Saw this Halloween decoration today and thought it was pretty cool......

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If I might make a comment on the above:
Keeping above-ground debris, and especially root mass on a hillside is good.
It is very important to water run-off. The surface moisture with all nutrients stay on your own property and benefits yourself.
The soil remains rich with nutrients and your property retains future vitality.

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Hey John,

Comments are always welcome here...

Thanks for the remarks. Last year I went through our two acres and trimmed up all the trees on our property to give it an open park like setting while providing a defendable fire break here in the foothills. For what it is worth, especially after the Napa fires.

Anyway, we lost those two pines a few years ago and I have just let them be hoping they would topple on their own. The sheer height was intimidating to say the least. Besides, had I dropped the one I just did this week, it would of come down on a beautiful tall mature Oak taking it out as well which I did not want.

A lot o good that thought process did when earlier the year during the last big wind storm, it and another oak toppled on the property. A loud "seriously! Are you &$@#% kidding me" might have been heard erupting from my mouth.

Fast forward to this past two weeks of me cutting and chopping on my days off.
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Good times

I still need to tackle this oak that went this year along with two cedars.
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Thanks Baz,

I'm digging your pic of the Halloween dragon.

Yeah the sound was cool but I was scared as hell that it was going to kick back on me being totally honest. I've dropped other trees on the property but nothing that big and twisty. I'm sure it looked funny with me back cutting in a starting position watching for the slightest twitch.
All the while the Monty Python "I'm a lumberjack" sing running through my head. Lol
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Screw viagra, I've literally got wood for days!!!!! Ok, bad pun I know.

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Home Depot run this morning to pick up a couple items for my new canopy......got to wear my new Crocs! Picked up some chicken necks from Publix on way home too....woof!

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I think I recognize the guy and the car, more info please?

Random:

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

~ Robert Frost

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A family of Black Bellied Whistling Ducks, crossing the street by my house. The parents had hatched the ducklings in a nesting box that I provided in my back yard.
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The Rock cafe in Stroud, OK. Inspiration for Sally Carrera in the movie Cars.

It was fun today playing in the dirt:

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Late season Kayaking
 

Took my new to me Pygmy Kayak up on Baker Lake for an overnight trip, perfect weather forecast for it. It was ideal until heavy fog rolled in and the trees above my tent squeezed lots of moisture from it causing tree rain.
Glad to have a dry tent!
Only saw one other canoe headed up lake and one camper across the lake... Love late season outings!
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Spectacular !! Thanks Skip. - good eye !!

Bill K

Hey Scott, it's this guy. Hannu Mikkola, 1983 World Rally Champion.
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He was a special guest at the LSPR rally in Houghton, Michigan a couple of weeks ago. A few of us took a drive with Hannu from Houghton-Hancock to Copper Harbor on Thursday before the rally. Hannu was driving a very rare 1985 Sport quattro.

His connection to Michigan was in 1983 at the Press on Regardless Rally. He was a last-minute substitute for John Buffum who had become sick in Africa the week prior driving a quattro chase car for Mikkola in the Safari Rally. So Mikkola and Michele Mouton's co-driver Fabrizia Pons filled in, using Buffum's quattro. They won, beating Rod Millen's 4WD Mazda RX-7 who crashed. This was the first time back and since this area of the UP has a heavy Finnish heritage, he felt right at home. Rod Millen was also there - great down-to-earth guys, both of them!

A couple more of my pics since this is what the thread is all about :cool:

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So I am leaving the dentist this afternoon and find this in a parking lot that can handle 30+ cars. When I pulled into the nearly "empty" parking lot, I was the only vehicle other than the staff who is parked along the side of the office.

What the hell is up with people?......freaking lemmings
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The nerve of that pickup truck. At least you didn't have a passenger.