Good morning!!!!

[deerseeker001]

Drew a Dog would alert you when the Bear comes around.

AIADW, looks like you got some exercise there, the hay bales were a pretty neat idea, assuming you had an excess of it.

well, found out where the bears come from, not to mention the little cypress pond behind my house was called Bear Pond many years ago. Funny how the realtor missed that...
It appears that the edge of the largest woodlands in NC is only about 10 miles away, an extension of the Great Dismal Swamp. So bears leave the woods to see what's happening in civilization, like where to find some nice appetizers.

what worries me is whether a bear would climb my metal fencing to get in the orchard. I'm thinking harvest time when all that fruit is out there...

was nice to mow the orchard today for the first time after the fence people left. Just gives me a good feeling looking at all those healthy trees, and well, yeah, a few that just aren't going to make it. I bought a peach tree today on sale to replace one leafless tree, but I'm going to wait a few weeks and see if they will releaf. Maybe an botanical impossibility...

 

[300UGUY]

Good morning guys, There is no way I can keep so this is where I picked it up.

Kyle, Congrats on the good news, I'm very happy for you and your family.

Great news!

 

[KevT]

what worries me is whether a bear would climb my metal fencing to get in the orchard. I'm thinking harvest time when all that fruit is out there...

If it is a little black bear then probably not, a big one will try to push through the fence, but give up after awhile. and if it is a real hungry big Brown Bear, like this one then it will rip your fence apart

Sleep well tonight

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. Smooth trip to TX, 6 houses to look at while here Monday return. Sale of house is final so will soon be homeless .

 

[mostly_gas]

Kyle good news on your daughter.

Drew bear ? :shocked:

Don and Kyle water skiing behind jet boats must be a Texas thing, getting hosed by the jet does not sound like fun for the skier but entertaining for everyone else

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning.
It has been raining most of the night and set to continue on and off for most of the day.

Yesterday I finally got around to retrieving a huge piece of slate I got a few years ago to make a hearth for the wood burning stove. In the end we didn't use it as it didn't go with the way the house fireplace stepped back behind the brickwork. No matter, once trimmed down it can do that same job for the stove in my workshop.



The slab used to form the bottom of a water tank, made in the days before we had steel or plastic, hence the hole in the bottom right corner. Didn't cost me much at the time, even so I have been really careful not to risk breaking it and loaded it onto a fresh pallet before I brought it back. Today I will wash the dirt off, see how it looks and where to cut. Any ideas on best way to polish the edge after cutting with a Stihl saw ?

Good look with the bears Drew.

 

[daugen]

up too early on a Sunday morning but at least I hope Roy is sleeping in.
Lots to do today, the prior owners of my home are coming over for a visit, elderly folk who are very nice and I'm sure it will be a nice time. Have met the husband, not the wife. I'll be cleaning and straightening for sure. And I think I'll throw a box of nine grain into the breadmaker and send them home with a loaf.

Mostly, Congratulations!! Lot of work and stress, hope it goes without a stumble and you find a marvelous new home.

Being a pacifist, my gun closet is a little slim compared to some of you guys...for sure.
But I do have an old pump shotgun my late wife was given by her father when we lived aboard our boat in Florida, he had read too many stories of Bahamian drug smugglers. I've never shot the thing so i guess I should get a box of something appropriate (all I have is birdshot now to dissuade small animals) and get my fireman helper, who has lots of guns, big hunter, normal around here, to teach me how to use it properly and safely. A browning pump with a lot of miles on it, action is slick as can be.

Not sure a bear knows what the sound of a pump shotgun round being chambered is, besides, I'm not even sure I can shoot a bear here legally. However no matter what....it will be self defense officer.

actually the only way to get rid of the bear is to remove the food source. But my birds...maybe there's an owl or two who can come down and peck the bear's head. Now that I'd like to catch on camera.

Kev, if I ever saw something like that big bear in my back yard, I'd move.

 

[ronjhall]

Coffee is done brewing. 43° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 78° with lots of sun today. Neighbor is putting a new flag pole in. I will be using PHD to put the hole in. Then its NASCAR later in the afternoon.
Good Morning All.

 

[wngsprd]

47 and clear with 78 coming this way.

Have the in-laws coming today for a visit.

 

[RoyJackson]

up too early on a Sunday morning but at least I hope Roy is sleeping in.

You bet I was sleeping in!

2015-05-03, 0621

What a glorious and productive day yesterday!! I got a fair amount done...including fixing what the township snow plow tore up last winter.

It's 39 right now...looking at a high of 77 and clear today. I did most of my list, but did not get to those work related item (a presentation and finishing a procedure). Those are today's chores...