Re: I LIKE THE DORK GROUP NOW

On 2020-10-11 10:18 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
> On 10/11/2020 11:39 AM, % wrote:
>> On 2020-10-11 8:32 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2020 4:49 PM, % wrote:
>>>> On 2020-10-09 7:31 p.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>> On 10/9/2020 8:38 PM, % wrote:
>>>>>> On 2020-10-09 1:33 p.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/9/2020 4:03 PM, % wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2020-10-09 11:59 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 10/9/2020 1:22 PM, % wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2020-10-09 8:48 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/9/2020 10:38 AM, % wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2020-10-09 5:52 a.m., mixed nuts wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On 10/9/2020 1:03 AM, % wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> because
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Peaceful.  No strife.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> no heads coming off , no black people getting shot ,
>>>>>>>>>>>> no hispanics making up any reason to get what they want ,
>>>>>>>>>>>> not having to read about these things in a place where ,
>>>>>>>>>>>> i shouldn't have to read about these things is great
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Yeah. I got up early when it was just getting light and I had 
>>>>>>>>>>> six turkeys in the back yard.  Bug and seed cleanup.  Yard 
>>>>>>>>>>> janitors, but not bitchy.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> One of the maples switched from green to red yesterday.  It's 
>>>>>>>>>>> on a high spot that's drier than where the other trees are so 
>>>>>>>>>>> it must have decided there's no more growing for this year 
>>>>>>>>>>> and started the big nap.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> the color changing is all about the sun changing ,
>>>>>>>>>> the sun is likely shining on the tree in a different angle now ,
>>>>>>>>>> all the east facing mountain sides turn color long before the 
>>>>>>>>>> west facing ones do
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This one sees sun all day all all year.  It's a few feet up 
>>>>>>>>> from a plowed field on the east and next to the road where all 
>>>>>>>>> the water runs away. We're in a drought so I think it's just 
>>>>>>>>> lack of water. I have maple trees the same size and age but 
>>>>>>>>> lower down where water collects and they're still 100% green.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> they don't care about water now it's all photosynthesis
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you don't have water and CO2, photosynthesis doesn't work.  
>>>>>>> The maples have stored all the sugar they need for spring down in 
>>>>>>> the roots by now. If they have extra sun and water, they'll just 
>>>>>>> top off the tank.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now it's up to the trees to drop some dead limbs so there'll be 
>>>>>>> enough wood to boil the sap in the spring.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> not in canada
>>>>>
>>>>> We don't have enough forest fires to do the cleanup here.  The last 
>>>>> good one was in 1953 when I was a little kid.  My great 
>>>>> grandparents had a farm near there (they were dead but cousins 
>>>>> still lived there) so my dad worried about it a lot, and he took a 
>>>>> plane ride to see what was going on, but it never made it to the farm.
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://granthamhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/Grantham%20Mt-%20Fire.pdf> 
>>>>>
>>>> that's some fire
>>>
>>> It was inside a place called Corbin Park which is a private hunting 
>>> preserve with secret members (millionaires and billionaires).  They 
>>> had a lot of animals that aren't found in North America - European 
>>> Boar, Red Deer, weird bears and stuff - and a lot of them escaped so 
>>> when you drive on I-89 you might see some of them.  There have been 
>>> some car wrecks there from hitting boar and if you shoot a boar or a 
>>> red deer you can't keep it unless the park owners say it's OK (it's 
>>> the same as shooting a cow - it belongs to the farmer).
>>>
>>> It's like Old Baldy now, but really bald. Sometimes people hike up 
>>> there to check it out but you gotta be careful because you could get 
>>> arrested for trespassing if you're not a club member.
>>>
>> go north from there and there's a community forest ,
>> its wanders all around and comes out at the cemetery 
> 
> That whole area - Woodward Rd, Davis Rd, Croydon Turnpike, was all us. 
> My great grandfather's 1st wife was from the next hill south (she died 
> from chasing a horse), the 2nd one came from Hartland Vt (there was the 
> Hart's Island rope ferry between Hartland Vt. and Plainfield so it was 
> like one big town).  The 3 of them are buried in the same cemetery plot. 
>   A lot of it is all grown over now but it used to be cleared with farms 
> everywhere. All along Rt 120 were relatives.  The big mill connection 
> was Lebanon NH and Hartford VT and the transportation connection was 
> West Lebanon NH and White River Junction VT so they were back and forth 
> all the time. We had another patch of relatives in Jericho (village of 
> Hartford VT).
> 
i thought you meant where leo is