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3/7/23 at 11:39 am. --- sun is out, wind blowing, getting ready for next wave of storms heading this way! lol!

3/7/23 12:55EST Sunny out, beautiful day and not a gumball tree in sight

3/12/23 5:04 pm rain here again.

rainy here too. not hard but enough to screw up out door plans

0752AM 14MAR23 cold and really windy here..hoping a big tree branch, broken off but hanging-widowmaker..comes down out of a tree here instead of renting a boom lift to take it down...50ft up in an oak tree(but not in my way)

7:20 am 3/14/23 no rain/snow, YET! Looks like N east cost could get ruff weather!

I've got a few widow makers hanging up in one of the old sweetgums but there's no getting to it with a lift. I'll have to strap on the old spikes & climb for them. Like you bunk I'm hoping for the wind to take them down while no ones under them.

Freeze warning here for tomorrow.

Rrrrrrgg sweetgum trees..let me go fire up the chipper

Wanna borrow MOOSE ? He will solve the tree problem without climbing! lol! --- Just reach up 25 feet,--close the clam and back away with the tree! lol!
3/14/23 6:44 pm

That would be nice for a couple of these trees however I can't get to them. my man-made stream and ponds in the yard are in the way and there's a big ditch on the other side of the fence that keeps me from getting close enough from the other side. I was going to try and use my bucket truck from the other side but the ditch sets me too far away from my bucket to reach it and anything bigger than my bucket truck won't fit between the trees and the ditch.

Ditches never stopped MOOSE before! He tore houses down buy just driving thru them, grab the eve,--go thru the wall and down into the basement and out the other side! 60,000 pounds with a big rops over the top! kinda looks like Marvins "kill dozer"! only with a 4-in-1 clam bucket hi-lift loader on it lol!

yeah Sonny I remember seeing pix of it-its a beast!,I like the way the serial number tag says "Do Not Overload"!! Yeah right! -but we have our own moose here-a comparatively sized,straight stacked Cat 977L but it would destroy the lawn+driveway getting it into position..easier safer and faster to just get a tow behind man lift..of course the high winds we've been getting lately here at 40-50mph, Im waiting for it to come down in the middle of the night LOL

Well been keeping busy with the Solara convertible I got. The window separated from the top I had to fix that the water trough that catches the rain off the back of the roof head split from dry rot so I had to replace that that was a bit of a job. Did the timing belt because it has 175,000 on it and I don't know had it ever been done or not so I decided to do it because it's a zero tolerance engine. Took it for a test drive today.... man I'm happy to have it done.

Ya! them "zero " motors scare me! lol! Glad you got it done. We had a skiff of snow and 35+mph winds here and 13* for the low with high winds all day so far. sun is up but still cold.
Did a internet auction today,--got a few small things,---well cept a big old ripper! lol! Neighbor got a few things, so Monday we go pick up our treasures!

#/18/23 4:38 pm---

Pulled the tarp off the MG& shoved it back in the shop. from the time I pulled the tarp off until I actually got it into the shop, it collected a nice layer of pollen.

Good Morning world🌞

Almost noon here, --- 11:30, --- suns up wind not too bad today. gotta find a 5/8" fine thread bolt a few inches long to finish making my bearing puller. --- have all the other pieces ready to weld together.
Now I have to take the head off one of my 560's and get the motor un-stuck and running again, need it at the farm to mow crp acres this summer.

0815PM EST 3/20/23
got too much sun today at the auction yard..had to climb into the cab of a $250K excavator and fire it up to get some arctic cold A/C to cool down with..couldnt dig any holes though

got our treasures home/unloaded/put away! Got a slant eyed chimineese chainsaw, ( Tornado Tools brand) and a sthil 011avt,-- it needs starter dog worked on but has good compression.

Been working on the road this week. Spent two days working in Bridgeville Delaware. Got a room in Pocomoke City Maryland for the night. going to spend the day working in a OakHall Virginia then back home. been a while since I did a three day road trip for work.

Have a couple of 6 gallon boat cans I'm going to fill up while I'm on the Eastern shore with non-ethanol gas for the small engine equipment at the house. The two marinas that have it near me in Virginia Beach got the price jacked through the roof. Gas is always more expensive at the marinas. I get it at the Royal farms right before I get back to the bay bridge tunnel to go home.

Have a couple of 6 gallon boat cans I'm going to fill up while I'm on the Eastern shore with non-ethanol gas for the small engine equipment at the house. The two marinas that have it near me in Virginia Beach got the price jacked through the roof. Gas is always more expensive at the marinas. I get it at the Royal farms right before I get back to the bay bridge tunnel to go home.