Wednesday Morning

Morning Gents! Its 58º here and cloudy with rain and T'storms this afternoon and tonight. And windy.

Day 8 of the kitchen remodel. Yesterday they installed most of the bottom cabinets. It looks like they did the hard side first, cutting out for the water lines and drains and such. I had to move 1 receptacle just a little. They should be back today to install the rest of the bottom cabinets and hopefully the top ones. It seems to be going pretty good. Mama and I are still married although we are already tired of cooking on a hot plate and a microwave in the garage!

I've got a buddy coming over this morning to cast. We set up on a steel table in the shop, open the doors and cast while we visit and BS. I have enough circuits on the work bench to handle 3 melting pots, a hot plate, a radio and a fan if one is necessary.

You'all have a good one.

Good morning everyone....little rain here and supposed to get to about 64° here today. I'll take it that's for sure. I have to put a welder in my old dodge truck today since my chevy took a dump on me and wont start. I need to go weld a steering stop back on one of those big 3 wheel field sprayers. Then back to welding spools and hopefully a little more work on the truck.

I was hoping to get the bed back off nd ready to paint this weekend but we have to wait until Saturday morning to drive to Wilmore to pick up my daughter for spring break. Maybe get it pulled off on Sunday and prepped and painted one day this week. Think I'm just going to use the implement paint from TSC as it is usually pretty tough...I imagine it will get beat off the bed eventually as it will get worked on.

The guy I rework the stone buckets for text me and said he has a lot more work for me when I get this one finished up.

Well off to try to get something more done this morning...hope everyone has good day!

Happy HUMP day folks. It's mid 30's here and going to 50's later. Going to be a very nice day. Too bad I have to work, huh? Oh well...need to pay to play and need to work to be able to pay. Didn't do much last night other than mess with that muzzleloader barrel. Haven't been able to take advantage of the longer daylight hours due to work. Hopefully that will change soon. I need to get on the firewood program. Have some stacked from last year that need split and put in the shed and a bunch of blowdowns to take care of from the past year. Haven't had to cut down any standing trees in awhile.

Eye Dr. appointment today in Harrisburg. Have to leave work early. It's my 1 year/final checkup after my laser surgery last year. Everything is great distance wise, just find I need readers more and more each day. The price of getting old.

Have a good one!

Charlie

Good Wednsday Morning from Missouri

It is 53* and partly cloudy here in the northern Ozarks, headed toward a high in the low 60's today. Rained all day yesterday, don't have a guage out yet but I would guesstimate about 2 inches. We are so wet here that the lawn is standing water.

Yesterday was my 74th birthday and I received an awesome present. My third great grand child was born yesterday about noon. Got the call in the morning that my granddaughter was in labor. Hurried around and got to the hospital in time to wait on the beautiful little girl. That is the second one from the granddaughter who has the little boy with the cleft palette, which by the way is doing great. Still has a lot of surgeries yet to go through but just to look at him you can hardly tell that he has a cleft. Little girl is perfect, with no problems at all. Younger granddaughter presented me with a baby girl in mid-January, so I am well blessed with little ones. The latest one will be my legacy. Every time she has a birthday they can't help but think of me even after I am gone.

All you all have a great day and God Bless.

Soggy great morning folks,

49°, windy, cloudy & damp out in the formerly dusty desert near F!orence AZ.

Mike took us for an all day truck ride yesterday. We went through Superior, Globe and out to the Roosevelt Dam. The road from the dam to Tortilla Flats is amazing. Awesome is an inadequate word to describe the views. My phone is getting old & the pictures are not very good anymore. Take a look any way.

Span bridge as seen from The Roosevelt Dam



The road is on th side of that cliff.



The little yellow dot is a road sign.



On the way into Apache Junction with Superstition Mountain draped in clouds.





With the wind the area should start to dry out a bit today. Maybe we can get an off road ride or hike in late today.