BillyBones Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Dont give GPS, give latitude and longitude coordinates. Works on a cell phone. I bought a piece of land a few year back and that is how i found center and the 4 corners. Thomas, i agree about those toxins. Wish they did not need used at all really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 6 hours ago, Frosty said: How goes reacquiring the smithing equipment? Went to check it out Sunday, still working on the details of what all we gonna swap, I’ll keep ya posted, Billy, Your right, latitude an longitude with a compass an a topo map would probably be more reliable! I dunno why GPS don’t like my house, it works everywhere else around here, I can find a satellite photo of my house but not by usin the address, I have to scroll down highway 59 till I get to it, maybe all the junk on my property is interfering with the system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Really pretty simple to find: just program in the Lat&Long into your ballistic missile and then drive down the highway looking for the crater! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Well I like you too Thomas! I’m Pretty sure though that the Air Force bases in fort smith, OK city an Little Rock all three might have something to say about anyone steering a ballistic missile down Oklahoma Highway 59 yall got me interested though, Im curious what the lat an long are here, I’ve never bothered looking into it, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 I can click on my location on the map and get the lat/long. (right click google chrome on windows 10) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Had a stink bug Armageddon. Apparently they find coal inviting and since I haven't lit my forge in a while, when I did tonight they were scrambling out in droves. Anyway I scooped as many as I could back into the fire while I made a base to pound into the ground for a rebar scarecrow structure I made some years ago. I had made a new pumpkin head for it a more recent some years ago and haven't used it as of yet. So a bit of pipe to pound in the ground to plop the rebar into, and some corn stalks I cut earlier today and I should have a good scarecrow for Halloween. Unfortunately it started raining pretty bad so pictures to come once I get it all set up. Many more ideas to come but I am still in the midst of a bad cold that has lingered. Yes the pipe is galvy. And no I didn't breath it in. Good chimney effect in the forge, respirator and draft with the doors open so no fumes lingering, all was good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Is it just me or does it seem like there are a whole bunch more stink bugs around now over the past few years? However dont seem to see as many of those ... ... ... orange lady bugs around now though. Man those things could bite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 We had our mass infestation of stinkbugs years ago in my area. Started seeing them around 2009 then there were just masses of them. They had actually been on a steady decline but that seems to have plateaued. The orange ladybug infestation came before that and didn't last as long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 I haven’t noticed any major invasion of either bug down here but I do see them occasionally, maybe that’s a regional thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hefty Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 I know a lot of insect larval stages can take more than one year so you'd have to think about conditions a year, or more, ago to figure out why so many of that particular bug are coming out now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Well I know the stink bugs start trying to invade my house at the first signs of cold weather. I often have to pull out the window air conditioners a little early or they start getting in through the crevices. They are surprising compressors and they compress down and push through small cracks rather well. They also seem to be interdimensional beings with the way they appear, disappear, or wind up different places in the blink of an eye or turn of the head and back. Dawn dishsoap and warm water in a spray bottle or trap seems to be their only nemesis that doesnt cause them to use their fowl smelling defense mechanism. Some rare people rather like their stink. Tho it work on me and I detest it. At one point there were so many that I just pushed through my repulsion of the odor and would vacuum them up. Every beginning of fall now I keep a spray bottle with dishsoap and water outside on the porch at the ready to wage war on them when I get home from work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Just got my scarecrow up with some cornstalks tied on. Will have to get a better picture tomorrow but this is the best I could get tonight. Man did it get cold quick tonight. The light is a 12v red LED strip from a 3rd brake light from a car. It is wired up to a 12v converter plug to 110v. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Pictures in the light. Looking at it I think it needs some neck lobbed off since the pumpkin head sets down on it, and I think a hat of some sort might make it more sinister looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 I love it the way it is! It has a kind of ethereal look to it. Keep it fun, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Thanks David. It is funny to think that fabric on it came from a very inexpensive fleamarket find and has lasted many years outside in the elements. The original head was made of paper mache and barely lasted one halloween season but had the same style and light in it. Also the original had dried fallen sticks for hands and a ribcage. Think I might make more. At least make some Jack O latern heads from refrigerant or helium tanks. Still want to try out the hat idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Hat would be great Das. went down town tonight, couple pics. grandson aint happy in this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 15, 2022 Share Posted October 15, 2022 Billy, tell the Grandson you have plenty of embarrassing baby pics you'll show everybody on the internet if he doesn't stop complaining. Thanks for the pics, looks like a good time. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 One of my standard pieces of advice to new parents is to take lots of embarassing baby/toddler pictures so that you have plenty of blackmail ammunition when they are teenagers, e.g. "Be home by midnight or your girlfriend gets an 8x10 glossy/posted on social media of this one." It works surprisingly well. Avoiding embarassment is one of the strongest motivators for adolecents. Those of you with young children take note. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Just remember that someday *they* will be picking out your nursing home(s) and "Fast Turnaround Acres" always has openings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 That's the dead end off Exit 86 isn't it? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 On 10/15/2022 at 12:45 AM, BillyBones said: went down town tonight, couple pics. Does the witch still fly across the street cackeling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Come to think about it i did not see the witch this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Happy Halloween. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 That’s awesome happy Halloween Scott! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Love it! Happy Halloween Scott! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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