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[NotAFarm]

Kinda late in on the car subject

I learned to drive in a Vega with a stick. It was my BFs car. First car was a Pinto with a stick and no radio! Drove it from my parents house to Mississippi....had to sing to my self for entertainment. A tree fell on it in a storm. Then got a GMC pickup.
DH and I got a Saturn (first year they were out) with a stick and taught the kids to drive in it. DD took it to college and never had to worry about anyone asking to borrow it since none of them could drive a stick. She was sandwiched in that car, mini van in front at a stop and a box truck rear-ended her into the mini van. The car had 188k on it and was running like top. Hated to have to total it. Great, great car.
Never had any muscle cars but love to look at them when we have the big car show here every August (check out Depot Days Car Show Amboy, IL). SIL has a 79 Camero he and his Dad restored before he left home in the late 90s. My 6 year old granddaughter has claimed it.

of course, her younger brother may have a problem with it now that he is getting old enough to realize she wants it!

@superchemicalgirl Plan for the weekend:
Set my Easter Hatchalong eggs today!
This afternoon, prune our apple trees.
Pickup some sand for my meatie brooder....I pick them up April 4.
Pickup the new Book Club book at the library.
Saturday, weather permitting, get the gravel out of the grass in the side yard and do some clean up in the flower beds.
Hang the new cedar bird house I got last week (squirrel chewed a giant hole in the doorway of the old one-my fault I didn't get it down early enough in the fall and some mouse must have filled it with hickory nuts that the squirrel thought it needed).
Clean the coop and get my broody boxes ready.
Try to entice some of my hens to go broody so I can move eggs from the incubator once I know they are developing.

Now I need to get off here and get started on my list....
Have a great day and weekend OFs!!

 

[Peep_Show]

I'm exhausted just reading Notafarm's post.

 

[Peep_Show]

And for a little universal humor.....

 

[dsqard]

This weekend we are heading up to NY to visit with DD and the grandkids. Little miss Viking turned two this week and her birthday party is Saturday. The "baby" is getting big and kind of walking already by pulling himself up and using furniture and such to get around the room.

 

[pennyJo1960]

cute kid she will be chasing him till she is as grey as we are

 

[Kusanar]

@Kusanar
Ever watch Ken Block's Gymkhana vids on YouTube? I prefer American cars but have always had a soft spot for Subaru's, I've beat them beyond recognition yrs ago, 80s cars and a brat, almost impossible to kill them.

I am driving my 1st Subaru. It's a 2010 Imprezza hatchback. It goes great in snow and mud, it also has a HUGE area in the back to haul stuff if you fold the seats down. I actually took 6 cats and a dog to the vet in it not too long back, they were all in crates except the dog, and 2 cats were doubled up... but still, 5 crates and 2 extra animals. I haul horse feed in it all the time, we take it on all of our road trips. It's a gem. Less than 100K on it when I got it, less than 150K now hope it goes another 150K (which being a Subaru it very well might)

I also have my play toy when I get the time and cash to get it running. 1968 Mustang 302 coup. Baby blue, 2 tone blue interior. Going to rebuild the engine before we put it back together and put a small chrome kit on it while we have it torn apart.

 

[Alaskan]

We're allowed studded tires until April 30. Still lots of snow and cold here also. Hoping to get some more unfrozen eggs to set Saturday, even been going out at night when I get home from work hoping for non-split one's. Got 31 naked neck eggs so far between today and tomorrow morning hope it fills the hova.
I'll be boiling maple sap Sun and smoking 25lbs of venison pepperoni

your sap is running????


We still have multi feet of snow. The driveway is all ice and snow...no dirt.


I wanna try tapping this year. Birch obviously, not maple.


Edited to add: they even still have cars out on the ice of the town float plane lake.

 

[Alaskan]

I am driving my 1st Subaru. It's a 2010 Imprezza hatchback. It goes great in snow and mud, it also has a HUGE area in the back to haul stuff if you fold the seats down. I actually took 6 cats and a dog to the vet in it not too long back, they were all in crates except the dog, and 2 cats were doubled up... but still, 5 crates and 2 extra animals. I haul horse feed in it all the time, we take it on all of our road trips. It's a gem. Less than 100K on it when I got it, less than 150K now hope it goes another 150K (which being a Subaru it very well might)

I also have my play toy when I get the time and cash to get it running. 1968 Mustang 302 coup. Baby blue, 2 tone blue interior. Going to rebuild the engine before we put it back together and put a small chrome kit on it while we have it torn apart.

When I first moved up to Alaska I think 40% of all cars were Subarus, 30% were Jeeps, and the 20% left over were a bit of everything.


Not like that anymore.

From experience nothing beats an old Subaru on ice and snow.

 

[Kusanar]

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Curious, anyone heard of tapping Elm trees? Think you can get anything decent from them? My farm has a bunch of Elms of some sort and they bleed like crazy... We cut a big limb off of one and it sprayed "water" a good 2 feet out of it when the limb came off, and then ran and dripped for several hours before it finally scabbed up (or whatever you call it when a tree does that) and stopped bleeding everywhere. I tasted the "water" that came out and it had a little flavor, but not a ton. There is also another big Elm that sometime along the way got a big injury to one of its branches and has never healed correctly, it bleeds constantly to the point where there is a dead spot in the grass about 2 feet around under where the constant dripping is.

We are planning to cut all of the Elms down except for a few over at the spring, they are getting under the foundations of the buildings and cracking the walls, so the trees have to go, but if I can tap them before they die that might be something cool to do, and the one that bled so much when we cut it's limb off was one of the ones at the spring, so pretty sure I could tap those as well...

 

[Alaskan]

Dunno.

Haven't heard of it, but if it tastes good, why not?

Lots of people up here just drink the sap from the birch as is...they don't boil it down.

Birch sap doesn't boil down as well and reliably as maple.