|
|
|
Author |
|
Message | |
|
Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15592
|
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 19 8:27 am Post subject: |
|
They say that work expands to fill the available space Gregotyn. Also, if your hours at work are less, people think you have the time to 'just do this'. Your work for the childrens group is different from the kindling anyway, and it sounds an excellent idea to get the thick stuff cut for you. I have enough trouble preparing kindling from thin bits, but ours are hardwood, and all shapes, so rather more difficult. The main reason we don't do much kindling.
We had our volunteer group in the woods yesterday. Not many of them, and not the best group for working, but we got a lot of brash clearance done in spite of that. Normally, two of them would have been in the 'less active' group, but they were very good and did a lot for us. We were lucky with the weather, which has now turned wet and windy; it was just rather breezy yesterday, but dry. A few more flowers out, and have seen two celandines in the wood now. |
|
|
|
|
Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
|
|
Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15592
|
|
|
|
|
Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
|
|
dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45488 Location: yes
|
|
|
|
|
Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15592
|
|
|
|
|
Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
|
|
gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
|
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 19 3:21 pm Post subject: |
|
I have done several cameras in, in my time, and so now, with the flippant answer to-"Oh you haven't got a camera?" I say, "I've seen it once why would I want to see it again?". Me and technology don't go, my limit in tractors is my Massy 35, 3 cylinders and of 1959 vintage, I have an old trailer to fetch the logs in and do the rolling and harrowing. I don't do fertiliser-the grass grows on its own-and feeds my graziers horses. It is a simple system which works for me.
I hope all your plants survive Jam Lady. My mother said we get snow 3 weeks after you, as that is how long it takes to cross the big pond. I like the snow plough; I would like to fit that to my Shogun. I am very lucky where I live, it is a small slope down to the road-about 20 yards and then I go uphill, but the local council gritting lorry has been out and ploughed the snow if a lot or gritted if ice or not much snow. I don't have snow tyres, been very lucky so far this year with only 2 snows and neither time much of it.
Yes I am lucky too with my "kindling cutting man's children" and his machine. It comes out all shapes which is a nuisance for netting, so whatever he sends I check it out, but the time saved for me-and my arm-chopping is massive, I have to trim a lot of it up and cut a few 2 or 3 afterwards. The waste from the chopping machine is the same for my hand cutting, at about 20%. This time the wood was wet, after cutting as they didn't sheet the trailer very well after completing the job, so I am having to dry it out before sale, so also lucky that I have been chopping some myself to keep the shop going.
We are having another warm day today-and no rain since 5am this morning when I went to work. I guess that the next snow will arrive as soon as I decide it is time to do the early grass cultivations. It has got to the point where I think it is time to thin my beard down...a lot!
I have tried the aloe vera at my friend's house and I don't seem to have a problem with it, so will be asking for a cutting from her, and have my own plant all being well. I hope it will survive without heat, I don't do heat. |
|
|
|
|
Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15592
|
|
|
|
|
Blue Sky
Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 7658 Location: France
|
|
|
|
|
Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
|
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 19 1:18 pm Post subject: |
|
gregotyn, did you notice that the plow truck is a dually - it has a set of double tires in the rear.
Free train ride to flower show - SEPTA is free to their senior residents. And offers courtesy to senior New Jersey residents. That's me. Just had to show my driver's license and the hour plus ride was free both ways.
This year's theme was flower power. Age of Aquarius. Don't think we can generate electricity with flowers, at least not yet. It's a huge space. Know I didn't see everything, not by a long shot. What I did see was good, colorful, floriferous. By the time we left, mid-afternoon, it was so crowded it was like Brownian movement, a scrum of people in close proximity. Often walking in front of me as I tried to frame a shot.
Here's one image, just to entertain you.
Off to my knitting group this morning. Such a social butterfly! |
|
|
|
|
dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45488 Location: yes
|
|
|
|
|
Mistress Rose
Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Posts: 15592
|
|
|
|
|
gregotyn
Joined: 24 Jun 2010 Posts: 2201 Location: Llanfyllin area
|
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 19 2:30 pm Post subject: |
|
We do have a sort of equivalent truck over here Jam Lady, the Ford Transit is very similar, but not as chunky, and some have twin rear wheels, equally not as chunky as your version, which really is a pickup. I guess go anywhere with a suitable weight on the rear driving wheels, which is useful even if 4 wheel drive. My van is a rear wheel drive for normal weather, so not much weight for grip, so I use 4wd in winter, where nothing seems to phase it-it just keeps going. I could do with chunky tyres for when I want to go up to my top fields, but they are not worth the money-very expensive-for they are an unusual size only needing them 2 or 3 times a year; I just use the tractor then instead.
I too have a bus pass, but even though the bus passes my house I would have to walk 2 miles in order to catch it-they don't stop on request. The depot is 4 miles from the first pickup point.
With the aloe vera, dpack, I will have to go to my friend's house if I need it. My house has no heating-by choice-as I spend so little time there, I am either in bed, in the wood shed or at work. My only concession to heat is 3 hot water bottles in very cold weather and 1 now that the weather has got so much warmer. Our leaves, Blue Sky, are not even thinking of showing a leg yet let alone breaking through their stems, all that seems to be stopping the frosts in the mornings is rain and just at present plenty of it.
Last edited by gregotyn on Fri Mar 08, 19 2:34 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
|
|
|
Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2507 Location: New Jersey, USA
|
|
|
|
|
|
Archive
Powered by php-BB © 2001, 2005 php-BB Group Style by marsjupiter.com, released under GNU (GNU/GPL) license.
|