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| Posted by: RobDaHood, 3:46 PM GMT on April 12, 2012 | +4 |
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Wot I did today....
Spent some very hot hours keeping a fire out of my garden.
2:30 to about 5:00 pm.
HOT !
Boundary of the garden on the right, Top 2 images.
The fire-trace works, but still needed a little "supervision" !
Fortunately, the breeze was Kind.
And these posts from Pottery on the previous blog to further clarify:
I won, I got it right~!!!! I never get riddles correct.
WOW look at that fire Pottery has to deal with.. hope he got it all out...
New Blog thread!!! I need to set up a new one this weekend...
I keep the "moisture content" map in my blog which shows the places with the driest moisture content. It is different from drought map because.. well drought measure rainfall over weeks/months....
Moisture map measure daily mositure on the gound for fire purposes...
We can be be in a official drought situation but have green showing on the fire hazard if we have gotten some rain recently...
or we can not show an official drought but have a lot of red on this map because it has not rained in a few days/weeks..
did any of that make sense?
I found out, these maps are measuring fire hazard and soil moisture, not necessary drought according to rainfall.
If you want it in your header, please take it..
It updates every afternoon, between usually 3-4pm... so rain from one afternoon will not show up until next update the next afternoon.
Yeah, you made sense.
Pottery did successfully fight off the fire and is running errands up the mountain today. He did point out to me the importance of maintaining firebreaks, or traces as they call them in Trinidad, free of debris and vegetation. The rains that they have had in recent weeks let the grass in the traces grow. That is why he had to be in there fighting the fire.
Something to keep in mind if your property borders forest or grasslands...keep those fire lanes plowed up!
Blogger charlesimages has a website called CHARLESIMAGES-STORMEDIA. He has an interesting article and video there showing the healing power of music.
New Blog and Stuff, featuring ME !
How cool is that!
Just back from On High.
All is well.
Will return laters>>>>>>>>>
Told you I'd get them up...eventually!
:o)
Feeling like I might dry up and blow away!
Noticed on Gamma's map we are starting to get some of that purple/fuchsia stuff! I like to enter tropical season with the lakes a bit low, even though flooding has never been a concern for me (hey...I got an Ark ok?) but this is kind of ridiculous!
heh heh heh
that's all the tunes for the night.
Take good care all.
Going to spend the rest of the evening with my little pyrate girl!
See you guys in the New Day sometime.
Have a Good One!
Pottery my good man, I was looking at your Fire Fighting outfit, shorts and a t-shirt.
Are you daft man? I realize the Lady Pottery woke you up from your daily nap to tell you that the yard was on fire, but do you not have a Fire Fighting Outfit at the ready at all times?
And I hate to be picky here you understand, but a 10 ft wide fire break? My BBQ could jump across that without missing a beat!
I am happy that you survived the fire dragon my good man, but let that be a lesson to you.
Rent a large Bulldozer or a large Grader and have them cut you a fire break at least 100 ft wide at a minimum and then rent a tractor with a large tiller on the back and plow everything under.
Oh, no charge for the free advice. :) heh heh heh
At the very least, some Nomex longjohns!
Okay...outta here.
Have a great nite!
"My BBQ could jump across that without missing a beat!"
What kind of weird hydraulics does your BBQ have, anyway? Can it flip its own burgers? :)
hehhehhehhehheh....there's got to be a story behind that!
It is also a musical BBQ. It doesn't miss a beat when it bounds across the yard.
Long story about my BBQ grill.:) I'm glad you asked!
When we moved to Macon I bought one of those really big BBQ grills, you know, the ones with the huge grilling tops, about 36" wide and 24" deep. You can put about 24 good size T-bones on that joker with no problem at all.
Well, since I didn't have a patio in the back yard yet I put it on the back porch. Well, last summer I built the patio and then I had to try and move the Monster Grill as I call it from the back porch to the patio.
The back porch is about four feet higher than the back yard and there are four sets of brick steps going from the top of the porch to the ground level and the Monster Grill weighs about 4,000 pounds unless you want to take it all apart and rebuild it on the patio, and since I didn't want to do that again, I thought it would be easier to attach four small rocket launchers to the four leg frames of the grill, wire them all together to fire at the same time, attach a guide rope to the grill so I could control where it went, and then set the launchers off and let it sort of float from the back porch to the area of the new patio that I wanted it to go.
It all looked good on paper, I had allowed just enough fuel to lift 4,000 pounds about two feet off the ground for approximately ten seconds which is what I had figured it would take to move the grill a distance of 20 feet from the porch to the patio.
What I had failed to realize at the time was that an object that weighs 4,000 pounds that is floating two feet off the ground still weighs 4,000 pounds. Anotherwords, with one small guide rope I had to pull the floating Monster 20 feet horizontally from the porch to the patio in ten seconds. No way Jose.:)
I did manage to get it ten feet off the porch before the four launchers ran out of fuel.
Thank you for your question by the way.
If you are interested in the various things I have built around my house in the last four years, I would be just tickled to tell you about them. My new security dog Igor is one of the subjects I love to talk about.
Rob doesn't like me to download Igor's photo too often because it scares Angie's cat when she sees it, but I could do it later if you want to see him.:)
LOL
Oh...the cat woke me up this morning...scare away!
I always thought Barbie Q was one of Rick's Agents.
Yes, when I saw the pics of Pottery I was also thinking.. What the.. is he doing in shorts and t shirt fighting that fire! LOL
glad he came out ok.
Rob, I thought some of that fushia color was your area.
on that map, Dark Red, Fushia Pink and purple are BAD!!!! Really BAD!
I think I sensed some smoke in the air last night driving home on the SawGrass express...
of course that is just feet from Everglades and there are always wildfires out there this time of year.
Ylee, you knew Snake would not let your comment slip by without a story! LOL
Snake, I am wondering about you!! LOL That sounds like something my 37 yr old son would do.
he is always coming up with crazy ideas like that!!
So I am in a crowded community with no need for fire breaks, but one day if I ever get out
away from the suburbs and get some land.. I will have fire breaks.
You are crazy not to have them in Florida, especially this time of year.
You all enjoy your Friday!
The Minutes of the 157th Annual General Meeting, of the Garden Labourers Union.
Snake was elected President (unopposed) and I was elected General Secretary (unopposed), both for the 73rd time.
New amendments to the Manifesto include (but are not limited to)...
Garden Labourers will-
1- follow Instructions without Fear, Favour, Firmament, or Fastidiousness.
2- when faced with Options, ALWAYS know that the one that requires the most physical exhaustion will win out.
3- all garden materials, whether pavers, bags of compost, whatnot or stuff, will be purchased from suppliers who deal in TONS only.
4- When toting stuff, the further away the Destination and the more Obstacles in the way (stairs, narrow gateways, wasp nests, sleeping dogs etc) the better.
5- The fact that the Plan-of-the-day called for completion of Tasks 63 through 86, has nothing to do with the fact that you find yourself on Task 132 and there are others coming.
6- ALWAYS maintain a Cheerful Countenance during these times of Tribulation.
7- The Rewards will be of the Highest Magnitude, if you survive.
I think I'm going to lie down for a while....
Got about 2/3 through a book I've been wanting to read last weekend. Hoping to finish it by Sunday. No work left to do today except domestic stuff. Really should wash the dog. Then I gotta start thinking what's for supper.
ROFL
I think you pretty well covered it.
Here is one I run into almost every day.
No matter how many things you have, you will never be able to find the thing you need until the day after you don't need it anymore.
(at which point you will trip over it and hurt your toe)
LOL, thank you for your concern re. my Outfit for fighting fires.
But after several close calls, I now deem it most prudent to wear garments that allow me to run away, fast!
Actually, in most cases and when the flames are raging, my 'outfit' includes denim jeans, wet with the hose regularly, and a long-sleeved thick cotton shirt also wet.
The wetting down of my person with the hose (which is always close by) is a big help.
But there is not enough water to try to douse the fire..... only in Emergency!
Absolutely true!
It all comes from having someone else write the RuleBook of Life.
Had you or I written it, well, can you imagine...?
heheheheheh
I think he did too, now I need a nap. :)
Funny how he knew that I just ordered another pallet of 70 bags of Brown Mulch today. They will deliver it tomorrow morning. Between 0800 and 1200 hrs. I hope it is later than soonr, I still have 40 bags of topsoil to place in three of the gardens tomorrow morning.
You know, I have a vague memory that SugarBear and I used to ride the Harley every Saturday morning to some place for breakfast brunch. What the hell has happened to that tradition?
I think I should mention that to SugarBear, don't you think?
Or, maybe not. :)
That Clause was Supplanted by clause 894d, in last years Manifesto.
You really ought to read the thing, you know.
BBL
I agree completely my good man, I started with one what I call my "junk drawer" into which I place every nut, bolt, nail, screw, or part that is always left over from various projects.
This grew into 2 junk drawers at which point SugarBear informed me I had to give her two kitchen drawers back and put all that junk in the garage at which point I bought a 16 bin cabinet and placed all of these items in it.
I now have a 64 bin cabinet that is overflowing with little things and can no longer find a dam thing within a two hour period.:)
Hmmm, I know my copy is around here somewhere.
I shall attempt to find it after my nap.:)
That whole Pottery-the-valiant-firefighter photos and discussion, then Snake's flying grill, and The Minutes of the 157th Annual General Meeting, of the Garden Labourers Union... all together in one session is almost too much for me to handle.
Seriously, though, I did direct more traffic here with a link to #30 on my blog. I hope you don't mind. I also passed along the link you shared in #6.
Best blog I've read this year.
Well !
I'm happy that you found something to ROFLMAO about.
But really, this is all Very Serious Stuff, you know!
:):))
In Retaliation, I laughted a Happy Laugh to learn that you have had what sounds like a successful Hip Replacement.
Hope that things keep going well, and that you'll be dancing on the tables again, before long.
(Hood encourages that sort of thing around here. He is Strange, that way).
heheheheh
Yeah, we're all "a little touched", but that's how we maintain our sanity in an otherwise crazy world. Humor is not only therapeutic for the body, but for the mind as well.
Didn't mean to hurt you though!
Thanks for the link to here on your blog, and thanks for the link to Charlesimages website.
I just saw you post Lord Pott!
Dancing of any sort is good for the soul!
Lady needs a drink.
BRB!
From: Snake, President, Garden Labourers Union
Lord Pottery, I regret to inform you that I spoke this very day to SugarBear about the minutes of our latest Union Meeting and she informed me that she was the Master Gardener and she had not approved our latest Manifesto and we(you and I) could take our Manifesto and put it where the Sun doesn't shine.
I am a little confused about her instructions. I assume she wants me to take the 437 page Union Manifesto(yes, I did find my copy) and place the entire thing in the Freezer Section of the refridgerator. There is no light bulb in the freezer section you understand. All of the bedroom closets in my house have light bulbs in them so she couldn't have those areas in mind.
Please advise at your soonest available time, I am going to have to take some rib eye steaks out of the freezer in order to fit the entire Manifesto in there.
By the way, I did like the clause 232 on page 347 about the 60 days paid vacation for all Garden Labourers to some exotic tropical island. Perhaps you should not have put the graphic discription of the native girls in that paragraph however.:)
Yours in solidarity, Snake.
Good to have the crew reverting back to the old antics.
RTL,
You had me a bit confused. I thought she wanted the manifesto placed beneath the daffodils and covered in mushroom compost, but I agree, double wrapped in hermetically sealed plastic with a desiccant is a much better solution for long term storage.
Carry on!
Uhm, I've got room for a couple of those ribeyes!
ROFL, you are quick are you not?
Cute story about the rib eyes, and it is true. The kids and grands were over here having dinner one night and our daughter mentioned we should get to Publix because they had chicken breasts on sale that week. She said every week they put at least two different items on special sale at least half off the regular price.
So I started checking and sure enough one week rib eye were on sale, one week new york strips, one week pork loin, one week rib roasts, ect ect ect. So I would buy three packs of whatever was on sale that week and now the freezer is chock full of everything and half of the regular price it normally is.
I keep a strict rotation system so nothing gets old, simple really, put the new stuff on the bottom of the stack of what ever it is.
At half price, its the same price it would be at Robbins AFB Commisary and we don't have to drive 20 miles south and 20 miles back to get there.:)
PS. I was kidding about moving the rib eyes. Sorry.:)
I suppose I should mention something. Angie mostly buys stuff on sale and makes good use of coupons. I would never have the patience to go to 3 separate grocery stores and keep track of coupons. Saves us a lot of money and I give her full credit for it!
if you find yourself awake before the dawn's early light,
go here and solve "who owns the fish" in post 45.
Ought to keep you occupied until I wake up.
ROFL, went there already, wouldn't be fair, Einstein's puzzle!
I used to do a lot of that, you seem to be really good at it.
SugarBear is an English Major and a Spelling Bee Champion, loves crossword puzzles, and you never want to challenge her to a Scrabble Game!:)
I don't do puzzles anymore, spend what little time I have reading, but thanks for the heads up. I checked out the blog after you told me about it. Looks like fun!
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