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February Banter Thread

burgertime

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Dfalcon3522

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Speaking of sports, it looks like the Philadelphia Eagles will be in shape next year. They have hired Shaun Huls.

 

"That raises a couple of questions: Who is Shaun Huls, and what is a sports science coordinator?

According to USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2013/02/08/philadelphia-eagles-chip-kelly-sports-science-coordinator/1902781/'>Huls was the strength, conditioning and combatives coordinator for Navy Special Warfare, meaning he was training Navy SEALs before he took a job in which he’ll be training the Eagles."

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/09/chip-kelly-hires-former-navy-seals-trainer-for-eagles-staff/'>http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/09/chip-kelly-hires-former-navy-seals-trainer-for-eagles-staff/

I saw that on PFT. I think after the deer antler spray story broke people are looking everywhere for the next big thing. Salmon seman, crappie turds, upossem tail extract (alive only), honey badger finger nail shavings and my fav palmetto bug puss! Anything to get an edge on your competition

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WilkesboroDude

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Looks like the Euro and GFS want to bring the cold for next weekend. Now we just have to work some precip in there. Of course, if it is going to be bitter cold, it'll probably be dry. We can't seem to get it worked out right for a good snow. Too cold and dry, or too warm and wet.

 

thanks Catherine the obvious...

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FoothillsNC

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I've been reading and watching documentaries 2 years now on the Fireants.  They got here in  1939 or so and have been spreading north from Mobile and now they are a real pest and are THE pest to watch.  I was attacked numerous times last Spring and Summer after that warm Winter, not paying attention to where I was standing in my yard or in a yard I was doing landscaping in.  They don't even have to have a mound present to crawl up your leg, with the crazy warm pattern we're in they can be on the move and be in the process of building anywhere that you step. And if you get an attack, the only thing that helps the sting is a rub down of that pink lotion for poison ivy. I tried everything last Summer and thats the only help.

As of 2007, here's the map of where they are...but they are moving north fast, so if you're in northern TN and NC and haven't seen them yet, YOU WILL.

One other thing. I hear folks talk about how a cold winter will kill off the bugs and so forth. This doesnt' work with invictus fireants. They can survive zero...and there's a good study you can google on it. So it doesnt' matter as far as fireants go. They are here to stay. The only remedy is the lorid fly from South America they're natural enemy. They only eat Fireants.  The US is right now considering how to control these things and what are the ramifications of bring the lorid fly here. I say bring it. The yellow jackets and hornets I can deal with, but not fire ants. They are simply destroying my lawn and everywhere I work in this county I encounter them, so this can't be localized. When I moved here in 2003  I saw none. Then 2 years went by and I saw a couple of red mounds and thought to myself "whats' that".  Then a couple more years went by and I got stung and thought oh yeah, fireants.  Lately they are simply swarming and are a huge pest. I dont' know how farmers can resist them. They have already created huge red clay mounds in my rock gardens and in the lawn, like concrete that lasts all year long.  I tried the powders that supposedly kill them..didnt' work. They just shifted location.  And multiplied. turns out the wet Summer and hot summer was perfect breeding ground for them. I literallly watched a mound of them cling together in one Summer storm that they floated away like an island, that was wild to see. And here last summer I had 3 different weeks in which it rained each night for 7 straight nights (wild in itself!).....so the population has exploded. Considering I haven't gone below zero in a while, and likely not to this Winter, I think this Spring and Summer will be filled with these pests..same for many areas in the Southeast.

 

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dsaur

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Lol no never. I don't see how you aren't scared being around an alligator or snake thats that big.

I take it you haven' been out floating on in the Okefenokee.  A shame to be down there and not take it in.  The whole world closed down the a feet hundred feet, and it's still as still.  The water is so dark with tannin it reflects everything, and becomes flat plane you float on.  Makes your focus very small...good for a city boy, like you and me, lol.  Watch out for the pythons and anacondas though.  They say they pull whole boats under with all the crew :)  T

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metalicwx366

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I take it you haven' been out floating on in the Okefenokee.  A shame to be down there and not take it in.  The whole world closed down the a feet hundred feet, and it's still as still.  The water is so dark with tannin it reflects everything, and becomes flat plane you float on.  Makes your focus very small...good for a city boy, like you and me, lol.  Watch out for the pythons and anacondas though.  They say they pull whole boats under with all the crew :)  T

Oh I'm never going now.

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metalicwx366

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I've been reading and watching documentaries 2 years now on the Fireants.  They got here in  1939 or so and have been spreading north from Mobile and now they are a real pest and are THE pest to watch.  I was attacked numerous times last Spring and Summer after that warm Winter, not paying attention to where I was standing in my yard or in a yard I was doing landscaping in.  They don't even have to have a mound present to crawl up your leg, with the crazy warm pattern we're in they can be on the move and be in the process of building anywhere that you step. And if you get an attack, the only thing that helps the sting is a rub down of that pink lotion for poison ivy. I tried everything last Summer and thats the only help.

As of 2007, here's the map of where they are...but they are moving north fast, so if you're in northern TN and NC and haven't seen them yet, YOU WILL.

One other thing. I hear folks talk about how a cold winter will kill off the bugs and so forth. This doesnt' work with invictus fireants. They can survive zero...and there's a good study you can google on it. So it doesnt' matter as far as fireants go. They are here to stay. The only remedy is the lorid fly from South America they're natural enemy. They only eat Fireants.  The US is right now considering how to control these things and what are the ramifications of bring the lorid fly here. I say bring it. The yellow jackets and hornets I can deal with, but not fire ants. They are simply destroying my lawn and everywhere I work in this county I encounter them, so this can't be localized. When I moved here in 2003  I saw none. Then 2 years went by and I saw a couple of red mounds and thought to myself "whats' that".  Then a couple more years went by and I got stung and thought oh yeah, fireants.  Lately they are simply swarming and are a huge pest. I dont' know how farmers can resist them. They have already created huge red clay mounds in my rock gardens and in the lawn, like concrete that lasts all year long.  I tried the powders that supposedly kill them..didnt' work. They just shifted location.  And multiplied. turns out the wet Summer and hot summer was perfect breeding ground for them. I literallly watched a mound of them cling together in one Summer storm that they floated away like an island, that was wild to see. And here last summer I had 3 different weeks in which it rained each night for 7 straight nights (wild in itself!).....so the population has exploded. Considering I haven't gone below zero in a while, and likely not to this Winter, I think this Spring and Summer will be filled with these pests..same for many areas in the Southeast.

Oh hell no! I'll take fire ants over those things.

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I've been reading and watching documentaries 2 years now on the Fireants.  They got here in  1939 or so and have been spreading north from Mobile and now they are a real pest and are THE pest to watch.  I was attacked numerous times last Spring and Summer after that warm Winter, not paying attention to where I was standing in my yard or in a yard I was doing landscaping in.  They don't even have to have a mound present to crawl up your leg, with the crazy warm pattern we're in they can be on the move and be in the process of building anywhere that you step. And if you get an attack, the only thing that helps the sting is a rub down of that pink lotion for poison ivy. I tried everything last Summer and thats the only help.

As of 2007, here's the map of where they are...but they are moving north fast, so if you're in northern TN and NC and haven't seen them yet, YOU WILL.

One other thing. I hear folks talk about how a cold winter will kill off the bugs and so forth. This doesnt' work with invictus fireants. They can survive zero...and there's a good study you can google on it. So it doesnt' matter as far as fireants go. They are here to stay. The only remedy is the lorid fly from South America they're natural enemy. They only eat Fireants.  The US is right now considering how to control these things and what are the ramifications of bring the lorid fly here. I say bring it. The yellow jackets and hornets I can deal with, but not fire ants. They are simply destroying my lawn and everywhere I work in this county I encounter them, so this can't be localized. When I moved here in 2003  I saw none. Then 2 years went by and I saw a couple of red mounds and thought to myself "whats' that".  Then a couple more years went by and I got stung and thought oh yeah, fireants.  Lately they are simply swarming and are a huge pest. I dont' know how farmers can resist them. They have already created huge red clay mounds in my rock gardens and in the lawn, like concrete that lasts all year long.  I tried the powders that supposedly kill them..didnt' work. They just shifted location.  And multiplied. turns out the wet Summer and hot summer was perfect breeding ground for them. I literallly watched a mound of them cling together in one Summer storm that they floated away like an island, that was wild to see. And here last summer I had 3 different weeks in which it rained each night for 7 straight nights (wild in itself!).....so the population has exploded. Considering I haven't gone below zero in a while, and likely not to this Winter, I think this Spring and Summer will be filled with these pests..same for many areas in the Southeast.

 

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Where I used to live before 99 they come up in the croquet lawn so I tried to get them gone over the fence, and I tried digging out two mounds and mixing in the ants from the two, and it worked sometimes and sometimes not.  This hill would clear right out, but the dominant tribe would go back to business as usual.  So then I'd dig 'em out good, and pour in a lot of gas and burn them for an hour or so.  And they'd move for a while then be back.  The best cure I found for my court was frequent cutting with the blades taking extra care over where the mounds just were.  After a week of mow and wind, they'd move on.  Only works on a greensward though, and I keep my court cut super low.  T

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metalicwx366

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Where is Bevo? He needs to look at this quote from FoothillsNC.

 

"If you use actual statistics and view things scientifically and empirically, then there is no agenda or conspiracy. It's been amazingly warm for a while now, and that fact can't be disputed around here.   If you bet the streak, you'd be right in using persistence all this Winter."

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WilkesboroDude

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The yellow jackets and hornets I can deal with, but not fire ants. 

 

Complete opposite here. 

 

Anyway, the bees are absent this winter in Wilkes. Last winter they were active. I question how far north they can really get because one winter will wipe them out if they get too far north. Bad enough they are just to my south so if it is a mild winter I am screwed. 

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thanks!  I want to say I feel like you posters from NC are brothers in spirit to me.  Don't get me wrong, I love GA, but if I ever move, and if its not out west somewhere,  its gonna be somewhere in the Carolinas, probably North.  I follow beech mountain weather daily, for some reason, since I go up there, or Maggie Valley, or the somewhere on the parkway, several times each winter.   I feel a connection to the High Country.   I have fond memories of coming up Black mountain in driving elevation storm, getting in on a foot and a half at beech, going from rain at Maggie Valley to snow mixing in in just a mile up toward Soco Gap, seeing snow on Halloween at the Pisgah Inn, etc etc. NC is cool!  And speaking of SC, nothing like spending a week in the summer in the low country around Charleston and Isle of Palms (or driving through one of the most awesome sleet storms I've ever seen, around Spartanburg in the winter). 

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You know winter is over when Robert is telling us to get ready for fire ants  :axe:

 

This past 9 year stretch for RDU is the worst 9 year stretch in 126 or so years.  Either the climate is changing and this is the new norm, which I am leaning towards or things will change very soon.  For example, RDU has had averaged 2" or less for a season in 34 of the past 126 years, and it has averages 11" or more a season 32 times over that same period.  So it's equal chance whether we get 2" or less or 11" or more.  Obviously the meat of our winters are in the 5-7" range but we haven't seen an 11" season in a lonnnggg time.  

 

Winter weather is over for NC/SC, except for the upcoming dreadful cold/dry spell.

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