Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Latestarter]

So earlier today (yesterday now) the temp was up in the high 70s, humidity was up there as well and we were under a sever T-storm watch. Had the house opened up over night and closed down 1st thing this morning but had to put the AC on anyway. No storms here but did get a little windy early evening as the front passed through. Now it's in the upper 40s outside and may get as low as upper 30s tonight. House, needless to say, is NOT opened up tonight. May end up having to run the heat for a little bit in the morning to knock off the chill. Next shot at rain is Friday and Friday night.

While looking at the national radar it appears @Mike CHS might have gotten a substantial amount of rain once again.

 

[Mike CHS]

We did get a bunch of wind and noise but only 1/2" of rain.

 

[CntryBoy777]

We got 1.3" of rain, wind, and lost power for a couple of hrs due to a lightning strike somewhere along the line....wasn't close by....ducks are Happy again........out of the next 7 days, 4 are with rain.....glub....glub!!

 

[greybeard]

This one was from the last set (of 3) I changed out. Additionally, you can see how the end of the blade wears through and gets rounded and thus shortened. The result is that it leaves lines of uncut material in 2 rows down either side of center of the mowing path since the center blade no longer "overlaps" the outer blades in the cutting swath.

The other part of that is, that kind of extreme wear results in vibration that will quickly cause rotating parts (bearings, idlers, belts) and even springs to fail because the individual blades are no where near balanced anymore. You may not be able to feel the vibration from the mower seat simply because it happens slowly over time and you don't notice but vibration is a leading cause of premature bearing failure in spindles and idlers.

 

[Latestarter]

Stretched and attached the back section of fence. Then rolled out, cut, attached the stretcher bar, and stood up the lower section of the left side fence (below the two gates). Hopefully tomorrow I'll stretch and attach it then roll out, cut, and stretch/attach the upper section of the left side (above the two gates). I'm fighting with a kidney stone right now on my right side. Sharp pains every time I lift my right leg. Might take a pain killer at bed time tonight. Drinking power aid and hope I can flush the danged thing out. I looked in the rotted post hole I started and it's finally dry. Might could get back to that soon as well. The rain I was supposed to get out of this last front went right on by without dropping any moisture at all here. I have to get a buck pasture set up ASAP before all these babies become fruitful and wanting to multiply...

A few days ago I broke down and bought a 4qt stainless milk strainer along with 3 boxes of filters. Figure at 200 to a box and using 2 a day, each box will last about 3 months. They had the filters on sale if I bought three boxes, so I did. It was delivered this afternoon while I was stretching fence. I got to use it tonight after milking Dot. OMG... what a difference! I had 3 quarts filtered and in the fridge in 1/2 the time it used to take to filter 1 quart using a funnel and coffee filters. Should have spent the bucks & got one last year I'm not even going to try to save and reuse the filters... just not worth the effort (or the contamination risk). As fast as the milk filters through, I at first wondered if it was actually filtering... I did find out that the spout will not fit in a standard opening ball jar though... Have to use the wide mouth jars.

Supposed to be down to 39°f tonight... I opened up the house when I came in as it was a little warm in here. Guess I better close everything back down pretty quick here. Now everything is closed and it a little chilly in here... can't win. Had a banana and a fruit bar to eat today and now I'm hungry. Took out a rack of St Louis ribs for tomorrow and a 3 pack of chicken legs for tonight. Threw them in hot water in the sink to thaw them a bit and just put them in the oven at 400° for an hour. They were still partially frozen, but I don't want to eat at 11:00.

Got a call earlier right as I came in, from @Devonviolet letting me know that her Falina had dropped twin doelings! AWESOME! Good to hear no complications and all is well with these kids. Looking fwd to meeting them in a week or so to fry their brains (disbudding). Maybe I'll bring them some more goat milk when I go over. They won't be getting any from Falina for a couple of months. She'll be giving it all to those kids.

 

[Bruce]

Sounds like the fencing is going well
Sure hope that stone moves on, I've suffered them myself and "no fun" doesn't even come close to describing them. Went to the ER once with one, they asked about pain level with the 10 faces picture. I would have drawn one on the right, with a pistol to it's head.

 

[greybeard]

Sharp pains every time I lift my right leg.

Well,................Don't.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

 

[Bruce]

Well,................Don't.

Spoken like a doctor.

 

[Latestarter]

Very difficult to have any mobility if one doesn't lift their legs... I guess I could belly crawl It's a real joy climbing on and off the lawn tractor and in and out of the truck. Also fun kneeling down and getting up repetitively... So I drove the trash to the head of the driveway for trash day tomorrow then cruised into town for a take out pizza. Get back home, get in the house, open the back door to let Mel in and there's the sight I've dreaded... the hay feeder is on it's side. Of course I had just filled it with hay before heading out. So I go on down, hoping I'm not going to find any crushed kids as they love to sleep underneath it. I get there and my stupid wether CM is standing, trapped inside the feeder between the fencing and the catch tray. Now, I don't know if he's the one that tipped it over as I've never seen him pushing on it. I've only seen my stupid buck RJ pushing on it. He sticks his head inside against the fencing and pushes. So maybe CM was on the other side when RJ pushed it over, and he got stuck. I don't know... idiot boy goats. No kids injured (this time). It better not happen again. Maybe I should switch to sheep... They seem to get into a lot less trouble.

Got the lower section of fence I started on yesterday stretched and mostly attached. Need to do the wraps on the posts at either end and the bottom clips on all the T posts. That's all the fencing I got done today. Also finished mowing inside the pasture I'm fencing. Supposed to be a chance of strong T-storms tomorrow afternoon and evening. Hopefully they'll hold off and I can get what's hung finished and maybe hang another gate.

Cooked up a rack of St Louis ribs today for lunch. Ate half the rack. Man were they good. I'll have the other 1/2 tomorrow.