Good morning!!!!

[PJSprog]

I relocate skunks, possums and coons, from my backyard to h3!!.

Hahaha ... OK, there's that.

We haven't had any issues with possums or coons since my Wife's grandmother passed. She had a bad habit of feeding the outside cats by throwing food on the old deck under a bench. My wife tried in vain to convince her that she was just attracting anything that was hungry. She always did it nonetheless. We've battled with a few groundhogs in the barn, but even that hasn't been a problem over the last year or so. The current skunk is the first one we've had in a couple of years as well.

... and once he's properly ventilated, he'll be "relocated" to the edge of the field out beyond the pasture, where he'll be available as a nice meal for some lucky vulture.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Thanks Ron and Rick for the Gator blade info.

Kubota K5575-34330

Oregon 392-047

Oregon 96-047

 

[jbrumberg]

It's a little too early around here for skunks to make themselves known. By midMarch I'll be smelling them.

Skunks great mousers and love those nasty garden grubs. I've been skunked and so have quite a few (most; no St. B.'s yet) of the dogs we've owned. I'll leave them alone as long as they leave me and the dogs alone. I think the skunk and raccoon populations around here are pretty low due to mange, distemper, rabies and possibly owl predation on the skunks. Shooting is more humane than relocating.

Paul- Thanks for the picture.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Power came back on at 1:00. Too late to go into the office, so working from home now that i have internet again. I did start the small generator, extension corded to charge my phone. I really need to hardwire for generator backup.

 

[sodamo]

Rescheduled dental, taking it easy day.

 

[hawkeye08]

County "fixed" mailbox and reinstalled it without waking the dog up nor me noticing.. The wind unrolled my outside shade a bit so I have to duck down to see the end of the driveway.. I am not happy with their fix, will either replace mailbox or add brace inside to help it keep its shape..

 

[daugen]

finished my rototilling, hope not to have to do that again, now the hay goes down.
ENT called, said they were ordering a CT scan on me, said MRI was blurred. Not like I moved...
I just want them to find the missing common sense between my ears...

Wind has died down, very pretty out

 

[Looking4new]

Thanks, Jay, but Pepé Le Pew will be in no condition for biting or even spraying by the time I get within 15 feet of that trap. We don't relocate.

PJ, if you throw an old blanket you don't want to keep over the trap after Pepe is inside, he/she will stay calm while you move him/her out of the barn and to the location you want to dispatch him/her. don't jostle the cage, just carry it calmly the the location, then take the blanket off, stand upwind and do the deed.

 

[Looking4new]

Well, in the high winds last night I 'lost' a 80' spruce tree in the back yard. I guess lost isn't the right word, cause I know exactly where it is. It just isn't vertical any more. It will be cut up later in the spring after the 5' deep snow is gone.

 

[Buppies]

PJ another shooting here last night this is just wrong

Eric hope the wife gets better soon

Drew sorry about your help

Our golden when she was alive was a great skunk eraser

 

[sodamo]

Just had made in Instant Pot chicken soup from our leftover Costco rotisserie chicken. Medicinally good.

Knowing how you guys like recipes:

Feel free to determine own amounts and ingredients

1/3 to 1/2 leftover Costco chicken, large breast pieces removed and cut up and reserved, remainder of carcass broken up.

About quart of water
Onion eighthed
Clove of fresh garlic
Peppercorns
Salt

High pressure 45 minutes (long maybe, but for reason)
15 minute nature release.

Pick out bones, cartilage, skin, etc from meat, set aside. I usually miss some real small pieces.

Add
The reserved cutup chicken meat
3 large carrots thinly sliced
Minced fresh tumeric
Minced fresh ginger
Pearl barley
A bit more water.

Another 15 minutes high pressure cook and release. This time was just guessed to cook carrots and barley. Less may be good.

We added some leftover rice. I seasoned mine with celery salt, wife added some red pepper flakes.
Enjoy

Bonus for those of us with dogs and why the long initial high pressure.
All the chicken stuff removed put into vitamix with a bit of water and run until smooth resulting in the bowl of chicken goodies for the pups.
In other words everything except the plastic container and string gets eaten from that $5 chicken.

 

[toppop52]

Kubota K5575-34330

Oregon 392-047

Oregon 96-047

Thank you sir!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Eric, sorry to hear about the wifey, hope it doesn't turn out to be too serious and she can recover quickly, both for her sake and yours!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

A quick skunk story: the only skunk I have seen out here was about 10 years ago. My MIL lived with us at the time and she would constantly put cat food out on the back deck for a couple of strays. She hadn't seen this one stray that she liked for a few days. She suddenly exclaimed that the cat was back and excitingly started out the back sliding glass door, followed by my daughter. All of a sudden my son starts yelling "that's not a cat!" and also trys to get outside to protect / stop his grandma from the 'perceived' cat....just as my daughter slams his head in the door. My wife heard the commotion and exited from another door from the laundry room yelling "Mom that's not a cat...it's a skunk!" My MIL was hard of hearing and with all these people yelling at once, couldn't really hear clearly what everyone was saying. She also has very bad eyesight and wasn't wearing her eyeglasses, so she really couldn't even see that it was a skunk!

With all this commotion and loud yelling, the skunk decided to get out as quick as he could! Fortunately nobody got sprayed, son didn't sustain any injuries, and I finally convinced my MIL to stop feeding the outside critters. I really wish I would have been able to video the whole fiasco, it was hysterical from my POV!

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 36F for the start, clearing sky, light wind. Sky finished clearing, wind got brisk and gusty, high temp made it to 64F. Choir practice to start the day, bike ride in the afternoon, had planned on a couple of errands, but did not pan out.
Skunks are less likely to spray if they can't see. Cover the cage before moving and most of the time they won't spray. PJ good luck with the skunk.
Drew good luck selling your mower, sorry about your potential new helper, it is crazy how people behave about a job.
Eric hope your wife has a quick recovery, and you can cook better than these guys give you credit for
prayers for all.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Kyle, this is my fridge, French door, 25 cu ft linear compressor, I don’t know how big you need.
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Thanks. I've applied my Mfg Engineering/repairman motto to it...."A model T with air conditioning"...
Ended up getting a Whirlpool 20.? cubic foot (all that would fit the cutout). In Stainless, plain jane analog temp dial. Besides the compressor, the only moving part is the light switch.

The frost struggled to make much of an impression on my weather bucket this morning, since then it has been sunshine all the way, with radio warning fair skinned people to apply sunscreen.

Not quite working to the sunny day project list though, no time since having received temporary promotion to chief dog walker, chef and clothes-hang-out-to-dry-person, with other changes in job description to follow shortly. My wife slipped in the kitchen last night and on the way down hit her arm against the kitchen island. It was still hurting this morning so I took her down to the community hospital. X-Rays show a hairline fracture, with appointment at county hospital for tomorrow. Wish her luck - she will need it with my cooking to contend with !

sorry to hear about your wifey. Also sorry to hear about your temporary promotions. Hopefully, wifey will get well soon, so you can be demoted. My friends are over at Oxford. He sent me a photo of a marker showing that Robert Boyle figured out Boyle's law there.

finished my rototilling, hope not to have to do that again, now the hay goes down.
ENT called, said they were ordering a CT scan on me, said MRI was blurred. Not like I moved...
I just want them to find the missing common sense between my ears...

Wind has died down, very pretty out

Maybe the wind carried off that common sense, along with mine...

Got the 2 orings I needed at work. Fixed the faucet's spigot leak.

Went to doctor. Of course my BP was just right. (He saw it at it's worst last Thursday afternoon) Figures, since my previous medicine was good, it's just that it blocked more things than I believed I needed blocked... I'm just thankful that the BP is back down. The DR ran my labwork through a Mayo Clinic piece of software as an analysis tool. He said this will show my probability of having a heart attack in the next 10 years. It came back with a 5% chance. He said that part of it is numbers based on parameters of being a male, at my age of 58. He then adjusted some of the parameters to show worse case scenario, such as not being on any BP's or statin type drugs (I'm still not on statins because my triglycerides and cholesterol numbers are actually pretty good) and the worst case showed 7% chance of heart event in next 10 years. He said that's pretty normal. He mentioned a drug called Finasteride? It looks like it has plenty of drama potentially associated to using it. It is for keeping testosterone from reaching the prostate. Some men take it for male pattern baldness, but I've got a pretty good head of hair still....so don't need it for that.

RNG, Buckeye, you guys are wearing me out with the wood cutting...

Time for prayers and bed.

Good night team.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, Buckeye, you guys are wearing me out with the wood cutting...

I'm wearing ME out with the wood cutting, so that makes two of us. Buckeye, keep up the good work!:laughing:

Looks like it'll be too wet to be outside for the next week or so, but catching up on inside work will keep me plenty busy.:dance1::laughing:

Right now, another storm is coming through, the satellite internet is intermittent, and it's having a good try at ripping the roof off the back porch...:shocked:

 

[RoyJackson]

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14 right now and that's about where it's going to stay today...

Suzette's lungs have cleared up (had liquid in her lungs) and off oxygen. I hope they'll release her soon!

Eric, take care of your wifey!

Pretty stiff winds yesterday...seemed like snow squalls driving home yesterday afternoon...

 

[Looking4new]

-10 and going to a high of 10°F. Wind WNW 17 mph. Mainly sunny.
No snow in the forecast until next Saturday.

A question for you guys that cut up busted trees. My Spruce is all but 'down', 98 % of the tree is horizontal, but it is still connected to the crown by a few pieces of meat and bark and those are within arms reach and not over head. The question is would you cut the bottom side of the bends or the top side?
I will try to get pics after sunrise.

Have a good day all

 

[daugen]

Good morning all. Going to be a nice day today, nice change from rain.
Today is day to spray dormant spray on orchard, running a little late but no blooms yet, just buds.

33 going to 63 today. Not liking cold weather and that awful S word in the forecast for next week.

L4N, be careful, can be a widowmaker if trunk flies out from tension. If you aren't sure, put a rope on it.