Taking a moment today....

[Burt Gummer]

Yep! But of course as in most the first was the best.

 

[P7M13]

Every day is like that. Yesterday was gardening around the house and then a long motorcycle ride.
Today, I am a home body:

Water the garden
Harvest some veggies (got zucchini coming out of my ears)
Introduce three kittens to my dogs. (it went well -- these are some ballsy kittens and mellow pooches).
Practice with the pellet rifle -- found two piles of rat turds. Got some vermin to dispatch.
Make a chicken and barley soup​

And take a nap.....

 

[bionic knees]

Watched some indy car racing, then watched the nascar race. Put a marion berry cobbler together, then got supper taken care of, it has been a pretty laid back sunday. Easiest cobbler recipe ever, and good too.

 

[jbett98]

Yesterday, while helping a friend replace 30' of old concrete sewer pipe 3' feet deep in his front yard, I accidentally struck a NW Natural main gas line that wasn't expected to be in that location.
He told me that he had a gas service location a year before and that there wasn't any pipes where we were hand digging the trench.
I put a very small slice in the 1-1/4" yellow poly gas line and it took five service guys and three service trucks, plus a supervisor 4-1/2 hours to repair.
Come to find out, the previous gas line locate wasn't accurate, since the yellow trace wire had been cut in half by the city sewer guys and the locator had given up trying to trace the line after hitting a dead end with the broken wire.
It will be interesting on how much NW Natural will charge my friend for a Saturday emergency service repair.

 

[64MercurysRule]

I am working on cleaning up our laurel hedges with my Border collie Mike. It is a beautiful day.

View: https://youtu.be/kuHKWzWtBzM?si=0PU4vqktNJ1HiJV_

 

[TTSX]

Yesterday, while helping a friend replace 30' of old concrete sewer pipe 3' feet deep in his front yard, I accidentally struck a NW Natural main gas line that wasn't expected to be in that location.
He told me that he had a gas service location a year before and that there wasn't any pipes where we were hand digging the trench.
I put a very small slice in the 1-1/4" yellow poly gas line and it took five service guys and three service trucks, plus a supervisor 4-1/2 hours to repair.
Come to find out, the previous gas line locate wasn't accurate, since the yellow trace wire had been cut in half by the city sewer guys and the locator had given up trying to trace the line after hitting a dead end with the broken wire.
It will be interesting on how much NW Natural will charge my friend for a Saturday emergency service repair.

6 guys at 4.5 is 27 labor hours. If it were a diesel shop at $150/hr you could expect a labor bill of 4 grand... And that's not emergency rates. Really hoping they cut him a solid break because the previous locate was botched

 

[AshWilliams]

I took a long motorcycle ride with my oldest daughter up to Bald Peak scenic viewpoint and had a good chat on the way over our headsets.

It was a really good weekend in general.

 

[jbett98]

My friend was quoted $4,800.00 by a sewer repair company to replace the pipe, so there's some lee way money wise if NW Natural hits him with a bill.
I mentioned to one of the service guys an old neighbor of mine who recently retired from NW Natural and he told me that he would mark the damage down as a nick, not as a full on cut in half pipe breach, since I knew the guy and they were friends.
If you cut a gas line in half, they charge you for all of the cubic feet of gas leaked into the atmosphere from when you call the 1-800 number and until they can arrive and stop the flow of gas
if the line you cut halts service to 4 or more houses, they have to notify the Feds of a major gas leak, which generates a special alert.
Those houses will all be shut down and a special crew shows up to relight all of the appliances. That's when you get charged the big money.
If I had cut a small 1/2" feeder line, one guy in a pick-up could have fixed it in 10 minutes.

 

[Burt Gummer]

View: https://youtu.be/kuHKWzWtBzM?si=0PU4vqktNJ1HiJV_

Fond memories of seeing that movie with my mom at the theater on Broadway in Seaside OR. Westworld (1973) and The Cowboys (1972) were playing right before that time. She covered my ears at "The Sheriff is a ..........." line by Gabby Johnson. Just weird that the Tilt a Whirl, Bumper Cars, , putt putt golf, and Corn Dog place are still there across the street just as they were 50 years ago.

 

[Nosferatu]

Wife and I are in Nebraska visiting some friends of hers. They run a 150,000 acre corn farm. She's hanging around with Doberman puppies while I'm out with her husband playing farmer on the 400HP tractors.

Plowed a field for planting alfalfa for the first time in my life.

Going to take the heavy truck loaded with corn to the grain bin tomorrow. I may even get to drive!

I could get used to this life.

 

[Ben B.]

I made breakfast burritos and cappuccinos, kegged a batch of beer and brewed up another, cleaned the outside kitchen windows to please my wife, pulled some weeds, picked her up after paddle boarding, swept the garage, made her a margarita, made some baba gannoush and tabbouleh and falafel for dinner, and now enjoying a beer.

But yesterday was a PRS .22 match followed by beers, so it's been a good weekend.

 

[monks]

After a church service with my daughter we had pizza and she helped me rearrange our games so I could use this steel cabinet for my ammo and powder. I managed to get almost everything in there minus some shotgun shells. It was stored above the safe and I didn't like the idea of what could happen to my collection in a fire so it's all locked up in another room now.


After all of that a friend stopped by and he tried out an sig 365 and 938 before his 10 year old son showed us some good marksmanship with his norinco Olympic pistol. The boy followed all four rules and had better safety skills than a lot of experienced shooters I've been around. I was impressed and invited him to come back with his brother and their 22 rifles any time.

 

[MTpockets]

I stopped and smelled the flowers....vicariously.
These two were sent to me by a family member in Chicago outside of the inner-city at the...

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I believe this one is a Plumeria...wow.

And this a Desert Rose (Adenium)...missing in the photo, is the trunk structure. If interested do a search...and you will see why this plant is considered a succulent.

@CountryGent might like these...

 

[Tlock]

Wife and I are in Nebraska visiting some friends of hers. They run a 150,000 acre corn farm. She's hanging around with Doberman puppies while I'm out with her husband playing farmer on the 400HP tractors.

Plowed a field for planting alfalfa for the first time in my life.

Going to take the heavy truck loaded with corn to the grain bin tomorrow. I may even get to drive!

I could get used to this life.

Playing farmer is fun....being a farmer is a different story!

 

[Stomper]

Beer? What kind? Hell I don't care what kind, be there in 15!

I'm more curious what kind of steak @Andy54Hawken had to tie around his neck to get all those dogs to play with him….






Let's see, (Sunday) was mine and the wife's 21st anniversary.

I awoke at 0430 this morning (like I always do between 0430-0500 most every morning),.

Gave the dogs each a dog biscuit and hugged them up.

I made and drank a cuppa covfefe while I watched the sun rise (although I was facing West, LOL) sitting in a rocking chair on my front covered porch in my bathrobe…. LOL!

Wife woke up around 0730, I made her an espresso the way she likes it, and gave her a hug and kiss and said happy anniversary.

I caught up on the current drama in the news, got bored with that, went outside and got all my yard work (one of my favorite activities, actually) done on my 0.26 acre piece of property before it got too hot.

Got cleaned up and took the wife to a nice lunch at a local diner.

Afterwards we drove down to the Salem Costco and dropped ( ) $800+ on a heap of stuff like a 25# brisket, NY Strip and Ribeye steaks, bulk hamburger, dog food, some more clothing, wood pellets and charcoal briquettes for my outdoor "man kitchen" (I'm an avid cooker of all things meat).

Drove back home, unloaded all the stuff, used the vacuum sealer on all the steaks, and portioned the hamburger into 1-lb packs.

Completed my work reports for nearly 60-hours of service calls last week, and since it was our anniversary the rest of the evening is none of your damned business!





It was a good and excellent day.

 

[JohnnyMac]

Going to take the heavy truck loaded with corn to the grain bin tomorrow. I may even get to drive!

Don't forget to bring a little home for the still.....

 

[Jay Walk]

Painted the gutters this morning at 6am.
About ready to head out to the door for work.
I am grateful every day for the air I am able to breathe 

 

[Caveman Jim]

I'm at work.
When I leave here today, I'll be well over 30 hours on the clock since Friday morning.

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You are a workaholic, STOP THAT!!!
Stop and smell the roses every now and again.

 

[Knobgoblin]

You are a workaholic, STOP THAT!!!
Stop and smell the roses every now and again.

Lol

Stop and smell the salmon

 

[Caveman Jim]

Lol

Stop and smell the salmon

Do you mean the ones that are dumped in the ditch by certain fisherman?