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Happy Friday 05/15/2026

I'll get spend a pleasant morning with Pam this AM. she's still sleeping. I picked her up @ the airport last evening from her trip to Spain and France. She'll head up back to her place in Flagstaff later today. I'll drive up to her place Sunday Eve and we'll head up to Nevada Monday for a few days w/her family then it's back to her place. Tomorrow morning I have a Legion Ryders Meeting @ 7 AM followed by a short drive for breakfast then it's back to the legion post for color guard practice @ 11. Then I need to hitch up the trailer and pick up a compressor that someone is donating to the Vet Center for the shop project. So I'll have a busy Saturday.
 
Lots of yard work, tearing up more carpet, probably get a chigger/tick treatment on the yard.

The house my mom lives in is metal sided and cellular calls often drop or don't connect and she's always asking why her pictures aren't uploading, so I ordered a Starlink for her. She'll have a better connection for the internet upload and can use the wifi-calling features of her phone to help with the call dropping. The current plans are $50/mo for 100Mbps service, that includes equipment (rental, included in the price). It hasn't arrived yet, but spoke with her landlord last night and agreed on a place to install it out of view for him. I need to print up a T-post adapter, a cable grommets for feeding it inside, and cable tie pieces to keep the cable tucked away under the bottom of the siding.
 
Well, if it's friday, it's dart day!

For some reason, a band approached me and asked me to run sound for them this saturday. It's actually their first gig, so I'm a little bit nervous. The guy they originally asked was double booked or something.

We'll see how it goes. Got my PA equipment ready to go and will give it a shot. The only sound running I've really done is for my own band, when we were together, and for the pig rock festival the last several years. Pig rock is basically like running sound for 10 different bands over 2 days.

Wish me luck!
 
Brent Dowell said:
Well, if it's friday, it's dart day!

For some reason, a band approached me and asked me to run sound for them this saturday. It's actually their first gig, so I'm a little bit nervous. The guy they originally asked was double booked or something.

We'll see how it goes. Got my PA equipment ready to go and will give it a shot. The only sound running I've really done is for my own band, when we were together, and for the pig rock festival the last several years. Pig rock is basically like running sound for 10 different bands over 2 days.

Wish me luck!
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Good luck. As long as they have good monitors on stage and the crowd can hear them you should be fine.
 
The weather's finally getting hot around here...glad I've got the swamp cooler up and running. Today I'm gearing up for a show tonight at The Tatted Bee Brewhouse. It's been about 2 months since the band played anywhere, so we spent some time at the studio this week learning a couple of new songs and generally getting the cobwebs out. We also set up the full PA system because we needed to get a new subwoofer dialed in with the rest of the system. And since we usually don't have the PA set up for rehearsals, I went there by myself for an afternoon to make some adjustments to my guitar rig so it'll sound better to the audience. I'm very fortunate to have access to the studio for doing stuff like playing a guitar at gig volume for hours in a nearly bar-sized room without bothering anyone.

Aside from the Friday night gig, I don't have much planned for the rest of the weekend. LOML and I will probably go to my sister's place tomorrow evening to visit with family and eat BBQ, and I have a variety of chores that will eventually need to be done...just don't know if they're getting done this weekend or not, lol.
Brent Dowell said:
Well, if it's friday, it's dart day!

For some reason, a band approached me and asked me to run sound for them this saturday. It's actually their first gig, so I'm a little bit nervous. The guy they originally asked was double booked or something.

We'll see how it goes. Got my PA equipment ready to go and will give it a shot. The only sound running I've really done is for my own band, when we were together, and for the pig rock festival the last several years. Pig rock is basically like running sound for 10 different bands over 2 days.

Wish me luck!
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You've got this Brent! :thumb:

glenn bradley said:
Good luck. As long as they have good monitors on stage and the crowd can hear them you should be fine.
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One of the beautiful things about modern digital mixers is everybody in the band can run their own monitors with either a tablet of their phone. No more yelling at the sound guy that they can't hear the monitors...it's no longer his responsibility :D
 
Working on three projects
First I finished the tiki bar refurbish pieces
New roof slats and new columns to cover old ones
Problem is my son didn't keep up his end of deal to power wash bar and sand down some bad spots so I could paint
He's in the middle of his downstairs bathrooms redo(1 of 6 or 7 bathrooms not sure why he chose now to do it)
His fil helped him rip out old flooring and all fixtures
He wants it done before may 30
My brother is in from Florida and left me in charge of arranging a family gathering of approx 35 people and we are doing it at my sons house but my son has a lot of cleanup to do and open pool besides his 3 real jobs
So tiki hut will wait
I used cotton candy colors so it can always be rolled out and ices or cotton candy stand for block party
I started a new intarsia while waiting on my epoxy to arrive and it's supposed to arrive today so when weather warms up and stays above 70 I'll attempt that
This weekend I see the new niece tomorrow and have my kiddie here for Sunday funday
So little intarsia this weekend
Next week 3 doctor appts will kill most of the days so I'll continue on intarsia as I'm not sitting around with weather getting better
 
I cannot get photos to load
Something is wrong for anyone who handles this type of problem here
Inshit phone off and cleared browser it didn't help
I got 2 new species today
Black and white Limba
And some alder
 
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Leo Voisine said:
I built a couple more raised beds and been filling them with all sorts of organic yard matter, logs, ground up leaves, grass, peat, store bought compost, prunings from fruit trees DIY compost and about 1% loam.

Two 3x6x2 raised beds take a lot of material
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I feel your pain. It is amazing how much material it takes to fill a raised bed. About 35 years ago I put in 13 beds 3 feet wide, 2 feet deep and 20 feet long. It took me three years to get them all filled with composted manure, peat moss, the neighbor's ground up leaves and my own compost. Every year they settle a bit so I had to add more stuff. I made them that size because I mounted an oscillating sprinkler on a stand that straddled the middle bed and it could reach every bed for watering. That turned out to be a serious waste of water due to evaporation so I went to sprinkler hoses that just dribbled a little stream of water into the bed.

When I built the beds I built them so the end panels created from sections of landscape timbers could be removed and I could run my TroyBilt Horse through them end to end when I tilled in new material and put them to bed for the winter. On most years I tilled in two or three grass catcher loads of ground up leaves from my neighbor's yard into each bed. That made the soil so nice and loamy I could grow 12" long carrots. I haven't been able to add a lot of organic material for the last few years except bags of composted manure. Without new material the beds are not as loamy.

They still produce quite well but I wish I could get out there and really turn them over properly for aeration and to add more organic material. Of course we don't get as much production from them as we used to because the deer find my garden plants at browsing height.
 
Took the grand kids out to lunch at a family place one town to the south. That place shares a parking lot with one of my favorite BBQ places so I walked over and got a rack of baby-backs. So good. You know the kind where the meat practically falls off the bone and you don't even really need to chew . . . ahhhhh.
 
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Yesterday I worked on up righting one of my firewood racks that was empty of firewood but had a substantial amount of weight still on it from some items stored on it. High winds over 40 mph knocked it over. Used the tractor to pick it up with some slings off of the bucket hooks and got it standing upright, but switched to the forks to place it back on the foundation blocks.

Going to run this morning and then head over for a couple hours of pickleball drilling before tackling repairing the damage to the firewood rack.

We have had a small black bear coming around about once a week during the night. It got into the garbage once, but not since. I don't think it is because of my new strapping system for the garbage can but more an indictment of the poor quality of our garbage, at least from a bears point of view. We do notice that it appears to like the wife's mouse traps she has set around her Subaru as it is snapping the traps and eating the peanut butter on each visit.

Like Allen, I tried to post some pictures but am unable.
 
Test photo post:
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I just click on the Attach files button in the lower left and double click on the picture. I am using a PC.
 
Had a successful week and more coming. Attended college graduation for grandson, attended high school Can't believe that that is five graduations in a weeks time.graduation for granddaughter in Kansas City. Daughter in law graduated with a Phd in divinity, Grandson graduated from high school tomorrow, Other grandson graduated from college next week. Can't believe 5 graduations in a week.
Now back to normal. Garden and yard doin fine. Fixed mower and it's running dood. Now sit back and relax.

Everyone have a safe and healthy weekend and more.
Peace
David
 
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