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A Turkey In The Hay 🦃

Beachwalker said:
Haven't smoked a joint since early December, not going to start now

5.3 g Hashish

Only two or three grams left in the Kif jar for one more pressing and then I've got to get to shaking! 😕

I can probably find dry ice up here, I might look into it cuz I don't need to shake all that Kif quarter oz at a time, my elbows played from four winters of swinging a pickeroon at firewood 🪵🪓😩
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So I'm going to be pressing hash again 😕 seems like all I ever do

And this pressing is going to empty my kif jar so next time I'll be shaking the kif again in my pollen separator, man I hate that

I've got to start doing dry ice extraction cuz I'm never going to do those bags again, I had a set of them years ago, sent the damn things back, what a sloppy mess they are!
 
I have a tumbler and screens to make kief for hash.
The screens are manual labor and part art but the tumbler is easy peasy.
I have never done ice hash so ?
Here is a thread on tumbling and some of the tumblers different members use.

Kief tumbler

Rosintech 500 dry sift tumbler 150 micron screen Someone asked if it is worth tumbling trim? I had about 2.5 lbs of dried trim. 1100 gms. Tumbled approx 350 gm at a time. Results, tumbled each batch for 12 min with 6 quarters in with each batch. Results were 14 gms of kif or a 1.5% return. A...
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There some DIY tumblers and one member using a flour sifter/vibrating type tumbler that works pretty well and is cheap.
 
Beachwalker said:
Thank you, it's been a long period of inaction so I expected it, but I did push it a bit yesterday.

Hope you're feeling better from your cold!

Still have about half of this to split (it's 5 stack's deep) 🤦🏻View attachment 91090
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Small bites man. I forget shovelling can be detrimental to our health these days. Splitting woods in that same category.
 
Pipecarver said:
I gotta get a few auto's going outside this year. I've never grown them outside here, tried a few indoors but I'd rather do fem Photo's. Our weather just sucks but every 4-5-6 years we get a nice one and I could flower fine.

I'll still need to build a small green house to shelter them from too much rain but I've built a few A frame tents out of plastic sheets that work okay. I even put in fans to blow through them but powdery mildew hit them & or bud rot so I've stopped outside altogether.....until this year maybe...lol
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I’ll be trying and auto or two outside this year. Apparently they stay on the shorter side.
 
Right!!! So far I've found big cat scat twice, but I think the most concerning was what I'm told is a bear print in the snow 3 ft from my back stairs last November 😳 (my foot bottom right for size reference)IMG_20250106_130513.jpg

By the way that's a Canadian lynx, just saying! 😂🤣😂
 
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Right!!! So far I've found big cat scat twice, but I think the most concerning was what I'm told is a bear print in the snow 3 ft from my back stairs last November 😳 (my foot bottom right for size reference)View attachment 92388

By the way that's a Canadian lynx, just saying! 😂🤣😂
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You north of the border or is it lost? 😝

You must have a lot of rabbits in the area. Or at least you used too.

Been a while since we saw any signs of a bear at either of my parents but fox, coyote, bobcat/lynx and smaller river dwellers take turns being a nuisance. Seems they like my mom’s neighbours chickens.
 
Zen_seeker said:
You north of the border or is it lost? 😝

You must have a lot of rabbits in the area. Or at least you used too.

Been a while since we saw any signs of a bear at either of my parents but fox, coyote, bobcat/lynx and smaller river dwellers take turns being a nuisance. Seems they like my mom’s neighbours chickens.
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North Central Maine, and we have everything you mentioned here and then some, it's a real eye opener for a city boy like me

Last fall a neighbor reported on FB seeing a pack of 4 or 5 red Timberwolves at the top of my street and about a mile further down the crossroad, no pictures but a bunch of neighbors from around that area chimed in and said they have seen them too, I've heard howling but assumed it was coyotes?

I've never seen a rabbit, I think there's too many hawks and eagles for them to be running around (but I have seen some rabbit tracks in the snow here and there) same with squirrels not too many of them either but we have tons of deer and turkey and God knows what else is out there!

That's my bird feeder 😳IMG_20250206_155010.jpg
 
We've been up through your area a few times, stayed in Gorham, Bethel, zigzagged through going up and down to Ottawa, I prefer that way although it takes a bit longer than driving through Canada. Well we did anyways, with our dollar now it would be too expensive. In the past it was a bit cheaper with gas,food accommodations and I loved driving through the countryside with all the old farm homes and rolling hills. Much better than driving freeways and I've always had a hankering for Bud, the Usa Bud not our Canadian Bud.

The tall glass bottles on a hot Day...ah yes. last time it cost me almost $400+ for a 24 pack of tall 16oz Bud in bottles. Closer to $500, gas, food,duty,taxes beer and a bottle of Everclear on a 14 hr return trip one hot summer day 2 years ago...Dam I like that Bud, I might make another run this summer if we're not lobbing war heads at one another by then....lol, it was a fun day with my son & 20 joints
 
Pipecarver said:
We've been up through your area a few times, stayed in Gorham, Bethel, zigzagged through going up and down to Ottawa, I prefer that way although it takes a bit longer than driving through Canada. Well we did anyways, with our dollar now it would be too expensive. In the past it was a bit cheaper with gas,food accommodations and I loved driving through the countryside with all the old farm homes and rolling hills. Much better than driving freeways and I've always had a hankering for Bud, the Usa Bud not our Canadian Bud.

The tall glass bottles on a hot Day...ah yes. last time it cost me almost $400+ for a 24 pack of tall 16oz Bud in bottles. Closer to $500, gas, food,duty,taxes beer and a bottle of Everclear on a 14 hr return trip one hot summer day 2 years ago...Dam I like that Bud, I might make another run this summer if we're not lobbing war heads at one another by then....lol, it was a fun day with my son & 20 joints
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Let me know if you're passing by this summer!

I drink Miller but I've had my share of tallboy Buds back in Brighton believe me, it was our local drink in our pubs!

You notice I mentioned that was a CANADIAN lynx?? And what's the deal with the Timberwolves?

Maine denies they're here, but tons of people are catching them on their trail cams down here, apparently they're making more illegal border crossings than the Chinese!😯 (😂🤣😂)
 
Beachwalker said:
North Central Maine, and we have everything you mentioned here and then some, it's a real eye opener for a city boy like me
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Living the dream. 👍🪼

Beachwalker said:
Last fall a neighbor reported on FB seeing a pack of 4 or 5 red Timberwolves at the top of my street and about a mile further down the crossroad, no pictures but a bunch of neighbors from around that area chimed in and said they have seen them too, I've heard howling but assumed it was coyotes?
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My dads had wolves in his area. Guy across the street hunts them a coyote depending on the rules each year. I’ve gone after his coyotes too. They can spook the horses. One died hung up on the back fence years ago.

Beachwalker said:
I've never seen a rabbit, I think there's too many hawks and eagles for them to be running around (but I have seen some rabbit tracks in the snow here and there) same with squirrels not too many of them either but we have tons of deer and turkey and God knows what else is out there!
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They are most active at night. We’ve had them in our yard since just before covid. See them in the late evening or early mornings. Apparently they are all over the neighborhood these days. Son sees them and coyotes while walking the dog in the evenings.

Willow and I had a fox pace us one evening last fall. But my sons seen two coyotes a block from home in our residential street walking the dog at night.IMG_1235.jpeg

Rabbit in one of our gardens.
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We even had one or two deer walking down the middle of the main road over lockdown. That’s nuts in the middle of the city. Little big to hide in parks like the fox or coyotes.

Beachwalker said:
That's my bird feeder 😳View attachment 92390
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Very cool. Haven’t seen any in the city since I was a kid. A few at my dads farm. Turkey are always at my moms. Hopping/flying over the river to the fields on the other side. They both have lots of deer.
 
Never seen wolves or coyotes here, just hear howling once in a while

we did have coyotes back in the Boston area believe it or not but I didn't see them either just news reports of them in the area

I did however see one red fox here, it walked in my driveway and right past the front of my house right under my window, kind of cool reminded me a little bit of a dog

I also saw what I think is a porcupine couple hundred yards up the road in the ditch I got some pictures but they're pretty shitty and eventually I annoyed it enough trying to get it to look up that it just walked away and I couldn't get a better pic
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Just one was a hermy, the Onyx whatever the hell it was (bottom pic), zoom in & you can see the seeds, it's got hundreds of tiny little seeds in it, threw no pollen so the Purple Crush is going to at least be smokable.

Emu & goats, neighbors house, it's like a zoo! 🙂IMG_20250310_132243.jpgIMG_20250310_132241.jpg
 
I've been yelling about the gps Hermes and rightfully so , but gotta give credit where credits due

The purple crunch or Crush whatever it is, it's dried but not cured yet & I got a pretty good buzz from it

maybe because I haven't smoked a joint since early December, only hashish, I don't know but I put it out halfway 🤤
 
Emu means wild pig in Thai....thats my nickname.....Cute menagerie....Hash that doesnt make you cough would be a gr8 invention....
 
Man I split some wood today I tell you what! I got my deck filled up and I got a lot split in the garage too! I'm tired and sore and I slept thru dinner till just now 😞

I've only got eight stacks left outside and half of those are rounds, I'm going to split some of them Sunday, as Saturday is a rest day
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Beachwalker said:
Man I split some wood today I tell you what! I got my deck filled up and I got a lot split in the garage too! I'm tired and sore and I slept thru dinner till just now 😞

I've only got eight stacks left outside and half of those are rounds, I'm going to split some of them Sunday, as Saturday is a rest day
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Firewood warms ya up a few times 🤔
I gotta go get more myself, pretty good though haven't had to cut in a few months.
Wood splitter might be a good investment buddy. It's still work don't get me wrong. Just not as hard on the body. We burn almost 6-8 cord a year. 90% of that i bring home myself..im not splitting all that by hand.
Up here in the PNW it's a lifestyle much like other places, the heat is different, better, feel it in the bones kinda warm.
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Well fuck better get the powersaw sharp.
 
doublej said:
Firewood warms ya up a few times 🤔
I gotta go get more myself, pretty good though haven't had to cut in a few months.
Wood splitter might be a good investment buddy. It's still work don't get me wrong. Just not as hard on the body. We burn almost 6-8 cord a year. 90% of that i bring home myself..im not splitting all that by hand.
Up here in the PNW it's a lifestyle much like other places, the heat is different, better, feel it in the bones kinda warm.
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Well fuck better get the powersaw sharp.
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Waaay ahead on this one! This little son of a gun is impressive! this 6.5 ton Wen is a lot more machine than I thought it would be, I'm hoping it lasts awhile. It's a hell of a lot of fun too!IMG_20250314_114742.jpg
 
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Waaay ahead on this one! This little son of a gun is impressive! this 6.5 ton Wen is a lot more machine than I thought it would be, I'm hoping it lasts awhile. It's a hell of a lot of fun too!View attachment 93264
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Yes sir...I've got 2 of them. It's the best way to go for me. Unless your back is good...mines not! I like to think it's smarter...

Fucking firewood anyway 😠
Oh well...it is what it is...and all the other b.s. lines they got....fff...
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In the four winters I've been in Maine I've noticed at some point the deer disappear for weeks

But they were back this morning, it was before dawn and they were three or four hundred feet up the rainy foggy field so I couldn't get a picture

What I saw was about 8 - 10 babies the size of puppies walking in a row! ☺️

The mother must have already gone through the woods and was crossing the road first, and all the babies were loosely lined up behind her, it was pretty cool

Now that they're back eventually I'll get some pics before they get too big
 
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Here they are looking a little perkier than they did after their topping in that picture above

Moving into their final 3 gallon pots this weekend

Edit: I'm playing with the idea of putting these plants outside in June

If I do I'll probably pull the Green Point Hermes and just grow the others

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