What did you do today? - 2023 version

[harley]

DD and DGKs went home today after the spring break/Easter visit. We (including the dog) took a nap.

[EastWest Gal]

DH and I went for a three mile hike at a raptor sanctuary about an hour from our home. The trail isn’t difficult but it is quite rocky so you have to watch every step. It was crystal clear and the temperature was perfect. We only saw turkey vultures, but there have been daily bald eagle sightings. Tomorrow I’ll be walking close to home, shopping, and resume spring cleaning.

[1242Vintage]

Late afternoon sitting beside the pool under warm cloudless blue skies and thinking about my day.

Went out on a good long gravel bike ride, trimmed a few trees in the orchard, met for an hour on a little fun consulting job I’m doing, and wrapped up my day at the gym.

Pretty darn good day!

[street]

Went early and worked on shallow well and got it working. What a relief because a few things I did were unorthodox way of doing it. The set up I did is not the normal way, but things work great!! Just have a few details on the pit decking and will be done.

It was a beautiful day 75-degree day with full sun. Be heading back there tomorrow morning to finish then will do the rest of the day hiking in the area.

River is going out really nice and tame so far. With temps all above freezing for the next days the ice should go out smoothly.

[Philliefan33]

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Originally Posted by EastWest Gal DH and I went for a three mile hike at a raptor sanctuary about an hour from our home. The trail isn’t difficult but it is quite rocky so you have to watch every step. It was crystal clear and the temperature was perfect. We only saw turkey vultures, but there have been daily bald eagle sightings. Tomorrow I’ll be walking close to home, shopping, and resume spring cleaning.

Typical for PA hiking. Every book I’ve read about the AT, the through hikers complain about the rocky trails in PA.

Yesterday I rode again at my new “home” gravel trails. I set a lot of segment PRs, but only because my first two rides here were very slow. I’m starting to get accustomed to the hills.

[Ronstar]

Cleared some brush and burned my burn piles. Put in 7.8 miles without leaving our lot. Trying to get brush cleared and burned before fire weather watch comes in Wednesday AM.

[ls99]

As usual went to favorite coffee shop. Saw a miracle, three women wearing dresses.

[retire48in2018]

We’re continuing to work on getting our home ready for sale.


Today - tried to paint rest of foyer/great room ceiling. It was mostly painted a couple years ago - but we had some work to do on steps/foyer and couldn’t do it all then…..

Other projects have been done and paint that we think we set aside does not match well. Tried 3 other computer made matches to shade with different bases - but they don’t either….

We’ll try to feather out the difference - and see how it does.


Attempt #5 ….

[Music Lover]

Day 1 of 2 consecutive warm days (then cold and rain) so I started cleaning the garage.

Instead of sorting and neatly putting away things that I probably will never use, I'm ruthlessly purging. It's either going in the garbage, by the road for free pickup, or being donated. Also, my wife's daughter is moving out this summer so I'm filling a couple tool boxes with duplicates to get them started.

[MC Rider]

Took a ride along the north fork of the Kern River with stops here and there to look around and take pics. The flowers are blooming like crazy, and the white water is roaring. Very nice right up to the road closure.

[Out of Steam]

Went to get blood drawn, then an (unrelated) medical appointment, went to Lowe's with a fairly long list, did about half an hour of tidying work for the next stage of my crawl space project, then went to the gym.

[Philliefan33]

This morning I did some shopping at HomeGoods and found some things to get our bedroom a little more “put together”. Then DH and I emptied a couple of boxes and organized the basement a little. There are still boxes of photo albums, books, and games that cannot be unpacked until I find furniture to store the items. It will happen eventually.

I purposefully took the day off from riding or pickleball to give an achy knee a rest, to be ready for a mountain biking class tomorrow. But I just got an email that the class has been postponed due to the threat of rain. DD, who was also going to take the class, suggested that we go out for a ride tomorrow morning before it rains. That should be fun; DD knows the local trails very well and can show me around. I’ve found my way around on my gravel bike but not so much on the single track.

[Walt34]

Went flying a couple of R/C airplanes, and was having a bad day with batteries staying secured.

On one, a "flat foamy", I was doing some rather violent maneuvers and managed to completely disconnect the battery when it fell out of the airplane. To everyone's astonishment the airplane executed a perfect glide to a landing. On the runway! If there weren't witnesses and even a video no one would believe it. Those who fly airplanes of any type will understand what a near-miracle that is, to have the controls positioned properly at the instant of disconnect to compensate for the radical change in the center of gravity when the battery (the heaviest component on the airplane) fell free. No way could I pull that off if I'd tried.

On the other one the battery fell free from the strap holding it on but stayed connected. But since the center of gravity was so radically changed rearward the airplane was difficult to control and I settled for landing it level in some tall grass instead of trying and probably losing the battle to land on the runway. This resulted in a broken landing gear leg but this is easily repaired.

And one of the guys at the field made an offer on another model that I didn't even have with me which I will accept. This will make room for a different airplane. Storage is becoming an issue and I need to make some room. Even the ceiling space is full.

[MC Rider]

Found a nice winter down coat lightly used at a local thrift store. $5.


Fills a gap in my cold weather clothes wardrobe for next winter.

[skyking1]

Nice one Walt! Like a hole in one, you needed witnesses.
@MC Rider score! Cue up Maclemore's Thrift shop. Poppin some tags
I fixed a water service pipe in a new coffee shop build coming up. I had roughed it in yesterday, but it was bugging me.
I had to custom bend it with a torch to get it better.
I welded up a bracket for a neighboring business's rolling gate, and the guy thanked me in that sideways manner that made it sound like he was doing me a favor by letting me fix it.
People are strange.

[ls99]

Actually yesterday got up too late for kayaking, Went to camp. Beautiful sunny day, around 80F. Walked about in the forest for a few hours. Trees are starting to sprout buds.

Later moved some rocks in the stream for a more pleasant sound. Lunch sitting on the swing by streamside.
This morning rain, so workout is is indoors. Heading to cafe for coffee and BS session with the usual suspects.
Will figure out later what if anything to do the rest of the day.
Cheers.

[pacergal]

DS and DGS had dinner and spent the night last night, today DS will help put together our mini greenhouse and DGS will help me repot some tomatoes and flowers to get a good start growing.

[street]

Been a busy week having fun hiking and finishing up projects. A picture of the jack pump I installed at the remote homesteaders place I bought. I installed a deep well system on a shallow well. Surprisingly everything worked out pretty well except for all the labor I put into it. Now, I will attempt to install the pitman arms, gear box and gas engine to do the pumping. I have all the stuff just need to get it setup.

Hiking in between and enjoying the spring watching the wild turkeys while I'm there.

Life is great and can't wait for each new day to get here. To much to do so little time.

[Ronstar]

^That's a good looking pump.

There was a similar pump at a farmstead about a mile from here. Neighbor bought the 120 farm. Razed the house and farm buildings. Had a huge pole barn built on the former homestead. Well pump survived the whole ordeal.

Until he put a gravel drive to the pole barn, about 3' from the pump. Lots of construction equipment, site grading and semi truck traffic must have taken it out. It's no longer there.

[Gumby]

Our community garden opened for the season. I tilled and raked my growing beds and weeded the paths.