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I planted three everbearing a couple years ago one in the yard one on each farm mine at the house died but the other two are doing well. Looking forward to them producing.

Mulberry I have quite a bit more of it if you need more

Well I ended up biulding a couple PVC pipe pyramids for fathead breading. I built one out of 3” pipe and one out of 6” pipe I had laying around, coved the pipe ends with chicken wire to keep larger fish out. I also cut several ERC and drug into the pond for a little more structure. Next year...

In my experience black ash, cherry, mulberry have been the best burls I’ve cut.

We had an ATV winch in the rafters of my mothers garage for hanging deer to butcher something like that or even a simple cable com-along would likely work fine.

5 tree minimum order from Adams county they also had Triumph apple trees

Don’t mow them you need a lot of growth to take up the herbicide, spray them during bloom time in the spring is best per most herbicide labels I’ve read and it’s a multi year application 2-3 years to kill a patch.

I think Biden’s policy of not letting Ukraine bomb Russian oil infrastructure has more to do with extending this war as long as possible than it does with keeping gas prices low.

Turning is a very enjoyable hobby. I do a lot of woodworking but probably enjoy lathe work the most.

I think about 20% of Berkshire and yes I know he is heavy invested in Short term US treasuries. I wish I had access to short term US treasuries thru my 401k I’d of likely already positioned some of my balance into that investment if available to me. I’ve only got a couple crap bond funds and...

https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/models/buffett-indicator.php Wish I knew when the ballon was going to pop for sure. I’m really considering pulling about 50% of my portfolio out of stocks and sitting on the sidelines with cash reserves. Buffet’s own metric shows market overvalued and I...

Pinky is a loving cat but sadly no longer available.

Good point barbed wire off the list

We don’t normally fool with pond structure in our farm ponds do to the cattle but the one I cleaned out last fall will likely not see cattle again at least for the foreseeable future so I’m thinking of adding structure. I think I’m going to build a fathead minnow breeding area out of drain pipe...

Two drought years in a row to flooding this year I lost two water gaps completely.