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1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

You have?  I haven’t seen them flying in unison in a long time.  Definitely one of those vibe type things… cloudy low ceiling, breezy, cool and geese being noisy as they fly by.  Pumpkin spice commercial stuff, ha.

There was one with a busted wing shitting on the dock daily at the lake in NE CT.  Couldn’t fly, but seemed to be quite full of crap.

Heard them over the golf course Sunday, thought it was a little early but maybe they know more than us.

1 hour ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

 

I came home from work yesterday and did absolutely nothing and it seemed to settle down quite a bit. I’ve read that if it’s not bad, it can heal some, or at least not get worse.

I have a colonoscopy scheduled for November partially do to this pain, but I’m starting to think it really has not much to do with that.

I had a hernia and at the same time extreme back pain, nothing I tried relieved it. Once I had the hernia surgery my back pain disappeared. The doctor didn't think the hernia had anything to do with the back pain but I disagree.

Looks like the good stuff will miss me by about 10 miles.

32 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Ha.....this is why I will only move so far west, working in Chelsea....its an unmitigated disaster. Route 2? That probably blows, too....

It does, used to travel it quite often.

11 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

Beautiful night on the boat

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What is that you're holding? Looks like a two lb cheeseburger.

3 hours ago, Modfan2 said:

Do any of you heat with Propane? Purchasing a house that is propane heated and looking for feedback.

 

Most of the new homes in my area, especially the high end ones are built with propane heat, the builders must know something.

I remember one in the early 70's in my area in December near Christmas, I don't remember the extent just that we had no school and the trees in our yard were iced up pretty good,

6 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Eastern black racer maybe?  Those get huge

I went to pick up my black water hose in my lawn and almost grabbed one of those thinking it was the hose, they do get big.

2 hours ago, tamarack said:

I've read, from experienced landscapers, that transplanting usually leaves about 90% of a tree's roots behind, hence the importance of daily watering in T-plus a year.  One nursery owner would give purchasers of trees two small bottles, one of green liquid and one of red.  He guaranteed all trees, replacement or money back, if the buyer would put 3 drops of green and 3 of red daily, as watering was done.  Water plus food coloring - it was just a reminder to water.  

I dug a Rhody and gave it to my brother, we planted it at his house and no matter how much watering we did it looked like it died, the next year it came back to life, I was surprised I thought it was dead for good.

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

When we had to replace the water heater a few years ago, we went with a hybrid. It uses a heat pump along with a standard element to heat the water. The bonus is that the heat pump also acts as a dehumidifier. 

I want to get one of those, is it efficient?

59 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I think it’s easy. What are you trying to save? The epicormic ones growing straight up from the main branches? The 1 year wood from those are good for grafting. All you need to do is get rootstock to graft them on to. Some people have air layered branches, but it can be tricky. You can either grow out your own seedlings from seed (kinda late for that considering the suckers are getting mature) or get some seedling or nemaguard stock from a site. Cummins should have some the 2nd half of winter. I’ll be getting some pear stock from them.

Is the epicormic ones I'm supposed to trim off?

On 9/5/2022 at 4:43 PM, dendrite said:

They’ve been loving the dropped pears under my trees.

A lot of my peaches are on the ground, didn't get many pears, have to properly trim the tree to get more fruit. The deer will be happy.

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

Hope you got out today it was perfect.

I got out Wednesday, it was beautiful, shot a 44, had a blow up hole.

9 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

Prices on lobster are way down now. Does this mean Reds isn't charging $40 for a roll now?

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Price in Maine where I was Tuesday was $5.99 lb, we stopped at a restaurant and I asked how much for the 1 1/4 lb boiled lobster and it was $52, I passed.

37 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Long sleeves and shorts playing golf this evening. It was 56° with a breeze when I left the course

It was cool last night when we finished our round, felt great.

14 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

The record books say only 1888 I think was better, but I haven’t read much on the wind during that event.  Either way as a kid that 1993 storm was one of my first true snowstorm memories as like a wow, this is on another level compared to snow we get around here.  I’m not sure if it blocked out everything before that but I can’t remember any specific snowstorm prior to that in my childhood.

Anyway, nice trip down memory lane.  I love when Will starts posting more frequently, we start talking snow.

And that storm capped off an overall great winter here, 3 out of 4 years back then were damn good.

10 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

I heard lobsters in Nova Scotia are like $3.99/lb. Any reason why they are much cheaper there? Is it the restrictions in the US?

$5.99 in Maine today

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Thompson Dam was ridiculously low.  That thing is like earth islands between large puddles.  Never would’ve known half of that stuff was there under the surface.  Saw some folks like walking on the bed surface that’s usually like 4-5 feet of water.

Any dead bodies in barrels?

I take my dog for walks up there, nice trails.

3 hours ago, dryslot said:

Picked up 6 lobsters from a buddy of mine Saturday, Met him in Topsham half way point from Harpswell, The smallest was 2lbs to largest 2.7lbs, $10 ea.

I'll be up in Maine tomorrow, gonna check the prices of the guy in Kittery and maybe pick a few up. Going for stripers in the morning although I hear the blues are hitting, maybe I get lucky.

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Playing tomorrow afternoon before the rest of the family shows up.  Looks like a warm one tomorrow with rising humidity?

Where you playing?

39 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I’m coming down your way tomorrow for a full week through Labor Day.  Gonna have to embrace the swamp ass of NE CT.

Bring your golf clubs

On 8/25/2022 at 12:02 PM, Cyclone-68 said:

Hurricane Gloria in ‘85 for me. Watched the updates the night and days before. Hard to imagine living in an era now when when we could only get updates from TV Mets or radio or the old weather line 

Forgot about that one, spent the night at my girlfriends (now wife) and stayed up most of the night, wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

40 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Own (8 year loan after tax credit was applied). 

Been mulling over doing that myself especially now that I have a heat pump, I also burn wood so shouldn't use much oil this year.

1 hour ago, OceanStWx said:

Given that 200 gallons might, might get me through 2 months of a warmer winter stretch up here the heat pump at worst is net neutral on cost. Paired it with solar panels to offset the electricity, so once the heat pumps are paid off I estimate we'll save ~2000 a year.

You lease or own the solar?

16 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

0.03"

also, guess who's back, back again
Stein is back, tell a friend

Bottom right looks like an old guy with arthritis trying to give the peace sign.