At Home In The Woods

[MotorSeven]

Yellow jacket holes don't run straight down. They go down a short bit, then run horizontal, and many have other exits. I read somewhere that a nest was over 20' from the entrance.

Here is an old thread where Sassafraspete dug one up:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/64316-opening-up-yellow-jacket-nest.html

 

[Obed]

I have installed all the Trex deck boards that we have. The hidden fasteners were too wide to fasten the ends of the boards that butted up against the outside picture frame boards so I shortened them with our Dremel.



We are two boards short so I had to stop. The two boards have been ordered.



I had to toe-nail screw the picture frame boards from underneath the porch.

 

[Obed]

I've finally started putting up shutters on the house. It took a bit longer to install the first shutter until I worked out a system. I used the FEL as a scaffold for working on the higher windows. It was just going to be extremely difficult to work on a ladder positioned on the sloping ground.

 

[MotorSeven]

The decks looking good.....did you pull that warped post yet?

FEL scaffold? You just hit the safety police's nest with a short stick:laughing: I agree, and work off my FEL manlift all the time......way safer than any ladder ever built!

 

[srs]

I've finally started putting up shutters on the house.

Obed, for what it's worth. Regarding the shutters watch down the road for bees making nests behind the shutters. Ask me how I know. I found a few 'paper' wasp nests behind my shutters and I took a garden hose and sprayed the area as best I could with a stream of water. Paper wasps apparently like to build their nests out of the weather and shutters are one place you might want to keep an eye for them. Don't want you, the wife, and especially your daughter getting hit by one of them. Place looking good, still waiting for you to start on your outbuilding project, ha!

 

[Obed]

The decks looking good.....did you pull that warped post yet?

Rick, my wife and I talked about that. We probably won't pull that post but will work around it. We will cut it off and put a 2x8 top rail over it. I don't think it will be that noticeable. Replacing the post would be more effort than I want to put into it since it is mostly a cosmetic issue.

FEL scaffold? You just hit the safety police's nest with a short stick:laughing: I agree, and work off my FEL manlift all the time......way safer than any ladder ever built!

I've heard some people talk about "real" manlifts having redundant hydraulics, etc. to keep the lift from falling in event of a major hydraulic failure. However, I'm not going to sue myself if my FEL fails while I'm on it.

Obed

 

[Obed]

Obed, you are livin' the good life now.:thumbsup: There is NUTHIN' as good as home grown peas and okra. Do you also like cornbread?

I picture is worth a 1000 words.

 

[Obed]

We've been enjoying the produce of the garden.

 

[Obed]

The scarecrow motion activated sprinkler has become mostly ineffective because the okra has grown tall and is obstructing the motion detector. We've done well this year with keeping the critters out of the garden. However, a few days ago we saw signs that something, probably a deer, chewed on one of our smaller okra plants. I immediately ordered a second scarecrow sprinkler.

 

[tony Cecil]

That all looks `tasty` and I must say we had the best luck with the garden this year......Last year good flowers, but very few potatoes, and not much of anything else......This year a banner year.....I found if I thinned the Zinnias by about forty percent that the fungus is much more easily controlled, and now that the major heat of the summer is beginning to want, I hope we have Zinnias to the frost comes.....

I`v about decided that these projects go on for the rest of our lives Tony