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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Last post by Post-Doctorate D on September 09, 2025, 04:46:20 PM »
Quote from: Jeff Tanyard on September 09, 2025, 04:28:18 PM
Laptop still works, but it's got problems.  :(

I recently did the same as you.  The battery in the laptop went kaput and I've so far opted not to replace it.  But, in my case, that was battery #2.  It also used to have display problems but it's now on screen #2.  Thus far, though, no keyboard problems other than the letters are worn off on a couple keys.  I think I may have a spare keyboard if I ever decide to replace it.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Last post by Jeff Tanyard on September 09, 2025, 04:28:18 PM »
Laptop still works, but it's got problems.  :(


https://jefftanyard.blogspot.com/2025/09/computer-update.html
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by LilyBLily on September 01, 2025, 06:55:41 AM »
Caterpillars seem always to go for the wild cherry trees. In spring around here. Never heard them called webworms, but evidently they are basically in the same category. Tentworms.

I have both kinds of pole saws, but the chainsaw quickly decided not to work when attached to its pole. I have been using it just as a small regular chainsaw for years now. It's powerful and dangerous enough without raising it above eye level.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by Jeff Tanyard on August 26, 2025, 05:04:05 PM »
Had to tear down a Joro web.  One of the spiders built her web in the wrong place, blocking my egress.  I'm content to leave them be so long as they don't impede my travel, but this one did, so it was demolition time.  The spider and her male suitor were unharmed and scurried to safety.

A few gardenia flowers have appeared, presumably as a result of all the recent rains.  It's always nice to smell a gardenia flower.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by Jeff Tanyard on August 25, 2025, 02:22:37 PM »
Tore down a webworm cocoon today.  Luckily, it was low enough so I didn't have to get on a ladder.  I could keep both feet on terra firma where they belong.

This is the second time this summer I've torn down webworm webs.   :icon_rolleyes:

Strangely, the webworms have only ever appeared in this one sourwood tree.  I've never seen them in other trees nearby.  But that's fine with me.  I'd like to be rid of them altogether.

In case anyone's wondering, I used a pole saw to tear down the web.  It's long, like eight or ten feet or something, and it's really useful for things like this as well as for cutting tree limbs.  I definitely recommend a pole saw for this task.  The manual kind, not the chainsaw kind.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: What Did You Blog About Today
« Last post by Vijaya on August 25, 2025, 01:20:46 AM »
I took a painting class this week. Surprisingly, it taught me things to bring with me into my writing: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2025/08/art-of-flow-discovery-class.html
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by Vijaya on August 18, 2025, 01:21:50 PM »
Quote from: Post-Doctorate D on August 16, 2025, 10:18:16 AM

But the deer are the worst.   :evil2:

You're lucky if you don't have groundhogs.

I think the best description I've seen about deer is that they are rats on stilts.
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 :icon_lol2: rats on stilts. The deer are the worst. We eventually put up a deer fence... and the year after that, the rats chewed on the newly planted trees. So now they're protected as well. The rabbits have chewed a hole through the deer fence. I tell you, when it's man vs nature, nature will win every time. I've not seen a groundhog, so that's good news.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by LilyBLily on August 17, 2025, 03:43:10 AM »
The deer want to eat everything. They'll eat anything new, for sure. No hesitation about trying something different.

I've occasionally seen a groundhog by my shed, but it doesn't live there; it lives in the meadow beyond and only visits when disturbed. The shed is home to generations of fox babies and the Great Hunter parents are around, too. At our old house, though, we simply could not get rid of the groundhogs under our shed. Tried just about everything.

I'd like to shoot the squirrels, but I don't have the patience. Instead I just don't bother with bird feeders except for the hummingbird one that is attached to the window by suction cups. It gets knocked down a couple of times a season but basically the squirrels let it alone. They would have to traverse six feet of tall echinaceas, black-eyed susans, phlox, and daylilies to get to it; I don't think they want to take the risk that something might be waiting for them below.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by Post-Doctorate D on August 16, 2025, 10:18:16 AM »
Quote from: Jeff Tanyard on August 16, 2025, 09:35:51 AM
Groundhogs aren't common around here.  North Georgia is at the very southern edge of their range according to Wikipedia's map, and Vijaya's region is out of it altogether.  I've actually never seen a groundhog in the wild.  Moles, raccoons, rabbits, and deer are definitely a nuisance, though.  I'll occasionally see armadillo road-kill, so those things--which are an invasive species here, by the way--are definitely around.

But the deer are the worst.   :evil2:

You're lucky if you don't have groundhogs.

I think the best description I've seen about deer is that they are rats on stilts.
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Bar & Grill [Public] / Re: The Garden Thread that two people wanted
« Last post by Jeff Tanyard on August 16, 2025, 09:35:51 AM »
Quote from: Post-Doctorate D on August 16, 2025, 02:40:30 AM
Quote from: Vijaya on August 16, 2025, 12:21:25 AM
Something--raccoon?--ate all our sweet potatoes, leaves, stems, everything. Watermelon too. And for the first time also many of our pepper plants. The stuff on the porch is doing good--we're getting cukes, okra, tomatoes, but the critters are starting to find out (bites taken off the tomatoes).

Or a groundhog?  Hope for your sake it's not a groundhog.  Those things are destructive and hard to get rid of.  I think I (not intentionally) hit one while driving a few years back and it just got up and walked away.


Groundhogs aren't common around here.  North Georgia is at the very southern edge of their range according to Wikipedia's map, and Vijaya's region is out of it altogether.  I've actually never seen a groundhog in the wild.  Moles, raccoons, rabbits, and deer are definitely a nuisance, though.  I'll occasionally see armadillo road-kill, so those things--which are an invasive species here, by the way--are definitely around.

But the deer are the worst.   :evil2: 
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