Good morning!!!!

[Eric Salop]

This appears to be tar and gravel or prime and seal. If the surface is still intact adding stone on top of this surface will only slide off in time leaving you a mess so to speak. Existing surface should be regraded then add 2 to 4 inches of stone after filling in holes. Just my opinion others may differ

Thanks Bups, your expert advice much appreciated. :thumbsup:

 

[toppop52]

When I was a kid in northeastern NC, we use to sit under the walnut trees in the backyard,they fell while the weather was still warm to hot in the fall. We'd sit in lawn chairs with the beach umbrella over us.
Warm and cloudy again today, upper 50's. Rain tomorrow, big nor'easter on Sunday/Monday, likely beach erosion.

 

[toppop52]

a much cooler 41 going to 57 today with a major washout planned for this weekend, heavy rain predicted

20 years for pecans Billy? I'm not going to make it that long....
I know, I need to find the pecan variety labeled Plug And Play. They always work right away.... not

Aahh Eric, the sweet burned smell of chestnuts roasting in a street cart on a cold winter day in Philadelphia, or New York City. Probably Baltimore and Boston too...did we learn this little treat from your neck of the woods? Further West, do they roast chestnuts in the city streets? Mostly, any in St. Louis? Such a distinctive smell to greet you when you walked outside of a downtown building on a cold day. Toppop and others, I bet we have all enjoyed roasted chestnuts on a street corner. Well, tried them...

Me? I didn't like them at all...tried several times, kind of mushy, sweetish, prefer to stick with other nuts, and I love nuts. My late wife was deathly allergic to nuts so for 15 years I could eat none, couldn't kiss her afterwards, made that mistake only once. Having one's wife look at you with giant rubbery lips and a swollen face was enough so that I never forgot that again... But now...I always have nuts at home, usually roasted almonds. Chestnuts are neat though, I grow lots of things I don't eat myself, like hot peppers. One of the prettiest things in my garden are hot peppers and I can't eat one of them. Zero problem giving peppers away though.

I don't like figs either, but I think I might plant a row of fig trees also. They grow very well here.

having said all this not sure chestnuts grow in a warm coastal climate. I know they grow up North. Here's what the local good nursery stocks, so it's probably what grows here. This list reminds me to replant the three sour cherry trees I bought that did not make it. I'll try one more time since cherry trees are on the list. A home made sour cherry pie in my mind is just pure nirvana.

Grapes
Berries (Strawberry, Blueberry, Rasberry, Blackberry)
Figs
Persimmon
Apple
Pear
Peach
Nectarine
Cherry
Pecan
Walnut

I never saw roasted chestnuts in Elizabeth City or Norfolk, as a kid. Not here in Salisbury, either, but then downtown has been dead for 35 years, maybe in Baltimore. Not a fan anyway.

 

[PJSprog]

41°F and light rain this morning, going up to 46° today.

Speaking of the generosity of squirrels ... this past fall we got a grand total of 10 nuts from our two shagbark hickory trees. This is exactly 10 more than we've gotten in several years. Apparently, tree rats also understand how sought-after these nuts are. Also not an easy shell to crack, but worth it when lightly roasted. A seriously delicious nut.

 

[300UGUY]

Thanks for the good thoughts on the injury. I am thinking of going to the ER this afternoon. It hurts like ****, especially if I cough or worse, sneeze. Plus I hurt just getting up out of a chair, and I can't sleep on my left side. I took a pain pill last night, it let me sleep, but I figure I need to get it looked at. Might as well start working on that insurance co pay.

 

[300UGUY]

Eric is there any possibility that the rail folks will pay for a new tarmac? My neighbors got there private road seriously upgraded when a garbage truck ran off the road into a swamp. The truck pretty much disappeared into the muck. Only one corner was sticking up, and nobody could get into their home for over a week. To recover the truck, they had to build a pad, bring in a crane, and many loads of rock.

 

[300UGUY]

41°F and light rain this morning, going up to 46° today.

Speaking of the generosity of squirrels ... this past fall we got a grand total of 10 nuts from our two shagbark hickory trees. This is exactly 10 more than we've gotten in several years. Apparently, tree rats also understand how sought-after these nuts are. Also not an easy shell to crack, but worth it when lightly roasted. A seriously delicious nut.

When we bought my wife's building, the squirrels had gotten into the building, and we had hundreds of nuts in the basement ceiling. Even a couple of dead squirrels. Nasty cleaning that out. The nuts were all from a walnut tree in the front of the building.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

300 I hope it is just some pulled muscles or something that will heal without too much.

PJ, hope you can talk some sense into your son.

 

[PJSprog]

PJ, hope you can talk some sense into your son.

He's my stepson, so there's that little barrier. I've been around for 13 of his 17 years, though ... more than his father, unfortunately. Speaking of whom ... his father came over last night and took his truck back. We learned that a similar stunt was pulled on a couple of occasions at his house as well. That was not a pleasant conversation to witness. The boy put more passion and emotion into trying to not lose that truck than any endeavor I've seen from him. Wish he cared even half that much for more important things in life (family, relationships, school, ...).

 

[toppop52]

41°F and light rain this morning, going up to 46° today.

Speaking of the generosity of squirrels ... this past fall we got a grand total of 10 nuts from our two shagbark hickory trees. This is exactly 10 more than we've gotten in several years. Apparently, tree rats also understand how sought-after these nuts are. Also not an easy shell to crack, but worth it when lightly roasted. A seriously delicious nut.

They make great slingshot ammo too!

 

[sodamo]

66°F and no rain. Understand a major storm headed this way for the weekend.

I believe I have all the pieces for my solar upgrade. Now for cooperative weather next week. Dry and not windy would be nice.

Wonder how those black walnuts compare to our macadamia nuts? I've husked by hand (wearing gloves after first blisters healed). Have a special cracker as they are so hard. But sooo good either raw or roasted.

Be safe
Have a great day.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning@ 49F @ 9:00AM. Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers. Thunder possible. High 44F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%.

 

[daugen]

Irv, hope you are feeling better and on the mend. If it persists, yeah, go get xrayed.

tried to log into Wunderground and got a Site Overloaded Try Again Later message.
unusual....
Someone's servers are not serving up the goods...

PJ, God Bless you, you can only do what's best and right. When your stepson grows up hopefully he will figure it out and come back to thank you.

David, macadamia nuts are yummy, and seriously expensive to buy. Those were always "party nuts" at our house, came out on special entertaining occasions. Usually there were peanuts...
Chocolate covered macadamias, now there's a path to caloric bliss

I'm likely off to the nursery tomorrow to talk to them about pecan and walnut trees, see what they recommend.

some daffodils are already popping their shoots up here. I think they may be in for a surprise...

 

[lennyzx11]

Hi all. 70 degrees here just SW of Abilene TX.
Wife just texted me from home in Oklahoma. Says the squirrels are a lot happier since I cleared the hillside with the Kubota and made the yard larger.
"They can now make faster time from the bird feeder on the deck to the deer feeder at the edge of yard without all those obstacles that was in the way!

Posted this by accident in another thread. Meant to put it here.

 

[ronjhall]

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At Barrett Jackson Action.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

tried to log into Wunderground and got a Site Overloaded Try Again Later message.
unusual....

It seems that just the city forecasts are down, as the main site and the one reporting data for my weather station are still working...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

An hour and a half on the pole saw tires me out, but it sure makes the job so much easier. I love the saw.

And I'll take 55° in January anytime, down to 45 now.

 

[Looking4new]

I got the 'puter up and running again.
But the Kioti is down with a no start situation. All relays are good. Air cleaner a little dirty but not critical.
So the chains didn't get put on.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I got the 'puter up and running again.
But the Kioti is down with a no start situation. All relays are good. Air cleaner a little dirty but not critical.
So the chains didn't get put on.

Microsoft is telling me I need to update my Hal9000. It seems they are tired of trying to keep the viruses out of its operating system.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Microsoft is telling me I need to update my Hal9000. It seems they are tired of trying to keep the viruses out of its operating system.

HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that".