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

[Madd Hatter]

Getting the house ready for the wife coming home from 8 days of PET sitting. 7 dogs can sure make a mess. It's like having 7 kids living here.lol

[bReTt]

Up @0700, cappuccino, daughter #2 (3rd child) is up from Oregon for a visit today.  Her and daughter #3 (5th child) went out for haircut and color?  Just being sisters together.  Mrs. P started school with the boys.  I went out and did the exercise/shooting routine in the yard.  I wonder what the neighbors think?🤔😆

I showered, ate and now I’m chilling for a few minutes before I head off to Pops for pool then off to work for the evening.  I need to get my gear together here soon and head out.  Go go go! 💨

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mawnin Y'all!  Feels weird to not be working today.  I might poke some at organizing my shed.  We have three sheds.  One is mine.  The other two are hers.  I will be disposing of bicycles today.  I have a dozen or so frames that I've stripped for the components.  Mostly cheap aluminum Schwins.  They will be headed for the scrapyard.  All I'm keeping will be the Verlicci, an antique Cannondale, my Moulton, a beater Trek cargo bike and two adult tricycles.  This should give me enough room to store a second hand Giant MTB and the E bike I'm contemplating buying.

Antique Cannondale?  Which frame is it?  I have a 2.8 road frame from mid 90’s.  Love that frame.  I need to find a comfy saddle for it though.  I repainted it with a rattle can here a few years ago.  I need to get it out and add some miles to it.

I need to get back on my bicycle… it’s healthy and fun!

That’s a sweet frame you got.  I had one back in the early nineties. I break aluminum frames so it’s long gone along with a host of Raleighs, Specialized, GT, Schwinns, Diamondbacks and a at least one Fat Chance.

This is a 1983? or maybe 1984 model Cannondale MTB.  It has a 13” frame and 24” wheels.it is literally the very first MTB built specifically for a woman. A friend bought it new for his wife.  She didn’t ride it. Another friend bought it from him for his wife.  She didn’t ride it. I bought it from him for my wife.  She didn’t ride it. My daughter did ride it so I set it up with a more relaxed riding position for her.  It still has the original Specialized Ground Control tires and the OEM roller cam brakes.  Original brake pads too!  15 speeds and first generation Diore gruppo. It’s been raced BMX also.

[avator]

We got a buttload done today.. I ran 2 tanks full with the leaf blower while Betty Lou raked inside corners and picked up sticks. Then we went in the Red Shed and cleaned, reduced and organized. After that we went into her utility room and began making a plan to finish it out. It's a bare framed stud room with wood siding on the outside. The plan is to insulate it and skin the inside with 1/4 luan then paint.

[bReTt]

Mawnin Y'all!  Feels weird to not be working today.  I might poke some at organizing my shed.  We have three sheds.  One is mine.  The other two are hers.  I will be disposing of bicycles today.  I have a dozen or so frames that I've stripped for the components.  Mostly cheap aluminum Schwins.  They will be headed for the scrapyard.  All I'm keeping will be the Verlicci, an antique Cannondale, my Moulton, a beater Trek cargo bike and two adult tricycles.  This should give me enough room to store a second hand Giant MTB and the E bike I'm contemplating buying.

Antique Cannondale?  Which frame is it?  I have a 2.8 road frame from mid 90’s.  Love that frame.  I need to find a comfy saddle for it though.  I repainted it with a rattle can here a few years ago.  I need to get it out and add some miles to it.

I need to get back on my bicycle… it’s healthy and fun!

That’s a sweet frame you got.  I had one back in the early nineties. I break aluminum frames so it’s long gone along with a host of Raleighs, Specialized, GT, Schwinns, Diamondbacks and a at least one Fat Chance.

This is a 1983? or maybe 1984 model Cannondale MTB.  It has a 13” frame and 24” wheels.it is literally the very first MTB built specifically for a woman. A friend bought it new for his wife.  She didn’t ride it. Another friend bought it from him for his wife.  She didn’t ride it. I bought it from him for my wife.  She didn’t ride it. My daughter did ride it so I set it up with a more relaxed riding position for her.  It still has the original Specialized Ground Control tires and the OEM roller cam brakes.  Original brake pads too!  15 speeds and first generation Diore gruppo. It’s been raced BMX also.

1983!  That is an antique.  Steel frame? Looks steel but the joints make it look Aluminum, cool 😎 I can see it getting out on the BMX track.  I dragged mine out from storage.  I’m leaving it out to remind myself to ride it.  Thanks for the motivation! 👊🏼🙏🏼

[Sqrl Klr]

Bill what about hucklebuck shack or wet poor house? Picking up sticks is pretty much a daily thing here. Two buckets of big limbs hauled off yesterday with the tractor along with 3 dump carts of small limbs hauled to the woods then the yard was pristine where I could finally mow only to haul off another dump cart load of new limbs today. Same at my mother's house where I had to clear limbs before mowing her place today.

Kris you been hanging around Scott too much where his hand luck rubbed off on you? Keep it clean with peroxide and it will heal without infection.

[maraudinglizard]

Kris you been hanging around Scott too much where his hand luck rubbed off on you? Keep it clean with peroxide and it will heal without infection.

Yep, I'll blame it on Scott. I was about due for a around the house boo boo. I have some medicinal plants for that reason. Looks good tonight not much swelling and bruising, to me that is a good sign. It came pretty close to going all the way through. I will have to keep the yard work to light duty until this heals up. Next trip into town I'll stock up on the big boo boo stuff. I was a little short on somethings but was able improvise with the rest.

[Madd Hatter]

Managed to get the berries picked and some yard stuff dome before I decided to run a knife through my hand at lunch. I'm fine, just irritated and inconvenienced with it. No stitches needed but it needs to stay open for a day or two to drain. It's pretty deep. So I will confine myself to the shop for the afternoon and work on some of the stones that I cut the other day.

I ended up almost taking the tip of my left pinky with a Stanley knife.  It was at work and I ended up having to clean and bandage it myself.  My supervisor said he was getting sick.  😆  The doctor wanted to remove the finger nail and I put the stop to that real quick. I told him just use a couple of butterfly bandages.  He was not happy with me.  They couldn't charge as much for that lol. It sounds like you need a Kevlar glove on your non knife hand.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Brett. It’s a welded aluminum frame but they used a steel fork.  It’s a ball on twisty single track.

 I found a couple of bikes I forgot I had.  A Jamis beach cruiser and an old rock hopper.  A guy who works at the local landfill will rescue and refurb them if I drop them off.   He’s got a nice side business going so I’m not sentimental about parting with these bikes.  I put five  MTB’s and a couple of beach cruisers on the trailer with a lot of yard debris. We’ll make a run to the dump soon.

[maraudinglizard]

Managed to get the berries picked and some yard stuff dome before I decided to run a knife through my hand at lunch. I'm fine, just irritated and inconvenienced with it. No stitches needed but it needs to stay open for a day or two to drain. It's pretty deep. So I will confine myself to the shop for the afternoon and work on some of the stones that I cut the other day.

I ended up almost taking the tip of my left pinky with a Stanley knife.  It was at work and I ended up having to clean and bandage it myself.  My supervisor said he was getting sick.  😆  The doctor wanted to remove the finger nail and I put the stop to that real quick. I told him just use a couple of butterfly bandages.  He was not happy with me.  They couldn't charge as much for that lol. It sounds like you need a Kevlar glove on your non knife hand.

It's something I knew better than to do, a "Scott moment". This one was a stab about 1 1/2" deep, the knife when straight in between my pinky and ring finger. Anyway, it's looking real good to night, the swelling is just about gone. There will be a little bruising if any at all. No pain either so I will be able to sleep tonight without the agony.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mawnin y'all!  I'm free today so I plan to take some guns and head out to my favorite sand quarry in the National forest.  I want to try shooting out to 100 yards with some magnum springers.  Then I'll probably build a fire and get the Po Buckra smoker going in the back yard.  I'll spend the rest of the day sitting, swatting bugs, plinking, and smoking a brisket.

[avator]

WOW is it ever HUMID outside.
I moved all the yard tools into the mower port. They seemed to belong there more than in the Casting Cabin. Going in and out of that a/c  didn't lower the sweat affect any. I had a spare 6' folding table that fit very well in there for sorting and weighing pellets and Betty Lou found me a camo sheet set that we no longer have a full size bed for to cover it.
The gas powered tools will go in the Red Shed out of any weather or bugs that like to build homes in them.
I also put the OrcAir compact compressor in there and hung the fake 2k 3622 'lego' gun on the gun rack along with the PM 66. I'll sellect a break barrel and a C02 gun to join them.
Betty Lou worked in the bar and utility room organizing and making those spaces more friendly for her intended purposes.

[avator]

Good Sunday morning..
Been up about an hour drinking coffee and catching up on F1 from Monaco. Hard to believe they can get speeds nearly 200 mph on that short twisty turny track.
I can't even begin to imagine how much money is docked in that marina. They call it the millionaire's playground.. if I were a millionaire that overcrowded place would be the last place I'd go. Maybe a one time fly over to say I'd been there but that's about it. The buildings look like shoe boxes stacked on top of each other.
I plan to spend much of today in Casting Cabin.

[maraudinglizard]

Good morning. Hand is doing fine no further bodily impalement has occurred. Spent yesterday beating back the jungle. I have just about got it to where I can mow the yard with out being slapped off the mower. This morning I will pick blueberries before the birds beat them off, till up garden spots around the place, and mow grass.

[avator]

Glad you're healing Kris... be careful.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Mosquito Patrol.

I was out this morning fogging the yard and woods for.... Mosquitoes.
After church I will do it again and then once more tonight.
They are exceptionally bad this year.


Best Wishes - Tom

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Sunday! I got home late last night from my Mom’s and I slept in until 0700. Turned on the coffee and my phone started blowing up. Apparently, we had tornadoes do some damage shortly after midnight in Rogers, Springdale and Decatur. All just north of us. Plan for today, when I’m feeling up to it, is to get the pool set up. I need to get the mowing and weedwhacking done in the back first. I’ll get the rest of the mowing and weedwhacking done after the pool is done. That might bleed into tomorrow, though. I really didn’t plan on doing any work on Memorial Day. So, I’ll see how much I can get done today with that in mind.

[Ronfiveo]

I've already coated my arms and exposed skin for being outside this morning preparing
for the onslaught of mosquitoes.

I'm going to keep sanding the finish on the stock increasing the grit and smoothing it
as I go. A wet sand will be the final step before the Tru-Oil.



Ron

[buellm2]

My wife has a few of her friends coming over for lunch.   She asked me to blow all the debris off the driveway and make some lobster rolls.   Yesterday she helped me all day at the gun show so I'm happy to oblige.   You can be sure I will get my share of the lobster as I'm picking the meat out of the shells and making the rolls.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Words that frighten a park ranger.  Memorial Day Weekend.  Back to work today.  I'm stuck in the penalty box ranger station again.

It don't get easier but it does get over.

Monday I'm the late field ranger.  That is gonna be a real challenge.  Not looking forward to that shift at all.