Good morning! Are you up yet? What's your plans for today?

[avator]

Wow, things are really scrambled up here this morning...
Boss is still sleeping and Betty Lou got up, grabbed the rope toy and growled at her... she ignored her.

So, we've decided that today would be a great day to have thee first of many retirement adventures to come. We are going to take the 92 mile trip to the Gulf Shores and visit the Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park in Fort Walton Beach Florida. The weather promises to be sunny and high 70s.... perfect.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Have a ball Bill!  Make day trip to the springs and I’ll take you on a boat ride!

Morinin ya’ll.  Got a weird schedule today.  I’m giving a moonlight nature walk at the park this evening.  Program starts at 7:30 p.m but I have to be at work at 11:30 a.m!  I’ve literally got nothing to do for eight hours until my program starts! 

Oh well, work will find me.  Never idle for long.

[Bimota]

A little house cleaning. Just finished fixing a small crack in my windshield with a JB Weld kit.

[Sqrl Klr]

The mental/physical obstacle I am working with now is I have lots of "ground work" to do that requires reaching the ground, my body does not like doing that. My work around is sitting on a low step stool which makes it slow going.

Any way to get the job done in another method less painful on your back? My grab tool helps a lot with fetching things off the ground to save me bending over a lot. I use the weed eater or poison to get rid of thorns ect so I don't have to bend over pulling them out. I had to clean out my ground burn pit yesterday and that was hades on my back and knees but it looks a lot better now.

[buellm2]

The carb on my Honda XR600 is drizzling fuel.   Simple fix right?  The bending over to work on the bike plus my bad eyes is making this task unbearably difficult.  I'm going to sell it but I'd like to fix the carb problem first.   Maybe tomorrow.   Wife also wants it out of the garage.

[Insanity]

Grumble grumble waking up grumble. At the mag bout to get my paper work straight and Pre-Trip my truck. That boom sauce gonna get delivered to one of the dumbest quarry's I could go to.

[maraudinglizard]

Up and sort of running, doctor day, the medical vampires have me first thing this morning, then midday, one doctor has me, one had me on Friday. Just trying to stay ahead of the PsA mess. Later today I will install new head light bulbs on the van and do some mowing.

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Monday! Got up at 0500 CT. I’m on vacation today, so I don’t have to do anything. I’m having my coffee and I’ll take it easy before I go back to work tomorrow.

[avator]

GOOD MONDAY MORNING !!
My condolences to those of you in the work force.
Kinda nipply this morning. Betty Lou turned on the small ceramic space heater to knock the chill off but it won't be on long as it's headed for 80 degrees today. These cool nights are great for sleeping.
We had a great time at Gulfarium yesterday even though it was a pita getting there. I think my Garmin has a drinking problem. She was quite confused when we got to Fort Walton Beach probably due to construction in the area of the park.
We got there just in time to see the dolphin show. Those critters are incredible. There were 4 of them in the show and each had special talents as well as shared talents. We were able to walk around and see the entire park before I began to have dizzy spells and needed breaks. We had a bite to eat and headed for home.
No real plans for today.. just take it as it comes.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Good Morning to all!

 My wife is going to Sea World with a grandson and his family today, I am sure she was invited to help with the great grand babies. She will have fun though.

 I will stay home and get some more done around here. Yesterday I felt like I had a head cold or something, and my arms had bad muscle spasms Saturday night from over work and a bit of dehydration I think, so they felt sore and fatigued, I just felt physically lousy all day. So far I feel almost normal today.

 It is foggy and 66°F and just suppose to get to 87°F today. I am almost done with my coffee and ready to get after it, and I will try to drink more water and propel today, especially if I sweat like I did Saturday out there. I may make a trip to the dump this afternoon? I am not going to push it though by myself I'll just see how it goes.

[avator]

Just got back from a nice slow atv ride. Down to the end of the hard road. Around the Harbin Ag Center property. Then out onto the airport and to the south end of the runway to the river. Stopped and talked to Leon who has a hanger that he restores planes in. He had a sweet little Corvette single seater in there and stripped and ready to paint.
Betty Lou is going to do some laundry and hang it out on the lines and I'll probably shoot some airguns.
I relocated my ip remote camera to a new spot where I can see the whole property. It was great yesterday to be able to keep an eye on the place and the dogs from 100 miles away. It has 360* movement and 2 way speaker.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Grounds keeping this a.m.  I grabbed one of the OPS (official park slave) and put him to work trimming hedges and running the leaf blower while I handled the stick edging and the weed smacking.  The Park is looking good!  I have a request to give a talk on primitive fishing techniques this evening at the Shell Point Volunteer Fire Department.  Potluck and I get fed so I'm happy!

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Good Morning to all!

 My wife is going to Sea World with a grandson and his family today, I am sure she was invited to help with the great grand babies. She will have fun though.
 

Those great grandbabies are 1 year old (yesterday) and less than 1 month old. I am SURE that youngest is going to have a day to remember, LOL.

[Frank in Fairfield]

Ran the Shoebox
Topped off the tanks

[Sqrl Klr]

Kinda nipply this morning.

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Tuesday! I woke up at 0300 and finally got up at 0400 CT. It’s back to work for me. I’m supposed to meet up with my boss at a new site that wants their equipment changed out. They’ve had several companies turn them down, it’s that bad. I was already there once, I don’t have the authority to say “no way”. So, I’ll let him figure it out. I’m still pain free and planning on keeping it that way.

[avator]

Mornin;.
Congrats on the pain free John.
I slept in the spare room last night. I had some annoying pain and the only way I could get relief was to lay on my back. I snore when I sleep on my back and didn't want to bother Betty Lou so I went to the spare room. I got a pretty good night's sleep in there and so did she.
Rambo let me know it was 5am and time to get up.
I washed my truck yesterday the old fashion way... a bucket, brush and hose. I had to do it in 4 sections with a rest between each. Today I'm going to do the inside. We have lots of pines here and it don't take long to get a layer of sap on the vehicles. Living on a dirt road don't help matters. Even though we are the first place off of the hard road, the guy that lives in our old place makes alot of dust when he goes by. He's been working on the place and makes several trips in and out. He bought alot of the land up there and is raising cows. He's clearing land and building a barn so he makes many trips in and out kicking up dust.

[Bicycleman]

My son and I are going squirrel hunting.  I was so excited about the fact he will be joining me, I showed up at his door an HOUR early.  I am back home waiting out that hour.   

[avator]

LOL. I can picture that..... "Really Dad"?

[Back_Roads]

My son and I are going squirrel hunting.  I was so excited about the fact he will be joining me, I showed up at his door an HOUR early.  I am back home waiting out that hour.   

Reminds me of when I was about 4, my G-pa said we were going sucker fishing in the creek out back as soon as the sun came up, well I held him to it Woke him up and we caught our suckers bare handed and had a great fried sucker patty breakfast.