A Turkey In The Hay 🦃

[Beachwalker]

Oh brother, what's next?!

 

[Beachwalker]

Nice cord and a half! Killed one of the new skids though, the other one is under there somewhere

Not as much Hornbeam as the last delivery, lot of Rock Maple, Beech, Birch and Ash

One more cord & a half to go, but not for several weeks.

 

[Beachwalker]

I've seen it before so I know it's true about deer laying down in the rain, but this morning when I opened the curtains there were four deer laying down in the field and several more a few hundred yards up-field, standing up

They were all looking downhill, right at me too, not sure why that was

It was too dark to get a picture and I fell back to sleep for an hour or so and they were gone when I woke up but I did see them; they look funny laying down too! Like big rabbits

 

[Beachwalker]

Noticed I hadn't tarped-up the new wood and supposed to start raining any minute so I went out about a half an hour before sunrise to get it done and walked almost right into deer on the other side of the garage!

Happens once in awhile, once I went around the corner of the garage and was within 12 - 15 ft of a big son of a gun , I usually just wave to them and keep going but that time I was really close, I froze then backed around the corner and got the hell out of there!

Hear turkeys in the east field behind the tree line just gobbling up a storm!

Finally saw one that look like a traditional turkey with the feathers all flared out and all about 2-3 weeks ago, up until that point they didn't look very 'Thanksgiving-ish'

 

[Beachwalker]

 

[Beachwalker]

Update:

A little small, but topped twice

If I want these finished by the end of June I'm going to have to flip them like now or the 20th the latest

I think I'll turn it to 16 hours of light to start them slowly towards flowering and then flip them to 12/12 on the 20th

Little light green at 450 PPM, next watering they're going up to 600

 

[Beachwalker]

All doe's tonight so I guess I've got no bucks!

 

[Beachwalker]

6am Friday 4/17 is the flip I'll grab a pic in the am

 

[Beachwalker]

6am Friday 4/17 is the flip I'll grab a pic in the am

So turns out Friday was the 18th I'm retired, don't give a damn!

Anyway they just now went into 12/12 flower at 9:00 a.m. on the 19th

 

[Beachwalker]

 

[Beachwalker]

Tree across the road, just happened. I called the volunteer fire department, they came out & made the calls to the power company

They said it's going to be tricky, need at least two lift trucks to get it down. They said the power company might send out the tree crew they use

Sure hope it doesn't slip further because it'll take out that pole but I'm more worried about people driving underneath it cuz it's pretty damn big!

 

[Beachwalker]

This crazy turkey is hanging around with the deer!

 

[Beachwalker]

First tick of the year today so there's something else I have to watch out for


won't be long till the tiny black flies are around, I call them mayflies cuz they're here in May till the first part of June but I don't know what they're really called

Stacking a new way now, going to be quicker & easier for me, I'll add up to 6 skids total (if needed) then build more stacks on the other end like bookends

Eventually I'll throw a tarp over the top of it and that plus the three 18' x 5' ft rows I have in the garage will be enough seasoned wood for next winter

 

[doublej]

First tick of the year today so there's something else I have to watch out for


won't be long till the tiny black flies are around, I call them mayflies cuz they're here in May till the first part of June but I don't know what they're really called

Stacking a new way now, going to be quicker & easier for me, I'll add up to 6 skids total (if needed) then build more stacks on the other end like bookends

Eventually I'll throw a tarp over the top of it and that plus the three 18' x 5' ft rows I have in the garage will be enough seasoned wood for next winterView attachment 98404

Your getting pretty good at this..you lookin for work?

I got alot of this still laying around needs to be cut/split and thrown in the shed...
Your getting petty good. I'd pay well for skilled labor??

Edit...no TICKS

 

[Beachwalker]

Your getting pretty good at this..you lookin for work?
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I got alot of this still laying around needs to be cut/split and thrown in the shed...
Your getting petty good. I'd pay well for skilled labor??

Edit...no TICKS

thanks but half the time I'm out there swearing at my wood, I don't need to swear at anyone else's!

If you'd ever like a quick but enjoyable read I found this book interesting, although I didn't get my new stacking idea out of it

 

[doublej]

thanks but half the time I'm out there swearing at my wood, I don't need to swear at anyone else's!

If you'd ever like a quick but enjoyable read I found this book interesting, although I didn't get my new stacking idea out of it
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Lmao is that real man...really?...

 

[Beachwalker]

Lmao is that real man...really?...

It is, it's about building one of those round wood piles and you build the roof out of wood too, I thought I'd give it a try, but once I saw how involved it was it became just another interesting read

 

[doublej]

It is, it's about building one of those round wood piles and you build the roof out of wood too, I thought I'd give it a try, but once I saw how involved it was it became just another interesting read View attachment 98420

Idk...is that a circle the wagons thing? Could be they just light it up??
Idk how you stack it bud...

Ah fk I should go find a weedeater or powersaw or something..out...

 

[Beachwalker]

Sitting at the bar by the back window yesterday afternoon when I heard a buzzing noise, looked over and three or four huge arcs of fire shot up in the air about one second apart as my electricity strobed and then went out

called the town's volunteer fire department, no one answered ...welcome to Maine

4 hours later they had it cut up, the road cleared & power restored

So we continue forward, through the fog

 

[steamroller]

Is this the time to say I told you so?
Monday noted , Thursday down, Friday cleaned up and repaired hopefully.
Good week.

 

[Beachwalker]

Is this the time to say I told you so?
Monday noted , Thursday down, Friday cleaned up and repaired hopefully.
Good week.

As much as Maine is lacking in certain infrastructure services the CMP electric crews are amazing!

I did expect it to eventually come down, but my main concern was that it would fall on a passing vehicle because there was very little holding it up, but nobody seemed to care

 

[Beachwalker]

Update:

Just finished feeding and everything is looking good this far into the stretch, I'm still feeding basic Masterblend formula at 600ppm which I'll slowly start changing towards a flowering mix

Two seem to be stretching, I'm guessing they're the 2 Kush but I didn't notice the label on the pots

The other two might need to be put up on something to lift them up a bit if the stretching gets out of hand

First night with no fire since October 28th mainly because I fell asleep right after dinner and didn't get one built but it's going to rain all weekend so I'll light one tonight

Going up on the roof today to take a look down the chimney now that it's out, neighbor was up there late February, he cleaned & adjusted the cap for me, said it looked good but I'll check it today anyway

Upper 30's° out, turned the propane up a little, temperature in the house is 68 to 70, and in the tent it's 74°

Edit: looking at the pic I realized I haven't put the HPS bulb in yet I'll get it changed tonight

 

[Zen_seeker]

Sitting at the bar by the back window yesterday afternoon when I heard a buzzing noise, looked over and three or four huge arcs of fire shot up in the air about one second apart as my electricity strobed and then went out

called the town's volunteer fire department, no one answered ...welcome to Maine

4 hours later they had it cut up, the road cleared & power restored

So we continue forward, through the fog
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Why fix it before it becomes a problem, right?

 

[Beachwalker]

Why fix it before it becomes a problem, right?

I can't believe they just left something that dangerous!

Say what you want about Massachusetts (and there's a lot to say about it) but in no Massachusetts city that I've lived in would they have left a tree dangling across a road like that

 

[Zen_seeker]

I can't believe they just left something that dangerous!

Say what you want about Massachusetts (and there's a lot to say about it) but in no Massachusetts city that I've lived in would they have left a tree dangling across a road like that

My mom was driving down the dump road. A large branch dropped. On her hood and window. Almost went into the cab. She watches now.

I can understand waiting until the next morning to get a crew in to deal with it. But not more than 24hrs after it was called in. Even just blocking the road at night could be enough to kill some one.

 

[Beachwalker]

Four murders in my general area in less than a month

One in my town, elderly woman, no arrests

police say 'no known threat to the public' but they give no other information

A lot of folks think there's a serial killer in the area

 

[Bandit420]

Four murders in my general area in less than a month

One in my town, elderly woman, no arrests

police say 'no known threat to the public' but they give no other information

A lot of folks think there's a serial killer in the area

"Rainey Street Ripper" is apparently a serial killer living in my city whacking young fellas and dumping them in the river.
However, Rainey St. is a bar scene and what's fantasized about to be a serial killer by online sleuths and what not, are drunk dudes getting too close to the edge of the water to pee, falling in, and unable to beat the current so they drown.
About every other day it seem there's also a report of a homeless person killing another homeless person.
Usually we hit around 75 homicides per year. Road rage, domestic violence, and homeless on fenty or whatever else they shoot up seem to always be the issue

 

[Stoneyluv]

i'm not sure what the murder rate is in my general area, but i know the po dunk town i live in last had one about twelve years ago. none that i can remember since. 1/2 hour away and i bet there was one last week! and less than an hour from philly and i bet there was one an hour ago.. sad!

 

[Beachwalker]

i'm not sure what the murder rate is in my general area, but i know the po dunk town i live in last had one about twelve years ago. none that i can remember since. 1/2 hour away and i bet there was one last week! and less than an hour from philly and i bet there was one an hour ago.. sad!

i'm not sure what the murder rate is in my general area, but i know the po dunk town i live in last had one about twelve years ago. none that i can remember since. 1/2 hour away and i bet there was one last week! and less than an hour from philly and i bet there was one an hour ago.. sad!

Very few people here, very uncharacteristic of this area.

I thought I left that stuff back in Boston!

 

[Beachwalker]

"Rainey Street Ripper" is apparently a serial killer living in my city whacking young fellas and dumping them in the river.
However, Rainey St. is a bar scene and what's fantasized about to be a serial killer by online sleuths and what not, are drunk dudes getting too close to the edge of the water to pee, falling in, and unable to beat the current so they drown.
About every other day it seem there's also a report of a homeless person killing another homeless person.
Usually we hit around 75 homicides per year. Road rage, domestic violence, and homeless on fenty or whatever else they shoot up seem to always be the issue

I had heard about a fight at a bar and one person was charged with the murder I think maybe even convicted, but then somehow they found out that that's exactly what happened to the dead guy, he wandered away fell in a river and drowned. I bet that happens a lot more than people think, I fell in a river once camping in New Hampshire so it does happen, it's easy to do on a few brews

 

[Beachwalker]

I made stacks like bookends and fit four skids in the middle and I'm just going to fill in the middle

Not sure if I'll have enough wood left to fill it up completely

This is a new way to stack for me, seems to be working, saves a lot of time stacking

 

[Beachwalker]

Update:

Stretch is (mostly) over

Flowering started

 

[Beachwalker]

 

[Beachwalker]

You're not going to believe this one

I was up my neighbors today and he had recently gotten a horse

Told me his emu took one look at the horse and ran off into the woods and hasn't come back for several days

Told me earlier this morning the local animal control officer had paid him a visit

It seems that another neighbor looked out their window and saw what he initially thought was an ostrich running through his back yard and called animal control

...unfortunately the emu remains missing

 

[Zen_seeker]

You're not going to believe this one

I was up my neighbors today and he had recently gotten a horse

Told me his emu took one look at the horse and ran off into the woods and hasn't come back for several days

Told me earlier this morning the local animal control officer had paid him a visit

It seems that another neighbor looked out their window and saw what he initially thought was an ostrich running through his back yard and called animal control

...unfortunately the emu remains missing

Dad has a horse hobby farm. Rents out the fields. But they have a few emu and deer farms in his area. Both have very high fences. I know deer and jump very high but I guess emu do too.

He’s told a few stories how the critters have gotten out and had to be brought home. Coyote were a problem at one point too in the early 2000’s.

 

[Beachwalker]

Well now I've seen everything!

I was passing through the house into the kitchen and I saw this coming out of my garage

I never thought I'd be trying to corral and lasso an emu, but that's just Maine for ya, I guess

Called my neighbor he came down with a big yellow tow strap, I put some cat food down shook the bag he put the tow strap loop around the bag and we had one shot at it

But emu's are not only fast they're smart too, so Ricky the emu has gone off into the woods again, neighbor says he belongs to the neighborhood now

 

[Beachwalker]

Dad has a horse hobby farm. Rents out the fields. But they have a few emu and deer farms in his area. Both have very high fences. I know deer and jump very high but I guess emu do too.

He’s told a few stories how the critters have gotten out and had to be brought home. Coyote were a problem at one point too in the early 2000’s.

I have no idea how to catch an emu and his owner wasn't sure either, he was afraid that if he did get it lassoed that he'd struggle and break his neck, so maybe it's just as well we didn't catch him

He said that he's been home, stood there for a very long time and just stared at the horse and then ran off again. He is just not going to be around that horse I guess, so good luck to him out here cuz we got coyotes, bears, bobcats and lynx and even though the government denies it people have seen timberwolves too

 

[BlueCollarBob]

Well now I've seen everything!

I was passing through the house into the kitchen and I saw this coming out of my garage

I never thought I'd be trying to corral and lasso an emu, but that's just Maine for ya, I guess

Called my neighbor he came down with a big yellow tow strap, I put some cat food down shook the bag he put the tow strap loop around the bag and we had one shot at it

But emu's are not only fast they're smart too, so Ricky the emu has gone off into the woods again, neighbor says he belongs to the neighborhood now View attachment 100368

I was going to ask if it's a good a neighbor and suggest setting a trap, if not. @stonemason, or someone on here, mentioned emu dung being great cannabis fertilizer, lol. Sounds like a good neighbor and a smart emu. Hope the emu gets home safe.

 

[Beachwalker]

I was going to ask if it's a good a neighbor and suggest setting a trap, if not. @stonemason, or someone on here, mentioned emu dung being great cannabis fertilizer, lol. Sounds like a good neighbor and a smart emu. Hope the emu gets home safe.

The continuing adventures of Ricky the emu...

Somehow he traveled a half a mile through the woods down the hill to the neighbors where I get my eggs sometimes and squared off with their beagle!

The whole road is aware of it now and everybody's having a good time laughing about it!

 

[Zen_seeker]

In honour of Ricky…