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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:51 am

Why are you weeding the lawn?

2,4-D that ish
Should have clarified..... Weeding the flower beds and underneath the hedges. Yard is 99% weed free

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Postby skullman80 » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:11 am

We were doing yardwork yesterday and my wife found the large garden shears/loppers in the garage. She has seemed to have found her new calling in life and went around trimming a bunch of trees on the edge of our property.

When I asked her what she intended to do with all the clippings/branches she cut down and that had piled up she told me she thought I would take care of that haha.

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Postby robbiestoupe » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:52 am

I'm pretty close to running my rototiller through the pachysandra bed, but that's where all the chipmunks hide when I mow and I don't know if I want a gorey mess
I will offer my services to maim any chipmunk

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:57 am

We were doing yardwork yesterday and my wife found the large garden shears/loppers in the garage. She has seemed to have found her new calling in life and went around trimming a bunch of trees on the edge of our property.

When I asked her what she intended to do with all the clippings/branches she cut down and that had piled up she told me she thought I would take care of that haha.
Jesus, never let wifey find the loppers!

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Postby skullman80 » Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:22 am

Haha.

On another note. We have made our front and back yards look pretty nice. Especially compared to what they looked like when we bought the house. I've reseeded, we've added borders/edging, planted new plants etc.

Last week my wife noticed that the neighbors across the street have added some hanging plants to their front porch. My wife couldn't let it stand that the neighbors one upped us so off we went to get 4 hanging plants and 4 yard hooks to hang them off of across our front yard.

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:00 am

I've been weedwhacking for this older lady now for about 2 months, a creekbed and hillside. I told her $50 and I was going to do it every 2 weeks. The first time I did it, she added a bunch of little trimming work that I didn't really bother to complain about. The next time, she added even more and she asked me to wait 3.5 weeks to do it again. This morning I did it and it took me almost 2x as long to do it, because it is higher now and there is more to do. I told her next time if this is the case the price will go to $70 because of the additional time (it was about 50 minutes up to an hour and 45). She got mad at me. I know it may seem expensive but that's my price. It's what I value my time at. If she doesn't like it she's welcome to shop around. And she needs to realize you can't change input factors after a price is agreed upon. Meowshrug

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:02 am

Mac's got a family to spend time with, food to cook, and beer to drink. If this old windbag don't like it, oh well

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Postby mac5155 » Mon Jun 06, 2022 11:03 am

Amen brotha. This aint charity

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Wed Jun 08, 2022 6:50 pm

Lesson learned this week: $10 price difference per 50’ roll is more than worth it to get the premium grade landscaping fabric. So much easier to work with and some weeds: especially thistles, can penetrate the cheap stuff.

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Postby mac5155 » Sat Jun 18, 2022 5:54 pm

The people of Milwaukee are laughing...

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:39 pm

The fruit from our squash plants tripled in size in one week. They went from 'potentially quite delicious' to 'sort of inedible'.

Harvested 10-12 blossoms two weekends ago, and I went back out to the bed on this past Sunday and the squash were all the size of my friction' arm.

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Postby mac5155 » Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:59 pm

Yeah squash are like that. If they aren't quite big enough Tuesday they're too big by Thursday lol.

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Postby blackjack68 » Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:42 am

Make Zoodles from the larger ones

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Postby Kane » Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:22 am

Or zucchini bread.

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Postby mac5155 » Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:34 pm

Hello all, your pal Mac here with a public service announcement. It's officially Chambersburg peach season. You're welcome

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:49 pm

Our peach blossoms got destroyed by the late frost and we got none this year. Last year we had so many that branches were breaking.

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Jun 30, 2022 4:14 pm

We have nectarine and white peach trees, and they went from BOOMIN' to bare in like 9 days.

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Postby NTP66 » Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:33 pm

War has been declared.

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Postby mac5155 » Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:36 pm

See, you could really use that AR-15 right now.
:pop:

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Postby NTP66 » Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:36 pm

:lol:

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Postby blackjack68 » Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:47 pm

Our peach blossoms got destroyed by the late frost and we got none this year. Last year we had so many that branches were breaking.
You should thin them and harvest larger peaches.

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Postby NTP66 » Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:13 pm

The first hole I see in my garden or yard, I’m calling the trapper to have him relocated to Philly.

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Postby Shyster » Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:05 pm

Apropos of nothing, I'll point out that Pyramyd Air is an excellent online retailer of air rifles like this one:


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Postby NTP66 » Sun Jul 17, 2022 11:48 am

Our first plumeria flower in 4 years has bloomed, with many more buds ready to open.

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