how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[Workshop]

2” of rain this morning!

Didn't get a fool thing here today.

 

[Hinerman]

Sam’s team went to a “camp” this weekend. Went 10-2 and won the championship game. Only 8th grade team there playing JV high school teams. Last game was close. Other team came back within 4 with 3ish minutes left. Sam came in and hit two 3 pointers and a lay up to drive the dagger. Pretty cool for me to see.

 

[Semotony]

We got very lucky today.

We been getting the *s-word end of the stick for a month.

Last Wednesday when everybody else got a down pour, we got wind and .1” of rain.

Flash flood warning last Thursday that includes ten miles west missed by ten miles to the East for western edge! Today the radar past showed heavy rain but all I saw was medium clouds. The only peeps on the news who need an educational degree are affectionately referred to as guessers or worse.

 

[67L36Driver]

Morning midlanders!

A bit hotter today but not stupid hot like Sunday.

Mo. river bumping the low lying ground flood stage. Several private levy districts (Halls for one) are very nervous.

Thanks COE!

“How High is the water Momma?”

“22 feet and rising”

 

[Semotony]

Morning midlanders!

A bit hotter today but not stupid hot like Sunday.

Mo. river bumping the low lying ground flood stage. Several private levy districts (Halls for one) are very nervous.

Thanks COE!

“How High is the water Momma?”

“22 feet and rising”

I was welcomed back from the Navy with views of the Meramec river flooding with the occasional river house floating down to the Mississippi. 1973 & sandbagged twenty years later when the circular air pattern had evaporation down stream from St. Louis rotating up west of Chicago hit cold air and fall back down to add to the snow melt. That went on too many weeks Inna row. Glad I've not needed to participate in that play since then.
Today- 71° 92% humidity. A temperature we'd love to see as a high in January, but a portend of an uncomfortable afternoon
Enjoy as much as you can

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[Dustin]

Morning all.
Got my zero turn yesterday I traded a saw for .got parts ordered and be mowing with it by end of week.

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[67L36Driver]

I was welcomed back from the Navy with views of the Meramec river flooding with the occasional river house floating down to the Mississippi. 1973 & sandbagged twenty years later when the circular air pattern had evaporation down stream from St. Louis rotating up west of Chicago hit cold air and fall back down to add to the snow melt. That went on too many weeks Inna row. Glad I've not needed to participate in that play since then.
Today- 71° 92% humidity. A temperature we'd love to see as a high in January, but a portend of an uncomfortable afternoon
Enjoy as much as you can

I was raised in south St. Louis county. Back then all the cabins along the Meramac were on stilts usually. But, into the sixtys houses and trailer parks were built close to the river in the flood plain. Came the constant deluge over Missouri the flooding got intense. Even the River Des Pares (concrete drainage actually) backed into the south side/Lemay.

Them folks were wishing they had built on stilts.[emoji849]

On the other hand, the Mississippi has been so low that the cobble stones on the St. Louis riverfront that people were carting off the 8 x 8 x 16 blocks for home landscaping. [emoji37]

 

[Semotony]

I was raised in south St. Louis county. Back then all the cabins along the Meramac were on stilts usually. But, into the sixtys houses and trailer parks were built close to the river in the flood plain. Came the constant deluge over Missouri the flooding got intense. Even the River Des Pares (concrete drainage actually) backed into the south side/Lemay.

Them folks were wishing they had built on stilts.[emoji849]

On the other hand, the Mississippi has been so low that the cobble stones on the St. Louis riverfront that people were carting off the 8 x 8 x 16 blocks for home landscaping. [emoji37]

I was sandbagging at 55 & river Des peres before it flooded higher. Mooved closer to Gravois at a small park. Sign in front of a house by Steak'n Shake stated " basement fishing" lol. That was other side of the drainage ditch Des Peres. Much better hereeven when
Good day

 

[Dustin]

Went out on property and picked blackberries for 1 hour .way more to pick that are ready and bunches not ready.

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[67L36Driver]

Picked blackberries as a kid. Skeeters, ticks and long sleeve shirt ‘cause of the thorns. Hot as hell to boot.

But, damn, Mom’s jam tasted good!

 

[cobey]

Saturday my washer quit, my a/c
Died at 2am Sunday and my beard trimmer died Sunday morning.
A lady at church gave me a washer,
Another buddy gave me an ac unit
The lord provides, I had both going
By 9 PM with darons help

 

[moparnut88]

Went out on property and picked blackberries for 1 hour .way more to pick that are ready and bunches not ready.

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I went and picked mulberrys a few weeks ago! Good stuff!

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[67L36Driver]

My dad’s story:
Him and his cousin came into a huge batch of elderberries. Barreled them up and fermented wine. Traveled around the barn dances in SW Illinois selling it.

This was post prohibition so, no worries with the Feds.

Came back one day and found the uncle passed out in the barn with a hose in one of the barrels.


Prompted them to move the goods into Chester to dad’s home.

 

[Dub11]

Saturday my washer quit, my a/c
Died at 2am Sunday and my beard trimmer died Sunday morning.
A lady at church gave me a washer,
Another buddy gave me an ac unit
The lord provides, I had both going
By 9 PM with darons help

Good deal Cobey!

 

[Semotony]

My dad’s story:
Him and his cousin came into a huge batch of elderberries. Barreled them up and fermented wine. Traveled around the barn dances in SW Illinois selling it.

This was post prohibition so, no worries with the Feds.

Came back one day and found the uncle passed out in the barn with a hose in one of the barrels.


Prompted them to move the goods into Chester to dad’s home.

Uncle Norman fermented barrels of HARD cider. Bout 57 years ago ATF charged him. I may have been ten, so no details. He died of cirhosis in his 34th year. He was a few miles east of Dahlgren, which is south of Mount Vernon Ill.

 

[sawnami]

Picked blackberries as a kid. Skeeters, ticks and long sleeve shirt ‘cause of the thorns. Hot as hell to boot.

But, damn, Mom’s jam tasted good!

Same thing for me. Add wasps to that also.
I got my worst case of poison ivy when my daughter and I were cruising the country roads fishing in ponds in the Deepwater Conservation Area. I looked on the roadside and saw a giant patch of blackberries so went picking in my T-shirt and managed to get into some poison ivy which the blackberries did a good job "scratching it into" my skin. I was a mess for a while.

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[rsting]

Another hot one, but had a nice break from it yesterday.
Since its hotter than heck and middle of summer, a firewood question. Have any of you burned sweet gum? An old man here in town has a big pile of wood from a tree he had taken out and said I can have any or all of it. Before I went back and looked at it, I asked him what kind of tree it was. He said it was an elm. Yeah, I know. When I went back there though, the limbs were for sure sweet gum. The big blocks I'm not totally sure. Didn't really look like elm, but I guess it could be.
I'm going to have to break out one of the big gear drives to rip up those blocks though. Thing was massive!

 

[Semotony]

Another hot one, but had a nice break from it yesterday.
Since its hotter than heck and middle of summer, a firewood question. Have any of you burned sweet gum? An old man here in town has a big pile of wood from a tree he had taken out and said I can have any or all of it. Before I went back and looked at it, I asked him what kind of tree it was. He said it was an elm. Yeah, I know. When I went back there though, the limbs were for sure sweet gum. The big blocks I'm not totally sure. Didn't really look like elm, but I guess it could be.
I'm going to have to break out one of the big gear drives to rip up those blocks though. Thing was massive!

If I had a bar & chain I wood like to try what the USPS left for me. 63650 zip may not be that far. But this humidity has me sweating like a hoe placing a check in the donation basket at Sunday service LOL

 

[rsting]

If I had a bar & chainView attachment 131014 I wood like to try what the USPS left for me. 63650 zip may not be that far. But this humidity has me sweating like a hoe placing a check in the donation basket at Sunday service LOL

Nice Saw! I lost out on the mcculloch version a couple of weeks ago. Guy over in Kansas had one for sale way too cheap, but somebody saw it before I did. Years ago, I ran a p85, and that thing was awesome. I can only imagine how that ones going to cut.