The Original Old Farts Club

[Unca Walt]

Good morning everyone . Starting the day with no plans so that’s good. I need to tend to my veggies today by giving them their first nutrients to help them to a good start. I only use nutes on them at the beginning. There are only a million worms in the beds now to do the job. Also need to stake up the peppers and eggplants as they are getting tall. Also need to figure out how to manage that blackberry vine that is crawling up the side of my house. by the growth, I’m sure I’ve planted it in the wrong place. May move them to a better place after this season but have to somehow tie them down this year so they don’t grow to my roof. Hope y’all have a great day
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I luv blackberries. The were 40% of my diet in the summer when I wuz a kid. They grew all along the road, and us kids could pick buckets of 'em. We made jam, too.

 

[OGKushman]

TruFuel has no corn gas in it. Lasts a decade. Expensive as hell… if you run the thing out of gas before storing it you don’t have to drain the fuel and it’ll start first pull next fill up.

 

[WeedHopper]

Ive got plenty of Blackberries in my yard.

 

[Hippie420]

propane fella, clean carbs forever when you use the "clean" fuel...back to tearing down a standing seam roof, don't ask...

Yep. If I ever bought another outboard, it'll be propane. A 20 pound tank would last all summer.

My two cycle snow blower, which is 25 years old started on the first pull last winter because I do my due diligence. Stabil works.

I prefer Seafoam. Cheaper, and works well.

For the adorabobble doggie lovers here -- Mama is giving music lessons to her littles.

Sound up.

That's the reason the Old Hen put her foot down on adopting one.

Ive got plenty of Blackberries in my yard.

You spelled dingleberries wrong, Bro.

 

[Unca Walt]

I was really feeling sore all over from working in the yard, so I took five hits in a row of Boo's Feral Tanglefoot.

Woke up to the sound of my neighbor's lawnmower.

Screw him. He can cut around me.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I luv blackberries. The were 40% of my diet in the summer when I wuz a kid. They grew all along the road, and us kids could pick buckets of 'em. We made jam, too.

Yes we picked them too. I remember getting chigger bites every time.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Ive got plenty of Blackberries in my yard.

Do you have a trellis for them to climb on? My roots are 5 foot long now had to supercrop one of them. Bent the stem. Hope it’s like cannabis and keeps growing

 

[Carty]

Wife comes home tonight at 8pm... time to take the garbage out, clean up the living room, bedroom and do some laundry up.. and finally, put down both toilet seat lids.. hahaha

Actually after 34yrs together and being my best friend, missed her quite a bit as has Mongo.. he'd hear her on video chats and just couldn't understand she's not hiding behind the couch... hehe.

 

[user 60606]

Been killing red wasps .. hate 'em .. it seems the 90+ F days lately has them out and being abit aggressive ..

I purposely leave toilet lids up ..

 

[WeedHopper]

Do you have a trellis for them to climb on? My roots are 5 foot long now had to supercrop one of them. Bent the stem. Hope it’s like cannabis and keeps growing

Yes. I have several trellises that go from the top of my fence over to the top of the house. Another words it makes a tunnel on that side of the house where you come in from the gate to the backyard and the Blackberries grow from the ground up and over the Trellises.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

I luv blackberries. The were 40% of my diet in the summer when I wuz a kid. They grew all along the road, and us kids could pick buckets of 'em. We made jam, too.

I pick wild blackberries every year here and make a concentrate from the spent pulp after squeezing for juice: 18.3.1 Test 13 F-Extracting wild blackberry concentrates from spent pulp

 

[giggy]

What up old farts? It be a hot mutha today.

 

[Unca Walt]

Well, shitdamnhellpissfartpoop. For the last week, I have had a coupla places on the top of my pointy head that hurt like a mutha... burn mixed with sting.

At first, it felt like a bee sting. No, more like a cactus spine sticker. Tiny dot. But it stuck around for the whole damn' week, getting sorer. Then, it got very "active" in the visible damage and overall pain departments.

Herself got a good look at the really owie spots... and looked up what causes that reaction. Ohboy.

Turns out I got bit in two places by a Brown Recluse spider. Apparently it was in my hat, which I had left in the garage.

The treatment, if you do not have the giant reaction, is to clean it well and apply antibiotic.

Ice packs to stop the burning. Vitamin E (liquid) topically applied.

Suffer for about two more weeks. I am working on the suffering part right now. Ow.

Shitdamnhellpissfartpoop.

 

[user 60606]

 

[joeb631a]

It's small, but it is dam' expensive.

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Its worth it .
I love Honda generators
Although we have a generac 8kw propane with automatic transfer which is a thing of beauty. Used the hondas for new housing

 

[joeb631a]

Meet my Mia ,my little girl . She runs the house !

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I pick wild blackberries every year here and make a concentrate from the spent pulp after squeezing for juice: 18.3.1 Test 13 F-Extracting wild blackberry concentrates from spent pulp

I soaked the left-over pulp in a 50/50 mixture of water and Ethanol for an hour and after vacuum filtering, I removed the alcohol and reduced the water by boiling under vacuum.

Ethanol? Is that what you use? Would grin alcohol work? And remove the alcohol and reduce the water by boi under vacuum? How do you do this?

 

[Hippie420]

Well, shitdamnhellpissfartpoop. For the last week, I have had a coupla places on the top of my pointy head that hurt like a mutha... burn mixed with sting.

At first, it felt like a bee sting. No, more like a cactus spine sticker. Tiny dot. But it stuck around for the whole damn' week, getting sorer. Then, it got very "active" in the visible damage and overall pain departments.

Herself got a good look at the really owie spots... and looked up what causes that reaction. Ohboy.

Turns out I got bit in two places by a Brown Recluse spider. Apparently it was in my hat, which I had left in the garage.

The treatment, if you do not have the giant reaction, is to clean it well and apply antibiotic.

Ice packs to stop the burning. Vitamin E (liquid) topically applied.

Suffer for about two more weeks. I am working on the suffering part right now. Ow.

Shitdamnhellpissfartpoop.

If it was a fiddleback/bashful brown, yer gonna lose some hide. The wife of a work partner of mine lost the tip of her trigger finger all the way to the first knuckle due to a single recluse bite.

View attachment 299536 Meet my Mia ,my little girl . She runs the house !

Beautiful sunny, Joe. Tried popsicles with her yet? My Tiki loves 'em.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

View attachment 299536 Meet my Mia ,my little girl . She runs the house !

Oh she’s beautiful

 

[joeb631a]

If it was a fiddleback/bashful brown, yer gonna lose some hide. The wife of a work partner of mine lost the tip of her trigger finger all the way to the first knuckle due to a single recluse bite.

Beautiful sunny, Joe. Tried popsicles with her yet? My Tiki loves 'em.

Yes she loves popsicles and apples and apple sauce I wish She ate more vegies or eat some good pellets.
She has me wrapped around her little feet ! Mia is 13 years old.
I have been blessed by the love that has been given me. I put being loved by a bird up there ....