Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

got 3/4 of my rv washed and dried and then back and legs gave out.
will go out later and finish it.
nice day, sunny with puffy white clouds

one project for this afternoon which I can do sitting down is solder a new connector
on to my portable solar panel so it can plug into rv. though I bet if I wimped out and used
a wago lever connector, would work fine.

 

[daugen]

before I got my trac vac in NC, I used one of the old fashioned sweepers to pick up the pine needles
I was amazed how well it worked, and how heavy those needles were when it was full.
Got even heavier with the trac vac but that held a lot more.

those trees along my neighbor's driveway are now mature and very pretty

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, looks like a great train ride. I just watched an hour long documentary on the history of the Norfolk and Western Railway and learned how impressive and important the 611 was to the steam era...that's the one you rode out of Staunton a while back? If Buckingham offers it again, I'd like to book a trip.

Rode it 2 yrs ago. They had it again this yr, so maybe 2 yrs?

Bigboy is coming east next summer

 

[rswyan]

47F with fog @ 11:00, calling for clouds and a high of 55F for the day. Low this morning was 34.3F.

Got cleaned up and shaved first thing yesterday.

Amazon delivered our dishwasher detergent which is on subscription.

Then headed down to the basement to get back at it.

Successfully de-soldered old water line that went to the softener. Decided to just leave it off and not cap it, just to minimize work. Stuck a bucket under it to catch the drip, drip, drip ...

Moved 4' section of stud wall into place and got it plumb and nailed the top plate to the floor joists. Then broke out the new Tapcon T22 and fired a couple of nails into the bottom plate to secure it to the concrete floor.

Was kind of a tight squeeze with the well pressure tank still in it's original location:

With that done I re-soldered the old water pipe for the softener back into place. Sealed up without using additional solder ...

By that time Woman had arrived home with chow so I took a break to go eat.

After dinner headed back down and resurrected a partially used can of Great Stuff expanding foam (dated 2017 ... ) by using a drill bit to clean out the hardened foam in the dispensing tube ... and then used that to seal the gap in the foam at the corner where the south and west walls come together which would inaccessible once the south stud wall was put into place.

Also sealed up a gap at the other end of the south wall between the last two pieces of foam board.

Once that was done I started nailing the 8' section of studs together for the south wall ... which was complicated by only having about 9' of clear floor space to work in. Nonetheless managed to get that nailed up enough to raise it and mostly move it into place:

Will need some additional toe-nailing and tweaking with the hand sledge to get things flush and plumb ... once I go out and get it from the storage box in garden.

Once that's done I'll get it nailed to the joist on top and the concrete floor on the bottom.

Then onto finishing up the studs for the rest of the south wall.

After that I'll start drilling the holes for the electrical wire and placing boxes for outlets.

Did not get the battery charger put on the Cub yesterday so that's the first thing on the agenda for today.

Beyond the above just see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Saturday ...

 

[sodamo]

71°F and no rain, but forecast
Really good day with the new flail yesterday. Actually felt I might be getting hang of doing the slopes.
If I can beat the rain, hope to finish the area other side of the driveway today.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great tractor day

 

[txdon]

David, do you have as many rain days as we have no rain days?
October - 2 rain days
November - 0 rain days

 

[Thomas]

Got another 1/4" overnight.

What the earliest you ever start plowing.

 

[Looking4new]

What the earliest you ever start plowing.

I don't know to be honest. Usually, by the end of November we will have about a foot on the ground. I plow at 3" with the BB angled like this ))>. After I get a good base (all the driveways are dirt or gravel), so I drive the snow down into the dirt to make a good base. Then I will turn the BB around and plow like this (>.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

good breakfast this morning with the usual gang, place was busy so we had to wait for a table.

Nice day, spent the afternoon sho oting clays at the neighbors house. I didn't go after any of the targets. Couldn't hit any clays though. Nothing like living in a rural area where this is normal stuff.......

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Sunday) morning. Overnight Low of 2.3C and it's presently only 9.5C [heading to 17C], fairly cloudy & calm. There was 1.0mm in the gauge @ 0700, all from yesterday's forenoon.

As per usual, I'm off to Church in about a half hour and then the rest of the day is His.

That's about it, take care all.

 

[LouNY]

good breakfast this morning with the usual gang, place was busy so we had to wait for a table.

Nice day, spent the afternoon sho oting clays at the neighbors house. I didn't go after any of the targets. Couldn't hit any clays though. Nothing like living in a rural area where this is normal stuff.......

Many years ago one of my Labs would go out were most of the pieces were landing and try to catch the biggest pieces to bring back to you. When some one missed she was her happiest.

 

[Looking4new]

BEF, I used to really enjoy sho oting clays. A single pop, pop g*n. Somehow I got talked into a pump so I could do doubles. Worst mistake of my life. Couldn't hit the broadside of a barn door with it.

 

[WinterDeere]

those trees along my neighbor's driveway are now mature and very pretty

Is that photo from New Hope or NC?

 

[daugen]

Is that photo from New Hope or NC?

terrapin track road, washington nc

 

[Looking4new]

Toronto is expecting a couple of inches of snow tonight. Yippee! For Toronto.
Nothing forecast for here, 4 hours north.

 

[Buppies]

Not much done today up until 2:30 AM this morning dog woke up at 6:00 AM this morning. Out door lights quit working need to investigate tomorrow dead short somewhere.


Hope you enjoyed birthday scotty

Prayers for all silent or spoken

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 48ºF for the start, mostly clear sky light breeze. Light wind, moderate gusts, mostly clear sky, and high temp was 79ºF. made coffee to start day, launch boat and motor to the breakfast/ kickoff meeting for Lake cleanup. Then snapped a pic while waiting for kayaker. Besides the trash in pic, got to large trash sacks full of trash off lake in about 4 hours work. After boat back on trailer, and parked in driveway got nap, cleaned up boat.
resuming Tuesday 10/4 12:37 PM CST post 213,737:
RS hope you are ready for snow. Hope charging the pressure tank helped the short cycling. Hope you get a good quote from driller. Hope you made progress on Tuesday agenda.
Thomas glad bear family happy there. glad good day at work, and burn barrel exercised.
Dennis I get the impression BB doesn't want to be true barn cat.
Drew sorry pain Doc late, glad he can help you. Hope Wednesday departure went well.
Dennis Snagglepuss looks happy.
Randy(wag) hope town trip went well. Hope stacking went well.
Dennis sorry about turn around in yard when he at wrong house to begin with .
Buppies glad good trip to Charlotte. Prayers sent
Wednesday 3:28 AM CST:
Drew hope trip was good.
Ron thanks for update from Harvey. Good to hear pond is winterized. Hope you get car wash before you need to shut down water lines. Nice moon pic.
Scott(vt) glad safe travel to DR. Hope you got coffee shortly after posting.
More catch up later
prayer for all, especially Jay/Peg, Kyle /Daughter, /mom's breathing, /son's migraines, Mike /BIL in FL, Ron /heart, David(moss) /remodel, /divorce, Buppies /cancer, parathyroid, blood sugar /wife, Thomas /gout, Phil /reflux, Frits /veteran son with mental issues, /granddaughter with Evans Syndrome, Ken /chronic fatigue, Diet not working, Randy(wag) /sister stoke, Scott(vt) /wife's back pain, Steppenwolfe /son-auto immune disorder, Grev /wife's eye, Ted /knee recovery, /retirement & disability red tape, /family issues, /wife back issues and cancer, Lou /eye issues, /heart issues, /wife hip replacement, 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, Eye recovery, /back issue, Scaredy/shoulder dislocation, /marriage dissolving, / friend stop drinking, Dennis /retirement, /neighbor issues, /brother's lymphoma, /dad surgery recovery, Drew /back operation issues, /friend's wife cancer diagnosis and recovery, Scotty /back pain, Helogabals /wife's friend situation, Fatjay /father broken hip, Ukraine war, Middle East War, and Country.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 32° with light snow this morning. Heading to 36° with chance of light snow. Got garden trimmings cleaned and moved to compost pile. Got tractor out with mower and windrowed all the leaves that are on ground. Did that neighbors place also. That was enough for the day. Saw neighbor out cleaning up all the rows of leaves after it turned dark. Nice to have flood lights on tractor for after days usage. May get snow plow on tractor just in case we get more snow than forecast today.

Prayers and best wishes for everyone.

Good Morning All.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the low is 17 and going up to 30°F. Wind NE 7 mph. A mix of sun and cloud. I can handle that.

Today is rib day. We have ribs every Sunday. Sometimes I hot them up and soak them down with hot sauce and sometimes I don't.

I don't think we got much snow last night, but I won't check on that until after breakfast.

Time to get on with 'it'.

Have a safe day all

 

[wngsprd]

50 and raining. Oops, I didn't finish painting outside until sunset. It looked mostly dry with the flashlight when I went in after cleanup, so fingers crossed. High today 70.

The NWS put a snow icon on our Monday night forecast, but low chance.

Mostly, that's a lot of trash. Nice that you do clean up.

Wife heading to stay at son's house to babysit tonight/tomorrow.