Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MustangMike]

My friend Harold and I were up to the cabin on Monday + Tue. The recently installed HF Solar Panel had the battery fully charged, and the new HF converter replaced the old burned out one and we have working lights again! No more bringing up charged batteries!!!

The MMWS 261 and MOFO 360 got strapped to the ATV and hauled some Cherry and Ash logs back to be converted to firewood. Would post more pics but "file too large" message thwarts me.

We also brought up a target and played with our Cross Bows! The days were warm, but the temp dropped into the mid 30s on Mon Night, so the wood stove kept us warm, likely it will not see action again till the fall.

After work was done, we got to enjoy a few Brews on the Dark side! I brought up some Yuengling Black and Tan and Sam Adams Cream Stout.

I believe the wild red flower is Red Trillium. They were all over the place!

 

[rarefish383]

Finally got to try out the table with some heavy wood. It worked excellent.

 

[Cowboy254]

Nice work, Joe. That oak looks so moist you could almost wring it out.

The snow has arrived on the hills across from me, might take the skis up tomorrow arvo if there's enough. The prediction is for 10-20 inches but we'll see. Fire's going pretty well at the moment with scrounged peppermint and a little bluegum.

 

[farmer steve]

Nice work, Joe. That oak looks so moist you could almost wring it out.

The snow has arrived on the hills across from me, might take the skis up tomorrow arvo if there's enough. The prediction is for 10-20 inches but we'll see. Fire's going pretty well at the moment with scrounged peppermint and a little bluegum.

hey Cowboy. i've seen you and others use "arvo" and had to google it. i do know what a "slab" of beer is though.

 

[Cowboy254]

Holy cr@p Batman! It just started snowing at my place!

 

[Cowboy254]

Might be a bit cold for the firepit tonight.




We don't get snow at our place very often, especially in May.

 

[Jeffkrib]

On the way home from work this arvo I dropped into a servo.

 

[woodchip rookie]

My plane has servos. (?)

 

[svk]

It was high 80's on Monday and we had a hard frost this morning.

 

[Philbert]

Kills the mosquitoes!

Philbert

 

[svk]

Unfortunately not many were out yet.

Two years ago it was very warm in early May then we had snow on fishing opener weekend. It completely wiped out the first hatch of mosquitos as well as just about every single wood tick.

 

[al-k]

Had to do some scrounging in my yard. Gypsy moths killed a bunch of oaks around the house. Black birch in the first pic to make room for the white oak.Going to have to hire someone for this one. No place to drop it.

 

[svk]

Figured out how the mice were getting into the pole building and sealed them out. Put out 8 glue traps each baited with a big gob of peanut butter inside so I’m interested to see how many I catch. Found a few dead ones while cleaning that had succumbed to the dcon but it wasn’t slowing them down.

 

[Cowboy254]

On the way home from work this arvo I dropped into a servo.

Was that the one run by Davo?

 

[LondonNeil]

Chocolate for the ones the peanut butter doesn't get

 

[woodchip rookie]

Use the 5gal bucket traps.

 

[dancan]

Might be a bit cold for the firepit tonight.

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We don't get snow at our place very often, especially in May.

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We've gotten snow in May before , 26.9 cm May 10 , 1972 .

 

[svk]

Use the 5gal bucket traps.

I would if I hadn’t plugged the holes. I just need to get rid the few that are left.

If you fill your bucket trap with antifreeze the dead ones won’t smell.

 

[rarefish383]

I would if I hadn’t plugged the holes. I just need to get rid the few that are left.

If you fill your bucket trap with antifreeze the dead ones won’t smell.

Pickled mice are UMUM good, and the antifreeze gives them a slightly sweet taste.

 

[svk]

Amazingly all 8 traps were empty this morning. Temps were in the 20’s last night and there’s a hard frost so I figured those little buggers would be moving. I did find a dead mouse in the middle of the floor in my small garage (which is NOT secure from rodents) the other day so assumed he must have gotten into the dcon in the pole building.