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

[maraudinglizard]

I don't mind the wasps either, they take out a lot of caterpillars. Even 6 years after the hurricane a lot of things have still not recovered well including the insects. The beekeepers in this area are just now starting to get back to normal for production. They still have to deal with the mites and beetles in the nucs. The new nucs that disperse the mite dust are not cheap. This year the tupelo will have a decent bloom with all the flooding. Hopefully the beekeepers will have a good harvest for the next few weeks. I had more honey bees around the citrus this year and had a pretty good set.

That reminds me, we just had a truck load of bees in hives delivered to the orchard yesterday was nice and sunny, they were happy bees from FL, this am it is 34f LOL I bet they are freezing their Bee hinds off

Yep, they are going to be a little sluggish. The ladybugs I put out last night are little slow going this morning but have already taken chunk out of the bugs on the citrus. I have another batch coming on Friday. The lacewings go out today, they will hatch out in the next week or so. That will keep the caterpillars under control. I have plenty of veggies to keep them around for the summer.

[avator]

Nothing....
Everything I do is airgun related in one way or another. Even if it's just doing stuff to get it done so I can shoot airguns.   

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I was trimming a shrub with my brand new 24" battery hedge trimmer and I fell off the ladder. I was on the 3rd step and the ground wasn't level but having worked off of ladders for many years I thought I would be alright. Wrong.
A felt it starting to tip and it seemed to happen in slow motion, so I jumped off. My feet hit first, but I wasn't upright and fell on my tailbone and then my head hit. I didn't brace myself well because like an idiot I tried to keep the trimmer from getting damaged. Man am I sore all over but it could have been much worse. Those blades are shape.
This yard is gonna kill me.

  I see you tried to save it from damage, were you successful? If so, good save! You're right you could have ended up with a body part broken so just being sore is pretty good.

[Tater]

  I see you tried to save it from damage, were you successful? If so, good save! You're right you could have ended up with a body part broken so just being sore is pretty good.

Yep, it was a successful save.

[Sqrl Klr]

Most people don't get excited about wasps but I love them!

Wait until you blow a tendon running backward down a hill while spraying them off you and almost falling into your running mower deck where you feel the top half of the tendon slither up to your to your knee and the bottom half slither down to your ankle where your leg feels like it's on fire and you have to sit in the house useless for a month doing absolutely nothing which drove me nuts then you'll know why some people wage jihad on those bastages any chance they get. I know they serve a purpose but the danger makes me want their #'s in check on my property instead of letting them build up a high population because it only takes a few of them to ruin you.

I know of a woman who died instantly by one wasp sting to the neck artery when she approached shore on a FL boat and a tree wasp nest overhead attacked. Bees I'm fine with long as they're not killers.

[buellm2]

Most people don't get excited about wasps but I love them!

Wait until you blow a tendon running backward down a hill while spraying them off you and almost falling into your running mower deck where you feel the top half of the tendon slither up to your to your knee and the bottom half slither down to your ankle where your leg feels like it's on fire and you have to sit in the house useless for a month doing absolutely nothing which drove me nuts then you'll know why some people wage jihad on those bastages any chance they get. I know they serve a purpose but the danger makes me want their #'s in check on my property instead of letting them build up a high population because it only takes a few of them to ruin you.

I know of a woman who died instantly by one wasp sting to the neck artery when she approached shore on a FL boat and a tree wasp nest overhead attacked. Bees I'm fine with long as they're not killers.

I leave those stinging creatures alone unless they are invading the interior spaces.   But aggressive ground hornets I mercilessly, genocidally attack.

[Madd Hatter]

Just finished putting a freeze on all 3 of my credit reports. Some how the dark web got ahold of my SSN.🤬🤬🤬🤬 I guess anybody who pays for it is going to get a surprise when they can't open a account in my name. Hopefully it works as I've never done this before. I guess it was from a ATT date breach.

[Matchstickshooter]

 well, went looking at a couple of yard sales for airguns, and didn't find any.
Came home with an old Uniden Police/Fire Scanner, that needed a good cleaning.

[Madd Hatter]

Was trying to do some weed whacking with my Stihl fs56 trimmer. It's running real boggy. I'm pretty sure it's the spark arrester is plugged. I use Stihl 2 smoke oil and from what I understand it plugs up spark arrester so....... I should have stuck with husky oil like I was using but ran out of it and I had around 10 bottles of the Stihl.

[bReTt]

Went for an oil change and tire rotation on the Corolla this AM.  Whilst that was occurring Mrs P and Iwent out for a coffee and a breakfast pastry.  Picked up the car, headed to a thrift store that didn’t open until 1000.  Headed up the hill to WallyWorld and bought three inexpensive baking sheets to shoot at.  Went home, loaded some junky fence boards that were given to me from an online order at Lowe’s.  I was also shorted 25 boards in that order.  They made it all right.  I bought 45 more boards to complete the fence, a box of nails and I came home again.  I was able to dril some holes in the baking sheets and ran some wire through them so I could hang them for shooting.  I was able to run some BBs through the gun and try out the new metal targets.  They will be great for that audible “hit” TING!  Headed into work early to get a workout in and now I’m here until 2300.  Back at it tomorrow morning 0700 for a 16 hour shift. 

[Madd Hatter]

This is the end of April isn't it? We've got snow flakes coming down. It was in the 80s last week.🤔🧐😬😬

[maraudinglizard]

Spent most of the day dealing with cervical vertigo, just the joys of a past broken neck, mixed in with old age and arthritis. It's been a while since that has occurred. I just never know when or where a arthritic flare is going to kick in. PsA is so unpredictable. Anyway, did manage to get some yard work done without ending up in the hospital. My second order of pest predators came in and they were turned loose in the garden this evening. Fed the turtle and the fish in the pond. I enjoy watching the warmouth come up for the worms. I have one that is an absolute pig. That's okay, my yard is full of worms to keep the fish happy. The turtle is a yellow belly slider that I pickup out of the middle of the road before it became a road pizza. Last year come to find out it was a girl and she had a boy friend for a few weeks. Now I have a couple of the little ones in the pond as well. She eats the fish pellets I toss in. I have only see Godzuki(bullfrog) few times in the last month or so. It's about time for him to start rattling the pond for the girls. The lightning bugs have started coming out at night, in couple weeks the whole yard will be lit up with them.

Robert, I can't believe you are having snow right now, that is some weird weather for sure.

[buellm2]

Changed the oil and lubed up the snowblower to put away until next winter.    Dragged out the lawn mower, changed the oil, filled up the gas tank, pulled the ripcord once to prime it, one more pull and it fired right up.   That Honda engine is about 30 years old and still has the original spark plug although it is burning a little oil on startup.  Honda makes some mighty good engines

[2A Georgia]

Changed the oil and lubed up the snowblower to put away until next winter.    Dragged out the lawn mower, changed the oil, filled up the gas tank, pulled the ripcord once to prime it, one more pull and it fired right up.   That Honda engine is about 30 years old and still has the original spark plug although it is burning a little oil on startup.  Honda makes some mighty good engines

I was given a Honda Lawnmower with our first home.  Best running engine I've ever owned.  Rebuilt carb once because I left bad gas in it over a winter.  Same one or two pull experience for many years!

[maraudinglizard]

Changed the oil and lubed up the snowblower to put away until next winter.    Dragged out the lawn mower, changed the oil, filled up the gas tank, pulled the ripcord once to prime it, one more pull and it fired right up.   That Honda engine is about 30 years old and still has the original spark plug although it is burning a little oil on startup.  Honda makes some mighty good engines

I was given a Honda Lawnmower with our first home.  Best running engine I've ever owned.  Rebuilt carb once because I left bad gas in it over a winter.  Same one or two pull experience for many years!

The Honda generator that I just cleaned the carb on it is 34 years old and still has the original spark plug in it.

[Back_Roads]

 I'm wondering what one of the original Spark Plugs

[Madd Hatter]

Spent most of the day dealing with cervical vertigo, just the joys of a past broken neck, mixed in with old age and arthritis. It's been a while since that has occurred. I just never know when or where a arthritic flare is going to kick in. PsA is so unpredictable. Anyway, did manage to get some yard work done without ending up in the hospital. My second order of pest predators came in and they were turned loose in the garden this evening. Fed the turtle and the fish in the pond. I enjoy watching the warmouth come up for the worms. I have one that is an absolute pig. That's okay, my yard is full of worms to keep the fish happy. The turtle is a yellow belly slider that I pickup out of the middle of the road before it became a road pizza. Last year come to find out it was a girl and she had a boy friend for a few weeks. Now I have a couple of the little ones in the pond as well. She eats the fish pellets I toss in. I have only see Godzuki(bullfrog) few times in the last month or so. It's about time for him to start rattling the pond for the girls. The lightning bugs have started coming out at night, in couple weeks the whole yard will be lit up with them.

Robert, I can't believe you are having snow right now, that is some weird weather for sure.

It was just a few flakes then just normal rain. Wind chill did drop into the high 30s. Wife bought a bunch of flowers and had placed the pots in the garden. There we were, grabbing all of the potted plants in the rain carrying them to the garage. Of course right after we got everything in the garage it stopped raining.😡😡 A couple of the pots were 80+ pounds.☹️

[Matchstickshooter]

 Yard sale again today. Saw a Chinese underlever with badly cracked stock. Guy told me he sold one for $40. Wouldn't take less than $25.
I walked away.
   Did find a Peak Jumpstart power pack for $10,  for some of my radios.

[maraudinglizard]

It was just a few flakes then just normal rain. Wind chill did drop into the high 30s. Wife bought a bunch of flowers and had placed the pots in the garden. There we were, grabbing all of the potted plants in the rain carrying them to the garage. Of course right after we got everything in the garage it stopped raining.😡😡 A couple of the pots were 80+ pounds.☹️

Nothing like a fire drill more like a freeze drill. I had my fair share of it this past winter. Instead of bucket brigade it was pot tossing into the front end loader. The weather forecasters couldn't make up their minds so everything stayed in the fish cleaning shed until it warmed up for good.

[Madd Hatter]

The part that perturbed me off is she just brought about 10 of those potted flowers home that day and put them in the garden. She should've known it was going to get cold.

Has anyone heard from old gringo? He hasn't been on since the first of March I think.