All packed... just waiting to go.

Hope everyone has a pleasant evening...

 

I know this is something you've wanted to do for a long time, but thank you anyway Mark. Your service is appreciate by many. Oh, and stay safe. I dunno what's worse, the area you're going to or the TSC agents you'll have to deal with enroute.



If I can't sleep. NO ONE is gonna sleep... GET OUTTA BED!

TUESDAY, JULY 3rd:

1608 - The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.

1775 - U.S. Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, MA.

1863 - The U.S. Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, PA, ended after three days. It was a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.

1871 - The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma."

1890 - IDaho became the 43rd state to join the United States of America.

1898 - During the Spanish American War, a fleet of Spanish ships in Cuba's Santiago Harbor attempted to run a blockade of U.S. naval forces. Nearly all of the Spanish ships were destroyed in the battle that followed.

1903 - The first cable across the Pacific Ocean was spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.

1930 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.

1944 - The U.S. First Army opened a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.

1944 - During World War II, Soviet forces recaptured Minsk.

1945 - U.S. troops landed at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.

1945 - The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, MI. Production had been diverted due to World War II.

1950 - U.S. carrier-based planes attacked airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.

1954 - Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.

1981 - The Associated Press ran its first story about two rare illnesses afflicting homosexual men. One of the diseases was later named AIDS.

1986 - U.S. President Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.

1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush formally inaugurated the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Cffee's ready! You KNOW you want it!

 

Ha... funny, I'm up. We don't have to deal with TSA anyway

Mornin.

Later.

 

Oh yeah, 'TSA'. I keep getting the Tractor Supply Company and Transportation Safety Administration abbreviations mixed up. Same customer service from either one; you go there expecting one thing and come out with something totally different. And not necessarily what you wanted either.

 

And that makes it even funnier. He can't stand his own smell.



And your point?

Maybe so, but I was never worried about getting a colonoscopy at Tractor Supply.

Mark, stay safe buddy.

Lary, I was wondering about how close you were to that mess on Friday. The coverage of those storms has been lousy at best. I still haven't seen a decent map of the path the storms took. You'd think something that took 3 million people off the grid in 5 states and killed 16 would show up outside the area affected.

 

That's the problem. There's NOTHING at Tractor Supply that anyone can use. Everytime I go there I get half, (at best), of what I need. The last time it was 3/8", grade 5 bolts. I got the bolts ok but they were out of nuts and I could only get 8 of the 40 flat washers I needed.

"Tractor Supply. The Stuff You Need Out Here" (Is never available!)

 

Morning whippersnappers.

Bob, I hope it does but I'm not holding my breath.

Mad, fair winds and following seas. You take care of yourself.


Edit: And let it be known, my truck is now called The Zoom Chariot.

 

You should only hold your breath while underwater, or when around this bunch that is enamoured with some sort of thingy you get into and zipper it up when you go to bed after too much chili. ...............

Morning all - - nuther 89 degree day in Paradise. Lots going on and phone won't shut up. So, off and running while grabbing a cup out the door. CYA.

Bob

 

Wow, it's cooler there than here. 102.7 here right now.

 

That decimal point will get you every time.

 

I hear thunder and clouds to the east - - probably getting the ranch right about now. Strange - - the storms come to I75 from the east and stop - - like there is a big invisible fence up there. Really weird. Still only 89 and sunny. Very nice but somewhat humid. Great if you sit in the shade - - nice breeze.

 

More storms here...tornadoes on the ground...storms last night as well. More intense here now.
91F and feels like 99 with the humidity.

Be back later.

 

Hydrating tonight. Had a Sol beer. About to try some cider. I am finding that the sun and hat is a harsh opponent. I will continue brew intake so as not to risk dehydration or some heat related event.


And to you.

Noted

Scotty!



Worked on DHs car this afternoon. I had lunch with his cousin and while eating I got a panicked call fro him "Sweetie! My car won't shift out of park!"

Got home and troubleshot. It is called "the pink thingy". Anyway. did a quick repair I found HERE and got it going again. I mean really Dodge.

Time for pizza, hydration, maybe a cigar tonight. Haven't partaked...partooked in one in a while.

Just hanging around and enjoying the holiday.

 

Geeze Dude, hang on tight and assuming you don't live near train tracks (sadly, in do), if you hear a locomotive, head for the basement. There was a tornado up near Red Deer a couple of hours ago. Nothing like that here (we are 90 miles south of there) but we have had brutal winds all day. The tomato plants my DW put in the ground yesterday are pretty much destroyed. The ones in the greenhouse are fine.

Speaking of the greenhouse, I solved a perennial problem today.the tomatoes and tomatillos in the greenhouse get watered with a dribbler system (insert old man jokes here). However the water can't come from the well, that water is so alkaline it just kills plants. So we use water from the irrigation canal. The dribblers have been fed from a barrel on the deck which gives small water pressure due to about 3 ft of elevation. This system has been problematic since the day we built it. As soon as anything plugs the dribblers, the don't work due to really low pressure. I got a small 1/6 hp submersible pump at Home Depot today. I dropped it into the barrel and hooked the dribblers to the output hose from the pump. The dribblers work most excellently now with good pressure and reliable output. A dude at a pump shop gave me the idea about the submersible pump on Friday. Why didn't I think of this years ago?

 

You HOPE!

Bob comes up and waters your plants?



Evening all.