What Are You Doing Today?

Connie Bennett said:
I spent the day watching episodes of the Route 66 documentary. I never traveled the entire route from Chicago to Santa Monica, but I have been on sections in Oklahoma and New Mexico.

Parts of Route 66 are still drivable and it seems there’s a resurrection of the route. I sure hope so. When people say something is as American as baseball & apple pie, they need to also include Route 66.

There are several parts of the documentary that can be googled if any one is interested 🤠

Annnnd IT RAINED🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️. I got a good thunderstorm and a quick cooling down to 77 degrees —— 👍👍. That said the thunderstorm tore a roof off 35 miles east, before it got to me. This was an east to west storm, which is not that common where I live.

Nashville hit a real temp of 101 today. Thankfully I only saw a real temp of 94. I know the humidity will be back, but the storm this afternoon did a great job of cooling until sunset💦💦
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We are seven miles from Route 66. There is a lot going on with the Centennial celebrations.
 
Currently, (6AM) I'm on our desktop here writing to you folks and my wife is on her laptop entering bills into her Ledger, that I paid and printed out receipts for.
A little later, going out to breakfast again. Then, if we have enough energy, will go over Boat/RV Storage, hook-up our boat/trailer and take it over to the water hose on the property and try and start the engine. It's been a good year since we've started the boat engine. If we can't get it to start, later (in a week or so) we will take it to the same marine service we took it to when we lived here before and see what they can do.
Next Saturday, when it's pretty hot here, we are thinking about driving up to Estes Park, which is next to RMNP, and seeing some Elk. A lot of them hang out in Estes Park this time of year.
 
Ken Anderson said:
As someone who spent more than a year hitchhiking, and sometimes driving, around the country, particularly from Michigan to California and back in the 1960s and early 70s, I thought it really sucked when they replaced Route 66.
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About 1966, I got on Route 66 east of Tucumcari and stayed on till I skirted around Albuquerque. If you happened to see a bushy (sort of afro) dark haired girl, around 16, that you couldn't decided was hippie or cowgirl and she was driving a blue Ford pickup pulling a cattle trailer filled with Herefords from Texas and headed to Colorado, then that would have been me. Being by myself, although armed with a hidden 45 Colt, I didn't pickup up hitchhikers. I made 10 trips that summer. I loved that section of 66 and had a favorite diner in Moriarty. I always gave hitchhikers the peace sign and then the thumbs up, indicating I was unable to pickup hitchhikers.

Today, I have no idea what I will do. The bombs last night were continuous from 9 PM till 1 AM. Some were so powerful, they shook my house. I guess we won the war, since my flag is still flying. This is the first 4th, I can remember, that I didn't hear a single siren. I am still belching the over Cajun spiced Brats I grilled up yesterday. :sneaky:
 
Cody Fousnough said:
Currently, (6AM) I'm on our desktop here writing to you folks and my wife is on her laptop entering bills into her Ledger, that I paid and printed out receipts for.
A little later, going out to breakfast again. Then, if we have enough energy, will go over Boat/RV Storage, hook-up our boat/trailer and take it over to the water hose on the property and try and start the engine. It's been a good year since we've started the boat engine. If we can't get it to start, later (in a week or so) we will take it to the same marine service we took it to when we lived here before and see what they can do.
Next Saturday, when it's pretty hot here, we are thinking about driving up to Estes Park, which is next to RMNP, and seeing some Elk. A lot of them hang out in Estes Park this time of year.
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Have you ever been to the Estes Park Elk Festival? I think it is in early October.
 
Faye Fox said:
Have you ever been to the Estes Park Elk Festival? I think it is in early October.
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No. However, we've been into RMNP in Sept/Oct for the "rut" and seen quite a few Elk. In 2022, we decided to go to RMNP for the "rut", but my wife can't handle going up high on Trail Ridge Road anymore, so we turned around and headed back to Estes Park. Found out that Bulls and Cows and be seen at the golf course, so drove there. Yep, there they were! One with a huge rack among his cows. BTW, we are now members of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
 
A couple of days of clouds, rain, 70+MPH straight-line winds, and tornado warnings. Should turn sunny here soon though and for the rest of the day, so my vacation from running solar panels around the yard may be over.

Friday I had my first meltdown. No fire, but a mating pair of cable connections melted down.

Part of it was 5 hours in the hot direct Sun at 97 degrees for 5 hours. Part was pulling 16 amps at 34 volts. But these connectors are meant to work on a rooftop all day at up to 30 amps at 1000 volts. So my best guess is that in hauling things around I somehow pulled a connection loose, raising its resistance.

Ordered a set of replacements and the proper crimp tool for them, they arrived yesterday. Watched 3 different videos on installing them, since parts of it are tricky in parts sequence and torqueing things down for a proper weather seal and full current carrying capacity.

So now I have one more tool to not lose track of, along with 11 more connector pairs for the next replacement.

Everything is out there now trickling in a little power until the morning clouds clear out.
 
I think I will combine the morning walk with my appointment for my cancer blood test. Nice and cool this morning and good day for 5 mile walk. My big 6 month evaluation is next week and the Oncologist needs a week so her staff can get all the results entered into a special program, she designed, that makes a graph of results for the markers she watches. It compares them to MRI results, scans, and physical exam. She is a specialist in finding early female cancers and tracking growth which leads to the best treatment at the right time. Amazing lady! She is a board certified Oncologist, Urologist, and Gynecologist.

Beautiful red sky this morning and enjoying a homebrew mocha. I can't see paying $5 or more for something I can make myself for less than a buck. That makes me think about last time at the heart specialty hospital when a friend was undergoing surgery and her granddaughter insisted I try a large double shot espresso, mocha for $5, at their coffee shop. It was harsh, but I drank it all anyway and was semi staggering around, when one of the nurses asked if I was alright. I said yes, but I must quote the wild eyed doe when she came running out of the forest. "I'll never do that for five bucks again." The nurse laughed, but my friends granddaughter just a shook her head.

It is a sad day when you go from her grandmas hilarious bestie to an old personal embarrassment. :sneaky:
 
Jacqueline Lindt said:
Too early to think about that .....be back later ! Always something to do 😂
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Did all necessary housework & a batch of mini omelettes !

Alexa reminded me that I needed to give plants, flowers & vegetable there vitamins ! Was suppose to do that at 8 am ....I'm late 😂. Will go in a bit !

Helping hubby remove our swimming pool ....it's almost empty of water ! Don't know why I had to say water ....what else could it be 😂😂😂😂😂

Have a wonderful day l ☺️
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
A couple of days of clouds, rain, 70+MPH straight-line winds, and tornado warnings. Should turn sunny here soon though and for the rest of the day, so my vacation from running solar panels around the yard may be over.

Friday I had my first meltdown. No fire, but a mating pair of cable connections melted down.

Part of it was 5 hours in the hot direct Sun at 97 degrees for 5 hours. Part was pulling 16 amps at 34 volts. But these connectors are meant to work on a rooftop all day at up to 30 amps at 1000 volts. So my best guess is that in hauling things around I somehow pulled a connection loose, raising its resistance.

Ordered a set of replacements and the proper crimp tool for them, they arrived yesterday. Watched 3 different videos on installing them, since parts of it are tricky in parts sequence and torqueing things down for a proper weather seal and full current carrying capacity.

So now I have one more tool to not lose track of, along with 11 more connector pairs for the next replacement.

Everything is out there now trickling in a little power until the morning clouds clear out.
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Welcome back, @Jacob Petersheim ! Good luck with all the solar power issues.
 
Marie Miller said:
Deal with storm damage, bake bread, check on our circle.
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I hate to hear the words “storm damage”😢😢. I hope it was all cleanup without any damage to anything.

1. July 4th was great. I watched it on TV and the neighbors to the west were quiet as church mice🤠🤠

2. Temps are only 83, but the humidity is suffocating🤢

3.. Around 8:00 AM, my neighbor to the east called, asking if I had the westerly neighbor’s phone #. There was a nice-looking Chevy truck parked on the road, in front of their house and the guy was out, walking around.

Long story shorter: Lady in the westerly house’s family shows Chevys but she did not know the man. She made the kids stay in the house, while she stood on the porch holding a gun behind her back🤠🤠

3 My easterly neighbor called her husband —- who is a county deputy sheriff. He was on duty elsewhere, but he sent someone right out.

4. The poor guy on the road was part of a roofing crew and he was waiting for the rest of them because he didn’t know where the work was😂😂😂. It was on the house that can’t be seen from the road and has an almost mile long drive😂😂

Since word travels fast, I am pretty sure the kid in the Chevy truck was telling anyone he knew to not try to steal anything on this road. A sheriff lives up here and the neighbors have weapons 😂😂😂

5. The best part of this morning was picking up my BP meds and tech asked if they were for me because I “sure didn’t look as old as their records said” Best thing I’ve heard in ten years and I can’t wait to tell my much younger brother😂😂🤠🤠😂😂
 
Ken Anderson said:
As someone who spent more than a year hitchhiking, and sometimes driving, around the country, particularly from Michigan to California and back in the 1960s and early 70s, I thought it really sucked when they replaced Route 66.
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I hitchhiked and later picked up hitchhikers. That little stinker who picked the meringue off a rhubarb pie which was sitting on the floor - his ride was rather short.
 
I am not doing much of anything today. I am tired. I woke up in the middle of the night with a very dry mouth. My nose was congested too. I guess I was breathing through my mouth. My sinuses are bothering me big time today.

The only thing I have planned today is taking my cat to the Vet later on this morning for his “Wellness Exam”. :rolleyes: What I am really doing is keeping him active as a patient with this particular group because if he gets really sick after hours, or on a weekend, there will be someone on call available to care for him. There is not a Vet around that will help with a sick or injured pet if they are not a regular patient with them. My regular Vet has recently retired and sold out to a big corporate group. When I called for an appointment, I got AI trying to make the appointment for me. AI called me by my name asking me questions. It knew a lot about me and my cat. I talked to AI for a bit and then I just hung up! About an hour later, one of the Vets called me back; a human. He scheduled the visit for me.
 
Humidity was a lot more tolerable when I went to the barn this morning than it was yesterday. I Cloroxed all the water tubs and refilled them.

I have Virginia creeper/poison ivy growing behind the water tubs under the overhang. It is amazing how first it doesn’t grow and then it gets away from me.

I’m mixed some Clorox, dawn dish soap and water in a spray bottle and sprayed everything behind the water tubs. It will kill the vines but it’ll take a while. I have Roundup but I don’t want to use it that close to the horses water in case when the leaves start to die off, they fall in the water or the wind blows a little bit of overspray into the water. At least with the Clorox and the dawn dish soap that is diluted down they won’t get sick.

My neighbor is back at it already this morning, Bushhogging. He can knock this place out in no time. What takes me 20 to 25 hours on my Ford 3000 with a 6 foot bush hog, he can knock out in less than half that time with his 3140 and bat wings. I love that Tractor. I would love to have that Tractor. He left it sitting in my pasture last night which is common but he took the keys. I don’t think he trusts me 😂😂😂😂

Those black bomber horse flies have appeared for the summer. Those of you with horses or have had horses know how evil those things are. I swear they can drill a 1/64 hole into a horse causing the horses to bleed for a long time and it leaves a horrible lump on them even when I put medicine on them. Both horses are have been staying in the barn, even though the fans are blowing hot air because it keeps flies off them.

Mosquitoes aren’t much of an issue because I have so many barn swallows and purple martens. The horses are happy to stay outside all night to graze. when they come in, in the morning, and I look at them they don’t have hardly any bites on them. However, now that the Bushhogging is getting done, it will probably stir up the ticks. I haven’t seen any signs of armadillos who do a good job of eating ticks, so I hope there’s some flying creature around that’s interested in catching them. My neighbor has chickens, but they don’t come over here they can if they want to they just don’t.
 
Ditto on Krystal's waking up dry mouthed. That is every night around this banana ranch.

I had no plans and was honest when a friend called, saying her granddaughter couldn't help her to her appointments, so it looks like I am a medical support assistant today. It is usually a lot of sitting but today she is going to the eye doc so I can go next door and check out their stash of Versace frames. Not that I need anymore glasses, but it is something to do and I enjoy the technician guys drama.

They use to have a middle aged gal that was a straight talker and if you looked bad in a frame, she didn't mince words. Now the guys, especially the one trying to act female, are over complimentary never pointing out any negative aspects of a frame. He picks out a frame. I put them on.

"Faye, oh Faye, I can't look, those are just too hot and make you look so gorgeous. That shape fits your beautiful face perfect. Wow oh wow!"

"Well, I look like Faye Dunaway and I need a cigarette, a headscarf, and a miniskirt."

I was tempted, but had to say no to the look, due to health concerns; lung cancer and venereal disease. :sneaky:

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