jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2014 18:09:56 GMT -5
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Post by bhiatt on Jan 29, 2014 18:37:05 GMT -5
can you give me the link to where you found that custom made seat.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2014 19:06:55 GMT -5
can you give me the link to where you found that custom made seat. It's a worker's knee pad. From the local industrial junk yard Brad. They are nice. Love those things. Hell, that 3 wheeler has about 10-15,000 hours on it and 28 years old. Original mechanics. 9 lives |
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Post by bhiatt on Jan 29, 2014 19:44:58 GMT -5
I know. I was just givin you crap.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 29, 2014 19:58:07 GMT -5
Shoulders are ready. Give me more  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2014 11:43:47 GMT -5
Nice pic! What's in that pond?
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 30, 2014 11:56:38 GMT -5
"At least the bamboo stays green"
Ya know you can't kill that stuff! Well, maybe with a blowtorch or something, but it'll come back from the rhizome. Sorry, but I hate bamboo... Had to dig up about 100 sq ft of it coming under the fence years ago. There's still some in the yard behind me that wants to come and visit.
I was going to give you crap about your 3-wheeler seat as well, Brad beat me to it.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 30, 2014 12:46:50 GMT -5
Nice pic! What's in that pond?   |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 30, 2014 12:49:01 GMT -5
Beautiful!!! Now that's some cold water. Will the water lilies survive the freeze?
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Post by jamesp on Jan 30, 2014 13:05:46 GMT -5
"At least the bamboo stays green" Ya know you can't kill that stuff! Well, maybe with a blowtorch or something, but it'll come back from the rhizome. Sorry, but I hate bamboo... Had to dig up about 100 sq ft of it coming under the fence years ago. There's still some in the yard behind me that wants to come and visit. I was going to give you crap about your 3-wheeler seat as well, Brad beat me to it. Killing bamboo is easy. You are right Jean. It laughs at normal doses of poisons. At least the rhizomes do. I know 3 ways. 1) About August set the leaf litter under it on fire. That will make it loose the live leaves. Wait a month and let the large mass of now dead leaves fall. Set them on fire. This time it often burns the canes. Then keep mowing it for 100-200 years. But every other month aliens have to be called in from the desert to eat the rhizomes with their specialized insects that run under the sand. 2) The easiest way is to apply something you eat every day. It will kill the rhizomes. salt. But don't plan on using that ground for several years. I told my next door neighbor i have to have a removable seat so i can take it in the house. He always says my wife is after him.(we are kidders) And i told him that i have to bring the seat in the house cause I always catch his wife sniffing my seat. Yes, we are weird. |
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Post by jamesp on Jan 30, 2014 13:06:36 GMT -5
Beautiful!!! Now that's some cold water. Will the water lilies survive the freeze? Yes Jean. Even in Alaska. |
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Post by grayfingers on Jan 30, 2014 13:41:59 GMT -5
Dang cool scene! That would make one heck of a time-lapse, from snow to tropics. Will this freeze kill a few nasty critters?
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Post by jamesp on Jan 30, 2014 13:52:23 GMT -5
Dang cool scene! That would make one heck of a time-lapse, from snow to tropics. Will this freeze kill a few nasty critters? It does two things Bill Yes, it kills the insect larvae way back. Several warm summers in a row have created a healthy bug population. This deep freeze is most good. The other thing it has done is given the plants a long dormancy as it has been a long cold season. Perennials need rest. They will come up w/a vengeance when spring comes. That's why your highland wild flower blooms are 2nd to none. Short season/long dormancy makes for very energetic sexually(flowering) plants. I was thinking about freezing my wife and see if i get the same result. |
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Post by grayfingers on Jan 30, 2014 14:07:30 GMT -5
Ah, yes. Hoping for some positive Photoperiodism, following this proper vernalization.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 30, 2014 14:48:47 GMT -5
"At least the bamboo stays green" 1) About August set the leaf litter under it on fire. That will make it loose the live leaves. Wait a month and let the large mass of now dead leaves fall. Set them on fire. This time it often burns the canes. Then keep mowing it for 100-200 years. But every other month aliens have to be called in from the desert to eat the rhizomes with their specialized insects that run under the sand. 2) The easiest way is to apply something you eat every day. It will kill the rhizomes. salt. But don't plan on using that ground for several years. I told my next door neighbor i have to have a removable seat so i can take it in the house. He always says my wife is after him.(we are kidders) And i told him that i have to bring the seat in the house cause I always catch his wife sniffing my seat. Yes, we are weird. Two problems with that, James. First, the fire thing. I'd be breaking numerous municipal codes just having a fire in my yard (or would that be in the neighbor's yard?). Once it consumed the bamboo, it would start on the fence, and then most likely take a few houses with it. And, of course, I don't have another 100 or 200 years left in me, lol.
Problem number 2, would be the salt. Yeah, it would not only have an effect on the bamboo, but anything else that grows there for the next hundred years or so. Kind of like if that hydraulic fluid mess hadn't been vegetable based. Would've had to scrape the soil out and haul it away.
Yes, you are weird. You bring the seat in the house so that it's not accessible to be sniffed? Um, I seeeeeee... Kinda like how dogs like to sniff butts? There was a place at Ocotillo Wells that we used to camp at. Since I had three dogs, another friend had three dogs, and various others also brought theirs, it would turn into a regular sniff fest. We felt we were required to name the spot (made it easier to refer to it by name, rather than by describing the location). Since it was on a small rise, "Butt Sniffer's Vista" was deemed appropriate. I even made up a sign and business cards -
The design 
The actual sign 
The business card to be filled out 
Yeah, we had fun with that.
As for freezing the wife - I'm not touching that one...
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Post by jamesp on Jan 30, 2014 15:43:11 GMT -5
The only thing i said that was not redundant and totally intelligent and you don't want to touch it ?
Ok, i will change it to only freezing when she is talking and thaw her out for house cleaning and the above subject.
If she ever reads this i will pay. Great blackmail stuff.
I will be copy pasting that sign. i have big use for that. Could i suggest that you may be weird too?
Never heard of such premeditated use of the sniff subject. Did they do you in across the state line(Alabama).
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 30, 2014 16:38:34 GMT -5
No, I don't want to touch it. There are lines that one does not cross... However, I do understand where you were going with it. And you're right, someday, you may pay, lol.
You may copy and paste the sign to your heart's content. Like I said, we had fun with it. If you want, I can email you the higher resolution/original version.
I was only reiterating what you said about being weird. But, yes, you may suggest that I am weird, too. You'd probably be right. Sniffing butts is something dogs do.
You don't want to know what they did to me in Alabama. However it did NOT involve dogs.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 30, 2014 18:01:21 GMT -5
You don't want to know what they did to me in Alabama. However it did NOT involve dogs. Read more: forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/thread/64053/least-bamboo-stays-green?page=2&scrollTo=723688#ixzz2rvOld9nDNo telling. No telling what the bama boy's might do. They can be a lot more clever than you would ever think. It is a very friendly state but they get wild. Most roadside bars are made of concrete block. Southern saying 'beware of concrete block bars' insinuating that the fights within need concrete walls to contain them. What did they do to you? You can tell. i won't tell any one. Promise |
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Post by quartz on Jan 30, 2014 23:38:46 GMT -5
That be why our three pots of bamboo are three POTS of bamboo. Larry
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Post by jamesp on Jan 31, 2014 3:38:14 GMT -5
That be why our three pots of bamboo are three POTS of bamboo. Larry Best contained. Once loose the yard is never the same. LOL. |
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