We have plenty of squirrels in the area. Several oak trees with lots of acorns, and we find pecans planted by squirrels in the yard and gardens. I don't even know where the nearest pecan tree is.

We have a lot of crows that must patrol the local fast food places and we find pieces of bread that they "stash" in the birdbath making a gross mess.

We have the possibility of thunderstorms tonight and possible hail. The master gardener is waiting for that hail possibility to pass before she starts putting flower is the ground. Our kitchen table and back porch are loaded with plants to be planted.

No planting here. The wife did a few bulbs but we are not going to spend the money on plants this year.

Oh man, you haven't lived until you work in an 1880's house in AL and pull down a wall cornice of plaster only to be covered in stashed pecans, shells, fine dust and siht.

My brother was a trim carpenter and framing carpenter for many years, and still lives in Alabama. He worked on some Antebellum houses that were framed of mahogany. Totally termite proof.

He was working in one attic on essentially the third floor and that 150 year old mahogany was so hard normal saw blades just did not work. It was like cutting concrete, so they had to use concrete saws. One new owner wanted an elevator installed in the master bedroom to get downstairs. And to install central air conditioning and heating.

I can believe the elevator and HVAC but concrete saws on wood? That likely would start a fire in an old house.

But I do know hard. We had some RR ties that were used in landscaping and they would not cut. They would ruin a chain on a CS right now. Sawzall blades got cooked. Circular saws the same. What worked to the dismay of us was a nasty old hand saw with about 4 teeth per inch.

Maybe they were mahogany, IDK.

They turned an old mansion into a nice modern home that looked like something from Gone With the Wind. That 150 year old attic heated wood was really hard to cut. He has a small fist size hunk of it, and it is impossible to dent it with a fingernail. It is really dense.

Morning all. The rain has returned overnight. I get to go cut a few more libs out of the tree in the front yard in the rain.

Our storms totally missed us. Not a drop of rain for us.

It will likely rain on Saturday and ruin out club breakfast and drive.

Having fun with huge files.

One of customers had us fly a new area, and they wanted high resolution of course. No problem for us. Now they can't open the JPG2000 format so they want a TIF file. It is 6.1 GB! I bet their computers choke on that. The real issue is they are trying to open those huge files in non mapping programs. They really need to buy a mapping program, but that is not my problem to solve.

Wow, the other part of their project made a 9 GB tif file. That will choke them for sure. We have larger files on our FTP site, but they are even more complex and all for clients that understand the importance of a real mapping program.

Clients always right.........even when wrong. Morning by the way.

Yea, we just provide what they asked for. The final files we provide are Geo-referenced. Meaning any other geo-referenced image will plop right on top, or under on a separate layer. It makes it really easy to stack multiple years of images and then turn on or off a layer and see the changes in roads or buildings.

Photoshop will open the giant tif files, but will not save it as a tif. They can save as a large format Photoshop file, but all geo-referencing is lost. Not our problem.

I had to turn on the AC today. It was in the upper 80s outside and the house is well insulated, but there are limits. I will be flipping it back to heat on Friday and it will be back to the 40s for the lows.

Morning. Its the yoyo season.

Yet another sunny day here.

Yea, the temp here is dropping. I almost turned back on the AC, but it is getting cooler and down to the 50s tonight.

Morning all. We hit the low 30's last night. Not quite freezing but close.

We are supposed too have rain all day tomorrow. We have a club breakfast and drive planned. They picked some bakery place with some really weird "breakfast" sorta like choices. Non of them sound good. So I will skip that breakfast.

Can't believe I have been here some 23 years and not once commented here! Nice and cool out, maybe 65FSmileWavy

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