Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Popgadget and DesertEagle, great pics.
that lumber fire is a "surround and drown" event for sure, let it burn out.

Ken, that's a doll house that they sprayed a coat or two of something on, which clearly does not
have enough UV additives in it. Maybe it would work under an eave or some place protected.
You'd better hose it down with something or it will fall apart. Shame.

My first set of bird houses were all painted. Some were white pine and beautiful colors and
just looked lovely lined up inside. But a year later at my friends and family I saw peeling paint,
went from nice to horrible in one year. Clearly not the right kind of paint.
I learned from that embarrassment to build out of cedar and pay attention to zero maintenance.

so maybe those complicated mansions either have to come with their own big umbrella or
they need to find shade. That area has some shade though. Perhaps that bric a brac needs to be made out of brown plastic or metal.
Bird claws can rip a lot of stuff up pretty well. Still looks pretty nice though. Perhaps time for a refresh, trip to the bench...

 

[rswyan]

RS, have you always been an avid gardener or did you get bit by the bug?

Not always ... although I have had an interest in plants from an early age. When I was very young (< 8 years old) we had a planting bed on the south side of our house in the city. Have fond memories of spending time there with my dear mother.

There was a very large sage plant we used to gather the leaves from for seasoning, as well as red and white carnations and several peony plants. Good times.

When we moved out here, I helped quite a bit in planting various things (strawberries, blueberry plants, tulips, and rhododendendrons) around the property.

I ended up losing interest in gardening as a young teen when the Old Man decided he was going to "farm" ... like he did down on the farm and I was going to be his primary source of labor (probably a lesson there for parents who currently have children: be careful of what you enforce - if you don't want to kill off their natural affinity for a thing)

Tending the two hundred tomato plants and all the rest of it (plot was around an acre in size) day after day during the long hot summer became just a little much.

Regardless, it was a worthwhile experience ... from a number of different aspects.

Later, as an adult, I regained my interest in growing things and puttered with it over the years when I had the time.

I do have to say, that at this point, I do find working in the dirt thoroughly enjoyable ... and am glad my parents helped me find an appreciation for it.

You have done amazing things with that property, must be a real delight to look out and see things you planted bloom.

Or at least still be there and not munched...

Indeed ...

Hope the zooming went well and the pain isn't too bad.

 

[sodamo]

Roy I am a pack rack too every time I get rid of something I need it the following week.

Glad you are feeling better

Ditto

 

[buckeyefarmer]

RS, nice seat. I need something like that.

I look at all those flower beds and think of the weeding that goes with it. My wife takes care of all of her flower beds and it’s non stop weeding. She does a lot of the gardening weeding also. Last year I bought a couple plastic seats my wife saw someone have, mine broke about the 2nd use, hers broke soon after.

57° and raining.

I messed up a couple times today. Sound went off during live-streaming Bible class. Sound dropped at one point, I turned off speaker remote, and it made a load popping noise over the speaker system. It ended up being dead batteries in the mics, but since I replaced those last week I wasn’t expecting that. Well, several people told me later they thought it was gun fire when the speakers popped. . Then when minister started his sermon I forgot to switch to his slide deck on the screen as I was adjusting audio. But a good worship.

Wife still has bad cold.

 

[Looking4new]

I got the dump run done. Lifted up the trailer with the bucket on the tractor and lo and behold, the framework that the hitch bolts to is gone, like rotted right out. IF I can find an affordable welder I may be able to fix it...but is it really worth it? The trailer was built in 1992 by D.E.W. Industries (they had the contract for the MoD [Ministry of Defense]), this trailer is a direct copy of an American Army M416. It is called a M101CDN2. Only rated for 1/4 ton, but I have had a ton on it in the past. It has 9 leaves in the leaf springs.
Decisions, decisions.

 

[daugen]

happy to see the first bag potato popping up, concept proven.

thought the electric fence switch was off, tested system quite effectively by hitting my elbow on line,
zap, snap, yikes. Yup, it works just fine. Never did get that radish pulled, elbow felt like someone had hit
the "funny bone". Middle of the day, bright sun, that solar charger is pumping out a full charge for sure.

Unplanned tests aside, got the lawn mowed.
I mow at 2.5 inches; that's what I mowed at on the farm, and 2.25 inches in some spots where that Southern grass liked a closer shave.
This stuff is 1/3 weeds, overwhelmed by a variety of invasive weeds.

rain coming in around dinner time, continuing into tonight, about 1/4 inch. I watered everything anyway

 

[Thomas]

70F clear sky light breeze...good day for t shirt weather

Did some puttering and prep area for next winter wood I'll start this Friday...I was inform by the Mrs. no more than couple cords week...yup .

Time put chicken potatoes onions peppers on the grill enjoy and we enjoy the first dinner of the year on the deck.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[toppop52]

Thanks ... don't recall where I originally saw it, but I liked it too.

Tends to work out well if there's a decent amount of shade.

The hosta we removed from the west side of the shop got "full sun" and they were not thriving. They would look decent in the spring but by mid-summer they were looking pretty ugly.

We had that problem last year behind the big deck, full morning sun pretty much did them in by July.

 

[toppop52]

Today was very busy with very few accomplishments. I had two jobs planned and a trip to HD. Guess which one got done?
I bought a DeWalt reciprocating saw. It’s an XR, whatever that means. 20v I caught a deal that included a 5 ah battery and charger for just about the price of the saw. I’d always had DeWalts until the fire five years ago. I bought a cheapie HF unit that actually worked ok, but three months later they stopped production and I couldn’t get batteries. I could have rebuild the battery I had but I didn’t tell my wife that, I wanted a shiny new one.
Upper 60s with clouds and sun, a 15 minute shower came through while we were in town at Outback. Got home and not a drop. My grass is starting to falter from lack of rain.
Have a good evening.

 

[daugen]

Now here's a sign of the tractor times...
Russians steal $5M worth of heavy JD ag equipment including combines from Ukrainian dealer.
Dealership contacts JD apparently and these units can be turned off remotely. Currently the Russians can't start any of it.
I wonder if all JD owners know this...

we were supposed to get a little rain but it seems to have fizzled out.
45 minutes left on online auction, I have to sit here and make sure no last minute Louise
snatches one of my items.

I need a day off tomorrow. Burpee finally sent me the order of a dozen mixed calladium bulbs. Need to plant them tomorrow in shady spot.
High end deer food.