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Macrobius

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Wifey hates her some slug...

> If you were asleep during 'High School Biology' slugs are hermaphroditic. They mate by hanging from a pair of slime threads, and wrap their penises around each other to get the gay on, then mutually inseminate each others eggs, and finally slither off to lay the fertilized eggs. No wonder the Marxist encourage their invasion of the EU.The WEF wants to awaken your inner slug.

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Negotiate with the men, or end up on the squaw plate, gents:

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Macrobius

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Our attempt at lawn repair (grass seed and straw). I didn't put the straw or grass seed where the clover was thriving.

About 5-10 pigeons flew off as I walked out the door to take this shot. Birbs gonna birb. Something like an inch of rain expected tonight and we are seeding for next year here. Mulch bed extended as recommended above.

Wifey was very concerned about the slug population but I pointed out they die at 38F [SOON] and we can deal with them next year.

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Notice we are freeing the Maple tree of its stakes and using proper boy scout clove hitches and tautlines and other Aryan as fuck knots.

Also notice that Yuletide trees are cued up there on the left.
 
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Macrobius

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> Patton: it's not about making the slug die trying to reach your garden... it's about making the slug die trying to reach that OTHER BASTARD'S garden.

If they can smell beer or yeast at 100-200 yards (1-2 football fields) like the article says, then I think I'll put the traps over the wall by the highway :D
 
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Posing next to his Fueherbunker between daytime naps.

There were 20 pigeons out on the downslope feasting on wildflower seed we put out for overwinter planting ... but they're gone, thanks to our security team and Wackenkatze-1 here.

Perimeter status: SECURE

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Macrobius

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Faithful lef'tenant George keeps watch on the BIRBs while his Fuehrer gets a bit of shut eye after a long night's hunt.

The heat pump provides shelter -- if you can call two walls in a trench 'shelter' ... and is nice and cozy, as well as being the PERFECT place for stalking finches (left) and pigeons (right)

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Macrobius

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Now, about those gate designs -- pure Wessex genius here:



Bottom line is what all Structural Engineers know... it's all about the diagonal members (or in 3D the space frame).

Aryans gonna Aryan.
 
Macrobius

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The beta focus test group that I assembled for the 2024 election takes flight:

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The broken bird bath in the foreground is a miscalculation of mine: I thought, during our hardest freeze in a decade, that the ice would expand upwards. Silly me. The ceramic was low quality and rather just sliding upwards it gripped the sides of the bath and broke it handily.

The light green spots on the lawn are more interesting (they resulted from my wife's generous application of slug killer[1] (iron phoshate) which turns out to be the exact that chemical moss craves. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens to the grass (it only grows in late March to early May here). I think the sod is only a few inches on top of what might as well be a concrete pad (mix of consolidated bottom sludge from Puget Sound 'mudflats' (you know, Oyster Bay), about a mile down the hill in the direction of this photo.

[1]: Slugs here are invasive. Snails are not. Know your mollusk.

I am preparing my worm farm now... but if this doesn't work it's time to buy some topsoil I think.

@Nikephoros II Phokas what's your take. I know the topsoil is nitrogen starved and 'Ironite' would probably help it (beside being about 6 inches too shallow on top of the man-made regolith -- approximate result of unrolling sod straight from the farm on top of what is more or less an elementary school playground, to push sales -- thanks LGI Homes) but what's your take on phosphates... apply to yard or not? You see one inadvertent data point here.

Chemistry buffs listen up @Richard Swagner @piscamaniac -- worms and oyster mud flat question here.
 
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Macrobius

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*signs of moss

The Military Man, the 'local authorities' and persons like me all have our eye out. Down on your luck? YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Anyway #HireDalton
 
Macrobius

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Macrobius said:
So new we haven't even removed the label (or screwed the parts together -- project for this weekend)

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The columbine that is prostrate on the back right was a 3 dollar 'rescue plant' nearly killed by a big box store and on their plant morgue/ 'bargain bin' shelf of victims. It should look like its mate on the right.

Kitler believes it needs more nitrogen and proceeded to act on that theory, but I'm not sure that's such a good idea. It's actually reviving -- not sure what turned the leaves blue green (misapplication of lawn fertilizer to a plant?). We'll eventually prune the parts that NGMI.
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New season coming, to the Bronze Age Garden
 
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Expecting hops to grow well here in this climate -- eventual plan is to build a rather high 'arch' for it, because apparently it likes to climb.

SOON.

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LOL that onion. It was only there because it wanted to live and I stuck it in the ground to provide 'protection' to the Strawberry row, but it's apparently still alive. Not surprising, as they grow wild in lawns here.
 
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