Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: mullet on February 27, 2011, 07:03:20 pm
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Well, it look's like it here ;D I had to pick all the oranges and lemons today because the trees were buzzing with bees on the new blossums. The wife and I spent the better part of 4 hours squeezing out some Florida Liquid Sunshine.
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The irony, it snowed in Tucson today....
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man I'm in the same boat as Nate. snow here in westrern WA. Congrats on the juice haul. do the trees continually produce fruit through the summer down there?
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Here's a few more
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Yep we had a couple of high 70s and an 81 degree day this week.Ronnie
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You're squeezing fresh juice and we have a foot of permafrost. I talked with my sister (who is in South GA) and it was 81 and she was picking cabbage. We are expecting a winter storm tonight. My reward is in August when you guys are miserable ;)
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Wow I know where I'm going for spring vacation. ;)
sure looks like a great garden and a lot of fun there Eddie.
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Love the smell of orange blossoms. Fishing must be good too ! Dog ! ! ;D ' Frank
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Yeah rub it in ! Looks good Miller and fresh oranges :)
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You folks are off to a good start. I can hardly wait to eat fresh greens out of our little patch. My wife picked up one of those Jack Lalanne power juicers, and to my pleasant surprise it works great. We have been juicing everything.
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Well, it look's like it here ;D I had to pick all the oranges and lemons today because the trees were buzzing with bees on the new blossums. The wife and I spent the better part of 4 hours squeezing out some Florida Liquid Sunshine.
Id rather have the beer!!! Our part of Florida is in the 80s last week but we will get one more freeze,,we always do!
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Wow! that's a whole different world down there Eddie. That miller high life looks pretty good, hmmm ::). It won't start doing that around here till about the end of March early April. Then it's crappie fry and poke salad - WoooooooHooo ;D.
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We were 76 with 60-70 mph winds...hell half the Panhandle was on Fire today...we are in such a Drought up here it's pathetic... they evacuated the southeast side of Borger Texas today due to wildfires....the last one we had like this killed 10's of thousands of head of Cattle... 6 People ...and hundreds of Deer and Antelope....You could not see through the Smoke today...and tonight the Sky is Red....
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Warming up here as well--only 2 below zero this morning. >:( A/Ho Joe
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Eric, those blossoms will be ready to pick around January next year.
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Wow Unbelievable, We had a couple real nice weeks when the south was in the deep freeze,,,Now we are back in it, It is snow and blowing here today and a couple nights ago it hit eight below. :o Had to blanket the horses again and break out the snow blower again.
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Keenan, It's hot and dry here, just like where ElD is. We had a 100acres burn up in town Friday and on Sunday another 800 acres went up. We have little fires popping up everywhere.
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El D not sure what the terrain and flora are like there but wife is from eastern NM, can't imagine a prairie fire there killing that much. I guess with winds that high, but with the fuel only being 10" tall, seems like it'd be relatively harmless other than smoke? I know when I worked for the wildlife resource commission we'd hop through the head fire after we got it going to get back into the black and it wasn't so bad.
Eddie you know as good as I do, if people would use fire every few years as a management tool, they wouldn't suffer when a dry or relatively dry storm came through and lightening struck. It should be mandatory to burn more than 20 contiguous, undeveloped acres every 3 years, especially in florida.
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It is spring time here as well.
Lost of things starting to leaf out and bloom.
They stand a good chance of being nipped off by jack frost.
Eddie: Is that a Lowquat (sp) bush with the fruit on it???
My Mom and Dad have one in there yard.
The growing season is way to short for it make fruit.
David
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David, It's not a bush but a 25' tree. But it is the one with the green fruit just turning to yellow. They will be orange when ripe.
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Justin....the Prairie Grass here will get 2-3 foot tall....love grass...phragmite.....salt cedars......mesquites.....tumble weeds ....and plum thickets....all burn pretty fast and hot.....the wildfire we had 5 years ago killed over 10,000 head of cattle...decimated the rabbit....quail....and antelope populations....between the stinking carcasses....and Tue 10 foot sand dunes that were created in the weeks after the fire.....it was a terrible sight to see and smell....
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`Sounds like a heck of a cook out, to me. 8) I'd recomend Stubbs Soppin Sauce.
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Yikes. Area where wife is from, grass got MAYBE knee high to the speed goats, no trees or brush except the cactus and yucca unless it was around a house or old homestead.
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El D, I would imagine you have creosote bushes there also. Well you guys must've gone through a lot of Ketchup then. Whoowhee, this critter has been here awhile, thank God for ketchup! As the Vulture in the far side cartoon, said to the other vultures. ;D
Well Eddie, since you showed them the oranges, and beans, that didn't get trampled, and the loquats, and the garden, you might as well tell them that the Strawberries, have been out since April, and the Festival is this month. Yeah, it has been hot and windy here, and there was a big fire up north of Melbourne. I-95 was closed down for awhile. 600 or so acres. But when I was in the FD, it was what I hated most. Brush fires!! But it was job security...... ::) Hey, where are you going with those road flares? Huh? oh, I uh, just uh, am going to put some in my truck, in case I break down....yeah, in case I break down..... ::) >:D We actually had one of the kids in our explorer groups, who was coming into the station, when we were all out on a call, and loading up on road flares. Whenever we had a brush fire, somehow he was always there.......Hmmm 2+2......then one of his buddies got mad at him, and squealed on him, and led us to his stash, and the cops had him talking quite a bit about his exploits. Speaking of Strawberries, I am heading over to Plant City, tomorrow to get a few of flats of them, some for me, my Brother, My Girlfriend, her Sister, and some friends. Yeah, it is nice beach weather. It has warmed up in Thompson Falls, Mt also. Highs in the upper thirties, and lower forties. They had some sub Zero weather a couple of times. Some nasty type of weather, snow, then rain, then freezing temps, snow, rain, and so forth. Some people had ice balls in their drive ways, and walkways, and porches. A place called Choteau, about three or so hours from me, gets a lot of nasty weather. It had a storm come through two weeks ago, and had winds well over a hundred miles per hour !!! :o Then the week after that they had low temps, of -26 ! :o :o But it is a beautiful area, but I am thankful I built my house in TF ! I am going to have to crank up my airconditioner pretty soon! :( We got a little bit of rain today. :) I have a Friend I used to work with, who has a nursery, and he raises loquats, and sells them to the Chinese. I was never impressed with them. Loquats, not the Chinese. That Ipe' looks pretty. I was in Sebring this weekend, and there was a place that had a bunch of them, and they were all blooming. Well you guys, unfortunately, we will be getting high temps, and humidity, and lots of skeeters, with the first good rain. We have some that are big enough to stand flat footed, and rape a turkey, and some that real tiny, and sound like a high pitched dentist drill, and feel like it when they bit you. Those are the little Asian tiger skeeters. You can hear them at night just as you are about to go to sleep, and then you can't sleep, because you are busy trying to find them! If you don't they WILL find you! >:D >:D :o
Wayne
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Whhhoooley Crap! Take a BIG, DEEP BREATH, Wayne. And empty your PM box so somebody can send you one back. ( I'll be camping at the TBOF this weekend)
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Hey, I collect them! Some people collect stamps..... ;D
Wayne
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Correction on the 600 acres brush fire, it is or was actually 16,000 acres. In Oak Hill, Fl. about 30 miles of I-95 and part of US 1 were shut down for awhile. One home and two hunt camps were destroyed, and over 300 homes are threatened. It is supposed to be 25 % contained, as of this afternoon. Don't know if it is under control, or out, or if any more homes were destroyed, or damaged as of yet. Anywho, it is that time of year...... :(
Wayne
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Mullet those are great pics.. That oj looks good too!!!
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Spring really IS just around the corner. Saw these two deer playing in the pasture the other day.
(http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t253/cbergerman/junk/snowdeer.jpg)
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That's cool......looks like back home to me....I love the snow...
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Cam,LMAO.