<~•~>Freakin Friday<~•~>
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Deployed poison ivy killer last night. Try to avoid herbicide use but poison ivy is an exception.
Went analog and felled a diseased tree with an axe. There's something incredibly satisfying about a good, sharp axe biting into wood.
Had a pretty funny day, my offsider went to take a bleeder out of a diesel filter housing, as soon as he put a spanner on it it shot out and diesel sprayed everywhere, we had to remove the housing and tap a new thread.
Then he went to replace a wiper arm and there was no thread to hold it down so I buzzed it with the flapper wheel and tapped it down to M8.
Put a new air horn on, hit the button and it keeps going at half volume after releasing the button, remove the power wires same thing, haha! Turned out coz the old one had failed there was water in the air line, once that blew out it was okay.
Then he went to replace a wiper arm and there was no thread to hold it down so I buzzed it with the flapper wheel and tapped it down to M8.
Put a new air horn on, hit the button and it keeps going at half volume after releasing the button, remove the power wires same thing, haha! Turned out coz the old one had failed there was water in the air line, once that blew out it was okay.
Apparently we set a rain fall record. It's pretty damp out there.
Booo........Back is not improving.
Probably about to rain, I need to do brakes on both cars, and will have to do it outside.
Wife is in Amsterdam, this is her bags.
Wife is in Amsterdam, this is her bags.
Supposed to get all the moist that CO has been getting today. Tucked away the planters in their respective barns this morning. Hopefully that will make it not rain as much.
I keep waking up with headaches and don't feel like I've slept enough, so tonight I've dusted off the oximiter.
somebody's gonna kill that fucking rooster, and with each day that passes there is an increasingly likelihood that i will
i'm fairly certain a lot of that is supplies to distribute
How many months will she be there?
Here. Too much work today. Need to schedule appt for car inspection ASAP so that we can get trailer and kart dealt with.
Showed Haley her new kart and her first comment is that it's neon green and not blue anymore. She fucking kills me. Her entire race kit is blue and black, so I get her position, but she's killing me. I told her that she's free to buy a sticker kit that she likes, but I doubt she wants to front a couple hundred bucks for it.
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Showed Haley her new kart and her first comment is that it's neon green and not blue anymore. She fucking kills me. Her entire race kit is blue and black, so I get her position, but she's killing me. I told her that she's free to buy a sticker kit that she likes, but I doubt she wants to front a couple hundred bucks for it.
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Let me know if you want any advice on poison ivy removal. I have had surprisingly good luck with my method (it's not all that fancy).
Deployed poison ivy killer last night. Try to avoid herbicide use but poison ivy is an exception.
Went analog and felled a diseased tree with an axe. There's something incredibly satisfying about a good, sharp axe biting into wood.
9 days, that is medical supplies, body bags, chest seals, water filters, and much more.
How many months will she be there?
Slept like a brick in the mobile bong shed. Fed and walked the dogs at dawn. Now attempting to motivate myself to put on my uniform and walk the 200 yards to the med station
I was listening to this over the weekend... https://www.npr.org/2023/01/19/1150090484/ukraine-under-the-counter
turns out getting medical supplies to Ukraine isn't as easy as you'd think... (if you even think about that sort of thing at all!)
good on her for gettin' it done.
This is my life now.
Bad sleep? Headaches.
Dehydrated? Headaches.
Raccoons outside my bedroom window? Headaches.
Coughing after a ride? Headaches.
I really need to see a doc to make sure the medication I'm taking isn't messing with my body and head (its for my brain piece). But alas...
I mean sure beats kidney stones though!
Listening...
I'm all ears. Poison ivy is my nemesis.Let me know if you want any advice on poison ivy removal. I have had surprisingly good luck with my method (it's not all that fancy).
Started my day early today. The world moves at a different pace even an hour earlier.
My new bass is awesome. The sell off of my others continues.
My new bass is awesome. The sell off of my others continues.
Morning Monkeys.
Spent my morning filing defects that have been bugging me all week, so now they are official and stuff. Gonna be a hot one this weekend, need to find a river to swim in or something.
Spent my morning filing defects that have been bugging me all week, so now they are official and stuff. Gonna be a hot one this weekend, need to find a river to swim in or something.
Man, even here in Freedum land having a rooster in residential area is illegal. I'd have been hunting it down day one.
I actually don't think it's illegal up here... but I've not checked into it, TBH.
Awesome. I don't want to sound like a knowitall, but this worked extensively well for me in eastern MA, and I have a mostly poison ivy free yard.
I use a combination of Bayer Brush killer and HDX weed and grass killer concentrate. This is basically triclopyr and glyphosate concentrates mixed to their appropriate strength in combination in a sprayer. I use whatever the recommended dose is, probably 1 capful (of each) into 1L of spray fun times. The combo is important because I think the two herbicides work differently...triclopyr being more systemic while roundup kills the leaves or something.
There are some tricks to PI:
Don't apply in a drought, the plant is too hardy. I like to try and wait for a rainstorm then do it shortly thereafter. Don't do it before in order to prevent runoff.
If you have vines, cut them twice and remove the chunk that you cut. Put concentrate directly on the stump or spray the hell out of it. Make sure the upper vine cannot reattach.
Spray the underside and top side of the leaves. Really soak the buggers. Spray everything that you can see, but don't worry too much about the stems- the leaves are more critical as I believe that's how the chemical is absorbed.
Be careful of overspray- this combo will kill anything it touches. I will try and manually (ie wearing gloves) remove the entirety of a plant if it's in my garden or planted areas. A touch with the roundup combo above will kill a lot of things.
I've had good PI control in my yard since I started doing this. I used it at our last house to eradicate PI in the yard and it did a wonderful job. I've used it at our new house as well, but the idea behind a good remedy should be that you don't have to do it often, so I think I've been pretty successful. The last ivy spot is way in the back and I have to get all suited up to get back there and not get covered in it.
I know that some people want a more natural approach and I wish that were reasonable, but my attitude is if you spray herbicide carefully and do it correctly, you shouldn't have to do it many times. If you are pissing roundup into space then yeah that's bad. I think the last time I sprayed was 4 years ago- I've manually removed some plants since then but that's it. I may make up some this year as I want to tackle the stuff way back in the corner of our yard.
We can't have chickens in our hood, but they can in the hood adjacent. City says no roosters in city limits, though..
My neighbor in VA had chickens and a rooster. The rooster only lasted a day and the rest of the flock a week. Each morning a new explosion of feathers was found in the yard. I suspect there was a very well fed fox somewhere.
I did however fantasize about offing their two miniature schnauzers which simply barked their heads off every minute they were awake.
I did however fantasize about offing their two miniature schnauzers which simply barked their heads off every minute they were awake.
apparently not illegal in our township. but not our county. my wife and a neighbor actually went to a township meeting to ask them to adopt an ordinance against it.
My rooster hides in the coop when the coyotes comes around.
His job has sort of been commandeered by the turkey though.
His job has sort of been commandeered by the turkey though.
