Coffee 7-9-16

Good day! The coffee is hot...Come on in & have a cup. My sleep patterns are shifting so coffee is a tad late. If you get here early, feel free to open the door!

Poached eggs? OK! A big ol' slab of home made toast will be nice too.

The garden is doing well. The carrots are slow, but all the other stuff is going nuts. We've mounded the potatoes twice now.... might do it one more time? Those that are not to be named are out of control! (zucchinis) They have monster leaves and are taking over. Arghhhh! I love to tease about them.... why would you eat something that needs inventive recipes to disguise the flavor?

It's been a bit cool & drizzly for a few days now, but that may be better than the awful heat the rest of the country has been having. It's going to clear in a day or two & go back to summer.

Hug your loved ones & enjoy the weekend!

PS... Lisa.... the new bikes are cool!

Just finished my first (and also late) coffee for the day. I haven't had poached eggs in decades. They sound wonderful this morning. That or "bird bites". My mom used to call soft boiled eggs diced up and drizzled over cut up pieces of buttered toast 'bird bites'. Loved it as a kid.

Mornin all. Nice choice Freddy. 90's all last week. No rain at all. Corn's maybe a foot tall, hay fields are like brillo pads. Maybe some rain today. It'll take a couple days of steady to get the water table back to half normal. Oh well, enjoy the week-end all.

Good morning one & all, sure wish I was a little closer for the breakfast, sounds good. Just on my second cup of coffee, humming birds got their refill before I even put a pot on. Been real hot & humid here but at least we are finally getting some rain, not much but at this point everything helps as some fields are simply not growing & others just dying out.
I picked up a bunch of record albums (for those that remember) & for once it seems like I got a great deal. I still like to listen the original way!

Mornin everyone. Eggs, toast and coffee are always a great way to start the day.
One of my hens laid an egg at my back door yesterday.........now that's service

Take care and be safe all

Nice to slow down and have hot cup of joe. I'll second you fred, it's DRY! Hay fields around me are looking pretty ugly. Surprisingly the alfalfa fields are still a nice shade of green. Just lightly tilled a little 10-10-10 in the garden and fed it some well water. Daughter had her tonsils and adenoids out this week so we are kinda spoiling her with the air conditioning. A side bonus is I have been collecting the water from the units for the mrs flowers. Happy wife happy life. Have a good weekend fellas.

We got a nice soaking rain for about 1.5 hours this morning, now we are just left with the humidity. More rain this afternoon? We could sure use it, I haven't mowed my lawn in two weeks.

The big job for today is assembling a set of bunk beds for my oldest son. He is turning 5, and being the practical guy he is, he asked for a set of bunk beds so it would be easier for people to visit and stay with us. The bunk beds weren't too expensive, but it has been a while since I bought a pair of mattresses. $$$$

Rob,

If you use a little loctite on those furniture bolts it will save you some aggravation down the road. Hot and dry it is.... Thanks for the coffee and eggs Freddie!

I thought the same thing, but I plan to replace the carpet in a few years, and that will require some disassembly to get the bed set out of there. The frame is made out of steel, so hopefully it doesn't have the same loosening issues as wood (shrinkage).

Almost time to pull the rip cord on the foam mattress.

Loctite will actually make future disassembly easier. It isn't a glue, but a sealant. Fingernail polish will also work ok for your bunk bed hardware.

BTW Rob, I read your post on an older thread about tire sealant. Based on your review I ordered a six gallon bucket of Tireseal from Texas Refinery for my new tractor tires. I didn't buy the $85 pump, so I have to figure out how to get it inside the tire. The tires are 17.5 24 R4 12 ply and I'm mounting them tubeless. They said to use two gallons per tire. Thinking I will mount them without valve stems installed, then with the tire standing upright use a funnel to pour it through the valve stem hole in the rim. Then install the new valve stems.

Cost of two new tires----$821
One used rim--------------$178
One bucket of Tireseal-$163
Two new valve stems----$10

Value of having new rubber and no more flats--Priceless.

Also learned I don't like wrestling with these big tires and swinging a tire hammer anymore. Great to have teenage grandsons to take over for the old man.

How about I mail you a pump to use and you send it back when you are done?

The other option is you mount the tire on the wheel while it is installed on the tractor. This allows you to put one side on, pour the tire seal in, then mount the other side and bead it. They can be stubborn to bead, a blast tank or ratchet strap is a big help.

I appreciate the offer of the pump, but they will be mounted before it could get here. My wife just got back with a couple rattle cans of paint and primer, as soon as I finish with the prep and painting the wheels they are going on. I don't think it will be too difficult to install the valve stems, the rims are 15 inches wide. If needed I could use a pipe clamp, or even the log splitter, to hold the bead back for clearance. Agree on seating the beads. I don't have a blast ring that big, but have lots of ratchet straps. And a can of ether.

I like your idea of mounting it on the tractor too. Will definitely give that some thought.

Up at 3:30 today, off to work for an extended outage to replace switchgear in a 115 degree mechanical room. Just got home and get to repeat tomorrow. Coffee will be on the go again for the morning.

rubicondave33 wrote:Up at 3:30 today, off to work for an extended outage to replace switchgear in a 115 degree mechanical room. Just got home and get to repeat tomorrow. Coffee will be on the go again for the morning.

Good luck, stay safe. I just pm`d 20, 13.2kv cutler switches and subs about 2 months ago on a couple papermachines. Sure glad I got to it before this heat came to town.

Hi everyone,

I spent the day on I-81 north heading home from Mom's. I arrived safely but, boy, does that seems like "for...ever." Fortunately, we recently brought a new to us Camry that came with bluetooth and I was able to listen to live radio or podcasts on I Heart radio and the DC stations the whole way. It also came with a hands off phone and text messaging. It's the first car we ever had that does anything but get you from point A to point B. I call it my grown up car. If your bank or credit union has a car buying service check it out. We had a great experience and got a great deal. Mostly that was because we found the Toyota we wanted on a Chevy lot and the Chevy sales folks didn't even know it was there until we showed up with the computer printout and the buying service check. It had been sitting around for a couple of months. The salesman was hungry and we walked away with more car then we thought we could get.

Freddy wrote: Those that are not to be named are out of control! (zucchinis) They have monster leaves and are taking over. Arghhhh! I love to tease about them.... why would you eat something that needs inventive recipes to disguise the flavor?

Thanks for reminding me that it's zucchini season, Freddy. I'll have to remember to lock my doors at church tomorrow. During zucchini/yellow squash harvest church goers have come out after service to find they have been gifted with someone's bountiful harvest extras. That's nice but as you pointed out a little zucchini goes a long way. It's just easier to lock the doors.

The trikes are working out really well, even uphill as long as you're not in a hurry to get to the top. Coming down they fly - real stable. They certainly attract attention in the neighborhood.

I hope everyone has a great week. It's going to be a hot one here. Take care, Lisa