Thread 2828672

I went out to my Granny's and cut down weeds, trimmed low-hanging tree branches, disposed of all that debris, brought her trash can in, and got her mail.

For my efforts, I got a cold Sprite and a heartfelt thank you. Also a cut on my leg and some poison oak on my wrist.

Feels pretty good. What'd you do today?

>>2828672 (OP)
I miss walking over to my grandparents to do work around their farm. They had these Star Ailanthus trees that would keep growing over from the railroad tracks so my grandmaw would have me come over and cut them down. Lots of fun because while they're fast growing, they aren't dense at all so you can chop and break clear through ones that are even a few inches in diameter. She died a few years ago and I miss being able to be home to do that for her.

I brushed a trail and cleared some trees. I couldn't do it for long so I'm happy there was little to do. Its so goddamn hot. I also talked to a guy trying to hunt rabbits. For my efforts I also got poison oak on my wrist.

>>2828672 (OP)
I hiked 14 miles in a national park. Not sure why you're bragging about doing yardwork but ok.

>>2828718
You have to remember that, for 99% of this board, stepping out their front door is a struggle.


It's not a board for people who go outdoors - it's a board for people to talk about the outdoors.

>>2828718
Not a brag about the yardwork itself, more about being productive and helping Gran out.

>>2828706
Sounds like memories worth having. In that vein of 'don't cry for what's gone smile that you got to experience it.'

>>2828707
Oak buddies! It is indeed hot as shit.

>>2828711
That looks like Smith Valley, Nevada.

>tfw I was 12 years old and my grandmother lived across the street, and during winter it was my job to shovel her walkways and porch for her, and one day we had a massive blizzard that dumped waist-deep snow in about 16 hours and I stayed in playing video games all day rather than shovel her porch and walk, thinking I would get to it the next day
>she was found dead late that night by a neighbor, having fallen and frozen to death trying to shovel her walkways

>>2828672 (OP)
Draw walk scroll

>>2828730
jesus christ bro

>>2828730
I hope this is a joke.

>>2828742
it's only partially a joke.
>the lie part:
It wasn't me this happened to
>the truth part:
It happened to my friend's wife, exactly as told. It's a fucking wilde story. The whole family has been doing mental gymnastics for years to absolve her of the blame and guilt, basically they've convinced themselves it was all grandma's fault nobody else bears any responsibility

>>2828672 (OP)
Today is Friday. I worked my job. I'm going out to my land tomorrow to work on some bow blinds for the upcoming season. Might get in some bass fishing in at the pond as well.

>>2828745
you wouldn't happen to be canadian bro with the buses on the property are you? if so I lost your channel and haven't kept up on progress

>>2828746
Sorry, friend, but I'm in Texas. I do hope you find your lost bro.

>>2828747
dang, his youtube channel is pretty cool. bought a big property in like New Brunswick or something with his own pond, vast tracts of land, abandoned houses and sheds and a bunch of old school buses. It's kind of dream project property.

You sound like you have a similar situation which is great. Enjoy your weekend!

>>2828748
Thanks man. My setup is a little different, I expect. It's only 100 acres and doesn't have any cool shit like old houses or busses. Just a bunch of post oak and mesquite woods.

>>2828751
>only 100 acres
still that's fuckin rad

>>2828752
Not going to lie, it is a nice setup. Roughly half of it we don't even go into because there's a ton of deer and wild pigs living in it and we don't want to spook them where they bed down. It's got a spring-fed pond that's about 1 to 2 acres in size and always has a good supply of bass and perch.

>>2828751
Sounds pretty sick.

>>2828748
Sounds like the dream

>>2828672 (OP)
Harvested a bunch of mirabelle plums and peaches. Gonna harvest honey this evening, then it's calm again until the tomatoes grow ripe.

>>2828744
>The whole family has been doing mental gymnastics for years to absolve her of the blame and guilt, basically they've convinced themselves it was all grandma's fault nobody else bears any responsibility
Think it through. Could the old lady have waited a day for her sidewalk to be cleared? Yes. It didn't need to be done right away, least of all by her.

>>2828879
yeah she was a stubborn ol' cow apparently

If someone is that incompetent/frail then it's time to go in a home

>>2828879
This. It was grandma's fault. What the fuck was she thinking?

>>2828903
entitled boomer mentality, gunna do something that doesn't need done to show everyone how much the younger crowd doesn't do anything

>>2828879
Depends. Was her power out due to that snowstorm? If so, shoveling her way out mightve been an attempt at survival. Old people don't have the most common sense at the best of times, much less in an emergency.

yesterday:
>prepped and applied a thick coat of outdoor tung oil to a picnic table

today:
>killing wisteria by tracing back the stolons to the ground, shaving the bark with a hori knife, and applying undiluted roundup via syringe
>waiting for the shade to cover the picnic table to i can keep applying tung oil

my technique for killing wisteria works great. i've found several vines that i did earlier and they're totally dead

>>2828672 (OP)
Welp I put up some t-poles and hammered them in. Building a fence to keep out horses from wandering into my yard^garden^work area.
I planted some gourds in beginning of June and they are running vines well.
Other gourds I started at July are doing well, maybe a couple weeks till they start running.
Put up chicken wire fence around the bottom of another birdhouse gourd garden with 12 plants I started 2 weeks ago, just had to make a secure place to put them in, 30x30' with field fence. But I have cotton tail bunnies that run around my 3 acres. My 3 dogs are always chasing them, sometimes they get one and bring it home and eat it.
So yeah. Got a nice 15x30 dense-grow of corn squash sunflower and beans growing nicely, healthy.
I have some melon seedlings ready to plant maybe tomorrow with some more corn and sunflower and beans. Fixed some ground yesterday

>>2828730
Was your grandma a yeti?

>>2829033
I feel like a Yeddy wouldn't have succumbed to the elements

pulled in the last of the garlic for the season. teh dregs were all that were left and the garlic I left in the ground from last year. kinda neat seeing how the old head's cloves all became their own heads. diminutive little guys but still, garlic is garlic and this cost me 0 effort.

>>2829037
bout a third of the total. garage smells great.

>>2828718
>/out/ - Outdoors
>OP mentions outdoors
>(you) mentions outdoors but also shits on OP for mentioning outdoors
not sure why you're bragging about walking but okay

>>2829038
based anon, looks like hardneck? i mostly killed weeds today. got rid of a bunch of wisteria, took down 2 rose of sharon trees, foliar sprayed jap knotweed, pruned an oak tree tormented by already-killed multiflora rose. i also planted a cinnamon fern and two purple coneflowers, and selected a location for the anise hyssop and second bee balm

>>2829056
hardneck indeed. once you have had it, if you can grow it, i am convinced it will become a staple crop for even the laziest /out/tie.

your day sounds more productive than mine. rain rolled in shortly after pulling in the dregs. i 3d printed and worked on an Private Hicks from Aliens cosplay til sundown. not too bad.

>>2829070
i already planted egyptian walking onion topsets and i have heirloom hardneck garlic on order for fall. invasives are such a bitch, i have some of the worst

>>2829047
>>2828722

>>2828748
Yeah, it's a shame that welfare wayne just disappeared. He stopped posting from burnout and then one day the channel was gone.

>>2829774
oh shit the whole channel is gone? I forgot the name of his channel and now that I know it's sad to learn I can't follow anymore :[

I hope he's doing okay, sad to hear if he got burned out

>>2829776
Yes, his channel was called welfare wayne. I assume he deleted the channel himself based on him being burnt out. I don't know of any other accounts or an archive so it's one of those things that is lost in time. I miss seeing him post on here, he kind of reminded me of forest anon in that way.

i just could not be assed to get out the fishing gear so hiked out to my spot and enjoyed an italian sub with a book and my feet in the cold cold river