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motorcity4570
Marysville, MI
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Rather than battle clay soil for a few veggies I built a raised bed and went to the landscaping place for a load of top soil. It works for me and is basically a wish more than food for the table. I laugh and say that "I'm the farmers daughter, not the farmer". However, it's mostly for enjoyment of being outside.
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Another option is a "Straw Bale Garden" great info on "Google & YouTube" and it turns into great compost for the next year!
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| 4/22/2017 8:18:19 AM |
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stargazzer
Creighton, NE
68, joined Feb. 2007
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Bomgaars is 15% off today only, time now to buy my much needed post hole digger now that I have a tractor with 3point hitch & can buy post also for the holes. 
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| 4/22/2017 10:51:59 AM |
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toeinthewater11
Campbell, MO
68, joined Aug. 2011
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Rather than battle clay soil for a few veggies I built a raised bed and went to the landscaping place for a load of top soil. It works for me and is basically a wish more than food for the table. I laugh and say that "I'm the farmers daughter, not the farmer". However, it's mostly for enjoyment of being outside.
You are certainly correct...gardening for me is good therapy. The raised bed thing is a good idea. Lucky for me I live an area where there is a good mixture of sand and soil. The local farmers grow everything....peaches, root crops, vine crops, beans, cotton and corn. All things need to grow is water and sunshine. I affectionately call my area "God's Country."
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| 4/22/2017 11:19:34 AM |
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orz
Portage, WI
67, joined Jul. 2010
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At $10+ for a bale of straw that lasts one season, they can cram it! We used to sell straw for ten cents a bale cause no one wanted it! I raise tomatos, peppers, cukes and lettuce in 5 gallon pails on the deck. I buy them for a buck from the grocery store bakery. Or scrounge them. I punch 3 small holes around them about 6-8 inch up from base to drain water out. And when dryer, they hold a reservoir so you dont have to water every day. Fill with barnyard dirt I have and they last for years. Just rotate crop every year.
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| 4/22/2017 1:06:42 PM |
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bub0492
Minneapolis, MN
70, joined Aug. 2014
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Whoa! $10 a bale for straw? Holy crap!!! I pay $4 max, $5 when it has been a bad season....
I use raised beds and pails as well..... too old to get all the way down to Mother Earth...
may never get back up.....
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| 4/22/2017 2:37:58 PM |
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toeinthewater11
Campbell, MO
68, joined Aug. 2011
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Diff gardening methods are cool to hear....thanks for sharing. 
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| 4/22/2017 8:51:10 PM |
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driver406
Saint Paul, MN
65, joined Oct. 2009
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Make a sammich.
Get something to drink.
Work on the computer.
Hit the can. (Figuratively speaking of course)
Go to 
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| 4/23/2017 7:29:21 AM |
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stargazzer
Creighton, NE
68, joined Feb. 2007
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I'm expecting three strong FFA boys [men] to come work 8 hours for me today  
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| 4/23/2017 8:52:58 AM |
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sankie1
Irvine, KY
69, joined Dec. 2011
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I'm expecting three strong FFA boys [men] to come work 8 hours for me today
Half of the farmland is now in subdivision postage stamp lots in this country. The FFA is not near the interest it was and the farmer is using their grass for beef and hay production.
Agenda? Stay inside and keep warm. Temp dropped to 49 degrees with an east wind and rain.
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| 4/23/2017 11:18:15 AM |
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orz
Portage, WI
67, joined Jul. 2010
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Nice day. Get butt outside and find something to do useful.
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| 4/23/2017 1:40:19 PM |
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toeinthewater11
Campbell, MO
68, joined Aug. 2011
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Home from church...made crispy chicken salad. Kicking back with the house opened, watching the Cardinals at Brewers.
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| 4/24/2017 7:32:32 AM |
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stargazzer
Creighton, NE
68, joined Feb. 2007
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FFA has moved with the times, heck they now even have women
But I moved them back in time yesterday some as they even got to work on a 1918 Oil Pull tractor
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| 4/24/2017 8:09:13 AM |
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sankie1
Irvine, KY
69, joined Dec. 2011
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FFA has moved with the times, heck they now even have women
But I moved them back in time yesterday some as they even got to work on a 1918 Oil Pull tractor
I grew up on a farm but wondering "what is an Oil Pull Tractor"?
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| 4/24/2017 9:05:40 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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| 4/24/2017 10:45:31 AM |
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orz
Portage, WI
67, joined Jul. 2010
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That is what made me angry in high school. Mom, dad and I ran a 100+ head of sheep. I lived on a farm and worked like the farmhand. And when we tried to get me into AG or shop..NO! You are a girl and would be disruptive. Cant join FFA.Take home ec!! And boys couldnt take home ec! Funny thing..I grew up around the farm boys and we worked side by side as equals. Including fist fights.
Today will be more of yesterday...pick up, carry, clean, haul, seed, etc.
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| 4/24/2017 11:35:45 AM |
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stargazzer
Creighton, NE
68, joined Feb. 2007
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I grew up on a farm but wondering "what is an Oil Pull Tractor"?
Oil Pull tractors were made by the Advance Rumbely Co. One of the very early sucsessful tractors very respected in the day & now as a top collectors tractor, very popular & expencive today. Yes sankie I have something special much like miss orz had with her Jag.
This 1918 Oil Pull has ben working up & down my road now for 100 years this year 1917 to 2017 was 1st owned by the Smulik family then in 1921 was bought by the Star Thrasahing co.
that had 4 owners one being my grandfather they used it together untill 1952 then it sat till I got it out in 1974. I now own it cause I was the only one to show an intrest in it and the other owners have sence died including my dad. Thanks dad 
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| 4/24/2017 6:13:12 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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| 4/24/2017 7:50:45 PM |
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trisha1
Erie, PA
68, joined Dec. 2007
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Did go to Sam's club and bought some veggies, salads etc.
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| 4/24/2017 7:56:10 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Nothing important, actually.
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| 4/25/2017 11:31:27 AM |
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orz
Portage, WI
67, joined Jul. 2010
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Explain the oil pull. Engine pulls oil out of reservoir? Agenda is work work work and try to do as much as can for the week of rain coming. Need to get bucket on wood furnace chimney! Shut power off yesterday. I am FINISHED with burning wood!!!
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| 4/25/2017 5:32:10 PM |
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stargazzer
Creighton, NE
68, joined Feb. 2007
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Explain the oil pull. Engine pulls oil out of reservoir? Agenda is work work work and try to do as much as can for the week of rain coming. Need to get bucket on wood furnace chimney! Shut power off yesterday. I am FINISHED with burning wood!!!
Is oil cooled no prestone 
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| 4/30/2017 12:39:56 PM |
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motorcity4570
Marysville, MI
67, joined Jun. 2009
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Whoa! $10 a bale for straw? Holy crap!!! I pay $4 max, $5 when it has been a bad season....
I use raised beds and pails as well..... too old to get all the way down to Mother Earth...
may never get back up.....
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I have a friend that sells me a bale for 3 dollars
10 bucks for a bale is a rip off!!! That is just highway robbery!
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| 5/2/2017 7:29:21 PM |
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shaggyoledog
Ocean Shores, WA
69, joined Apr. 2011
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Gonna go out an git me some vanilli ice cream anna bigly devils food cake with chocolate mocha frostin', ta selleebrate Ranger Guy's Birthday taday...
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| 5/5/2017 4:56:48 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Before or after
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| 5/7/2017 8:32:02 PM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
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| 5/13/2017 2:31:51 PM |
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toeinthewater11
Campbell, MO
68, joined Aug. 2011
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Meeting a friend from our great Northwest in Vegas....hope we don't do anything too stupid.
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| 5/20/2017 10:56:20 AM |
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sankie1
Irvine, KY
69, joined Dec. 2011
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Meeting a friend from our great Northwest in Vegas....hope we don't do anything too stupid.
Hey, the rule for Las vegas is "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas". That included all your money.
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| 5/20/2017 11:03:10 AM |
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sankie1
Irvine, KY
69, joined Dec. 2011
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Wash the aluminum walls of my sun porch. This is a spring project each year and then I can enjoy knowing it's clean from ceiling to floor. With the large sliding windows the dust seems to come through the screens and collects on the walls. Can shut the windows, go outside with the broom and cause a dust cloud by just sweeping the screens.
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| 5/21/2017 10:37:16 AM |
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itemgirl
Lima, OH
67, joined Mar. 2009
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I had a deck built onto the back of my house. My daughter and I stained it last Thursday.
If the rain holds off for a while I will be spending some time there today.
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| 5/22/2017 5:08:01 AM |
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bigbob311
Los Angeles, CA
90, joined Aug. 2010
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I need to find and buy a metal security screen door , I have one, the bottom all rusted out from the rain so off to Home Depot . Happy Monday 
I need to go to Las Vegas if nothing more, make sure they have not moved it.
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| 5/22/2017 8:50:09 AM |
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shellfishguy
Storden, MN
70, joined Mar. 2009
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Cleaning up the geodes recovered from a creek just outside Keokuk Iowa over the weekend. Then cut more of the Dino bone to get ready for our next rock show!
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| 5/22/2017 9:12:55 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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You have taken dinosaur bone from an archeological location, Mike? 
Would you take a bone from an Indian mound, too?
Shells are lovely -- but bones?
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| 5/22/2017 9:30:32 AM |
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stargazzer
Creighton, NE
68, joined Feb. 2007
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Suport president Trump
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| 5/22/2017 3:38:27 PM |
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toeinthewater11
Campbell, MO
68, joined Aug. 2011
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Nap....walk, good tv tonight.
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| 5/23/2017 12:50:20 AM |
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annamranna
Bloomington, IL
62, joined Apr. 2008
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Last week of school then I'm cleaning my house. I'm counting the days until I can start filling the recycling bin!
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| 5/23/2017 7:36:50 AM |
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shellfishguy
Storden, MN
70, joined Mar. 2009
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You have taken dinosaur bone from an archeological location, Mike?
Would you take a bone from an Indian mound, too?
Shells are lovely -- but bones?
Why have you ASSUMED that the Dino bone was from an archeological site? Multiple places, especially in Utah, where this can be collected LEGALLY. Secondly, this was purchased from a reputable dealer, along with an assortment of other materiel. 
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| 5/23/2017 7:49:55 AM |
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cupocheer
Assumption, IL
68, joined May. 2010
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Wow, Mike!
You sprang right to the defensive, didn't you?
You must not comprehend sarcastic commentary. My apologies.
I assume you have something to hide by jumping all mad and angry and stuff.
Do mushrooms grow in dinosaur graveyards?
How many years have you been sober now, Mike? A great accomplishment for you, friend. 
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| 5/23/2017 9:31:16 AM |
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shellfishguy
Storden, MN
70, joined Mar. 2009
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Defensive? ? You know it. This is no less than the third personal attack you have pulled. To imply that I raid native sites goes way beyond 'acceptable' behavior. Comment out of the woodwork, my sobriety has absolutely nothing to do with this post. Guess it's finally time for the 'block' button.
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| 5/23/2017 9:39:53 AM |
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stargazzer
Creighton, NE
68, joined Feb. 2007
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Defensive? ? You know it. This is no less than the third personal attack you have pulled. To imply that I raid native sites goes way beyond 'acceptable' behavior. Comment out of the woodwork, my sobriety has absolutely nothing to do with this post. Guess it's finally time for the 'block' button.
Ditto: push the button, you will never regret it 
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| 5/23/2017 4:07:46 PM |
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toeinthewater11
Campbell, MO
68, joined Aug. 2011
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Cardinals at Dodgers tonight in LA....gotta love my baseball.
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