Fred W. Hargis Jr

Had to take Marie to the doc this morning ahead of tomorrow's back surgery. Then got home and mowed the lawn as fast as I could, lots more prep for the surgery stuff I need to attend to today; then it's quite a few weeks of caregiver duty. I am working on a box in the shop....a turned box, my first. I've ran into a couple of questions I have on procedure that i'll post in turning at some point. It's not likely to be for quite a few days.

Mother's day could not have been nicer...it was sunny, got up to 74°, and very little wind. This morning it's still 59° and we should be in the upper 70s again later. I just hope the wind stays calm for when i mow the lawn. Rain moves back in tonight for a couple iof days, we may get another inch.....some of my garden plants are drowning; we don't need it at the moment.

I didn't know what it was, but i do remember mock chicken legs (barely). My memory seems to be "yech", but it's been a really long time since I had one.

Same here, though I guess if the bid is low enough it may be worthwhile. Lebanon isn't out of reach for me.

Lot of nice stuff there including a few things I'd like to have. Wow, a 20% buyers premium. Do you happen to know where this stuff is located, I couldn't find a location. I'm wondering where I'd have to go to pick it up.

It's a cold 45° here this morning, after a not-too-bad day yesterday...it was the wind that screwed things up. It was really howling. Even so I got a small amount of stuff done outside, we got up to 64° and had some puffy clouds. If you stayed in the sun it felt quite nice. Today should be nicer, sunny and up to the mid 70s. Should make for a nice Mother's day.

That's quite nice, the finish looks very nice to my eyes as well.

I just watched their video, that thing is pretty cool!

I guess I missed my once of a lifetime chance last night. That solar storm 4D mentioned gave our region some spectacular views of the aurora. I was fast asleep when it all happened and only saw some remarkable photos of it on the news this morning; it's something i wish i had seen. On to the weather: yesterday was a nice day, lots of sun with some puffy clouds later in the day and temps in the upper 60s. The wind was a little bothersome, but still a nice day. This morning looking at the radar there's a large rain shield moving toward from the NW, we might get less than 1/4" of rain before it moves although the rest of the day is supposed to be much like yesterday only slightly cooler, highs in the low 60s. It's 53° right now and if the weather folks have it right Mother's day is supposed to be downright nice.

It's about 15 miles from me and I've never done the plant tour.

With Mother's day being this Sunday I'm guessing I'll be doing a little house cleaning tomorrow to make it a little less embarrassing for Marie when the multitudes show up. Today is our dry day (I think Sunday may be as well) so I'll have some things to tend to outside; may even get a few minutes puttering in the shop.

Yesterday wasn't even close to the forecast, rain all day (1.1") temps stayed in the low 60s, wind was howling at times....out of the north. This morning it's a lot cooler at 50° and we might get into the 60s later; I'm told we will stay dry and have lots of sun. We'll see.

That is awesome! Makes me wish I was smart enough to have a CNC.

ice day yesterday. Plenty of sun, temps up to 80°, little wind and low humidity. Somehow some rain sneaked in overnight and it's still raining this morning, although not very hard. It's 57° and we're going into a slightly cooler stretch of weather. High today will be in the low 70s, and it will be in the upper 60s/low 70s for some time. that's OK as long as we get some time to dry out.

Best to you Fred! Happy Birthday!

It was a dark and stormy night...again! The second wave of yesterday's weather crossing over really packed a punch. We found ourselves in the basement again last night for maybe 45 minutes while the tornadoes finished their business in the area. Not sure how many or how much damage yet but our house was spared (once again). This time we didn't even have a power blip and the internet cable stayed on so we were able to follow the radar images to judge the danger. This has been one of the most unusual starts to the year, weather-wise, I've ever seen. Today it looks like there's less chance, but not zero, of more storms this afternoon...a little worse south of us (down near Keith's slice of the state). But this morning it's 60°, and we may be near 80 later. Still quit a bit of rain possible over the next several days. I saw some farmer's attempting to plant crops yesterday, but once again they'll be on hold for a while; we really got some heavy rain for a short period last nght.