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Post Info TOPIC: So How are You and Your Better Half Working Through This Virus Quarantine?


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RE: So How are You and Your Better Half Working Through This Virus Quarantine?


4SPEED427 wrote:

My whole life I've always thought of spruce trees on the prairies as being "Like a Rock" (and yes, I am listening to Bob Seger sing that right now!). However they really are struggling here the past few years. Also, the ones at the nursery where I lived my first 17 years and then moved back for another 23 years until 2016, are now having a tough time. Some are just old, pushing 90 years and are just plain failing. Some are dying off, apparently there's a blight and also a fungus that might be the cause. Regardless, it's sad.


 That post sounds depressing now when I read it.....

On a positive note, the family that bought our 35 acres in 2016 is led by a tree-loving husband. A year before they had possession, he came to me and asked if I'd be willing to let him plant some trees! Of course I agreed and in no time he had planted over 300 spruce seedlings as well as about 40 poplars to line the 1000' long driveway. We knew then we'd sold to the right people!



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I've got about ten big old white Spruces behind my garage that are at least 100 years old. I remember seeing from my dads house ever since I was a kid so they seem part of the landscape. One of them had an osprey nest for about ten years until the geese showed up one spring and trashed the nest.

However once in a while one of them goes down and I have to admit it makes me sad. It'll make me even sadder if any of them hit the garage though. I have it set up it so I think its far enough away but I have to admit I was eyeballing it. 



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Ken, I was on a mink farm many years back, 50,000. Smelled pretty bad at 30c. He was breeding for colours, had a few baby blue and baby pink. We wont tell them how often they had sex..........

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Ours was nowhere near that size. About 2000. Don't miss it a bit.



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I worked on a 6000 bird chicken farm at the ages of 15/16 ... I think I'd rather work on a mink farm! I never ate chicken for decades afterward. Dumbest animals on earth!

 

More of my pet Spruce trees (with a Pontiac theme), they make a great natural snow fence. I can see the difference on our driveway. Eventually, years from now they will need thinning out:

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Darryl, I like the separation you have between the cars and the trees. I know your cars arent forgotten about there but how many times we see those nice young trees coming up through the cars engine bay or bumpers. My dad planted lots of trees around our farmhouse yard for a windbreak and it wasnt very long for it to be effective. Its like a small forest now 50 years later.

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That's looking promising!

By the way my mother never wore a mink coat either.



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More of my pet Spruce trees (with a Pontiac theme), they make a great natural snow fence. I can see the difference on our driveway. Eventually, years from now they will need thinning out:

 

 

Thin 1 per year every December.



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norontcan wrote:

Thin 1 per year every December.


 My wife was saying that I should sell some selected trees at Christmas. I could become the Eddie Shack of PEI.wink



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My wife and I currently spend a lot of time watching cooking shows for inspiration and amusement. Chopped, Jamie Oliver etc. Since we can't go out to eat, we are cooking up a storm and dining like, well, not exactly royalty, but we are well fed. Combine that with lock-down and I could see an obesity epidemic down the road for many people. I also try to get out for exercise. The people I meet (and avoid  wink  ) are all dog walkers.

My wife had been off work with pay for a couple of weeks, now she is going in a few days a week. Rather than take public transit I give her door-to-door service. Normally driving to downtown Toronto anytime after 6 a.m. is slow to stop and a long trek, but we are able to just cruise all the way now. Considering the light traffic is probably all the other few that are working, and they too are avoiding public transit, it is quite telling how much things have shut down.

The kitten is loving the fact that we are staying home. I sit down at the computer and he jumps onto my lap & purrs, then he leaps onto the fridge behind me and he makes it rain down all the seasonal fruit baskets I placed up there until fruit picking time. Great fun.

 

Tree planting. We have a big park right at our fence line. Last year they came and planted 100 tree saplings about 25' from the fence line. Back in the mid-70's my brother was a Junior Ranger way up at Ivanhoe Lake near Foleyet,  between Chapleau & Timmins way. He also did tree planting one summer, as did several of my friends. It was exhausting work in God's country. Up in the wilderness the only other person they came across was a toothless Indian. Probably a bigger bear population than human population.

 

I also am spending time inflicting myself on my favorite forums   blahblah.gif



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