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

[anti-squirrel]

Today, now that work is over, I'll be up in the shop working on some back-burner projects... a Cub Cadet walk-behind disassembly (bad tranny and starter), a Statesman riding mower (broken steering gear and 3 flat tires), rebuilding my Shindaiwa line trimmer, and sharpening some spare chains for my chainsaws.  The local farmer traded me his old Stihl MS290 and a 61 Cub Cadet lawn tractor (the OG unit) for a couple tool boxes filled with spare tools.  I already put a carb on the Stihl and it now runs like a champ; the Cub Cadet needs a voltage regulator but that should be showing up today or tomorrow.

[Sqrl Klr]

Sam no before n after pics? Sounds good.

[Madd Hatter]

We've got it's younger brother the MS291.

[avator]

Morning..
Slept in until 5:30 this morning. Gonna head down to the barn this morning with the trailer and bring back some chain link kennel panels that Nick gave me from the large kennel we took down yesterday.
4 4x10 panels (1 with a gate door) and 3 6x10 panels (1 with a gate door).
I have plans for all of them.

[Frank in Fairfield]

Pickup son #2 at Vacaville Honda…recall on his Passport.
Shoot billiards
Return son to Vacaville Honda.
Stay home.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mornin y’all!  More drama with my SF last night so I had go into town and spend the night at the hospital.  I’m whipped this a.m.!  The contractor is back to work on the balcony and stairs.  I have to negotiate with the utility company to have a power pole and a power line moved.  I have an appointment with the quacks to be evalumated!  I may be going back to work shortly.  I’m going to have to go back to the hospital for another shift at some point.  So my dance card is pretty full right now.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

 Good Morning! I woke up at 5:30 but stayed in bed until 6:30.

 Good score on the kennel panels Bill, those aren't cheap so, free is a great price!

 I have a guy coming at 9:00 AM to help me clean up the pile of branches left behind from the tree that he cut back to the stump a couple of weeks ago. We will be shredding the small stuff and loading up the rest. He already hauled off the firewood sized stuff the day he cut it down most of what's left should go through my '70s Montgomery Ward's chipper/shredder/mulcher. My chipper/shredder/mulcher "eats" slower than modern ones but should get it all the branches under an inch tore up fairly quickly.

 The weather is forecast is "Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers. High 61F. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%." The hourly forecast shows the chance of rain is only 5-7% from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM and the forecast rain fall total for the whole day is only .05". The wind should be below 7mph while we are working out there.

 It is currently 50.5°F and wet from a little over night drizzle.   
 

 

[Hoosier Daddy]

Wendell and Dan.  Prayers sent.  More on the way.

+1 guys...
It seems times are tough but push on through.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mornin y’all. Things are tough all over.  In addition to my shoulder problem I’ve got a nausea and diarrhea issue now too.  I’m up and medicated but I ain’t happy.

I’ve got to make an appointment with a physical therapist today but that’s all I’ve got on my plate.  I already went back to bed once today.  I might go again.

[buellm2]

Plumber is coming by today to fix a couple things.   I'm not happy about it.   I've reached the age where I just can't take care of everything around the place and I don't like it.  I am grateful though, that I was able to build, fix and maintain the material things in my life for most of my life.   

[Blowpipe Sam]

I know where you are coming from Ernie.  I designed this but I’m just too stove up to build it myself.  I hired a young fellow who has done the whole job himself in three days.  He’s just finishing up now.

[buellm2]

It might be a good thing that my wife pushes me to call an outside pro.    If it was just me, I'd probably keep putting things off forever, thinking that I'd get to it soon.

[buellm2]

I know where you are coming from Ernie.  I designed this but I’m just too stove up to build it myself.  I hired a young fellow who has done the whole job himself in three days.  He’s just finishing up now.

 

[buellm2]

I know where you are coming from Ernie.  I designed this but I’m just too stove up to build it myself.  I hired a young fellow who has done the whole job himself in three days.  He’s just finishing up now.

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[buellm2]

Something weird is going on with this thread.    I can't quote and reply like I usually can.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I woke up at 5:30 but was able to stay in bed until 6:30 with my lovely wife.

 I plan on removing the broken bolt on my Chipper, then I need to go to our place in town and get serious on emptying it out. My older brother wants to "rent to buy it". He was surprised with a 30 day notice to move out because his landlords have to sell it because they just charged $35,000  on Vet bills trying to save their two sick dogs that died in the end anyway.
 I don't know what the dogs were being treated for and died of but I can't imagine spending that much on a Vet bill, and I love dogs too. 

[Madd Hatter]

Vet bills mount up fast when they're trying to save a dog. We had one about 20 years ago that was $7500 in just 8 hrs and ended up being $10500 when all was done but he lived.

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Saturday! I slept in until 0700, but woke to the sound of thunder. It’s pouring rain and we should get plenty today and tomorrow. My surgery on my neck- the ablations went well, I felt great for a few days. But, the healing part kicked in and it’s not felt too great. They said it would be so for about a week, so I’m sure I’ll be fine. I just got to push through it. I’m sure I over did it a few days or so. I’m taking Ayrabella roller blading at the skate rink today. I’ve been looking forward to it, we both got new skates that we haven’t got to really try yet.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Mornin y’all.  I’m sitting on my new balcony/veranda/porch (we don’t know what to call it yet) enjoying the morning cool.  Spring is in full bloom here and the songbirds are actually quite noisy this morning.  Plans for today are to play in the garden.  My shoulder is still very tender six weeks after surgery and I overdid it a little yesterday so today I really shouldn’t shoot any air rifles.  I still have the inclination to tinker so I’ll have to satisfy the urge to play with guns by working on one of my air gun projects.

[avator]

Mornin'

No real plan.. I went out to the shop just after daylight and took the Urban with me. I topped it off with the CS3 while I waited for Betty Lou to get up. She gets a little perturbed if I start banging on steel targets while she is still sleeping. 
I may fire up the castin' shack for a few more rounds .25 pellets.