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bjrogg:
It’s really amazing what a little insulation does. Whether it’s snow, leaves, straw etc.
Bjrogg
Eric Krewson:
A couple of years ago we had the same type of cold spell but it was preceded by freezing rain and 6" of snow, I had snow covering my greens for almost 2 weeks while the temperature plummeted, when the snow finally melted off the greens were just fine.
This is the first time in the last 21 years that the cold killed my greens.
bjrogg:
One of the things we always want around here during winter.
If we get a foot of snow. We really want the ground frozen first. Otherwise it will be mud all winter under that snow. It doesn’t matter how cold it gets
Bjrogg
Eric Krewson:
I look after my neighbor's place when he is off to his other house on Dolphin Island. I hadn't seen him come out of his driveway in a few days so I walked over to see if his truck was parked in his driveway, his driveway is about a quarter mile long. His truck was gone, he was probably at the gulf.
I had put up a lock on stand overlooking the field alongside his driveway, as I walked down the driveway yesterday evening I noticed a white belly in the field not far from my stand. There was a smaller dead doe in the field about 20 yards from my stand, she was stiff but still warm. I couldn't find any bullet holes or evidence that she had been hit by a car, she was fat and healthy looking.
There is a lot of traffic up and down the driveway from people working on my neighbor's house or house cleaners, perhaps someone hit her. As I was leaving the neighbor's adult son drove up and said the deer wasn't there when he took his morning run down the driveway.
If I knew she was a road kill I would have loaded her up and taken her home but with her death a mystery I had to leave her for the buzzards.
At daylight this morning it occurred to me that I didn't want a stinking pile of buzzard bait 20 yards from my stand so I cranked my tractor, drove over, hooked a strap to the deer and drug her to the back end of the field the furthest from my neighbor's house and at least 1/3 mile from my stand.
Eric Krewson:
I can tell immediately when the coons and deer start assaulting my muscadines, they knock 5 off on the ground for every one they eat.
I noticed late yesterday evening that there had been visitors to my vines.
I worked until dark putting up a 7000V surprise for them if they show up to pillage my muscadines again.
The low strand keeps the coons out.
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