Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan. 11

Happy Saturday, everyone! Today is landscaping and puttering day (mostly). The fires have been on my mind, and it's been a while since we discussed landscaping and preparation for fire and other emergencies. The photos above and below are from Norman Winter. Entry landscaping. I guess you can think about whether anything would fall during high winds.

By-Tor caught some of the Santa Ana winds. From earlier this week:

Ok, going on three days now, and I’m about done with this wind. It blew a tile off my roof on to my car. I know it’s not the same as what people in LA are dealing with, but it’s getting old.

Some palm trees are more wind-resistant than others. Plan when planting.

Wind damage . . . . Sorry, By-Tor.

Swimming pool pump - Like a fire hose that reaches your roof and part of your neighbors' roofs

Fire-smart Landscaping

Do you need to do some of these kinds of things?

Farms

Puttering

Decorating a potato stamp

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 5, 2025

Efficiency of a diamond holesaw diamond drill bit. It is specifically designed to create precise holes in tiles, stone, or other hard surfaces.
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— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) January 5, 2025

How to silence a misaligned door with a simple trick

[📹 enticestudio]pic.twitter.com/Po2DZoNxMk
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 11, 2025

Adventure

Yuma, Arizona - Banook Rodarte

Gardens of The Horde

Anything happening in your garden?

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Jan 4

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:27 PM

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1 Good afternoon Greenthumbs

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 01:30 PM (fwDg9)

2 I can see the tops of plants in the yard poking up through the snow. Warmer today, so it's melting off, though.

Posted by: Bert G at January 11, 2025 01:30 PM (VARTN)

3 We had high winds some days earlier this week so was out burning limbs that are all over.
And heard a Broad Wing Hawk not far away, I thought they migrated but guess this one didn't.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 01:32 PM (fwDg9)

4 Green things and salad-ations!

Posted by: Emmie at January 11, 2025 01:32 PM (Sf2cq)

5 That potato stamp chick has huge lips.

...

Over to you, Paolo.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 11, 2025 01:34 PM (DTX3h)

6 My garden is covered with snow thanks to some brief, blizzardy conditions the other day. I got my first seed catalogue last week and the pictures tempt me to buy far more seeds than I need.

Posted by: huerfano at January 11, 2025 01:34 PM (DKIGo)

7 Not exactly sure what that door trick is doing.
But if you have big space between door bottom and frame at the bottom one could stick a piece of cardboard between hinge and frame at the bottom.
Same idea if it hits at top corner, doing that at top would kick it down.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 01:36 PM (fwDg9)

8 Ok, she it taping a piece of sandpaper to the floor

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 01:38 PM (fwDg9)

9 I always buy more seeds than I need to.
Insurance, I guess. I can't help myself.

Posted by: Derak at January 11, 2025 01:39 PM (bDy9a)

10 And I think about the time a few years ago when pup-in-law and I removed 2 doors to sand the bottom.

Now you tell me!!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 11, 2025 01:44 PM (lRY8a)

11 I have all the raised beds I ordeed, except for an additional two from last week. Have the bulk of the seeds. I don't expect to start work on this until maybe February. I thought I'd get a better price on the beds this time of year.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 11, 2025 01:46 PM (NQtI0)

12 Pelicans>>>>>>>Penguins.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 01:46 PM (jgmnb)

13 I love the look of flowers "pouring" out of a pot, but here it would be an invitation for wasps or vermin to take up residence in that shelter. Does make me want to do something different in the area around the front door, though.

My gardening today consisted of trimming an oak tree. There is a terrible fungus that gets into the sap line and causes "wet wood" that kills oaks. To prevent infection, trimming must be done when the fungus is dormant and the sap isn't running.

The bonus is that it's a lot easier to clean up when there are no leaves.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 11, 2025 01:48 PM (cU25t)

14 Prepping the rusted raised garden poles over the raised bed (5.5'x23'). The poles are about 6' tall. I put the first coat of rust converter on them with a chip brush. I'll put another coat on in 2 days and after that dries I'll spray paint them black.

I'm going to use my garden torch to burn off the weeds and weed seeds before I rototill the raised bed then after watering and spreading mulch and azomite (volcanic rock dust) I'll rototill that in as well.
Amazon will be delivering a bunch of parts Monday. I'll be building a 4x8' grid of 1/2" drip line with 3 small holes on each side probably Tuesday, each square of the grid will be 1ft.
I saw the grid on a gardening video years ago and built them for the garden we left behind. I checked what they cost pre-built 168 bucks. I have less than 3 bucks in parts coming and I have probably 100ft of 1/2" drip line in the shed. That'll be quite a bit cheaper than buying.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 11, 2025 01:50 PM (+61n2)

15 We live on a navigable river that leads to a large lake., surrounded by both state and federal forest.

Every summer, we have every spigot on every side of the house hooked up with no less than 100 feet of garden hose. Additionally, we have a water pump that comes out of storage that we place adjacent to the river. Hooked to that is 400 feet of 2" firehose.
That is then unfurled and spans the length of the property up to the county road. We douse the property and adjacent forest occasionally throughout the summer if no rains occur. The hose blasts water upward of 80 feet in the air, to the top of the forest canopy.

We could likely douse our house and four other neighboring houses from that one little pump.

Could we survive an inferno like LA? I don't know. Will die trying, I guess.

I must say, the spider web of hoses isn't the most sophisticated garden landscape, but the reality of the consequences of living in a forest requires at least a nod.

Posted by: Derak at January 11, 2025 01:50 PM (bDy9a)

16 That potato stamp chick has huge lips.

...

Over to you, Paolo.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 11, 2025 01:34 PM (DTX3h)

It's a filter. One of my not-29 pals does a bigger-lips, no-wrinkles, makeup-adding filter on her crafting vids. She was worried that one of her peers would out her, but I think she's going to be fine. She uses her maiden name and looks more like her granddaughter than herself!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 11, 2025 01:52 PM (cU25t)

17 If your doors are misaligned, just jack up the other side of your foundation and inch or so.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 01:52 PM (RIvkX)

18 The doorfix is supercool.

Posted by: m at January 11, 2025 01:53 PM (VnUSN)

19 I priced a yard of mulch from a local worm farm. ~170 bucks. Ouch. But I'll buy it anyway and some worm castings as well to freshen the raised bed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 11, 2025 01:54 PM (+61n2)

20 30 bucks in parts not just $3!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 11, 2025 01:55 PM (+61n2)

21 Hope your migraine is gone KT!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 11, 2025 01:58 PM (+61n2)

22 My bathroom door is misshapen because someone sanded the bottom instead of doing what I did when I moved in: shoved cardboard under the far edge to jack it up, then hammer down ALL pins in the hinges. There's almost no gap at the top now.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 11, 2025 01:59 PM (cU25t)

23
Does anyone have a good railing-top herb garden solution?

Have been playing with designs but haven't found anything online.

Posted by: Auspex at January 11, 2025 02:00 PM (j4U/Z)

24 Sometimes the pressure from the hose is so great one could be lifted off one's feet. It takes a significant amount of strength to reposition the hoses when filled.

Posted by: Derak at January 11, 2025 02:01 PM (bDy9a)

25 If your doors are misaligned, just jack up the other side of your foundation and inch or so.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 01:52 PM

Mark this "pro tip" because that sounds like it's time to call an honest professional.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 11, 2025 02:01 PM (cU25t)

26 If your doors are misaligned, just jack up the other side of your foundation and inch or so.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 01:52 PM

Mark this "pro tip" because that sounds like it's time to call an honest professional.
Posted by: NaughtyPine

Due to all the slippage it would probably work find in San Francisco.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 11, 2025 02:03 PM (+61n2)

27 If your doors are misaligned, just jack up the other side of your foundation and inch or so.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 11, 2025 01:52 PM

Had that going on with my front door. Only $16k to fix! They ended up placing nine additional helical jacks across the front of my house. Now there's jacks every five feet all the way around. Over the last decade, about $65k has been put into foundation repair and floor support work. About $20k from me.

Posted by: Bert G at January 11, 2025 02:07 PM (VARTN)

28 Do think a bit more sanding than 2 passes will be needed.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 02:09 PM (fwDg9)

29 AZ deplorable moron at January 11, 2025 01:58 PM

Thanks. It's getting better.

Posted by: KT at January 11, 2025 02:25 PM (xekrU)

30 I thought if your door was misaligned you either moved or razed the place and start over

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 11, 2025 02:41 PM (/6GbT)

31 How to silence a misaligned door with a simple trick
And I’ve been taking them off the hinges for 50 years. Dang if you young folk don’t beat all.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 02:49 PM (jgmnb)

32 I thought if your door was misaligned you either moved or razed the place and start over
Posted by: A dude in MI

Only on Sundays and only in New Jersey.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 11, 2025 02:50 PM (ZoxPj)

33 What grit sand paper would you figure?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 02:51 PM (YeGMU)

34 120 grit should do it.

Posted by: fd at January 11, 2025 02:54 PM (vFG9F)

35 I just lost KTLA.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 02:54 PM (YeGMU)

36 35 I just lost KTLA.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 02:54 PM (YeGMU
This disaster is beginning to reach Raccoon City devastation.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 02:58 PM (jgmnb)

37 If only it were 1.5 degrees cooler, all of this could have been averted.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 03:01 PM (YeGMU)

38 [looks out window]

It's hard to conceive of gardening, or any outdoor activity. Temperature in mid 20's, frozen piles of storm debris, covered with sleet/ice/snow.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2025 03:02 PM (XeU6L)

39 I am proud to announce that I will be awarding the Presidental Medals of Freedom to Mayor Bass of LA and to Gov. Newsome for all their all work in fighting the Global Warming fires in LA County created by Trump's policies.

Posted by: Joe Bridum at January 11, 2025 03:15 PM (kDgJM)

40 just lost KTLA.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Where are you?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 03:18 PM (JazRo)

41 Wind here destroyed my 3 yard umbrellas.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 03:19 PM (JazRo)

42 NOOD

PETS

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 11, 2025 03:21 PM (YTktQ)

43 Southwest Virginia. It's back now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 03:21 PM (YeGMU)

44 From Boise area; lows 25-30 F, highs 37-45. It snowed yesterday evening, melted off today. Ongoing air stagnation advisory.

Husband has been dealing with putting leaves in the trash because my back is sore - I haven't even walked outside except to the mailbox. Last time I was out back, I did see Johnny Jump-Up pansies flowering by the shed. This winter's been unusually warm so far - we haven't had any temperatures below 20.

Husband also hung all 8 of the sea glass and tile mosaics in our master bathroom, and is now looking for photos we may want to hang on walls.

We've taken the ornaments off the tree - found 2 more marked with the Shiny-Brite name (pale blue metallic inside), and one more that looks quite old and might be pre-war (similar top to the 2 clear glass ones I sent photos of last week, but metallic inside).

Posted by: Pat* at January 11, 2025 06:02 PM (W3wFp)

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