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One would think that if you disturbed the nest enough, they would move. I just did a web search and found out that if you disturb the pile and keep it really wet, they won't like it and will move. Makes sense, as they need the right conditions for their eggs and larvae. Someone also said that...

I dunno. It looks weird to me. It's not like the peach pic at the top of the screen. It's like a ball of blooms at the very tip of the branch. Still normal?!

So... I have a supposedly fruit bearing, self pollinating plum tree. I think it might be in its 3rd spring, and has been with us and in the ground for 2 springs now. I don't think it's flowering right. It produces the majority of it's flowers in tufts at the ends of it's branches! Was it pruned...

Gorgeous place, Joel! I think you just might own my dream house ;) - apart from the soil that needs constant work! lol!

:lau :ya :lau Yay I am not the only one! LMAO!

Made some progress at replacing the mailbox today! Right now the post is still naked. We have some kind of funky crank shaft or other mechanism for our mailbox post, which is kind of cool, but it has made replacing the box slightly more complicated than just unscrewing then rescrewing. Looks...

SUNSHINE! :cool: WARMTH! :D SIMULTANEOUSLY!:weee The spouse and I finally have a day off together! It's been months! We are using it to catch up around here, but the weather complied with the plan and we got to play outside, so we don't mind. She started mowing the lawn yesterday, but hit a...

It's funny. I keep swinging from excitement to fear. I want this to be a step forward for us. We don't want to stay in our area and wouldn't mind moving to Western Oregon - possibly around Portland where we have good friends, she wants to get into Veterinarian school sooner rather than later...

LMAO! I can totally see it. The weather here is too unpredictable for me to care that much about my landscaping. I plant it, water it when I remember or when it looks ill, prune if needed, and let it do it's thing. Survival of the fittest around here!

This story isn't all that wild in comparison to all of you, but I will tell it anyway. :rolleyes: I had never officially chopped wood before. We had a few limbs come down, and it was my day off, so I grew tired of seeing them laying there. I figured I would dispatch of them and make a nice...

It's been a weird day today. My spouse got pushed to that limit that we all have inside us and decided to quit her job. She is the bread winner here, as I stay home with the baby and work to make the ends meet. :th Yes, we discussed it when she got home (we are a team after all!), as she hadn't...

It's awesome when stores do that for us isn't it?! Then again, it probably suits them too! Feed stores and plant nurseries would always have idiots coming in wondering why certain things died.

Okay, so I have the fan on, and things are sprouting like crazy... one problem. The lettuce is having a hard time in the wind, but I can't scoot the fan farther away or turn it lower. I could probably mov ethe starts, but if it will leave me with a hardier lettuce, I would just as soon leave...

Wanna, can you educate me as to why southerners would WANT to recreate the civil war? Such a devestating, bloody thing that they lost... I have never understood it. Then again, I can't think of a war that I WOULD want to recreate. Perhaps it's just me. I do miss the history of living in the...

Leghorns (white eggs) are good layers and very heat tolerant - bred for the Mediterranean climate. They are a bit skittish, and are not heavy enough to be earth-bound, but lay a lot w/o eating very much for the output. I am usually a fan of the heavier birds, as we like DP hens in addition to...

Hard to say... we've been under some pretty intense stress here, and the weather sure isn't helping!

Hey, I have (mild) insomnia too! LMAO! Hence the starting of this at 1:30 am!:frow I have to admit that my spouse was the leader of the chicken charge. She grew up in the country, and I did not. She loves animals and would have at least one of every kind if possible... then she'd breed them...

Thank you all! I am glad that my answers made sense. I couldn't sleep and was getting pretty tired by the end of the questions! A little more about me: You may see me on here a rediculous amount at times. I am a stay at home mom, and the baby is merely scooting backwards yet, so he is still...

Let's start things out properly, shall we? 1. What state/province/country are you in and what is your climate like? I am in Washington State (USA). Everett to be exact. We are west of the cascade mountains, so we get all that famous WA rain you have heard tales of! Most of the time it isn't...

Our house is set to 66, and the lettuce/broccoli seeds were up and running in 4 days! Today was gorgeous, so I did some rearranging and pulled the tray of tomato seeds out into the beams of sun to warm up... must have worked, as we have one tomato sprout that popped up and grew a whole inch in a...