Good Morning!

Goaway · Jul 21, 2021

WVNed said:
Louie is sad that you have all met such inferior cats.

beautiful cats. But I know better! let them pet you. You don't pet them

Paul B · Jul 21, 2021

Check out the "moon" early this morning while I was looking for the sunrise. I only discovered it was the moon from the news where they said the moon appeared orange from a fire in Texas thousands of miles away.

Very cool.

MrsBugmaster · Jul 21, 2021

Paul B said:
Check out the "moon" early this morning while I was looking for the sunrise. I only discovered it was the moon from the news where they said the moon appeared orange from a fire in Texas thousands of miles away.

Very cool.

I saw that on the news last night. Although they said smoke from west coast fires. Gonna have some hazy days because of the fires too. It does make the moon look cool though.

MrsBugmaster · Jul 21, 2021

Good morning. Gotta go grocery shopping this morning. One of my least favorite things to do.

Peace River · Jul 21, 2021

Good morning everyone!

FWIW, my cats are awesome! Just ask them.

vetteguy53081 · Jul 21, 2021

My sister didn’t do as well on her driver’s-ed test as she’d hoped. It might have had something to do with how she completed this sentence on the written exam: “When the ______ is dead, the car won’t start.” She wrote: “Driver.”

Mike from TN · Jul 21, 2021

Morning/Afternoon everyone.
Spent part of the morning thinning out the HUGE mimosa tree in the back yard. They grow like weeds and I have to trim it with the pole say about once a month or else it blocks the satellite dishes. Now that the flowers are dropping, it just makes such a mess on the deck and fills our rain gutters.
TOMORROW , it’s coming down. It will grow back, which is nice but it will be a few years till I have to take it down again.
Its growing over the house and deck so it needs to be guided down away from the house. I had to climb about 25’ up it to get pull ropes on it. My buddy is coming by tomorrow morning so he can pull with the ATV while I cut.
If Angela was home and saw my sorry old butt climbing that tree, I’d be on a permanent “time out”!
Hard to tell from the pictures but the ropes are about 30’ up in the tree.

vetteguy53081 · Jul 21, 2021

Mike from TN said:
Morning/Afternoon everyone.
Spent part of the morning thinning out the HUGE mimosa tree in the back yard. They grow like weeds and I have to trim it with the pole say about once a month or else it blocks the satellite dishes. Now that the flowers are dropping, it just makes such a mess on the deck and fills our rain gutters.
TOMORROW , it’s coming down. It will grow back, which is nice but it will be a few years till I have to take it down again.
Its growing over the house and deck so it needs to be guided down away from the house. I had to climb about 25’ up it to get pull ropes on it. My buddy is coming by tomorrow morning so he can pull with the ATV while I cut.
If Angela was home and saw my sorry old butt climbing that tree, I’d be on a permanent “time out”!
Hard to tell from the pictures but the ropes are about 30’ up in the tree.

beautiful tree

vetteguy53081 · Jul 21, 2021

fishguy242 · Jul 21, 2021

good morning all...:) nope i got nuthin...:D
have a great, SAFE MIKE!!!. Day all...:)

Mike from TN · Jul 21, 2021

vetteguy53081 said:
beautiful tree

I agree. They are very pretty and attract a ton of butterflies. They are just so messy and invasive. I’m constantly pulling little seedlings before they send down a tap root. Once that happens, you can’t kill them. Believe it or not, this tree was cut to the ground when we bought the place 5 years ago. It’ll come back just fine. We have others out front for the butterflies to feed on that don’t hang over the house.

Mike from TN · Jul 21, 2021

vetteguy53081 said:

Poor bike!

CMMorgan · Jul 21, 2021

Must be tree cutting day. They just showed up and cleared the wooded lot next to my house. I'm crushed. There were scrub jay nests in there. (They look like Blue Jays to us Yankees and they are protected in Florida.) It used to mean that you could not disturb a protected area. Now they pay the county $2500 to "relocate" the birds. I always wondered who sends out the change of address cards to the birds? I'm pretty sure they can't read.
There is this enormous birch tree that we have loved seeing out our daughters old bedroom window. It's just stunning. Fingers crossed that they do not take it down.
We figured this was coming - some people call it progress. We started putting out food for the critters a few months ago. They may be scrambling for shelter tonight but at least they will know where to find a meal.

CMMorgan · Jul 21, 2021

CMMorgan said:
Must be tree cutting day. They just showed up and cleared the wooded lot next to my house. I'm crushed. There were scrub jay nests in there. (They look like Blue Jays to us Yankees and they are protected in Florida.) It used to mean that you could not disturb a protected area. Now they pay the county $2500 to "relocate" the birds. I always wondered who sends out the change of address cards to the birds? I'm pretty sure they can't read.
There is this enormous birch tree that we have loved seeing out our daughters old bedroom window. It's just stunning. Fingers crossed that they do not take it down.
We figured this was coming - some people call it progress. We started putting out food for the critters a few months ago. They may be scrambling for shelter tonight but at least they will know where to find a meal.

And there goes the birch tree..... two of us could have held hands and not been able to hug that tree. I'm just heartbroken. It was a few feet over my line, no reason to take it down.

sp1187 · Jul 22, 2021

WVNed said:
Louie is sad that you have all met such inferior cats.

my issue is with inferior cat owners that let their cats roam and then the cats get the idea it's ok to set up on my bird feeders. bad idea.

sp1187 · Jul 22, 2021

Good Morning Reefies.
great yesterday.
road trip.
got to meet in person a R2R friend.
picked these up.
it's chili time! :cool:
have great day.

WVNed · Jul 22, 2021

Good morning

Have a great day. Stay whatever you want to be.
I think I will stay taller and thinner today.

Mike from TN · Jul 22, 2021

Morning Friends!
well, today is tree day. I hope my buddy Brian gets here early enough to get this done before the sweltering heat and humidity. Air quality is going to be poor again today. Not even a breeze blowing and with the sun coming up, the sky is a yellowish brown. Scratchy throat and burning eyes from yesterday.
So, this is kind of funny. I went out to soak in the spa yesterday. It was not used in a few days so it went into sleep mode. When I turned on the pumps, it foamed up so bad it looked like some kind of I Love Lucy thing. The foam was about a foot tall on top of the water. Water quality was good according to my test strips. I wound up draining and refilling it. It’s been a few months so I guess it was time. Not sure what caused the foam but I laughed pretty hard.
Have a great day Everyone!