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    Miscanthus giganteus transplanting

    I got mine from Bill and put the stalks in water and once they started to root then into containers and finally into the ground. I have spread mine around the farm but always done when dormant. I suspect as long as you can keep them damp enough to grow but not flood them out......you got...
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    Good basic new pump shotgun

    Buying your kid a gun..... my kids just claim mine as their own! They are legal adults.....and they still got grubby, sticky little fingers!! They get all upset when I want to use MY gun. I would bet that most hunters started off with either a Mossy 500, Remington 870 or a Winchester...
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    Double cropping

    No - not double cropping, just working hard! That more than likely is a pretty mature doe. First of all she has the ability to actually support 3. Then she has the experience to keep all 3 of them alive to this point.... Now.....she is probably the one you will hear blowing at you...
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    What Country artists do you really enjoy?

    Classic - Hank Jr, Willie, Waylon, Cash, Alabama, George Straight, Conway Twitty, Kenny, Bellamy Brothers more recent - Allan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Toby Keith Don't care too much for the more modern stuff.....Zack Brown, Eric Church and Luke Combs are a few exceptions
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    Happy place?

    As long as the hustle and bustle of life is silenced and as long as the weather cooperates and I'm outside.......I can find a happy place. Sometimes you have to go looking for it......sometimes if you give it a chance.....it will find you. I can be taking the dogs to the creek I can be sitting...
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    Wild Turkey population is tanking across most of its range

    I can't speak for my entire state.....but I know on my place turkey numbers have increased over the past few years. It used to be fairly rare to see a turkey and now we see them fairly often. I don't hunt them....but my boy does. He has taken a bird the past few years off the place...
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    Newbie Land Tour

    Interesting place. Because every place is different and my experience probably is very different than your (your sat photos show more trees than I have in the entire county block (square mile) of my place). So, just some general thoughts based on my own hard headedness and beating my own...
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    J-birds place

    Thank you! Having a land tour type of post is wonderful to not only share your own struggles and success, but even to simply document things. I never remember what species of apple I planted or what year it was planted or the like..... As I get older it all just runs together...
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    J-birds place

    I appreciate all the well wishes..... She is doing really well and we have our last 5 radiation treatments this week. Then, if all goes well......we wait. Hopefully we wait for a long time, but it's anybody's guess. The type of cancer she has, there is no such thig as "full...
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    J-birds place

    Been a long time since I have posted. Life gets in the way. I have 3 of the 4 kids graduated from college with the last one being a senior this year. I’m a grandpa now - my little buddy is now 18 months old and has allowed a different person to surface. My kids ask me where that person...
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    Time to lighten up - Laughter is good medicine Part II

    So I will tell a funny story on myself….. the other night we had salad with dinner here at home and I put some French dressing on mine. I took a big bite and I asked what was different with the salad because it was so spicy! I didn’t take another bite and just tossed it away. Only...
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    What Brand Tractor Do You Own?

    I have a little JD790. Big enough to do what I really need to do.....not big enough for me to do something really stupid!
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    J-birds place

    So I have done some digging and again I am not a turkey person so if I sound stupid...well, it's because I am! If I score my boys bird the way I read - it comes out to almost 67 (24.2 lbs, 9.5" beard, 1.25"/1.125" spurs). I just am not sure what a "book" turkey scores..... I wasn't able to...
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    first turkey off my place

    My boy was able to get one over the weekend. I am not a turkey hunter....I have enough bad habits as it is. First turkey off of our place. We have been seeing more and more of them but after chasing for a few years...he finally tracked one down.
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    J-birds place

    Had an exciting weekend.... my boy took the first turkey off our place since we have owned it (20 years+). It's not a big bird, but it is a tom.
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