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1 hour ago, kdxken said:

This is the woods roughly, minus about 10 acres out front. I am pretty sure the circled pine is the one in the earlier picture.

The way you cut wood I thought you would a bigger cleared area. 

3 hours ago, kdxken said:

Speaking of pines. I noticed this one today while working. 10 ft 8 inches in circumference. Would that be considered big in your neck of the woods?

Do you take those down too and have them milled?

49 minutes ago, met_fan said:

A brief break from the temperature talk - my son is starting college in Brunswick, ME this fall. What does the average snowfall look like up there so close to the coast?

Better than down here, my sister lives in York and does much better than I do. I think they average close to 70 inches a year.

9 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Lame fire 

That's one of those smokeless fire pits, Cost a few bucks.

1 hour ago, klw said:

I have the week off and with it being a nice cool day, I went in the yard to do some weeding and other jobs.  My labradors stirred up some wasps, I think each got a sting.  I got stung about 10 times on my legs.  Spent the rest of the afternoon icing the bites down and napping by the TV.

We had some build a nest inside of a cushion on the porch chair that must have has a little split in it in order from them to get in there. My wife saw the cushion looked weird and when she flipped the cushion, they went berserk, she got stung. So, I figured I'd wait til nighttime to spray them, but my nosey dog had other ideas and stuck her nose in the cushion, not sure how many times she got stung but she ran as fast as I've ever seen her.

30 minutes ago, Snowedin said:

The season of endless finches continue. I don't know why we’ve had so many this summer but it’ll be interesting to see how long the purple ones linger into the fall. Of course, we’ll know when the next spring has officially arrived once they start their to pop up again. Ya love to see it!

Don't people put up special finch houses for those birds?

23 minutes ago, kdxken said:

I hope we have a torch of a fall. '70s until the week before Thanksgiving.

Then switch into full on winter.

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

With winter.our turn never comes around again. It’s their turn. Whoever “they” are 

Don't think you wanted yesterdays rain unless you wanted to swim

35 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Might have been a while ago. 

"OXFORD – ABF Realty LLC of Worcester has purchased the property at 139 Southbridge Road (Route 20), site of the Mardi Gras adult entertainment club in North Oxford"

Yeah, that was a rathole, the building was torn down quite a while ago.

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

Must be mass.

None in Oxford Mass, Webster has one, a friend told me.

7 minutes ago, Modfan2 said:

Can’t even fathom….we had only .30 and some showers with broken sky here in E CT. 

Looks like we got lucky, it's been raining but nothing like that.

36 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

It’s crazy to me that you can just stare into the sun with the naked eye with this smoke.  Not sure if you should but not immediately blinded lol.

Since I know it’s usually a topic… no post processing there but I did take the photo a stop down below what normally would be called for to limit the light entering the lens and make the sun really pop (but landscape gets darker). Basically under-exposed it slightly.  Used the camera settings to my advantage instead of just shooting and then altering it later on the computer.

Don't know what that means but it's a great pic, I had the same pic but can't download.

3 hours ago, kdxken said:

While we're on the subject of chickens. My niece's favorite time of year. The fall brood. Probably too cold in New Hampshire for that. 

 

Reminds me of one Easter, I was about 6-7 my sisters were 3-4 and my uncle showed up with a donut box, we opened it up and there were a half a dozen chicks, we put them in a bigger box but my father took them to the nearest chicken farm against our protests the next morning.

1 hour ago, Torch Tiger said:

amazing sunset with that smoke!  wowzers

It was, I took a pic but won't let me download. I was driving with the windows down and it smelled like a campfire and my eyes started watering. Nasty in some spots.

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

So that is why my madden game has been off…it’s not because I am typically 2 gummies deep.

There's a movie coming out about the history of the Madden game.

1 hour ago, Lava Rock said:

the chicken pic just brought me back to tuesday night whereby at 25mph I struck a chicken (think it was a rooster) with my road bike. Another cycling season cut short thanks to two broken ribs, a wrist and finger. Need surgery for finger next week. In Kevin Harts Tom Brady roast voice, "fawk you chicken"! The chicken was almost dead until the neighbor grabbed it from the road and put it out of its misery. Lots of Why did the chicken cross the road jokes from my cycling friends this week

I want to laugh but I can't because you got hurt, interesting story though.

Something coming south from North Worcester County, maybe a hit here if it holds together, seems to be getting stronger.

2 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I like my winters extreme. Overthrow the govt or go home…

I'd like an extreme to the good but after the last 4 years I welcome an average winter.

4 hours ago, wx_observer said:

I'm almost afraid to say it...but will be spending this week in seacoast NH and am loving this forecast!  Even getting a vacation from the dews

I'm on a Maine beach right now and it's a great day.

I'm on my way to Maine so not upset Debbie calmed won to a plain little rain storm. Plenty of time for another one though.

3 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

The dew getting down to 63F this evening feels like a win.

And that strange looking dog is back wandering around the yard this evening.

 

Looks like he ready to take a dump.

12 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Not really. Mine struggles to keep flower buds through winter, but the mild 23-24 gave me a heavy fruit set before the grey rats got them. I’m looking to get a Contender and PF-24C for next year. They’re 2 of the hardiest with late flowering. 

I don't know if it was the weather this past year, but I've never seen so many squirrels in my area as this spring and summer as they fatten up on my fruit. Every morning when I leave or come after work I see squirrels running all over the place.

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

They eat everything. And unfortunately they like to get everything before it’s ripe. What kind of peach is it?

I forget, I have the tag from the tree somewhere, but they did grab them all while they were small. Does the type make a difference? Pretty sure the took my pears last year too.

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Same thing happened to me. You can try some big fake snakes and hang them from the branches. Just be sure to move them around once in awhile.

I'll try that next year, I didn't realize squirrels ate peaches, but I saw one grab a small peach from the tree and run away with it in its mouth. 

I had a load of peaches on my small tree and the squirrels picked it clean when they were small. I'm going to have to figure a way to keep them off the trees, I have a small village of squirrels in my area this year.