Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Afternoon all. Busy day chasing lines on paper.

Much like your boss the one here decided to let his wife go get some plants last night. Guess what I get to do when I get home? Any tips on digging holes?

[GH85Carrera]

Use a "Sharp Shooter" shovel for digging a hole for most plants.



A good handle and some foot action and you are ready to plant.

The humidity is 80% today, and the possibilities of thunderstorms forming out in the Texas panhandle and coming our way is high. I got the electrical connection ready to go in the shelter, and the TV antenna for the little battery operated, portable over the air TV, so we can keep watch of the weather in the shelter.

Hopefully just a waste of time, but I prefer to be ready now and not rushing around if it is bearing down on us.

[Porsche-poor]

always a good plan.

[GH85Carrera]

That type of shovel, a sharp shooter is about all I use for my slave gardening work. It digs a nice small hole or it makes digging up an old dead plant easy. The typical spade shovel is great for moving dirt, but it makes too big of a hole for planting most things.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Glen hope all went well and no there was no need to use the shelter.

[GH85Carrera]

It all went south and east of us. Everything was ready, but unneeded. We did get a whopping 0.08 inches of rain! No lumps, no spinning winds.

There were several little F0 and F1 tornadoes south of us, all tracked block by block by the storm chasers. When we saw it was past us, we tried to watch a recorded show from the DVR. About every 10 minutes the cable TV provider has a magic signal to cut into the DVR, and run a Tornado warning across the screen. It is rather annoying to have the big banner crawling across the top of the screen as the local TV station is showing all the data, and precisely where the storms are going, and we see two minutes of a large banner about a tornado warning two counties away, in English and Spanish.

Our cell phones can show us the RADAR image and just where the storms are going, so they don't sneak up on us.

If is far better to be over prepared, and not surprised and in an aw crap moment of panic.

[Porsche-poor]

good to hear all are safe.

[GH85Carrera]

One thing it did do is make me charge up my old battery pack that has a large flash light and connection for charging cell phones. Well I tried to charge it up, after 24 hours it was only 6 volts not 12. The battery is from 04/26/2015 and mostly it sits not doing anything. It is DOA, so a new $22 battery is on the way.

We used it a lot back when we first started business. It was capable of running the camera system during a 7 hour flight flying along highways and utility easements. I have had to replace the batter several times over the years. It was originally for a Sears battery operated hedge trimmer. My back yard at my bachelor pad had hedges at the back of the property. I did the math on a hedge trimmer and enough extension cords to get back there, and the battery operated was a better choice. So I have had the battery pack since the early 1980s.

The master gardener once planted two bushes here that needed trimming, but those did not bloom, so out they came and were replaced with pretty flowers. I was happy with that decision, I hate trimming hedges.

[flipper35]

I like to trim them about ground level one time.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea one of the bushes we used to have to trim twice per year was slated for removal. I cut it down to ground level with a chain saw, and had all that cleaned up. Then I went with shovel to get the roots out. It was just a solid mass of roots. I went to the storage shed, and got my cutter Mattock like this one.



It only sank in a few inches with all the roots in place. I said screw that, and told the master gardener to call Joaquin to do that. He showed up with several friends and they beat on it and got it dug out. I know my limits, and that was over my limit. I don't know what she paid him, but it was worth it.

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by flipper35

I like to trim them about ground level one time.

That reminds me of the time when I was a kid dad got tired of chard from the garden by fall. He went out one Saturday and tilled the whole plot under. "Oh I thought you were done with the garden............."

[flipper35]

Well, you are now!

[GH85Carrera]

I went to the Motors in the morning show at the Porsche Dealership. Always an interesting time.

As I was leaving their shipment of new Porsches arrived and they began the unload process. The first off the truck was a fresh from the factory, 911 GT2RS, already sold. They had several high end 911s and they were all sold already.

They just can't keep any inventory as it is sold almost immediately, or ordered by the client. The have several used Macans and Cayennes in stock and almost everything else is sold.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Well we have had summer light this weekend. High 80's and no rain. Yesterday it was 84 by 9am and topped out at 87. On top of that we had 18mph warm winds. Today is to supposed to be hotter.

[GH85Carrera]

We have been getting lots of rain this week. Yea!

The bad news is I will have to bail the hay soon, it has been raining some almost every day, and the yard is squishy. It looks like tomorrow and Wednesday will be dry. Tuesday is work on the MIL's garden. Hopefully, Wednesday afternoon, after two days of sun the yard will be dry enough to mow.

[Porsche-poor]

I might have the 911 back on the road tomorrow. We shall see how the evening goes.

[GH85Carrera]

Get your poor 911 back on the road! It wants to go!

Dang surveyors. We finally got the official GO for a project we flew on Friday. I went ahead and processed the preliminary run through, just to see how it looks. The surveyors had the targets down, but did not send us the data until today. No doubt they have to post process the data before we get the little text file. They decided to pick OKN83 (2011) NAVD88 (GEOID18) to use as the coordinate system. OK, so now I get to reprocess everything, but I expected that. Our program picks OKN83 FT and a totally different GEOID. Oh well, just a bit of extra time and electricity used.

[flipper35]

You probably dont need that room heated in the winter!

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, when the CPU is at 100% use and both video cards are working hard, it will warm up the room rather quickly. Each video card had two fans. When they get cranking it is noisy. Most of the time they are at 100 degrees under light to medium loads. It is rare to see them get hot. There are two knobs that I can control the fan speed manually on the two 10 inch fans to move some air.

[Porsche-poor]

Most of what we do really is not taxing the computer. We used to do SETI around the office. The program would use your CPU to work thru data when you were not using it. Boy would it take off when you were not using it for work. One thought the desktop would take off under those fan speeds.