so waht ya doin today?

John, I think we'll give them (All Creatures) another try. Just won't see the same vet.

As usual, working on 2 or 3 projects at once. Assembling shelf units for shop and garage. Running stainless aircraft cable to hang LED light string over back deck stairs and Tasha's potty area.

Did some limbing yesterday with the polesaw and felled a couple of small trees.

Cool, RJ got a pole saw? What did ya get?

It's a rechargeable Oregon. Have had it for 5 or 6 years.

Very handy they are. I figure my pole saw was free. Free is good. A few years ago I had a bunch of low branches I needed/wanted trimmed, called a tree guy for estimate cause I wasn't about to stand on a ladder with a chain saw. Wasn't a lot of work, 1/2 hour maybe so I was surprised when he said he wanted $300 to cut the branches. I went to the Stihl dealer and gave them the $300 for a pole saw. All of those branches and many more since have been cut and I of course still have the saw.

I do love to hear of wise investments. Especially when it's an investment in tools.
The rechargeable Oregon polesaw has trimmed a batch of branches on a large willow tree back in Commiefornia and taken well over a dozen good sized (up to 5 or 6 inch) branches off oaks and locust trees here.
Think I paid about $240 for it back in early 2016. They're above $300 now.

Got-er-done! Got the exhaust system on the Burb from the cat back. I'll try to include a pic so those of you unfamiliar with "The Rust Belt Blues" can see what happens to your investments up here. Also got the hose shortened and back into the crawler. It went amazingly well and my hydraulic oil bath wasn't as bad as some in the past. Also got the model for the kicker off the back wall of the shed cut out, the tools all taken care of in anticipation of 4 days of heavy rain and did a mess of other little jobs.

I'm getting there, I just don't know where I'm going...

One of my best tool investments was my Stihl Kombi-Tool. It is a 4 stroke power head without a crank case so you use a gas oil mix, which also gives me synthetic oil residue to use on my bullet moulds and other things.

The Kombi-Tool's best attachment is a rubber "paddle wheel" I use for cleaning the gravel out of the lawn after a Winter of plowing snow. What used to take my wife and I part of 4 days with leaf rakes I can now do, and do a better job in 3 hours. I have several friends who borrow it when I'm done with it.

I also bought the pole saw and a couple of extensions, a string trimmer head, and a rotary saw. Very handy tool and rock solid dependable.

This happened again...

CW, you're in more need of some range time than anyone on this board!

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CW, you're in more need of some range time than anyone on this board!

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That's the end result of boredom from those long winter months...........been there, done that. Did something about that.

My wife said I've become too cranky,* of late, and need to take the day off from post-Operation Fence Replacement chores. Okay, I'll run a quick errand, walk the dog, then spend the rest of the day in the John Wayne Memorial Bullet Casting, Reloading and Gunsmithing Shop.

Found out the local dump will be re-taking pressure treated lumber starting 1 May. That means I save an extra 40-miles by not having to drive to the not-local dump that never stopped taking it

*My wife knows only too well that the sole cause of my recent crankiness is driven by the insane and onerous laws foisted on us by the empty-headed and whacko special interest groups that run the state, and the laws' unintended consequences. My patience level for it all is less than zero. I don't torture my wife purposely, it just happens.

Can always get out of Dodge.

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Certainly, but no place is perfect so it becomes a matter of how much one is willing to compromise to live where one is most comfortable. At one time we thought Western Montana was the ideal place and bought property there, but came to realize that it wasn't what we wanted it to be. Northern Arizona, Utah and Idaho have much we like, at least in passing through on our way to other places, but Winter in all of them means cold and snow. So, for the time being, to live in our native area amid its natural beauty, no snow, very rarely a high temperature, quite comfortable year-round weather, our compromise is to put up with the silliness as best we can.

Don't know what the jiggling fat man represents.

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our compromise is to put up with the silliness as best we can.

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Looking at the big picture CA is far far worse than silliness. Having escaped CA I can say in all honesty that living in America again is wonderful.

And some of us just love the ^%$#ing battle, too.

On the bright side, the insanity emanating from California makes NY, Mass, NJ, etc look positively conservative and free! Of course this is kind of like saying your daughters new boyfriend seems nice...compared to Ted Bundy!

Soaking wet here. I cleaned the shop/garage and made a storage thingy for the cordless, pistol shaped tools. That 1/2" impact hurts when it falls off the shelf and lands on your foot! Probably doesn't do much for the tool either. Discovered my Drill Dr 750 was missing. Seems Gord decided to take it to welding class to show his instructor without asking. So I took Gords favorite play toy, his motor sickle. Seems fair to me, and at least I told him what I was doing, which is all he would have had to do to get my permission to take the Drill Dr to class! Also fixed a storage bin thing you can sit on, forget the proper name, but it's a bench with a back and storage under the seat. Ugly thing that was gifted to us, perfect for the mud room. Located my wifes cat that escaped while she was off on her goat buying excursion. Now we have to trap the stupid thing. Scared to death of people she tells me, lives in her room and ventures no further. Not much of a pet IMO, but I don't care for cats anyway. She's under the foundation. The Havaheart is set and my wife is just happy she's not coyote food.

If it keeps raining like this I may start on an Ark.

You become inured to the madness over time. Most of it is bloviating by politicians and repetition the by press corps, and never truly trickles down to the real world where most people actually live, work, and play. SFO and LAX are bizarre caricatures of life in Kalifornistan that get far more press coverage than common sense and decency could ever justify.

Did allot a nuttin...

Crap weather means ban knee. Wanted to GC/size some of the cast from yesterday but stairs aint my friend...

You know, if they'd just cut your leg off above the knee and fitted a prosthetic you'd be jogging around the neighborhood every morning by now.