Hey Don! clear out you PMs, can't send you any - your 'box' is full.

uranus- america's funniest video won with a little girl learning her planets. she was repeating the names after her mom pointed and spoke them.
"Ur a nus"
kid- "My a nus?"
no, YOUR a nus"
kid - oh, " MY a nus"

Mom: no honey, it starts with YOUR- Your anus
kid " your my a nus"

glad it won, we about spit beverages all out after that innocent one.

kind of marked a section of timber area we have to work this year. used old license plates on the tree boundaries(free reflective metal signs!!).....yeah, a REAL conservationist here folks..... put nails in the tree and everything (sigh-hoo boy) lucky a bear didn't smack me in the back of the head
Mr. Technology did not bring his GPS and his app phone did not work accurately easy ride home.

JUST got a new watch for Christmas. old one worked but too many deep dives made the gasket leak. 27 years on that watch....
sundial would require sun, wouldn't it? won't work here then..LOL

 

Evening DTR

It's 1820 here now and the sun is still out! We had to turn the clocks forward last night. Looks like most of the week will be in the 40's, can't wait till it's warmer so i can get the garden planted.

Got some stuffed peppers cooking right now.

 

Greetings. Had a great day outside most of it.
Shoveled snow away from the house and cleared the gutters of ice.
bbq'd the steak and we all sat in the hot tub for awhile. Was a perfect day, no clouds, no wind and lots of melting.
I am sleepy.
I will try and ALTER the phoo00 with my eyes closed. The SEAL is currently approving it with some kind of a [censored]

 

Scotty, I left the ph00 duties to the the Seal and the Dragon. I can't tell ya what they used but the n00 ph00 is in a catagory of it own now!

 

Lots of groves around here but mostly pasture land - - lots of horses and cattle. Neat area. Ironically I was sitting on the porch yesterday morning drinking coffee watching a coyote and three red tail hawks competing for little critters in the pasture. Fun. Alfred (the gator) has disappeared from the pond - - hmmm????

You just keep tryin', big boy.

Ya'll sleep tight.

Bob

 

I'll never stop trying. How is Bobby tonight?
Matt, good work training the Seal and the Dragon.

Looking forward to a good nights sleep. That fresh air does it to me.

 

Thanks scotty, it took a while for the two to get along. The dragon kept trying to burn the seal but now he's better.




Off to bed, gotta work in the AM.

 

Saw that one. It was good.
Must have really turned those clocks back (about 91 years).

Great weather here today too! No complaints.

 

Nice clear skies today, and just about three smarties cool out. Still in the lows overnight, but the sun finally has some heat. Spent the last couple days out there working on a D8R back in the weeds. New turbo. Amazing rainfall at -40 when the water cooled turbo blows an internal seal.

On the way to the job, turn left off the highway, alternator goes dead in the truck. None in town, oh well, call a buddy to get a used one. Go to put the phone away, it hits the gear tower and breaks in half. Job was already going swimmingly, and I was still 7.5 km from the machine. Oh well, at least the job went as well as CAT engineers would let it. Finished it up this afternoon.

Otherwise, alls well that ends well, making baked chicken for supper, while doing laundry and catching up with dtr. Oh, and searching for a new cab and chassis to replace my 01 550.

Have a good week people.

 

Ohhhh, you are a lucky guy, I bet the rainbow was really pretty.

 

Pind, do you have any skin left on your knuckles? tough of the toughest, from your posts. I helped put two bolts in for a turbo cooler on a D-8. little hands make farmers work cost less. yup, replaced due to overheating....
don't know how you do it in those conditions and without people or parts stores around...

really cool guy in Palmer Alaska sent me an ebay item for free...won the auction, asked a question and blam! the item showed up with a very very nice note. won't really know if it is alaskans or musher related but hey- awesome surprise!!

out in a few hours for a low boy run (empty) sit around tomorrow while they tug it out of the flooded river bank. I may park downstream...

 

Nope, no skin on my knuckles.... ( knuckle-dragging mouth-breather) haha.

The rainbow was neat, that thing literally spewed 5 gallons of coolant out the exhaust, in the time it took to move it 100 feet, to where we could work on it. No leprechauns in sight though.. bugger.

The cold just means you keep working, do NOT stop for anything, because you won't want to start again. On the plus side, nice views all around where I was working.

 

Probably operator malfunction


Morning DTR, sure hate this daylight savings junk.. Where's the good coffee when you need.

 

Morning.

Today is Monday, March 14th.

On this day in 1629 - A Royal charter was granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1743 - First American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall.

1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.

1900 - U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the ratification of the Gold Standard Act.

1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.

1932 - George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed suicide.

1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.

1938 - Germany invaded Austria. A union of Austria and Germany was proclaimed by Adolf Hitler.

1945 - In Germany, a 22,000 pound "Grand Slam" bomb was dropped by the Royal Air Force Dumbuster Squad on the Beilefeld railway viaduct. It was the heaviest bomb used during World War II.

1951 - U.N. forces recaptured Seoul for the second time during the Korean War.

1954 - The Viet Minh launched an assault on Dien Bien Phu in Saigon.

1983 - OPEC agreed to cut its oil prices by 15% for the first time in its 23-year history.

1995 - American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket.

1998 - An earthquake left 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran.

2002 - A Scottish appeals court upheld the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. A five-judge court ruled unanimously that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was guilty of bringing down the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?

Coffee's on.

 

Morning everybody.

Was up extra early today due to your stoooopid time change. Yesterday afternoon we lost power for about a minute and when I reset my bedside clock, I used the time on my computer. This morning got up at what I thought was a bit later than normal, only to have my wife growl at me for waking her up early. On investigation discovered that the clock time on my computer had changed to your daylight savings time. We don't change for another two weeks yet.

In spite of the above, I am blissfully happy in Paradise. (OK Scott, see what you can do with that.)