Recent content by rocksnstumps

I don't have any Golden Hornets but do have some seedling crabs that hang forever but in mild winters and little snow are not utilized much. But in harsh winters they are picked clean before spring. So they are good backups to have around. You have to remember that down in Native Hunters area...

Not EVERYTHING. Note that a lot of cryptos are down over the last 12 months. Looks like Bitcoin is down over 12%. Many other crypto stocks are also negative. Looks like the 1's and 0's crowd is just hedging into the hard assets for a balance. On silver in particular, about Fing time. Silver was...

Sounds like your grandson is pretty smart for his age. Picking something that both him and Gramps would enjoy. I have been thru Dayton several times and keep telling myself I have to make time for the Air Force museum. Went to the Marine museum out in VA with a family member who served. Another...

Really not all that long ago for gold to be below $300. 25 yrs or so ago in the waning days of the dot com bubble. Prior to that it bounced around $400/oz for much of the 90s. I should probably sell some stuff. These rocket peaks never seem to sustain for very long and trend down just as fast...

Read somewhere that last time beef numbers were this low was the end of the 1950s.

Interesting the hard assets performance compared to the 0s and 1s crowd over the last 12 months. Been waiting decades for some payback on my tiny stash. Makes the wait worth it....almost. Still would have been slightly better off buying some sp500 fund when the dinosaurs roamed and reinvesting...

Well an apple and some hazelnuts spared. Did find yanking on a grapevine with an extra piece of rope makes a good way to pull up high and guide direction. Tops full of grapevines sucks from cleaning up and chunking limbs however. Sunshine and 40s with a light wind mostly in right direction...

Seemingly partially relevant observation? Is that like partially being in correlation vs causation fallacy territory? Best not to go there in my opinion is all. Anyhooo, done with this topic, enough bantering

You commented that you found that excerpt interesting. I commented that cwd area or not I can predict that particular area is gonna see those high populations reduced over time. Don't see the value in including it to be honest. Find some other unhunted property that had long term sustainable...

Today? Nothing. Too strong a wind and wrong direction. Got some dying ash that need to come down but not squishing apple trees if they fall wrong to do it

A population decline in that area is not surprising if their initial reporting is the real number. Not sure if they like to sound scientific by using metric or want to cloud the fact most folks won't realize that 90 deer per sq km equates to 233 deer per sq mile! No way that is sustainable long...

Word of caution on the how far north comparisons and who to learn from. Most of the Michigan crowd except for maybe NW area of the UP is gonna be 1 and even 2 planting zones warmer than NW MN. Sure the amount of daylight equivalence is there for being north and when Spring finally arrives but...

I use 14 ga mostly but will use two stakes to hold it in place. Otherwise as mentioned the critters do bend it up. But I also have a good supply of old t-posts so doubling them up does not figure in the value equation vs a heavier gauge fence material

Bur, Yes try to support young trees a bit inside the cage so the trunk/limbs don't get all rubbed up during wind events. That tree is big enough that not needed anymore but never removed them. And those are curled up old tree tubes that get that way when you slit them lengthwise to pull them off...

A Dec crab update from NE WI except for Enterprise holding a smattering. These are all ok for deer size. Not showing all the smaller birdie crab still hanging with nickel or smaller fruit A ranetka seedling A couple different Franklin Cider. I consider these a crab based on fruit size An...