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Man you are right...and lightening seems to be completely different down there and out west...We hit some crazy bad ones driving both areas

Right you are, it isn't the answer you wanted...though it was the one that would have been a whole lot more informative if followed...sorry

Actually yes...there are times when weather ...such as rain every single day or in the winter ice damning that causes leak problems requiring a tarp before a proper repair...That's just common sense ,thank you...BUT One has a choice in the actual color of said tarp, even if they do not have a choice in days that repairs can be done...

Have to say...makes shopping at the mall a pleasure... and I hate shopping

Being in a mature forrest I think has saved us a few times...though the goat barn roof shingles are all over the baddock...reminds me I need to get to harbor freight for a green or grey tarp...what is up with people using those nasty blue ones on roofs needing repair? I hear banjos every time I past one...

OK so I'm bad with names, thAT SAID i WAS TALKING TO A GUY FROM bUSHNELLS TODAY AND gANDER mNT CAME UP. hIS FIRST WORDS WERE oH SO AND SO WILL DO GREAT THINGS FOR THEM. hE HAS A SHOW WERE HE DISCUSSES THE COMPANIES LIKE gANDER THAT HE BUYS AND TURNS AROUND. tHERE WILL BE GOOD THINGS HAPPENING WITH THEM. i SAID WELL hE PROBABLY IS A nICE GUY BUT OUR gANDER IS CLOSING..LOL..hE SAID WELL SOME WILL BUT WAIT UNTIL HE OVERHAULS THE REST. i HONESTLY CAN'T REMEMBER IF HE SAID IT WAS A rADIO OR tv SHOW THE GUY HAS Crap... fat fingers...lol Why didn't they put Cap locks next to the Q...which is rarely used!! Sorry not redoing that whole thing.

Whats scarier than the sounds of a big storm approaching...it's nearly on top of you and the winds stop.....but so do all the birds...it is dead quiet out there and very dark round 3 for hail...hhhmmm can't imagine this is good for the pop up blinds...definitely not for my flowers pea sized....

Gotten this forecast right...It is miles away and still rattling the windows...bright sun here but massive battle ship steel grey cloud bank headed our way. I see Angel will be heade for the bath tub soon...and I maybe in the basement this afternoon....

Should be fine...mine was a tad flatted this morning when I retrieved the camera but we too have had daily rains and hail a couple of times..I may not get a garden in this year... The farmer always plants his corn here On memorial day weekend...The field it a mass of weeds and mustard flowering

Well the new cam is having major issues and before calling I tried everything to no avail. The Lightening fire. So I call and OMG got right through to a person. He was very patient in allowing me to explain the problem in detail and then said yep firm ware problem . Send it right in so we can fix or send you out a new one..I offered to send him a copy of the issue showing up on the few pics that actually make it out of the cards...usually its a corrupt message and all pics are referenced by a firm wear code unlike all other cameras. So that is sent out and cam will go tomorrow. That is some of the best customer service I have had from a camera company in years... Kudos to Bushnell.

Well the weather got me again... unlike TF no go in lightening...daughter and I had a close call on a storm that came in too fast and we were berry picking...I felt the hair on me rise and I let out a scream for Mr B... he hopped in the truck and drove through the field to get us...we hit the road and heard the kaboom and the cracking...We all went to the basement that day and Bear our shepherd was the first on the steps down. The tree we were near, a tall bass wood was hit and literally blew up..Lightening in these high hills is no joke. Anyways it cleared and I went to the garden blind...hens tend to go there when rains about and yes cam caught one before I got there at 8:15. set out a feeder hen and my jake...nothing, at 10:30 I decided to go pull the cam on new plot.Why of course half way there I hear a gobble but think it's across gully and over ridge. I still have my blk hoodie ,camo pants and face mask I took my gun just in case...I step around the brush pile fence into the plot and gobble...down near farm field in gully area...I froze scanning but brush is too thick. so I duck and tuck up in a group of trees against the fence.. I sat there with a soaked fanny until 11:15 not another peep with my soft clucks and low yelps... He was exactly down in the area that I had planned on going this morning but the rain and lightening had me in the house... I will have my fanny firmly planted against an oak tree at the low edge of the gully tomorrow morning. I will have a new fan on my jake and a hen or two and a dang good cushion to keep me still...with the thermacell cranking. Fore cast for tomorrow:

When looking them up you will get a variety of "real world" experience both saying they will and will not eat them. Your right free is free. I personally would rather ask for,as I have for years ,gifted good trees from family . Like the Dunstun I just got. Known preferred nuts,known early fruiting,i don't have to wait Ten years to see first fruit. No need to worry about kids eating them or if we were to gett live stock again cutting them down any how. I also would rather have squirrel "planting" a good seed around my place. Though wonder if they like them so well...why is he getting so many saplings. Buckeye do make good craft projects though.

I suppose you need to weigh all things...tree size and time to fruiting,and just how desireable..Could you plant trees that would take the same or less space fruit faster and be more desirable. Read up on them.

I have seen a strangly high number of buck dead on the roads this spring..

Planted on the 12th and iactually broke the seed coat 2 days later. Then I was starting to seegreen a week later,now has one full leaf.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Marinated deer steak grilled,various salads and cauliflower. Best deer steak I've ever cooked.

They come on 3 gal pots with thick bamboo stakes that I plant with them and are secured all along the stem. We had to undo that and bend the stems to fit in car and trunk...not one problem will use bio survey tape to secure again.

I bougbt one with nuts on it and it prlduced 3 the year after planting. The one new one may produce a couple. Tag says 3-5,depends on weather. 10 -20# by 10 years. We get much colder then you and e everything is exposed to the NW winds. Mine are doing great! But fence wide and high..preferred browse as well and I use grow tubes.

Nice surprise when we picked up my BD gifts and dropped off the pups...they are huge...I'm thinking they will go in upper goat paddock plot...good sun good drainage...

Boy was I right with the maple whirlies...They are all over, the animals will eat well this spring they are a good carb and protein and we can eat them too... http://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Maple-Seeds http://www.jbc.org/content/34/3/509.full.pdf http://www.ediblewildfood.com/blog/2013/01/maple-tree-seeds-survival-food/

I like to hunt food areas but actually un like a whole lot of hunters I know my wild plants..grasses confuse me a bit but flowers,fruits...knowing when a flush of a particular plant shows up in a spring where they weren't before can show me movement changes. That and or an influx of certain animals when things flower and seed when they drop seed...what bugs things attract and when...Today I was watching the grasshopper hatch moving along when I realized I was also standing in a particular spider hatch and had 100's of parson spiders,that were also feeding on these grasshopper nymphs. I hate spiders these are considered a hunting spider in that they do not make webs to catch prey.

That's pretty much an early spring flower, they like the flower heads...unlike the violets that hang on all summer.... Our woods are covered in them. We also have Harbinger of spring , which the bulbs are edible for humans and animals... close look at picture and you can see the little white flowers in bottom of pic.

I wish! I just can't get it to grow here...I brought a bunch with me when we moved here..It was unusual in that it NEVER went to seed...I could pick it all summer It died the second year and then 3 other attempts have failed...???Yet I can grow kiwi and persimmon here...go figure...

The clover is popping through...still lots of annual weed...but just one specific one that will grow tall over the clover and easily weed whacked before seeding out...leaving a mulch for the clover a few more trees to cut in that area..strategic for sun but looking good...those trees I left were used as rub trees last year...the little shrub are goose berries and a few fern were left. also one big and a couple of smaller rotting logs to lay up next to..which they do a lot here. The WR is the adjacent plots allowed to seed for the turkey....