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Michaell · May 22

@explorerx4 said:
What is up with the Colorado Rockies? Why are they so bad?
I checked the schedule and the Yankees are playing them over the weekend.
Rockies record is 8 wins 42 losses. I think that may be a pace worse than the worst ever White Sox record from last year or the year before.

It is.

Bad decisions, no strength in the farm system, and the altitude.

BTW, as of last week, they are batting .189 ON THE ROAD. It’s been forever since a team was under the Mendoza line on the road.

sb55 · May 23

tjc78 said:
Love adaptive cruise. I don't think I want to own anything without it going forward.

I also like adaptive cruise. I even use it towing our Airstream trailer. We recently came home 1200 miles from a vacation that ended in Nashville. I-40 to I-81 to I-84 to I-87 so almost all highway. I bet that I used the adaptive cruise 80% of the drive.

tjc78 · May 23

Kicking off the weekend sans work and kids! Lunch on the water

explorerx4 · May 23

our community pool was scheduled to open today but got put off because it's too cold.
Wind chill is making it feel like 37 degrees.

xwesx · May 23

explorerx4 said:
our community pool was scheduled to open today but got put off because it's too cold.
Wind chill is making it feel like 37 degrees.

That's unfortunate! The weather here is picture perfect. Fifty degrees currently with a projected high of 67, light breeze, and sunny. The weatherman says that will all end tomorrow.

The weather had looked nice in Conneaut, but I see now that our "iris bed" in the front yard, which I like to antagonize my wife by calling the "part-time swimming pool," is full of water again, so it must have been raining pretty good there recently.

tjc78 · May 23

@explorerx4 said:
our community pool was scheduled to open today but got put off because it's too cold.
Wind chill is making it feel like 37 degrees.

It’s only low 60s here. Little chilly riding the golf cart

jmonroe1 · May 23

explorerx4 said:
@laurasdada,
I guess they don't want anyone to siphon off your electrons.

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I don’t think you can siphon off electrons. I’m pretty sure you need a flux-induced magna-generator thingy to do that. I seem to remember using one of those in my first year electrical lab. There has to be advancements by now but surely not a mechanical siphon.

jmonroe

jmonroe1 · May 23

tjc78 said:

@explorerx4 said:

our community pool was scheduled to open today but got put off because it's too cold.

Wind chill is making it feel like 37 degrees.

It’s only low 60s here. Little chilly riding the golf cart

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Yeah, that’s roughing it alright. I hear those things don’t even work when the temps fall below 50 F. Built in self preservation.

jmonroe

tjc78 · May 23

@jmonroe1 said:
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Yeah, that’s roughing it alright. I hear those things don’t even work when the temps fall below 50 F. Built in self preservation.

jmonroe

I’ve driven mine in sub 30 degrees. Range suffers but it runs just fine

stickguy · May 23

We barely cracked 50 today. Dreary damp and miserable.

stickguy · May 23

Truck worked to earn its keep again. Got everything to the transfer station (so glad we have one in this town. No clue what I would do otherwise) in 2 trips. Then blew out the leftover debris from the bled with my leaf blower. This stuff would have trashed our suv if it had to go inside.

jmonroe1 · May 23

tjc78 said:

@jmonroe1 said:

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Yeah, that’s roughing it alright. I hear those things don’t even work when the temps fall below 50 F. Built in self preservation.

jmonroe

I’ve driven mine in sub 30 degrees. Range suffers but it runs just fine

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My gawd, you gotta start thinking of the kids.

jmonroe

tjc78 · May 23

@jmonroe1 said:
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My gawd, you gotta start thinking of the kids.

jmonroe

They love it

corvette · May 23

The Maverick put in some work this afternoon. Picked up 16 bags of mulch on sale at Home Depot, which is as much as you can comfortably stack on one of those roller carts (a shame they don't offer drive-through loading like Lowe's does [or used to]). That pretty much filled the bed area to the brim. That did maybe 1/3 of what I need to put down. Thankfully, there's an Ace close to my house that also has mulch on sale at the same price. To be continued...

kyfdx · May 23

Mulch... I've got a guy.

jmonroe1 · May 23

kyfdx said:
Mulch... I've got a guy.

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Me too. It’s the same guy that cuts my grass. He is doing it in stages. Right now he’s doing a good bit of trimming the landscaping and will finish up with about 4 yards of mulch. Then he’ll knock on the door and I’ll pay him, just like I did last year. Although this year because he said the mulch will cost more, I think I’m going to owe him about 400 bucks was $375 last year.

jmonroe

stickguy · May 23

I need to get some mulch this weekend. Going to try just 5 bags. Not redoing a big layer, just skim coat to freshen it up and fill in a few bare spots. Our beds are not that extensive.

nyccarguy · May 23

@corvette said:
The Maverick put in some work this afternoon. Picked up 16 bags of mulch on sale at Home Depot, which is as much as you can comfortably stack on one of those roller carts (a shame they don't offer drive-through loading like Lowe's does [or used to]). That pretty much filled the bed area to the brim. That did maybe 1/3 of what I need to put down. Thankfully, there's an Ace close to my house that also has mulch on sale at the same price. To be continued...

The most mulch I’ve ever picked up at one time was in the Wrangler. I think I got 40 bags piled into it. Once the back door closed, I was sliding them in through the open sky roof 1 by 1.

stickguy · May 23

you can put more in the truck. just depends on if you want to be stacked above the top of the bed sides.

I did bags with my first Maverick once. No clue how many I got though. But is was quite a few. Bed was pretty full.

laurasdada · May 23

explorerx4 said:
our community pool was scheduled to open today but got put off because it's too cold.
Wind chill is making it feel like 37 degrees.

Same here, we have guests for the holiday weekend, but no pool for you!

Thanks for the charge port door thoughts, even though I'm already having buyer's remorse, since I told the SA to go ahead and order the new part, I'll go with it and once again set my 401k on fire due to the siren song of European cars.
Wow, that was a long sentence.

laurasdada · May 23

Oh, and here's something that surprised me: After the Audi appt, stopped at the BJs gas station in Hyannis, PUG was .16/gallon cheaper than at my local BJs on the "right" side of the bridge!
$3.47 vs $3.63, having filled the BMW today locally.
Whodathunkit?!

jmonroe1 · May 23

laurasdada said:

explorerx4 said:
our community pool was scheduled to open today but got put off because it's too cold.
Wind chill is making it feel like 37 degrees.
Same here, we have guests for the holiday weekend, but no pool for you!

Thanks for the charge port door thoughts, even though I'm already having buyer's remorse, since I told the SA to go ahead and order the new part, I'll go with it and once again set my 401k on fire due to the siren song of European cars.
Wow, that was a long sentence.

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You’re right that was a long sentence. You would not have made it through my 5th grade doing that, at least not in one try. Kinda like me. Yep, I’m pretty sure your 5th grade sentence would have been extended for at least another year.

jmonroe

xwesx · May 23

Oh my gosh. Mulch and/or landscaping bark..... I've worked with enough of that stuff to last me three lifetimes. I have some stories too, but I won't talk about hauling it because I don't want to cause any GVWR trauma.

That said, does the mulch do a decent job of suppressing weed growth? Might be something we should consider at the Conneaut house. My wife is very anti-landscaping-fabric, and the weeds love her for it, but we need to come up with something. We're not there enough to just rely on time-tested gardening skills alone.

Our "guy" that was mowing the place for the last three summers chose not to continue this year, so we had to scramble to find another taker. Thankfully, we were able to enlist the company that manages the yard of the elderly couple next door to us (we share about 150' of lawn along the northern property line). They were only willing to take us on because our lawn wouldn't require additional mobilization time for them. We pay the same price as if they were, so I guess it is a good deal for them, too! Anyhow, it ended up being nearly three weeks since we mowed it while we were down there, and I guess the grass grew about 18" in many places during that time. Impressive!

explorerx4 · May 23

Many of my neighbors buy mulch by the dump truck load.
I bought 5 or 6 one and a half cu ft bags and that was just enough(5 bags for $10).
The beach pebble rock I bought was much more expensive, 4 bags about $50.
I'm going to buy a couple more bags to make sure the low coverage spots are filled in.
Probably could get away with one more bag.
The rocks don't wear out as fast as the mulch.

stickguy · May 23

the last few times I did mulch myself (back in NJ) we had it dumped on the driveway. either 2 or 3 yards. It was a big pile. But much easier than dragging bags home! Now, if I needed a lot done, I am hiring someone to do it. We just don't have much bed area at this house so not a big deal.

corvette · May 23

@xwesx - no clue on whether the mulch helps with weeds, I've just always had it. The fabric seems to help prevent big, deep-rooted weeds, but smaller weeds can grow in the loam that will end up on top of the fabric.

jmonroe1 · May 23

corvette said:
@xwesx - no clue on whether the mulch helps with weeds, I've just always had it. The fabric seems to help prevent big, deep-rooted weeds, but smaller weeds can grow in the loam that will end up on top of the fabric.

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The weeds that grow on top of the landscape fabric are easy to pull out since they have no deep roots. The small spider roots of those weeds just live off of the junk in the mulch. One small yank and they are gone.

I just wish I wouldn’t have been in a hurry when we moved in here in the Fall of 1998, well really the following Spring when I did some of the initial landscaping. I ran out of the fabric and decided to get done what I could before it got dark one evening rather than getting more fabric and finishing up the next day. BIG mistake. Now I can tell where those spots were every Spring but putting down extra mulch in those areas does help but not as well as more fabric would have done.

I never did like playing in the dirt and landscaping is one job I’ll gladly pay someone to do for me.

jmonroe

explorerx4 · May 23

Sat through one of the grandkids graduation ceremony from Pre K.
It lasted over an hour.
Maybe I'm an old curmudgeon but I just don't get it.
My thought is, if you graduate from high school, that's worth celebrating.
It doesn't help that I watched this the other day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK0I4-7N4gs

oldfarmer50 · May 24

corvette said:
The Maverick put in some work this afternoon. Picked up 16 bags of mulch on sale at Home Depot, which is as much as you can comfortably stack on one of those roller carts (a shame they don't offer drive-through loading like Lowe's does [or used to]). That pretty much filled the bed area to the brim. That did maybe 1/3 of what I need to put down. Thankfully, there's an Ace close to my house that also has mulch on sale at the same price. To be continued...

If you need that much mulch why don’t you have a truckload delivered? Most landscapers offer deliveries by the yard in any quantity you want up to a 12 yard dump truck. It’s much cheaper although still a rip off compared to what the landscaper pays for it.

Alternatively, you could really cheap out like I do and wait until the neighbors hire tree trimmers and get a free load of wood chips.

oldfarmer50 · May 24

corvette said:
@xwesx - no clue on whether the mulch helps with weeds, I've just always had it. The fabric seems to help prevent big, deep-rooted weeds, but smaller weeds can grow in the loam that will end up on top of the fabric.

Mulch suppresses annual weeds like crabgrass by blocking the sunlight they need to germinate. Less well on perennial weeds like Dandelions. Some mulch can be had with pre-emergent herbicide incorporated but you don’t want that near your vegetable garden. Dyed mulches sometimes contain arsenic which suppresses insects as well as weeds.

You’re right about landscape fabric. I prefer to use it because the weeds that grow in the mulch tend to be easier to remove with a quick hoeing.

oldfarmer50 · May 24

explorerx4 said:
Sat through one of the grandkids graduation ceremony from Pre K.
It lasted over an hour.
Maybe I'm an old curmudgeon but I just don't get it.
My thought is, if you graduate from high school, that's worth celebrating.
It doesn't help that I watched this the other day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK0I4-7N4gs

That is such a sad story. In my area we pay $30k per student each year and one school district only has something like a 40% graduation rate.

venture · May 24

I mentioned that my youngest daughter was tired of our Subaru dealers nagging and bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Now my oldest daughter is ready to get something new for the same reasons. She drove an Audi Q3 yesterday which she didn't like, but the point is that's 3 repeating customers they have lost so far that I know of, and I know of 3 others who feel the same.

Their tactics must be working though or, you would think, they would stop doing it.

stickguy · May 24

the town transfer station where I bring all my yard stuff also has a massive pile of mulch out front, free for the taking. Back your truck up and get as much as you can shovel in.

oldfarmer50 · May 24

venture said:
I mentioned that my youngest daughter was tired of our Subaru dealers nagging and bought a Jeep Grand Cherokee.

Now my oldest daughter is ready to get something new for the same reasons. She drove an Audi Q3 yesterday which she didn't like, but the point is that's 3 repeating customers they have lost so far that I know of, and I know of 3 others who feel the same.

Their tactics must be working though or, you would think, they would stop doing it.

They probably figure they don’t want knowledgeable buyers like you so they are focusing on payment buyers who will sign anything put in front of them.

oldfarmer50 · May 24

stickguy said:
the town transfer station where I bring all my yard stuff also has a massive pile of mulch out front, free for the taking. Back your truck up and get as much as you can shovel in.

Is that mulch or compost?

jwm40517 · May 24

Saw a cartoon once about how much mulch was needed to prevent weeds from coming up. The guy at the store said that ,in theory, 4 inches is enough, but in practice you really need 12 feet.

qbrozen · May 24

@jwm40517 said:
Saw a cartoon once about how much mulch was needed to prevent weeds from coming up. The guy at the store said that ,in theory, 4 inches is enough, but in practice you really need 12 feet.

And even then it wouldn’t work. I find the weeds will start themselves anywhere. They are like pearls. One grain of sand in the mulch and the weed will find a way to grow in it.

sda · May 24

I find it humorous that often the areas I want grass to grow, it won’t. However, no problem with grass growing in the expansion joints of the sidewalks and driveway!

jmonroe1 · May 24

jwm40517 said:
Saw a cartoon once about how much mulch was needed to prevent weeds from coming up. The guy at the store said that ,in theory, 4 inches is enough, but in practice you really need 12 feet.

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What a coincidence. As I make this post the guy is putting down the mulch. So I guess he’s done with the landscape trimming and nuisance work. I also guess he’s going to want paid today. Everything was fine until I thought of that.

jmonroe

sda · May 24

I don't get the appeal of these. And, yes, they are illegal to drive this way in SC. My neighbor's son
who is in his early 20s has spent $$$, and done a first class job on this conversion. Height adjustable suspension, free flow exhaust, under wheel well led lighting, etc. He has competed in shows and done well. But I just don't get it.

cdnpinhead · May 24

"If it don't go, chrome it" -- from the '50s.

stickguy · May 24

looked like mulch (as in shredded up trees). Not compost. But I did not go over and poke around in the pile.

jmonroe1 · May 24

sda said:
I don't get the appeal of these. And, yes, they are illegal to drive this way in SC. My neighbor's son

who is in his early 20s has spent $$$, and done a first class job on this conversion. Height adjustable suspension, free flow exhaust, under wheel well led lighting, etc. He has competed in shows and done well. But I just don't get it.

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Looks like mulch overload to me.

jmonroe

corvette · May 24

Turns out I was wrong, my local HD does have a loading area. Got 25 more bags of mulch and laid it down, had one bag left, which I'll spread out somewhere. About $130 with tax for 61.5 cubic feet of mulch isn't terrible.

The garden center a few miles away charges $40 per 20 cubic foot "scoop," which should easily fit in the Maverick's bed, but only one at a time. I'd have had to have made three trips, and I only have the bed mat, so would probably scratch the other parts of the bed during unloading. They deliver (not sure of the fee), but there's a four scoop minimum, which is more than I can use.

jmonroe1 · May 24

corvette said:
Turns out I was wrong, my local HD does have a loading area. Got 25 more bags of mulch and laid it down, had one bag left, which I'll spread out somewhere. About $130 with tax for 61.5 cubic feet of mulch isn't terrible.

The garden center a few miles away charges $40 per 20 cubic yard "scoop," which should easily fit in the Maverick's bed, but only one at a time. I'd have had to have made three trips, and I only have the bed mat, so would probably scratch the other parts of the bed during unloading. They deliver (not sure of the fee), but there's a four scoop minimum, which is more than I can use.

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That would be a phenomenal price. I think you mean 2 cubic yard scoop.

Think about the old saying, “full 9 yards” (like in concrete). Large dump trucks can’t handle 20 cubic yards. It always comes down to the decimal point.

jmonroe

corvette · May 24

Fixed... They say it's about 20 cubic feet, not yards. But, do words actually mean things?

roadburner · May 24

driving down the interstate in the C43 I got a large chip in the windshield. I called MY M-B dealer, and unlike my BMW dealer they don't replace windshield in house. However, a Mercedes certified shop is only a short distance away. The shop said my insurance may noy pay for OEM glass; if they won't I'll just pay the difference. At least In KY there's no deductible on Comprehensive glass claims.

jmonroe1 · May 24

corvette said:
Fixed... They say it's about 20 cubic feet, not yards. But, do words actually mean things?

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Ahhhhhh, actually yes, in the schools I attended, and numbers meant even more.

jmonroe

roadburner · May 24

We are down in Hilton Head vacationing with my son and his girlfriend. If this region is any indication, I can see why Detroit killed of most all of their coupes and sedans. The only domestic vehicles I've seen in significant numbers are full-size pickups, Dodge or Chrysler minivans, Broncos and Wranglers- along with a few Corvettes, Mustangs and Teslas. German vehicles seem to be in the majority, but most are SUVs. I've seen a couple of Jaguars as well as more than a few Land Rovers. Mazdas, Hondas, Hyundais and Toyotas lead the Asian vehicle contingent- again with minivans and SUVs being prevalent. All in all, nothing that would make me want to trade in any of my current fleet.

jmonroe1 · May 24

roadburner said:
We are down in Hilton Head vacationing with my son and his girlfriend. If this region is any indication, I can see why Detroit killed of most all of their coupes and sedans. The only domestic vehicles I've seen in significant numbers are full-size pickups, Dodge or Chrysler minivans, Broncos and Wranglers- along with a few Corvettes, Mustangs and Teslas. German vehicles seem to be in the majority, but most are SUVs. I've seen a couple of Jaguars as well as more than a few Land Rovers. Mazdas, Hondas, Hyundais and Toyotas lead the Asian vehicle contingent- again with minivans and SUVs being prevalent. All in all, nothing that would make me want to trade in any of my current fleet.

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The first Memorial Day weekend when we lived in SC, Mrs. j and I decided to go to Hilton Head for a long weekend. That started a trend until we moved back to the Burgh.

Memorial Day weekend pretty much kicks off the Summer season for beach towns and the water temp there was very nice. We went back the 4th of July weekend and the water temp was like taking a bath. I couldn’t believe the ocean could be that warm. Far warmer than Ocean City MD. where we spent several vacations when our sons were teenagers. While living in SC for 5 years I’ll bet we went to Hilton Head at least 3 times each Summer. I remember there was an outlet mall down there that Mrs. j couldn’t pass up. I think our Sons came down and joined us at least 4 times. Lots of nice memories.

Have a nice vacation before heading back to your KY retirement villa.

jmonroe

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