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6 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Nice! Thanks weens.. As happens almost every year..I was given a torch for my bday. One of these years..maybe..just maybe..it will snow.

 

Will..I will gladly take your December..even if it meant the other 3 months following it aren't good

Happy birthday, mines in 10 days and hopefully not 70F.

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11 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Nice! Thanks weens.. As happens almost every year..I was given a torch for my bday. One of these years..maybe..just maybe..it will snow.

 

Will..I will gladly take your December..even if it meant the other 3 months following it aren't good

I am up for a great December. been a while, can we Dec 03?

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three thoughts:

1.  It is nice to see the sun today

2.  I should not have thought those Mounds bars could last long in the office desk drawer without me bingeing on them.

3.  this thread has been brought to you by Morris Day and the Time

 

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On ‎11‎/‎1‎/‎2016 at 1:57 PM, dryslot said:

I have 2 red oaks and the majority of the leaves don't come off until springtime

 

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The tree Nazi suggests those may be pin oaks (within the red oak group, however), due to the horizontal-to-downward branch angle on the lower half of the tree.  I've never noticed the few pin oaks nearby (in Farmington) to drop leaves earlier/later than the Northern red oaks, but the former usually have the best autumn reds of any of the oaks.

Edit:  The height-of-hornet-nest theory has failed, in my experience.  They were 10-12' off the ground in fall 1982 and that was followed by my only Ft. Kent winter that failed to top 24" snow depth.  The next year nests were so low that the skunks were destroying them, and that was followed by the winter when my 61" snow stake (still in use, btw) needed an addition.  In late summer 1985 I saw a very large nest in a yellow birch sapling that had the poor tree bent into a "U", so each added generation of the insects would be lowering the snowfall prediction if the theory were accurate.

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37 minutes ago, tamarack said:

The tree Nazi suggests those may be pin oaks (within the red oak group, however), due to the horizontal-to-downward branch angle on the lower half of the tree.  I've never noticed the few pin oaks nearby (in Farmington) to drop leaves earlier/later than the Northern red oaks, but the former usually have the best autumn reds of any of the oaks.

Edit:  The height-of-hornet-nest theory has failed, in my experience.  They were 10-12' off the ground in fall 1982 and that was followed by my only Ft. Kent winter that failed to top 24" snow depth.  The next year nests were so low that the skunks were destroying them, and that was followed by the winter when my 61" snow stake (still in use, btw) needed an addition.  In late summer 1985 I saw a very large nest in a yellow birch sapling that had the poor tree bent into a "U", so each added generation of the insects would be lowering the snowfall prediction if the theory were accurate.

I will go with the tree Nazis assessment on the oaks, The downward branch growth is a PITA, The more i trim them up the trunk, The more the next group angle downward into the driveway, The oil delivery guy leaves me nasty notes to trim my tree...........lol, This season is the most acorns i have seen them drop though, But these trees have small ones, And i have found the hive theory to be a myth as well.

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6 minutes ago, dryslot said:

I will go with the tree Nazis assessment on the oaks, The downward branch growth is a PITA, The more i trim them up the trunk, The more the next group angle downward into the driveway, The oil delivery guy leaves me nasty notes to trim my tree...........lol, This season is the most acorns i have seen them drop though, But these trees have small ones, And i have found the hive theory to be a myth as well.

Small acorns also rule out Northern red, which have about the largest of any in the red oak group (as DIT will gladly testify.)

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Just now, CoastalWx said:

Oh really? Yeah obviously that's important. LOL.

It only temporarily runs out after about 3-4 straight loads of laundry plus showers, but still, the more H2O the better. I thought we had an artesian until the well guys came to check it out. Turns out it's about a 40ft dug well. It doesn't help that I'm over 200ft up from the river either. We'll probably end up forking out over $10k eventually to get down 250ft, but I'd like to put that off as long as possible. 

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