The Old Folks Home

[trumpeting_angel]

I need to get some wood chips but will not need enough for a delivery!

Ask your neighbors if they want some! Mine were free from our (very) local tree service. The guy lives just up the main road from the turn onto my road. They took down a large poplar (called “popple” in Vermont) and it was in my yard in the afternoon. I had called about a week before. Lucky me!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

How silly of them!

Newscarycoop! Watch out!

 

[bruceha2000]

(called “popper” in Vermont)

Or popl.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Or popl.

Thanks for noticing. Damned autocorrect! I edited.

 

[Beer can]

Out in the garden all day. Wow, retirement sure is hard!

I don’t have a photo of the raised beds but since the weather warmed up everything is growing like mad! I had 3 yards of wood chips delivered and all the gardens now have mulch, some wood chips will be aged for the chickens, and the berms I built on our steep, scrubby hill with poor soil will be piled high with wood chips. The berms are to hold the water in and create new soil (along with eventual chicken poop).

Last year we destroyed all the honey locust (did you ever wonder what they use to make those Crowns of Thorns for Good Friday? With the inch-long thorns? Wonder no more) on that hill. Now we have empty spots where nothing grows and the water literally runs off without sinking in. I made the berms with used Christmas trees that I collected from neighbors. And now wood chips, free!

I wonder if honey locust is good for fence posts like our black locusts? Black locust makes the best fence posts, and split rail fences. Lasts IDK? Hundreds of years. Trees have thorns but I don't think as bad as honey, split easy. I've cut and split/sharpened thousands of them yrs ago.
I actually just spent some time pulling up eight of them on our property line down our driveway and pulling barb wire off them, bet they are at least 50yrs if not way older. Sunk in mud easy to pull up. Used them to pound into the ground in the garden to stake up tomato plants. No rot to them even the pointed bottoms still super hard. Ran out of metal stakes.

 

[Beer can]

Ask your neighbors if they want some! Mine were free from our (very) local tree service. The guy lives just up the main road from the turn onto my road. They took down a large poplar (called “popple” in Vermont) and it was in my yard in the afternoon. I had called about a week before. Lucky me!

we call them popple here also .
Pretty weak tree, but it actually makes great indoor lumber.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yeah, but it's a good use of scrap fabric.

only kind of foxes any of us want around goodnight all

 

[drumstick diva]

No joke Bruce. Nobody was on the thread because I took a nap that lasted till NOW.
Too hot otherwise. I had the a/c on and the ceiling fan, and just conked out.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey there morning all had my coffee saw the news guess I am up pork out for dinner

 

[ShrekDawg]

I thought I was the youngest at 43
I think 25 was the worst for me, realizing I was a quarter century...
The milestones of 16,18,21, long behind you, took forever...!
And then a quarter century..., goes fast after that , really fast. Yrs just blow by like nothing. Enjoy it. Doesn't take long and you'll start tthinking/planning for retirement..
Reminds me of a song

Sorry, I know the conversation is like way over now but I haven’t been on haha anyway, I think that’s what it is for me. Quarter of a century just feels/sounds so old haha