sseelhoff
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Yep. Looks fantastic.
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Yep. Looks fantastic.
dave1949
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Thanks. It just a typical western Maine woods but I count it as one of life's pleasures to be able to take time to enjoy it now and then. Lots of beautiful places in our country.
daugen
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I had a really nice day planting shrubs around the house and gazebo, and then went around and watered everything again. It's been dry here and will continue to be so says the forecast.
I finished fertilizing the lawn with Scotts weed and feed and am interested to see how it works.
Some really big dark green lettucey looking things over by the woods near the barn, they are advancing across the field as if they were walking....let's see if a big dose of the "weed" does the trick. Scotts guaranteed it. Yup.
got two more bales of peat moss for the roses, most of these are new.
Will put that on tomorrow. Doesn't last but looks nice and the roses like it.
Washed off a small area of the front porch in preparation for putting down a semi transparent oil stain tomorrow. Want to test the color and what it covers. Then I'll let the painter finish it, whenever he shows up. After about twenty hours of scraping and sanding, and more sanding, then powerwashing, finally the first coat of primer went on the gazebo. Boy what an improvement. I spent many hours leaning on a sander myself. At least once before, it had been repainted over a poor surface and the peels had their own peels. Not any more I hope. At one point I thought about pulling out the wooden upright styles which were Olympicly peeling with new plastic ones, but decided to have the neighborhood kid just scape and sand. He finally got so sick of doing it he brought a buddy over to help one day. And they didn't finish. I did with the sander and then the powerwasher very carefully.
I bet every time my young worker sees a gazebo from now on he will shudder.
I finished fertilizing the lawn with Scotts weed and feed and am interested to see how it works.
Some really big dark green lettucey looking things over by the woods near the barn, they are advancing across the field as if they were walking....let's see if a big dose of the "weed" does the trick. Scotts guaranteed it. Yup.
got two more bales of peat moss for the roses, most of these are new.
Will put that on tomorrow. Doesn't last but looks nice and the roses like it.
Washed off a small area of the front porch in preparation for putting down a semi transparent oil stain tomorrow. Want to test the color and what it covers. Then I'll let the painter finish it, whenever he shows up. After about twenty hours of scraping and sanding, and more sanding, then powerwashing, finally the first coat of primer went on the gazebo. Boy what an improvement. I spent many hours leaning on a sander myself. At least once before, it had been repainted over a poor surface and the peels had their own peels. Not any more I hope. At one point I thought about pulling out the wooden upright styles which were Olympicly peeling with new plastic ones, but decided to have the neighborhood kid just scape and sand. He finally got so sick of doing it he brought a buddy over to help one day. And they didn't finish. I did with the sander and then the powerwasher very carefully.
I bet every time my young worker sees a gazebo from now on he will shudder.
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dave1949
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Drew you are a busy guy.
My grandfather's hobby was hybrid tea roses. He grew some beauties. Ground corn cobs was his favorite mulch material. He used lots of blood meal too. He would buy live chickens at the farmer's market, cut their throat and catch the blood so he could use it. Of course the chickens were eaten too.
He usually had some rose cutting starts underway by sticking them in the ground in a mostly shaded spot and putting a mason jar over them. I don't know if he used rooting powder, that was a long time ago.
My grandfather's hobby was hybrid tea roses. He grew some beauties. Ground corn cobs was his favorite mulch material. He used lots of blood meal too. He would buy live chickens at the farmer's market, cut their throat and catch the blood so he could use it. Of course the chickens were eaten too.
He usually had some rose cutting starts underway by sticking them in the ground in a mostly shaded spot and putting a mason jar over them. I don't know if he used rooting powder, that was a long time ago.
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After fighting with the 8 hp BS on Trac-Vac for 20 minutes, I finally got it to run more than a couple of minutes ... couldn't figure out for the life of me what was causing it to die.
Sometimes the obvious, isn't ...
Turns out the little strip of metal that functions as the kill switch was fatigued at the bend and falling over onto the spark plug killing the motor ... eventually it failed completely and just fell off ... ran great after that ... lol ...
Got all the leaves on the lawn around the house picked up (which is where pretty much all the leaves are) ... rain isn't supposed to come in until tomorrow afternoon ... so hopefully the woman can get the front yard mowed.
Was able to pick up the regular loader bucket and move it to the shop ... but couldn't lock it in ... needs some more of the reinforcement angle on the back cut off to let the SSQA fully engage. Will do that after I finish the shrub bucket ... hopefully tonight.
Gonna go grab a nice hot shower and then head up to the shop for the night ...
Sometimes the obvious, isn't ...
Turns out the little strip of metal that functions as the kill switch was fatigued at the bend and falling over onto the spark plug killing the motor ... eventually it failed completely and just fell off ... ran great after that ... lol ...
Got all the leaves on the lawn around the house picked up (which is where pretty much all the leaves are) ... rain isn't supposed to come in until tomorrow afternoon ... so hopefully the woman can get the front yard mowed.
Was able to pick up the regular loader bucket and move it to the shop ... but couldn't lock it in ... needs some more of the reinforcement angle on the back cut off to let the SSQA fully engage. Will do that after I finish the shrub bucket ... hopefully tonight.
Gonna go grab a nice hot shower and then head up to the shop for the night ...
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Dave that's one beautiful place. Sounds like some nasty weather coming your way
Larro Darro
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Dave, you are blessed. But then, so am I. My land on 10 Mile Creek and the Chipola River is to die for. But we get so busy in our everyday life we rarely take the time just to walk through the woods. I used to spend all my free time down there, but now even when I go down to check on things, I don't have the time to spend just killing time. Your pictures reminded me that I need to spend a morning doing nothing productive, just looking at the woods. With bow season starting next Saturday, I will be in the woods more, but that is not the same thing.
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Ahhhhh, reminds me a bit of my youth, growing up on 110 acres in southern Maine. Nice
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daugen
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Ahhhhh, reminds me a bit of my youth, growing up on 110 acres in southern Maine. Nice
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can you still smell the pine trees?
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In my mind, Drew. The Norfolk pines here just are the same.
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