Recent content by rocksnstumps

Geez. Just zapped 2nd recliner tick in 3 days since visiting my land. Yep, da muttley is right below my feet as always. Only good news is these are wood ticks not deer ticks so they claim unlikely to carry Lymes. And nope, don't wear permethrin soaked clothes while inside my house but maybe I...

Heard about that one but first time seeing symptoms. Have been treated for Lymes and try to be vigilant on tick checks. However....this year tick count the highest from sitting in my recliner. No joke. The muttley is always under my feet after a day of outside fun and believe the ticks are...

Kinda confused with the comment about vining with clearweed. Stuff I have is just stalks like it's cousin stinging nettle. Edit: Ah, realized vining is the pumpkins just getting going. But only really see it in richer soil so you have that going for ya. It also likes shade and moist areas so...

Met Sweaddy Teddy in Canada the last yr they allowed spring Ontario bear hunts. It was also a fly out base for fishing camps besides the bear hunts. We were just waiting for our second group of guys to get flown back before driving home. Uncle Ted was riding copilot in the "honey wagon"...

^^^ that seems strange that after time the rodent population would not rebound some. They are prolific little buggers. You must not have much for hawks and other birds of prey either with not much to feed them. But see the tree protection need more of an up north mid winter thing. Don't think...

Yes we all have our moments. I could have posted that I added to my Suncor position within one day of its lowest price in the last 20+ yrs. But was a small addition and in total my energy stocks have returned much less than simple SP500 index funds. Well hard to admit but WAY less.

I just went in and typed EXACTLY what I typed in last night for a question and got another summary totally different and yes totally, totally wrong.

BTW, one really needs to look close at what AI is telling you. Really surprised that it gives rather inconsistent and some total bogus summary about XOM stock price for 2011 period when I made my initial purchase. What was the average price for XOM in 2011? What was the high low price in 2011...

Sure couple points though. Total return above assumes dividend reinvestment immediately in new shares instead of taking the dividends as cash. Some folks may have taken as cash instead. Of course that cash should also be rolled into a return figure BUT I chose not to do that in my posting. WHY...

If you had bought XOM almost 15 yrs ago you would not even doubled your money, only a 50% uptick before dividends. Ask me how I know 🤣 Lotta luck and timing in this market thing. Note the S&P 500 returned about 4.5x over that long period. Best to be boring and stick to a broad index fund

If you Google diesel therapy you get a completely different perspective. Guess guys sent to the big house look at it differently. I like our kind of diesel therapy tho also

A bit humbling when you find some of these gnarly old relics. Was on a property where the land owner had some white cedars were aged over 400 yrs old. Some of the really old ones over 1000 yrs old are not that impressive as they grow out of basically rocky cliff faces. Nutrients so poor they...

Interesting that a number of years ago was always Enterprise, Freedom, and Liberty mentioned as the cool kids on the block for people/wildlife apples. Don't see Freedom mentioned much at all last 5 yrs. Been bumped by Galarina in most postings. Just wondering why Freedom kicked to the curb...

No morels here and have only found a scattered few in the last 20 yrs but the wild ramps are back up and looking good. Some areas have seemed to expanded a bit. Plan for ramp and tater soup later this week if I get back up there. There is a 40 acre sugar bush just down the road that has been...

Not saying alders are preferred but they will grow in very wet spots that dogwood won't. Willows and alders are what I see make it in the quagmire, mucky, loonshit marshy area I've duck hunted in the past. Otherwise a sea of grass and reeds with open water. Not talking swamp, that has patches of...