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

[bReTt]

Alarm was set 0400.  Woke up 0430 with the sound going off.  Got up and was going to head out to work and something hit me to stay home.  I went with my gut and sent out the text to put me on comp time today.  The plan is to put knobs on the laundry cabinets and get the track hung for the bathroom barn door 🚪

[Sqrl Klr]

Wore out and sore from another hard day. Recupe time with a beer.

[Madd Hatter]

Heading to my daughter's house to pet sit my grand dogs for the weekend.  SIL and daughter are heading to East AZ to do some hiking and hanging out with some friends.  This is my birthday present to her.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Good morning. I got up at 5:50 after a not so good night.

  I am not sure what I injured yesterday. My low back, right hip, and leg are hurting pretty bad and made it hard to sleep much. Every time I needed to turn over the pain woke me up. I hit a new hidden (by weeds) hole with the lawn tractor that almost through me off and that hurt a lot. I kept mowing and when I finally did get off I had some trouble getting fully upright and walking from the pain. That happens sometimes but this is different, it hasn't let up at all and the pain is there whether I'm sitting, standing, or laying down.

[buellm2]

Goin' to the club to do some 50 yard bench shooting.   Then back home to do some pistol shooting.  Then I guess I have to do some work.   Some portion of the lawn always needs mowing.  Still haven't drained the gas outa the snow blower.   Wife's car needs tire rotated.   Monster minivan needs ATF changed.    Maybe tomorrow, or possibly the day after.   

[bReTt]

Chillin’ during the AM.  Heads to pops for pool then work after that.  So far only working a double shift tomorrow.  I may stay overnight at work to save the time and mileage going home and back.  It’s 8 hours between shifts (2300-0700)

[Blowpipe Sam]

You think it’s more than Lumbago Dan?  I hope that’s all it is.  I’m scaling way back on pain killers (Ibuprofen, Codeine) and I’m trying to get by on aspirin and Naproxen Sodium right now.  It ain’t helping my insomnia any.

[Motorhead]

@ 1:30 PST today got a Boneless Leg Of Lamb that has been in a rich & spicy marinade for 3 days onto the charcoal smoker     
Being butterflied figure 3 1/2 to 4 hours running @ 225*
Yum yum for dinner tonight !!!  and leftovers too 

[Sqrl Klr]

Dan that's happened to me before and it does hurt. I have hog holes, gopher holes and rabbit holes that tear me up. I need at least 3yds of dirt to fill them all. Now hank's gonna have to walk you around the yard for exercise daily until you're better.

Scott slap a pic of that in the eating thread!

[Motorhead]

@ 3 hr 20 min we're 135* going on 140* ... perfect and off the smoker it comes .....
Going into a foil lined smaller ice chest to rest and equalize temps .... Moisture loss condenses back onto outside of it  Yum yum !!!

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

 I took alternating Ibuprofen, and Tylenol today and just sat around. The Pain has gone down some but I don't know if it is just the pain killers working. I am sure I injured something when I hit the hole, it was a massive jarring that brought instant pain to my extreme low back and buttocks. The pain level brings on some nausea at times. It may have reinjured an old slip and fall injury from 1998, the pain is in the same area and similar. I have had pain there ever since 1998 but this made the current pain worse than it has been in a long time.

 I had the nausea from/with the pain for over a year back then. I hope and pray it heals quickly this time.

[Sqrl Klr]

Looks great Scott!

Dan hitting those holes can shear your spine dang near likenit almost did mine the other day felt like and I was highly relieved it didn't. Wish we had the $ for suspension mowers.

[avator]

Seems like I do something to aggravate my back everyday. My biggest issue is getting back up off of the floor. Been doing upgrades to the gator for the past couple days which required getting up and down from the floor several times. Every time I had to roll over and work my way to my hands and knees before I could get up. I always had to find something to grab onto and pull myself up.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I hear ya Bill.

Mornin Y'all!  My plans are to work.  It's a warm Saturday and I'm alone in the ranger station.  It will be steady until 10:00 a.m. or so then the hammer will drop and it will be Katey bar the door!  I'll have a line of traffic stretching back to the park gates and it will be like that for about four or five hours.  After that it will slow down a little but hopefully by then I'll be gone.  Once school lets out for summer it will be like this every day of the week!

[Back_Roads]

 I need to put a new alternator in my GMC Sierra, it went bad on my way home Wednesday, when I stopped at Tractor supply, my option then was to buy a fresh battery and get home. The nice lady at checkout said I could save $100 if I got a TS credit card, so hey why not LOL
 Well today I will install a new alternator, after that I need to fire up the lawn mower, the grass should be dry by late afternoon.
I also have to reassemble a Air Arms XL Extra, that I am doing a reseal for a customer. I also have a Daisy Mod 25 with new parts here ready to install.
 I was hoping to have this all done by now, but between things snowballing at work and break downs, here I am

[avator]

Up at 4am and got a shower and coffee.
I woke up a few times and I couldn't get a thought out of my head.
I ran all the wiring for the winch and the light bar under the gator from the front to the battery box under the passenger seat. The gator only has about 6" of ground clearance and I just knew I would most likely rip those wires off on the first run.
So I was out in the shop at daylight rerouting them. I ran them all in a wiring jacket down the middle of the floor board on the inside. I'll cover them with a rubber truck floor matt so they don't get duck footed.

[maraudinglizard]

Finish grinding up brush and mow around the pond. Take the ground up stuff and fill up the garden pots so I don't have to use so much dirt to fill them up. It also helps them drain better. The rest of the chip will be used to make compost.

[bReTt]

Seems like I do something to aggravate my back everyday. My biggest issue is getting back up off of the floor. Been doing upgrades to the gator for the past couple days which required getting up and down from the floor several times. Every time I had to roll over and work my way to my hands and knees before I could get up. I always had to find something to grab onto and pull myself up.

That’s rough Bill.  I’ve tweaked my back like that before.  It’s odd how every movement takes the core/back to move.  It sure does make the simplest things difficult. 

I tweaked my lower back last October/November and it still hasn’t healed up 💯.  It hovers around the 60-75% better but just can’t get beyond that.  I really should go get it checked out but I just deal with it and it’s a hassle to get an appointment.  I do light weights and stretches and that is helpful at times and other times it aggravates it.  I also use a decompression table in the gym at work. 

Anyway, enough of me…
I hope that you get healed up and feeling more mobile soon.  Keep chugging along my friend 👊🏼

[bReTt]

I’m doing the double shift thang at work.  Checked in and all is quiet on the western front.  I’m chilling in a coffee shop listening to funky tunes being pumped through the speakers and watching Seattlites wake up on this gray and wet morning. 

[Sqrl Klr]

Same here Bill and that gets my knees bothering me as well.

Brett I hurt my back during my pipeyard days and got cortisone shots so I could keep working. Old injury never healed right and still flares up with heavy work.

Makes me miss being young but mainy makes me look forward to getting that new glorified body free of pain in the future never to hurt again! Oh happy day that will be.