the driveway and my wife called the "internet" was down. So stop fire up the IH 574 and back up to the house with the pto generator and power everything up.
Estimated restoration time was 1:45 at 1PM no crew on site so I doubt that time. Well lunch finished time to try and do something productive, we will see how that goes.

All stay safe and well

 

[daugen]

my friend whose son had the wedding picnic this past weekend in West Orange NJ
said he saw this poster on the wall of the local deli he had breakfast in.
yes, a black owned business
sad such a talented artist was so emotionally unhappy
Billy Jean will always get cranked up on my car stereo.

Lou I can hear the IH purring from here