Frosty Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 A rescue, THANK YOU! Personality is second only to health in my book. I'll bet he's never forgotten you saved him, has he? How's his sense of humor? What are his favorite jokes/stunts? I'll take a good natured plug of unidentifiable breed and colors over a high bred PITA any day. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted September 12, 2021 Author Share Posted September 12, 2021 Weekend walk. One of the most beautiful suburbs of St. Petersburg, Pushkin Tsarskoe Selo. Summer residence of Catherine the First. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 My goodness Alex, you have some really impressive places to walk. I'll bet it'd take a weekend to see it all. Are there tours of the residence? I'll bet the interior makes the exterior look plain. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted September 12, 2021 Author Share Posted September 12, 2021 HI Jer ! There are excursions. There are more than 10 museums in this park alone. One weekend won't be enough. I just love to walk around these places. In any season. St. Petersburg is beautiful, you need at least 2 weeks to see its sights. It takes 2-3 days to get around only one Hermitage. The largest museum in Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing." "Too much is never enough." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted September 12, 2021 Author Share Posted September 12, 2021 In the evening I drove through the city center. There was a fireworks display. Sunday was busy. VID-20210912-WA0002.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 That's about as grand as I expected Alex. AND fireworks. When I traveled around Alaska as part of the job we spent lots of days off in various towns and cities. Almost every town larger than 2,000 people had a museum, sometimes in a spare room of someone's home, or office building and I've never been in one I could see in one visit. Just reading labels and glancing at displays takes time. I've been to the local museum in Wasilla several times but it's pretty poorly organized, not the worst I've visited but poor. I used to visit and rearrange the blacksmith display and various tools. Do that just a little bit and they make you a lifetime member. I usually spend most of a visit in one area after doing a fast walk through. I love a museum. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Even better he bought the desert lot between us, laser leveled it and keeps it irrigated to grow alfalfa for the horses, so a nice green field between us and the corrals/paddocks/etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 And, if one is not allergic, alfalfa in bloom smells so sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 And fills the beehives! I had a coworker that I let set a couple of hives on our land. I sure miss the payments in honey and wax now that he's moved away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.J.Lampert Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 On 9/10/2021 at 4:28 PM, Frosty said: Nice but not my favorite color. I'm particularly fond of a nice buckskin they're almost as attractive as a, medicine hand, blue roan, Appaloosa. I like flashy two tones. my same thoughts saw some excellent appys in the mountains didn't get much on pics but there was a red roan i have a few of glad your still kickn M.J.Lampert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 I've only ever seen one true black appaloosa and he was stunningly magnificent. He knew it too, an arrogant horse isn't particularly welcome in my herd. Maybe as one of the studs but I'm more of a pleasure horse kind of guy. Even when I was sort of in the game. Red roans are nice, a friend had a gelding named Rusty and we used to give him a hard time about cliche names. Teased him about clicheing to his horse instead of clucking. He was a fine horse, good natured and well found. A nice alfalfa field helps keep thing cooler and ups the humidity some. When I was growing up most ranches were in the middle of alfalfa fields. The ones in the desert were dry dusty and HOT most of the time. Thomas, haven't you contacted an apiest about hives? Alfalfa makes for good honey both quantity and quality. Is the bee killing fungus thing keeping the number of working hives low there? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 My friend moved while I was working in Mexico and I haven't got into the small hive network since I made it back. Also my shop abuts the alfalfa field and if I EVER get power I don't know if the bees would like power hammers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 I doubt the bees will care once they know it won't threaten the hive. I'd suggest not running anything in the shop while the keeper is messing with the hive though, you don't want to become associated with disturbing the hive. A friend of mine here has a hive about 20' from his shop and the bees ignore him and heck anybody. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 4 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: I don't know if the bees would like power hammers. When I'm running mine, it seems to attract the little sweat bees. I always figured the vibration gets their attention and they really are nosy. Don't have any honey bee hives near, so I can't say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 Do they allow you to take cuttings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted October 1, 2021 Author Share Posted October 1, 2021 Golden autumn in the park of Gatchina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 3, 2021 Share Posted October 3, 2021 I love fall colors, they're mostly yellow here. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 When I lived in Miami FL, the city would take in the green plastic trees and put out the brown ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 Mid October. Usually nothing blooms at this time. This year is an exception. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Enjoy it while you have it. We've had a couple of hard frosts and soon it will be time to burn the yard off. I sure hope I have lights in the shop before daylight savings shifts back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donal Harris Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Are you quite sure you paid the right people, Thomas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 We handed the checks in at the main office and have a receipt for them. It's supposed to start "the week of Oct 18" hopefully this year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Thomas, you can relate to this.... Here in NW Arkansas, when someone says, for example, "I'll be out to work on your stuff Tuesday." He just doesn't say WHICH Tuesday....had that happen more than once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Thomas, and you believed them??? That's so sweet. Don't ever change. GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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