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Posted: **Mon Jun 24, 2024 2:49 am**

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.

Posted: **Mon Jun 24, 2024 10:51 am**

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.

Posted: **Mon Jun 24, 2024 1:12 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon Jun 24, 2024 3:52 pm**

Today between the neighbor and us. They eventually scampered around to the backyard below our fence and out of sight.

Posted: **Tue Jun 25, 2024 3:01 pm**

Nice triplets, Lyle. I bet they keep their mother busy.

Posted: **Tue Jun 25, 2024 4:08 pm**

Yesterday’s Birthday hike in the Allegheny National Forest. Beautiful day, trail and company. Nice 5 miles.

John

Posted: **Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:15 pm**

Cool trail, John. Hope the temperature wasn't bad. It was hot here this weekend, but much milder now.

Posted: **Wed Jun 26, 2024 1:20 am**

jmh58 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 4:08 pm IMG_7741.jpegIMG_7743.jpegIMG_7742.jpegIMG_7736.jpegIMG_7738.jpegIMG_7739.jpegIMG_7748.jpeg

Yesterday’s Birthday hike in the Allegheny National Forest. Beautiful day, trail and company. Nice 5 miles.
John

A hike 44 years in the making.

Posted: **Wed Jun 26, 2024 2:20 pm**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 11:15 pm Cool trail, John. Hope the temperature wasn't bad. It was hot here this weekend, but much milder now.

Thanks.

One of the ones I did last year on the 286 mile hike.
Actually the temperature was in the low 70s that day.

John

Posted: **Wed Jun 26, 2024 2:22 pm**

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 1:20 am
jmh58 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 4:08 pm IMG_7741.jpegIMG_7743.jpegIMG_7742.jpegIMG_7736.jpegIMG_7738.jpegIMG_7739.jpegIMG_7748.jpeg

Yesterday’s Birthday hike in the Allegheny National Forest. Beautiful day, trail and company. Nice 5 miles.
John
A hike 44 years in the making.

Floyd. You are the Master of Prose!!

Thanks for the kind comment!!

John

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 1:53 pm**

Nice soup strainer JMH, by the way that's my initials.

Posted: **Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:40 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Jun 30, 2024 12:42 am**

Here we go....splitting some wood for football friends....

Posted: **Sun Jun 30, 2024 2:24 am**

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

Posted: **Sun Jul 14, 2024 12:10 pm**

Yesterday’s road trip. Too hot to hike.

John

Posted: **Sun Jul 14, 2024 8:42 pm**

Nice, John! The highest water in PA is Little Lake Tahoe at Seven Springs, or so the sign says.

Posted: **Sun Jul 14, 2024 8:44 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2024 3:59 pm**

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2024 8:42 pm Nice, John! The highest water in PA is Little Lake Tahoe at Seven Springs, or so the sign says.

Thanks John.

Looks like the farm is a bit warm too!!

Never knew that about that lake??

John

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2024 4:13 pm**

Ever seen a black fox squirrel with a blonde tail?

These are screenshots from a video i took. Little bugger was too fast for a decent picture.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Mon Jul 15, 2024 5:57 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2024 9:09 pm**

Today’s short 4 miler the wife and I did!!

But. It was GREAT finally getting out!!

Temps are not my favorite this year.

John

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2024 10:10 pm**

Nice, thanks for the pics.

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2024 11:16 pm**

doglegg wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 10:10 pm Nice, thanks for the pics.

John

Posted: **Fri Jul 19, 2024 10:44 pm**

Little Northern Maine brookie

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