Stone Branch, build it, they will come.

[George]

So this was a new one on me, my dogs were eating them last October so I searched around for a tree with fruit on it to no avail.



Quince, I took the seeds and let the dogs finish the fruits. You have to cook them to eat them. They are good for vodka, pies, preserves.



I found the quince plants under honeysuckle on the other side of the drive from where I was looking. They are quince bushes.





several plants one left, two right.



This bank was a big garbage, wood, fence pile with a rock bottom.



With a log cabin to move I'm now interested in cleaning up the rocks, cut foundation stone.



I unwound the honeysuckle from the quince and will stump treat it on a dryer day.



I think that I found the grill that goes with the old hood that covered my well.





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[George]

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[dogghr]

Under the hood.

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Its been more years than I care to say since I drew fresh water out of a hand dug well on my Great grandparents farm. We are so spoiled.
My other experience with old water collection on farms was with a cistern collecting roof rainwater runoff. I drank from that faucet many a time until we drained and did a routine cleaning of the cistern. I know the old man ran cattle into his late 80s drinking that stuff, but I never touched that faucet again!! But then I'll probable die quicker from my processed / purified water I now drink. Place looks good.

 

[George]

It has been brought to attention that my new rock pile is the old chimney off of the log cabin.

I tidied up and restacked my wood piles.





I'm now ready to start remodeling the kitchen.

Its been more years than I care to say since I drew fresh water out of a hand dug well on my Great grandparents farm. We are so spoiled.
My other experience with old water collection on farms was with a cistern collecting roof rainwater runoff. I drank from that faucet many a time until we drained and did a routine cleaning of the cistern. I know the old man ran cattle into his late 80s drinking that stuff, but I never touched that faucet again!! But then I'll probable die quicker from my processed / purified water I now drink. Place looks good.

This is an old homestead about 200 yards down from my property marked by daffodils, quince, and



old well.

David Brown, in his twenties, came up missing in the area never to be found. Neighbor Adam and his Father walking down the hollow after a deer hunt came upon the Sheriff coming up on a body in the well tip. Adam was 14 years of age or so probably around 30 years ago. They took the Sheriff to the well. The Sheriff grappled up a bone that Adam described as a human femur, Sheriff said this has to go to Frankfurt and they split, end of story. My guess is that the Sheriff didn't want to muddy the waters so to speak.



They put their homestead on top of a hill seep wetland.





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[Native Hunter]

I have always heard that you can graft pear scions to quince, but I’ve never tried it.

 

[Kurt]

Love your canine companions. Fun journey there and way greener than us already.

 

[George]

I have always heard that you can graft pear scions to quince, but I’ve never tried it.

There are quince trees and quince bushes, these are bushes.

Love your canine companions. Fun journey there and way greener than us already.

Thanks Kurt.



















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[George]

Its been a while since I had a forest fire, when the daily burn ban ended at 6:00pm yesterday, I lit it up.















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[gut_pile]

Good looking burn

 

[George]

Good looking burn

Yeah, I'm happy with it. Morning after.



The spot in the middle of roses and honeysuckle vine that wouldn't burn got a taste of 5% gly.



A few burning snags that had to be cut down.



I had an unprescribed burn yesterday on the other side of my fire break that I didn't know about until today.




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[Native Hunter]

Looking good G. When I saw that Chevy grill, it made me think of the old song lyrics, "...Somewhere in a pile of rubber and steel
there's a rusty old shell of an automobile, and if engines could run on desire alone, that old yellow car would be driving me home..."

 

[George]

Thanks Native.

I took a property tour with the regional head forester for the forest stewardship program and area forest warden.



While I was commended for most of my efforts up on the ridge, I received a failing grade in regard to grape vines. Here is an example of grape vines breaking down a treetop, in this instance a cull black gum.





By the time we got to this tree the warden already wanted to put me in cuffs.





However, I was let off with a warning and a homework assignment to come into compliance.



Zero tolerance for vines in crop trees, they all must swing.



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[Mennoniteman]

Thanks Native.

I took a property tour with the regional head forester for the forest stewardship program and area forest warden.

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While I was commended for most of my efforts up on the ridge, I received a failing grade in regard to grape vines. Here is an example of grape vines breaking down a treetop, in this instance a cull black gum.

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Looks like more poison ivy than grapevines...

 

[George]

pears aborted.



peach.



chestnut.



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[T-Max]

I was always afraid with my poor luck that I would nick the tree bark when cutting vines and accidentally kill the tree too...

 

[E_308]

You cut all those vines what are you going to use to swing from tree to tree?

You treating them with Tricplor mix?

 

[George]

You cut all those vines what are you going to use to swing from tree to tree?

You treating them with Tricplor mix?

The vines are cut off and left better for swinging. Forester said just cut don't worry about treating.

I was always afraid with my poor luck that I would nick the tree bark when cutting vines and accidentally kill the tree too...

I try to be careful cutting the poison ivy vines.

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[Mennoniteman]

I was always afraid with my poor luck that I would nick the tree bark when cutting vines and accidentally kill the tree too...

Most trees will easily heal a nick in the bark.

 

[buckdeer1]

I agree they sure look like poison ivy

 

[T-Max]

Most trees will easily heal a nick in the bark.

Agreed. I meant accidentally squirting a little Tordon in there after the cut.