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When I still worked they had a cake for some occasion with blue frosting.
I got to the break room late. Most turned to see who came in and I just burst out laughing.

That's hysterical. Next time I get flustered at work, I'm going to try to picture my coworkers with blue frosting mustaches.
 

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Doing Great Dale just tired as all get out
Still can't sleep for shit huh.....I hope that resides soon....:zombie:

Now that you mentioned sleep....I couldn't sleep last night...no idea why....prolly slept for three hrs.
 

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Still can't sleep for shit huh.....I hope that resides soon....:zombie:

Now that you mentioned sleep....I couldn't sleep last night...no idea why....prolly slept for three hrs.
That wears one down fast, feel like I'm in the basement
 

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I never heard about blue cake....what is it?
Blue colored frosting that stains?
On Lannie's 40th birthday, we got her a cake with black frosting. It looked like any other cake, except the black stains your tongue and teeth. After she saw what it did to her, she really didn't want to go to work that day. That was 20 years ago, and she still doesn't want store-bought cake.
 

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Sounds like it was a real party.....:teehee:

On Lannie's 40th birthday, we got her a cake with black frosting. It looked like any other cake, except the black stains your tongue and teeth. After she saw what it did to her, she really didn't want to go to work that day. That was 20 years ago, and she still doesn't want store-bought cake.
 

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That wears one down fast, feel like I'm in the basement
Then I had my GF call from Ecuador at 5 this morning, 7:00 AM her time....

I had to ask, why are you calling me at 5 in the morning?

Said sorry, forgot about the time difference.....:zombie:
 

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Bob, I watched the Moonshiners a couple days ago on the Discovery or some other channel....Kentucky moonshine at it's finest.

Beautiful country, never been there tho.
 

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Bob, I watched the Moonshiners a couple days ago on the Discovery or some other channel....Kentucky moonshine at it's finest.

Beautiful country, never been there tho.
Like living in a greenhouse in summer. 90 deg and 90% humidity in the wooded hills with narrow valleys. And 45+ inches of rain a year?
 

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Like living in a greenhouse in summer. 90 deg and 90% humidity in the wooded hills with narrow valleys. And 45+ inches of rain a year?
Sure looked nice......:teehee:

One of the guys on the show had his front teeth missing, was kinda hard to understand, so they closed captioned every word he said....:giggle:
 

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But ya got great whitetail hunting, huh?
heck we got Elk now, Turkeys and Bears are spreading out too.
Been a couple killed on the parkway near me over the past few years.
Lots of coyotes too.

Those whitetails are hell on sheet metal.

When I was growing up with the woods at my backdoor it was rare to even see deer tracks and I spent lots of time in the woods.
Now they eat peoples gardens and flowers up.
 

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My last big garden a bout 3 years ago I had 35 tomato plants and the deer ate all of them before they even got ripe.
Jumped a 4 ft electric fence. Would have killed them but I do not like to eat deer.
Last year I made the fence 7' tall.
 

Draconigena

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Those whitetails are hell
This just reminded me of a show on the outdoor channel (oh, 15 years before I ever actually got to see Kentucky) and it gave us the opinion that all whitetail hunters were absolute idiots. These two guys were sitting under a tree, drinking out of a bottle wrapped in a paper bag. My first thought was that it was dumb of the TV folks to let them drink ON their TV show, but then the next thought was "are their guns loaded?" as they got drunker and their already bad speech was getting rather slurred as they talked about hunting the deer. They weren't hunting at all, of course, but sitting in the woods getting wasted. Then one picked up his gun and said "Ya gots ta hab a scope to magnetize them deers." Magnetize? I assumed he didn't know the word "magnify"... I couldn't handle it any more and changed channels.
 

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My last big garden a bout 3 years ago I had 35 tomato plants and the deer ate all of them before they even got ripe.
Jumped a 4 ft electric fence. Would have killed them but I do not like to eat deer.
Last year I made the fence 7' tall.
I have Quail eating my garden all to hell.....damn birds....hard to keep them out with a fence...need a freaking greenhouse.
 

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When I lived in North Carolina I was out at the smoking zone at work and talk was about the upcoming Deer hunting season.
One guy talked about hunting 'by ear'. I asked him what that was and he said you could not see the deer but could hear it and shoot at the sound.
I was amazed and told him that I hoped all the hunters around him hunted the same way.
The fool never got it.
 

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Have you tried just laying netting over those plants that the birds like?
Yep.....they peck through the netting....eating the leaves off my cabbage....seems like that's the only thing they like....so I tossed some old cabbage in the backyard....they been eating that the last couple days.

We have thousands of (now) domesticated quail in the burbs.....think they own everyone's yard. Cute bastards tho.
 

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.they peck through the netting
I ripped some eight-foot 2x4s into 1x1s (on the table saw) and built a frame out of those to fit over the cabbage bed and be at least three feet high. The four corners have pointed ends to shove in the ground so the wind won't blow it over. Then I covered that with stuff from the garden store that looks like cheese cloth (lets in air, light and water). It is intended to keep out cabbage moths, but the birds aren't getting in either.
 

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I ripped some eight-foot 2x4s into 1x1s (on the table saw) and built a frame out of those to fit over the cabbage bed and be at least three feet high. The four corners have pointed ends to shove in the ground so the wind won't blow it over. Then I covered that with stuff from the garden store that looks like cheese cloth (lets in air, light and water). It is intended to keep out cabbage moths, but the birds aren't getting in either.
Good idea, but I'm a little too busy to be messin much with cabbage......:teehee:
 

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Good idea, but I'm a little too busy to be messin much with cabbage......:teehee:
But the basic concept can be modified to fit just about any group of plants and nearly any size without the expense of a greenhouse. You can even install hinges on certain section(s) so you can get inside if it needs to be that large.
 

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