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Posted: 8/27/2016 7:01:49 PM EDT

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Living the dream! Looks good and keep up the good work.

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Mowed the yard, washed the truck, now I'm sitting on the porch drinking wine from a Yeti supervising the fiance while she waxes her truck. Rough life

Posted: 8/27/2016 7:54:42 PM EDT

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Nice, man. That's the top of the world right there.

Posted: 8/27/2016 8:00:27 PM EDT

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Yes it is

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:34:22 PM EDT

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I like your GD thread more than this thread now. Although I think you are accidentally marrying my girl. Better send her my way before that red hair drives her crazy.

Posted: 9/1/2016 1:06:57 PM EDT

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GD thread has better scenery

. Too late

Posted: 9/2/2016 8:35:35 AM EDT

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Brought this guy home last night. Apollo.

Posted: 9/2/2016 10:01:22 AM EDT

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Posted: 9/3/2016 6:21:36 PM EDT

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Pumpkin harvest 2016. Big ones made it to about 70-80 lbs.

Posted: 9/3/2016 9:11:17 PM EDT

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Nice pup!

That's a lot of pumpkin pie lol.

Posted: 9/6/2016 4:36:05 PM EDT

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Thanks!

We makes ours from a can lol. Much easier that way.

Posted: 9/6/2016 4:38:16 PM EDT

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Well went mower shopping today, trying to figure out what we wanted to buy come spring. Definitely didn't work out how we intended

2016 Bad Boy Outlaw XP 6100 with the Kawa motor. Cut us a deal we couldn't say no to.

Posted: 9/7/2016 6:52:03 PM EDT

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Old mower didn't really chop up the clippings and clumped up pretty bad

New one does a little better

Posted: 9/7/2016 8:20:42 PM EDT

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Picked up some more dense shade grass seed earlier in the week. Had a nice afternoon and rain forecast for the next two days so I decided to go ahead and get it put out. Had 5 stumps in the area that needed removed. Dug around them, then sawed them off below grade with the chainsaw then filled the hole back in. The chain is going to need sharpened

This area is right out behind the house, was 6' horse weeds when we moved in.

Digging around a stump

Bigger stump cut off

Back filled

Seeded, raked in and being watered down

Now only another half acre or so to go

Posted: 9/14/2016 9:29:20 PM EDT

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That seed will look good when it comes up.

And nice mower

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Still love that view.

Posted: 9/15/2016 7:02:36 AM EDT

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Still love that view.

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I've been very impressed with the grass seed the green house sells. Better than Scott's in my experience. I didn't put straw on the seed so a hard rain washed it around some but it is coming up well.

Thanks!

Love it so far. My only complaint is it could be a little heavier for better traction, already weighs 1230 lbs though

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It's a pretty good view for Indiana!

Posted: 9/15/2016 8:57:42 AM EDT

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Fall projects on the list:

Removing a bunch of small trees along the property line in the yard. Cleaning up the brush we saved all of the small viable trees, need to thin them out a bit.

Trim trees. Going to borrow my parents Stihl pole saw and trim most of the trees in the yard a little more.

Start getting ready for mulch in the spring. Need to decide on exactly where we want the mulch to stop, get everything inside that killed off and probably start edging.

Spring list:

A pin oak and a few sections of split rail fence on each side of the driveway entrance.

Mulch around the front of the house and pole barn at minimum

100 or so trees from Arbor Day society planted

More flowers

Block raised bed around one tree in the middle of the front yard

It's never ending

Posted: 9/19/2016 12:20:56 PM EDT

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The grass seed is coming up well. Hope to get some pics tonight. Starting to spray the wild violets with 2,4-D to get rid of them. Those things are hard to kill!

Posted: 9/19/2016 7:07:03 PM EDT

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Starting to get some grass coming up! Kinda of hard to see but it came up well. Few bald spots where a hard rain displaces the seed. This area is probably 95% shade, the "forest and glen" mix from the local greenhouse does very well in shady areas!

Posted: 9/23/2016 7:46:22 PM EDT

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Crops are starting to be harvested, love this time of year.

Looks like we had a tree come down in the neighboring field. Will need to get it cleaned up this fall. Looks like a good excuse to buy a loader tractor

Posted: 9/24/2016 2:48:51 PM EDT

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Loader tractor time!

Posted: 9/28/2016 9:45:27 AM EDT

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My checking account does not agree

. Maybe come spring time depending on what kind of deals Deere offers.

Posted: 9/28/2016 9:39:51 PM EDT

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I'm playing ketchup in this thread, but OMG, he's beautiful.

And what a great name.

Posted: 9/28/2016 9:42:37 PM EDT

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2016 Bad Boy Outlaw XP 6100 with the Kawa motor. Cut us a deal we couldn't say no to.

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Officially jealous of your mower, and Apollo makes me miss my Kali, and her predecessor, Majik. (RIP, both noble SAR dogs.)

So happy for you at how your property is coming together.

Posted: 9/28/2016 9:47:21 PM EDT

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I know people who are all about graaaaassssss seem to hate them, but....

In the spring when you are really tired of winter, the violets are one of the first things that make you go "ahhhhh". They can be beautiful.

Posted: 9/28/2016 10:50:51 PM EDT

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Beautiful property.

Posted: 9/29/2016 6:57:56 AM EDT

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I'm playing ketchup in this thread, but OMG, he's beautiful.

And what a great name.

Thanks! He's starting to get big! Turns 15 weeks tomorrow

Posted: 9/29/2016 6:59:24 AM EDT

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The grass seed is coming up well. Hope to get some pics tonight. Starting to spray the wild violets with 2,4-D to get rid of them. Those things are hard to kill!

I know people who are all about graaaaassssss seem to hate them, but....

In the spring when you are really tired of winter, the violets are one of the first things that make you go "ahhhhh". They can be beautiful.

There are quite a few areas around the edge of the property inleave them alone in. They look good there and keep the weeds down. Despise them out in the grass where I mow though

Posted: 9/29/2016 6:59:34 AM EDT

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Thanks!

Posted: 9/29/2016 7:01:52 AM EDT

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We had an expensive vacation, on top of the mower the fiance also bought a new Renegade to replace the Chevy.

I'm on vacation week after next, hoping to get a lot done around the place, IF I don't end up putting in 12 hour days all of vacation working on the farm for corn harvest

Posted: 10/6/2016 10:26:22 PM EDT

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Thanks! He's starting to get big! Turns 15 weeks tomorrow

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I'm playing ketchup in this thread, but OMG, he's beautiful.

And what a great name.

Thanks! He's starting to get big! Turns 15 weeks tomorrow

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He is GORGEOUS. Look at those ears.

And look at that "Just ask and I will fuck anything up. Just ask me" attitude in his eyes.

You got a great dog.

Posted: 10/7/2016 10:05:25 AM EDT

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And look at that "Just ask and I will fuck anything up. Just ask me" attitude in his eyes.

You got a great dog.

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I'm playing ketchup in this thread, but OMG, he's beautiful.

And what a great name.

Thanks! He's starting to get big! Turns 15 weeks tomorrow

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He is GORGEOUS. Look at those ears.

And look at that "Just ask and I will fuck anything up. Just ask me" attitude in his eyes.

You got a great dog.

Thanks! Right now he loves to terrify the cats and chew on everything. Pretty much house trained and picking up new tricks fast! Nice deep bark already.

Posted: 10/7/2016 9:33:52 PM EDT

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We had an expensive vacation, on top of the mower the fiance also bought a new Renegade to replace the Chevy.

I'm on vacation week after next, hoping to get a lot done around the place, IF I don't end up putting in 12 hour days all of vacation working on the farm for corn harvest

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Ha!

The farm life is a good one, but it don't include no vacations.

Least none that I can remember.

Posted: 10/10/2016 2:38:20 PM EDT

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Apollo supervising the farmer across the road harvesting beans.

Posted: 10/10/2016 2:44:36 PM EDT

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On vacation this week. Fiance and I cleared some sapling out of the one property line this weekend. Forgot to take a before pic

Everything on top of the flooring came out of the section of property line shown in the picture.

Cleared out a 50'x50' area behind the house today.

Before:

After a couple hours with the 021 and old lawn mower:

Posted: 10/10/2016 10:54:38 PM EDT

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Apollo supervising the farmer across the road harvesting beans.

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That's a freaking BRILLANt shot, with him watching and ignoring his tennis ball over to his right.

The combines will be here for the beans in front of my house within the next few weeks.

I love seeing the harvest. They sometimes have four or five MONSTER combines coming over the hill in front of me all in sync. I have to admit that I think it's beautiful. A picture of the heart of America playing out right in front of me.

Posted: 10/10/2016 10:58:58 PM EDT

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On vacation this week. Fiance and I cleared some sapling out of the one property line this weekend. Forgot to take a before pic

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Everything on top of the flooring came out of the section of property line shown in the picture.

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Cleared out a 50'x50' area behind the house today.

Before:

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After a couple hours with the 021 and old lawn mower:

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That'll be a really pretty, shady yard.

Just curious...what were most of the saplings? I see one that looks like maybe buckeye or hickory, but I can't tell. Looks like maybe a hackberry on the right in the bottom one. Wondering what you have native where you are.

Posted: 10/11/2016 10:52:26 AM EDT

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Just curious...what were most of the saplings? I see one that looks like maybe buckeye or hickory, but I can't tell. Looks like maybe a hackberry on the right in the bottom one. Wondering what you have native where you are.

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On vacation this week. Fiance and I cleared some sapling out of the one property line this weekend. Forgot to take a before pic

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Everything on top of the flooring came out of the section of property line shown in the picture.

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a531/pavelow164781/4F2EF223-416C-4DBF-8F29-00AB76570381_zpstlagqhbw.jpg
Cleared out a 50'x50' area behind the house today.

Before:

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a531/pavelow164781/84FC4A08-7119-4A00-AEC3-219BF76F8741_zpscq80tfzt.jpg
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After a couple hours with the 021 and old lawn mower:

http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a531/pavelow164781/38E58739-E996-43F6-8967-63940E133253_zpsah65oo0t.jpg

That'll be a really pretty, shady yard.

Just curious...what were most of the saplings? I see one that looks like maybe buckeye or hickory, but I can't tell. Looks like maybe a hackberry on the right in the bottom one. Wondering what you have native where you are.

Little bit of everything. Hickory, oak, walnut, hackberry, pignut. Tried to save the nicest ones of the bunch.

Posted: 10/11/2016 1:33:15 PM EDT

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Running the 4250 today

Posted: 10/11/2016 7:15:00 PM EDT

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Hauling some beans now!

Posted: 10/11/2016 10:23:45 PM EDT

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Looks like you got Shanghaied into family harvest instead of working on your place.

Posted: 10/12/2016 2:06:29 PM EDT

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Looks like you got Shanghaied into family harvest instead of working on your place.

Not my family but close to it! This pays better than my yardwork

Posted: 10/15/2016 10:11:28 AM EDT

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Great looking pup! He's going to be yuge when he grows into those ears.

Y'all have any garden plantings or putting in any fruit trees?

Posted: 10/17/2016 7:58:13 AM EDT

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Great looking pup! He's going to be yuge when he grows into those ears.

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Thanks! Have to tie him down when it gets breezy out

We put out a garden this year. Everything did pretty well with the exception of the sweet corn, didn't get a single ear

No fruit trees, might put some berry bushes in.

Posted: 10/17/2016 11:05:48 PM EDT

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Thanks! Have to tie him down when it gets breezy out

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Thanks! Have to tie him down when it gets breezy out

Lol, I get the feeling you are only partially joking.

We put out a garden this year. Everything did pretty well with the exception of the sweet corn, didn't get a single ear

Monsanto obviously stole your corn ears in the dead of night when they found out your corn was pollinated by theirs. You didn't grow that!

Posted: 10/20/2016 3:30:35 PM EDT

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Catching up, sorry to hear about those beautiful ducks.

Apollo looks right at home. Him watching the harvest, great shot.

When you say beans, does that mean soy beans or something else?

Posted: 10/22/2016 5:23:15 PM EDT

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Catching up, sorry to hear about those beautiful ducks.

Apollo looks right at home. Him watching the harvest, great shot.

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Thanks! We hated to see it but that's how it goes.

He loves watching tractors. Wanted to get him in one riding around with me during harvest but it didn't work out.

Soybeans.

Posted: 10/24/2016 2:33:22 PM EDT

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He loves watching tractors. Wanted to get him in one riding around with me during harvest but it didn't work out.

Soybeans.

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Catching up, sorry to hear about those beautiful ducks.

Apollo looks right at home. Him watching the harvest, great shot.

When you say beans, does that mean soy beans or something else?

Thanks! We hated to see it but that's how it goes.

He loves watching tractors. Wanted to get him in one riding around with me during harvest but it didn't work out.

Soybeans.

Thanks.