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[Scottintexas]

That is great...but what did your daughter shoot?

She had a 20 (she said she was mentally distracted thinking about her "form") and came back with a 24 the second round

I'm happy she always seems to follow up bad rounds with good ones, last week it was 21 and 25

 

[drewkaree]

Drove home from FL on Sunday and got on a plane headed for NY Tuesday to do some truck shopping
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I’m ready to sleep in my own bed again.

You're only one state away from Pearce! You went all the way to New York for that?

 

[Babin Farms]

You're only one state away from Pearce! You went all the way to New York for that?

Price was right. We’ve got a Pierce engine & happy with it. The FD that has this KME is replacing it with a Pierce almost identical to what the have at a price of $1.6 mill. Don’t think I have enough 0’s in the budget for a new one right now.

 

[Babin Farms]

I know where you are. Friends of ours used to live in Loudonville. 3 hrs. South of us.

Would have loved to come up & see you guys but had just enough time to fly in, check it over, test it out, discuss with FD and in process of flying home now. Maybe someday ill make it up yer way.

 

[zipper]

Would have loved to come up & see you guys but had just enough time to fly in, check it over, test it out, discuss with FD and in process of flying home now. Maybe someday ill make it up yer way.

All good. That is too far away. Some here have traveled to Burlington, 30 mins. away, also on business and we never met up. Life happens....Nice truck. How does it get shipped? On a low boy trailer or does somebody drive it out there.

 

[Babin Farms]

All good. That is too far away. Some here have traveled to Burlington, 30 mins. away, also on business and we never met up. Life happens....Nice truck. How does it get shipped? On a low boy trailer or does somebody drive it out there.

Looking at companies that will drive it home for us. They handle it all, fuel, insurance and most anything else.

 

[zipper]

The maple season is coming to an end in the Champlain Valley. A stretch of 70°+ coming this weekend. Short season this year and about 30k gallons less than last year. Spring just keeps getting earlier each year.

The pussy willows are in full bloom this morning. I stopped making jokes to my wife about them many years ago. Her name is Willow and she tired of my association with her and this bush. Must be the dry farmer humor coming out of cabin fever.



Anyway...the boating season will begin sooner too.

 

[Murf'n'surf]

I just happened to be speaking with my neighbor about this the other day,

He works for a lumber supplier to the companies that build houses in the DFW area
He started out as a carpenter 40 years ago and is now a salesman,

They get most of their lumber from mills in the TX/AR/OK/LA area with 3 week lead time, they do have a rail head that they get train cars from the NW but that can be a 3 month lead time.

Very little of their lumber comes from Canada, 20-30 yrs ago the quantity from Canada was much larger,

I thought with Covid maybe the mills or cutters were shutting down (much like the meat processing plants that had outbreaks and slowed operations, haven't heard about that crisis again),

His thought is that the mills are just slowing processing to limit supply and drive up the price, why work at 100% if it's going to lower your profit,
He said this happens occasionally when lumber will hit low prices and suddenly it's time for the mill to shut the plant down and retool and suddenly everybody starts buying lumber at higher price because of the fear they'll get left without during the down time,



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From the stories I have heard from my local peeps about the building material shortage, there are multiple factors that lined up in the last year. 1- influx of building due to low interest rates, 2- past shutdowns due to covid, and 3- mass influx of building in our local area from the people fleeing the big bad cities of the NE and West coast.

 

[Babin Farms]

Not sure when I’ll find time but the DW wants me to Rejex the boat and possibly the vehicles.

 

[zipper]

We went down to the Lake yesterday after getting our shots. Said hello to the marina owner and manager. They are getting an early start setting things up this year, but not open until May 15. The water was like glass.
Air temp. 75°, water temp. 41°.

 

[Babin Farms]

We went down to the Lake yesterday after getting our shots. Said hello to the marina owner and manager. They are getting an early start setting things up this year, but not open until May 15. The water was like glass.
Air temp. 75°, water temp. 41°.
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Jump in & go for a swim?

 

[swatski]

Meanwhile...
Our son is visiting the land of @rkim808. I really want to go.



While my Spring-breaking youngest spent a day in the City, albeit they declared they like it a lot more from the water, lol.


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[InmyElement]

Bike ride along the Erie Canal...waiting for it to fill..

 

[drewkaree]

First trip to the lake house with open water, although the water level is still a bit low.

Even if I wanted to, I couldn't launch from here yet, there's a bit of a drop that might be an issue pulling the boat out with the water this low.

 

[drewkaree]

A panoramic shot of Alder Creek from the point on my property - the left side is the opening leading out to Poygan

I have some work ahead of me. Every tree on my shoreline is dead, thanks to a walnut tree we have in the area. The plus side is that we'll have firewood very quickly!

 

[drewkaree]

Had a visitor a little while ago. Several years ago, "Mom" had two younger eagles with her, and all 3 would often come to hang out in the tree we ended up having to take off the top due to it dying, little by little.

I'm guessing our visitor is one of those younger eagles, all grown up. We've gotten 4-5 in the area last year, and it's awesome to see them so up close and personal.

 

[2kwik4u]

Unbeknownst to me. Cousin bought herself an S3 within days of us purchasing the Q7. Both white with black trim. Here's a rainy picture from earlier.

 

[drewkaree]

We used to have cottonwood trees every 30 feet on the shoreline. This was the one we had to top. The neighbor was going to help us try to build a nesting platform for the eagles, but we were told that since the tree is dying, this likely wouldn't be a good situation, and might be a hazard to any nesting eagles we might get.

The tree on the right is where the eagle was, compared to the topped one on the left

 

[WiskyDan]

Had a visitor a little while ago. Several years ago, "Mom" had two younger eagles with her, and all 3 would often come to hang out in the tree we ended up having to take off the top due to it dying, little by little.

I'm guessing our visitor is one of those younger eagles, all grown up. We've gotten 4-5 in the area last year, and it's awesome to see them so up close and personal.

@drewkaree I had no idea there were Eagles in the Oshkosh area - that is so cool!! Are they pretty common or few and far between?

 

[drewkaree]

I don't know if they're that far over there, it's a bit more city-fied. There's at least 4-5 around the Poygan area, but from what I've observed over the past few years, it seems like they keep to the northwest area.

Osprey pole setup on the drive to my place has a nesting pair as well, we see them around the creek here a few times a year.