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Originally Posted by oldE

Yesterday AM, Environment Canada (our National weather service) forecast three days of hot sunny weather. We make hay for our four equines, so I dropped the small field in front of the house. I figured it would give us about 70 bales. Not a lot, but a start on the 600 required to get them through the winter. This morning, tomorrow changed to showers with the possibility of thundershowers in the late morning. My wife is the hay judge so she suggested we turn it this morning, then again at noon to see if we could get it in after supper. By three o'clock, she was watching the clouds building in the west and suggested we try to get it before supper. I raked up the hay at 3:30, we hooked up the baler at 4 and started in. By 4:45 the first drops fell. We had it (79 bales of decent hay) in the barn by 5:15. Not bad for a couple of old folks.
Ever since Environment Canada got rid of their local forecasters and started doing a computer modeled regional forecast, their ability to accurately predict our local weather has gone right down the toilet. Right now we have thundershowers.
Ah the fun of hobby farming.

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Les

Nice! There's about 15 acres next to the house that the previous owners kept. They let a lady that lives nearby "harvest" the hay. They own the land and have an agricultural tax rating so the taxes are practically free. They don't even have to deal with the hay since the lady can have it for free if she does the work. It's a pretty good deal for them. The last 2 summers she's gotten a pretty sad return because of our extra dry weather. I think she's been harvesting trying to balance the amount of hay that she gets with the fire risk.

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Remember the girl from Jurassic Park? Ariana Richards? She's a painter now and some of her renderings are really good.

https://galleryariana.com/gallery/

I always find it interesting when someone goes from Hollywood to something else. In this case, she's still working in the arts. Hopefully, she's well adjusted, and Hollywood didn't cause any issues

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

Angie & David Bowie, 1971

Very cool!

Originally Posted by flatbutt

What you do for your kid you also do for the world

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peyton-manning-jeff-johnny-agar-father-son-cerebral-palsy-ironman-world-championship/

https://johnnyagar.com/

I always love to see this sort of thing.

Originally Posted by rockfan4

My wife's birthday is Sunday.

She has a tooth implant, went to the dentist a while ago, he futzed with it, and the stud broke a day or two later when she was eating potato chips. They still haven't dug out the broken piece of the stud from the implant, that's what they're trying Tuesday. Hopefully more than trying to cut a slot in the top with a dremel and taking a screw driver to it, that sounds like something I would do. Supposedly they have a extractor tool to try, and if that doesn't work, they have to cut her jaw, remove the implant, wait for it to heal, and then do the whole thing over again. That sounds like B.S. to me.

Happy Birthday to the missus!

That must have been a hell of a chip!

Holy carp! It's bad enough having a broken stud in a mechanical situation. I would NOT want to have to futz with one in someone's mouth.

I wonder if he made a trip to the nearest Snap-On truck. LOL!

Best wishes to the missus getting her mouth fixed. Hopefully, this is free. I can't imagine anything but a material defect or possibly (pretty unlikely) an installation issue having caused a broken stud.