so waht ya doin today?

[Bret4207]

Been a rough few days here. Kids, drama, stupid decisions, life in 2019 USA. I'm tired. Gonna fill the F350 with boxes of clothes and carry it all off to the Salvation Army store tomorrow after noon. Today is going to be messing with the bureaucratic nightmare called "getting your local school to administer your kids meds that HAVE to be given at a specific time or the kid can get even sicker". It's just a lotta fun. Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous and we cut wood. Got a picture I'm going try to post to answer the question the rest of the nation asks that runs something like, " Why would you live in the northeast?" Fall doesn't last near long enough, but maybe that's what makes us like it so much! The colors aren't quite as vibrant as they are to the eye. Kodachrome would have done it much more justice and I could have framed it better.

 

[LRB605]

Great picture.....Our leaves are just turning pretty colors....but today we got about 5 inches of heavy snow in Western South Dakota. So the leaves will probably be gone by next week. Hang in there!

 

[Gary]

Pretty picture Bret. Could be a pic taken in SE KS except the trees would be Oaks and the grass would either be CRP grass or native Big Bluestem. I love this time of year.

 

[Intheshop]

Bret,my kids were playing baseball in the fr yard about 20 years ago with a bunch of kids. Oldest takes a NASTY foul ball to his eye,playing catcher with no mask..... they ALL got a valuable lesson that day.

So with his eye barely hanging in the socket,and spending $$$ at the Drs. office only to be told,"don't let him do anything" he goes to school that following Monday. In gym class,with an explicit note from the eye doc...... the gym teacher calls BS on the note and makes him workout.

So,best of luck dealing with your education dept.

 

[462]

Something about Fall that stirs my soul unlike any other season, and makes it my favorite time of the year. There is a certain smell to the air, and the seasonal calming of the wind does something to the late afternoon and sundown that puts a finishing touch on the day.

Unfortunately, the area's native evergreen pine, oak and cypress trees aren't seasonally colorful and picturesque, so it's only the few planted deciduous tree that are. Oh, starting in September, the poison oak does make for red patches among the hills.

One of our long dreamed about road trips is New England in the Fall.

 

[Ian]

Vermont, you have to see Vermont when the trees are in color.

 

[popper]

When son was in GS had a problem with bad migraines. Knew when he was having a problem so asked to be excused to the RR. Nope. Projectile vomit convinced the teacher! Sometime they do learn. In 1st grade, was a kid with bad epilepsy - after first attack, we were instructed about what it was and what to do. Actually they wanted us not to be scared when he went wild and foamed at the mouth. In middle school (what they call it now) only kid I know that had polio was asked to participate in gym class. Some are idiots.
Ian at the hosp yet?

 

[Gary]

New Hampshire too.

 

[Bret4207]

Maine, NH, Vt, the whole of Central, Northern and the Adirondack region of NY are just amazing this time of year. No bugs to speak of, not as many tourists, the temps aren't too hot or too cold, the fish are still active and the hunting is just getting started. Not much better in my book than a crisp fall day with the smell of woodsmoke in the air and colors so brilliant and vivid they almost hurt your eyes to look at them. Of course if you get 3 weeks of that it's a miracle and after that there's nothing but grey, frozen, death to look forward to. But those 2 or 3 weeks are heaven on earth!

You really want to see the colors, take the gondola up the mountain this time of year at Gore Mt Ski Center in North Creek NY. Absolutely incredible.

 

[Bret4207]

Hey, believe it or not the med thing at school was absolutely simple! I'm amazed! Came home and spent a couple hours rebuilding my buzz saw. Some strategic welding, a new runner and she's looking pretty good. Even thought to rig a gizmo to help know where 16" right of the blade was so our wood will be about the same length. Seems my boys have a habit cutting smaller diameter wood longer than larger diameter. So a 2" thick stick might be 21-22" long and a 3 foot through hunka sugar maple might run closer to 12". Gotta be an optical thing. Anyway, should I ever trust one of them to run the buzzsaw (questionable!) at least they'll have a guide. Won't hurt the old man to have a little help either.

 

[462]

Six years ago, while visiting a Viet Nam buddy, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in late September, we were taken to nearby Holy Hill. We climbed the interior stairs has high as my wife's knee allowed (since a total replacement) and our view was similar to this picture gleaned from the Internet:


Of course, a short time later it would have looked like this:

 

[fiver]

that's about half and half what it looks like here this morning.

it was around 4* with a stiff north wind this morning as we hiked up the first two ridges.
I found some sagebrush about 7' tall and huddled in behind it to break up the wind.
we made it about an hour or so and called it.

we did see two smaller bucks in an area I was real reluctant to shoot them in so we come home with nothing this morning.
I drove over to another canyon and checked in with some guy's I know from Washington state and they had decided to split things up one stayed in camp and the other went down lower.
they said the wind was blowing snow across the ridge tops hard enough they weren't going anywhere near the top until this afternoon.

there's people every which where out there.
two trucks were going up the little draw I had picked first, which made me laugh [I hope they enjoy backing all the way down that road]
the second one had two more trucks parked at the bottom, and a pair of 4 wheelers were using the back road into the place we wanted to go.

 

[smokeywolf]

Had water people out today to hook up UV sterilizer and RO unit.
Mom insisted on finding out condition of septic tank. All got hooked up, septic was very good.
My back deck seems to be the ideal place to watch the storms roll in to north-central AR. I’m BBQing some rib eyes and watching a lightning show as I type this on the ‘not that smart’ phone. Air temp is probably 67*

 

[KeithB]

Haas tech came today and fixed CNC mill. I took a short video of the tool release operation that was causing problems. The air supply comes in from the upper left into the green solenoid valve. When this solenoid is trggered it lets air flow thorugh the pressure reducing valve on the right and down into a diaphragm operated valve which shifts a piston to the left and lets the 3-5 psi air pressure force down the Tool Release Piston until it contacts the end of the tool, Then the big blue solenoid valve to the left of it triggers which forces the diaohragm to the right and closes off the low pressure air to the TRP and opens a passage so the high pressure air can act on the TRP. The high opressure air solenoid was defective, the tech replaced that and the diaphragm valve as well.

 

[Bret4207]

Well Keith, at least it's fixed. Sure would have been nice if it had been a free fix, I'm sure!

462- Yup, you got it! Gorgeous colors for 2-3 weeks followed by grey, dreary cold followed by snow and wind followed by more of the same. I hate winter.

Was waiting for supper to cook last night and saw something in the field across the road where the sheep are. Can't find my 10-50 power binoculars anywhere, but had a 3-9 scope on my desk. Sure enough, coyote sneaking around the round bales. Got the 22-250 and sort of injuned down to my saw shed and took cover behind my crawler. Sat until it was took dark to see the cross hairs, but didn't see him anymore. Wind was at my back too, so I guess it figures. The rifle wears a 10x Weaver with fine crosshairs. It's great for bullseye shooting, but not much for trying to snipe a coyote just before dark. Might have to rethink this if I get into doing it more often.

 

[Intheshop]

I don't know what to say about coyote scopes. Here,and I have missed a few,they're in range one split second,then gone. I'd say maybe a 3 second window. A 3-9 with it set somewhere around the middle is my "normal" M.O.

I blast a lot of crows,who aren't known to hang around very long either. Most,I have just enough time to find ANY kind of make do rest. Still getting used to the 2lb trigger on the 7-08. Ain't no,get the crosshair "planted" and smacking,like a 3-4lb. Got to press it...... it is getting easier. The timing involved in the way I like to hunt varmint/predator means you pay a lot of dues with miscues. Dry fire practice with that metronome I bought works bout as good as anything. The whole muscle memory,practice thing.

 

[Winelover]

Gorgeous colors for 2-3 weeks followed by grey, dreary cold followed by snow and wind followed by more of the same. I hate winter.

Why, I couldn't wait to get out of Michigan.

 

[L Ross]

Big change last night as a front rolled through at 3:55 am. twenty degree temp drop, the curtains blew in and rain hit my uncovered arm and woke me up.
Ah Winter, a time of guilt free ice fishing, ammo reloading, bullet casting, a little snow shoeing, ahhhhh. Soon forgotten are all of those chores looming over your head, because, well heck, it's Winter and you can't do them anyway, right?
I'll take me a nice few months of Winter, yessiree!

 

[Bret4207]

Got another one this AM. She was sleeping on top of a round bale at about 100-115 yards, paced, can't find my stupid range finder.

 

[Winelover]

We're getting a cold front too. Yesterday, high of 80 degrees. This morning it was 58 degrees at 5 AM with a cold rain. Temps falling all day...........dropped eight degrees by 8 AM. Frost warning out for tonight.

Colors are just starting to change, this year...............nothing spectacular, yet.

Here are some photos I took, last year, just out my door.




Front door, view.



Back deck, view.




Couple others, that Cindy took, when out on there women's hiking group outings.






Hawksbill Crag.

Several people have died in falls, here.