Cuddles
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I´m glad you found a place to live and it´s great to hear that you´re taking care of your mum too.
I´m sorry to hear about her kidneys though
Must be tough.
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I´m sorry to hear about her kidneys though
Must be tough.
thanks i appreciate it.Shes only about 4'8 76lbs. she has to hook her dialysis bag to her stomach everyday. she talks about wanting to die all the time.its been hard on her. i need to make her eat better.theres lots of stuff to do around here and i wish she would get out of the house. shes always been like this though hopefully gonna go to the farmers market soonI´m glad you found a place to live and it´s great to hear that you´re taking care of your mum too.
I´m sorry to hear about her kidneys though
Put in the cherry tomatoes, couple of sweet 100’s, couple of big cherries, waiting for some orange ones i bought from a neighbor’s boy for a school booster. Slow start this year, don’t think i’ll get the 10 footers. Going basic with the out of hand, big boys and brandywines. Peppers…cayennes and big jims. Hope all’s well.
Lovely stuff
Got the beefeater tomatoes out last week and mrs b is currently cutting the lawn before it rains later.
Put some pumpkin seeds from last years largest one in soil, plus some runner beans so I’m waiting for those to surface … I put some lemonade og seed in on Friday and they popped up this morning so they’re on the windowsill also
I think summer has arrived here… nothing too hot yet but it’s drying out.
I’m starting the lemonade og off in the tent at night and windowsill in the day, but once they’re repotted next week it’ll be natural light until it’s time to flower, so some sunshine will be welcome.
Little miss b is finally getting better..
still coughing in bits in the day but sleeping at night now.
Struggling with getting back into school now, as expected but I’ve got a meeting with her teachers on Monday
I’m starting the lemonade og off in the tent at night and windowsill in the day, but once they’re repotted next week it’ll be natural light until it’s time to flower, so some sunshine will be welcome.
Little miss b is finally getting better..
still coughing in bits in the day but sleeping at night now. Struggling with getting back into school now, as expected but I’ve got a meeting with her teachers on Monday
Since we moved in here (around 12 years ago) we have had swifts nesting in our roof. A couple of years back we found two small birds, alive but stuck together by egg goo so I put warm water on them, they separated and flew off.
This morning mrs b found two more, seemingly stuck together again, but they looked bigger
As they are an endangered species there are national swift carers, and one of the members are close by so I called them- they’re coming to pick them up in a few hours - they said they’re adults fighting over a nest, and they can fight to the death
Hoping they’ll be ok, they seem to have ticks on them
This morning mrs b found two more, seemingly stuck together again, but they looked bigger
As they are an endangered species there are national swift carers, and one of the members are close by so I called them- they’re coming to pick them up in a few hours - they said they’re adults fighting over a nest, and they can fight to the death
Hoping they’ll be ok, they seem to have ticks on them
Update
Got them separated and gave them some water- wet q-tip around the beak- and let them rest a bit.
The smaller one got itself to the top of the box and flew off
then after about half hour the other one got itself up in the air, so I cancelled the swift carer as all is well
Just had a meeting at the school, hopefully to make things more comfortable for little miss b …
Time for a fat joint and iced coffee I think
Got them separated and gave them some water- wet q-tip around the beak- and let them rest a bit.
The smaller one got itself to the top of the box and flew off
then after about half hour the other one got itself up in the air, so I cancelled the swift carer as all is well Just had a meeting at the school, hopefully to make things more comfortable for little miss b …
Time for a fat joint and iced coffee I think
Well done. Once rescued a duck, the duck and dog got along. Trying to sprout some old stuff
Sweet
I have to keep our dog (Jack Russell) away from any small/furry creature as his prey drive is extreme…. Even at 12 years old
Fence posts have arrived
I went for concrete ones in the end and the panels/postmix/kickboards are arriving tomorrow. School holidays for a week now so I may have to wait until she goes back but at least I’m prepared now
We got 2 posts concreted in on Friday
A lot of soil/compost and crap had accumulated so there was a fair bit had to be scraped and dug out first…
Unfortunately the only places I could dig for the new post holes were where the old ones were
so had to dig out the old concrete… first one still had a wooden post attached which gave me some leverage, but the others were all snapped off at ground level so more fiddly.
2 more to do tomorrow, then it’s just a case of dropping the panels in
A lot of soil/compost and crap had accumulated so there was a fair bit had to be scraped and dug out first…
Unfortunately the only places I could dig for the new post holes were where the old ones were
so had to dig out the old concrete… first one still had a wooden post attached which gave me some leverage, but the others were all snapped off at ground level so more fiddly. 2 more to do tomorrow, then it’s just a case of dropping the panels in
That always seems to be the case. Here, frost is the big fence killer so 10 ft x 6 in x 6 in posts set in concrete are the best for a 6 ft privacy fence. . People always try to use 8' x 4" x 4" but they will typically fail within 10 years when they bow out . Concrete posts aren't popular for home fencing from what I see here on the tundra.
I put them in 2ft deep and hammered in enough lumps of hardcore to hold it solid, then filled with postcrete same as I did the wooden ones…. They lasted 9 years but only the wood posts broke. Hopefully the concrete ones will solve that, and it should be easy to replace the panels if ever needed
i'm looking forward to frost, snow and ice...fuck hot weather! once it hits 60 F, i'm mad until October or November...
coat them with roofing tar below ground level, and paint the rest...paint over nails/holes as well. i'd cap the posts too...
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I really hope we get some snow, or at least some hard frosts in my area this winter
this year was mild and wet pretty much throughout and I always feel cheated when there’s no cold weather Hands down my favourite is clear skies and a healthy frost
That will preserve the wood but the mistake they make is that they only put 2 ft in the ground. Even in concrete, frost will still throw that out and the fence post will wobble or lean. You have to go to at least 3 ft in the ground.
And you guys wanting winter are insane . . . or you have never lived in a place that gets a real winter. A 5 month mix of cold, snow, freezing drizzle, slush and a demon north west wind that I swear comes off of a nearby glacier . . . that's Toronto.
I was hoping for more like a couple of weeks of frost, and maybe a snow day or two… it’s been a while
the first option no doubt comes into play.
but i've gone duck hunting when it was 17 below, and had snow up over my knees. but that was decades ago, and nothing to approach it since. i just hate mosquitoes, ticks, and sweating, not in that order...
