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IU offered this evening. https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/iu-basketball-recruiting-class-of-2022-names-to-know-a-j-casey/

Floor is in. Picking out paint tonight. Probably going with some shade of blue and cream/off white.

Someone asked to see my pergola when it was done. No, it was not a DIY. Took 2 guys about 7-8 hours

As an avid fisherman I am always concerned about the weather. So I made this simple "weather station" a few weeks back. It is made from an old canoe paddle I had and some hardware that consisted of a thermometer, hygrometer(humidity), and barometer that I had to purchase.

We are on Lime. Peacefulness of the no wake lake with the ability to get onto Gage to take grandkids tubing

On this date in history. June 19, 1976, mile married mrs. miles 44 years of wedded bliss. And still counting.

Thanks. We have English Ivy that’s everywhere so it will probably latch on. My wife wants to hang some pots. I am going to research a weather proof tv to watch football

Imagine that. An attorney's office filled with so much 'crap' that not even the most modern enhancements in plumbing can get rid of it all.

I can't imagine it not ending up higher.

Yeah...and since there is no AAU and visits it’s seemed to throw the summer recruiting into kind of a holding pattern. As things move through the summer you are going to see this thing look like airports with weather delays...a bunch of kids like planes are all circling but on hold due to visits and no summer ball. Once things clear up air traffic controllers will have their work cut out as they will all start landing left and right. Kids will start committing in mass as spots quickly open up and close with kids announcing and the others waiting to decide to stay in draft or come back. 22 kids will be close on their heels.

That's very cool...

Looking good.

I have too...pulled it this morning...

Guess I don't pay enough attention. Mercer is putting together one pretty good class. Don't have a clue where it ranks historically but saw on twitter just now....ranked 24th in country.

Never even knew this could happen. I've had a bottle riding shotgun in my car since Mid March. https://fox59.com/news/national-world/hand-sanitizer-left-in-car-leads-to-fire-in-illinois/

No and no...both guys are HoFer's.

Sure! But it's a she...the male cat that hangs around the barn is useless...

At least up here in NE Indiana there is a non-profit that will neuter all of those cats, once the kittens are old enough, at very little cost. You may want to research this where you live

So a pregnant stray cat showed up not long ago and had her babies under our deck. So I guess we are going to take care of them until we ge them all spayed/neutered and find them a home.

Some Dr put this out- When it comes to the COVID-19 event, we have been experiencing a serious case of tunnel vision. As we focus on the day to day increase of COVID-19 things could look pretty grim, but as we take a step back and look at the comparative total mortality here in the US, things aren’t much worse than a bad seasonal flu, like that last seen in 2017-18. If you take the New York City region out of the mix, the rest of the country is cumulatively well within the expected mortality. The estimated death toll from COVID-19 is on track to exceed 120,000 US deaths in the next few weeks. Yet, the majority of COVID-19 related deaths have been concentrated in the New York/New England region which to date includes nearly 50 percent of all COVID-19 deaths nationwide; the hospitals in this region were strained but not overwhelmed in the middle of April. The coronavirus’ effect on New York City has been especially telling if you examine the departure from expected cumulative mortality trends over the last four years in the CDC fluseason cycle. We avoid looking at the COVID-19 counts, and rather focus on total mortality (by all causes) since this perspective avoids the diagnostic uncertainty of determining the exact cause of death, and does not rely on sampling problems associated with COVID-19 testing or potentially inflated death estimates from the virus. The NYC/NJ contributions to total mortality have been so high that if they are removed from the current total mortality and replaced with levels proportional to those found in the rest of the US, the current total US death toll would be equivalent to the death toll from the 2018 seasonal flu. Even including the NYC/NJ mortality, throughout the entire US, the CDC seasonal cumulative total mortality (death by all causes) for the week 30 of the 2019-2020 flu season is 1,750,703, contrasted with the nearest ‘moderately bad’ CDC flu season of 2017-18 which came in at 1,711,357 total deaths at the same point (week 30) two years earlier. This constitutes a 39k mortality increase, most of which can be accounted for by the New York City area. If the annual mortality inflation of 2 percent per annum is taken into account, total mortality for the current flu season will be marginally beyond the normal expected increase, but well within increases that have been seen in previous flu seasons. Apart from the New England region, there appear no evident effects/deviations from the main expected increase line for states that locked down early and with more stringent requirements, compared to those who had few lockdown restrictions (e.g., AR, IA, NB, SD, ND, WY.) States who opened sooner, (e.g., FL, TX, and GA) are all similarly situated somewhat beneath the prediction line. By this metric, there is little obvious difference across the entire country except for the Northeast. The relative impact on total mortality of the COVID-19 event in the New York City region was in a class by itself… NYC is so far outside the mortality space of the other regions that it inhabited a different mortality universe altogether. It is well known that New Jersey experienced a high level of excess mortality, by a factor of 8 times its own expected increase, but yet it was still far below NYC, which is over 6 times greater than anywhere in the country. The NYC mortality outcome is a strong indicator that powerful additional hazards were operating in New York City region, and it also suggests that the actions by the government on confinement contributed to this “perfect storm.” One of the documented government actions that appears to be a major factor is the forced admission of COVID positive patients into high risk facilities with extreme confinement regimens. Much of the COVID-19 fear was sustained by media repetition and focus on daily and weekly COVID-19 infection rates and putative COVID-19 mortality that spiked in April. Daily and weekly mortality changes are quite variable, and the COVID-19 mortality estimates are partially confounded with total mortality, whereas cumulative weekly estimates of total mortality are highly regular. The growth pattern for COVID-19 mortality was shown day after day, but it was never placed within the context of the total cumulative mortality, and this gave rise to the impression that all the COVID-19 deaths were in fact directly caused by the disease, along with an additional false impression that the COVID-19 mortality was pushing the total mortality well above average for the year. These impressions turn out to be false.

I was referring to satellite as well.

#1 ranked in IN Top 100 overall Kid can flat out play, he had a HUGE tournament last year.

Tammy and I made it back to the lake bright and early. Bad news was my buddy's pontoon was blocking the boat ramp. Good news is I used it. Blue bird skies but chilly at 54 degrees with a slight wind out of the East. Brought home 14 crappie and gills. I did catch a bass as well. Was home well before noon. Here are some pics:

^^^ And now area residents no longer talk about the loch ness monster swimming around there.

I will be putting in new privacy fence this week that was torn down by the storms a few weeks ago