Baymule
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Fishing is a good pastime. It is fun, it is nice to just sit in the boat and enjoy the water, sky and a beautiful day. Plus-you get fish! I'm glad that y'all are enjoying your boat.
Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal
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Mike CHS
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My shoulder told me it wants to wait till tomorrow to work the sheep so we are going to run in and get a window AC unit to put in down at the shop. Since the temps have gotten into the 90's the shop gets up around 100-102 which means I'm not going to work down there. It hasn't made much difference up until now but I just didn't do much work inside. Now that the outside is under control, we are working more inside. We don't need to keep it cool but want to at least make it where it is bearable. We have a small unit on the porch and it keeps it comfortable without much effort and doesn't draw any more electricity than the window fan we have out there. Keeps the dogs happy also. 
Bruce
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And if you don't put a hook on the end of the line, your nap won't be interrupted.
Baymule
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Our dogs go under the porch in the heat of the day. BJ feeds them around 6, then they go to work. They much prefer the night shift. LOL
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Mike CHS
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A little nostalgia caused me to cook us BLTs for breakfast. I was looking around outside and for some reason I got to thinking about the dozens of trips back and for while renovating our house. Before we moved here we would get an early start on our way back to Charleston on Sunday morning. We would get off the highway and go through the little town of Decherd that had a cafe that opened early and order BLT's to start the day.
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Mike CHS
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I think @Senile_Texas_Aggie was visiting our place this afternoon. We have been getting showers often enough that my grass looked like it hadn't been cut for a couple of weeks. It finally dried out enough that I figured I would get most of my cutting done which usually takes a couple hours. I was almost finished when I ran over a tree limb that I didn't see and it came up over the mower deck and did something to the linkage. I walked up to the shop and got the Ranger, Teresa and a chain and we pulled it back up to the shop to see if it was something obvious. We couldn't see anything obvious so we decided to load it up on the trailer and take it in to CO-OP. Of course the trailer is full of galvanized fencing from the damaged kennel that we can't get rid of since the transfer station isn't taking any metal because their bins are full due to the Covid lock down. No big deal to unload so we got that done and I then walked up to start the Tacoma to hook up the trailer to haul the mower. I turned the key and all I get is clicks so out comes the charger and an extension cord. Hooked it up and the charger isn't showing any power to it. Tried another cord and it worked so the first cord shows bad after trying it with another appliance. I'll take the Tacoma battery in to have it load tested tomorrow since I can use the Ram to haul the mower.
Baymule
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Haha, yup, it sounds like STA is lurking about!
Bruce
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STA is a generous guy, he's spreading the love!
I mowed a pass around the outside of the fields yesterday, along the west fence line of the alpaca/chicken pasture and a quantity of the inside area. Today I finished the inside, went back out to mow up the north side of the area on the way back to the front of the barn. All of a sudden the tractor just stopped moving. No wheel slipping, no turning, nothing. I had changed the hydraulic fluid and the front axle fluid the day before so I checked the dipstick in case I screwed up and had leaked all the fluid out. Nope, still full.
I got off the tractor, looked around and saw nothing. Fearing the worst, ala STA, here I was down a hill with a tractor that wouldn't move. I was going to have to call Al and have him pull me up to the front of the barn where the tractor people could come get it for an unknown repair. Then I noticed that somehow the shift lever had popped out of Low and into Neutral (L-N-M-N-H on the shifter). I don't know how it happened but the tractor ran fine after that.
So, like the day it wouldn't start because somehow the PTO lever had been pushed part way forward, I had another DOH! moment. Glad it wasn't something actually broken.
I mowed a pass around the outside of the fields yesterday, along the west fence line of the alpaca/chicken pasture and a quantity of the inside area. Today I finished the inside, went back out to mow up the north side of the area on the way back to the front of the barn. All of a sudden the tractor just stopped moving. No wheel slipping, no turning, nothing. I had changed the hydraulic fluid and the front axle fluid the day before so I checked the dipstick in case I screwed up and had leaked all the fluid out. Nope, still full.
I got off the tractor, looked around and saw nothing. Fearing the worst, ala STA, here I was down a hill with a tractor that wouldn't move. I was going to have to call Al and have him pull me up to the front of the barn where the tractor people could come get it for an unknown repair. Then I noticed that somehow the shift lever had popped out of Low and into Neutral (L-N-M-N-H on the shifter). I don't know how it happened but the tractor ran fine after that.
So, like the day it wouldn't start because somehow the PTO lever had been pushed part way forward, I had another DOH! moment. Glad it wasn't something actually broken.
Baymule
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Wow...….ya' know, I think @Senile_Texas_Aggie has been stalking our place too! Sunday BJ got on the tractor and a puff of smoke signaled worse things to come. He said it was out of fuel and drove it to the fuel tank. It died. None of the gauges worked, nothing worked. I called our dear friend and neighbor, Robert and he came right over. A portion of the wiring harness had rubbed against the frame and it was fried. It took most of the day, but Robert rewired it and it works now. Fortunately it was in the shade. We took Robert and his wife out to eat at their favorite café yesterday evening. STA, please don't hex the tractor again!! 
Bruce
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I think STA better get his tractor replaced soon so he can stay home and work his fields!
