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lol..whats up with that color?

I stay out of this thread because...Well I just don't get it...It plain ole tastes bad to me...This will be my only post here. Now I do have a question...So you all know I'm cheap..made beer can chicken the other night and it doesn't take much...Mr. B only drinks NA and we keep Coronas(?) for guests...Well I wasn't going to waste it so I thought...people put lime in it. I'll try that...I cut and squeezed a lot of lime juice into the bottle...still tasted the same to me.nasty beer...So here's the question... What is the purpose of the lime?

had an aunt who's dog would go through windows ..They had to keep it in the basement when they left..one bad storm they came home and couldn't find it...He(Kirby) managed to get it's self wedged in the basement ceiling floor joists, between the X bar floor stabilizers...Then it's last one, he got out through the basement window and was hit by a car...

LOL pretty soon the only things not made in China are the kids we birth...and even then you may be surprised with genetic testing.....just a little sarcasm...lol

A quick moving storm is how I Tore my meniscus few years ago...caught me down the hill working. Running up the hill through the woods a bolt ripped parallel to the ground above me up on the ridge..I didn't know that could happen! I turned and heard the pop/ rip...didn't really feel it until I hit the house. Must be something about the thermals in these lake valleys. We can see them miles away next thing you know they are on top of you.

5 years..average 2-3 deer per year in that time. Hunting all the seasons...just 3 doe One with the cross bow during muzzle loading season. Two with the compound...that is with having 13 plot areas..all the rest were taken in the wood lots. BTW....I didnt plant any of the oaks,beech,bramble,wild grasses,hickory,sumac,hophorn,poison ivy, ect,ect. That attracted them to these woods. If you dont have the land, time ,money or desire,that may or maynot be too bad. If you feel that those who do are slighting you personally in the deer woods..perhaps you could use help in identifying woodland trees and forbs,just ask there are more then a few here,plotters and non willing to help...with out judging.

Oh boy! Out for my walk and usually I'm pretty good about watching the sky...storm wasn't due until 3pm...I heard some light thunder and Angel disappeared...No biggy..I came out of the woods and started across the food plot headed home when KABOOM!!!! I literally felt it in my chest and was face first in the plot..turned my head and this is what it looked like...I giant grey battle ship rolling over the tree tops coming over me...Then I heard Angel at the house howling like she was in a foot trap...So I can still run! But didn't make it before one of her nails found our 30.00 replacement screen...I won't be washing the gouge marks off that metal storm door either. First time she has ever scratched the basement door to get to the basement...shes afraid of the basement...not today..No rain with this one. Geez...they come across that valley so dang fast!

Perfect post..Thanks

I learned a lot when the well was contaminated...the farms have to have "managers" to figure out just what how waste is managed from the "slurry ponds"the DEC has people that inspect and approve different things...She was out here a couple of times...it also goes by slope of land and surrounding water.

gander closed their web the moment the sale happened...

When adding nitrogen remember that it dissipates into the air when not incorporated into the soil...why I rarely top dress with nitrogen..add it at planting time. This also why some farm fields are liquid manure injected and some just top sprayed they have to regulate the amount of nitrogen to regulations per acre ...We have big dairy farms here so there is absolutely no loss of manure ..in fact they are having a difficult time finding enough areas to spread and stay within DEC regulations. http://www.extension.umn.edu/agriculture/nutrient-management/nitrogen/fertilizer-urea/

Oh I found another natural water hole while looking for those pics...

I don't keep all my pics...I have 12 cams out...but I have posted some where they are rather close in the trail cam section under the "mulberry cam" here's an example, PS the deer pic is a late winter/early spring this year and it is a clover plot in front of the mulberry trees in the background..The date time doesn't hold in that cam.....I assume they are eating the new clover growth...this plot has filled in with a lot of grass as you can see from the lighter colored areas...

Well it has started...about 2-3 weeks early here but a couple of the maples as starting to change. usually it starts with the sumac and the ash but I really haven't been looking for it...Well I do have just one sugar maple that for some odd reason changes way early every year...these a soft red maple the leafs are turning marroon very pretty actually..

Grizzly you didn't mention what this "green field" actually is... We have green hay fields that farmers plant some containing more alfalfa and clovers for the beef cattle ...Others are horse hay with more grasses and less legume...just enough re clovers to add needed nitrogen. Then there are the fallow hay grass hay fields used for goats and sheep...These are fields owned buy locals that would be mowed occasionally.. Then due to easy access they were leased as baling hay fields with nothing done to them other then cutting...I call them filler hay...This fed as a needed roughage to animals on pelleted feed..So a field like that would need both lime and nitrogen

LEG the price on the WW is a farmer run...That is in it comes directly from local farmers...so the seed isn't carefully sorted for weed seed ...This said, I planted that last year and I did not have any weed issues in the planting other than my usual , @%$#$&*! daisies and a couple of night shade that I have been fighting in that area for 10 years. Bagged farm seed has to go through a sorting proccess and I'm not sure on this but I think NYS verification before being bagged and sold as planting seed...I say this from two different issues in this general area where farmers were sold incorrect seed and there was a few news articles on it.

To a point I need to disagree with that blurr...I don't post all the mulberry cam pics nor hazel nut and apple...but yes they do literally go muzzle to muzzle and not just same species...I have had pictures of deer with fox and raccoons nose to nose under the mulberry trees. I'll assume that once the chestnuts are in heavy production it will be the same or guys in really good persimmon groves see this.

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Gringo...no more baiting than your question...lol

I learned on a dozer and a backhoe when I was 12 yrs old...nothing to it . That said operating one and having an "eye " for grading and such are two differnt things..takes practice and with good operators a talent. You can pick up a good one for about the cost of the pond..but you'll want to know a few things about them..unlike getting a flat on a tractor,you cant just call the tractor guy to come out...loose a dozer trac and you need to know what to do.

I agree,nor should they be irradicated,that said people need to wake up. They need to wake up on a lot of animal issues and realize they are changing. WE are forcing those changes to happen faster and differently then we are actually taught change happens in nature. I'm not talking physical,well to a point for these easterns arent your western coyotes they bred with wolves..we now know that. Just like grizzlies and polar bears are doing..Which over the course of history has happened occationally. Though now is increasing at an excelerated rate.. Like coyotes they will addapt and move. They just won't breed like rabbits....coyotes seem too. Deer...mess with them and what do they do? Change how they view their territory and adapt...safe zones,nocturnal,muliple births,and a difference in sex ratios in fawns...What does the DEC do in areas where this occurs more frequently? They lengthen seasons increas tags practically advertise nuisance permits out of season. They need to stop being on the defensive with the public about coyotes and start being straight about the VERY REAL dangers they can and are increasingly posing. I don't give a danm about how many adults they have actually killed. No one will the first kid attacked and maimed or killed. I remember years ago on here talking about the pack that stalked and surrounded me..I was called names and delusional ,ect,ect..then sat back and watched as GUYS mentioned being stalked,charged meniced over the years. With those stories increasing. So now I'll sit back and watch as stories such as in the original post increase as they have been,waiting to see when you'll wake up.

Baked chicken fingers, baked garlic/chili fries, corn, swisschard

I gott 2 Dunstun chestnuts planted in the upper paddock plot...the alfalfa is jusy startinf to sprljt there. Finished just as tbe storm hit.