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[Chicken Rustler]

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I will gladly give up my share of the BF hornets to you. See they will also clean out a hive of honey bees. I know there is a hive of BF somewhere close as I watched other day while one swooped down to the entrance of one of my hives. Grabbed a honey and attempted to fly away. Wrong I am deadly whit a swat of the hat. I am now in search of that bf hive so I can take care of the problem. They seem hungry so I will feed them.

 

[jbear]

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Thanks for reposting for me!!

Hey we takes care of ours neighbors cuz we wuvs em.

WAY TO GO GARRETT!!!

 

[jbear]

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Beautiful dogs, Ilia! And now I want to do one of those DNA cheek swab tests on Willow - We found her on I-90 7 years ago, and nobody was ever able to tell us what she is. From the neck down, she looks like your dogs; strong, musculcar, built like a tank!

Watch what company you use; my sister sent her mystery-pup Ziva's swab to the company in the Jeffer's catalogue, and she:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/P1000457.jpg

(Note: she's now twenty inches at the shoulder and weighs about 45 pounds, has a single, silky coat and a square head)

was identified as 85% Husky, Malemute, or American Eskimo.

Yeah, right.

100% adorable though!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I will gladly give up my share of the BF hornets to you. See they will also clean out a hive of honey bees. I know there is a hive of BF somewhere close as I watched other day while one swooped down to the entrance of one of my hives. Grabbed a honey and attempted to fly away. Wrong I am deadly whit a swat of the hat. I am now in search of that bf hive so I can take care of the problem. They seem hungry so I will feed them.

Yeah, I know, and when we had hives on the place we didn't let there be a BFH nest any closer than the hill. But we're beeless these days, and a nest of those hornets is better than the best dust bag for keeping down cattle flies, and those bastidges *BITE* literally, right through a tshirt. And unlike the nasty little subterrainian yellowjackets, BFHes are non-aggressive. You have to smack into a nest, or grab a hornet while it's gathering wood from your clothespin (that was a memorable sting, that one) to get a BFH to sting. So I surrounded the nest with caution tape.

Of courst the line of hornets that built that nest darned well deserved their demise: the nest was at the very end of a thin witchhazel branch, and started off less than four feet from the ground. It got lower and lower as it got bigger, and Monday was about 18 inches from the ground. So: dumber than usual vespids, they were.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Watch what company you use; my sister sent her mystery-pup Ziva's swab to the company in the Jeffer's catalogue, and she:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/P1000457.jpg

(Note: she's now twenty inches at the shoulder and weighs about 45 pounds, has a single, silky coat and a square head)

was identified as 85% Husky, Malemute, or American Eskimo.

Yeah, right.

100% adorable though!

Moreso now that she's slowing down a little: until she was a year old we thought she was a rare Tigger dog, full of rubber and springs. She's still cute, although possibly the grubbiest dog we've ever owned, unable to see fresh-turned dirt without rolling in it.

Unfortunately my sister thought she was going to top out at 15 pounds: the shelter IDed her as six months old when she came in, and they were off by about four months, apparently. She really didn't want to get another big dog, and although Ziva's a light-weight, she's tall and lanky. She's also naturally docked or lost her tail as a young pup, and is at least unable to leave a trail of destruction with that weapon of destruction.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK big serious question here folks. Who was it a while back that ask me about cutting something in a Cast Iron skillet. I am thinking maybe Zgoatlady. Well I have a #8 (8") that I am willing to sacrafice. I have never done any C I before so not sure but will try.

 

[Ogress]

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I could say the same about athlete and politicians, they all make way more money than they need.

Oh buddy there ain't enough duct tape to keep my mouth shut on those 2. We best not go there. I have made it 2 weeks with out a spankin and have a goal of a month.

Aim High!

We need a separate place where we can gripe about all these things.

 

[Ogress]

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You sound like me, LOL - My blueberries are absolutely pathetic, the strawberries gave nothing - lots of em died due to drought honestly, which is the strangest thing to say out here.

The only things doing well are what grows in the greenhouse and what grows in my hay bales. (volunteer zucchini and lots of colored potatoes)

I have been harvesting lots of Blueberries for about a month now. I have early mid and late season varieties and are just now getting Blueberries from the late varieties. They are only 3 year old plants and they are loaded. Blueberries need an acid soil. Lots of peat moss in the planting hole and acid mulch plus LOTS of WATER. If things are dying due to drought then you need to physically water them. You can't depend on WA rain in the summer. Even in Forks.

I think in my case, I'm just too high up, and there has not been enough sun. Bushes are loaded but everything is green. The Blueberry picking place in town just opened up, so that is a good sign. Normally they would be picked over by now. I am 500 feet higher up, so If we have a warm September, I may get mine. Water has not been an issue for them at all, the green berries are the FATTEST I've ever seen them. I have many varieties, at least one of every kind I've ever found, though I did have a mountain beaver chew some of the plants off at the base and drag them to its den. The animal was so brazen, it would walk right by Willow and me to get to the bushes! Willow later killed it.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I was just out checking on my RIR B's Buster the little cockerel I got from broody has finally started trying to crow. While I was in there he also showed me that he may need to spend some time viewing his little world from an inverted position. Inverted flight camp is the first chance before boot camp.

 

[Ogress]

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I used to think the show was tolerable, but in the early 90's when I worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service, everyone there watched it. One day we had to all hop in a van and drive up to Dunsmuir when there was a train derailment/chemical spill. For the entire drive up there, all anyone would talk about was Star Trek, there was no way to shut it out, all I could do was sit there and grunt. Hated it ever since.