Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

68F and .90 inches rain yesterday. None since midnight and a beautiful sunrise so hoping for a nice day.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[murphy1244]

Thanks Farmer and Top pop, I am truly blessed with this place.

 

[dave1949]

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some pics to follow later of our trek back to the pond, armed with loppers and clippers so that no vine was safe.

This reminds me of your deer stand discovery and an unsolicited thought I would like to pass along. If the deer population is large in that area, and since natural predation is suppressed, usually the only way they are kept within reasonable numbers is through hunting. When their population exceeds the natural carrying capacity of the native greenery, your yard plants and trees that you have worked so hard on go on the menu.

I don't hunt myself but I think hunters keep our area deer herd below a destructive level. I have no problem allowing access for deer hunting, and I have a reasonable crop of tree seedlings that survive in the under-story of my woods. Even in very rural areas where planted shrubs, flowers, trees, etc. don't exist, large numbers of deer can do long term damage to the native plants.

You may want to keep the deer hunting channels open as necessary allies and try to get a feeling on your local deer numbers to understand if or how much their population is changing. Just saying.

Our friends who live in a Cleveland suburb are over run with deer. Hunting isn't possible due to housing density. Even pinging them with a BB gun doesn't bother them anymore, they just flinch a bit and keep on munching. They eat everything.

 

[MacLawn]

Oh me boys, here it comes! The cold. Me old bones just don't like cold weather. 36º here this morning, very windy after rain all day yesterday. The tropics keep calling me...

 

[rswyan]

This reminds me of your deer stand discovery and an unsolicited thought I would like to pass along. If the deer population is large in that area, and since natural predation is suppressed, usually the only way they are kept within reasonable numbers is through hunting. When their population exceeds the natural carrying capacity of the native greenery, your yard plants and trees that you have worked so hard on go on the menu. ...

Our friends who live in a Cleveland suburb are over run with deer. ...

That's why the bag limit here in our county (Summit, just south of the Cleveland metro area) is 4 ...

 

[Larro Darro]

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How well does the 357 shoot in the Henry. Prices range up to $800 for your particular rifle new by the way. For the 22 in the $300 dollar range. Hope no Dorothy and Totos visit your hacienda

I only shot a few rounds of .38SPL through it when I bought it, so don't know how it handles the .357. I paid $300 for it, so I guess I got a pretty good deal. Actually $200 and a chain link dog pen. A lot of my collection is from folks who are having trouble paying their light bill.

I just talked to my boss. Her son works for the prison system, and he was called in to come down to Calhoun CCI, not his usual prison. Most of the tornado damage was in the parking lot, where 12 cars were flipped over. It also took down some of the perimeter fence, so all the convicts are in lock-down today. She said the drunk guy from the other night had called to apologize, and was sending some of his family by with a check. I figured that is what would happen.

We have had some periods of hard rain, but not very much of it. There are dark clouds building up in the west again, but I think the worst of the weather is past us. And it is already cooling off. It's 63F and falling.

Larro

 

[dave1949]

That's why the bag limit here in our county (Summit, just south of the Cleveland metro area) is 4 ...

The friends live in N. Royalton. They have lived in the same house since the mid-70's. Originally it was a dead end street of maybe 30 homes with woodland all around it. Now it's a through street with subdivisions all tight around it. So it goes.

 

[wngsprd]

Dave, I think I'd handle the closing the ceiling light the same as you, unless I found some other reason not to.

Drew, I see there was a tornado warning box in your area. Be safe.

RS - so much pretty snow. We're getting enough rain right now to make a foot of snow, but still in the mid-40's.

I'm getting ready to butcher my deer from Saturday. Good lean venison, anyone?

 

[ronjhall]

Send snow down here. I would like it for two day's only please.

You have to take the whole thing. Snow=Cold. for weeks on end until spring arrives.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 16F this morning and wind gust 22 mph, hate to think of what the wind chill was. We have already exceeded the forecast high of 26F with the current temp of 29F and snow flurries. Had just over 2 in snow over the weekend. Long range has some warming before cooling off again (all below normal):confused2:. Cat has been dosed by the vet, my prescriptions have been straightened out, and fireplace is warming the house. Will do some more wood splitting this afternoon.