The Virgins
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I've always quite liked the idea of having an allotment. In Britain, it's a traditional place for blokes of a certain age to spend their weekends, avoid the wife, and take up pipe smoking.
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@Jolly said in The Virgins:
Microclimates. On any place, some things do better in certain areas. Maybe one side of the house gets a lot more sun, or that depression on the North side of the house is always a little colder.
Yes. We have a small corner that gets sun/warmth all winter. There is one azalea that blooms pretty much all the time.
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We have been threatening to start a garden for years.
We have a rather large flat area in front of the woods with good sun exposure pretty much from late morning to late early evening .
My daughter said she really wants to do it this year.
My buddy is an expert garden guy. Been doing it his entire life. I can borrow his rototiller and his guidance.
I figure, some tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, lettuce, zucchin, green beans, etc.
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We have been threatening to start a garden for years.
We have a rather large flat area in front of the woods with good sun exposure pretty much from late morning to late early evening .
My daughter said she really wants to do it this year.
My buddy is an expert garden guy. Been doing it his entire life. I can borrow his rototiller and his guidance.
I figure, some tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, lettuce, zucchin, green beans, etc.
@mark said in The Virgins:
We have been threatening to start a garden for years.
We have a rather large flat area in front of the woods with good sun exposure pretty much from late morning to late early evening .
My daughter said she really wants to do it this year.
My buddy is an expert garden guy. Been doing it his entire life. I can borrow his rototiller and his guidance.
I figure, some tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, lettuce, zucchin, green beans, etc.
Do it. It's therapeutic. And ain't nothing like fresh food.
Only problem may be getting seeds or plants. Might want to get varieties that you save seed for next year, but talk to your buddy. He'll know best.
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@mark said in The Virgins:
We have deer, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, etc. It will be a challenge.
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Problem here is you need a six foot fence around it or the deer eat it more or less immediately.
Also I can’t garden and Rachel doesn’t want to.
@jon-nyc said in The Virgins:
Problem here is you need a six foot fence around it or the deer eat it more or less immediately.
Also I can’t garden and Rachel doesn’t want to.
You can't eat the deer more or less immediately?
Go through a deer like a dose of salts through a widow woman....
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Here you can only kill them with an SUV.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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True story...
Had a first cousin who lived in upstate New York for several years. Alan was a gung-ho deer hunter, hunting them with every legal means allowed by the fish & game department down here. Usually tagged out.
When he moved up there, he was warned by the locals about gun season. Seems like all the fools would come traipsing in from the NYC area...Many of them not very good hunters and worse shots. Around the small town in which he lived, they'd have at least one accidental shooting every year during the gun season.
So, for the entire time he lived up there, he put his guns up and used his compound, then his recurve and finally he did most of his hunting with a long bow. Still tagged out.
Apparently, New York deer were easy...
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@jon-nyc said in The Virgins:
Here you can only kill them with an SUV.
In Illinois, it takes a Mercedes, right @mark ?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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True story...
Had a first cousin who lived in upstate New York for several years. Alan was a gung-ho deer hunter, hunting them with every legal means allowed by the fish & game department down here. Usually tagged out.
When he moved up there, he was warned by the locals about gun season. Seems like all the fools would come traipsing in from the NYC area...Many of them not very good hunters and worse shots. Around the small town in which he lived, they'd have at least one accidental shooting every year during the gun season.
So, for the entire time he lived up there, he put his guns up and used his compound, then his recurve and finally he did most of his hunting with a long bow. Still tagged out.
Apparently, New York deer were easy...
@Jolly said in The Virgins:
True story...
Had a first cousin who lived in upstate New York for several years. Alan was a gung-ho deer hunter, hunting them with every legal means allowed by the fish & game department down here. Usually tagged out.
When he moved up there, he was warned by the locals about gun season. Seems like all the fools would come traipsing in from the NYC area...Many of them not very good hunters and worse shots. Around the small town in which he lived, they'd have at least one accidental shooting every year during the gun season.
So, for the entire time he lived up there, he put his guns up and used his compound, then his recurve and finally he did most of his hunting with a long bow. Still tagged out.
Apparently, New York deer were easy...
Upstate they open bow season a good month before regular season, like late September, Oct 1st. Regular season might go 1 November to the second week of December, then there are another two weeks when only bows are allowed.
But Christmas to October is off season, so by the time 10/1 rolls around they are pretty complacent.
Believe it or not, Westchester has a bow season only, but in select areas, exclusively in the northern part of the county.
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@jon-nyc said in The Virgins:
Here you can only kill them with an SUV.
In Illinois, it takes a Mercedes, right @mark ?
