Friday 6/16 Morning All

[Dave Hawksford]

Beautiful cool morning in the Nations Capital area.
Full day of work, gilding, porcelain, getting job out the doors.
Harley's 2nd full week and next Friday I'll open the door and see if she has chosen this to be her loft/home. She is still a squeaker. Young bird
Hope to spend some time tomorrow at the farm getting some mowing and little tilling done.
Besides that not much with is really relaxing.

 

[Bill Arnold]

Weather will play a part in any of our activities this weekend! We've had 13" of rain in the past week - 4.7" fell Thursday, some at a rate of just over 2" per hour! No flooding issues in our neighborhood thanks to being on high ground.

We hope to make our usual drive to Boston for lunch today. If we don't, they'll probably send a search arty for us!!!

Saturday shop time will depend on weather - don't like to be using the machinery if lightning is popping around us!

Sunday will start, as usual, with me preparing brunch, then settling in for a lazy day watching the US Open - no NASCAR this weekend.

 

[bill kaminski]

The usual..doc appt. for wife this morn. Sis in hospital today, has a toe problem. We will visit later.
Dinner with friends, this afternoon. Me?, sos. I see that the heat is coming, next week, must restock fridge.

 

[Leo Voisine]

I tore down my old shed I built in 1985.

Just at the end of cleaning up the area and getting all the nails out of the ground

 

[David Johnson]

Better half is off to pick blueberries this morning. Made sure she has bug spray for chiggers. They are always bad in the berry patch. Tomorrow, get to do some more fishing at Stockton Lake. Think the weather is supposed to cooperate. Daughter coming down tonight so she gets to drown worms also. Don't think I have to mow before next week. Mower needs work anyway. Needs new drive belt. Hit a stump last week and ruined blades so replaced them. Now for serious repair.
Everyone have a safe and healthy weekend and more.
David

 

[Chuck Ellis]

Mu usual weekend ... today prep and get ready for Farmer's Market tomorrow...
Saturday up at 5 am to drive to Knoxville for the market.
Sunday kick back and relax to get over Saturday.

We had a gully washer Wednesday night, so will be planning on mowing one day next week. Want to let the ground dry some before we get up on the hills on a mower. Wednesday Dianne has another doctor appointment and I'm waiting for a call from my Cardiologist to schedule the TAVR procedure I'm being prepped for...

 

[Don Baer]

well yesterday was according to the calendar the First day of monsoon season, well according to the weather service. It used to be that monsoon season didn't start until we had 3 days of dew point temps of 60% in a row or better but it seem that was too complicated for some people so the Gov. decided to give it a date instead....lol. Right now the Dew point is @ 37 so I guess we're safe. Anyhow I got some some laser work to keep me busy and Sunday will be the usual Church in the morning then to the Legion to help out with Bingo.

 

[Mike Stafford]

Finished up a few turning projects this week. Turned some sapodilla, a timber from Mexico, for the first time. It is red and reddish brown, very fine and dense. The wood database says it is prone to checking but I encountered no problems....yet. It finished nicely with lacquer. The database also says it has amazing durability as beams hewn from this timber have been found to be sound in the remains of ancient Mayan temples.

Finished up a couple of not round or square bowls which are always fun. I was turning a third out of walnut and clumsily hit it with the end of my tool handle while I was picking something up from off the floor. I cracked the bowl along the grain. That's what you get for not paying attention to what you are doing. What was supposed to be an eleven inch diameter bowl ended up as a plate less than 8".

I will clean up the shop this afternoon and tomorrow. Sunday will be a day of rest as I have to prep on Monday for surgery on Tuesday. I will be out of commission for about a week the doctor says. Hopefully I will come out of it seeing better. I have to do the other eye a couple of weeks later. The joy of getting old.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Today I'm finally getting around to painting the dining room wall that was patched up after our plumbing leak. Probably try again to live trap some squirrels, too. I have to do it when SWMBO is out of the house because it makes her sad to break up the squirrel family. I think she'll be running some errands this afternoon, so I want to use the opportunity. She knows it needs to be done, she just doesn't want to see it happen. (She even felt guilty about the rodents eating all my tomato plants so she bought me new ones. I'm not planting them until I can reduce their population a bit, though.) I've tried a few other time recently, but the little scumbags have figured out how to get the bait and eat it without triggering the trap. I tried using peanut butter to stick the peanuts to the trigger plate, but they figured out how to pick up the peanut carefully. I think it's time to try using hot melt glue, lol.

Saturday's pretty open so far, but I'm sure my wife will find something for me to do. Sunday is the monthly Range Day with my shooting club. Looks like there won't be many people there this month. People complain about going to the range in bad weather, but now that the weather is nice they make plans to do other things.

I hope to spend some time this weekend revising a bunch of stuff on my guitar rig. They just released a new major firmware that adds some great new features that I want to start using, but it'll require a fair amount of reprogramming on my part.

 

[Darren Wright]

I need to go pickup some drywall later to get things moving long at the guest house. I'll need to move the camper, for the grade work to start on the shop pad next week. Been making some Black Walnut Molasses and Nocino (Black Walnut Liqueur) that a member here linked me to. We just happened to have a bunch of new walnuts coming on most of our trees. I've also been testing out the automated irrigation system in the greenhouse, seems to be working really well now that I zip-tied all the smaller line connections and added a pressure regulator to keep the well pump surge from kicking them off.

 

[Jim DeLaney]

...the little scumbags have figured out how to get the bait and eat it without triggering the trap. I tried using peanut butter to stick the peanuts to the trigger plate, but they figured out how to pick up the peanut carefully. I think it's time to try using hot melt glue, lol.

I've had really good results trapping chipmunks by super-gluing sunflower seed to the rat trap triggers. This year's count if around 20 so far.

 

[Ted Calver]

Gardening, shop clean up and running the trap line. I keep an overturned concrete mixing tub with a small rat sized hole drilled in each end out near the bird feeders. Inside a couple of rat traps baited with peanut butter help keep the rat population under control, but plenty of other critters stop by.
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[Brent Dowell]

Gardening, shop clean up and running the trap line. I keep an overturned concrete mixing tub with a small rat sized hole drilled in each end out near the bird feeders. Inside a couple of rat traps baited with peanut butter help keep the rat population under control, but plenty of other critters stop by.

I had rats that would lick the peanut butter off the traps without triggering them. I took small pieces of rag and tied that to the trigger, then would slather that piece of rag with the peanut butter. It upped my catch rate by quite a bit.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Just at the end of cleaning up the area and getting all the nails out of the ground

The big rolling magnets aren't that expensive anymore and SO worth not getting one in the mower tire, your foot, etc..

I took small pieces of rag and tied that to the trigger, then would slather that piece of rag with the peanut butter. It upped my catch rate by quite a bit.

I've used that rag trick with some success as well.

As for me, weeding probably. Lots of weeding.

 

[Chuck Ellis]

Don't need to catch squirrels here... LOML feeds them.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Don't need to catch squirrels here... LOML feeds them.

Trust me, it has taken years of wearing her down to get my wife to the point where she agreed I should trap them. It has to be a live trap...I release them into some open space in the foothills, far enough from other houses where they hopefully won't become someone else's problem. I did manage to get one relocated today. There's one more adult and two younglings left to go.

Forgot to mention in my first post that this is another Formula 1 weekend, the Canadian Grand Prix. I'll be recording all the practice and qualifying sessions (starting today) and the race on Sunday. Watching Practice 1 now and will watch at least the qualifying and the actual race as time permits this weekend.

 

[Brent Dowell]

There's a music festival thing going on here in reno called "Debauchareno" Full of nasty punk rock music of a variety of sorts.

Sunday I get to see one of my favorite bands play, "Deadbolt". They're more of a Trucker SurferPsychobilly band. Just got back from the opener with a couple of bands with Sharon. She said she actually enjoyed it.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

There's a music festival thing going on here in reno called "Debauchareno" Full of nasty punk rock music of a variety of sorts.

Sunday I get to see one of my favorite bands play, "Deadbolt". They're more of a Trucker SurferPsychobilly band. Just got back from the opener with a couple of bands with Sharon. She said she actually enjoyed it.

I never would have imagined something like Trucker Surfer Psychobilly music would exist, but based on the name alone it seems it'd be right in your wheelhouse.

On the opposite side of the spectrum (lol), I saw Brit Floyd last weekend. (Some friends gave me a spare third row center ticket.) Having heard both bands live, in my opinion Brit Floyd plays Pink Floyd music live better than Pink Floyd does. Absolutely spot on performance. I highly recommend seeing them to anyone who's a Pink Floyd fan.

 

[Tom Niemi]

On the opposite side of the spectrum (lol), I saw Brit Floyd last weekend. (Some friends gave me a spare third row center ticket.) Having heard both bands live, in my opinion Brit Floyd plays Pink Floyd music live better than Pink Floyd does. Absolutely spot on performance. I highly recommend seeing them to anyone who's a Pink Floyd fan.

I’ve seen Brit Floyd twice….so far! Incredibly spot on. They were scheduled in Grand Rapids doing their Echoes tour, unfortunately Covid kicked in and they had to cancel, really bummed about that, I really wanted to hear them preform Echoes!

 

[Dave Hawksford]

Jarrod and I spent the day out at the farm and cleared an old logging trail about 150 yards from the top to he bottom swamp area.
Once finished I spotted a horde of Mullen plats and harvested 6 big ones. Now there hung in the rafters like tobacco. Looking to make tea from the leaves.
Another name for Mullen is Indian TP. LOL