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  1. jvls1942

    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    too bad the deer already ate all the bait. you could have sat on the back porch with a cup of coffee and hunted. i dragged the box blade on the driveway yesterday. did a fair job, but can still slightly detect the big pot holes. will go at it again and concentrate on those. lettuce still has...
  2. jvls1942

    Helpful hints for building coops

    yep, i spent some time box blading the driveway this morning. it looks really nice. a lot smoother. but i can still feel a slight dip in a couple of spots when i take the car . can't feel those dips with the tractor. i will concentrate on those dips tomorrow. it was a perfect autumn day...
  3. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    good morning. yesterday it cleared up. i got the drag off of Ollie and went to put the box blade on. as usual , nothing goes smoothly. the pins for the 3 point were turned inward. my 3pt arms do not go that narrow. so i went and found 8 of the largest 1/2" drive sockets i could find. the largest...
  4. jvls1942

    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    we don't buy meat chickens any more. when we did, we ordered 200 for a family of 5. would give my brother many for helping butcher. when it dwindled down to just the 2 of us we ordered 50. i am thinking of selling the chicken plucker. haven't used it for a few years.
  5. jvls1942

    Helpful hints for building coops

    good morning it was such nice weather that I decided to borrow a box blade scraper and fix the potholes in the driveway. i have not had a chance to hook it up yet it is raining. i have to drop the drag off first. i will try to work between the rain drops, at least when i get started, it won't...
  6. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    good morning. when I had blueberries, i would mulch them with pine needles each fall. had nice berries until the black walnut trees wi ped them out. I can't tell if it is going to rain or not. still looks awfully dark outside. i will drop the drag and hook up the box blade and see how it...
  7. jvls1942

    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    farming is still deadly. my tractor fix it guy's dad rolled his tractor over and was killed a few years ago. and i had an aquaintance seasoned farmer did the old, poke your hand into the corn picker and was pulled in and killed. i can't believe August is almost over. seems like I haven't...
  8. jvls1942

    Helpful hints for building coops

    Sally PB , i knew only of one burrow and he quit using it. but Annie informed me that Joe saw it dive into it yesterday. I will give that a try. yesterday the borrowed box blade was delivered now i can work on leveling off the long neglected driveway. it is better than I thought. instead of...
  9. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    good 43F early fall morning. good news first. the box blade is sitting in my driveway. at close inspection, it looks like it has never been used. the paint isn't even worn. it is 5 ft wide. have to get gas when i go to the VA today. gettin new glasses. trying bifocals . weary of carrying...
  10. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    I was mentally planning how i would fix the driveway without a box blade. then i got a message that her son in law was going to load the box blade this afternoon. what a r o l a i d s. then i got a message from someone who is interested in buying my chicken plucker. had the heat on for a little...
  11. jvls1942

    Helpful hints for building coops

    had a nice big salad with spaghetti . Annie said she picked a lot of lettuce. when i looked, could hardly tell that she picked any. my efforts to borrow a box blace scraper is becoming a saga. i finally got someone with a trailer to go pick it up. when we went to get the tractor to load it...
  12. jvls1942

    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    we used to go to the steam show. too old to do all that walking anymore. my wife's grandfather had his arm ripped off with a thresher belt like that. farming was always dangerous. i worked on a few threshing crews when i was a teenager. loved the dinner where all the women cooked and showed...
  13. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    how true, how true
  14. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    yesterday i went with plan B. Joe drove up to pick up the box blade. when we went to start her tractor, found the battery was not in it. she called sil. oh yeah. it is in the back of my pick up truck. i am going to Fleet Farm to buy a new one. so the battery was not purchased yet and FF is over...
  15. jvls1942

    Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

    TOR sounds like you were having a bad day. the place where we buy our corn is $1.OO/EAR we buy 4 at a time because we go past there just about daily. can always stop and get fresh picked. i went to pick up the borrowed box blade yesterday. went to her tractor and discovered it had no...
  16. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    before i turned the compuer on, i thought about the coyotes. haven't heard about them for awhile. yesterday i did a test run on the driveway. i dragged the cultivators up and back a few times. it loosened the granite up quite easily. good. today Joe is going to pick up the box blade for me...
  17. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    good sunny saturday morning 58F it did not rain , as they said it would. first thing today i will water the beds later on i want to get a little tractor time in going to try to reclaim some of the granite on the driveway that got pushed to the edge. lots of grass growing in it. tomorrow i...
  18. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    yeah, yeah, I'm up. couldn't get to sleep, finally got a couple of hours in. Annie and I put the septic lift pump back in. managed to not fall into the dreaded black stinky hole. even got the concrete cover back on. i did not water yesterday. it is supposed to rain today. another funeral...
  19. jvls1942

    Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

    true about funerals are for the living. but at my age, there are fewer and fewer living. lol Phil was a county detective. so the funeral was swarming with cops. most of them weren't even born yet when Phil retired. i think they were there just for the snacks. lol (no donuts) I had a CT scan on...
  20. jvls1942

    Helpful hints for building coops

    good morning. 56F this morning. Molpet, I found the receipt. from Menards. bib lettuce by Burpee . it is still going strong . we will never be able to eat it all.
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