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March
Mar 3, 2011 23:01:58 GMT -4
Post by azlonerider on Mar 3, 2011 23:01:58 GMT -4
Tell Sandy to get better soon and to keep those wounds clean!!
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March
Mar 4, 2011 7:43:05 GMT -4
Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Mar 4, 2011 7:43:05 GMT -4
I will, and thanks. 10 days with sutures in will be the hard part for her. I'm thankful I took all those first aid classes when I was younger. Looks like she broke her wrist, I buried her in bandages.
Therms. are both hovering around -16 at the moment. Thank God it's dead calm. Even a breeze makes it tough at these temps.
If I had a way to clear snow from my pasture and around my small animal building, I could get some Jersey bull calves for free. Hopefully I'll be set up for it by next spring. I don't have the grass for bovine beasties, but they are excellent for bartering. I really enjoy bottle feeding animals. Making sure they get colostrum is the hard part. Pisses me off these milk farmers dont leave the calves on teat for a week. The milk is bloody for 4 or 5 days anyway, why not give it to the calf? Its not "economically feasible". dinks.
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March
Mar 4, 2011 7:47:37 GMT -4
Post by capecmom on Mar 4, 2011 7:47:37 GMT -4
Tell Sandy to take care! That must have really hurt :-[Especially on the hand!
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March
Mar 4, 2011 17:44:13 GMT -4
Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Mar 4, 2011 17:44:13 GMT -4
I'll tell her. She's PETRIFIED of needles, too. She covered her head with a blanket in the hospital and only came out when they were done.
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March
Mar 4, 2011 19:59:07 GMT -4
Post by rAcErRicK on Mar 4, 2011 19:59:07 GMT -4
;D ;D
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March
Mar 5, 2011 7:33:54 GMT -4
Post by capecmom on Mar 5, 2011 7:33:54 GMT -4
Well my little Cam Man got the Science Whiz award at school! When I walked into the classroom all of the other kids just handed her posters of what they had done for their projects. You should have seen the teacher when she took his project from me and peeked into the basket. "Oooooh!" like-wow-he actually did a project!
I was stoked for him ;D
Might start some seeds today-we'll see how it goes.....
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March
Mar 5, 2011 8:07:49 GMT -4
Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Mar 5, 2011 8:07:49 GMT -4
Thats awesome! LOL @ like- wow.
Been meandering around Al Gore's intranets all week, 'seeing' these warmer weather people starting seeds, some are planting in the ground......I need a greenhouse. Best I can do is bean sproutys. They dont have to be so damn happy about it! lol
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March
Mar 5, 2011 10:23:20 GMT -4
Post by azlonerider on Mar 5, 2011 10:23:20 GMT -4
Rick, I hear you... I live in AZ and it's still too cold to plant here. Although there are those a lower elevations who are planting. It's gonna be another month before I can get plants in the ground.
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March
Mar 5, 2011 10:43:27 GMT -4
Post by nhlivefreeordie on Mar 5, 2011 10:43:27 GMT -4
THAT IS AWESOME JULIE!!!
I bet he felt good about it too.
We are starting tomatoes in flats on the heat mats today.
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March
Mar 5, 2011 10:48:07 GMT -4
Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Mar 5, 2011 10:48:07 GMT -4
ONE month? May 15 is the official date here, although I start earlier. I'll dig out my cold frame from the snow bank and stick my therm. sensor in there, It records the highs and lows. Believe it or not, horse poop lets off great heat, enough to turn it into a hothouse in most cases. My Grandfather would put it about 10" of poop , and set his trays on it and it never froze. And that was with single pane glass. Imagine what thermal panes would do.... Anyone have a horse or 10? lol
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March
Mar 5, 2011 10:53:10 GMT -4
Post by nhlivefreeordie on Mar 5, 2011 10:53:10 GMT -4
Anyone have a horse or 10? lol I have a friend that has 3 and I could get manure from him, but I have no good place to let it sit.
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March
Mar 6, 2011 8:18:49 GMT -4
Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Mar 6, 2011 8:18:49 GMT -4
It appears to have stayed in the mid forties all night, with a good stiff breeze. 2 nights ago, 6 below. Gotta love Uppah New England. The snowbanks shrunk alot overnight, with lots of evaporation. The puddles arent as big as i would have expected. A sure sign of warmer days to come. Mud Season cant be far away.
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March
Mar 6, 2011 21:49:10 GMT -4
Post by azlonerider on Mar 6, 2011 21:49:10 GMT -4
I was a bum all morning then my wife and got out in the yard. Got all the gate posts set for the garden extension and for the gate I'm fixing. While I was digging holes and setting the posts my wife and son raked out the extension area. Once the post setting and the raking was done I used the quad to move the big 3'X3'X3' rock boxes in. The rock boxes are from a cement company, I've had them filled with soil so they are too big and heavy to move by hand, but you get an almost 300 pound dude on a 350cc 4X4 quad and you'd be surprised what will move. Anyway we moved those, a table, and several other pots into the area. This week after work we'll pound in the t-post's and stretch the fence.
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March
Mar 6, 2011 21:55:21 GMT -4
Post by ☼ ЯÏĊk ☺ on Mar 6, 2011 21:55:21 GMT -4
Ah, pounding T posts. My shoulder throbs and aches just thinking about it. Better than a post hole digger by far though. No backfilling! AND they'll last as long as we do.
I pulled a HUGE maple log with my old polaris 400, I just snugged up the chain so it pulled down on the rear end. Shocked me how easy it went.
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March
Mar 6, 2011 22:18:02 GMT -4
Post by rAcErRicK on Mar 6, 2011 22:18:02 GMT -4
Quads are tuff. Have a 400 Suzi with way oversized mud lites, and am still looking for something it won't move. ;D We had to build two 30' bridges over a swollen creek for our last race, and my Suzi pulled all 4, 35' power poles across the creek and drug them up the bank on the other side. Ppl were amazed at it. (meto)(the bridges are in the vid) She started to spin once and a huge lad got on the front rack, and another on the back, Suzi just bucked and jumped one time and the mud lites dug in and crawled it right on up.
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