ronjhall
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RNG. There have been a lot of post since I posted this picture. Maybe the cycle you are considering will work with this.
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RNG. There have been a lot of post since I posted this picture. Maybe the cycle you are considering will work with this.
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Good Morning Everyone!!!!!!!
The freezing rain started ~4:00AM; temperature 28ºF. Our highway department actually laid some sand down on our road. We are one of the two driveways the last 1/2 mile downhill to the next town. The road crews must figure we can handle ourselves. It was a 4WD trip to the dump this morning; temperature was 34ºF. Untreated roads are still impassable. I saw one FWD car unable to get up one of the hills. Today’s high temperature will be ~34ºF
I got Yaktrax and those EnergeticSky on all my outdoor footwear. A good day to stay home.
RonJH- I hope your arm/shoulder is less painful today. PT is never fun. Thanks for sharing your picture of your resident squirrel. Our Alpha Grey squirrel had a bad attitude this AM. It was openly aggressive to all the reds and chasing them away from its” food source. All the reds found a safe perimeter distance and stood there barking at it.
I’d trim that branch, but it is one of the few healthy ones remaining on that pear tree.
“…. Bird, that’s a sad story about your neighbor, but one too often told. In years gone by extended families took care of the old and young, the old could spend their final days in dignity, not so much today.”- Randy Sadly, I agree and I saw this a lot with my work with the elderly. Some admissions were literally dumped by their “loving” families. I saw a few hospital and nursing home admissions of an elderly person due to malnutrition/starvation and they had refrigerators at home full of delivered meals. .
Bird- Jack is lucky to have a supportive friend like you; so many others are not so lucky. Jack may be giving up or it could be related to diet (or lack), medication errors, UTI’s and other illnesses, dehydration, depression, and/or age related medical/physical/cognitive decline. Thank you for caring for Jack. We all should be so lucky as we decline.
Buppies- I suspect that your coywolf/coyote disappearances was due to being shot or poisoned.
Harv- I like the look. Looks to be pretty bear sturdy.
Bruce- Thanks. This may be our last St. B. rescue; especially one with no history. I do not know where he learned his collapse the knee takedown “trick”….. Not good. He’s unlearning that one.
Bill- I am happy to read that this round of snow management is completed.
Eric- I never saw a squirrel strip bark either. Your explanation seems good to me.
Phil- Very little road traffic here still. Our road is still frozen. The sand may be getting iced over with no traffic. I am too disgusted to post about the next pending weather system other than posting that it will be a snow to rain event for a lot of southern NE especially coastal areas.
The freezing rain started ~4:00AM; temperature 28ºF. Our highway department actually laid some sand down on our road. We are one of the two driveways the last 1/2 mile downhill to the next town. The road crews must figure we can handle ourselves. It was a 4WD trip to the dump this morning; temperature was 34ºF. Untreated roads are still impassable. I saw one FWD car unable to get up one of the hills. Today’s high temperature will be ~34ºF
I got Yaktrax and those EnergeticSky on all my outdoor footwear. A good day to stay home.
RonJH- I hope your arm/shoulder is less painful today. PT is never fun. Thanks for sharing your picture of your resident squirrel. Our Alpha Grey squirrel had a bad attitude this AM. It was openly aggressive to all the reds and chasing them away from its” food source. All the reds found a safe perimeter distance and stood there barking at it.
I’d trim that branch, but it is one of the few healthy ones remaining on that pear tree.“…. Bird, that’s a sad story about your neighbor, but one too often told. In years gone by extended families took care of the old and young, the old could spend their final days in dignity, not so much today.”- Randy Sadly, I agree and I saw this a lot with my work with the elderly. Some admissions were literally dumped by their “loving” families.
I saw a few hospital and nursing home admissions of an elderly person due to malnutrition/starvation and they had refrigerators at home full of delivered meals. . Bird- Jack is lucky to have a supportive friend like you; so many others are not so lucky. Jack may be giving up or it could be related to diet (or lack), medication errors, UTI’s and other illnesses, dehydration, depression, and/or age related medical/physical/cognitive decline. Thank you for caring for Jack. We all should be so lucky as we decline.
Buppies- I suspect that your coywolf/coyote disappearances was due to being shot or poisoned.
Harv- I like the look. Looks to be pretty bear sturdy.
Bruce- Thanks. This may be our last St. B. rescue; especially one with no history. I do not know where he learned his collapse the knee takedown “trick”….. Not good. He’s unlearning that one.
Bill- I am happy to read that this round of snow management is completed.
Eric- I never saw a squirrel strip bark either. Your explanation seems good to me.
Phil- Very little road traffic here still. Our road is still frozen. The sand may be getting iced over with no traffic. I am too disgusted to post about the next pending weather system other than posting that it will be a snow to rain event for a lot of southern NE especially coastal areas.
ronjhall
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RNG. There have been a lot of post since I posted this picture. Maybe the cycle you are considering will work with this.
Here's another one. RV.Net Open Roads Forum: Class C Motorhomes: 1969 Custom VW "C"...
Surprised there was over 400 post since I posted them last year.
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Close, but no cigar, Ron. Those are the older, air cooled, VW busses that the Hippies loved so much. The Vanagons I've been messing with are considered to be the Devil's spawn by those folks, and have very little, technology wise, in common. :confused2::laughing:
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In other news, I found a renewal notice for my homeowner's insurance in the stack of mail that came while I was on the road. I was relieved to find it because I was thinking they would try to cancel the policy after the recent fire. The pile actually contained two renewal notices, one at the same premium as last year, and another almost a hundred bux lower. It seems I'm now being given credit for modern fire resistant building features like screened vents and fire resistant roof and siding. Next week I'll call the insurance agent and ask why these credits weren't applied to last year's premium, as they are not new additions to the house.:confused2::confused3:
daugen
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RNG, they were saying thank you for not burning down your home...
came in for a few minutes, had to sit down. Plain worn out. Worked straight from 8am to just past noon, got the greenhouse done, then started
on laying additional ground fabric in the garden. Helper working on that now, I'm done.
Well...had to cut the boards twice but at least was cautious the first time to see if that "fit" would work. No, too much bounce in boards, so...haul all the boards back out again, cut off another inch, and bingo they all fit in. Got them all screwed down at the ends, then laid the plastic grid floor on top and it looks the way it did before, except about an inch higher, which is what I needed. Within 30 minutes of closing the greenhouse door it was 100 degrees in there. I opened the roof vent then. Sun is mighty bright when it comes out.
fixed one birdhouse, the painted one, now have to give some serious tlc to the other one, which I built about 12 years ago.
came in for a few minutes, had to sit down. Plain worn out. Worked straight from 8am to just past noon, got the greenhouse done, then started
on laying additional ground fabric in the garden. Helper working on that now, I'm done.
Well...had to cut the boards twice but at least was cautious the first time to see if that "fit" would work. No, too much bounce in boards, so...haul all the boards back out again, cut off another inch, and bingo they all fit in. Got them all screwed down at the ends, then laid the plastic grid floor on top and it looks the way it did before, except about an inch higher, which is what I needed. Within 30 minutes of closing the greenhouse door it was 100 degrees in there. I opened the roof vent then. Sun is mighty bright when it comes out.
fixed one birdhouse, the painted one, now have to give some serious tlc to the other one, which I built about 12 years ago.
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Drew, ....you thought you didn't know what you were doing....glad you got it done:thumbsup:. The tags on those trays say "Dec 30". Is that when you planted them? Can't believe they're sprouting already
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We don’t have squirrels here. What we do have are mongoose. Seemingly cute when you first encounter but they have a nasty reputation. Not good around chickens. Not very sociable and fail terribly at their intended purpose - rodent control.
Have always found grey squirrels enjoyable to watch, but also had some destruction in attics both in NJ and Atlanta. Cats and wire screen to the rescue.
We also had chipmunks in Atlanta and one cat, Diamond, who loved playing catch and release. He didn’t have front claws. Wife got him to be an inside cat when we lived in a townhouse in Va, but he had other ideas. He was a rescue, actually picked him up in the middle of the street in NJ when he was maybe 4 weeks old. I had to feed him kitten replacement formula with a syringe until old enough to eat. Couldn’t maintain body temp so he lived in a cardboard box with a surgical glove filled with water heated in microwave. As both wife and i worked we had to take him to work and take care of him every break. Luckily work had a parking garage. This cat loved car rides. He was probably first cat in my life I actually liked. One of my favorite stories, once my wife came home from the hospital we would go for a walk, actually she’d be in her wheelchair, on our small street. One evening about 2 houses down, he sent this mastiff yelping under the car, the owner coming out to investigate what happened to his dog. Nothing other than getting too close to my wife and Diamond deciding he was going to protect his Mom. I was proud of him. He wandered off here in Hawaii when he was about 15yo. Strangely, he came around to both wife and I to say his farewells. I found and buried him a few days later.
Have always found grey squirrels enjoyable to watch, but also had some destruction in attics both in NJ and Atlanta. Cats and wire screen to the rescue.
We also had chipmunks in Atlanta and one cat, Diamond, who loved playing catch and release. He didn’t have front claws. Wife got him to be an inside cat when we lived in a townhouse in Va, but he had other ideas. He was a rescue, actually picked him up in the middle of the street in NJ when he was maybe 4 weeks old. I had to feed him kitten replacement formula with a syringe until old enough to eat. Couldn’t maintain body temp so he lived in a cardboard box with a surgical glove filled with water heated in microwave. As both wife and i worked we had to take him to work and take care of him every break. Luckily work had a parking garage. This cat loved car rides. He was probably first cat in my life I actually liked. One of my favorite stories, once my wife came home from the hospital we would go for a walk, actually she’d be in her wheelchair, on our small street. One evening about 2 houses down, he sent this mastiff yelping under the car, the owner coming out to investigate what happened to his dog. Nothing other than getting too close to my wife and Diamond deciding he was going to protect his Mom. I was proud of him. He wandered off here in Hawaii when he was about 15yo. Strangely, he came around to both wife and I to say his farewells. I found and buried him a few days later.
Bird
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All this talk about squirrels reminds me of our family physician when I was a little tyke. In fact, he came to my grandparents' home 5 miles out in the country on a dirt road to deliver me when I was born His name was Higgins and he came to this country from England. His "office" in Ardmore, OK, was one room of his house. There were pecan trees around the house, and in the backyard, he had a cage with some squirrels in it. So when kids went to the doctor, then he'd give us some pecans he'd shelled out to go feed the squirrels. My mother said Dr. Higgins said he could never eat a squirrel because their anatomy was too similar to a human's.
