Morning Guru's......I hope this day finds you all well......hoping for some rain today.....there is always hope.......

Up early to let the dogs out.......that reminds me of a song.......the last big Tuesday of the year......so getting ready to head out and tell guys they are done or not done irrigating......

speaking of 23 and me.....I did my DNA test and it came back like I thought.....English and Irish mostly.....only 2% neanderthal which was a surprise to my wife who thought there would be a lot more of that in me....

Have a scintillating day Guru's........I don't even know what that means....hope it's good.....

Hidey-ho! Nice and sunny again today, and it should hold up through golf tonight.

I wouldn't eat these. At least without bacon:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mo ... h-he-ate-them-on-purpose/

Have a great day, Gurus!

Wow we had about 30 seconds of rain. The fires and drought continues.

CLOUDY AND STICKY IN THE NATIONS, SUMMER IS SNEAKING BACK IN. THE CHEROKEES ARE RESIGNED TO MORE AUGUST.

TEE THAT TARUS LOOKS LIKE A GOOD BUY FOR A KEEPER.

ADJUSTER DUE THIS EVENING TO LOOK AT THE TOMATO. CONTRACT EMPLOYEE, HE DOES NOT WORK FOR USAA. I'M A LITTLE SKEPTICAL GOING IN.

Morning guys...We had an exciting evening last night. About news time there was a "POP" then a crackling sound, she looks at me and says "What was that?" Me, "I don't know. Was it downstairs or outside?" As she sits near the window, I thought she could determine location better than I. Then about 10 minutes later, one of her lamps lights starts to flicker and the light fixture in the dining room (which has been off all evening, starts flashing....WTF is going on? I get up and check things out, but don't find anything weird. After a few minutes everything seems to be back to normal and we head for bed. WE get up to the bedroom and the lights up there are flickering a bit....WTF? We go to bed and to sleep. About 1:30 our little window AC unit is running now and it starts to flicker, the ipod on my clock/radio comes on and wakes us both up. I get up and turn the AC off and start to investigate what is going on. Nothing in the house seems out of whack, so I grab a flashlight and head outside to check the power pole. In the past we had a similar thing happen and it was the wind blowing the trees and it had partially disconnected the switch on the top of the pole. So, here I am outside, with my flashlight, at 1:45am looking at all the connections from my house to the pole, and all of the sudden there's a man about 15' from me coming down the alley. When he gets close enough, I see it is my next door neighbor saying, "Oh I thought maybe you were the city crew." "I asked, "Are you having electrical issues too?". He said, "Yea, there have been issues for the last couple days." (I hadn't noticed, but thinking back yea.) He said the transformer at the end of the alley was sparking and sending drops of fire to the ground. "I've already a call in to the city. I kicked the breakers on my house for fear of damaging something." Well "Thank you for letting me know it's not just my house." After about 15 minutes, the city crew shows up, turn off the electricity and, apparently, change out the transformer. I hope my central AC unit isn't damaged, been afraid to start it up this morning.

We slept the rest of the night with the windows open as it had dropped into the 60's by that time and is, just now, getting back up to the 70's. It's supposed to be hot today, into the middle 90's. but the humidity levels are down to more normal ranges now.

I've got work to do in the shop. While out golfing last night the guy brings the stain for the vanity and mirror frame, so I've got that to do.

Have a great day guys. Hopefully, our electrical issues are over and we don't have any repercussions.

Thanks Gris. It might not be a 'great' deal, but it helps my brother out, so he can get his new one. And the paper trail is non-existent as he acquired it from one of his buddies.

Sheesh, good luck, Tom!

exciting times Tee.....some of those transformers really blow up when they go......we had one a block away that blew right off the pole......don't know if you were having a brown out or not.......that is what usually gets the appliances........if not unplugged quickly....

Ya you did good on that 9mm.......anything costs lots of money these days....

We had that for about 4 years Tom. Something intermittent in a transformer, it would cut the power to only 3 houses here when the wind blew, everybody else had their lights on.
Took them way too long to figure it out.

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One clip of hollow points for home defense.

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Yea, considering that I bought my piece of shit Smith & Wesson Sigma for $300 new, Tom's id a very good deal.

Gee TB, I thought you might have to put that new paper puncher to work after hearing strange noises in the house.

Marcus, I've wondered how accurate those DNA profile tests actually are. Mine might be scary

Got a few errands out of the way and stopped over at mom's this morning. Ended up fixing a window when I got here so I guess it's good I dropped by unannounced.

Back home now, going to have some lunch and then another light workout.

Hope everyone has a great day!

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Yea, just think what it would be like if they showed you guys were related to Hillery.

Busy day as usual. I was covering for Sue at the nursery from 09:00 to 02:00. Get to so it all over again tomorrow from 07:45 to 12:00, then a delivery with two drop offs on Thursday. The business is smoking busy which means I get called in for reserve duty. The office gal left us a couple of weeks ago leaving a big gap in nursery coverage. We're operating on a couple of days a week at the nursery and pretty much by appointment. As the house tech guy I gets lots of docs to send out on customer's orders. We're so busy that I get called in a lot. Guess it will be like that over the next several years to we sell the inventory then the nursery. I'm trying to get Sue to retire in 3 years or so. She's 6 years younger than I am. I think I made a big mistake when I took out a survivor benefit for Sue with my pension. They keep a percentage of my monthly check and if I die Sue would get around 80% of my monthly benefit for the rest of her life. I'm finding out all these crazy rules with Social Security that if Sue died I could apply for her benefit but my retirement check would be offset to my detriment. Then if survivor benefit is more than her Social Security she would not collect any of her benefit from SS. Then there is all this rigamoro with medicare and private insurance when I hit 65. You sure learn a lot AFTER you retire. If I knew then what I know now I might have approached things differently. I have to seek the answers through questions online and sometimes I find I'm not to happy with the answers. Oh well. That's life ......

Good thing you and TB are retired, huh Tommy?

Being off this last month has felt like retirement, though...kind of nice

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FOR HOME DEFENSE A 12 GA PUMP W/ EXTENDED MAGAZINE, 20 INCH BBL, SEVEN ROUNDS OF #2'S BE MO' BETTA :-)

Ya I got an Ithaca 12 ga riot gun with the pistol grip and I want to put a regular type stock on it........what you recommend Gris....? I think it holds 5 rounds of 2 3/4 inch shells and I have 00 Zombie Max Z shot in it.......Just in case........

I don't have it yet, Matt. My brother will send it out with his son who lives an hour or so away from here, but make frequent trips here with his job.

I got the staining done and the first coat of lacquer sprayed. Can't spray anymore today, it's just too freaking hot. I tried spraying with the garage door up about 6 inches and the walk-in door cracked about a foot and a fan in the door pulling the overspray out. It did a good job of that, but it also sucked in a LOT of hot air....screw it, I'll spray again in the morning while it is still cool. Those mid 90's they were talking about, somehow, turned into low 100's. It is freaking HOT. Sure hope it cools down tomorrow like they said it was going to do.

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YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK; BY ALL MEANS GET RID OF THAT PISTOL GRIP STOCK. THEY ARE GREAT FOR FULL AUTO BUT SHOTGUNS ARE TO BE POINTED, NOT AIMED. SOME CENTURIES HAVE GONE INTO PRODUCING FIREARM CONFIGURATION THAT MATES WITH HUMAN ANATOMY FOR INSTINCTIVE POINTING AND GUNS THAT SHOOT WHERE YOU LOOK AND THAT IS THE TRADITIONAL SHOTGUN CONFIGURATION. GET A MAGAZINE EXTENSION THAT WILL GIVE YOU 7-8 ROUND CAPACITY. YOU DON'T HAVE CLOSE NEIGHBORS OR ANYONE IN THE HOUSE BUT YOU & U-WOMAN SO BUCKSHOT IS OK, AS OVER PENETRATION SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM. YOU DO WANT A SHORT BBL FOR CLOSE QUARTERS, I LIKE 20" BETTER THAN 18" FOR THE BALANCE.

CHECK MIDWAY ARMS OR ONE OF THE COMMERCIAL STOCK MAKERS FOR A NEW STOCK, YOU CAN REPLACE IT WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM. IF YOU WANT TO GO HIGH TECH GET ONE OF THOSE LASER THINGIES TO GO ON THE END OF THE MAG TUBE. GOOD PSYCH EFFECT, BUT NOT REALLY NECESSARY. ALL LIVING BURGLARS KNOW THE SOUND OF A PUMP GUN CYCLING AND KNOW WHAT IT MEANS: GET THE HELL OUT OF DODGE!

REMEMBER BILL MCDONALD, "SHOOT 'EM BETWEEN THE EYES, IT SPOILS THEIR AIM".