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FRIDAY finally, thoughts and prayers for everyone. I think it’s been a rough week.

 

Buna dimineata

 

Good morning friends. Monsoon late today/tonight - just to make sure the leaves are good and soggy for Saturday clean up...

 

Morning..
More rain
More wind
More long work weeks

And the beat goes on..

 

Good morning. 20 with an inch of new white chit. Not ready for this. Low teens tonight. Leaves still in yard.

Bright side is your almost a short timer. Be a 3 digit midget before you know it. Good luck with the surgery and also during the time leading up to it. Yeah getting old is not for sissies but I keep telling myself it is worth it. Hope the pain goes away and stays away for you that constant pain is the worst part to me anymore.

Chris hard for me to even say anything about any of that. Says a lot about you. Hate what happened but also so glad you didn't take the carpool in. Make sure you hug a loved one too. And have no doubt you will shake someones hand today.

Yep thin wire, always called them barn or camp traps. Need to set mine up in the garage yet I even take a piece of scrap wood and place it so they can walk the plank up to the wire. I do hate opening the door to the garage in the morning and hear the little bastards scraping on the sides of the bucket to get out. Must be getting soft as I get older. Pellet pistol puts an end to that sound quick enough.

Chunky here too. With half a peanut stuck to it. The extra weight makes the pan trip just a bit easier and more sensitive. My theory anyhow. I keep one back behind the dog food container and it has my highest hit rate. Still find pieces of dog food stashed throughout the house from time to time. But I'll take field mouse in the country over cockroaches in the city any day.

 

Good morning. We decide whether or not to work Saturday this afternoon. I'd rather not and it just occured to me that this is a long weekend. I'm saying no to tomorrow. We can't have the weekend/holiday traffic mixed in with a bunch of dump trucks all trying to converge on the same location at the same time. Thanks for helping me solve another problem guys! You're the best!

 

Howdy
Winter here again

 

Pfffft
This is winter

 

Morning all
Thanks for the kind words.
Kid was better after about an hour, he dosent remember it at all, that is normal.
His shoulder is fine the tensing of the muscles just irritated it, I guess.
Damn winds are blowing hard so it's hard to sleep.

Coffee

 

Crisp Fall morning here today.



Down to 19° now and still dropping. Not sure will be able to get the Ranger back out this year with the dog, snow gets too deep he can't run in the woods very well. Not going to unpack it yet though just in case.

 

Am i rite that you use thin instead of a dowel with a soda can strung on it. and my bud said to use a plank!

 

Yep just some thin bare copper wire. Drill a hole in the bottom of the can and run it through it and the can opening. Doesn't spin perfectly round but doesn't have to, just enough to throw them off balance into the water.

 

good morning ladies and gentleman

 

Good Morning All. hope all is well and thoughts to all, been a rough week for some on the 50+! I did leaves yesterday, you couldnt see any grass out back! rain today then Cold air moves in

 

Ive got a leaf machine out of bullitin board couple yrs ago. the Techimsi motor was piece of crap. tore it off and got a briggs, my buddy tuned the carb and added a fuel shutoff.it has sit since Dec17’. filld it up yesterday and fired on first yank of the cord! thats fun!

 

My weekend has begun.... quietly , I hope..

Definitely a "bad week" here in the "50's world".... My son lost his father-in-law yesterday afternoon and his wife is taking it very hard.....

This is what sucks about parenting, we can not "hurt" for them.... just be the shoulder to lean on...

 

The small plank is just so they can get to the edge of the bucket where the wire is , center the can so they can't stretch to it.
https://youtu.be/ACd_G7f8nLk

 

That

 

Hi. I’m a ways from there but thanks for asking. There have been about a half dozen people at my job that have been evacuated.

 

It was crazy windy at my place last night.