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39 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

yeah, maybe ... and perhaps that is true for all that use pain killers.  there's not as much science to back that up as the other, tho

but there's definitely statistical correlation between cte and latter life onset of parkinsonism, and football is definitely among the list of sports described as contact.  that's damning enough

no one is jumping to conclusions.  perhaps if you've ever read anything that scopes outside of your myopic impression of reality you might have a fuckin' clue enough to stop you from being passively hostile and asssholier than thou toward those that do.  the correlation and possible causation is not my conclusion -

 

LOL, I just said the same thing but nicer.

47 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

What about the pain killers that he has been addicted to forever? any correlation there? I mean, if we are jumping to conclusions might as well include that little tidbit

Maybe but that's a bigger jump than from CTE to Parkinsons.

58 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Going to go mini split route next spring first, Plenty of incentive rebates up here for that and shit can 3 window and one wall mounted A/C unit, Already went to a more efficient boiler a few years back and am saving on oil, Get rid of the install/uninstall yearly.

We put a new high efficiency heating/ac unit in this house but the house we build up in Maine will be just mini-splits with on demand hot water.

30 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Burning 

https://x.com/ericfisher/status/1837263896949796996?s=46&t=dhcbvkjmRcyBVQtDxJ3lRg

Glad I don't live there.

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

Let’s get an average winter. That’d seem and be great for all of us.  Had 50% of average last year. 25% in 22-23. 

How were the last two years up North?

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Scooter might be the biggest whinebutt on the boards 

In our golf league at the end of the year tournament we give out the pampers award to the biggest whiner, we should do that here

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Stein ended the mowing season in Augdewst this year. So there’s that. 

I've gone 3 weeks without a cut and might be able to go a little longer.

10 minutes ago, BrianW said:

I'm on municipal water and I get around 40-50 gpm. Just curious what you guys get on a well?

I got 50 gpm on my well, I never have run out in 30 years. I know a lot of wells only get 7-10 gpm, I got lucky. I remember sweating that day they were drilling praying for a good flow.

2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

No sand . I’ve watered for years since 2005 and never an issue. I’m not sure how deep, but it’s pretty deep . Deeper than Atlantis?

What's your GPM?

4 hours ago, dendrite said:

Rattlesnake Island on Winni has a ton of those types of nuts/hulls. I haven’t been up there since the late 90s so I don’t know the species, but they were hickory. My friend called them pignuts, but they may have been shagbark or shellbark too.

Could be mockernut too, hard to tell them apart except the shagbark, the other nut trees look the same.

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

About the same size if it's shagbark hickory.

That's what they were, hundreds of them all over the place and of course squirrels scurrying around. Where's there's nuts, there's squirrels.

2 minutes ago, kdxken said:

You made it out! Awesome.

It was a best ball tourney so I hit when I could. I wasn't as bad as I thought but have no strength in my left arm so didn't hit the ball far. Just wanted to get together with the guys and have a few beers.

7 hours ago, radarman said:

Same with hickory nuts.  Biggest bumper crop I've seen at this location since I arrived in 2013.  Just filling 5 gallon buckets with em.

The golf course I played this morning was loaded with hickory nuts.

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

Hard to distinguish the size without a better frame of reference. Likely a house cat.

At first, I thought mountain lion but after a closer look, looks like a big house cat.

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

Plus $2 for the "agent", though I paid my $14 electronically.  I'll wait if/until I put one on the ground before seeking another.  With the huge amount of anydeers for my zone, there may still be unclaimed permits on Thanksgiving (when we plan to be visiting the grandkids in SNJ).

Much less haze than yesterday but it's not all gone.  Met fall at its best.  And my upper 40s guess for today's low was too cool - it was halfway between 50/51.

There are so many deer around now it's crazy, when I was a kid, I rarely saw one, now I see them all the time and one ran into my truck and totaled it. They come in my yard a lot and eat whatever they can find.

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Imagine being a heat weenie in New England and you’re 72.9° while the rest of the region is this:

I'm 72, feels nice with the dry air

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

In a few yrs when my kids are out of high school will take a Sept beach vacation-some of the best weather, everything is still open and the water is plenty warm enough still.

We usually go up to Maine right after Labor Day when schools start and there's half the people that re there in August.

27 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

No sane person wants anything to do with the top 4 dry steaks

What's wrong with a dry aged steak? 

42 minutes ago, WinterSnow said:

Patches of yellow appearing down here in CT. Nothing impressive yet.

NH members please keep us updated, I want to travel up to NH during or at least near peak! I never know when that'll be because every website I appear is all over the place on when that'll be. I'm assuming first week of October is good? I want to time this good because we might stay a night in NH, since it's a several hour drive up there to begin with, and then the next day maybe visit Maine as well.

I drove the Pike out to West Springfield yesterday and noticed some yellow mixed in here and there, getting a fall vibe.

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

We are talking top-five summer day right now!

Just incredible. Sunny warm and dry.

I have 74/41, driving with the windows down was nice.

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

Yeah they got all of mine too. 

You going to try netting or some other idea.? My tree's small or I'd put a metal cone around the trunk, but they can jump 5-6 feet so won't work with mine. Maybe try a spray of odors they hate? I don't know, I like Kevins net idea but may need a backup.

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Netting 

I'll do that next year, I have a large colony of squirrels living in my area this year, I've seen as many as six at one time. They can have the nuts but leave my fruit alone.

7 hours ago, wxeyeNH said:

A benefit of Global Warming  or do I have to be politically correct and say climate change. First winter of me not hitting 0F.  Our peach tree is loaded with delicious fruit.  So much!  

My tree looked like that earlier in the year but the squirrel's ate every damn one of them, I was ready to make peach wine this winter, but I got nothing.

18 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

It's a Wolf Spider.  Pretty intimidating looking but not super venomous to humans.  Fun to see outside but on the rare occasion they get in my garage or basement they get the shop vac removal.

Isn't wolf and brown spider the same? We always called them brown but to me they look the same.

4 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

What a disastrous day. Started cleaning the gutters and was going to use the hose to blast out any residue. Turn on the water, nothing coming out.
 

Went to disconnect the hose from the house and all of a sudden water started gushing out so I go into the basement to find the shutoff valve. Couldn’t find it anywhere…spent over an hour and a half, so water was just gushing out. Called neighbors, realtor, tried turning off every valve I could find. 

finally we had to call non-emergency fire. They came and found out that we couldn’t find the valve because there was none so they grabbed something to get it shut off.
 

Got a plumber to come and get a valve on there and replace the outside faucet which we had had some leaking issues with.  
 

I was starting to feel stupid not being able to find a shutoff valve…they’re not hard to find but there was no freaking valve on the stupid pipe 

I've had to shut off my main a couple times, but I have one, wonder why they didn't put one in your house? Did you get the gutters cleaned? I put gutter guards on my gutters, so I don't have to clean them anymore.