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Online Jo

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #315 on: May 20, 2018, 04:49:40 PM »
No gardening today  :ShakeHead: Someone brought round a set of Jowitt castings for me to fondle, then took them away again  :cussing:

I had to make do with a set of Magnesium Microdyne Atom castings and Surus acquired his birthday present a month early :pinkelephant: Not sure where they are going  :noidea:

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #316 on: May 20, 2018, 04:56:06 PM »
You have got a lot of fondling on the table there Jo, should keep you out of mischief for a while, suppose it compensated for not having any new castings over the last few months. Looks like one of those parts is in need of some JBWeld ;)

Was that the engine Eric had at one of the Stratfield meetings?

Any idea what was in the empty Jowitt compartment, bearing caps maybe? Nice to see an almost untouched set and quite well packed too.
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Re: Gardening
« Reply #317 on: May 20, 2018, 05:57:38 PM »
The Jowitt castings were only acquired yesterday so Eric immediately brought them over to tease me  :disappointed:  The missing part is the bearing caps.

Looks like I need to make a new storage area for Surus' present which means working in the brown stuff :facepalm:

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #318 on: May 20, 2018, 06:44:24 PM »
So many castings, so little time  :)  :)  :)
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Re: Gardening
« Reply #319 on: June 02, 2018, 05:35:05 PM »
The beetroot eater is back  :rant:  :wallbang:  Thankfully the beetroot are residing under netting to prevent the little toe rag from getting at them  ;)

For some reason he is not fond of the onions or potatoes but is showing a lot of interest in the Peas and beans  :ShakeHead:

I've nearly finished putting in the flowers only another 3 trays to go   :toilet_claw:  Garden inspection by Dave tomorrow  :) But someone has forgotten to dig up the White bell bulbs for him ... tomorrow, tomorrow  :facepalm: 

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #320 on: June 02, 2018, 07:52:48 PM »
I know I’ll get all sorts of nasty comments on this, but, one well placed shot, and that’s a nice young tender venison treat, what for stews, sausage, and such. Sorry, we only kill what we’ll eat here; and if they are eating what we eat, seems a waste for me to plant it and them eat it, so, they need to give back also. Just my thoughts

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #321 on: June 02, 2018, 07:58:22 PM »
Sadly it is not legal to shoot the  :censored: however tempting a target he is.

The only legal way is for someone else to run them over in a car and you pick up the carcass after they killed it  ::)

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #322 on: June 02, 2018, 08:00:47 PM »
Sadly it is not legal to shoot the  :censored: however tempting it is.

The only legal way is for someone else to run them over in a car and you pick up the carcass after they killed it  ::)

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #323 on: June 02, 2018, 08:05:31 PM »
I have run down the garden with a fork in my hands and thrown it at him    :-X

When he first appeared this year I could get within 15 ft of him before he turned to run away. But he lost one antler when I chased him the other day and he turned and head butted a tree  :lolb:

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #324 on: June 02, 2018, 09:36:16 PM »
Is that deer as small as it looks in the photo? Over here that would still be a fawn.
In Texas, it would be a house cat...

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #325 on: June 03, 2018, 12:25:42 AM »
We had a deer problem,  Cut up a couple of bars of Irish Spring bath soap and place around the garden.  They don't like the smell.   

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #326 on: June 03, 2018, 02:22:05 AM »
Is that deer as small as it looks in the photo? Over here that would still be a fawn.
In Texas, it would be a house cat...

Yes that's a native Roe Deer. They are everywhere, they eat everything especially my Beetroot  :rant:

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #327 on: June 03, 2018, 02:40:08 AM »
Is that deer as small as it looks in the photo? Over here that would still be a fawn.
In Texas, it would be a house cat...

Yes that's a native Roe Deer. They are everywhere, they eat everything especially my Beetroot  :rant:

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #328 on: June 03, 2018, 04:22:42 AM »
We had a deer problem,  Cut up a couple of bars of Irish Spring bath soap and place around the garden.  They don't like the smell.

We just did that for T's folks. I need to check with them and see if that helped.

T's problem is a squirrel. Or squirrels.
The ones in the garden...and me.
So I'm told.
(I don't care about the ones in the garden.)

'folks'...that reminds me. A colleague from work, who immigrated from China, once asked me if what I meant by 'folks'...was meaning parents.
Yes. I refer to my parents as 'the folks'. Or T's parents as 'her folks'.

I don't know if that's an Ozark thing.

Who else would I call 'the folks'?
Carl (aka Zee) Will sometimes respond to 'hey' but never 'hey you'.
"To work. To work."
Zee-Another Thread Trasher.

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Re: Gardening
« Reply #329 on: June 03, 2018, 07:07:54 AM »
T's problem is a squirrel. Or squirrels.
The ones in the garden...

Tree rats  >:( they steal my nuts  :hammerbash:

Now they are legal to shoot  - 410's work really well on them  >:D

Jo
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