Rifleman's Roost Open 24/7: Perpetually Perplexed

Day 88 and the bucket twins started the flush today. 15L of distilled H2O and 30ml of AN Flawless Finish each. Harvest will be next Tuesday. I normally don't plan it out like this but I am going out of town again this coming weekend. I have to go visit my least favorite Uncle....LEO. Wish me luck
 
Noob4x4grow said:
Uncle LEO.... :rofl:
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IKR. Not my favorite folks, but they have a job to do too. :cheesygrinsmiley:


Lazarus13 said:
48 hours with uncle LEO is 48 hours too long. Good luck bro
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Thanks Laz. It's all good. Small town and we all know each other. I'll probably sit around playing cards and drinking coffee with my captors. I've already been deemed a most dangerous man by the State, but no one else believes it. :shhh: And all I wanted was a swimming hole. :rofl:
 
Playing cards and drinking coffee with your captors sounds a heck of a lot better than my stays with Uncle. Lol i too used to be labled auite the public menace. I am 100% rehabilitated now though. Wink wink

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Day 93 and I chopped down the bucket twins. The SSDC weighed out to 253g and the DDS1 226g wet. It's odd how quiet the house is tonight. This is the first time since last Oct that I haven't had the six inch fan roaring and four buckets bubbling. I don't know how I'm going to stand all this peaceful quietness. :rofl:
Good night y'all. :Namaste:

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Lazarus13 said:
Playing cards and drinking coffee with your captors sounds a heck of a lot better than my stays with Uncle. Lol i too used to be labled auite the public menace. I am 100% rehabilitated now though. Wink wink
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The sad thing is I didn't do anything wrong. I just wanted a pond. Well I have one and I get to keep it, but it would have been cheaper to buy land with a pond on it already. Truly some Group W Bench/Officer Obie kind of situation. :icon_roll


HemiSync said:
Might be quiet, but I bet the smell of drying buds is wonderful.
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It always is Hemi, always is. :)
 
Rifleman said:
It's been a fun experiment. If I were to try a shotglass grow again, it would be a plastic one so I could drill drain holes and with more light than the 17w table lamp. I never would have bet on making it this far with one though so I guess I'm ahead of the game. But I knew that already. :)

If there were any doubt about being ahead in life, it disappeared last night. Let me set the scene for you.

It had rained yesterday, then stayed cloudy with a slight breeze. Finally a break from the mid nineties. So about 6 pm I tossed some old left overs off the back porch, packed the party bowl on my old dragon bong, and me and the CEO sat there quietly. Each of us enjoying the vice of our choice, watching the birds and squirrels fight over the last meal of the day. One bird feeder full of seed, six tree rats, and a multitude of doves, cardinals, blue jays, finches, etc. There was more chasing each other away than there were chowing down. :biglaugh: After a few hours, a couple of bowls, and more than a few cans of garbage water for the CEO, we were getting ready to go inside when the coons showed up. This in itself is not uncommon. We have all kinds of wildlife from deer down to chipmunks. Trash Pandas are nightly visitors. They make a quick pass by the feeder, run over to check for left overs, then scoot towards their next rendezvous. But last night was special. It was the first time the babies were out that we've seen. Momma coon ran straight to the food and hogged all she could while three babies rolled around and played in the grass. Thirty minutes later they were still there. Mom digging up my back yard for grubs, and the kids acting like hellions chasing each other up and down my stacks of fire wood like giant tree rats.

It was such a peaceful event that all the days tension, stress, and hate just melted. Best nights sleep in weeks. :) I've been out here on the porch since before sun up, hoping for a repeat. So far it's just the mourning doves cooing, one cow off in the distance, and Roscoe...farting loudly.

Life Is Good...even if a little smelly. I hope y'all have it equally as entertaining and peaceful wherever you're located. From the deep South our best to you. :Namaste:
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I just freakin love raccoons. So cute, but so destructive. They love grapes but won't eat the peel... fun to watch them peel grapes with their little fingers.
 
Tead said:
Uncle LEO!?!? A pond creation?!?!
Did I miss a good story somewhere?
I'm intrigued.
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It's a good story alright. :rollingeyes: A few years ago the CEO wanted a pool. After pricing above and in ground models from 10 to 70 K, she relented to let me handle it. Since I have acres of land and what the maps call a river, I figured it should be pretty easy. The "river" is maybe knee deep and 15 ft wide at its flood stage, barely shin deep and five ft wide the rest of the year, but is wet and running year round. I spent nearly a year shooting grades, digging the pond, compacting clay, lining the sides, landscaping, dock building, etc. A couple acres of pond, sloped with a shallow end, deep end, and a small island. Designed to allow the river to fill it and flow through, then continue on downstream. I even poured concrete dykes with cutouts and feedback to the river in case of overflow.

I can't take all the credit, I do have an engineer friend who did the brain work. I mostly supplied finances and sweat. Well when I diverted the river into the pond the lack of water down river was noticed...and reported. I had finished back filling the old riverbed, burying return lines, and building a new river stone "spring" for the overflow to bubble up from and return to the riverbed long before the state wildlife guys found it. They were not amused that their map wasn't up to date, there was a pond they didn't know about, and the river wasn't where they thought it was.

I'll save you the many court appearances, motions, depositions, experts, etc. Bottom line, diverting a water way is a crime. Who knew? I did get to keep my pond though. Mostly due to my impeccable character, fine attorney, and by going overboard to do it as right as possible environmentally. I do however get to volunteer my labor to the state for a total of 2000 hours, my 48 hour cooler visit was a wrist slap for contempt, and the in ground pool would have been cheaper.

BUT....I have my pond. How's that for a good story? It was a nightmare on my end for a while. I think I'll wait a few years before I start throwing lake fish in it, I don't need any more attention from the state. :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
Good story bro. I would gladly do 2000 hrs for the sweet spot it sounds like you have now. I do not envy your court appearances. Those are always a great time. Glad to have you back around.

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I too have a 'interfearing with public waterways story. Only one interesting point I will mention,, i was working with a machine at the edge of a similar sized river and was halted by a government bioligist,, well, the bioligist was a classmate in highschool thirty years before, not that that mattered, just a coincidence of interest

Btw, we were found not guilty,, yay
 
Tead said:
Wow!
I'll bet that story hasn't quite cooked enough yet to be funny. Some day....
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Not nearly enough. :)

nivek said:
I too have a 'interfearing with public waterways story. Only one interesting point I will mention,, i was working with a machine at the edge of a similar sized river and was halted by a government bioligist,, well, the bioligist was a classmate in highschool thirty years before, not that that mattered, just a coincidence of interest

Btw, we were found not guilty,, yay
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Funny you mention a machine. One of the major points in all of this was my use of a backhoe. Manual labor, or even a tractor would have been alright, as far as alright is when you're already in trouble. But by using a machine designated as an earth mover, I somehow did something horrible.<shrug>.....on land I own, with mineral and resource rights I own...and pay taxes on. :thedoubletake:

Yeah, it's really not funny yet.
 
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