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[Ogress]

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I had to look it up but there is a bit of difference between pollarding, and TOPPING the trees, which is what they are doing to those parking lot trees

as the sites explained, pollarding is done more with young trees, as an aesthetic measure (often combined with pleaching), while topping is what we used to caution our "yard guy" against, when we told him "don't whack them off !! cut where we marked them, to thin them out"

we do need to take the highest growth off our Maui trees, since our cottage tenant has watered and fertilized them until they have grown up to block our view down into the valley; but there are ways to thin them out without giving them a buzz cut -- I'd do it myself but I no longer trust myself to climb trees with a chainsaw

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/59103_pollard_1.jpg

This is an example of a pollarded tree. It looks just like the Whomping Willow.

Yuck! Why would anyone want to do that to a poor tree?

 

[Ogress]

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Omgosh-- isn't that the BEST sausage??? We got a pig from scott this fall. It's been the most bestest pork we've ever had. Melts in your mouth

Also-- what everyone else said about the stuffin. We always deep fry our turkeys so our stuffin is baked in the oven.

Mmmm; good sausage! I think that is why DS ate 2/3rds of the stuffing before I got a chance to put it in the bird. (I did pre-cook it all yesterday)

 

[Ogress]

WooHoooo! My eBay auctions are up to $680!!!!! But I sure was not thinking when I posted the items. They start closing in 2 hours!

Every fall I clean through the house and auction a bunch of stuff to pay for the Holiday expenses. I scored this year! The best prices are coming form a collectable card game that DH used to play. And USED Singapore Math books go for nearly new prices!

Next week I am listing all my Silpada (only 3 items). No one pays for my nicer items that I make myself. I have to sell my stuff locally in shops and shows.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I Think we may be about to be invaded by a mamma duck. !!!

 

[hallerlake]

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A bird big enough for a dozen or more people ties up the oven for five or six hours. Anything else that cooks in the oven has to be done before hand. I could get up early to do them, but I'm not a morning person.

That is what we have - the cheapest dishes available at the outlet mall in town. I am so glad they are completely plain and not the Corelle with the ugly mustard-yellow pattern around the edge we had when I was a kid.

These are china with a couple of narrow gold bands. $15 a box. Can't beat that.

 

[hallerlake]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/59103_pollard_1.jpg

This is an example of a pollarded tree. It looks just like the Whomping Willow.

Yuck! Why would anyone want to do that to a poor tree?

Some people think it looks tidy. Some people are trying to keep trees from getting too big.

 

[Ogress]

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Hello T-Hi!

 

[T Hi]

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Not sure about invading anything. I am using the DD's laptop to catch up on the Days of ur Lives BYC drama!

My computer has caught its last virus. The computer guy is not sure if he can fix it this time.

Sitting home in my jammies watching movies today. The twins are at SD's house doing Thanksgiving with him and his sister who is here from FL. I really should be cleaning and such but..... not really feeling it today.

As CR had posted.. yes the duck pen got blown to smitherines the other day. I rangled them up and got the chicken wire somewhat put together enough to keep them enclosed. However, I had just spread a new bale of wood chips around the pen so they could use it to keep warm.....now it is soaked and was blown all over the yard. I had just filled a feeder for them....yep...you guessed it...soaked and dumped all over the place. Boy do I miss my Walduck Astoria!

Greg---thank you for keeping your eyes open for me. That particular one will not work for me.

Covington is not too far from where I am now. I have worked for the Kent school district for 12 years and Covington Elementary is 1 of the schools where I work. It is the Kent/272nd exit off of Hwy 18. The Maple Valley exit is about another 5-10 miles further east on Hwy 18. If you are taking 272nd/Kent Kangley out to the south end of the Maple Valley area then you do drive thru Covington. Covington is the area between Kent and Ravensdale/Black Diamond. It has grown quite a bit in the last 10 years as almost all farm areas have. Covington is one of the few areas that you can still find an affordable home with acerage. It is very equine friendly and it seems like there are more homes with horses than without. There are very few apartments or condos due to the fact that they recntly became their own city annex away from Kent proper but they are still in the Kent School District boundries. They did that so they could try to preserve some good old country living the way it has always been and not become the melting pot like Kent itself has.

Ok sorry... I like the area and spend more hours of my day in Covington than I do at home due to work.

 

[T Hi]

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Hello T-Hi!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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The manager of a McDonalds near me whacked back a whole row of Star Magnolias so they were three feet tall and flat topped. Killed them all dead.

And then there's this, a bunch of paper birches that had been what Cass Turnbull of Plant Amnesty calls "lollypopped" that are being rehabbed at Lacey Community Park to be replanted when they're back to a natural shape: