That must be the compact lot... The bison I have seen are a good 50% bigger than those.
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Those are the cows. The bulls are much bigger.
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My Great Grandmother had one of those, a Singer! It's a treasure.
I had a Ford F350 4x4 when we went to Yellowstone. A bull walked in front of the truck and his back was above the hood on my truck. He was huge.
@The Innkeeper bear lard is the best - far superior to pork lard - yum!
And they make excellent pepperoni. A bear that has been eating oats is like the finest quality pork.
Someone asked me how close to my place these bears were. The single bear was a couple hundred meters, the mom and cubs about 1/2 km. The single and the trio journeyed within 50 feet of the back fence, last year the mom and her cubs were about 75 feet from the house. Every year she seems to have twins. Our block and s about a 3 1/2 km walk, properties range from 1/2 to 49 acres and vary from very rustic farms to well manicured lawns. Backing onto all of them is bush.
The bears are not dangerous as long as they leave when confronted. A bear that gets used to people or finds food where people are is a bad bear. If they have cubs it is real bad because the cubs have already learned the bad behavior. It is always best to teach wild animals that people are a threat - doing so by keeping your garbage inaccessible and making them uneasy with flash-bang loads or a strong sling shot.
Reporting them to the game department is rarely any good. They will tag the animal and move it but they will follow what they have learned and will eventually have to be put down. It is better to make them uncomfortable to keep that from happening.
Reporting them to the game department is rarely any good. They will tag the animal and move it but they will follow what they have learned and will eventually have to be put down. It is better to make them uncomfortable to keep that from happening.
@The Innkeeper we like fall bear because they are eating apples, berries, and wild fruits and are fattening up for winter. Spring bear are eating fawns and salmon and are thinner from hibernation so not good eating. The last one I got was in a tree right out our front door. It was smaller, but like @SheepDog said, you don't want them feeling at home.
Interesting about the bears eating salmon in the spring, here they gorge on them in the fall; never see salmon in the spring
@LadyLocust and everyone here is some of the photos of what we have been up to since we purchased the homestead here in December last year.
The garden bed shade cloth enclosure and 10 garden beds we have put in for our vegetable gardens with amended soil in two photos. They were made with recycled galvanised piping and clamps, ironbark posts, reused fencing tie wire and heavy duty chicken wire which were materials from taking down our grape yard enclosure and we didn't need'. There are two more above ground garden beds near our back door too out of the two photos.
The calla lily and spider plant garden bed we planted with plants from our last rental property and they are frost bitten at the moment but will come back with some pruning.
The hotshot canna lily bed where we amended the soil with cow and horse manure and planted them out with the lilies we saved from our last rental property gardens. Again they need trimming back but will come back well as we are having frosts and negative degree Celsius nights here as we are in the depths of winter.
And finally the pumpkin and watermelon garden about 40 square metres in size a friend dug up with his tractor for us. The soil around here is river silt with clay in some areas so the soil will need a lot of amending before we plant in a few months.
The garden bed shade cloth enclosure and 10 garden beds we have put in for our vegetable gardens with amended soil in two photos. They were made with recycled galvanised piping and clamps, ironbark posts, reused fencing tie wire and heavy duty chicken wire which were materials from taking down our grape yard enclosure and we didn't need'. There are two more above ground garden beds near our back door too out of the two photos.
The calla lily and spider plant garden bed we planted with plants from our last rental property and they are frost bitten at the moment but will come back with some pruning.
The hotshot canna lily bed where we amended the soil with cow and horse manure and planted them out with the lilies we saved from our last rental property gardens. Again they need trimming back but will come back well as we are having frosts and negative degree Celsius nights here as we are in the depths of winter.
And finally the pumpkin and watermelon garden about 40 square metres in size a friend dug up with his tractor for us. The soil around here is river silt with clay in some areas so the soil will need a lot of amending before we plant in a few months.
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That looks awesome SC.
I bet you are just itching for it to warm up a little so you can plant.
I bet you are just itching for it to warm up a little so you can plant.
Thank you @Tank-Girl the whole structure only cost us near on $39.50 to build and the only items we purchased were 2 galvanised pipe clamps for $2.66 for both from a garage sale, about a $1.50 worth of netting clips and the shade cloth to go over the top. We will be able to plant winter crops under the enclosure with the shade cloth as it will stop the frost hitting the plants. I have been itching to plant since we put the soil in the garden beds 
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We are starting on setting up our drip irrigation systems tomorrow but not sure how long that will take but we are again recycling the drip irrigation system hose, some taps, some fittings from the last property and had to cut the pipe down to size. We are running from the tap new 19mm poly pipe and reducing that down to 13 mm for the garden bed drip irrigation so we don't loose pressure from the town water.
.We are starting on setting up our drip irrigation systems tomorrow but not sure how long that will take but we are again recycling the drip irrigation system hose, some taps, some fittings from the last property and had to cut the pipe down to size. We are running from the tap new 19mm poly pipe and reducing that down to 13 mm for the garden bed drip irrigation so we don't loose pressure from the town water.
@Sewingcreations15 that looks amazing! You two have done a ton of work, and it shows. How wonderful it will be all full of delicious produce . I can see why you're itching to plant.
. I can see why you're itching to plant.
Thank you @LadyLocust it is amazing just how many things you can reuse if you put your mind to it and yes a lot of time and effort put into it too. It kind of looks rustically country to us which is in keeping with the 1910 - 40 house we have here. We have both discovered we hate working above our heads in construction even with a ladder as your neck is always cricked.
Looks good SC.
Everything looks awesome SC. You guys should be very proud of what your getting accomplished.
Thank you @Terri9630 and @Bacpacker. It is not the picture perfect builders job, is a little rustic and not incredibly straight across the top piping but that is what you get with recycled materials is the character and I don't think it will get blown down any time soon as it is sturdy.
I am one that don't really care about looks of stuff so much. Does it do the job? Does it hold up for years in different weather conditions? Much more important to me. Saving money is a huge benifit as well.
My first bicycle - 1978 (Southeast Kansas). Must have been a Sunday..... I'm all dressed up.
That is a cool bike.
It would be a toss up on which would be worth more today. The bike or the tractor.
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Is that a Huffy Thunder Road?
I had to google it to see.
Good eye. It certainly looks like one.
By the way, just the decals only are listed on ebay for $70.
There is even a Facebook page for them.
I learned to ride on gravel like that. It hurt so much when I fell I didn't fall again.
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This is from 9 years ago. Mount McKinley (or Denali). We camped there and actually seen the mountain for 3 days in a row. Simply amazing! We are heading there again in August, hope to see her again! 
Too funny... Today I just realized I have two of these. This is what happens when you move state to state, house to apt back to house... Every 8-10 years or so I ended up in a situation where I took a trailer load to my empty grandparents house in Bama.
They were stored here in 2 different rooms along with a ton of other junk... I'd see one of them occasionally, never made the connection.
I can tell which is the newest... keeping it along with the good grates and pans from the other one. To have bought 2 of them I must have liked using them.
They were stored here in 2 different rooms along with a ton of other junk... I'd see one of them occasionally, never made the connection.
I can tell which is the newest... keeping it along with the good grates and pans from the other one. To have bought 2 of them I must have liked using them.
2 is 1
1 is none
1 is none
