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So I’ve been having an animal digging under my gate to my run off and on the past few weeks. My outdoor cam has caught a whitish animal a few nights, but I could never make it out clearly. It looked like the size of a skunk, but lighter like an opossum. I even wondered if it was an ermine, but I figured they could get in between the chain links of the gate and wouldn’t dig. Anyway, I setup a trail cam and we found the guilty party. Has anyone seen a skunk this white before?

Still 28.9° here

23.7° after a low of 19°. Coating of snow this morning. Still an occasional flake, but the goods in NH are up by Alex and Evan.

White Mountain peeps making snow in their yards. I’ve now seen everything.

I’ll eat just about anything if it’s high quality and prepared well. The only things left I want to try are sea urchin and conch. I wish I ate oysters more, but shucking them is a biatch. They’ll probably be dirt cheap next year.

25.9° trying to decouple It’s been a struggle to get cold nights although I’m not complaining. My bamboo is thankful.

Or just ride the positive extreme. That’s been pretty balls on.

34.8° BKN...had some flurries earlier. Pretty breezy morning. Looks like some of the valley locations in SW NH decoupled and fell into the low 20s. Otherwise we were very mixed and around freezing all night.

A little hyperbole here. I just liked the original Goofus idea of a warm Thanksgiving with windows open or even eating outside. No need to read into it more than that.

I’ve posted the Pinkham form before, but here it is again with the back story on the event. Had to go to archive.org to find the story again since the url is now dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160817212606/https://www.ohcroo.com/winter_of_1969.cfm

Here’s the Harris form.

Remove Pinkham? It’s legit and representative of the high terrain in the area.

Yeah if my back is better I can’t wait for 30s and drizzle. Keep those windows sealed tight and pack everyone in around the table like obstructed views at Fenway. Then just let everyone breathe on each other’s food. Can’t wait.

GFS is wedged now too. From 60° to 30s in a few days for Thanksgiving.

Stuck in the 40° RA BR here too although PSM broke free.

I think I damaged a vertebrae in my mid/upper back years ago and every once in awhile now I think I pinch nerves. The pain goes into my right lat. it’s either the nerves or I tore something near where the lat attaches near the spine and I keep aggravating it. El sucko.

Glad that’s mostly just to my SE. Wrecked my back again and can’t deal with a flooded run today. Bed ftl.

Looking good. Chippies got some of them. Steve sent me some too. We’ll see if the SNE ones handle winter better than BNA. I got these from Sheffield’s, but I had to wait a year for the notification they were in stock. https://sheffields.com/seeds/Castanea/dentata Go Native trees has started trees in stock and sometimes seeds. I got germinated ones from them in spring of 2019 and saplings in 2018. I prefer the direct from seed method with these since they have such a deep taproot. If the regulations are progressing for the resistant trees you could wait it out a few years for those as well. Generally they want you to grow a pure non-GMO tree along with one of the eventual resistant ones so that they can fertilize each other and increase genetic diversity. Guess I’ll be going for the 6ft ones then. lol

I’m working on the Weymouth 2015 one right now.

I have to protect them from the voles and chippies too. I found that out the hard way the first time I tried it. I may try some of those 4-5ft tree tubes to train them going upward because my other chestnut trees are growing as much outward as upward since they have a wide open field. I'm afraid to prune them and introduce wounds.

Maybe all of yours fell in my yard.

35/22 Very -SN

22.5° this morning. Cool, but nothing insane for this time of year.

Yeah it must be the Darling named GMO trees then. I think they only had to change a few genes out of the 40k in the genome. The added gene produces oxalate oxidase (OxO) which neutralizes the oxalic acid that is produced by the blight fungus. So the fungus can actually exist on the trees without the acid being formed to kill it. And the gene is found naturally in wheat and bananas and other plants already. I think there's another marker gene in there for identifying which seeds actually have the resistant gene. So really it's like 99.999% or better. https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/about.asp Here's my seeds that came in. They are way smaller than the Chinese ones you can find in grocery stores right now.