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Here in many parts the town is still full of firewood - they simply haven't bothered to clear all the trees and branches that came down in the ice storm we had in December, since people are gradually using it up...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 3, 2014 at 7:39 PM
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Jimmy
He is like a lot of silly old men especially round here they have loads of money ,but won't spend any of it. They are so dopey they get N,Health hearing aids . These are ugly brutes
My brother says his hurts his ears so he does not wear it very often. I could kick them up the ass.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 3, 2014 at 7:56 AM
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Re: Pat
Well I grow them Pat for the fun, I'll show you one batch in about a week when they are out in bloom. Last year inside a tunnel the mice kept nibbling the stalks. So I have tried
different systems in pots and mouse traps. I love hollyhocks but they get the blight here so not much good planting them.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 3, 2014 at 7:44 AM
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Hmmm . . . was the F.I.L. disgraced because he stopped buying coal, or because he is burning 'free' wood? Which 'scarlet letter' applies in that case . . . ? 
posted by
JimmyA
on May 3, 2014 at 6:22 AM
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I no longer cultivate the strawberries in the border by the fence. The birds and squirrels get them - so they can jolly well do the work. And the hollyhocks stand tall, soldiering to new heights and blooming bright in their time, so it's low maintenance back there now.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 3, 2014 at 4:36 AM
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Re: Strawberries would be nice...
Not many here Ciel it seems disease spreads from one species to another perhaps spores are brought in on planes or by birds or one did not notice in the past as there was so much woodland.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 2, 2014 at 11:09 PM
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Come on Kabu get out there and enjoy the morning sunshine . Oh sorry I was looking out of my window at 7am. I shall have to open the greenhouses it soon becomes hot. The sun because of a gap in the ozone layer is as potent as in the mid of July.So sun screen cream is advisable.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 2, 2014 at 11:04 PM
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Re: ChiffChiff
Well pariffin is £7 a gallon in tins Wiley, wood which not many can afford works out at 50pence a small block buying in bulk. We all hope fracking will relieve some of the cost.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 2, 2014 at 11:00 PM
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Re: cct
I cannot see an Oak around here Jean but there are Ash trees, unfortunately they
are beginning to get a disease My weeping Ash looks dead but it is always late. We did have a light frost but more of an air one,thankfully the sun is shining at 6am .
posted by
C_C_T
on May 2, 2014 at 10:47 PM
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No most died here Taps it changed the landscape but occasionally young shoots like suckers come up from the base they will never make stately trees though.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 2, 2014 at 10:41 PM
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When I was a kid, there were elms, big old American elms, and Chinese elms, and other kinds. Now you can hardly find one. Elm disease killed most of them.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 2, 2014 at 8:27 PM
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cct
we burn oak here, seems ashame. but i still have some large oaks left. i feel fortunate as i read on blogit, it is finally warm here , at least during the day, no frost at night. soon will be so hot and humid that i will be hiding in the house.
posted by
jeansaw
on May 2, 2014 at 8:17 PM
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ChiffChiff
Wood burning is vey unpopular here now, because wood cost is nearly as bad as oil or propane and almost as dangerous to use Bro.
posted by
WileyJohn
on May 2, 2014 at 7:50 PM
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You are prepared for the frost, I see.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 2, 2014 at 5:03 PM
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not a sign of a leaf on a tree here yet. No frost but the wind is cold and nippy around the place.
posted by
Kabu
on May 2, 2014 at 4:34 PM
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Strawberries would be nice...
Maybe later on I will get a hanging basket of them.
I've been wondering if the tall trees behind my yard are elms. I know there are still some about, there is one stately old one growing in the pioneer cemetary in Olympia, Washington. I shall have to investigate further...
posted by
Ciel
on May 2, 2014 at 1:08 PM
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