so waht ya doin today?

[Glaciers]

Yeah I’ve got a good one as well. I’ll certainly poke fun at her but it’s just that, fun.
Yesterday was our 47 anniversary of being together.

Photo taken in Southern California desert with California family and friends. We came down from Alaska to witness Halley’s Comet in 1986. Wanted to see the Comet especially with our young boys. Hoping they will be around for it’s return.

 

[Glaciers]

Give us a break guys, they are loved but have peculiarities. As we all do.

Yeah but every once in a while you have to admit that you got lucky and married up.
And Karyn being the upstanding woman she is didn’t kick me to the curb.

 

[smokeywolf]

Mrs. smokeywolf is absolutely the most logical female I've ever known.

EDIT to add: Happy Birthday to Cindy.

 

[JWFilips]

Wow I had a great productive day today! Got most of the last seedlings in the nice turned ground of the earth gardens! Sent off the last seedlings that were promised to folks and only have about 3 more big pots to plant! Then I'm done!
Starting to feel better since last weeks change of BP meds again! The double dose of beta Blockers were causing me fatigue and depression! On a single dose now but a double dose of Amlodipine and BP is very good and got my energy back along with my mental faculties! Feel great!

Worked hard all day but found out thatI was supposed to be locked up in the house with the weather situation! We are on the "Toxic" level for air quality because of the Canadian Wild Fires! Everyone is supposed to be indoors ......Index is over 250!

I live on the beginning of the Southern ridge of the Moosic Mountains! The valley is below us and across the valley we are used to seeing the northern section of the Moosic Mountains! They are gone and visibility is less then one mile! Smells like a smokey campfire all day, along with pipe tobacco and burning tires! Sun is in a clear but very smokey sky! It is dull orange and visible with the naked eye!
Very strange day and they say tomorrow will be worse!

 

[RBHarter]

I sympathize. Out west when California was burning down every summer where we had 30-50 miles visibility in the valley and often 200 or more from the mountains went down to 500-1000 ' with ash fall out 150 or more miles from the fires .

 

[Snakeoil]

Yeah, I bust my wife's chops a lot. But's a very sweet and kind individual. Hard to believe seeing as how she's Sicilian.

Today was a therapy day. I made a battery box from an old battery. My little 305 Honda Scrambler has a unique battery size and nobody makes as sealed battery for it. I'm over flooded cell batteries with overflow tubes. So, I cut open the old battery and gutted it. Made it into a battery box and installed a nice sealed AGM battery inside. Wired a fuse inside the box, and put the top back on. Still installs in the bike and connects like the OEM battery. The amp-hour rating is lower. But it is kickstart only and no accessories like you see on touring bikes. Should work. We'll see.

 

[462]

May 26 I wrote this about Midway and Larry Potterfield:

Larry can have scantly-clad, long-legged and busty young women tap dancing on his home page, but I'm pretty sure I've 86'd him for good.

Well, the scantly-clad, long-legged and busty young women weren't tap dancing, but this morning Larry sent me a product availability notification e-mail, saying that the E. R. Shaw 10/22 barrel I had in my shopping cart, but mysteriously became out of stock as soon as a free shipping with $75 purchase promotion started, was available. No free shipping, though.

I'm still pretty certain that Midway plays algorithmic product availability and free shipping games, but I ordered the barrel anyway, and UPS said they'll deliver it Sunday. Why am I wary?

If a free shipping promotion starts tomorrow, Midway's getting an earful. If so, I bet the canned response will be that the package is oversize and exempt from the promotion.

By the way, Brownells had the barrel at the same time Midway didn't, but they have some sort of security problem that does not recognize my debit card nor my wife's. I even tried to order via the phone, but no-go. For decades, I've ordered a lot of Brownells stuff without any problems till now. It probably has something to do with their new and very weird web-site, which they acknowledge has been problematic.

 

[fiver]

i could probably wrangle a few acres off the pasture behind me, and use the water line that runs down my property line to it and grow hay too.
or simply use the field for a geo-thermal heat exchanger.
i was actually offered a free 24X40' green house through the USDA here.
they even come set it up for you.
took a hard pass when i seen how they hold up, and after reading their stipulations.

i'm going to actually weigh/count what i grow this year and have the kids calculate it to the store prices to see how i'm actually doing.
some of the stuff i grow won't be available around here, but i can work something close-nuff out.
pretty sure just the onions and Beets alone will make my time worth the effort, if not the baby spinach and garlic for sure will.


the G-boy had his first Tee Ball game today.
were we all that unfocused and goofy at 5-6 y.o.?
some of them kids should have been wearing batting helmets at home.

 

[Bret4207]

The news here is telling everyone they'll basically die if they go outside and breathe the air. Utter hysterics over something that's been happening for millennia. Just the latest in a long stream of hyperbole and rule by fear.

Got a little done yesterday, mostly finding out that sometime in between the JD 314 mower deck and JD318 mower deck the spindle bearings were changed to a larger size. Had to resort to darkening the door of our local NAPA, a store owned by the most miserable people I've dealt with in my life. OTOH my refund for the 2nd broken transit I've purchased on line came through. You'd think darn near anyone could look through a transit and see if it will focus and verify if the crosshairs are even there, but I guess I expect too much!!! I'll get one someday, but I'm not paying $250.00 for something I'll use on 2 projects over the rest of my life.

We had rain! First time in 5-6 weeks I think. Not a lot, but it's supposed to drizzle every day for the next week. Kinda tough on the little goat kids and lambs out on pasture, but we'll get by.

 

[462]

If breathing forest fire polluted air were was as deadly as the doomers proclaim, I'd've died decades ago.


Funny but true story: Proscribed burns, on the old Ft. Ord's numerous rifle, mortar, and 105 mm and 155 mm artillery ranges, and general wild lands, had been ongoing for several years in preparation for locating and removing any unexploded ordnance. As usual, the perpetual whiners and malcontents protested whined and wrung their hands. Because the burns were funded by the federal government, er, American taxpayers (free money, don't you know), one year the burners said that those with any sort of breathing problem would be housed in out-of-town motels for the three days of the burns. No questions asked, just apply. Ah, ha! A free October vacation!! The offer was rescinded the next year.

 

[Mitty38]

There posting air alerts where I live now. From the forest fires around us, especialy from Canada, coming over the lake and down the Appalachian ridge.
Forest fires are not really a thing here, so kinda new to us. Since I basically live in a wetland. But they sure are, while hundreds of miles away, still all around us now.
Air quality alerts, beyond polen count, kinda a new thing here in my area of Ohio. I know my wife is feeling it a bit.
My nose is running like a faucet. Eyes itch a bit now and then.
Besides that pretty good here. Guess we will see when I go into work tonight how bad it gets.
I figure all the cigaret smoke, factory fumes,fiberglass, epoxy, lead, asbestos, and Isocyanates. Plus various other crap, I breathed in, in the 80's, when I was on the voleteer fire Department. have breathed and ingested over the years. What's a little Natural smoke going to mater?
It does kinda suck to look up at high noon not see the sun thru the haze. Never had that experience before unless in the winter, or rain related.

 

[popper]

Air quality alerts - constant in N Texas, due mostly to POLLEN!
Babysitting the 2 Aussies while the gals go shopping so I decided to trim some LC308 cases.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Yeah I’ve got a good one as well. I’ll certainly poke fun at her but it’s just that, fun.
Yesterday was our 47 anniversary of being together.
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Photo taken in Southern California desert with California family and friends. We came down from Alaska to witness Halley’s Comet in 1986. Wanted to see the Comet especially with our young boys. Hoping they will be around for it’s return.

Thats awesome!!

Yesterday was our 25 Wedding anniversary!

CW

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

There posting air alerts where I live now. From the forest fires around us, especialy from Canada, coming over the lake and down the application ridge.
Forest fires are not really a thing here, so kinda new to us. Since I basically live in a wetland. But they sure are, while hundreds of miles away, still all around us now.
Air quality alerts, beyond polen count, kinda a new thing here in my area of Ohio. I know my wife is feeling it a bit.
My nose is running like a faucet. Eyes itch a bit now and then.
Besides that pretty good here. Guess we will see when I go into work tonight how bad it gets.
I figure all the cigaret smoke, factory fumes,fiberglass, epoxy, lead, asbestos, and Isocyanates. Plus various other crap, I breathed in, in the 80's, when I was on the voleteer fire Department. have breathed and ingested over the years. What's a little Natural smoke going to mater?
It does kinda suck to look up at high noon not see the sun thru the haze. Never had that experience before unless in the winter, or rain related.

Air here was said ta be worst in the Nation! Today NY has the "honor".

Its not nice today!! Stronger smoke smell too.

CW

 

[Mitty38]

Happy anniversary guys.

 

[Bret4207]

Considering the vast number of woodstoves going 24/7/365 in my area, it's really a non-issue for us outside of the red sun we don't normally see this time of year. The Fear Mongers are having a field day though. "STAY INSIDE!!!!" "DON'T LEAVE YOUR HOME UNLESS IT'S AN EMERGENCY!!!!" Seriously? A little smoke smell and some funny colored clouds do not make Armageddon! I'm pretty sure that many of the people, in my area at least, would have been burning witches and looking at bones to foretell the future if it were 300 years ago. Freakin' idiots afraid to go outside, unless it's an emergency...like they run out of beer and cigarettes!!! And I'm not kidding- I know people that are heavy smokers that posted how worried they are about the forest fire smoke!!!!!

And THEY BREED!!!!!

 

[Snakeoil]

Yeah I’ve got a good one as well. I’ll certainly poke fun at her but it’s just that, fun.
Yesterday was our 47 anniversary of being together.
View attachment 34233
Photo taken in Southern California desert with California family and friends. We came down from Alaska to witness Halley’s Comet in 1986. Wanted to see the Comet especially with our young boys. Hoping they will be around for it’s return.

Weren't you on the Red Green Show??

 

[Rick]

Would sure be a pity to lock this thread. Tread carefully.

 

[462]

Deleted.

 

[Snakeoil]

I just noticed that my post was deleted with the comment "Enough is enough". What did I do wrong?? It was a link to an article about CO2 emissions which seemed appropriate with the major smoke problem going on right now. It wasn't political, it wasn't anything but a recap of history and data regarding CO2 and how it interacts with life on the planet. I thought if nothing else, it was informative. Was it too far off topic? Was it deemed political? I'm struggling with understanding what rule I broke. I even went as far as to re-read the forum rules and even had to look up Godwin's Law and I don't think I broke any rules. I understand that the forum is owned by someone and if they say NO it's NO. But I truly did not think I was offending, breaking rules or getting political.

Please tell me why??