Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

That is so cute of you to say. Your yard is beautiful too w/ lush greenery.

Our Southern Calif is declared a drought state so having well watered greenery is prohibited and lawn watering can be done only certain 2 or 3 days of the week. Well, our front yard was so big and costly to water that I paver stoned the whole yard w/ only small areas for plants/veggies.
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Doesn't that make it very hot?

 

[Sylvester017]

Send him over here please and bob while your at it , I need some wood repairs doing

Teehee! DH is old & has a hernia. He'd be willing but doubt he'd do much except talk your ear off ! God bless him !

 

[featherhead007]

The problem w/mtn fires is how easily they can start (neglected campfires, lightning, broken glass prisms, fireworks, kids malicious mischief, cigarettes, automobile backfires, homeless encampments, etc) and how dangerously fast the mtn fires move, how forest fires create their own fierce drafts to spread very rapidly in such large areas that fire fighters and air drops are hindered to contain the rapid spread of forest fuel ~ but the worst part is that most mtn roads are narrow or have just one road in/out that jams safe evacuation/rescue efforts. City or suburban home fires have more contained combustion and 2 or more local fire units can respond in minutes to put out residential fires quicker. Mtn fires take hours sometimes to organize firefighting efforts. Things are improving to fight but never underestimate rural or forest fire dangers.

Our fire teams consist of a few trained firefighters and many inmates from the prison locally. Several pilots have planes, I used to be a spotter for them too, but I was sent out to pasture by a Chinook helicopter

 

[Sylvester017]

That’s a lot of pavers!

Yep! But over the years the pavers will pay for themselves in saved water bills, gardener billing, & lawnmower purchases & repairs! & keeps weeds WAY down! Chickens don't like it though ~ the vast space of the frontyard scares them and they run to hide under the tomato plants beside the garage wall!

 

[Sylvester017]

Doesn't that make it very hot?

Surprisingly cool & no humidity from grass moisture.

 

[featherhead007]

I’m arguing with him / her right now about a kernel of corn it missed . I said kernel of corn, but he/she thought I said colonel (like KFC Sanders) now it’s nervous that I might be calling KFC to come over.

 

[featherhead007]

Yep! But over the years the pavers will pay for themselves in saved water bills, gardener billing, & lawnmower purchases & repairs! & keeps weeds WAY down! Chickens don't like it though ~ the vast space of the frontyard scares them and they run to hide under the tomato plants beside the garage wall!
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Hey, it’s a great job you have done. I would have done the same thing.

 

[Sylvester017]

I was successful with grafting a lemon tree and a grapefruit tree.
Very large lemon/grape fruit was the result.

DH told me his folks had a grafted plum, peach, apricot graft on one tree but because each fruit blossomed at different times the fruit didn't cross-pollinate. Lemons & Grapefruit blossom at the same time so it can cause mixed-up fruit.

 

[featherhead007]

DH told me his folks had a grafted plum, peach, apricot graft on one tree but because each fruit blossomed at different times the fruit didn't cross-pollinate. Lemons & Grapefruit blossom at the same time so it can cause mixed-up fruit.

That’s good, I like the taste of those things. I’m kinda mixed up myself! my grapevines have crossed pollinated, the seedless ones over took the vine and now I enjoy all seedless grapes

 

[Sylvester017]

Our fire teams consist of a few trained firefighters and many inmates from the prison locally. Several pilots have planes, I used to be a spotter for them too, but I was sent out to pasture by a Chinook helicopter

DH's dad had a Piper Cub that DH remembers flying w/ his dad at 4 yrs old. His Korean veteran dad died of a heart attack at only 42 yrs old!

DH's dad was a Korean war field clerk like Radar from M.A.S.H.

Tx ~ Fluffies, one coming, one going