Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

seems I was mowing this day a few years back
in some pretty serious stuff,
helping neighboring farmer
had to be very careful, lots of abandoned old broken
implements back along woods and in tall grass. First I walked the edge,
looking for IEDs.
49hp Massey turning a six foot rough cut mower, just went slowly
wumpety wumpety wump

 

[ArlyA]

Good morning all. 44 here this am and predicted to hit 55 today and its breezy now. We got 1.25 inches of rain yesterday and overnight. Our 40lb puppy eats more than our other 2 dogs do so I need to get her another 40lb bag of food for her. Gee whiz. If the rain ends, I got things to do outside today.

 

[riptides]

....
49hp Massey turning a six foot rough cut mower, just went slowly
wumpety wumpety wump

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Matched your wumpety wump a few days ago. Always interesting mowing tall grasses.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,

Old spice deodorant as well riptides been doing that for years

Buppies, still using to this day

Still hard to beat the fragrance of air dried.

David, totally agree, but Kathleen doesn’t want to be bothered with that, so dryer sheets it is

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning Dennis,
Yes, the disappearance act worked perfectly

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
66° high in the low 80’s, showers likely tonight.

Yesterday was a combination of things to keep me occupied. Nice breakfast with the professor, some cleanup and computer work, a bit of clock repair, standby generator service call, gave away two RC helicopters to someone that was excited to get them. Not a bad day overall.

Today is another generator to look at, some work in the shop, meet some friends for lunch, and whatever comes up between then and the RC club meeting this evening.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 59 going to 84 and sunny.
More watering and simple maintenance around the yard after work.
It's funny Don, 81 would be a great temp for our pool, we don't like it above 83.

Lots of paperwork both at work and at home today :-(

Might get to go out and split some wood.

Calling for rain tonight, we'll see, it's been a while, normal for August, but it is very dry here.

Be well

 

[WinterDeere]

81 would be a great temp for our pool, we don't like it above 83.

I was this way when young, in fact my favorite pool was a family member just a mile from your place, who had a large rectangular pool under the shade of a tree... it stayed cold right into August.

But now I keep my pool heated to 85 - 87F. If I forget to put the solar cover on overnight this time of year, I can watch steam rising off the water in the mornings.

 

[LouNY]

I was this way when young, in fact my favorite pool was a family member just a mile from your place, who had a large rectangular pool under the shade of a tree... it stayed cold right into August.

But now I keep my pool heated to 85 - 87F. If I forget to put the solar cover on overnight this time of year, I can watch steam rising off the water in the mornings.

I have never to the best my knowledge swum in a heated pool. Growing up it was and still has been always rivers, ponds or lakes. The first pool I was ever in was at Parris Island MCRD.

 

[daugen]

roofer left, fixed my five broken shingles, said roof was so old
adhesive wasn't sticking right. He agreed the estimator should come out for a new roof.
at least that's done.
I gave roofer a couple tomatoes and twenty bucks, he left with a smile and I/landlord will get a bill for 280 bucks,
minimum charge. Around here, such a deal.

strange to see this time last year I was already in South Dakota. I bet tomorrow a pic of George Washington will show up, my telephoto
of Mt Rushmore

now off to local orchard to see what they have
absolutely gorgeous out

 

[WinterDeere]

I have never to the best my knowledge swum in a heated pool. Growing up it was and still has been always rivers, ponds or lakes. The first pool I was ever in was at Parris Island MCRD.

Don't knock it, until you try it! 86F is nice, perfect to knock the heat off you, without that cold shock when you first dive in.

 

[sodamo]

69°F and .06 inches rain

Got my LS back running and mowed some of the heavy stuff.

H&F this afternoon. My task is to make some delicious beef short ribs

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

72F and cloudy @ 13:45, was only calling for high of 69F for the day so we've beaten that. Low this morning was 61F.

Front came through earlier with some rain, did not hear any thunder. Can't tell if the gauge shows anything, nearby LWS shows they only got 0.05" ... bare ground areas still look dry as a bone ...

Drought Monitor still shows us as "Abnormally Dry" ...

Got tube feeders refilled first thing yesterday.

Installed 4 cages on hosta under maple @ southwest corner under maple tree.

Gathered up long garden hose and hauled it around to the front and strung it out to feed the pressure washer.

Ran soaker hose on the brassicas for an hour, low flow.

Picked a couple of volunteer tomatoes while I was under the netting hooking up the soaker hose.

Deployed another Buffalo of water:

The 6 pumpkins in back, 2 gallons each.

3 winter squash @ the southwest corner, 2 gallons each.

16 hosta plants @ southwest corner, 1 gallon each.

20 hosta plants @ large northeast maple, 1 gallon each, also 2 gallons to the Redbud volunteer there.

Hooked up Buffalo and set it to refill on low flow, got it refilled in about an hour.

Put another hook on the auger storage stand, removed 24" auger from PHD and got it stowed.

Ran down to the corner hardware and picked up a couple of new bolts for attaching the augers as the old ones were pretty chewed up then put on the 12" auger.

Finished cleaning out cracks in front of the garage where the asphalt meets the concrete, blew out with the Stihl blower.

Collected up a bunch of pots that The Woman had been cleaning and stowed them in a storage tote.

Looked for the tamper in the barn, couldn't find it ... may have loaned it to a relative. Need to recheck today when there is more light over there.

Agenda for today (in no particular order):

Hook up pressure washer and see if I can get it started. May have old gas in it, if so it may have to be drained and fresh put in it ... which will involve a trip down to the corner for fuel ... which is fine, since the Cub is due to be refilled.

Pressure wash area where cold patch is going to be put down.

Swap out Light Material bucket for pallet forks.

Move 2 x 12's over to the radial arm saw and get those cut to length.

Move some 4 x4 fence posts onto the hay wagon.

Move four large round fence posts from the barn over to the house then go back and get the saw horses.

Repair deer netting on the south perimeter of the garden.

Beyond that see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Thursday ...

 

[Dftodd]

I have never to the best my knowledge swum in a heated pool. Growing up it was and still has been always rivers, ponds or lakes. The first pool I was ever in was at Parris Island MCRD.

For me growing up, the town pool was the warmest water. But that was when I was around 10yrs old.

Before that it was a creek fed pond. The creek started as a spring about 2 miles up the hill from the pond, so the water was 55°

Same with the rivers on the mountain we lived on. I think the water warmed to 56° by the time it reached the bottom of the mountain where there was an extremely popular swimming spot

The lake would get up to a balmy 70°.

99% of the time, once I was out of school, I would go hang out at the popular spot at the bottom of the mountain.

The views from the cliff side looking down at the water were amazing

Because of that 55° water, I have never been able to just walk into the water. I had to psych myself up first, and then leap. If I tried to ease into it, I would back out as soon as the water started creeping to waste level

To this day, is still prefer to just rip off the bandaid and jump in wherever possible.

 

[txdon]

Good afternoon! 102˚ but the humidity is low, 28% so the heat index is also only 102˚. Water temp 87˚.

The August Tempest Weather Station summary reported came in email today. The low for August was 68˚ the high was 103˚ and we had 2.13" of rain.

 

[ArlyA]

Gee, here is our current conditions. We don't need any more rain.

 

[ronjhall]

Gee, here is our current conditions. We don't need any more rain.View attachment 4028044

Weather reports in SE Michigan say that it is snowing in the UP today.

 

[kenmbz]

Our swimming hole in MA was a cement runnoff of the Deerfield river. It was a large basin that held quite a bit of water, it was always cold. It was in a little park area at the base of the mountain. So car or volunteer to drive us down.

The other hang out was Tannery Falls up the road, it had a few pools in the path of the falls.
Most cars can't handle the road to the falls, so it was almost always just us locals.

Tannery Falls - Massachusetts

Overview of Tannery Falls. Description, photos, trail info, and directions.

www.newenglandwaterfalls.com

The Creek on my uncles property was usually too shallow to be useful.

We had 1.25" all of August. Last August we had over 7" for the month.

 

[Thomas]

The township wants $7,000.oo for the building permit.

Holy smokes wonder how much for average home permit cost.

 

[Thomas]

74F clear sky maybe overnight shower.

Good day at work.
Driving up driveway there was Little Boo laying waiting for me with hard stare,guess that's why UPS and Fedx no longer deliver to house,about 5 mins sweet talking he slowly stroll into woods.

Plans for the evening some grilling wait for the critters and stars.

Enjoy your evening all.
.......................................
Mom little one early evening stroll.