Official Off Topic Discussion Thread #1

[krichardson]

How did it get there?

How did it get there?

The little bugger must have climbed up the shower curtain which was hanging down the outside of the tub....once the mouse got down into the tub it was unable to jump back out.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Dang. But awesome that you’ll have a completely remodeled place. I’m pretty sure every apt I’ve been in they wouldn’t have done that. Just waited till you moved out and then updated it.

It’s funny, I had a talk with my bil and sil just a few weeks ago about windows in showers.
Why? Lol

If you got it, flaunt it!

Southern Minnesota. Winter temps the past 5yrs or so have been brutal. Maybe it’s because we moved from living in the center of town to living in open country. Winds out here are so harsh we can’t put snow fencing up because it rips it right back down. We’ve had Tposts hammered down 12”+ snap at ground level. Just nuts.

So are plans in the works for moving then?

I won’t plan to move till my kids are grown and our parents are gone. I’m very close to my mom and my husband is really close with his dad, so I’d rather us enjoy all the years we can with them.

Plant a wind break of hardy trees.

When we first got there. They said follow us. In a room they had huge flame retardant Antarctic jackets, masks, gloves, etc. I shoved hand warmers in every pocket. They said it gets a lot colder in Dec to Feb. I really don't understand how people live there.

I saw a deer that had fur like you would see on a woolley mammoth

maned variant , look up maned deer (it's a mutation)

Out here there's been a few completely hairless (samson's)

$125 is still good. Thats less then my summer bill. December’s bill was over $400.

$50 to $80 out here (including water bills)

Older house. We just got the roof done last year, but still need to do siding and windows. The windows leak air, worse on windy days. And since it’s a farm we have two separate meters we get billed for. Not sure if that’s how all farms work or if it’s that way because this was a rental before we bought it.
We still rent out the land and grain bins, but we pay the electric they use.
Normally that’s not much, but the dryer on the big bin has been running for over three weeks straight now. I feel like my mental stability is being tested. Lol

do you have well water?
Out here a lot of people are switching to solar, while in places like Oklahoma wind power is being looked at, centralized power is definitely going out of style on farms and ranches

 

[Deadliestviper7]

What do you guys think of my new avatar?

Cool! Looks like a doll that got turned into a hornets nest

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Hello; Are we 28 somehow in a place something like limbo?

We are the only people existing on this plane of existence

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Heck yeah, I don't mow my lawn and even transplant interesting looking, native weeds. Seriously. (I live in a mother in laws behind a privacy fence, so code enforcement is no issue)

so I'm not the only one who's done this?
At one point in Kansas I had wild mulberries,wild strawberries,native violets,marigolds,slippery elm in the backyard, previously the area only had primarily 40 years growth of invasive honey suckle and dandelions, which was a pain to get red of, but well worth it

 

[MrsE88]

If you got it, flaunt it!
I guess.... Not sure I’d be able to look my neighbor in the eye if I was out gardening and looked up to see em showering. Lol
Thankfully all my neighbors are a mile or farther away. Haha

Plant a wind break of hardy trees.
Yep, working on it.

$50 to $80 out here (including water bills)
Lucky. Wish our bill could be that low.

do you have well water?
Yes. So no water bill. That’s nice at least. It sucked paying for water when we lived in town.


Out here a lot of people are switching to solar, while in places like Oklahoma wind power is being looked at, centralized power is definitely going out of style on farms and ranches

 

[Warborg]

So check this out guys. Super proud of my son.

Some punk kid was giving a couple of autistic kids a hard time at school yesterday. My boy defends them gets into a shouting match with the punk who takes the hint and leaves the area.

Cool we get those proud mom/dad moments

Sort of reminds me of what happened to me in the 8th grade. I had a wide range of friends. The popular and not so popular crowd. One day a popular friend started to pick a fight with a non popular friend. The non popular friend said he didn't want to fight(there was a crowd watching). I jumped in and told the popular friend to back off. It ended at that moment. That day I was ousted from the popular friends group.

 

[Chicxulub]

so I'm not the only one who's done this?
At one point in Kansas I had wild mulberries,wild strawberries,native violets,marigolds,slippery elm in the backyard, previously the area only had primarily 40 years growth of invasive honey suckle and dandelions, which was a pain to get red of, but well worth it

Not by a long shot! I've got that huge tract of land next to the Okefenokee that I try to keep wild. I don't even mow most of the property anymkre, I burn it.

I wish more people would try to ecoscape instead of landscape. Wild flowers look better than a grass monoculture imo; plus, bees.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Not by a long shot! I've got that huge tract of land next to the Okefenokee that I try to keep wild. I don't even mow most of the property anymkre, I burn it.

I wish more people would try to ecoscape instead of landscape. Wild flowers look better than a grass monoculture imo; plus, bees.

Agreed, never understood why people want a mowed, diversally boring lawn, when they could have a more diverse and ecofriendly yard that would both be easier and cheaper to maintain

 

[Chicxulub]

Agreed, never understood why people want a mowed, diversally boring lawn, when they could have a more diverse and ecofriendly yard that would both be easier and cheaper to maintain

I do what we call micro burns. I'm a biologist and I earn my living doing this stuff, do not try this at home.

Did this one yesterday. The burn lines on this one are fairly sloppy because it wasn't the typical rectangles I normally make when I cut my burn lines, it was just an area relatively unaffected in a freshly cleared area of 8 year old siccessionas growth. The fire kills undesirable growth.