So if you didn't do anything airgun related what did you do today?

[JuryRigger]

Well; did do some shooting today-but mostly spent the day working-weed eated around the garden fence (modded the weedeater with a special guard so it doesn't tear the fence or the line up); and mowed the yard; which involved blowing as much clippings into piles as possible so we could rake them up for mulch in the garden.
Jesse

[maraudinglizard]

Tractor parts are in, after work get that started so I can get the garden spots all tilled up to plant in and get the fence lines opened back up.

[Outer_Rondacker]

Transplanted veggies and apple trees while reading a SITREP update. The NIFC reports we are sitting at a Level 2. With suggestions the Northeast should be on alert this upcoming months.

Ya so apple trees. Anyone ever plant them from scratch or clippings? I got some local apples last year and stuck the seeds in the bucket around New Years. They are about as thick as a pencil and two foot tall. No clue if they will produce apples or not but its fun to try.

[avator]

After work I got out of the truck and onto the mower. Finished up in about 1 1/2 hours. Next time I will change directions and mow east to west.
Betty Lou tinkered with hanging twinkle lights around the shooting deck and swatted bore bees. Then we just hung out and admired our progress.
Today I will take the afternoon off work so we can go get Betty Lou's new ID cards and shopping done. I also need to get the truck tags renewed.
The plan for the weekend is veggie garden and shooting range. Might even get a little shooting in.

[Spacebus]

After work I got out of the truck and onto the mower. Finished up in about 1 1/2 hours. Next time I will change directions and mow east to west.
Betty Lou tinkered with hanging twinkle lights around the shooting deck and swatted bore bees. Then we just hung out and admired our progress.
Today I will take the afternoon off work so we can go get Betty Lou's new ID cards and shopping done. I also need to get the truck tags renewed.
The plan for the weekend is veggie garden and shooting range. Might even get a little shooting in.

Make some nests for those bees and they won't bother you anymore. Take a 1' section of 4x4 and drill a ton of various sized holes in it. Place it away from where you want to be, and they will find it. Those bees are actually hugely important if you want to grow food. Without them your early morning pollinating plants will suffer. They are typically called Mason Bees or Solitary Bees and if you google search "mason bee nest" you will get a lot of good examples. Some places are requiring that new houses be built integrated bee nesting sites to keep up beneficial pollinator numbers. A lot of farms that have been historically using pesticides are getting low crop yield from a lack of pollinators. If you want to avoid having to use pesticides, keeping a variety of plants/crops will prevent most pests from really setting up shop. I also like to use diatomaceous earth mixed with water in a sprayer. When applied wet it won't aggravate lungs, nasal cavity, etc, but after it dries most bugs can't pass through it without shredding their own respiratory system.

I want to shoot, but we keep having high winds and precipitation. If it were just winds I could cast ammo, work on the garden, drop some posts, cut logs, etc, but the weather this week has just been horrible. It was snowing yesterday and this morning.

[Spacebus]

Transplanted veggies and apple trees while reading a SITREP update. The NIFC reports we are sitting at a Level 2. With suggestions the Northeast should be on alert this upcoming months.

Ya so apple trees. Anyone ever plant them from scratch or clippings? I got some local apples last year and stuck the seeds in the bucket around New Years. They are about as thick as a pencil and two foot tall. No clue if they will produce apples or not but its fun to try.

Do you have a link to that report? My wife is really into those kinds of things.

Never tried from scratch apples, but we have a handful of wild apples in the woods. Last year I made cider with plans to do the same again this year. What kind of apples are you trying to grow? Our local wild apples are extremely tart and I wouldn't mind something a bit sweeter! 

[Outer_Rondacker]

https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information  some place on this site I was reading and I also got a update on my phone from the National Weather Advisory.

Apples are Honey crisp, Gala, and a Mac blend. All came from local trees and I have no clue if they will ever produces anything but its still fun to try. Hey J- apple seed didnt have a grafting tool.

[Sqrl Klr]

Well; did do some shooting today-but mostly spent the day working-weed eated around the garden fence (modded the weedeater with a special guard so it doesn't tear the fence or the line up); and mowed the yard; which involved blowing as much clippings into piles as possible so we could rake them up for mulch in the garden.
Jesse

Can you take a pic of that to show us here or describe how you did it? The crew I previously used wacked the paint off the wood wall of my store room when cutting weeds so I fired them and do it myself ever since. I just cut the weeds near idle speed so the line doesn't take any paint off the wall but I for one would like to see your custom shield regardless.

Tractor parts are in, after work get that started so I can get the garden spots all tilled up to plant in and get the fence lines opened back up.

My tractor's out of commission too. Waiting on seals for my loader since the old ones were leaking fluid.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Got some shade off the ground!  We did a prescribed burn at the park today.  I don’t know how many acres they burned.  I was eating smoke on the down wind side all day.  Standing watch and keeping the curious public out of the way.

This evening I agreed to spend the next week or so in the great state of Texas!  Yippee!  The memsahib wants to visit her sister.  Rest assured I will be exploring the airgunning opportunities there.

[Madd Hatter]

Rode my dual sported 83 xr500r 37 miles round trip into town to pick up the mail. Man, was that fun 😁😁😁😁.  Almost all but 4 miles was off road.

[avator]

Ok, Betty Lou officially has my last name... we got the ID stuff done today.
Bad new is that I wasn't able to get the tags renewed on the trucks because the system was still down. I just checked online and it's back up now so I will get it done Monday morning.

[JuryRigger]

Can you take a pic of that to show us here or describe how you did it? The crew I previously used wacked the paint off the wood wall of my store room when cutting weeds so I fired them and do it myself ever since. I just cut the weeds near idle speed so the line doesn't take any paint off the wall but I for one would like to see your custom shield regardless.

I'll get a pic tomorrow; if I don't forget to   
Basically; bent a 2" wide strip of 1/16" stainless (what we had on hand) to match the radius of the cut-our trimmer isn't bump feed; it advances every startup and has a trimmer blade built into the usual plastic guard that's close to you-used some 1/8"x1" aluminum bar to fab up mounting arms; positioned it so that the line almost skipped out under the guard right in front of you; to get close to the ground. As-is it just about scalps maybe 3/8-1/2" away from the fence (hard to judge); and tapers back up to regular mowing height at the back of the cut; depending on how you hold the trimmer...
The pic will make it a lot easier to visualize 

Transplanted 92 celery plants today (well, the family and I did-all the garden work is a community effort  ); and mulched them-that takes care of the big planting for a while, other than more taters...
Jesse

[Hoosier Daddy]

Yesterday after work I went out to the shop and did the "semi annual power equipment swap".
Snow blower, snow shovels, and Christmas decor is now in the back... and the Riding Mower, Push Mower, and Bicycles are in the front.
  Said to myself, "Self"... speaking to me... "this shop is out of control... You need to get rid of Sh..tuff".
 Gathered the 3 garbage bags of beverage cans and filled a 4th to take the the recycle Scrap-yard... then got ambitious and figured if I was going I should take more scrap metal I been hoarding... including a bent aluminum wheel and water pump from a truck I no longer own, and then....
 I ripped of the band-aid and grabbed the frame of a '72 CB450 with no title that I bought the entire motorcycle for $25 about a decade ago.
 I came to realize I have 3 other project bikes awaiting rebuild and I'd never get to this one.

Today I am going to continue.. determined to go through all the boxes of parts labeled with "CB450", "CB750" and "GS750"... I have an addiction other than Airguns. 
 The CB750 is gone and the GS750 is completed so why hold onto their discarded parts?
I was hoarding them to sell on E-bay, but anymore I don't want the hassle with E-bay and shipping, so off to the smelter they will go.
May seem minor or obvious to some, but to me this is a huge step... 20+ years of rebuilding Motorcycles.  :'(

 The metal Scrap yard opens at 8:00... I need to get a move on.

[avator]

Stop by here and pick my stuff up too, ok?

[Jshooter71]

Good for you, Scott! I’m a hoarder, and my place is out of control too. Mostly HVAC stuff. We have plenty of technicians that live in apartments or such they don’t keep anything that’s not in their van. I have loads & loads of scrap and boxes & boxes of parts. It’s time for it all to go, actually I’ve been working on it, but it’s slow going when I still have to go to work too. I have to have a window of time and enough energy from time to time to work on it.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Stop by here and pick my stuff up too, ok?

I was going to send you some Hubcaps.

Good for you, Scott! I’m a hoarder, and my place is out of control too. Mostly HVAC stuff. We have plenty of technicians that live in apartments or such they don’t keep anything that’s not in their van. I have loads & loads of scrap and boxes & boxes of parts. It’s time for it all to go, actually I’ve been working on it, but it’s slow going when I still have to go to work too. I have to have a window of time and enough energy from time to time to work on it.

After all these years of "gathering" it is almost over whelming.
I have over 10 big bins of old nails, screws, bolts, nuts washers....in baby-food and peanut-butter jars

[Jshooter71]

Stop by here and pick my stuff up too, ok?

I was going to send you some Hubcaps.

Good for you, Scott! I’m a hoarder, and my place is out of control too. Mostly HVAC stuff. We have plenty of technicians that live in apartments or such they don’t keep anything that’s not in their van. I have loads & loads of scrap and boxes & boxes of parts. It’s time for it all to go, actually I’ve been working on it, but it’s slow going when I still have to go to work too. I have to have a window of time and enough energy from time to time to work on it.

After all these years of "gathering" it is almost over whelming.
I have over 10 big bins of old nails, screws, bolts, nuts washers....in baby-food and peanut-butter jars

It is overwhelming… it’s going to take time, but hopefully not half as much it took to acquire all this stuff.

[Outer_Rondacker]

Good for you, Scott! I’m a hoarder, and my place is out of control too. Mostly HVAC stuff. We have plenty of technicians that live in apartments or such they don’t keep anything that’s not in their van. I have loads & loads of scrap and boxes & boxes of parts. It’s time for it all to go, actually I’ve been working on it, but it’s slow going when I still have to go to work too. I have to have a window of time and enough energy from time to time to work on it.


After all these years of "gathering" it is almost over whelming.
I have over 10 big bins of old nails, screws, bolts, nuts washers....in baby-food and peanut-butter jars

Over whelming lol that is what everyone says about my projectile chucker room. When I die no one is going to have a clue what all of it is. Im a bullet caster shooter builder target hoarder well until I see a critter.

[Back_Roads]

https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information  some place on this site I was reading and I also got a update on my phone from the National Weather Advisory.

Apples are Honey crisp, Gala, and a Mac blend. All came from local trees and I have no clue if they will ever produces anything but its still fun to try. Hey J- apple seed didnt have a grafting tool.

 I work on an apple orchard, there are a few wild trees that have escaped cultivation, in drainage ditches etc. they do produce tasty fruit. Not too hard to grow ones own root stock and graft the varieties that one wants. Who knows you may find a new variety of apple from the seedlings, and want to graft more trees in 10 or so years

[Outer_Rondacker]

https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information  some place on this site I was reading and I also got a update on my phone from the National Weather Advisory.

Apples are Honey crisp, Gala, and a Mac blend. All came from local trees and I have no clue if they will ever produces anything but its still fun to try. Hey J- apple seed didnt have a grafting tool.

 I work on an apple orchard, there are a few wild trees that have escaped cultivation, in drainage ditches etc. they do produce tasty fruit. Not too hard to grow ones own root stock and graft the varieties that one wants. Who knows you may find a new variety of apple from the seedlings, and want to graft more trees in 10 or so years

Thanks, I did  a little looking into grafting. Does not look all that hard. Im just playing honestly. Well I do have a 1400 foot driveway I was going to line with the trees.