Recent content by sixdogs

That kid will remember that smile forever. :)

I believe Gene Hackman's wife died from that and he died from needing the care she provided.

That's what I'm afraid of.

Does anyone have a guestimate on the price of a roll-up door for my newly insulated 42x60 ft barn? The front door opening is maybe 17 or 18 ft wide by 13 or 14 ft high. I think the cost will scare me and I don't want to ask someone about price until I'm more serious. Any estimate or experience...

Well, if it's really cold it will be because of "climate change". If it's really warm, the cause will be "global warming". In my decades of watching the weather, I'll say almost all temperatures with range between average highs and average lows for the last 100 years and snowfalls will range...

No one nearby.

I'm honored to know him. He is a perfectionist and on a professionally judged classic car show scored either 999 or 1000 points out of 1000. Almost no one is that good.

I don't think so. Whatever way the wind blows.

How to get rid of a stump when you're old school. My (almost) 80 year old friend had to get rid of a row of trees and this is how he did it. Apparently, it's how he's always done it and no big deal. He dug it out, sawed the roots off and usually waited for the wind to blow it over. He is a...

In the flat, midwest Ohio, we have water-holding, high organic matter black-clayish dirt. Guys used to rip 20"+ until studies showed that deep ripping of the soil here caused an inversion of layers that was destructive to crops. It solved the water issue but could create another. Through...

That's my post above. I don't think I should have done the root saturation method for epsom salts and I used too much. I'm from the more is better crowd and this happens sometimes. We've had a lot of rainfall this year and I now have 8 ft tall tomato plants. It's not as much plant growth as...

Get some Amish or organic milk that is not-homoginized. Then a glass of big box or grocery store milk and let me know what you think. We drink skim, non- fat milk. Spoiler alert: do this test outside so when you spit out the factory-farm milk it makes less of a mess.

Corn was difficult this year in that a mini-burst of wind, coupled with heavy rain and a severe thunderstorm knocked down or twisted up a lot of my patch. Still, we got enough to eat by hand-pollinating the twisted mess. We should get a few dozen and here is a sample. Look at the size of these...

Better Idea would be to epoxy the floor ASAP before it's full of stuff you'll later have to move. Same with insulation. Do it now. If you do epoxy the floor, use solvent based epoxy only, for durability. Also, prep the floor correctly. The epoxy I used was Sherwin Williams 9000 or something...