Random Thoughts 17: Here we go again.

[ImJustKCClone]

We really really need more soaking rain. We took out our 30+ year old lilac hedge because it was so overgrown and woody, and put in a 40 foot stretch of yew hedge instead...but we have had to have a soaker hose running on it 24/7 because it has full exposure to the sun all day (it's on the south side of our property with no trees shading it). Don't want it to die after all that work!

 

[BCClone]

We really really need more soaking rain. We took out our 30+ year old lilac hedge because it was so overgrown and woody, and put in a 40 foot stretch of yew hedge instead...but we have had to have a soaker hose running on it 24/7 because it has full exposure to the sun all day (it's on the south side of our property with no trees shading it). Don't want it to die after all that work!

We can have a warm thanksgiving to December, about 45 degrees and you can have your nice soaker then. Too close to harvest to have it now.

 

[BCClone]

Just found out this doucher named Todd either lives in Newton Iowa or Sacramento California. Getting enough calls for him that I may drive down to Newton and kick some arse. If he is in Sacramento, then I can call my Cousin's kid who works for the FBI and have him kick his arse. It's really old.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

We can have a warm thanksgiving to December, about 45 degrees and you can have your nice soaker then. Too close to harvest to have it now.

True. Farm needs supersede our needs. But I'm STILL gonna whine!!!

 

[wxman1]

We can have a warm thanksgiving to December, about 45 degrees and you can have your nice soaker then. Too close to harvest to have it now.

We have to be getting close to harvest at least around here. Seems like most things are nearly all dried up and look like ****.

 

[BCClone]

We have to be getting close to harvest at least around here. Seems like most things are nearly all dried up and look like ****.

You guys are already going. Son told me labor day weekend that corn was coming out just SW of you guys.

 

[wxman1]

You guys are already going. Son told me labor day weekend that corn was coming out just SW of you guys.

Yeah I have been noticing that hit and miss around. Saw some end rows out on the way to Clinton last Friday.

 

[BoxsterCy]

We really really need more soaking rain. We took out our 30+ year old lilac hedge because it was so overgrown and woody, and put in a 40 foot stretch of yew hedge instead...but we have had to have a soaker hose running on it 24/7 because it has full exposure to the sun all day (it's on the south side of our property with no trees shading it). Don't want it to die after all that work!

I hope your deer don't run out of forage in the woods this winter. Yew is poison to most animals but it's like candy, or maybe crack, to the deer in my hood. That and anything in the arborvitae family.

Saw that the landscape peeps for a new spendy home a few blocks from me planted a bunch of arborvitae with the idea of making an evergreen hedge/screen between them and a busy street. Dumbasses. You can see arborvitaes that have been stripped of all their needles up to five feet high only a house of two away from them. #landscaperingmalpractice

 

[BoxsterCy]

Got frost warnings north of the Twin Cities. I call it a "Frosty Malt Warning" after the old Metro Dome and Met Stadium vendors and their "Get your frosty malt! Get your frosty malt right here!"

 

[BCClone]

Got frost warnings north of the Twin Cities. I call it a "Frosty Malt Warning" after the old Metro Dome and Met Stadium vendors and their "Get your frosty malt! Get your frosty malt right here!"

 

[stormchaser2014]

Lag bolts and lag screws are not the same thing.

 

[NWICY]

I wish as traffic density decreases speed could increase, without getting a ticket.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Noisy in this old house. Roof crew is doing demo/removal on vaulted ceiling above me. Seems to be a decent enough crew. Walked the roof with crew chief and roofing company foreman. They think this is the easiest job they have had in a while, three big roof sections, not steep and only one valley.

 

[VeloClone]

Noisy in this old house. Roof crew is doing demo/removal on vaulted ceiling above me. Seems to be a decent enough crew. Walked the roof with crew chief and roofing company foreman. They think this is the easiest job they have had in a while, three big roof sections, not steep and only one valley.

Yeah, but I assume it is big.

 

[VeloClone]

I hope your deer don't run out of forage in the woods this winter. Yew is poison to most animals but it's like candy, or maybe crack, to the deer in my hood. That and anything in the arborvitae family.

Saw that the landscape peeps for a new spendy home a few blocks from me planted a bunch of arborvitae with the idea of making an evergreen hedge/screen between them and a busy street. Dumbasses. You can see arborvitaes that have been stripped of all their needles up to five feet high only a house of two away from them. #landscaperingmalpractice

Everytime I hear about yews I think about the Lipizzaners. I was in western Illinois about 30 years ago and they came and did a show there. I didn't go but one of the guys I was working with did. He came to work early the next morning to tell us that halfway through the show one horse went down. Then a couple of minutes later another backstage so they stopped the show. They lost three priceless animals because someone on their crew set up a holding area by a couple of Japanese yew trees.

I found the story:

Poisonous yew leaves blamed for Lippizaner stallion deaths - UPI Archives

Veterinarians Saturday blamed poisonous Japanese yew leaves for the deaths of three rare white Lippizaner stallions that collapsed while touring western...

www.upi.com

 

[BoxsterCy]

No Spanish music here yet. Couple of days ago a couple of roofing crews a few hundred feet from each other had dueling tastes, one classic Mexican with a traditional sound and the other more Hispanic pop. Putting a sign on the backdoor into the basement level with an arrow and "baño tres metros".

 

[BoxsterCy]

Everytime I hear about yews I think about the Lipizzaners. I was in western Illinois about 30 years ago and they came and did a show there. I didn't go but one of the guys I was working with did. He came to work early the next morning to tell us that halfway through the show one horse went down. Then a couple of minutes later another backstage so they stopped the show. They lost three priceless animals because someone on their crew set up a holding area by a couple of Japanese yew trees.

I found the story:

Poisonous yew leaves blamed for Lippizaner stallion deaths - UPI Archives

Veterinarians Saturday blamed poisonous Japanese yew leaves for the deaths of three rare white Lippizaner stallions that collapsed while touring western...

www.upi.com

Yeah, I know that story which makes the fact deer love it just so odd.

 

[wxman1]

Off to Rockford again, just one night this time.

 

[VeloClone]

We really really need more soaking rain. We took out our 30+ year old lilac hedge because it was so overgrown and woody, and put in a 40 foot stretch of yew hedge instead...but we have had to have a soaker hose running on it 24/7 because it has full exposure to the sun all day (it's on the south side of our property with no trees shading it). Don't want it to die after all that work!

We got a half inch the night before last.

It was tough driving through that driving rain for an hour or so Sunday night in western Iowa knowing that Minnesota wasn't getting a lick of it.

 

[VeloClone]

Yeah, I know that story which makes the fact deer love it just so odd.

Yeah, I have a limited number of stories but that doesn't stop me from telling them again and again.