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[microchick]

Yeah but cochins are like Buff Os even when they are acting tough, they aren't. My two that went broody during their life times were just so cute when they were all fluffed up and growling at me.

We just got in from the timber. We had an old growth oak tree succumb to wilt this past summer so we decided to put it on the ground so it could start aging for next year. We won't start to harvest it till next spring. When DH got it on the ground I counted the rings. The old girl was about 80 years old. So sad. We have had trees die over 100 years old back there. To think the changing times they have shaded makes you feel a little humbled.

Taking a breather and then taking the dogs out for runs. It's unbelievably beautiful out today. High near 60 with ample sun. But then two days of rain then back to reality. Looks like snow on the turkey this year.

 

[ronott1]

Yeah but cochins are like Buff Os even when they are acting tough, they aren't. My two that went broody during their life times were just so cute when they were all fluffed up and growling at me.

We just got in from the timber. We had an old growth oak tree succumb to wilt this past summer so we decided to put it on the ground so it could start aging for next year. We won't start to harvest it till next spring. When DH got it on the ground I counted the rings. The old girl was about 80 years old. So sad. We have had trees die over 100 years old back there. To think the changing times they have shaded makes you feel a little humbled.

Taking a breather and then taking the dogs out for runs. It's unbelievably beautiful out today. High near 60 with ample sun. But then two days of rain then back to reality. Looks like snow on the turkey this year.

We are losing a lot of oak treed here in California

Millions of California oak trees are dying | Woodworking Network

https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com › woodworking-industry-news
May 11, 2017 - A pathogen causing a phenomenon known as ‘sudden oak death’ has killed millions of oak and tanoak trees in California’s coastal forests since 1995. ... Traveling through water and wind, the pathogen (Phytophthora ramorum) is a mold that causes tree trunks to crack open and bleed out ...

 

[microchick]

I think that is the same thing we have going on here, Ron. It's hitting the red oaks really hard. This one that died had lost a limb to a storm and I guess from what I'm reading that is about all it takes for this fungus/mold to invade a tree.

Here it's mainly the red oaks that are suffering. The white oaks seem to have some resistance to it but the reds die in a few months. We noticed this old growth tree that we dropped today starting to decline mid summer and was dead by late August.

There is a treatment for the infection but from what DH read about it, it's very expensive, something like 30 dollars for every inch of circumference of tree that they have to inject. With no guarantee.

We have seen trees that have just a small amount of bark damage die here. Pretty soon all we will have left is white oak and hickory along with walnut and the like.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

kitchen aid mixers are easily fixed! There are parts for all of them and you tube videos to show the repair process.

I should have tried! I fixed my own dryer that way. But this was a few years ago, and it never occurred to me. I asked my mechanical BF (at the time) and he thought it was a goner. :-(

 

[ronott1]

I think that is the same thing we have going on here, Ron. It's hitting the red oaks really hard. This one that died had lost a limb to a storm and I guess from what I'm reading that is about all it takes for this fungus/mold to invade a tree.

Here it's mainly the red oaks that are suffering. The white oaks seem to have some resistance to it but the reds die in a few months. We noticed this old growth tree that we dropped today starting to decline mid summer and was dead by late August.

There is a treatment for the infection but from what DH read about it, it's very expensive, something like 30 dollars for every inch of circumference of tree that they have to inject. With no guarantee.

We have seen trees that have just a small amount of bark damage die here. Pretty soon all we will have left is white oak and hickory along with walnut and the like.

Between the bark beetles killing the pine trees and this killing the oaks, the millions of trees add to the deadly fire danger here. It is sad to see them go

 

[pennyJo1960]

Bookmark all those sites love to be able to find what we need fast. Hurt my back this morning good shoveling in front of the main coop door blasted white dog started a whole made mud cannot just lay a paver the door won't open so got a shovel about 5 in back went clear down to hip gave up told he BF he finished giving me two pavers ... so apple pie in the oven Son and I did it

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Here, we have lost most of our chestnut (sometimes you can still find one), American Elm, and the Emerald Ash Borer has arrived to wreck the ash trees. There's a pest bothering the spruce, too. I hope the eventual New Normal will include some hardwood and softwood, some shade, and some that produce food for the animals in winter.

 

[ronott1]

I lost a plum and a peach tree this year to the Pacific Peach borer moth

 

[perchie.girl]

Down here Ron we have the pine beetle as well. Dont know about the oaks.. But there is a Palm Beetle borer that kills the tops of the palm trees... You see all sorts of palm trees dead these days.

once the top is dead the tree dies

deb

 

[ronott1]

Down here Ron we have the pine beetle as well. Dont know about the oaks.. But there is a Palm Beetle borer that kills the tops of the palm trees... You see all sorts of palm trees dead these days.

once the top is dead the tree dies

deb

I have not seen the palm beetle here yet. How sad