toppop52
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I have turkey nesting in back as well, they make a heck of a dust cloud.
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Thomas
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toppop I have turkey nesting in back as well said:
wngsprd
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62 going to 91.
We had quite the storm in Virginia yesterday. 60mph winds, trees down, 2 neighboring counties have closed schools because of widespread power outages. I was out tarping my bush hog after moving it to get to my sprayer and got blasted...fortunately it took the rain another 5 minutes to start after the wind hit so I stayed dry, but covered in pollen, flower petals, leaves and twigs blowing off the wild cherry tree above me. Only damage was one large red maple limb blew down. Got .41 inches of rain.
Drew, Audi sounds very nice. But 3 months wait means you'll get a late start on your drive to California.
LS, maybe we need to do a house swap for vacation...you want back to the green wet east, and my wife and I are about ready to get back to the Southwest and Rockies, although we will probably go to Utah/Wyoming rather than NM/AZ again. Haven't made a plan yet...and still want to take her to Mt Rainier, the San Juan Islands and Olympic Peninsula.
We had quite the storm in Virginia yesterday. 60mph winds, trees down, 2 neighboring counties have closed schools because of widespread power outages. I was out tarping my bush hog after moving it to get to my sprayer and got blasted...fortunately it took the rain another 5 minutes to start after the wind hit so I stayed dry, but covered in pollen, flower petals, leaves and twigs blowing off the wild cherry tree above me. Only damage was one large red maple limb blew down. Got .41 inches of rain.
Drew, Audi sounds very nice. But 3 months wait means you'll get a late start on your drive to California.
LS, maybe we need to do a house swap for vacation...you want back to the green wet east, and my wife and I are about ready to get back to the Southwest and Rockies, although we will probably go to Utah/Wyoming rather than NM/AZ again. Haven't made a plan yet...and still want to take her to Mt Rainier, the San Juan Islands and Olympic Peninsula.
ronjhall
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Got one of the traps up. No Bees yet. View attachment 554397
txdon
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I don't think I'll live long enough to see a Lowe's within 5 miles of me. After 21 years I'm still waiting on them to blacktop the road. You know what they say, it they can't move to you you have to move to them.
Ron, When I said 1/4 head of cabbage I was talking about a 2.5 pound head not a 50 pond head, wow!
Warm night it was still 79˚ at 10pm. 72˚ now at sunrise.
Drew, e-mail pmed. I'll also check out the similar Outbacks out here to make sure that is the vehicle my wife wants next during the next 3 months. Don't forego any good offers or if you decide to trade it in no problem.
wngsprd
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Thanks for the link. I need to make some...the carpenter bees are terrible this year.
LouNY
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Good luck with the traps, we made several last year and didn't catch hardly any bees. Back to chemicals unfortunately.
CajunRider
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It'll be hot in Cajun land. Temperature will be in the 90's.
Still working on removing the seat & fender on my tractor. Should get it done today so I can see what I need to do with the remote valves to keep them from leaking.
Still working on removing the seat & fender on my tractor. Should get it done today so I can see what I need to do with the remote valves to keep them from leaking.
rswyan
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Grass growing like mad, hasn't been cut yet this year. Getting that under control will be a real treat.
Doctors appointment later today, should be okay to drive to it (5 days)
Hope to get the back of a 55G tank painted today. May try to set up central air pump for fish room and get it hooked up.
Installed thermometers on three tanks yesterday, installed heater into one, added two pleco spawning caves I made to a 20G Long tank, did some partial water changes.
Fish room now has one 55G, four 20G Longs, and three 10G tanks all set up and running.
A total of four different species have spawned thus far.
Doctors appointment later today, should be okay to drive to it (5 days)
Hope to get the back of a 55G tank painted today. May try to set up central air pump for fish room and get it hooked up.
Installed thermometers on three tanks yesterday, installed heater into one, added two pleco spawning caves I made to a 20G Long tank, did some partial water changes.
Fish room now has one 55G, four 20G Longs, and three 10G tanks all set up and running.
A total of four different species have spawned thus far.
RedNeckGeek
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Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 6:00AM. Partly cloudy. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 74F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
A few years ago I was having trouble with yellow jackets, and found plans on line for a simple bait dispenser made from old soda bottles. It used an insecticide called Fipronil 9.1%, which I mixed with some left over hamburger. The yellow jackets took it back to their nest and I didn't see very many the rest of the year. Had it been later in the year, they'd have been more interested in sweets, and the advise I was following was to switch to honey or sugar water to mix with the Fipronil 9.1%. Dunno what wood bees like (maybe wood :laughing
, but the Fipronil 9.1% would sure do a number on 'em if you guys can figure out how to get 'em to take it. I found a source online at epestsolutions.com.
Governor Moonbeam rammed through a new fuel and registration tax last year that people are just now noticing, especially the republicans who are making hay with it in the upcoming elections. Part of that was to increase the tax on Diesel #2 far more than gasoline, so the gas motors here are now more in demand. Not sure what the logic was behind that stroke of genius, but the'll take my 7.3 L Powerstroke when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
And as far as the VW fiasco, as an engineer I really don't see what all the fuss was about. All the VW engineers did was design the engine to run very cleanly when under test as well as produce good power and mileage when on the road. That's how engineering works: design to specifications. If the EPA wanted the engines to run the same under all conditions, they should have specified that in their regulations.:laughing:
I'm about the farthest thing you'll find here from a gungho vegetarian, Don, but that dressing recipe sounds delicious. As an engineer, though, I'd need the full recipe before I could build a batch. Just make sure it's EPA approved, 'cause I don't wanna end up in the same hot water as those VW guys.:laughing:
If you end up planting all those trees in your pasture, Andrew, how will you trim around them all, and keep the leaves cleaned up? Or will the animals to that work for you? And if you put goats in there, how will you keep them from eating the bark off the trees and killing them?
What sort of resolution do your new cameras have, L4N? I was disappointed with a recent game camera purchase that, even when set at the highest resolution, couldn't produce a picture of my driveway area in which one could clearly make out the license plate number on an approaching vehicle. But that may also have been a matter of poorly designed optics as well.
If Drew drove his Subaru on his California trip, Don, he could deliver it to Texas and take a plane from there...
Realized I had another laptop that used the same memory chips and SSD as the misbehaving 17"er, so yesterday swapped out both the questionable parts into the working laptop and it refused to boot. Made the three chime memory error noise, so now the memory from the 17"er is on its way back to Micron for replacement. Gotta love Crucial's life time warranty, though the memory was just purchased last August.
New 5th gear set on order from England, should be at the transmission shop early next week.
In the mean time, "they" have decided that our wildfire season officially started yesterday, and since the grass is supposed to be no higher than 4" within 100' of the house, by state law, I'll be out on the tractor this morning flailing away to get back into compliance. I can only work until 10AM, though, another official guideline intended to keep the grass from catching on fire. :confused2: Just as well, as I'll probably have a stiff neck by then and will want to leave the rest for another day.
A few years ago I was having trouble with yellow jackets, and found plans on line for a simple bait dispenser made from old soda bottles. It used an insecticide called Fipronil 9.1%, which I mixed with some left over hamburger. The yellow jackets took it back to their nest and I didn't see very many the rest of the year. Had it been later in the year, they'd have been more interested in sweets, and the advise I was following was to switch to honey or sugar water to mix with the Fipronil 9.1%. Dunno what wood bees like (maybe wood :laughing
, but the Fipronil 9.1% would sure do a number on 'em if you guys can figure out how to get 'em to take it. I found a source online at epestsolutions.com.Governor Moonbeam rammed through a new fuel and registration tax last year that people are just now noticing, especially the republicans who are making hay with it in the upcoming elections. Part of that was to increase the tax on Diesel #2 far more than gasoline, so the gas motors here are now more in demand. Not sure what the logic was behind that stroke of genius, but the'll take my 7.3 L Powerstroke when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
And as far as the VW fiasco, as an engineer I really don't see what all the fuss was about. All the VW engineers did was design the engine to run very cleanly when under test as well as produce good power and mileage when on the road. That's how engineering works: design to specifications. If the EPA wanted the engines to run the same under all conditions, they should have specified that in their regulations.:laughing:
I'm about the farthest thing you'll find here from a gungho vegetarian, Don, but that dressing recipe sounds delicious. As an engineer, though, I'd need the full recipe before I could build a batch. Just make sure it's EPA approved, 'cause I don't wanna end up in the same hot water as those VW guys.:laughing:
If you end up planting all those trees in your pasture, Andrew, how will you trim around them all, and keep the leaves cleaned up? Or will the animals to that work for you? And if you put goats in there, how will you keep them from eating the bark off the trees and killing them?
What sort of resolution do your new cameras have, L4N? I was disappointed with a recent game camera purchase that, even when set at the highest resolution, couldn't produce a picture of my driveway area in which one could clearly make out the license plate number on an approaching vehicle. But that may also have been a matter of poorly designed optics as well.
If Drew drove his Subaru on his California trip, Don, he could deliver it to Texas and take a plane from there...
Realized I had another laptop that used the same memory chips and SSD as the misbehaving 17"er, so yesterday swapped out both the questionable parts into the working laptop and it refused to boot. Made the three chime memory error noise, so now the memory from the 17"er is on its way back to Micron for replacement. Gotta love Crucial's life time warranty, though the memory was just purchased last August.
New 5th gear set on order from England, should be at the transmission shop early next week.
In the mean time, "they" have decided that our wildfire season officially started yesterday, and since the grass is supposed to be no higher than 4" within 100' of the house, by state law, I'll be out on the tractor this morning flailing away to get back into compliance. I can only work until 10AM, though, another official guideline intended to keep the grass from catching on fire. :confused2: Just as well, as I'll probably have a stiff neck by then and will want to leave the rest for another day.
