so waht ya doin today?

[JonB]

All my neighbors are considerate. I have a sneak'n suspicion I'm the inconsiderate neighbor?

Speaking of great neighbors, I clean out part of the garden today. Tomato plants, Hops, and some other plants got pulled and hauled to the City compost site. As I come back from the compost site, I see one neighbor and his Son cleaning fish. I stop by to chat, they give me a few fillets of panfish for supper. So, I'm think'n I can't possibly be the inconsiderate neighbor?

 

[RBHarter]

I'm probably the always there and annoying neighbor ...... Maybe not we keep mostly to ourselves , share a beer over the fence once in a while ........if there were a fence . I'm a slob and I know it I don't mean to be but stuff follows me home ......

 

[smokeywolf]

We have one neighbor across the road and about 100+ yards away. Four or five more within 1/4 mile. Think I'd just as soon have half that many and twice that far away.

 

[fiver]

it looks like i'll be eating ham err deer burger non stop for the next 3 months.
the wife and Littlegirl finally settled on either 107 or 114 lbs.,,, I gave up and wandered out back after the third calculation.
I'm gonna go over and divide it up with Littlegirl tomorrow and bring the rest of the stuff home we left there.
at one point the G-boy got over 'the smell' and come out with his cutting board and ceramic knife wearing his kitchen apron.
I got him some chunks of meat and we went over how to slice the pieces so they fit in the grinder, and so he didn't try to take his thumb off.
he watched me break one deer down into pieces so we could cut it up and called dib's on that ones antlers.
he come back out to claim them and held the head so I could cut the antlers off,.
then was like hey look at those squishy brains,,,, I'm glad I'm not a zombie, nobody would want to eat those.

 

[462]

Our 10-house cul-de-sac is very friendly, but we all keep to ourselves. I talk to the next-door twin brothers every month or two and we keep an eye on each others houses when gone, and my wife visits the 91 year old lady who lives across the street and I tend to her occasional odd job. It's the owner of the property that abuts the back of our house and three others who is the problem . . . a pastor. He wants to be a "good neighbor" but doesn't understand he's not, so I've given up trying to reason with him.

 

[smokeywolf]

Have one neighbor we're friendly with who lives about 3/4 mile up the road. Nice couple about 6 to 10 years younger than us. Wuhan virus has prevented get-togethers for dinner and such.

 

[smokeywolf]

Just took Tasha out for her last potty of the day. Had 3 deer laying on the grass about 30 yards northeast of the house. We purposely walked away from them and they stayed there while we were out.

 

[Bret4207]

I was thinking of you this morning, Bret. We had a cold front blow through yesterday and it was 56 at 0800, clear and calm, so time to work on some junk outside. Put a newish spare battery in the 743 Bobcat (the one with hydraulic drive problems) and tried to kick her over. Ignition wiring has a short so it's bypassed with a trigger switch for bumping engines over. Trigger switch won't work. Get test light, yep, bad switch. Crack apart the housing and find sealed switch. Pull out pocket screwdriver and short contacts, it cranks, but slowly. Fire up Buick parked next to it and run jumper cables, prime the glow plugs with a test lead, by golly she spins and eventually fires up! I don't remember how old the fuel is but probably 3-4 years. Stanadyne lubricity treatment is really good stuff. Anyway, the hydraulics weren't screaming as badly as I remembered so I aired up the tires and did some much-needed dirt work, removing a bunch of sediment that's washed down the hill and made a delta by the parking lot which is backing water up into the driveway and making a mud puddle. Made four trips up the hill with loamy silt and dumped it in my backstop foundation. Pump and left motor gradually started howling and chattering terribly again so I parked it again. Will let it cool off and see if it's better when cool. If so, I know I can get 30-45 minutes out of it at a time and boys that beats the living daylights out of a pick, shovel, and wheelbarrow!

Just got the fix-it parts for the ancient Melroe Bobcat 444 Friday. Even an old girl like that beats a shovel and a wheelbarrow! I lust for a newer machine that I would feel confident putting tracks on. The old chain drive units are not the best choice to increase traction on! Just can't justify it.

 

[Bret4207]

All my neighbors are considerate. I have a sneak'n suspicion I'm the inconsiderate neighbor?

Speaking of great neighbors, I clean out part of the garden today. Tomato plants, Hops, and some other plants got pulled and hauled to the City compost site. As I come back from the compost site, I see one neighbor and his Son cleaning fish. I stop by to chat, they give me a few fillets of panfish for supper. So, I'm think'n I can't possibly be the inconsiderate neighbor?

If you garden, why don't you have your own compost bin or pile?

 

[Bret4207]

I've always been sort of in awe of those well adjusted, socially comfortable people who have close friends that they do things with. I know people who have friends to supper or they go places in groups. Never developed that kind of relationship. Likely, it's me that is the problem, as some others have said of themselves. I do have to wonder how others manage it though.

Gords been out with this girl 3 nights in a row now. He firmly states he doesn't want a girlfriend. I'm not so sure he grasps SHE may not agree with him! She went fishing in the cold rain with him last night. Back when I was his age, that was a pretty good sign there was more than passing interest for the other side of the equation.

As Jim noted above, the weather is looking like the Season of Despair is gonna roll over us soon here in the northeast. My oldest boy says his company is trying to get a few last jobs done before cold weather ends the season. He's enroute to Buffalo, then someplace down in the Poughkeepsie area and then back up locally all in a week. Tennis courts I think he said. Then a week of cleaning equipment and that's probably it. At least then I can get some help with projects too big to handle alone.

Jeeze, I dread winter.

 

[Mitty38]

Inspecting, adjusting cleaning, sorting moulds today.

Deer have been eating my vine ripened tomatoes. Wife wants to pull out plants. I figure let them eat, till the remainder of the tomatoes ripen. I have already had my share.

 

[JonB]

If you garden, why don't you have your own compost bin or pile?

I do some composting on my standard sized single City lot...only got so much extra room, LOL.

I have a 4' x 6' DIY compost bunker made of recycled cinder blocks. Mostly what goes in there is chopped/mulched tree leaves. I fill it full in the Fall and pack it well. In the Spring, I use some as garden mulch around veggie plants to keep weeds down and hold moisture in. During the summer, as I cut the lawn, some grass clippings get used in the garden on top of the leaf mulch, but also some grass clippings get worked into the remaining leaf mulch in the compost bunker...to get things heated up.

Now, by this time of year, the leaf mulch is golden-brown compost, to be removed and tilled into the garden. Tree leaves will be falling soon, to refill the bunker. If I had a large lot, and room for another bunker or two, I'd compost my garden waste as well ...but no room. Also, if I can't compost them separately from the Leaves, I doubt it would get hot enough to kill the diseases that some of the plants carry, and will infect next years plants. Also, I generate a lot of garden waste, probably enough to fill four or five bunkers, that are sized 4' x 6'. Also, I like to go out to the City compost site a few times a week, as that's my main source of firewood...gotta be Jonny on the spot, as lots of other people troll the compost site for firewood. It's such easy cutting and many times it's already cut, and it's Free and if there is brush involved, you don't need to cleanup after yourself...the City does that for you

 

[Bret4207]

Aha! City lot, says it all!

 

[fiver]

4x6 is pretty good size.
I use a system of pallets 3 wide, with 3 separate sections.
most years it works good because I can roll everything from 1 to the other and pull the finished product from the third leaving me an empty one for the season.
last year the third one got filled with straight dirt, the one will get emptied and the second will get rolled with dirt mixed in which will leave me a half a box of dirt to mix with next years toss in stuff.
it works out to give me almost a cubic yard of good fresh new stuff to run through the boxes every year.

I've also been implementing some raised boxes out in the yard as compost as well as growing boxes, that's something I'm going to start doing more of since it gives me good layers of soil I don't have to mess with every year.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

My buddies youngest convinced me to try a 0 angle AR grip... I didnt wanna swap on my MSRs so I tried it on my MP15...

Just shot about 30/50 rounds. Its real nice in hand with palm swells and fat grip...(I have a large hand) But shouldering feels odd. Many years a muscle memory working against me Im thinkin...



Any one else use one? Im thinking might be better on a Bolt gun with a chassis that uses AR grips. On a MSR its just ODD.

CW

 

[Ian]

I don't even like the B5 grip angle. All mine wear Magpul MOE+ overmoulded grips which have the standard angle but fill the palm web a lot more than the "milspec" hand grips.

 

[L Ross]

The darned Asian Lady Beetles showed up big time today. Along with them were some biting no-see-ums, and lots of wasps. The local farmers are all combining soy beans and the beautiful weather encourages the bugs to move and look for shelter. Cold wether is forecast for Friday.

Winterizing the boat with all the bugs was unpleasant.

 

[JWFilips]

Well going down to 36 tonight but over cast! Pretty sure no frost. Lime tree and tangerine tree still outside! Got to get them in soon!
However the temps are bounding back by Wednesday for about a week! That gives me some time... I hope...And of course this week I'm busy at the Studio with Highlights for Children and High 5 magazines plus get trying to get 3 PT visits in for my wife! And my Equestrian Client is trying to get my "fill in" time for their stuff!
Damn I'm getting used to this "retirement thing" but folks are still pounding on my door!
Can't wait to August 17th 2023! At that point I will have made it through 50 years at the studio! Yes then it is time to really retire!

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

Raked & piled leaves in the new garden today, ol buddy down the road will be down to till them in, in a couple days .

We had first frost this AM

 

[Joshua]

Been out hunting for the last four days up near the Canadian border. As luck would have it I was able to take a good sized black bear. And also bagged a grouse!

p.s sorry for the sideways photo