Catscratch House and Habitat build

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Have friends from Sri Lanka. Huge into their garden but won't buy synthetic fert, so they come out every yr and fill their car up with cow crap. Always a good time (but kind of odd) time. Always draws attention from the fert producers!

 

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Took my fishing buddy out tonight. We set some crawdad traps but think it might be too early. Never hurts to try.

 

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Anyone know what the bumps on the side of a crawdad are?

 

[Mortenson]

Eggs from a water bug?

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

extremely contagious herpes

 

[Kooch]

extremely contagious herpes

Cat can’t catch it twice. He’s good.


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Lol!

 

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I keep thinking I'll mow my milo, then I'll walk by and kick up a rabbit or something. Or deer will be in it.

 

[buckdeer1]

Looks good,I still have your blind frames and fish habitat,Theres enough duct on the reels just to load them and not take duct separate.Anyone close enough that want some big square tubing reels I have several

 

[Catscratch]

Looks good,I still have your blind frames and fish habitat,Theres enough duct on the reels just to load them and not take duct separate.Anyone close enough that want some big square tubing reels I have several

I really need to get over to your place and pic those up! Probably owe ya a couple of steaks for storage!

 

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Went ahead and pruned today. Probably not the best time of yr but do it when ya can.
My leaders bend over to the north real bad. Get almost horizontal. I've gotten pretty nonchalant about cutting stuff off trees.

 

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Found a cool shed while walking fence. Think I'm probably done finding antlers for the yr.

 

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Decided to give tillage a try. These plots have been TnM since genesis. I'm gonna try tillage for about half of the acreage. This disc hadn't moved from the weeds for 30yrs. Almost made it a whole pass before blowing a hydraulic line! :)
The soil looks real good...

 

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And I put in a new post for a camera pointed at a licking branch, and I refreshened mineral.

 

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It's official... a decades worth of TnM down the tubes. Of course I didn't disc up all my plots, just some stuff in the yard to experiment with. Plus a couple of pics just cause I love this state!

 

[T-Max]

That’s not deep tillage though. You didn’t mess it up too bad. Curious to see what’s in the seed bank to fight with after that long.


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That’s not deep tillage though. You didn’t mess it up too bad. Curious to see what’s in the seed bank to fight with after that long.


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I'm assuming all sorts of crazy stuff is going to crawl out of that seed bank. Probably going to cost me a fortune to fight it! But... as much as I've loved TnM for the last 30 yrs there is something special about fresh soil that I've never lost a love for. It smells good, feels good, and looks good.

 

[Gravel Road]

Nice disk. Looks like it cuts in nicely with it folded up.

 

[Catscratch]

Nice disk. Looks like it cuts in nicely with it folded up.

It sinks right in folded up like that. It hadn't been used for at least 30yrs, requires 2 hydraulic hookups (tractor only has 1), and the outside tires need replaced. Figured I'd just see if I could make it work before going all in. It does leave a tough on the outside but that's ok.