GreenDragon
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Looks like Bob is going all out with his Halloween decorations this year! 
Deluxestogie Grow Log 2021
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Homegrowngoodnes
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That a nematode? Lol
That is Shokichi Shiro, a Cucurbita maxima!
Bob
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BamaTinkerer
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Sounds like some HOA's if you decide to grow the first crop in front yard!
Cray Squirrel
Squirreled a lot!!
Voice of experience Bama?? Hehehe
Peterd has the easiest HOA I've ever seen. If I did a tiny bit of what he's done... i get lynched. Dont care for that...gives me a stiff neck...
The above image is of suckers allowed to randomly form, with multiple stalks per root system. The image below shows two manicured sucker stalks, with a single stalk per root system, and all leaf axial suckers promptly removed.
Below, we see unmanged, unintentional mushrooms, doing whatever they always do. These typically reach a cap diameter of about 6 or 7".
Bob
It is almost every year Texas releases some new law the further restricts the powers of HOAs. So start with a good state. I also wrote corporate policy frameworks for a living so I read all the HOA regulations before buying in the area and I re-read them all before this project. Also I found out a Master Gardener was on the current HOA board so I reached out to him directly and he indirectly became a sponsor of the architectural change request. I also combined everything I wanted to do in a single architecture review request and I worded it open-ended deliberately, for example I said I would chose the species of front tree I eventually replace the inappropriate 60+ foot tree the builder/1st homeowner selected for my property and I did not have a final decision yet at the time of the request. I would say 99.99% of home owners in this neighborhood have not even read a single page of the HOA rules and regulations, they get dinged by the bi-weekly drive by inspectors with fines because they choose wilfully to be ignorant. At the time I spoke with the board member, there were $48,000 in outstanding fines unpaid, and these people don't know the HOA has the right to foreclose on their properties. So yes for those people this HOA is very friendly for not taking that step yet. In general though if given a choice I would never buy in an HOA development but they seem to be the thing all over Texas for some reason.
My HOA consists of a small herd of cows, just across the road. If they moo from time to time, and if they lie down when it's about to rain, then I know that they must approve. I'm not sure how this off-topic HOA discussion ended up in my grow log.
Bob
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Brown Thumb
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Are Your cows are growing?
They are the neighbor's cows. The only work involved for me is watching them wander over the pasture as they graze. It's kind of like my groundhog and rabbits.
Bob
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Brown Thumb
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Milk or Meat cows?
It used to be a dairy farm, but the owners jumped off that wagon when they grew too old to do it. (They're in their 80s now.) So I imagine they are just feeders that get turned into hamburger.
Bob
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Brown Thumb
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I love a nice T Bone.
Cray Squirrel
Squirreled a lot!!
If you ask the cows "meat or milk". Bet they would say milk.
Homegrowngoodnes
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I bet if u asked the cows that question they would say moo. Lol
Will it make a pipe? Several pipes? This section of cornstalk is still fairly heavy, meaning it needs more time to dry out. My last cornstalk sitter pipe included the decorative frills of two stalk nodes: one as the upper rim of the bowl, and one just below the bore for the stem. But the nodes on Country Gentleman are just too long in between. A 6" tall pipe would be unwieldy and unsmokable.
So I am just studying this stalk, prior to deciding where to saw it. While the clear stalk sections become fairly empty, requiring only minimal boring or scraping, the node points are not actually solid enough to serve as the bottom of a bowl. The bottom will need to be bored, and plugged with wood. I'm thinking that a frilly top of the bowl seems like the way to go. The choice of a bamboo stem diameter and length (weight) makes determining the best angle cut for the bottom of a sitter a bit tricky. It's got to sit when both empty and with a bowl full of tobacco.
Once I've sawed the length, then it will be dried at low temp in my toaster oven, to kill overwintering critters that seem to like hiding within the tiny channels of cornstalks.
Of course, since dried cornstalk is wonderful kindling, the interior of the bowl will be lined with a 50:50 spackle of Plaster of Paris and fine sand.
Bob
Here is my previous one from 3½ years ago:
I just happened to smoke it yesterday.
Bob
I just happened to smoke it yesterday.
Bob
Out of habit, I keep looking out at my mailbox by the road today, forgetting that there is no delivery today. It is that day each year during which the US honors Christopher Columbus Cristoforo Colombo, the Italian Genoese explorer entrepreneur who convinced the Spanish Castilian King and Queen to subsidize his speculative sea voyage to China oops.
History can be whatever we choose.
Bob
History can be whatever we choose.
Bob
Cray Squirrel
Squirreled a lot!!
And history is constantly revised to meet a persons or group of peoples personal and political objectives.
Columbus was an important footnote to history albeit the Vikings were the first Europeans to not only discover but settle the Americas. Your mileage may vary.
Bob
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