Charming...

[PHPaul]

Did a late season tilling job.

As I pulled up, they were just finishing spreading fresh pig poop on the plot to be tilled. Fine, great fertilizer.

Tilled it all up nice, went to load the tractor back on the trailer and noticed I had about 150 feet of lobster trap rope (aka "pot warp") wrapped up in the tines.

Cutting rope soaked in pig poop out of a tiller on a nice hot summer day. Does it get any better than that?

 

[pendoreille]

Did a late season tilling job.


Cutting rope soaked in pig poop out of a tiller on a nice hot summer day. Does it get any better than that?

add black flies ...ai-ya

 

[PHPaul]

I should probably shut up before I jinx myself, but we've been REAL lucky with the black flies and the skeeters this year. Chilly nights (still in the low 40's and occasionally dips into the 30's) seem to be keeping them at bay.

 

[pendoreille]

Down East! I spent a couple years there in the late 60s. Pretty country. I was at Cutler Harbor. USN transmitter site. Oh the Navy daze...I remember those flies, sometimes they would make you look like you had been in a fist fight.

 

[PHPaul]

Cutler is still active. MUCH reduced and mostly automated, but still there.

I retired from the Navy after my last tour at Winter Harbor (NSGA) in 1990. I worked briefly at NAVSATCOM DET Alpha here in Prospect Harbor and we used the range at Cutler for our quarterly firearms qualification.

And yup, those black flies will raise a knot on ya!

 

[Daren Todd]

Sounds like you had a crappy day ok someone had to say it I can send you some skeeters and horse flys if you are feeling left out Got ate alive doing the yard today. Been a real wet spring so they have been hellacious the past couple weeks Bloody noseeums will drive you bonkers

 

[mickeyd]

The horse flies are really bad this year here in Northwest Alabama. I have to run the cutter early in the morning before they get going good.

 

[skeets]

Horse flys are bad and black flys are worse,, but those dayum deer flys are in and out before you know it and theres blood running down your back,,,