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Post by ignatious on May 16, 2024 14:08:13 GMT -9
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Post by Vermin King on May 16, 2024 14:35:56 GMT -9
What is it? Godzilla larva?
Glad you all are okay
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Post by okumarts on May 16, 2024 16:36:16 GMT -9
YIKES! Big Yikes! Glad you are ok. That's scary.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on May 16, 2024 17:45:33 GMT -9
Wow! I am glad you are okay!
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Post by ignatious on May 20, 2024 13:43:36 GMT -9
Friday I was going to post how I made progress on my radar station tiles, but a conversation with Vermin King distracted me. I thought I'll just post tomorrow. The next morning Suzie woke me up with... um...Paul...we might have a problem. ![](https://i.postimg.cc/D8SV2KKF/20240518-071942.jpg) ![](https://i.postimg.cc/gXz5QCKC/20240518-072034.avif) ![](https://i.postimg.cc/hz2wB2yf/20240518-072051.avif) I guess there is an upside. The day before I was looking for fresh oak logs for growing mushrooms, and here they are, delivered right to my porch.
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Post by ignatious on May 20, 2024 13:58:40 GMT -9
Actually we were pretty lucky again. Suzie's van only suffered minor dents, and there wasn't serious structural damage to the porch. It still sucks, but I could have sucked a lot worse. Water oaks shed limbs like leaves ( and my yard is full of them). Hurricane season is coming. Yay
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Post by Vermin King on May 20, 2024 14:48:35 GMT -9
Son of a buck. Since things like this seem to come in 3's, I hope the third is less of an issue.
Best of luck, sir
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Post by ignatious on May 29, 2024 13:16:58 GMT -9
So, like I said, I'm growing mushrooms. I've got plugs for, chestnuts, maitake, chicken of the woods, lion's mane, and shiitake. I'm a fair way through building a shade cloth area for them to go, and have all of the ends of the logs sealed with wax. I also went ahead and got a drill bit specific for this. It bores the right width and depth for the dowels. I figured this way I can't "bore" (self censoring, but I think you know what I mean) the holes up too badly. If anyone has done this before don't hesitate to chime in. ![](https://i.postimg.cc/v4g19jcG/20240527-180404.jpg) ![](https://i.postimg.cc/64pqQbkJ/20240527-180432.jpg) ![](https://i.postimg.cc/pyWpkypG/20240527-180445.jpg) I should also mention that all of the materials for this were scavenged. When they were remodeling the house across the street (basically rebuilding the entire inside) I asked the guys working on it they had any scrap 2x4s, and they said there was a whole shed of wood, and I could take as much as I wanted. Some of the wood came from off cuts, when the Tallahassee Museum was doing new boardwalk (man, I miss dumpster diving). The maintenance guy at my last job had used a cup or two of a bag of cement, and told me they said to just throw it in the dumpster. He asked my if I wanted it, since he didn't need it, but hated to throw it away. It was just enough for what I needed. I also got a 6x30 roll of shade cloth still in the packaging from one of Suzie's employees who collects stuff when all of the college kids move and throw away things you would never think to just put out on the street. She has a little "shop" and whatever she sells goes to local animal rehabers. Basically everything for this mushroom shelter, except the screws, was free.
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