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Old 08-08-2024, 01:57 AM   #9381
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Lots of native pecan trees up here but harvest is sporadic, we tend to get late spring freezes that kill the fruit flowers. Still love the trees though just for their appearance and shade.
My in-laws have determined that regardless of the fertilizer and water you toss at a Pecan tree, they do their own damned thing....

We had a harvest a few years ago where every tree was dropping hundreds of pounds of premium pecans, and this was orchard wide.... The following year they, the trees, decided to heck with this and took the year off..... Then there was a very light harvest, and another light harvest... This year is yet to be determined.... And this after half the trees in the back orchard were removed to allow for horizontal growth and improved sun penetration.... Who knows....

They stopped spending a fortune on fertilizers, though they still spray pest control to keep the worms and other bugs away.... They have about 8 different varieties of pecans... Some of them are buttery soft and flavorful... Others are, well, pecans...

Oh, and for the record.... Covid sucks and I really do wish Phauci a long long stay in purgatory...

Third time I've had it, first two times I got it from my wife who had her shots as required by her former employer, and this time from my sister in law and her husband... Family dinner out and I sat across from her... The next day she has a scratchy throat and progresses downhill from there... A few days later I developed the scratchy throat, and we home tested.... Yup, i got it again... Called my doc and he immediately ordered me onto Paxlovid due to my history... Deb got the scratchy throat the day after me, and she tested positive the day after me, Doc wouldn't call her a script for Paxlovid as she is considered low risk...

I suffered it quite a bit worse than Deb, but we both motored through.... I finally got my sense of taste back... though we are both very low energy and bouts of mild nausea.... I'm 11 days into this crap....

Fornikate Fauci....
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Old 08-10-2024, 06:22 AM   #9382
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Oh dang, lots of people at my work have been coming down with that crap. sound like its about 3-4 weeks to get past it.
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My in-laws have determined that regardless of the fertilizer and water you toss at a Pecan tree, they do their own damned thing....

We had a harvest a few years ago where every tree was dropping hundreds of pounds of premium pecans, and this was orchard wide.... The following year they, the trees, decided to heck with this and took the year off..... Then there was a very light harvest, and another light harvest... This year is yet to be determined.... And this after half the trees in the back orchard were removed to allow for horizontal growth and improved sun penetration.... Who knows....

They stopped spending a fortune on fertilizers, though they still spray pest control to keep the worms and other bugs away.... They have about 8 different varieties of pecans... Some of them are buttery soft and flavorful... Others are, well, pecans...

Oh, and for the record.... Covid sucks and I really do wish Phauci a long long stay in purgatory...

Third time I've had it, first two times I got it from my wife who had her shots as required by her former employer, and this time from my sister in law and her husband... Family dinner out and I sat across from her... The next day she has a scratchy throat and progresses downhill from there... A few days later I developed the scratchy throat, and we home tested.... Yup, i got it again... Called my doc and he immediately ordered me onto Paxlovid due to my history... Deb got the scratchy throat the day after me, and she tested positive the day after me, Doc wouldn't call her a script for Paxlovid as she is considered low risk...

I suffered it quite a bit worse than Deb, but we both motored through.... I finally got my sense of taste back... though we are both very low energy and bouts of mild nausea.... I'm 11 days into this crap....

Fornikate Fauci....
Oh man that sucks!! Hope you guys get through it quickly! COVID does suck!! Get well sir!
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My in-laws have determined that regardless of the fertilizer and water you toss at a Pecan tree, they do their own damned thing....

We had a harvest a few years ago where every tree was dropping hundreds of pounds of premium pecans, and this was orchard wide.... The following year they, the trees, decided to heck with this and took the year off..... Then there was a very light harvest, and another light harvest... This year is yet to be determined.... And this after half the trees in the back orchard were removed to allow for horizontal growth and improved sun penetration.... Who knows....

They stopped spending a fortune on fertilizers, though they still spray pest control to keep the worms and other bugs away.... They have about 8 different varieties of pecans... Some of them are buttery soft and flavorful... Others are, well, pecans...

Oh, and for the record.... Covid sucks and I really do wish Phauci a long long stay in purgatory...

Third time I've had it, first two times I got it from my wife who had her shots as required by her former employer, and this time from my sister in law and her husband... Family dinner out and I sat across from her... The next day she has a scratchy throat and progresses downhill from there... A few days later I developed the scratchy throat, and we home tested.... Yup, i got it again... Called my doc and he immediately ordered me onto Paxlovid due to my history... Deb got the scratchy throat the day after me, and she tested positive the day after me, Doc wouldn't call her a script for Paxlovid as she is considered low risk...

I suffered it quite a bit worse than Deb, but we both motored through.... I finally got my sense of taste back... though we are both very low energy and bouts of mild nausea.... I'm 11 days into this crap....

Fornikate Fauci....
F Covid, hope you are doing better now sir! I've not had it yet, and hope not too!

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Oh man that sucks!! Hope you guys get through it quickly! COVID does suck!! Get well sir!
Welcome back Wayne. Good to see ya brother!
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F Covid, hope you are doing better now sir! I've not had it yet, and hope not too!



Welcome back Wayne. Good to see ya brother!
Thanks Guys, I am better and more importantly, my bride is better.... COVID didn't hit her as bad as me, but she had a rough go with a rebound secondary infection.... I can state however, we are both kicking and screaming....


I actually went to my old haunt, Kerrville Texas today, to have lunch with one of my former Lieutenants, from the fire dept, and after that, I spent the rest of the afternoon at Fire Admin, going through old pictures and documents. I'm doing the required research for an attempt at writing a book....The Chief has rolled out the red carpet...



When I have what I need from there, hopefully over the next few weeks, I'll then be given unfettered access to the local newspaper archives to look for articles based on the days I was on duty.. To jog my memory... I will not write from articles, but if they allow me to remember things I care to share, I'll move forward....
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So I did a thing…

New, 2023 Indian Challenger Limited…

Funny the Color consistency…
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New, 2023 Indian Challenger Limited…

Funny the Color consistency…
Oh very nice! Congrats!
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Dad would say the only way to plant a pecan tree is to plant a native pecan... I think he was right, although a brother did have good luck with transplants but had to nurse them.

Bikes, books, and barfing, you've been busy!

That's a good looking bike, and Indian is a great choice. Does momma like to ride? As for the book, make a chapter called, "You ain't gonna believe this $#!^" I'll buy that book! Glad you're feeling fine, the earth is a more interesting place with you in it.
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Dad would say the only way to plant a pecan tree is to plant a native pecan... I think he was right, although a brother did have good luck with transplants but had to nurse them.

Bikes, books, and barfing, you've been busy!

That's a good looking bike, and Indian is a great choice. Does momma like to ride? As for the book, make a chapter called, "You ain't gonna believe this $#!^" I'll buy that book! Glad you're feeling fine, the earth is a more interesting place with you in it.

How bout, "hold mah beer...."


The ride back and forth to Kerrpatch will be a lot more enjoyable... I wasn't looking forward to being stuck looking out the window.... That aint for all of us... Nuttin wrong with it.... Just different.... I can put a laptop in one bag, along with some other stuff, and my camera in the other bag....



Speakin of busy.... Damn man, I been forcibly retired for a while now, but my wife just pulled the trigger after 34 years at the University... Damn the paperwork hoops we been jumping through...



Medicare Part B, proof of prior coverage for medical... oh and now for pharmaceuticals... or I have to pay a lifetime (mine) penalty.... Damned Gubment.... Tax the hell out of my SS/Disability... Plus we had to find an agent to set up my supplemental coverage, now that I'm not on the bride units insurance... She'll COBRA her coverage for a few years... Until she's forced to jump ship.... Plus all the retirement accounts we found from my various jobs... That is actually a small blessing... The last one, that I haven't pulled yet is going to take us on several vacations... The first about two weeks in Jamaica.... The rest were used to pay off my tractor....



The mountains of paperwork, and them forcing us elderly tech challenged folks to do most everything by computer, and oh no, we cant email the documents in, we have to have most of them notarized and then "FAX" them in... Buttholes... Who uses FAX anymore... We don't even have a land line in our house.... But they can email the docs to us...


There is so much more we've been chasing... Oh well....
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Dad would say the only way to plant a pecan tree is to plant a native pecan... I think he was right, although a brother did have good luck with transplants but had to nurse them.

Bikes, books, and barfing, you've been busy!

That's a good looking bike, and Indian is a great choice. Does momma like to ride? As for the book, make a chapter called, "You ain't gonna believe this $#!^" I'll buy that book! Glad you're feeling fine, the earth is a more interesting place with you in it.
Oh, and what is a native tree....



Most of them in the orchard are Indian name varieties... Choctaw, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Wichita, Mohawk, etc.... It's like land reparations, who do you consider to be the originals.....
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How bout, "hold mah beer...."


The ride back and forth to Kerrpatch will be a lot more enjoyable... I wasn't looking forward to being stuck looking out the window.... That aint for all of us... Nuttin wrong with it.... Just different.... I can put a laptop in one bag, along with some other stuff, and my camera in the other bag....



Speakin of busy.... Damn man, I been forcibly retired for a while now, but my wife just pulled the trigger after 34 years at the University... Damn the paperwork hoops we been jumping through...



Medicare Part B, proof of prior coverage for medical... oh and now for pharmaceuticals... or I have to pay a lifetime (mine) penalty.... Damned Gubment.... Tax the hell out of my SS/Disability... Plus we had to find an agent to set up my supplemental coverage, now that I'm not on the bride units insurance... She'll COBRA her coverage for a few years... Until she's forced to jump ship.... Plus all the retirement accounts we found from my various jobs... That is actually a small blessing... The last one, that I haven't pulled yet is going to take us on several vacations... The first about two weeks in Jamaica.... The rest were used to pay off my tractor....



The mountains of paperwork, and them forcing us elderly tech challenged folks to do most everything by computer, and oh no, we cant email the documents in, we have to have most of them notarized and then "FAX" them in... Buttholes... Who uses FAX anymore... We don't even have a land line in our house.... But they can email the docs to us...


There is so much more we've been chasing... Oh well....
I want a signed copy please.
Get'cha some obamacare...
Medicare and federal tax code.

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Most of them in the orchard are Indian name varieties... Choctaw, Cheyenne, Pawnee, Wichita, Mohawk, etc.... It's like land reparations, who do you consider to be the originals.....
(this is 50 yr old info) I was told any papershell pecan, when you plant it, will revert back to the native tree it was grafted to. Many of the varieties are grafted to a local native species for hardiness, you get the old hardy base with modern papershell fruit. If it's a small pecan, it's likely native, if it's a large papershell fruit it's hybrid. I've never seen a papershell growing in a creek tree line. I'm no horticulturist so you'll hafta google the natives species name, till then we'll call them 'creeks'
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(this is 50 yr old info) I was told any papershell pecan, when you plant it, will revert back to the native tree it was grafted to. Many of the varieties are grafted to a local native species for hardiness, you get the old hardy base with modern papershell fruit. If it's a small pecan, it's likely native, if it's a large papershell fruit it's hybrid. I've never seen a papershell growing in a creek tree line. I'm no horticulturist so you'll hafta google the natives species name, till then we'll call them 'creeks'

If/when it is published, you my friend, will get a signed copy… The publisher at the news paper I need access to for research is no longer affiliated with them, after he offered me access… So I just reached out to the interim… Fingers crossed…

My in laws have 6 or 8 different varieties, all named after Indian tribes… All I know is they are good eat’ in…
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