@sammydog01@zinimusprime I mean doesn’t it depend on meh shipping the traditional candy corn brick? I assume that’s a good substitute for coal if you don’t get it by Halloween
@spacemart I do. I hate summer, and I find long days stressful. Shorter days are cozy. Plus they mean that my neighbors, who are out of their houses playing in the street with their little rugrats all summer, finally go back inside.
@Tadlem43 I worked some sort of night shift for 2006-2013. College stuff then several years of a 8-5 with on call and then 10 hour Fri/Sat/Sun night shifts on a second job. I still haven’t been able to reset.
I try but bad habits lol. Well also still on call on this job but. I really should learn how to sleep.
@Kyeh@spacemart@tinamarie1974 the 70s-80s def have their hits. Sometimes I just need to hear “Big Bad John”, “I walk the Line” and put Loretta Lynn on and see what it does.
@Kyeh@unksol@tinamarie1974 Anybody remember this one? Kyeh’s comment about the outfits & dancing in the previous video made me think of this. Tina, I wonder if your niece might get a kick out of it, it’s certainly “unique”!
@Tripod2 No shit. They have been particularly brutal this year. I have spent more on anti mosquito repellent and other things this year than ever before. Aedis Aegypti is my sworn enemy.
@Kyeh the trick is don’t rake them. Multch them in with the mower or just… Give up and watch the world burn.
There is a third option where there are enough you just light them on fire and let it all burn but that assumes your grass is actually weeds, you’re in the country, and the neighbors are chill
@Kyeh@unksol Dead leaves from all the trees (and there are a lot of them!) are a source of carbon to balance the nitrogen-rich chicken coop material in the compost pile. I rake them onto a tarp then drag it to the pile and dump. Lather, rinse, repeat…
@Kyeh@macromeh well… Yes it you have gotten to the chicken/compost stage. Chickens have been on my list for a while but that seems like a two person job. So you can create little workers. Lol.
I imagine you could bag instead of mulch and dump in the compost pile. Il but if they are thick and useful yes raking makes sense/may be faster.
I have black walnuts so small leaves already. A couple oaks though can through them down.
I rake them onto a tarp then drag it to the pile and dump
That’s exactly what I do, only I don’t have chickens to contribute the extra nutrients, but I have a compost pile.
Fires around here are a very bad idea! Some people still burn brush up in the foothills but they really shouldn’t.
@Kyeh@unksol The wild forest adjacent to the north side of our lawn is mostly big leaf maples - when they shed, you cannot see the grass. The rest has various fruit trees and specimen trees that we have planted and are not so bad.
The 3 most recent hens are Rhode Island Reds that we got last spring. The rest are a mixed crowd - a couple of banties, a couple of Wyandottes, and various others (the clucks are mostly my wife’s thing). I think the current beak count is around 16-18, give or take.
@Kyeh@unksol Similar here re: burning. I have a couple of slash piles where we accumulate prunings from the fruit trees and other (non-compostable) yard debris. I only burn in the spring and/or fall (when permitted) and things are wet and green enough to avoid it getting out of control.
@Kyeh@macromeh my bad sometimes I forget the west is always on fire/about to be on fire these days… We can still burn brush around here. It’s never really dry or polluted .
Cities have leaf pickup but sometimes a nice fire is just… Nice
@macromeh@unksol I think I might be kind of allergic to smoke so I’ve never enjoyed campfires or fireplaces as much as other people; my eyes get dry and so on. But I don’t rake very thoroughly either; I leave the leaves under the shrubs and plum trees to compost themselves.
@Kyeh@macromeh@unksol
One of the reasons I keep a rider instead of a zero-turn is to be able to bag my grass/leaves and occasional small critter too slow to get out of the way… (oh calm down… that was a joke).
The clippings go in the chicken run with the chickens, the kitchen scraps go in the chicken run with the chickens, paper from the shredders goes in the chicken run with … you get the idea. Chickens scratch all that stuff together, crap indiscriminately in the mix (plus I use it as bedding in the coop which get raked into… you guessed it … the chicken run.) A couple of times a year I go in the run with a tiller while the chickens are out in the yard or locked in the coop. Once it is all tilled in, I use a wheelbarrow or dump cart attached to the mower to move it to my garden areas. Win-Win-Win.
when/if I get to the chickens they will probably be free range spring/summer/fall. Layers safe in the coop/run in the winter, everyone at night. So the “run” will be more of a direction guide…
I have 12 acres, only 4 neighbors, and three have chickens. No predators other than hawks and racoons really so. They should be fine wandering. Probably.
@chienfou@Kyeh@unksol We do some limited free ranging. IME, it comes with some issues:
Coyotes can be quite brazen to get a tasty chicken meal (even in broad daylight).
Why did the chicken cross the road? I don’t know why, but they seem to be compelled to do it. And often end up as feather-topped road pizza.
You have to watch for broody hens hiding their eggs in the brush (and then not returning to the coop at night so - easy targets for predators).
Our idiot clucks seem to find the driveway and sidewalks to be the prime place to shit. I’ve actually observed them walking across the grass to pavement, dropping a load, and then returning to the grass.
There are others, but you get the idea. It’s basically Murphy’s Law, Poultry Edition.
@chienfou@Kyeh@macromeh if I get around to it. No coyotes up here.
The hen house would be back in the field so. Hopefully they wouldn’t wander way up the hill to the house/road.
Hopefully a rooster might help keep an eye out for hawks/cats/foxes
But yeah I’ve spent some time on backyardchickens and I think the fox and kits I saw a few years ago were cute so… If I get to it I won’t be surprised if a few disappear. Considered some paddocks but only the coop could really be overnight predator proof.
@sicc574 I love huckleberries and haven’t had any since I was a child. We don’t have them here in Dallas. We used to go into the woods and pick them wild.
The hot nurses that take care of your broken bones.
@yakkoTDI “The best part of fall …”
Not landing on your nose.
@yakkoTDI I particularly enjoyed the hot physical therapist who gently massaged my foot after subjecting me to her torture machines during rehab.
@macromeh @yakkoTDI how is this weather related? Or do you have a sweater fetish?
@macromeh @unksol @yakkoTDI
Fall:
@Kyeh @macromeh @unksol @yakkoTDI
Thanks. As a 67 yr old male ER nurse I’m glad I still got it!
@macromeh @unksol @yakkoTDI
@chienfou I’m sure you do!
There is no best part because winter’s next.
By holiday season do you mean Halloween? Because that would be my vote.
@sammydog01 Uh, it’s Christmas, the best holiday ever.
/giphy CHRISTMAS!
@sammydog01 @zinimusprime I mean doesn’t it depend on meh shipping the traditional candy corn brick? I assume that’s a good substitute for coal if you don’t get it by Halloween
who tf wants shorter days
@spacemart Vampires?
@spacemart I do! I worked night for years. It’s now my day.
@spacemart I do. I hate summer, and I find long days stressful. Shorter days are cozy. Plus they mean that my neighbors, who are out of their houses playing in the street with their little rugrats all summer, finally go back inside.
@spacemart Hmm, mine still seem to be 24 hours long…
@Tadlem43 @ahacksaw @macromeh Yes to all that.
@Tadlem43 I worked some sort of night shift for 2006-2013. College stuff then several years of a 8-5 with on call and then 10 hour Fri/Sat/Sun night shifts on a second job. I still haven’t been able to reset.
I try but bad habits lol. Well also still on call on this job but. I really should learn how to sleep.
@spacemart me!!! I love the long, chilly nights
Also, this guy
@spacemart @tinamarie1974
Rainy nights are the best for sleeping!
(I also love his blue guitar.)
@spacemart @tinamarie1974 who doesn’t lol. You made me interrupt what I was doing and cast to the TV cause I love that song
@spacemart @unksol lol glad I was able to distract you!!!
@kyeh, Ive loved that song as long as I can remember
@Kyeh @spacemart @tinamarie1974
I mean didn’t immediately send me to
Cause the oldies are in the vehicle rotation. And I love them
@Kyeh @spacemart @unksol oldies are goodies!
Introduced my 11 y/o niece this gem a few weeks ago. She just giggles
@spacemart @tinamarie1974 @unksol
The band’s suits are gorgeous!
And that’s some pretty great bootie-shaking going on.
@Kyeh @spacemart @tinamarie1974 the 70s-80s def have their hits. Sometimes I just need to hear “Big Bad John”, “I walk the Line” and put Loretta Lynn on and see what it does.
@Kyeh @spacemart @tinamarie1974 apparently that’s Loretta Lynn doing a cover. I was going for a song you might know. But the original is better
And so is Loretta Lynn even though she’s better known for coal miner’s daughter
@Kyeh @unksol @tinamarie1974 Anybody remember this one? Kyeh’s comment about the outfits & dancing in the previous video made me think of this. Tina, I wonder if your niece might get a kick out of it, it’s certainly “unique”!
Baseball playoffs & college football
Only three more seasons 'till summer!
I’m stumped. Can’t think of anything.
Leaves are pretty and all, but still, everything is dying and getting cold and dark.
/giphy cold and dark
Mosquitoes dying.
@Tripod2 No shit. They have been particularly brutal this year. I have spent more on anti mosquito repellent and other things this year than ever before. Aedis Aegypti is my sworn enemy.
@Fuzzalini @Tripod2
Isn’t that mosquito attractant?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Almost time to quit worrying about all the yardwork I haven’t gotten done.
Yeah, there’ll be leaves to rake, but that’s easier.
@Kyeh the trick is don’t rake them. Multch them in with the mower or just… Give up and watch the world burn.
There is a third option where there are enough you just light them on fire and let it all burn but that assumes your grass is actually weeds, you’re in the country, and the neighbors are chill
@Kyeh @unksol Dead leaves from all the trees (and there are a lot of them!) are a source of carbon to balance the nitrogen-rich chicken coop material in the compost pile. I rake them onto a tarp then drag it to the pile and dump. Lather, rinse, repeat…
@Kyeh @macromeh well… Yes it you have gotten to the chicken/compost stage. Chickens have been on my list for a while but that seems like a two person job. So you can create little workers. Lol.
I imagine you could bag instead of mulch and dump in the compost pile. Il but if they are thick and useful yes raking makes sense/may be faster.
I have black walnuts so small leaves already. A couple oaks though can through them down.
Now I want to know what chickens
@macromeh @unksol
That’s exactly what I do, only I don’t have chickens to contribute the extra nutrients, but I have a compost pile.
Fires around here are a very bad idea! Some people still burn brush up in the foothills but they really shouldn’t.
@Kyeh @unksol The wild forest adjacent to the north side of our lawn is mostly big leaf maples - when they shed, you cannot see the grass. The rest has various fruit trees and specimen trees that we have planted and are not so bad.
The 3 most recent hens are Rhode Island Reds that we got last spring. The rest are a mixed crowd - a couple of banties, a couple of Wyandottes, and various others (the clucks are mostly my wife’s thing). I think the current beak count is around 16-18, give or take.
@Kyeh @unksol Similar here re: burning. I have a couple of slash piles where we accumulate prunings from the fruit trees and other (non-compostable) yard debris. I only burn in the spring and/or fall (when permitted) and things are wet and green enough to avoid it getting out of control.
@Kyeh @macromeh my bad sometimes I forget the west is always on fire/about to be on fire these days… We can still burn brush around here. It’s never really dry or polluted .
Cities have leaf pickup but sometimes a nice fire is just… Nice
I just let most of my woods decay on it’s own.
@macromeh @unksol I think I might be kind of allergic to smoke so I’ve never enjoyed campfires or fireplaces as much as other people; my eyes get dry and so on. But I don’t rake very thoroughly either; I leave the leaves under the shrubs and plum trees to compost themselves.
@Kyeh @macromeh @unksol
One of the reasons I keep a rider instead of a zero-turn is to be able to bag my grass/leaves and occasional small critter too slow to get out of the way… (oh calm down… that was a joke).
The clippings go in the chicken run with the chickens, the kitchen scraps go in the chicken run with the chickens, paper from the shredders goes in the chicken run with … you get the idea. Chickens scratch all that stuff together, crap indiscriminately in the mix (plus I use it as bedding in the coop which get raked into… you guessed it … the chicken run.) A couple of times a year I go in the run with a tiller while the chickens are out in the yard or locked in the coop. Once it is all tilled in, I use a wheelbarrow or dump cart attached to the mower to move it to my garden areas. Win-Win-Win.
@chienfou @macromeh @unksol
What a great system!
@chienfou @Kyeh @macromeh sounds like a good system. sort of like the deep litter method.
when/if I get to the chickens they will probably be free range spring/summer/fall. Layers safe in the coop/run in the winter, everyone at night. So the “run” will be more of a direction guide…
I have 12 acres, only 4 neighbors, and three have chickens. No predators other than hawks and racoons really so. They should be fine wandering. Probably.
@chienfou @Kyeh @unksol We do some limited free ranging. IME, it comes with some issues:
@chienfou @Kyeh @macromeh if I get around to it. No coyotes up here.
The hen house would be back in the field so. Hopefully they wouldn’t wander way up the hill to the house/road.
Hopefully a rooster might help keep an eye out for hawks/cats/foxes
But yeah I’ve spent some time on backyardchickens and I think the fox and kits I saw a few years ago were cute so… If I get to it I won’t be surprised if a few disappear. Considered some paddocks but only the coop could really be overnight predator proof.
Rain. Glorious rain.
All of the above! I LOVE fall!!
Plus, the State Fair of Texas!
@Tadlem43
If it’s like the AL fair it’s a culinary wonderland (as in: " I wonder if my gallbladder can survive this stuff)
Finally not having to slather on sunblock everywhere.
This year its picking huckleberries…they were a little late this year…
@sicc574 I love huckleberries and haven’t had any since I was a child. We don’t have them here in Dallas. We used to go into the woods and pick them wild.
When it freezes just enough to kill the freakin’ bugs.
Saying goodbye
to the sweltering heat and humidity of the south.
summer is getting closer every day now…
I hate winter so not a fan of fall bc summer is over.
@Star2236 is summer your favorite season? Just need to know who to report to the police
@unksol
Yup, that’s me.
@Star2236 @unksol Well, she talks about being close to a lake where she can go and swim - so that would make summer pretty nice, I think.
@Kyeh @Star2236 i suppose there’s no context.
if I was in say Minnesota. Or Alaska or the UP or… There are many places summer could win best.
There is a middle where both spring and fall are kinda decent and you don’t dread winter/summer. They are just… Not good.
Maybe some even like the heat down south in the middle of summer
I love every part of fall
Pumpkin! And the giant spiders at work go back into hiding instead of dangling from the trees. But mostly pumpkin!
@Gamblam Giant spiders? Are you in New Hampshire?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/spooky-television#632abe1661910ce84f8d37be
@Gamblam @Kyeh