Life goes on - Summer 2025

Pelletpower · July 16, 2025, 8:59pm

Oef, you are just a beginner

sbowman · July 16, 2025, 10:32pm

Tom,
You can spend the rest of your time finding a good home for your stuff.

pobrien603 · July 17, 2025, 4:20am

I saw some familiar faces in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYboZFsj48

tcholton717 · July 17, 2025, 12:24pm

First time I have heard of a gasified airplane. I would be too chicken to go up in it.

JO_Olsson · July 17, 2025, 3:25pm

Be careful what you wish for. We didn’t hit 30C (86F) today, but close.
On today’s news - on elderly care - from a small town close to the arctic circle. 32C (90F).

Pelletpower · July 17, 2025, 3:35pm

We hit 40 a few weeks back. The air just hurts while jetskiing. Strange experience, strange climate.
A friend was in Jakarta, 28 C, strange world.

JO_Olsson · July 17, 2025, 3:43pm

Autch! Not pleasent in any way!

I think S-E-A and Indonesia in particular has its hottest months in our spring - but still - it should be the other way around temp wise.

bsoutherland · July 18, 2025, 12:22am

It hit 95 here in New Hampshire with high humidity. I finished splitting the big dead Ash trees we took down. Found the culprits. Many two inch grubs in the middle (Ash borers?).

madflower69 · July 18, 2025, 7:10am

My GUESS without any additional information.
Is if the skin of the tree underneath the bark has paths on it, that was the emerald ash borer. Then as the tree was basically dead the Pigeon Tremex laid eggs in it, and those are the deep holes.

on a side note, two strains of the commercially available beneficial nematodes will attack the emerald ash borer. Off the top of my head it is Hb and Sf maybe.

bsoutherland · July 18, 2025, 9:38am

Thanks Sean. Makes sense. The under bark was covered with paths.

tcholton717 · July 18, 2025, 10:57am

Thought for the day.

An atheist was seated next to a dusty old cowboy on an airplane and he turned to him and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”
The old cowboy, who had just started to read his book, replied to the total stranger, “What would you want to talk about?”
“Oh, I don’t know,” said the atheist. “How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?” as he smiled smugly.
“Okay,” he said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”
The atheist, visibly surprised by the old cowboy’s intelligence, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”
To which the cowboy replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don’t know shit?”

Woodrunner · July 18, 2025, 6:02pm

Some summer work.

Found this nice 1923 radio on a thrift store.
Says: follow Marconi’s patent.
As it’s only for bands not available anymore, i put in a cheap Bluetooth module, and a modern loudspeaker as the old one turned to dust.
Works like a charm

Last day at work before vacation, i couldn’t help pickin some pine cones for the Volvo to eat, im cheap, aren’t i?

Repairing my severely rotted wheelbarrow.
Weather proofed with premium gasifier tar.

When i was on it, i weather-proofed the connecting rod on my old sickle bar mower.