Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

ok, lots of pics. A long day for sure but a really nice one. Started off with the recycling, and got a kick out of walking around the big pile of old tv's there. Giant projection tvs, fancy fake wood credenzas, you name it, in the name of 4k or something out they went. Now the question is where are these electronics going, hopefully not to some third world where ten year olds desolder parts.

Then I weeded the bottoms of all the fruit trees and gave them a drink of fertilizer water. Blooms really are pretty, just starting.

Lastly I planted 200+ beets, hooked up the drip water system and watered the beets, and then with my tail dragging I put three layers of electric fence wire up.

Hopefully the wires will be at the nose level of rabbits, dogs and deer. Hooking that up tomorrow.

 

[jbrumberg]

Freedomlives- I am impressed with your skilled handiwork and with you and your family's life style. You are rich beyond measure with what really matters in life. That Goldoni is impressive. I liked the tandem trailers. Good luck with the tractor search. Your toilet system which really is a decent design would probably be illegal in the USA state of MA. Thanks for sharing.

wngsprd- I liked the pyrotechnics. I think that small platform militarized UAV's are already operational in the world hotspots mostly for forward/advanced observation missions. Militarizing a drone the size of the "Flying Cuisinart" would be relatively easy not that I have any interest in that kind of craziness. Even spotlights/headlights are technically illegal.

Another rain to mixed precipitation back to rain event tonight/tomorrow. The weather models are still reflecting something happening sometime/somwhere near the east CONUS in early March. Interesting blocking pattern seems to be setting up in the NorthAtlantic and MidAtlanic ocean for potential storm tracks.

 

[Bird]

WE'VE GOT SUNSHINE THIS AFTERNOON!

 

[jbrumberg]

Daugen- Nice looking fruit trees. I can see a lot of hard work, time, and $ invested.

My 7 pet fruit trees are really scary looking in the fog. They are even scarier seen in broad daylight :embarrassed:. They proudly wear the signs of poor management and feed the deer biennially. My "wild" "crab apples(?)" taste better and are heavy producers annually. The closer my lonely +30 yo old peach tree gets to finally dying the better the production and quality of peaches ? I am not complaining either.

I am much better at native bird and insect attracting plants despite my efforts.

 

[toppop52]

Not much you can do with trash in an urban area, but being a South Mills guy, you probably are familiar with Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach...a landfill hill that was covered with dirt and turned into a park back in 1974. I remember when they added a skateboard park. It has one of Virginia Beach's biggest fireworks show every Independence Day. Hiking trails, a big bass lake, and playgrounds for the kids. When Virginia Beach gets a rare snow deep enough to sled, the place is packed since it is the tallest land in the city.

Mount Trashmore Park - Wikipedia

Quite familiar, that’s where I got the name, for years it still stunk, but it’s pretty well neutral nowadays.

 

[toppop52]

Drew, that’s some fine looking work you’ve done, I sure hope those trees aren’t blooming way too early.

 

[mostly_gas]

good evening all. 45F for the start, overcast light breeze, fog. More rain, over at 11AM, sun did come out, and nice warm up to 60F, west wind picked up to about 12-16 mph about 6 1/2 inches since Tues morning. Spent time with wifey this morning, moved pedals from 10 speed to Trek for group ride, and went for bike ride with 2 other guys. Nap upon return.

 

[mostly_gas]

Drew, your gardening and orchard efforts are impressive!

There is a large landfill in St Louis area that is burning, don't remember what the long term prognosis is, but burning landfills tend to leak whatever is in them into the water table

PJ was that Cahokia mounds you were talking about?

Happy birthday Coco!

Please come back Don and Rip.

Prayers for all.

 

[300UGUY]

Pretty productive day, did some plumbing work, cleaned up the yard, did some stuff for the wife, went to church & dinner. Easy day tomorrow?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Didnt get any of my planned stuff done today. Had a church mens breakfast, then stayed there working on computer stuff since it was cold and raining out. When i got home, didn't feel like doing oil changes, etc.

Did some more cleaning up stuff inside, bill payments, and computer stuff. Been transferring some old videos to mp4s and posting on facebook, a local heehaw music show from 1980s.. Some of the old fiddle players in the show are long gone, but their relatives are enjoying seeing their grandfathers play. Some of the younger ones in the show then, have their kids now laughing at mom 30 yrs ago..

Got a mess in basement to fix, either watersoftner drain hose been leaking, or standpipe it drains into been leaking, but got a mess of wet wood, drywall behind the watersofter and water heater. Will have to remove one of them to fix it.

Raining again.