North West BS Thread

Not that I live in Oregon or Washington, but I enjoy this thread. I got the mower, trimmer and leaf blower all ready today. I just got done mowing the lawn just a few minutes ago. I put fertilizer down Saturday and it must have lit the fuse to make it grow as it’s turning green very quickly.

 

Close enough.

I need to get my stuff out to prep. Should be mowing soon. Need to spray. Weeds are out of control already

 

Yeah once they turn the irrigation water on here it will open the flood gates for the grass to grow. Hello Spring!

 

New dog (Beagle) we got over the weekend. Life’s not all bad. She is helping me work from home this week so far.

 

Congrats!

 

Cute pup. Nice you can work from home and get the training going.

 

Because it is Wednesday. And sunny. And Frak allergies and being inside. And it was already open

 

Since the little one is stuck home, I made sure she got out to enjoy the nice weather here. She rode her bike, scooter and wheeler around the street and enjoyed the sunshine!

 

I have decided to do strictly Shift with the kids everyday then any accessory programs I can get in. Today finished with SOGO. I think tomorrow I’m doing power after. Looks like home gyms are paying off big time right now.

 

Yep, we are glad we have our gym especially during this mess. Yesterday’s SP workout was pretty good.

 

Good morning PNW Tundras! Short day here, off at noon. Then going shopping, see if i can get some perishable items

 

Good morning, I am working from home now and its Friday so I can't complain. Good luck shopping! From what I have seen there are still plenty of perishables available. People have cleared out the canned and dried food though.

 

I should be good on most everything except dairy. Need milk and butter mainly. And dog treats.

 

We get our milk, butter and similar stuff delivered weekly. We even get almond and oat milk. Think the wife bumped up our order since we're all using more these days. Been nice to not worry about that stuff.

Just dropped my trailer off at Les Schwab for some annual maintenance. Normally the local shop is packed at 7:30am with customers and crew members. Today I was the only one there and the crew was still strolling in. Hopefully I get a good tech working on my trailer. They're quality has been hit and miss over the years.

 

I have experienced that with Les Schwab also over the years. Love the customer service and they are all over our area but felt their quality has slipped. Been going elsewhere for tires/brakes/alignments. They did brakes on my since sold Tacoma that I had to take back 3 times.

 

Yeah, I'd take my trailer some place else if I had any good options within a reasonable distance. There are a few shops that might do the work, but their parking lot sucks (for maneuvering) and I have no reason to believe they can do better work. Other than trailers, Schwab has botched everything I've given them. Airbag on my old GMC, shocks/level on my F-150 and something else I've forgotten. But so far, they can handle axles and brakes. Won't by tires from them either; way to expensive.

Just got the trailer back. They called me after less than two hours, so they'r definitely slow.

Would sure like to get out soon. Guess if we get told to stay indoors, that doesn't mean we can go camping...

 

The girls and I went for a quick hike to get fresh air. Nothing like fresh mountain air.

 

Hey everyone. Just enjoying this nice weather and some drinks with the neighbors. Smoked a tri tip today and some Costco dogs.

Little Home Depot tomorrow and some landscape planning.

Anybody in here do landscaping in the Portland area?

 

Well, that's it folks for us WA residents. Our "leader" just put us lock down for two weeks (minimum). He actually said he's banning sleep overs during his press conference.

Heard on the news today that loss of taste/smell might be another symptom of Covid-19...put that into your basket of knowledge.

 

Too late in my opinion. We shall see though. Should start seeing a grest rise in infected soon based off of exponential reports.

 

Nothing says quarantine like t bone

 

Agreed. The next couple of weeks will reveal what really went on the last few weeks.

 

Heard it too. I've had a loss of taste/smell for several years so this doesn't help me much.

 

Well I guess I’m headed to the lumber yard to buy a couple weeks worth of projects tomorrow.

 

Spot on.

 

Great idea! Start with a trap to catch cougars, the Pullman variety. I hear the best bait is a losing season.

 

It should be interesting. I learned today the hospital near me can only test 40 cases per day, so only critical requests are getting approved for testing. I'm beginning to think this is way more prevalent than we think and I really hope we can get control of this before it overwhelms the entire system.

Yeah, too little, too late.

 

I thinking we could all do a meetup, we’ll just have to stay in our trucks, and leave one empty parking space in between trucks.

 

Car dealerships are calling themselves 'essential' for car repairs. I don't know about everyone else, but if I were a mechanic, if, I wouldn't want to be bringing in possible disease carrying cars in & out all day - CDC already reported finding corona on the princess cruise ship 17 days After everyone got off of it, 17 days! What y'all say?

 

Yeah, that would be crazy. There was an article on the BBC that talked about some recent surface testing with Covid. They said copper surfaces killed it "in as fast as 4 hours". Other surfaces were a lot worse. 4 hours seems like a very long time and that was the fastest.