so waht ya doin today?

[fiver]

stop runnin over the ant hills... LOL

woo hoo,, got the stupid green house finished.
all the vent windows are in, doors are done and one even slides pretty easy [no adjustment] the other opens from one side and closes from the other so I can live with it.
everything went together super easy except for the locks for the roof vents.
they had pre-drilled holes in the wrong place so I pulled them apart and re-drilled every one of them and things work super easy now.
all the panels went in perfectly straight and all of them went in the same.
we used like 8 tubes of caulk and about 350 self tapper screws and I threw their clips in the garbage.
but for 500$ plus the little extra's I added in I'm not complaining one bit.
I figure I will be in it a little less than a grand by the time I get the inner frame, benches, and the two dirt boxes filled up and built inside it.
probably fill the rest of it with gravel for a decent walking surface next year, I'll need more anyway to finish the other side of the yard.

 

[462]

My wife and I went to Home Depot to buy two geraniums to replace two potted fuchsias that had mysteriously died during Winter. The nursery department was in the midst of getting a new shipment delivered and set up for the coming weekend, and plants and shrubs were crowding the outside display and parking areas. A green thumb's paradise, to be sure.

Soon, there were four geraniums of two different colors in the cart -- she can't decide which color she likes best and which would go with the other colors in the yard. Then she spied a purple salvia, and in the cart it went. Roses!!! Two red carpet roses and a single yellow one went in the cart. The salvia went back on its table. Then a lavender tree rose went in the cart ( oh, boy is it fragrant!), and the four geraniums went back on their tables. While she was meandering amongst the roses, I grabbed two bell pepper plants -- one red and one green.

Tomorrow we go to a real nursery and buy fertilizer for the Anna apple and Elberta peach trees. The peach tree is suffering from leaf curl despite my two sprayings of copper solution, but the baby peaches are getting bigger. Last year, the tree squirrels ate the teenage peaches and some strawberries before I was able to get them netted. Three years ago, we lost six roses to the gophers, so subsequent ones have been potted, as will today's.

 

[Bret4207]

Headed to the big auction! See ya...

 

[Hawk]

Squirrels comments made me smile.
The last few years my dad was alive, he had two huge pecan trees he would harvest pecans from and sell.
Anyway, he had a bunch of squirrels that would start trying to eat the pecans before they were ready.
They would grab one, take a bite, yuk, too green and throw in down, ruining it.
Dad fought the squirrels for several years.
You should have seen the contraptions he would come up with to try ro keep them out of the trees or scare them off. None of them really worked well.
He lived In town and the neighbors thought the squirrels were so cute, so he couldn't shoot them.
We called them the squirrel wars years.

 

[Hawk]

Raining, again! Will stop later this afternoon.
Should have good weather for the BBQ tomorrow. Sunny and 79 degrees.
Got three full cut briskets marinating in turkey broiler bags in an ice chest. Will go in the smoker tonite about 9:00 PM. The rub will go on at 12:00 noon tomorrow, about three hours before they come out.
12 lbs. of sausage will go into the smoker in the morning.

 

[fiver]

why'd you say purple salvia? LOL
I owe my youngest one of those, my stupid Lab ate hers about 20 minutes after she planted it.
I told her it was payback for her dog eating my cherry tree this spring.
[she didn't eat it all, just the top 3 feet and all the branches, leaving me a 3" around 4 foot tall stump]

 

[462]

Squirrels:
One of the neighbors feed them and named them. No squirrels till that happened.
My wife thinks they are cute.
The dog barks at them, and they tease him by running along the fence top.
They climb up the oak trees, in the front of the house, jump on the roof, run across to the back side of the house, jump down on the arbor, cross a side fence to the back fence. Of, they do the reverse.

Purple salvia:
We already have a potted red one that the hummingbirds like.

Dogs:
Hmmm . . . where to start?

 

[Hawk]

My wife has a lot of "Hot Lips" Salvia, in the garden, out back. White, with a red lower lip.
Attracts a lot of bees and humming birds.

 

[popper]

Son took me and her out for Mother's Day dinner last nite, then came over and helped (guess I 'helped') replace the over the stove microwave - 65# of it. Local BB store had one marked down 100$ plus vet discount and they carried it to the car. Fortunately the mounting system is pretty standard so no mods to cabinets or wall.

 

[Intheshop]

Me and the dog played in the sprinkler (pressure washer) today. Off and on rain so kinda yucky anyway.

Been cleaning up the shop,a little bit every day. Not that it was a wreck but the equipment is so nice,it deserves to be in a spiffy environment. Need to finish the Lyman turret that's been dialed in on the big lathe for too long..... because I need the lathe for sumthin else. Also got a nice sheet metal project that is going to be some serious fun...but I can't be fumble fooing around tripping over stupid "stuff" so cleaning up with a mission.

4 days ago,cause of the Limey disease couldn't pull a bow back..... but back in the zone on that. Got a slew of arrows made up and have been shooting several times a day. The "frontline" meds they gave me felt about like a Mike Tyson punch the first cpl days but now am better and getting used to them?

 

[Pistolero]

That Lyme disease is pretty bad. A coworker had it maybe 20 years ago, got so bad he was medically
retired. He had a pump to pump in steady doses of antibiotics, but he said that they were expensive and
the insurance kept cutting him off before it was totally gone. Once he left work, never hear any more.

I hope to never get it. Darned careful with ticks, but I don't think it is as common in the midwest as the
east coast.....well, at least I hope not.

Bill

 

[Gary]

Very common in SE KS Bill; neighbor has had it twice.

 

[waco]

Had a couple city(Portland) friends come down for the weekend. Got them both on 2MOA and Sub MOA steel at 500 yards with factory ammo. YouTube video in the near future. 223,6.5cm.308

 

[Intheshop]

Sounds fun Waco,bet them boys were grinning ear to ear.

 

[Intheshop]

Think I'm gonna have to go back to road racing M/C's...... safer than recent health issues,haha.

Am feeling 1000% better than a week ago,thanks everyone for the concern and well wishes.

 

[fiver]

my yard/garage must be the neighborhood dog spot.
the first day my neighbor got his german shepherd it come over for a visit for about an hour.
the first day we moved in, CoCo come and moved in too, we were sitting in front of the garage with the door open and she just wandered up and laid down right with us and never left.

today the neighbors dog on the north side broke out of their back yard and come made him self at home in the garage since I had the walk through door open letting some extra light and the breeze blow in.
he just jumped up in my chair out there and took a nap till my oldest girl found him and took him home.
10 minutes later the little shi-Tzu on the south side come over and barked at the back garage door until I let her in the yard to play with my idiot dogs.

 

[462]

Bought a bag of potting soil and a wee one of fruit tree fertilizer, potted the roses and sprayed them with rose spray, sprinkled fruit tree fertilizer round the base of the peach and apple tree, watered front and back, threw a marinated tri-tip on the barbie.

Now, the real chore will be to keep the dog from digging round the peach tree. "But, Dad, it smells sooo good."
The stuff is organic, so not harmful, but he trots back in the house with dirt/mud on his face and leaves holes in the dirt and uprooted a viola.

 

[Ian]

Met with all the moms in various places around the state, made sort of grand tour. Weather was overcast and cool, fantastic day. Wifey gets tomorrow all to herself.

 

[Brad]

Worked 9 hours today after 14 hours yesterday. Got lots of training to do.

 

[L Ross]

Trying to get everything ready for the annual 22 BPCR rules silhouette match and the Boy's Rifle side match. My first friends will arrive late afternoon next Tuesday. So chugging along just fine, when the neighbor asks Sue and I if we would like some straw berries. Somehow they scored 3 freakin' pallets of strawberries. We took 4 flats that had 32 lbs. of strawberries. Yup, there was a little mold here and there, and some over ripe berries, but with stringent culling and trimming, we ended up with 21 quarts in the freezer. But it was an unplanned interruption. Then we decided we didn't want to burn our good fire wood for camp fires so we dropped two dead elms, blocked, split, and stacked them.
Got rid of old tires at the township cleanup day. Hauled brush, and found 8 really nice morels. Got rid of one of the rats with racing stripes under the bird feeder. Supper featuring canned venison and now enjoying a couple of fingers of Larceny bourbon and an awesome home made chili mango chocolate truffle. Damn, I love my life!