so waht ya doin today?

[Brad]

Allen, we don’t have enough forest to really burn! Nebraska has grass fires at times but those occur far from where I am.
We don’t build for earthquakes or hurricanes either. Now tornadoes, we have those. Not a bad idea to plan on them in construction.

 

[462]

Brad,
Don't know how they would fair in your harsh climate, but round here deer don't dine on euryops (yellow daisies), ceanothus, society garlic, the various salvias, or most anything that has a purple flower.

 

[Brad]

Daisies, coneflowers, and the like do well. They like our washer and deer don’t seem to eat them. The finches do love the seed on the coneflowers.

 

[358156 hp]

We do too have forests, sort of. Nebraska National Forest

 

[Brad]

Shot a couple deer and some turkeys out at Halsey.
I would call it more of a grassland with some groves of pine planted by man.

 

[Pistolero]

The don't call it the great western prairie for nothing.

I got a real kick out of my antigun, antihunting SIL getting all bent out of shape when here expensive
shrubs and flowers kept getting eaten when she lived in NJ, rural enough to have lots of deer. She
never got along with anyone in the rest of the family, including all her siblings and parents, and when
she would rage about the deer, I had to just laugh. All the rest are hunters and fishermen. She would
never shoot a deer.....unless it was eating her high dollar shrubs. I think if she owned a gun, she might
have made an exception.

Bill

 

[Ian]

Spring-cleaned the garden pond this morning, then got a call that some friends in the next town over wanted rid of some de-commissioned telephone poles in preparation for selling and moving to a bigger ranch two counties over. So I hitched up the trailer and headed over to find 55 8' poles and about 40 that ranged from 12 to 30'. Two trips later I got most of the 8' pieces stacked up on my place and will be going back for more with a chainsaw and maybe a longer trailer. I need nine at 14' to put up the carport I've been wanting to build since forever, and a few for a chicken house and the rest to make a crib behind my 100-yard shooting butt. If I have enough left over, might make a log shooting house out of them with a live roof.

 

[Rick]

Ever cut phone poles with a chainsaw?

 

[popper]

Yoshi bake and grill mats. She bakes cookies, outdoor grill, etc. reuse able and grill grease runs off, no mess on the grate. Wash the mat in the sink. You will wear out the chain. Good for yard stuff but creosote draws pigs and is not good for us.

 

[462]

Chainsaws and creosote do not play well together. Nor chainsaws and fan palms.

 

[Rick]

Creosote wins . . . Every time and in short order.

 

[Ian]

I cut one into three pieces once with a chainsaw, what am I missing here?

 

[Rick]

Was it an old dried out pole? Ya might get away with that for awhile.

 

[Ian]

Yes, old and dry, weathered grey and only smelling slightly of creosote. Most of what I'm bringing home is the same way, some starting to get punky on the ends, but some is still pretty solid and brownish/reeky. So am I gonna burn up chains or start a major fire or what?

 

[fiver]

the bottoms are like cutting rail road ties.
the creosote just gums everything up and dulls the blades like cutting rocks.
if you got any like that buy a 50$ throw away electric saw and then throw it away.


gray and rain today close to 50 to start things out, the temp dropped enough by 3pm I had to put the flannel jacket on, when we went out to make some smore's.

I think I finally put together a recipe for the smore's that is a hit with everyone.
if you get around to it this summer or are gonna be making some give it a try.

some of that chocolate peanut butter fluff stuff spread maybe 3/16ths inch thick on one half of a graham cracker [not nutella unless you like nutella]
then that is sprinkled thin with pieces of shaved or crushed white or milk chocolate.
add in a hot toasted marshmallow squished in between another 1/2 cracker.
it's not messy and stays together enough even the 1.5 y.o. G-Boy was able to walk around the lawn eating one without making a mess.
I'm usually good for 1 toasted marshmallow, I had 3 of the smore's, and skipped the dirt pie for dessert.

 

[462]

Ian,
My experience has been that creosote dulls chains rather quickly.

 

[Intheshop]

Grass mowing here,is in the final stages of equanimity..... not quite there but,getting close.

We went from brown out about 3 weeks ago to Agusta. Management of said,is the key element in the time allotted to dinking with it. The dog is pretty much bored escorting the mower so has found laying on the porch watching the procession the best option? She hasn't completely figured it out but,knows she ain't missing a whole lot either?

Popped the 15$ 3-9X40 B$L Balvar,ebabe scope on the EDC 7-08. Going to send a mag full downrange to fine tune poi,then hit the soggy trail on a hike/hunt today. That scope is flat out some of the best glass I've "used". It's easily on par with a Luepold III .... dumbarse P.O. or whomever? had turned the wind age knob fully to a stop. Then either shot it and was scratching their head,or didn't try it "live" and just was plain ignorant about the internals and threw up their hands,sending it to the dogs on fleabay?

"I'm your huckleberry"...... fantastic scope.

 

[Intheshop]

Speaking of my "shadow"...... Cocomut,aka,shopdog,is on a pace to be 74.7 lbs fully grown.Leastwise that's what the online calcs say. She's 65#'s now.....you plug in birthday and current poundage and the sliderule'esque program spits out the weight.

She had a busy last week/Easter. A bunch of folks coming and going. She's not quite 8 months and still a puppy when people come over..... slobbering and wagging and in general just bugging the snot out of them looking for attention. She dosen't know how big or strong she is and her intimidation factor is heading off the chart. Am working on her training to "smile". Sweetest dog ever,so when meeting new folks she needs to smile,showing her upper teeth. One of her favorite toys is our old tooth brushes.... consequently, her teeth are masterpieces of colour and design.

We were at the fancy grocery store a few days ago,waiting for wife and Gdaughter. Shopdog was playing "Hallmark" and laying at my feet while I was testing the set out,fancy porch swings on display. She.....we,got 3 "viewings" as the Gdaughter calls it. 3 different women came over for some petting....one lady said,"that's the prettiest dog she'd ever seen". I showed her how we were working on the smile thing..... lady just shook her head and walked off....what? Haha.

Once all the freeloa...... errr,family left.. it's back to business. She needs to be back in the killing fields.

 

[Hawk]

We went to two Easter meals yesterday.
One for the wifes side of the family and one for my family. Worked out pretty well. Not a lot of drama.
The wife has one sister that is a major snowflake and NOT BASHFUL about blaming everyone else for everything and we were afraid she might show up to cause trouble, but she didn't.
Good day all the way around!

 

[Ian]

A few years ago there was some "reality tv" show that took silver-spoon celebrities and put them out in real-life conditions to see how they fared (Paris Hilton working at Sonic drive-in rings a bell?) Never watched it but it always amuses me when snowflakes meet reality. Here's your rifle, knife, flint and steel, and 20,000 acres of wilderness, go kill something and cook it so you don't starve. Ha.