I just felt like...

[maplesky7]

I really like the maples...with the colors in the fall...sugar maples with thier bright yellows...but they grow up to 40 ft.

I've got a white paper birch too...it's seen better days, I don't know what's wrong with it...sniff sniff. They have feathery thingys they shed in the fall...clogges up the gutters right along with the maple leaves...but oh well...I'd rather have trees than none.

That's a nice backyard you have there. What will you do with the wood? Do you have a fireplace for winter? Or some summer fire pit gatherings? or use it when you go camping?

me,
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[Tala]

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Hehehe I wanted a Japanese maple, they're smaller and pretty, and instead of the usual $20-40, they're $137 at Lowes!! Um, sorry, not that rich

So I was thinking I might go with something smallish and ornamental, maybe a crabapple or something. The neighbor's Pecan tree gives us some shade (and drops limbs) so it's not a total burner out there.

RIGHT NOW I just need to get this one the rest of the way cleaned up so I can re-build my fence. My neighbor has gotten better about keeping their current dog in - but I just found out today that they got ANOTHER puppy, and with their track record I'm worried about my birds. Fortunately they're nice and like chickens, even roosters, so I'm not complaining TOO much. Fences make good neighbors.
If it would STOP RAINING we could get more work done on the darn tree!

My dad has a woodstove, I'm trucking the wood down the interstate to him - he pays $20/truck load because I'm unemployed.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

... anyone have a horse tranquilizer?

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Do y'all realize that if I had a mental break down every time I lost a chicken, I'd be locked up in a looney bin for permanent mental disabilities? I've had to put down 4 just this year.... FOUR!

 

[maplesky7]

I have a couple crab apples...I guess I see them more as ornamentals than offering much in the way of shade...I sure do like them though...just starting to bloom here.

the japanese maples are nice....go ahead and splurge...a tree is forever....or until lightening strikes it. ha ha.



why poulets? where they sick?

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

In order of culling..... Couldn't tell ya, wry neck, worms, couldn't tell ya again...

 

[texaschickmama]

We were driving right through one of those cells that came through yesterday evening. It was scary. It was raining so hard we seriously could not see in front of us. What really sux is when we made it to our house, we hadn't gotten that much rain at all.

 

[giasmom]

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Mahonri Here you can have mine too! RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,RAIN,.... Is that enough for ya ?

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

It was torrential. We were right in the middle of that PURPLE cell that went over East Fort Worth and Arlington. The radar went from green, to purple... thats how drastic it was.

 

[Tala]

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Well, they seem shady enough for the dog to lay under, or the chickens.

And carpenter ants killed that big tree, so lightening is not the only thing

(well, the ants tunnel in it and make holes through out the trunk, water rains in there and the tree rots out, so technically the ants DID kill the tree in a roundabout way)


Darn they just changed the weather forecast from sunny on Monday, to partly sunny and mostly cloudy