treefarmer wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 11:09 am
Goodness, Mike! Y'all must be infested with Copperheads.
The one y'all skinned, will you turn it into a hat band, it'd way too short for a belt for anybody I know.
Cottonmouths and Eastern Diamondbacks are the bad ones we see. Every now and then someone mentions a copperhead.
Treefarmer
TF, me and all my friends are way to fat to make a copperhead belt. The copperheads around here are usually only 20-30 inches long or so. But we plan to make a hat band out of this one. We have Western Diamondbacks and Cottonmouths around here as well, but don't see them too often. The copperheads seem to be cyclical. A couple of summers ago, we killed 13 on my place. Then we only saw 1 over the next 2 summers. But if you have more than a few trees on your place in Texas, you are probably going to have copperheads.
Mike
If you don't watch the news, you are uninformed. If you watch the news, you are misinformed.
wlf wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 8:34 pm
I like the black raspberries much better than the red.
A yearly happening around here is the deer fawning inside your yard. Usually the doe jumps our 5' fence and calves in the center of the backyard.They do it to evade the coyotes . The mother comes early in the mornings and nurses the fawn as it will go between the fencing . The fawn returns after nursing inside the fencing.
It could have been an emergency or who knows what, as this year, the fawn is against the house in our ferns and outside the fence.
We live on a the hill overlooking the city proper.
The second fawn was last year's. It's picture was taken from the deck above as it laid at the end of a vegetable planter.
These bucks were grazing on downed shrubbery about daylight one morning a few years ago and could possibly be the fawn's father.
But it's not the last one for sure, he never made it out of the town proper.
I love that the mother felt that your yard was a safe place for her baby. Deer pass through my yard often, but I suppose that we are too loud for them to want to stay.
I'm in the habit of going out on the back porch right before going to bed, the last 2 nights I've seen the biggest doe I believe I've ever seen nosing around my bird feeders, I doubt I can get a photo but l may try tonight if she shows up, last night my flash light reflected off 4 eyes out in the hay field.
bighomer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2024 1:53 pm
Nice soup strainer JMH, by the way that's my initials.
Thanks bh!! I have never shaved it off when I was finally able to grow one. Hated shaving my lip. I think it finally showed up around when I was 18. Tried to grow a beard thru the years but that’s a lost cause!!
John
Not all who wander are lost!!
Of all the paths you take in life,
Make sure some of them are Dirt!!!
TripleF wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 12:42 am
Here we go....splitting some wood for football friends....
Scott, you're one tough old bird!
Don't let that old proverbial bear come out of those bushes and overtake you. Sure been warm in the Panhandle.
Treefarmer
A GUN IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN A COP ON THE PHONE.
It's so hot and dry at the farm, I had to water the cow's hooves to make sure they don't spark a wildfire on a rock. Ken will know what I'm talking about.
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Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:51 pm
That is a bizarre sight. I have seen plenty of black squirrels in Michigan, but never one with a tail like that.
Same here in Pa.
John
Not all who wander are lost!!
Of all the paths you take in life,
Make sure some of them are Dirt!!!
One of the ones I did last year on the 286 mile hike. 
