brin
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You Da Man Obed...!!!! Way to go....you now have a companion for life that will protect you from all the mice, rats and rodents....
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You Da Man Obed...!!!! Way to go....you now have a companion for life that will protect you from all the mice, rats and rodents....
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clemsonfor
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Glad you kept it i dont know how you could turn away one that showed up like that just after you lost one?
Looks like my "tiger" cat that i lost end of last year. He was the best, smartest, and sweetest cat i have ever had. When i went outside (he was inside cat) he would follow me around the house at the windows and my wife said he would cry and meow. He let me hold him forever and would sit with me in the chair. Yet would sleep right beside my wife. He knew to paw at door knobs to open them, could open sliding glass doors, could open the clasp latch thing on the plastic pet food containers, could open full size night stand droors, bathroom droors etc. The reason he opened droors is cause we would put the dog food in them after the dog finished eating (were too lazy to take it to the kitchen) and so the cats would not eat it. We heard him in the bathroom one night, opening the droors and them slamming shut, we were in bed watching tv, then from around the door fram we see Tiger on his hind legs front feet in the droor pull "walking" the droor back to open it. Once open he hoped onto the counter to eat the food out of the droor. He would only open droors or cabinets with the food in them. We would rotate it and never keep it in the bath room regular. He would smell it when it was in there and not stop till he ate it all or we got up to remove it!!! Funny thing, he would never finish his food that we fed him at feeding time either?? Yet several hours latter he would be eating dog food after going through all that work.
Sorry for the long post, just brought back memories of my favorite cat.
Looks like my "tiger" cat that i lost end of last year. He was the best, smartest, and sweetest cat i have ever had. When i went outside (he was inside cat) he would follow me around the house at the windows and my wife said he would cry and meow. He let me hold him forever and would sit with me in the chair. Yet would sleep right beside my wife. He knew to paw at door knobs to open them, could open sliding glass doors, could open the clasp latch thing on the plastic pet food containers, could open full size night stand droors, bathroom droors etc. The reason he opened droors is cause we would put the dog food in them after the dog finished eating (were too lazy to take it to the kitchen) and so the cats would not eat it. We heard him in the bathroom one night, opening the droors and them slamming shut, we were in bed watching tv, then from around the door fram we see Tiger on his hind legs front feet in the droor pull "walking" the droor back to open it. Once open he hoped onto the counter to eat the food out of the droor. He would only open droors or cabinets with the food in them. We would rotate it and never keep it in the bath room regular. He would smell it when it was in there and not stop till he ate it all or we got up to remove it!!! Funny thing, he would never finish his food that we fed him at feeding time either?? Yet several hours latter he would be eating dog food after going through all that work.
Sorry for the long post, just brought back memories of my favorite cat.
MotorSeven
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I swear it was't me:laughing: Besides, our cats are grey, black & black & white. That yella' tabby is a cool color though.
Here's a thought, I have witnessed some more aggressive cats running off other cats from their territory. Obe's older cat might have been pretty good at that. Now that he's gone, the yella' tabby could exploit "new" territory un-molested.
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Obed, looks like you have been adopted by a very nice cat. One of our cats is similar in color (yellow tabby?) and he is the nicest cat you could ask for. He likes to nap with the wife or me and is adept at opening cabinet doors. He rattles the knob on the basement door when he wants to come up stairs. He was our first cat when we got him from the Humane Society 16 years ago. We usually have two or three cats (strays that wonder in) and he has accepted every one of them. I have to agree with what others on here have said in that this color of cat seem to have great personalities.
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Here's some more produce from the garden. I've been eating as much cantalope as I want recently. If I gave our little girl as much cantalope as she would eat if given the change, she would probably pop. The big pot on the stove is a canner that my wife inherited from her grandmother. Her grandmother was from the generation that didn't buy everything they eat from the grocery store.
We did not know how well our garden in the woods would do. Obviously the more sun - the better. I was afraid we might have to cut down a significant number of trees to the south of the garden in order to get enough sunlight. Our garden only gets direct sunlight part of a day each day. However, it has produced reasonably well, more than enough to make it difficult for my wife to keep up with it. I image that our thick fallow topsoil left over from clearing the woods has compensated some for less than ideal sunlight.
We did not know how well our garden in the woods would do. Obviously the more sun - the better. I was afraid we might have to cut down a significant number of trees to the south of the garden in order to get enough sunlight. Our garden only gets direct sunlight part of a day each day. However, it has produced reasonably well, more than enough to make it difficult for my wife to keep up with it. I image that our thick fallow topsoil left over from clearing the woods has compensated some for less than ideal sunlight.
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I'm looking forward to getting the railing installed on the back porch so we can finally use the back porch and deck.
We prepared 120+ 30" long by 5/16" dia. steel rods for powder coating. We wrapped wire around one end of each rod so the rods can be hung up at the paint shop where they will be powder coated. We used the same type of wire that is used to tie rebar together before pouring concrete.
Attaching the wires to 120+ rods was tedious and mind-numbing work. I eventually developed a factory line system that greatly sped up the process. I would work on batches of 10 rods. For example, I would cut 10 pieces of wire. Then I would pre-shape 10 pieces of the stiff wire. Next I would wipe the grease off the ends of 10 rods. Then I would attach the pre-shaped wire onto the end of one of the rods and twist the wire tightly with a pair of pliers. I would repeat attaching the wire to each of the remaining 9 rods. Then I would do another batch of 10.
Doing the work in batches probably increased my productivity by 4 times versus doing the whole process for one rod at a time.
Friday we dropped the rods off at the paint shop. We hope to get the rods back somewhere within the next 2 weeks. If one of the shop's big regular customers gives the shop an order, our little job will get bumped.
We prepared 120+ 30" long by 5/16" dia. steel rods for powder coating. We wrapped wire around one end of each rod so the rods can be hung up at the paint shop where they will be powder coated. We used the same type of wire that is used to tie rebar together before pouring concrete.
Attaching the wires to 120+ rods was tedious and mind-numbing work. I eventually developed a factory line system that greatly sped up the process. I would work on batches of 10 rods. For example, I would cut 10 pieces of wire. Then I would pre-shape 10 pieces of the stiff wire. Next I would wipe the grease off the ends of 10 rods. Then I would attach the pre-shaped wire onto the end of one of the rods and twist the wire tightly with a pair of pliers. I would repeat attaching the wire to each of the remaining 9 rods. Then I would do another batch of 10.
Doing the work in batches probably increased my productivity by 4 times versus doing the whole process for one rod at a time.
Friday we dropped the rods off at the paint shop. We hope to get the rods back somewhere within the next 2 weeks. If one of the shop's big regular customers gives the shop an order, our little job will get bumped.
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WBWI,here is what we did for railings
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They are about 1/2"dia, 28-30" long, black powder coated. They can in a box pre cut to length.
That's a very nice looking deck. We priced rods like that at Lowe's and the cost was about double what we are paying. However, doing the rods the way we are doing it is a lot more trouble and time.
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clemsonfor
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Is where the wire is attached going to be in the wood, so that the bare area will be hidden? I assume it is.
And i was thinking the same thing about the fertile garden soil, because of its past as a forest floor with litter layer. But in the south we prolly only need a few hours of this direct sunlight.
And i was thinking the same thing about the fertile garden soil, because of its past as a forest floor with litter layer. But in the south we prolly only need a few hours of this direct sunlight.
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Obed
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That's correct. Obed
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I don't know Rick. Are you sure?
That reminds me of how we originally found Roxanne, our old cat who recently died. Twenty years ago, we found 3 young kittens in the crawl space under our house. The mother cat never showed. A day or two after we found the 3 kittens, my wife caught our nextdoor neighbor in the act of trying to leave 3 more kittens under our house. He had apparently found the kittens under his house and was trying to sneak them into our crawl space so he wouldn't have to deal with them. Although his 3 kittens were similar in size to our 3, they did not look like our 3 kittens. There appeared to be two separate litters. However, it does seem to be quite a coincidence that both our houses ended up with kittens at the same time with no mother cats. Sometimes I wonder if all 6 kittens came from the same litter and were all initially under my neighbor's house. He might have relocated the first 3 to our house only, not realizing there were still 3 more that he hadn't seen.
We ended up keeping 2 of the 3 kittens and gave the third kitten away. I named our two kittens Sting and Roxanne. I never heard what happened to my neighbor's 3 kittens. I know he didn't keep them. He might have "given" them to the house on the other side of him.
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