OK children - - another week has come upon us. Let's go sic'em. Make hay. Earn some money. Hug your mate. Go to church this morning.

Coffee and ph00 are on. Sorry, zuccinni bread is all gone. Have a great one.

Bob

 

Mornin'.

It is Sunday, August 25th.

1718 - Hundreds of colonists from France arrived in Louisiana. Some settled in present-day New Orleans.

1814 - The U.S. Library of Congress was destroyed by British forces.

1916 - The National Park Service was established as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

1920 - The first airplane to fly from New York to Alaska arrived in Nome.

1921 - The U.S. signed a peace treaty with Germany.

1941 - Allied forces invaded Iran. Within four days the Soviet Union and England controlled Iran.

1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill appropriating funds for construction of the Pentagon.

1944 - Paris, France, was liberated by Allied forces ending four years of German occupation.

1950 - U.S. President Truman ordered the seizure of U.S. railroads to avert a strike.

1972 - In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.

1998 - A survey released said that 1/3 of Americans use the Internet.

Today's thought:
Material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

C0ffee & ph00 are ready.

Keep up the thoughts and prayers for B0b and his family, it's working! Go check out the prayer thread for the update!

 

Time for Scotty to make lemonade out of this lemon/fuel pump.
I emailed pureflow.
Today I will try to pursue a solution. Mostly a self care day for me though.
Enjoy the week fellow and fellowette DTRonians!

 

Morning yall. Going to relax today. Going to the 'big kid toys' show in Ft Worth. Hope the vendors aren't crazy.

 

Good morning all y'all,
I am 210lbs of sure muscles today!! This being a farmer thing is for the birds. Worst of all, we aren't done. We have another few hours of untangling and rolling beat up old fence wire. I will be very glad when this job is done.
I got a safety orientation yesterday before we started rolling the wire and I even got in heck once when Louie saw that I was standing about 6 feet from the roller, putting the tension on the wire we were rolling. He said that if I am only 6 feet from the roller and I get snagged in the wire there isn't enough time for him to get to the hydraulic controls to turn off the roller before my arm will be going around the roller. That doesn't sound like fun at all

Play safe everyone and have a good day (productive or relaxing is your choice).

 

Good afternoon all y'all,
NE - you can keep your job, this farming thing is for the birds. 200lbs of fence wire are rolled. To be clear, rolling the wire is easy, the tractor does the work. Getting the wire ready to be rolled is the hard part. We were dealing with 10 yrs worth of wire from moved and knocked down fences. Lots of it was in big tangles and the grass has been growing through it for YEARS. Getting that stuff out of the grass and untagled enough to roll was WORK. I am so glad it is done though. Finally when Louie cuts the hay next year there will be no incidents of the swather sucking up wire out of the field. Last year the wire took at a bearing on the swather reel and it took Louie out of the hay business for 4 days, 3 days of waiting for the bearing and another full day of work to put the swather back together. Sadly, the swather had an electrical issue 2 weeks later and burnt to the ground.
I think I am done working for the weekend, time to relax a bit with a tall glass of water and ice cubes.

 

good evening all. I dont know if anyone remembers me or not, I see the kawfy hasn't changed...

 

Hey - - the ph00 is the good stuff - - I just make the coffee with whatever is around. Try the hot water. ...............

Just came home from another funeral. Wow, too many friends biting the dust. This guy has had problems from early twenties with Chromes Disease (spelling?????). Was 22 days in the hospital this time - - infection finally got him. Neat guy.

Still some ph00, so grabbing a cup and hit the road.

Bobby

 

Bobby, sorry to hear you lost another friend.

 

Yikes! Last week I had mentioned that I would not use a hydraulic one since the manual one was dangerous enough.
Be careful.

Sorry to hear about your friend. That's what happened to a guy I used to work with. Marine at 18. Two tours in Nam. Worked Gitmo back when nobody had heard about it.
Got crohn's when he was 22 and got booted out of the Corps after getting a colostomy.
Managed to get hired on at the jail and worked there 15 years. Went to the hospital, got a bad infection and died.
He was a super great guy. Life is unfair sometimes.

Listen buddy, I don't know who you are but don't insult the coffee.
The trained monkey who makes it is doing the best he can. Plus he gives us a history lesson every day.

In case anybody missed it from last week, Scotty is stuck in WI waiting for repair.
On the internet, the picture of the hotel he is in shows that it is still winter time there.
He may need some warm clothes sent to him so maybe we should overnight him some.
Could be weeks before he gets a new fuel pump.
Ooooh, if we send him warm clothing maybe we should overnight him some cookies too.
I can't think of anything else he might need...
~

 

Knowing that the janitor is curled up with the dragon and jake....

hi ya bark, wot a night! thinking....

long saturday of picking up the five car trailer loads of cherry, hemlock, yellow pine and other stuff we argued about....my arms were longer and I let the young ones do all the heavy work and chainsawing (cause they LIKED it!). got about 6 full cord and we left about a face cord there.

Sunday did crates and dropped four trees (beech)get ready for next weekend firewood processing. was gonna drag them to our work site but I should just get a log skidder.......
took tractor down to village to clean up lot for landowner where I bought the wood. fifty bucks is still a gift for that much quality wood. even the honey from the beehive (no bees) was a gift. so I dumped it over the riverbank and brushogged about an acre, then mowed drive paths to his salvage yard.

thought about being a real redneck and going to the drive through at one of five fast food places. can't eat much of their food anyways, so my reputation is intact. tractor hit my fields for the next six hours.thirsty

after diesel engine got worked but not hot, I heard valves and rods clacking, lost power. had to be smart to get it uphill to home. sooooo tomorrow my plans changed to tearing apart the tractor and re setting the rods and valves, lil tender loving care, lube and an oil change and fuel/injector cleaning. probably in the rain.

scottycanuck, if their is any company in new York state or Ontario province, I will gladly hustle up parts for you. fed ex to your new temp home...

scottyfarmboy, I enjoy mowing pasture but it jingles the body way too much, six hours and I feel like a boxer was using me as a body bag.

scottyhandsome devil, you know who you are. got all the stuff, will assemble and ship by Wednesday.

off to midnight dip in the hot tub, listen to the wild things. hope I do not have company. bullets rust.

 

Y'know, I'm wonderin' if he just goes to every funeral in the paper so he won't have to admit he forgot who his friends were.



Morning all.

It's Monday and I feel like poo. Muscles ache, one minute I'm cold, next I'm hot, got a headache... I hope I ain't comin' down with something!

Monday, August 26th.

1842 - The first fiscal year was established by the U.S. Congress to start on July 1st.

1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.

1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.

1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.

1937 - All Chinese shipping was blockaded by Japan.

1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.

1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled out.

1973 - A U.S. Presidential Proclamation was declared that made August 26th Women's Equality Day.

1981 - The U.S. claimed that North Korea fired an antiaircraft missile at a U.S. Surveillance plane while it was over South Korea.

1987 - The Fuller Brush Company announced plans to open two retail stores in Dallas, TX. The company that had sold its products door to door for 81 years.

1990 - The 55 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait left Baghdad by car and headed for the Turkish border.

1992 - A "no-fly zone" was imposed on the southern 1/3 of Iraq. The move by the U.S., France and Britain was aimed at protecting Iraqi Shiite Muslims.

1998 - The U.S. government announced that they were investigating Microsoft in an attempt to discover if they "bullied" Intel into delaying new technology.

Today's thought:
Of all the living things on earth, only humans and ants are known to form large armies and go to war.

C0ffee & ph00 are ready.

TOB&F!

 

Morning!

 

[QUOTE=chaikwa;3200057]Y'know, I'm wonderin' if he just goes to every funeral in the paper so he won't have to admit he forgot who his friends were.
too funny!!!


Morning all. Good Morning!

It's Monday and I feel like poo. Muscles ache, one minute I'm cold, next I'm hot, got a headache... I hope I ain't comin' down with something!

sorry you feel that way; check for viral infection (tongue white? skin tight on forearm? everything oversensitive to touch? not thirsty at all?) honey is nature's antibiotic should you not want to visit the doctor/vet. 2 ounces in hot coffee or such, per day for three days. love DTRmom/vet.

1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.

ummmmmm, I never had sex in the voting booth. being locked in a half curtain never did anything for me. but glad the gov protects me from not wanting to have sex in the voting booth.

rain. packing for trip. avoiding tearing the tractor down but have to do it.
hanging head, tired walking icon

 

Again, it's been several days since I've posted anything...........albeit useful or not! Been busy with work and today I started my new classes......morning classes at that. Hopefully it will allow me to get some more sleep....we'll see. Taking electronic engine troubleshooting and electronic engine controls.......I ain't too tech savvy either so we'll see how this semester goes.

Bob, hate to hear that you attend another funeral......never a good thing. I see our history professor is still hanging on to his sanity. Hi Chaikwa!!! Was too busy doing chores and too busy moving my son to Wichita Falls (NW Texas....to me anyways) to make it to the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas last week. Had reservations and the whole deal. Mostly go for the show and shine portion but was wanting to go this time to speak with potential job offering folk. Oh well, still in school anyways but it would have been nice to make it again this year.......no telling what I missed.

Anyhow, will try and do my best to make it back here more often from now on. Sorry for being absent......kinda like Fronty.....but look forward to hearing from everyone again. I know with that last statement that a (certain) person will have a snide remark or two.......but thats okay.

Howdy.









Later.