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Post by Pat on Mar 10, 2021 12:30:30 GMT -5
That frost is beautiful!
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Post by jasoninsd on Mar 10, 2021 13:36:04 GMT -5
amygdule - Eight months out of the year, we get A LOT of frost on our vehicles. In the last three decades of cleaning off my car, I have NEVER seen frost like that. That was an amazingly beautiful capture!!! Wow!!! (And the daffodils are making me jealous! We have two colors right now...brown or white...dead grass or snow...either way, it ain't that colorful! LOL)
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 10, 2021 17:53:13 GMT -5
It was cold this morning 36 o Frosty on the car. March 10, 2021 Wow! Jack Frost was having a helluva time with your windshield.
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Post by stephan on Mar 10, 2021 20:50:02 GMT -5
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Post by fernwood on Mar 11, 2021 6:25:19 GMT -5
Flooding 2021 has begun. I did not stop car to get a photo of the seasonal pond in my field. Maybe today. AS of yesterday, the pond was about 4' deep, 3/4 acre in size. My tenant had left a small trailer with a yardstick attached in middle of pond area so we could monitor water depth. Photos taken from my back yard, near house. Looking West. The pond is just outside of the photo. Looking East. Facing North. The apple tree in lower left of this photo is a landmark for me to judge flooding. It is located about 15' from the fence. Last year, the flooding reached about 8' South of the tree.
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Post by RickB on Mar 11, 2021 7:00:05 GMT -5
fernwood , sorry about the flooding problems again. This looks like a perfect place to put a farm pond if you wanted to do so.
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Post by fernwood on Mar 11, 2021 7:16:25 GMT -5
fernwood , sorry about the flooding problems again. This looks like a perfect place to put a farm pond if you wanted to do so. I started working on that last year. The pond had about 6 species of minnows until it dried up in July. Wisconsin permitting for something like this is crazy. There were 2 endangered species identified, which is a bonus. Having the endangered species would help with permitting and funding to make this happen. it would also restrict would can be done. The area next to the pond is an annual nesting sight for a pair of Sandhill Cranes. That also helps. The downside of doing this is that my only access to 15 acres of wooded area and a cabin is over where the pond is. I would need to have a bridge built over the pond. My tenant would love having a permanent pond on property. So, will see what I can do.
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standles
spending too much on rocks
Well all I got was a rock ... Cool!
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Post by standles on Mar 11, 2021 8:43:07 GMT -5
fernwood , sorry about the flooding problems again. This looks like a perfect place to put a farm pond if you wanted to do so. ...The pond had about 6 species of minnows until it dried up in July. Wisconsin permitting for something like this is crazy. There were 2 endangered species identified, which is a bonus. Having the endangered species would help with permitting and funding to make this happen. it would also restrict would can be done. The area next to the pond is an annual nesting sight for a pair of Sandhill Cranes. That also helps. Well whatever you do make sure someone notifies the sand cranes which minnows are endangered so they don't eat/disturb them.
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Post by fernwood on Mar 11, 2021 9:04:06 GMT -5
...The pond had about 6 species of minnows until it dried up in July. Wisconsin permitting for something like this is crazy. There were 2 endangered species identified, which is a bonus. Having the endangered species would help with permitting and funding to make this happen. it would also restrict would can be done. The area next to the pond is an annual nesting sight for a pair of Sandhill Cranes. That also helps. Well whatever you do make sure someone notifies the sand cranes which minnows are endangered so they don't eat/disturb them. I doubt the Sandhills would care, lol.
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Post by miket on Mar 11, 2021 14:53:23 GMT -5
Here's our latest forecast...it says historic. I don't want historic.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 11, 2021 20:15:32 GMT -5
I can't like that post, miket. Historic winter storms in March suck.
We're suppose to get snow tonight and tomorrow, but not like you.
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Post by miket on Mar 11, 2021 20:19:21 GMT -5
I can't like that post, miket . Historic winter storms in March suck.
We're suppose to get snow tonight and tomorrow, but not like you. It's fine, sorry you're getting more of that white stuff too. I'm putting emphasis on the word "possible. "
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Benathema
has rocks in the head
God chased me down and made sure I knew He was real June 20, 2022. I've been on a Divine Mission.
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Post by Benathema on Mar 11, 2021 23:22:57 GMT -5
Speaking of fish and things drying up... This ranks up there with some of the most bizzare things I've seen. Water levels at the river are dropping, so I decided to go hounding. Part of the trail to the river involves crossing a few spillover creeks. The water level dropped and the input and output for one of these creeks got cut off, so the little fish that ended up in it got trapped, and concentrated as the remaining water disappeared. As I'm walking in I see this small puddle of water splashing around. It was loaded with dozens of small fish hanging on for dear life. I remembered I had a few gallon ziplock bags in my backpack, filled one with water and started scooping them into it. I spent probably a half hour doing this trying to be careful with them. I took them over to a little shallow area near the river, set the bag in it for a few minutes, then poured them out. They were going from hot mud puddle, to warm ziplock, to cool shallow area, then freezing river. Definitely not something I was expecting. I came back through that area 2 hours later and that puddle was gone. Given the way that geography is in that area, this has probably happened many times, and the birds get them. I'm not much of a fisherman in terms of ID-ing fish, but I do know we have a few species of salmon running these rivers, some threatened/protected. Figured I should try to save them.
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Brian
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by Brian on Mar 12, 2021 7:44:09 GMT -5
That must have been such an odd thing to stumble upon, Benathema! I’m glad you were able to save some of those small fries!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 12, 2021 9:16:10 GMT -5
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Post by miket on Mar 12, 2021 10:17:57 GMT -5
Yessir, Benathema. You scored some karma points there!!!
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Post by stephan on Mar 12, 2021 10:20:26 GMT -5
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Post by RickB on Mar 12, 2021 16:09:48 GMT -5
Last November I cut 86 cuttings from my fig tree when I trimmed it down for the winter. I sealed the top and bottom of each cutting with melted wax to keep them from losing moisture and drying out. Wrapped them in plastic and stored them under the house where it's cooler until yesterday. I trimmed the wax off the bottom near a node and dipped each one in rooting compound. Just finished putting them in the ground. Hopefully in two months they will be ready to go into pots.
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Post by HankRocks on Mar 12, 2021 17:45:43 GMT -5
RickB I have found fig very easy to propagate. Last Jul/Aug I made 8 cutting off my 30 year old tree and just stuck them in one big planter, they all sprouted. About a month after sprouting I moved them to individual pots. Ready to plant about 3 of them in the yard. It is my understanding that figs can only be spread by using a cutting from other trees. The one I have came from my Dad who had them on the property for 50 plus years. His came from my grandmothers house from somewhere around 1910-1020 timeframe. So the young trees I will be setting out are technically been in the family for over a 100 years. Kind of a neat connection to the past. I am hopeful that one of my kids can keep a cutting going. I usually end up giving the birds most of the crop. During the season, June mostly, I go out every day and find 3 or 4 the birds haven't gotten and eat them fresh picked off the tree. Yum!! Henry
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 12, 2021 18:58:24 GMT -5
RickB I have found fig very easy to propagate. Last Jul/Aug I made 8 cutting off my 30 year old tree and just stuck them in one big planter, they all sprouted. About a month after sprouting I moved them to individual pots. Ready to plant about 3 of them in the yard. It is my understanding that figs can only be spread by using a cutting from other trees. The one I have came from my Dad who had them on the property for 50 plus years. His came from my grandmothers house from somewhere around 1910-1020 timeframe. So the young trees I will be setting out are technically been in the family for over a 100 years. Kind of a neat connection to the past. I am hopeful that one of my kids can keep a cutting going. I usually end up giving the birds most of the crop. During the season, June mostly, I go out every day and find 3 or 4 the birds haven't gotten and eat them fresh picked off the tree. Yum!! Henry Do you think figs would grow in northern Arizona, Henry? I would love to have a fig tree. So they need another fig for pollination? I want to get rid of some of the apple trees we have around here (crappy apples) and put in some new fruit trees -- namely black cherry and and maybe another freestone peach. Figs would be cool to have, too.
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