smokeywolf
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My two outboards are both Evinrudes from the mid 1960s. The 18 HP hasn't been in the water since about '69, the 3 HP folding shank, I used last in Lake Cachuma in around 1979.
so waht ya doin today?
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fiver
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got the truck fixed,,, except for a C-clip they didn't provide in the kit.
it's just the one that holds the drive shaft into the pumpkin [rolling my eyes] sooo no big deal.
it snowed off and on all day with a little rain mixed in just to make everything wet and muddy where there isn't Ice.
I stayed in the garage and got the 3 tiered flower box all put together except for the trim [which i may or may not do] and the paint scheme.
I think I'm gonna set it out front under the awning part of the front porch that covers the water faucets, it gets a couple of hours of direct sun in the morning right there then it's shaded the rest of the day.
it's just the one that holds the drive shaft into the pumpkin [rolling my eyes] sooo no big deal.
it snowed off and on all day with a little rain mixed in just to make everything wet and muddy where there isn't Ice.
I stayed in the garage and got the 3 tiered flower box all put together except for the trim [which i may or may not do] and the paint scheme.
I think I'm gonna set it out front under the awning part of the front porch that covers the water faucets, it gets a couple of hours of direct sun in the morning right there then it's shaded the rest of the day.
smokeywolf
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Hope no real damage is done to your finger.
College Boy suffered a quad fracture of his middle finger distal phalange about a month and a half ago.
The way you phrased it is kind of funny. Dog walk using the car?
College Boy suffered a quad fracture of his middle finger distal phalange about a month and a half ago.
The way you phrased it is kind of funny. Dog walk using the car?
Ian
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My boss got a fist full of little trees in the mail from some outfit he donates to and nobody wanted themn so I took the red buds and crapemyrtles home. Got the red buds planted tonight, havent decided on the others yet. I planted a lavender cm out front about ten years ago and it hasn't grown an inch. Something about caliche? At least the redbuds are native.
Ian
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If you pour vinegar on it it foams like crazy, the stuff here us super-chalky. Definitely needs vermiculite though because it packs like crazy and excludes water. I put some old used potting soil and some black dirt from the ditch in the hole to give them a fighting chance. Trying to go shooting long range this weekend but we're expecting high, gusty wind starting at daylight and ending Sunday night. Grrr.
Ian
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Its hopeless. Parents had a "garden" which has at various times had about 20 truck loads of horse manure, composted leaves, chicken crap, and even at one point four round bales of rotten hay tilled into it with an 18hp Troy Bilt rear tine tiller. Every spring, same thing: hit it with a pick and sparks would fly. In high school I built a bunch of raised beds and imported some real dirt from two counties over. That worked until the frames rotted down. Now the whole area is covered in juniper trees.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Cold, wet and soggy here again. Not sure what will get done.
462- Getting in the car and driving someplace to take the dog for a walk. Can't imagine that. We live in totally different worlds.
Ian, hungry soil is a bear. In a high lime area like that you could use a lot of acidic peat moss in the holes and as mulch and it would probably turn into nice dirt. But hungry soil needs a hole about 10x bigger (not necessarily deeper though) than you think IME. Oddly, some clay is like that. You add and add and add to it and it just seems to eat it up. Other clays you add whatever you want and it just sits there because the soil is so cold and sterile the worms don't even got there. You have to sort of plow through and mix that stuff, takes years.
462- Getting in the car and driving someplace to take the dog for a walk. Can't imagine that. We live in totally different worlds.
Ian, hungry soil is a bear. In a high lime area like that you could use a lot of acidic peat moss in the holes and as mulch and it would probably turn into nice dirt. But hungry soil needs a hole about 10x bigger (not necessarily deeper though) than you think IME. Oddly, some clay is like that. You add and add and add to it and it just seems to eat it up. Other clays you add whatever you want and it just sits there because the soil is so cold and sterile the worms don't even got there. You have to sort of plow through and mix that stuff, takes years.
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JonB
Halcyon member
That is a sweet find [Johnson one-step]
Are you restoring an old tractor?
or just repairing a lawnmower?
Rootmanslim
Banned
Blue Angels are in town. Nice to be able to get up close and ride to show on scooter !
462
California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Bret,
Our dog had a rough 15-weeks before we got him, and there are things that bother him a lot. He's not certain of, and very watchful of people on his back trail, doesn't like anything with wheels -- bicycles, strollers, skate boards, etc. -- loud noises, and most dogs.
Walks along the beaches are problematic when bums live on them and the surrounding scrub and treed areas, and the people who let their dogs run wild and intimidate other dogs and people who may not be dog lovers.
So, we walk in areas where we are most likely to be away from modern society and alone with nature as much as possible.
Our dog had a rough 15-weeks before we got him, and there are things that bother him a lot. He's not certain of, and very watchful of people on his back trail, doesn't like anything with wheels -- bicycles, strollers, skate boards, etc. -- loud noises, and most dogs.
Walks along the beaches are problematic when bums live on them and the surrounding scrub and treed areas, and the people who let their dogs run wild and intimidate other dogs and people who may not be dog lovers.
So, we walk in areas where we are most likely to be away from modern society and alone with nature as much as possible.
fiver
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Jax is like that.
nobody she doesn't know is getting within 10' of her.
a trip inside a store is more effort than it's worth, everyone wants to pet her, and she wants nothing to do with them.
I can't even show her a picture of a hairbrush.
well dang.
Mike just called me and said my truck is done, the keys would be in it.
he doesn't even work on Saturday, and I told him I didn't need it until next week, but I guess it was buggin him so he went in and measured everything and got a part [luckily] from the local NAPA of all places.
nobody she doesn't know is getting within 10' of her.
a trip inside a store is more effort than it's worth, everyone wants to pet her, and she wants nothing to do with them.
I can't even show her a picture of a hairbrush.
well dang.
Mike just called me and said my truck is done, the keys would be in it.
he doesn't even work on Saturday, and I told him I didn't need it until next week, but I guess it was buggin him so he went in and measured everything and got a part [luckily] from the local NAPA of all places.
Ian
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I told myself I wasn't going to work today, but it was partly cloudy, cool, dry, and the wind was howling so shooting was off. Great day to put another 8 hours on the SDS Max hammer drill and genset. Got all the tee posts in the rock on a 300' run and all the short posts in for the 80' retaining wall that follows the line where my neighbor ripped out rock across my property line years ago and made the slope one giant washout. Now I need to finish cutting and wiring heavy wire panels to the short posts and haul about 5 Bobcat buckets of rock and 6-8 buckets of dirt up there to back-fill it. THEN I can roll out and start stretching fence and be done with that whole side.
Ian
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Nope. Still have an 800' straight run with a gatr in the middle, at least 60 percent of the line has never een cleared. Then another 400 plus feet again across a valley with zero cleared, lots of chainsaw work there. Then I have to go up hill 230 feet to connect with where I stopped before. And build three gates, and finish welding up three corner braces out by the road, clean and paint them, and stretch four short runs of wire there. I'm not even halfway yet, every single foot of this property line is a challenge.