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I think the analysts said more than once that going high on Skinner is the known "book" on the best place to beat him. I don't have enough hockey knowledge to make that judgement, but the stats don't lie!
Active day. I was on dog duty again while Dawn was off doing her house painting thing. Detailed the sides of the 4-4-2 and polished the chrome SS1's. May or may not polish the bumpers tomorrow or Friday? Did my lifting workout and then got ready to go to a belated Father's Day dinner with my youngest daughter Blaire and family. Went to a great pizza place for dinner. Found out while I was there that Gabe and Keegan had both been picked up for another Select Hockey Tournament starting July 12th. That will be good practice for them before going into Skills Days and the Draft for next year's season. All in all a great day!
Hope everyone has had a great day and has a relaxing evening!
Just got done mowing and trimming. It was due and I figured I'd better get it done before the real heat sets in. Forecast is for 90's tomorrow thru next Thursday, with Saturday - Monday all at 97° with a heat index of 105°. Miss Kenneth telling me that ain't nothing!
Don't know what the rest of the day will bring, but I'm glad I got that out of the way. Hope everyone is having a great day!
In my last post I mentioned Kenneth and the Phoenix heat. For ***** and grins I decided to look up the forecasted high in Phoenix this afternoon. 117° actual temperature, not heat index!
Hi guys - Wow, where has everyone gone??? Slow day for me. Dawn is away again painting her daughter's home, so I've been on dog duty again. Other than making sure their needs are met, the only thing I've done is my lifting workout which only takes an hour and a half.
Got up to 94°here today, projected for 97° Saturday thru Monday. I told Dawn this morning I may not go to the Show Sunday because it's suppossed to be a heat index of 105°. She said you always say that and then you end up going. I'm trying to be smarter about this Show business, but it's been such a slow start to the season because of all the rain, and I just hate the thought of staying home because of heat?
Well, since there's no one here to say why are you watching that again, you've seen if a 100 times, I think I'm going to sit down and watch Outlaw Josey Wales. Some of the best one liners in that movie I've ever heard!
Hope everyone has had a great day and has a relaxing evening!
Don't want you to think you're all alone.
Had the most perfect weather day today. It was warm and sunny and a nice steady breeze blowing fast and slow. The kind of breeze that moves through the house causing someone to button down anything that could fall over or blow away. The kind that makes the whistling noises blowing through the screens.
I'm waiting for Vice Grip Garage to post his video, it'll probably be an hour and a half.
Ordered some parts from Scott Winn, now headed out for a cruise. It looks like the hot weather will be inland from me, and to the south, and that's fine by me.
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Ordered some parts from Scott Winn, now headed out for a cruise. It looks like the hot weather will be inland from me, and to the south, and that's fine by me.
Dan - Ya, I bet having the onshore breeze off the lake is a God send! Enjoy your cruise! 👍
Got up this am and headed for the property. Met the guy delivering the tractor and spent twice as long as I thought I would dinking with it. It can carry an attachment on the rear, but has no PTO back there, so they had the brush deck on the back and the mower on the front. My first plan was to back it into the shop and drop off the brush deck, but the shop garage doors are 7 footers, I think, and the 8 foot deck no go sideways. So I drove out into the grass, learned how to disconnect the mower deck, then backed up a bit and learned how to disconnect something off the 3 point hitch (which was not hard.)
I then spun it around, and picked up the brush deck on the front and went out to the field and ate some grass. Does well. I think I will make it cut closer. I played with the primary hydraulic tilt circuit for servicing, then put that deck in the shop. I then picked up the mower deck, and it was on 17 of 17 height, so I lowered it to 14 and took a pass. I then lowered it to 12 and liked that better. I did a few passes. I was running out of time so I decided not to dick with playing with the service function hydraulics. I realized that the deck would either have to be pushed in the shop sideways, or left in the barn's outdoor shed. Then, I thought that the berm house's garage door might be wider. It was, and the deck fit in there, but, that stall was truncated in an interior redecoration, so it is not long enough for the mower, too. I will choose violence via Sawzall to open that garage up, soon. For now, I dropped the deck off, then put the mower in the shop, and shut down.
Thing has plenty of power, control, and turning. There's a knack to picking up attachments and dropping them that I have to learn. My only beef with the controls is that switching from low to hi range is picky about steering angle so it sometimes takes fooling with. I anticipate a 75% reduction in mowing time, but a 20% increase in dicking around. I did not get every accessory one could on the tractor, but I got all the power and hydraulics you could get. I have a 3 point rear hitch with hydraulic lift, tilt, and a third circuit for an additional function. These all have their own lever. Oh, I do NOT like the stiffness of pulling the main lever off float detent, it is way too stiff. On the front end, I have the built in hydraulics of the attachment lift, and the primary additional hydraulics to tilt these decks like discussed. Those are two separate levers. But, I have a lot more hydraulic hoses going up front. Upon reading, I also have secondary hydraulic function up front, which is controlled by the same lever as the primary, but there is a button you hold to make it select the secondary.
All that's in the manual, but I also got the third hydraulic function, and there are no controls for it. Three more hoses, one is somewhat anti tamper capped and not the quick connects of the other hoses. Then I saw a switch, undescribed, on the firewall and it had icons that looked like either attachment hoist, or loader tilt. I think what this does is take your main drive lever hydraulics, which normally lifts the attachment, and, instead, tilts a loader if you have that. So, in summary, two sticks to run hydraulics up and down, and a switch on each, thus making four circuit controls. I called the business and will text the dude a couple pictures to confirm. You are really only supposed to do one hydraulic thing at a time since it's all one pump, but it's nice to move something to one position, leave it there, then move something else.
John - That is one hell of a tractor with incredible functionality! I think you're gonna love it, I know I would. With that much functionality I'm sure it's gonna take awhile to figure out all the fine points. I'm really happy for you! 😃
I didn't realize I haven't been on here since Wednesday. Not much to report. Work went well all week. Lots of rain.
John that isn't what I would have pictured as your tractor. Looks like a hoss. My John Deere has those same quick disconnects.
Been driving the SRX to work the past few days. Put just shy of 200 miles on so off to the testing station I went. Nope, not reset enough. The guy says keep driving. I said that's fine, but the plates expire tomorrow. Oh, go to the tag office and get a 30 day extension. Hm. So that's what I did. I wonder how I'll know when I've driven enough miles to go back and retest. I really wish I could get rid of that car. Haven't had any trouble out of it though.
Well I'm about to start another trip around the sun. It will be an uneventful day. Mowing mostly, and some laundry. Mom will probably want to go out to dinner. Sounds like a winner.
Okay it's past midnight, hope everyone is sleeping soundly.
John - Word, grease. IMO, it matters not exactly what manufacturer or nitpick specification. What matters is to grease - often. Having a blackboard or similar mounted in your shed is a good thing to keep track of your greasing routine(s). Grease often. Failure is not an option.
Well I'm about to start another trip around the sun. It will be an uneventful day. Mowing mostly, and some laundry. Mom will probably want to go out to dinner. Sounds like a winner.
Mike - Happy B-day, no matter how you spend it I hope you have a great one! Wishing you luck getting the SRX to reset. 🤞
Beautiful here. I was going to sleep in, not too late, and I woke up around a quarter to 8. I thought, I'll just stay here until 8. Well, I must have twitched because here comes Tiger. I thought, hm, it' must be 8 now. So I got up.
Put in some laundry and then ran around putting stickers on all the cars. The State thinks they are funny, the sticker says June but they actually expire on the 21st. So if you go past your birthday even though it's the same month you get fined. At work, even if it's the first day of the month the tire assembly is good for two years, and will expire the last day of the month. I think it expires because of the grease. Anyway, once in a while we'll get an expired tire come through and it gets a light going over and it's extended one year. I've never seen an expired tire that's three years old.
So now Awful house. I'm gonna try to not spend too much time there. Got an awful lot of mowing to do. Haven't talked to Mom yet, don't know what her plans are.
Basic errand run - grocery store & the Human Zoo (Walmart). I bought one item because I needed only one item from the Human Zoo - x12 roll pkg. of Bounty Paper Towels. I should be good for another six months. I'd say ~50% of those at the Zoo are in poor health, ~25% appear dressed up for Halloween or shop the Good Will for clothing & remaining 25% are there solely to socialize.
I do say some of these things more or less tongue-in-cheek. I mean, seriously, I don't purposely intend to demean people I don't know - some folks are truly/honestly down on their luck & it's borderline between pity & empathy; yet, in casual conversation such as this, the Human Zoo is "entertaining" for many including me.
I'm surprised there aren't more accidents/casualties at the Human Zoo. And, to think those wielding the manual carts & electric carts have a driver's license. Ya just know they drive on the road(s) same as they navigate shopping aisles.
I do say some of these things more or less tongue-in-cheek. I mean, seriously, I don't purposely intend to demean people I don't know - some folks are truly/honestly down on their luck & it's borderline between pity & empathy; yet, in casual conversation such as this, the Human Zoo is "entertaining" for many including me.
Hey, I don't think anyone looked at what you said in a negative way. We all know Walmart is the kind of place to see a huge crossection of the American population and it takes all kind of folks to make the world go round!
B2, quite the airplane, really one of a kind. Hope they don't have to be used in the near term.
I had a guy that worked for me that spent his career in the Air Force flying B-52's and then B2's. Despite wearing Govt. issued sound protection, he lost most of his hearing and had to undergo Cochlear Implant surgery to regain it. After the fact it was found that the Govt. issued sound protection wasn't worth a **** and he was reimbursed for the cost of all his medical care and a sizeable sum for punitive damages.
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