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Jim,
For even more fun, try Google Earth. Many areas now have a timeline scale so you can choose various dates. Also day view and night view. Google Earth and Bing each have advantages and competition is good so each keep coming up with new things. I started using Earth back in my genealogy research. A number of different land surveys were used across the U.S.
In states that have townships and sections in their counties there is an overlay template for that. In conjunction with the BLM Glo records available online Home - BLM GLO Records you can often find who the original land owners were and when they purchased the land from the government or when it was Granted to them. Even your ancestors signature on the documents.
The Street view in Earth is great for looking at places you may have lived in the past to see how if any they have changed as well as for ancestors if they lived in a city area. Street addresses are usually off a few blocks ( on purpose) but you can go up and down the streets until you find the properties you recognize. A caution.... if you save locations, pin them, note them, etc. be sure to save copies of your locations as seperate KMZ files in a folder outside Earth. When a major update of Google Earth is available you will lose your saved sites during the update. After the update just copy the KMZ files form your other folder and import them into the updated version of Earth.
Ron
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Yeah, I only sweated through one t-shirt today. It was cooler, but very humid. Even so, it was markedly less searing than the 105+ temperatures of the last couple of weeks.
Ron, I'm very familiar with Google Earth and Street View. It's been discussed here several years ago. I haven't used every feature or anywhere near it.
Ron,
Bing's been around awhile on TBN, several guy's have used it, or Google to show property outlines or drainage, but not usually a long thread.
There are threads on here that would take months to "dig" out:laughing: Usually if someone ask a similar question to another thread, someone recalls it and will place it for consideration, which is a big help.
One thing I have noticed is similar to this. Well Problems for instance, get allot of post on this one, but each well so different (depth, pump size, head ect, tra.) outside of the normal stuff, that a new thread is almost a given.
Sometimes I do better by asking, since the search function doesn't work near as good as the memory of some of the guy's on here.
Thanks for your information.
I just did a search test of the TBN Engine.
I see there are a lot of references spread all over the posts, probably because most of us folks tend to drift off the subject, or cute titles of the posts. Using a "Search for Titles Only" weeds it down to more about the subject, at least title wise. These posts probably drift also.
Really, that is part of what makes the forum enjoyable to me.
Ron
Drifting off subject a bit, back to gardens.
The animals always seem to know when it is time...
My wife had taken the charger back to the high tensile fence around the horse pasture last night for a little retraining lesson;
"the grass always looks greener on the other side"
This morning we found that a raccoon had pulled down some just ready to pick ears of corn in the garden where the charger had previously been doing night duty
to keep the deer out with a 4 inch wire and a 3 foot wire. The coon would have gotten his nose stung had the charger been on but he seemed to know it was safe.
There were also four deer in the orchard next to the garden picking fruit and eating leaves off the trees.
They will all be in for a surprise tonight as the charger will be back on around the garden and a live trap with a fish head awaits the coon if he makes it past the wire.
Isn't gardening fun!
Ron
The animals always seem to know when it is time...
My wife had taken the charger back to the high tensile fence around the horse pasture last night for a little retraining lesson;
"the grass always looks greener on the other side"
This morning we found that a raccoon had pulled down some just ready to pick ears of corn in the garden where the charger had previously been doing night duty
to keep the deer out with a 4 inch wire and a 3 foot wire. The coon would have gotten his nose stung had the charger been on but he seemed to know it was safe.
There were also four deer in the orchard next to the garden picking fruit and eating leaves off the trees.
They will all be in for a surprise tonight as the charger will be back on around the garden and a live trap with a fish head awaits the coon if he makes it past the wire.
Isn't gardening fun!
Ron
I gave up on my garden early, just to dry and to much effort this time around. What I did have, either got to dry or to wet. even the weeds have mostly died, if I think about it, I will try to get a photo of the under brush.
Noticed while out walking the fence the neighbor lost a huge oak tree, I have gave him some fire wood and he has cut a little, but he is like me in the sense we hate to cut a good tree. I guess he should get most of what he needs out of that big one. I have lost about 10 oaks, a few Live Oaks and all the 60 trees I planted last year.
Noticed while out walking the fence the neighbor lost a huge oak tree, I have gave him some fire wood and he has cut a little, but he is like me in the sense we hate to cut a good tree. I guess he should get most of what he needs out of that big one. I have lost about 10 oaks, a few Live Oaks and all the 60 trees I planted last year.
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I'm seeing lots of leaf-shed by my postoaks and blackjack oaks. Of course, there's a lot of this in my woods, but the trees in my yard also are in stress. However, postoaks don't particularly like being in yards and getting watered on a regular basis. I have several trees that rebel because they refuse to be "domesticated" and don't like having their shallow roots wet when I water the grass. Only the bigger and more mature trees seem to be unfazed. I have three small trees that are mostly dead and several 12" to 14" diameter trees in serious stess.