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Any intrest in an OE roo? I'll pay ya to take him
Any intrest in an OE roo? I'll pay ya to take him
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I think because they're striped like a cuckoo bird
I think because they're striped like a cuckoo bird
ok not seen any in person.
Well I have to start getting ready for work, I am a retail slave. Be back around 11:30 tonight.
Okay, a bit of advice to all:
When using a hedge trimmer (sharp by the way in case you did not know).....do not stick your finger in it while it is going. Hmmmmmm
You didn't know that did you? Well my 15.5 yo DS didn't. Guess what? Now he has 4 stitches in his finger.
Nurse told him he could have just said he had a stomach ache so he didn't have to do chores.
He cut a big bleeder, came in the back door bleeding all over the place. We could not stop the bleeding.....so off to the ER we went. Yep, now off to Safeway to get him some Tylenol. What a dork.
When using a hedge trimmer (sharp by the way in case you did not know).....do not stick your finger in it while it is going. Hmmmmmm
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He's lucky that he still has the entire finger!
He's lucky that he still has the entire finger!
OK... gotta tell somebody. Last month DD bought a motorcycle to save money on gas, She lives in Belltown (Seattle) so she has to park it on the street. If you know anything about Belltown, you know there are a LOT of problems when the bars empty out at night.
Thursday morning she goes out and finds it smashed up. A note from a taxi driver that says "It was laying down so I picked it up. Security guard saw what happened." Business card from a cop is on the windshield. It's a hit and run. She's devastated, of course but has to go to work. Finds out that the owner of the Belltown Pub saw it, but tracking down an hit & run isn't easy.
Friday night she comes home after a Mariners game, the bike's been smashed AGAIN! At least this time the driver owns up to it. Still in front of the Belltown Pub--they have her number now, so they called her. But REALLY.... do you think the universe is trying to say something here?!?!?
Thursday morning she goes out and finds it smashed up. A note from a taxi driver that says "It was laying down so I picked it up. Security guard saw what happened." Business card from a cop is on the windshield. It's a hit and run. She's devastated, of course but has to go to work. Finds out that the owner of the Belltown Pub saw it, but tracking down an hit & run isn't easy.
Friday night she comes home after a Mariners game, the bike's been smashed AGAIN! At least this time the driver owns up to it. Still in front of the Belltown Pub--they have her number now, so they called her. But REALLY.... do you think the universe is trying to say something here?!?!?
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Julia, also, very cute indeed, and about seven weeks old
Julia, also, very cute indeed, and about seven weeks old
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I have some alders here you can do that with and a couple a fir trees that are interfering with my view. I'm wondering just how many I can get rid of before violating the King County land use ordinance, I may have to wait until they are taller and then limb them:
Ordinance 15053 prohibits most rural landowners in unincorporated King County from clearing more than 50% of their land. (6) Owners of large land parcels (parcels greater than five acres) are prohibited from clearing more than 35% of their land. (7) The remaining 65% of the land must remain unaltered in its natural forested or vegetative condition. These clearing restrictions became effective on January 1, 2005
Seems like overkill when I have a 10 acre greenbelt to one side, 5 acres on the other, 45 acres just below that, and the entire Seattle Watershed less than 1/4 mile up the road! In addition to that, the neighborhood CC&R's already had clearing restrictions:15' wildlife buffer around each property and 50' from any road (though the grant exceptions to that one pretty readily, though in trade you usually leave another section of the property uncleared.) We thankfully fall in the 50% clearing limit. Most of our neighbors have 5 acres or more. One neighbor bought the 45 acre tract of land so he could clear for a view around his property - it is very natural looking with a meadow now and a split rail fence. He gets lots of elk herds in his new meadow. He's a wildlife photographer, so that is what he wanted. After clearing what he wanted for the meadow he donated the remaining 45 acres for preservation.
I'm often liberal in my voting, especially when it comes to education, parks, and libraries, but this one just ticked me off! Why put the clearing restrictions only in UNINCORPERATED King County? Those making the laws should have them apply to themselves as well!
It's pretty easy to label an alder a "hazard tree:" they start to rot from the enter out when they're about 6"DBH which is, what, three years old... well, maybe five, but, yeah: red alder is the green manure of the forest, they fix nitogen and the wood rots as fast as hay. See if either of your doug firs show signs of being snow-breaks/wind breaks (trunk has an abrupt S curve): that's an automatic hazard tree label.
The cutting restrictions are in unincorporated King County because that's where they could get the law passed. I think all unincorporated land is under the Forest Practices Act, and the Counties were set to enforce it through local ordinances. When I have questions about this kind of stuff, I've found that the best tactic is to go to the county web site, find out who the person is who is in charge of enforcement, and call them up and ask. Many times you can cut pretty much anything if you file a reforestation plan, and replant firs where they don't annoy you.
(For me, that would be nowhere near the house: I love my oak trees, and pines are good habitat, but with God, the Forest Service, and Weyerhaeuser planting doug fir everywhere, and with their unnerving habit of droping twenty foot long six inch diameter branches on the roof from sixty foot up in the quiet of a windless night, I'm not fond of them as domestic landscape!)
ETA: back to crochetting with steel. Although we've moved on, now, this is more like some strange combo of needlepoint and darning...
I have some alders here you can do that with and a couple a fir trees that are interfering with my view. I'm wondering just how many I can get rid of before violating the King County land use ordinance, I may have to wait until they are taller and then limb them:
Ordinance 15053 prohibits most rural landowners in unincorporated King County from clearing more than 50% of their land. (6) Owners of large land parcels (parcels greater than five acres) are prohibited from clearing more than 35% of their land. (7) The remaining 65% of the land must remain unaltered in its natural forested or vegetative condition. These clearing restrictions became effective on January 1, 2005
Seems like overkill when I have a 10 acre greenbelt to one side, 5 acres on the other, 45 acres just below that, and the entire Seattle Watershed less than 1/4 mile up the road! In addition to that, the neighborhood CC&R's already had clearing restrictions:15' wildlife buffer around each property and 50' from any road (though the grant exceptions to that one pretty readily, though in trade you usually leave another section of the property uncleared.) We thankfully fall in the 50% clearing limit. Most of our neighbors have 5 acres or more. One neighbor bought the 45 acre tract of land so he could clear for a view around his property - it is very natural looking with a meadow now and a split rail fence. He gets lots of elk herds in his new meadow. He's a wildlife photographer, so that is what he wanted. After clearing what he wanted for the meadow he donated the remaining 45 acres for preservation.
I'm often liberal in my voting, especially when it comes to education, parks, and libraries, but this one just ticked me off! Why put the clearing restrictions only in UNINCORPERATED King County? Those making the laws should have them apply to themselves as well!
It's pretty easy to label an alder a "hazard tree:" they start to rot from the enter out when they're about 6"DBH which is, what, three years old... well, maybe five, but, yeah: red alder is the green manure of the forest, they fix nitogen and the wood rots as fast as hay. See if either of your doug firs show signs of being snow-breaks/wind breaks (trunk has an abrupt S curve): that's an automatic hazard tree label.
The cutting restrictions are in unincorporated King County because that's where they could get the law passed. I think all unincorporated land is under the Forest Practices Act, and the Counties were set to enforce it through local ordinances. When I have questions about this kind of stuff, I've found that the best tactic is to go to the county web site, find out who the person is who is in charge of enforcement, and call them up and ask. Many times you can cut pretty much anything if you file a reforestation plan, and replant firs where they don't annoy you.
(For me, that would be nowhere near the house: I love my oak trees, and pines are good habitat, but with God, the Forest Service, and Weyerhaeuser planting doug fir everywhere, and with their unnerving habit of droping twenty foot long six inch diameter branches on the roof from sixty foot up in the quiet of a windless night, I'm not fond of them as domestic landscape!)
ETA: back to crochetting with steel. Although we've moved on, now, this is more like some strange combo of needlepoint and darning...
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To some one who has not seen them they look some what like a BR.
To some one who has not seen them they look some what like a BR.
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