CH-47 (AKA the Chinook) flying around this morning. If you zoom a bit you can see the little contrails made by the rotor tips.
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They fly here had two the other day .. Big base Tacoma here. Best going east of the mountains there some F -15 tomcats practicing..
The MD/Boeing plant that does final assembly on Apache Longbow helicopters is somewhat close by to me, as well as Williams Gateway Airfield (formerly Williams AFB). Between the 2 we see quite a bit of mil /gov air traffic. Williams is a staging station for the Forest Service slurry bombers, and Falcon Field stages out support/spotter planes and tanker copters too. Williams is also a stopover for NASA flights as well as AZ air guard and active service aircraft on medium and long haul flights. I've been a plane nut since I could walk, so I dig it.
Bf was a sea bee with the Navy in Vietnam. We love the planes and copters we get here.
It is now -36 C outside. The greenhouse is empty, the geese are hidden in the house.
This fence inside the greenhouse was made because the goats learned to break through polycarbonate and enter the greenhouse in the summer. So I took an old 15x15 cm wooden bar and made a fence out of it so that the goats could not get in here.
There is no separate ventilation system inside the goose house, so it all comes down to putting two bricks at the door. One brick is needed so that the door does not close, the second - so that the geese do not open it and come out, because it is cold in the greenhouse now.
These are my geese. The goose that is in front is a very old bird, I don't remember how old it is. Parents offered to eat him, but I refused, probably he will die later of old age, never ending up in soup or chakhokhbili (a dish that usually takes poultry meat, most often chicken, cooking it with tomato, bay leaf, pepper, etc.) then adding it as a sauce to boiled rice).
This goose, due to its age, tolerates the cold worse, otherwise I hope that it will not freeze, it is quite warm in the house, there is an insulated ceiling and walls made of foam blocks and bricks with air cavities (the walls have low heat losses).
In the room there is a wooden floor covered with hay, three small glazed windows, an ordinary bucket of wheat serves as a feeder, and I put a 60-liter trough as a drinker. We are in this house during a severe frost, but when I need to clean up a bit and lay clean hay on top, I take the geese to the greenhouse for a while.
There is also dim 12V lighting here, for which I took an old LED panel from the shower stall.
Bright LEDs would probably be harmful to the eyes, but these are very old and barely shine, otherwise they are enough for geese to find a bucket of wheat at night.
This fence inside the greenhouse was made because the goats learned to break through polycarbonate and enter the greenhouse in the summer. So I took an old 15x15 cm wooden bar and made a fence out of it so that the goats could not get in here.
There is no separate ventilation system inside the goose house, so it all comes down to putting two bricks at the door. One brick is needed so that the door does not close, the second - so that the geese do not open it and come out, because it is cold in the greenhouse now.
These are my geese. The goose that is in front is a very old bird, I don't remember how old it is. Parents offered to eat him, but I refused, probably he will die later of old age, never ending up in soup or chakhokhbili (a dish that usually takes poultry meat, most often chicken, cooking it with tomato, bay leaf, pepper, etc.) then adding it as a sauce to boiled rice).
This goose, due to its age, tolerates the cold worse, otherwise I hope that it will not freeze, it is quite warm in the house, there is an insulated ceiling and walls made of foam blocks and bricks with air cavities (the walls have low heat losses).
In the room there is a wooden floor covered with hay, three small glazed windows, an ordinary bucket of wheat serves as a feeder, and I put a 60-liter trough as a drinker. We are in this house during a severe frost, but when I need to clean up a bit and lay clean hay on top, I take the geese to the greenhouse for a while.
There is also dim 12V lighting here, for which I took an old LED panel from the shower stall.
Bright LEDs would probably be harmful to the eyes, but these are very old and barely shine, otherwise they are enough for geese to find a bucket of wheat at night.
You do quite well for them. Your very concerned of their welfare it is clear.
Difficult geopolitical situation 
On one side there is a large garage of my neighbor (there is also a second floor above the garage), on the other, there is a goose house, on the third side there is a greenhouse on the line of this tree, and on the fourth there is a power line. The situation is further complicated by two fences.
As a result, I will have to cut this dried up spruce in small pieces.
When the tree was healthy and green, it did not bother me much and did not interest me at all, but then I forgot about it, or rather, about the fact that goats can spoil it. They came there, gnawed all the bark from below, and the tree withered. Now I have to remove it.
This ladder is low, I have another, a little higher, I think to put it up and saw off some more branches. And then I obviously have to climb even higher in order to cut off the top of the head, and then saw this tree in small pieces and carefully throw them down.
Tomorrow I am thinking of starting to clean up those branches that are lying around at the bottom.
On one side there is a large garage of my neighbor (there is also a second floor above the garage), on the other, there is a goose house, on the third side there is a greenhouse on the line of this tree, and on the fourth there is a power line. The situation is further complicated by two fences.
As a result, I will have to cut this dried up spruce in small pieces.
When the tree was healthy and green, it did not bother me much and did not interest me at all, but then I forgot about it, or rather, about the fact that goats can spoil it. They came there, gnawed all the bark from below, and the tree withered. Now I have to remove it.
This ladder is low, I have another, a little higher, I think to put it up and saw off some more branches. And then I obviously have to climb even higher in order to cut off the top of the head, and then saw this tree in small pieces and carefully throw them down.
Tomorrow I am thinking of starting to clean up those branches that are lying around at the bottom.
That sounds very cold. We were at 79°F today but it's supposed to cool down starting tomorrow.
Don't envy that at all
Jeanw
Crowing
Be careful!
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