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[drumstick diva]

Idiot'swife - it really troubles me to call you that - obviously you are NOT an idiot. Could I call you WIFE, or Bama's wife something without the idiot connotation?

 

[perchie.girl]

Idiot'swife - it really troubles me to call you that - obviously you are NOT an idiot. Could I call you WIFE, or Bama's wife something without the idiot connotation?

Idots Wife just means shes married to an idiot... No offence Bama...

Sort of like the Tshirt that says I am with stupid....

deb

 

[vehve]

Diva, how about "Mrs. B"?

 

[chickwhispers]

Or I's wife for short?

 

[vehve]

Or maybe "Chris's old lady". I hope she doesn't take offence, I'm sort of used to Bama being able to handle some wisecracks, so I just assume that she is too.

 

[Wisher1000]

I think we should call her Dudette.

The Silkie and Show-Girl genetics might prove to be interesting and fun to play with, and I might consider it, except I only raise chickens.

 

[vehve]

Wisher, Dudette sounds good.

 

[sunflour]

Mine too.

It's a Colorado blue spruce. I get Frazier firs for one of my indoor trees when I use a real tree. Frazier firs have more space between branches and a greener color.
PS I'm a certified tree hugger.

What's a tree hugger?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I think a tree hugger is me. It isn't like I'll never chop one down. I won't cut one down that that isn't sick or doing damage to something else. It takes too long to grow one.
I cut down a couple big maples when I moved in here that somebody let grow about 3' from the house. They were huge. I can't imagine what damage they had done to the stone foundation over the years. There's a 70' tall sweetgum that had been growing about 12' from the house. Again, foundation damage but worse yet the sweetgum balls constantly clogging the gutter have done more damage. Over the years it has caused basement flooding and water ingress to the back walls of the house.
My house has a flat roof with a parapet walls and a 20' stick of gutter across the back. All the water that falls on the house goes into that gutter but if it's clogged, the rain flows right over like a waterfall, down into the cellar stairwell overwhelming the drain. It was our first heavy rain after moving in. We had lots of unpacked boxes down there including old family photos that got ruined. I've had a love hate relationship with the tree ever since. It's a beautiful tree and the perfect compliment to the row of equally tall red oaks on the opposite side of the driveway but once the water started getting into the back wall I decided it had to go. I finally got the top taken down to roof height. No more gumballs on the roof but I'm waiting till spring to take it the rest of the way down so I can use it to grow mushrooms.
Trees in a forest that are growing too close together aren't doing each other any good so were another target on our farm.
Every year the utility co. trims trees that are too close to wires. They're really ugly and lopsided when they get done. I told them to just take the trees down if they're going to butcher them.
Half the people on my road top their trees every 2 or 3 years. A few of them have huge sycamores and they end up with standing bare logs. Then for the next couple years they look like they have afros. Really bad look for a tree. Why don't they just take the trees out and plant something that only gets as tall as they try to keep the sycamores?

That's my rant for the day.

 

[vehve]

CC, I like your approach. I have nothing against cutting down trees, as long as it's done in a smart way. Cutting down every tree I don't like, you need to leave seed trees. And don't cut enormous areas at once. We've got about 30 hectares of forest, every 5-10 years or so a small section of that is cut down and sold as lumber, and either new trees are planted or seed trees are left. That way we have trees growing all the time. It's not a high yielding operation, mostly the proceeds are used for maintaining the forest, but my mother did cover the inheritance taxes with it when her mother passed.