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Ray--Opo

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Time to turn Opo into a chair hauler since he's mastered hauling tubs? Need some sort of harnass, a heavy duty rope with a sturdy hook on one end & someplace to hook it on the chair. Do you think he'd respond to an air horn?

The way Mary Knobbins hauls big tires these days, they could be quite the dual.
I like that idea!?
 

Ray--Opo

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Oh dear Ray, I hope you are OK with no damage to you or your chair.
I was also going to suggest training Opo as a rescue tort but Jan beat me to it!
I am fine, my knee is a little skinned up and my shoulders are sore this morning from trying to get my chair unstuck. I wanted to do it myself without Rose finding out. ? The chair weighs about 250lb. I almost had it free.
 

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Yikes Ray! Be careful out there. It’s a cruel world. Glad all is back to normal.
We had rain the night before and I ventured into a area that was soft. I was going to feed Opo a cactus. He blocked me from going down a incline. So I turned to go up the incline. Big mistake!
 

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Ray, maybe time for some big fat 4x4 mountain bike tires!
They make a chair the same style as mine. That you can go thru mud and you can also operate in rain and snow. The problem is it is 50,000 dollars. Not sure I can justify that with my insurance company. Here is one for the avid hunter.
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They also make a tracked vehicle that I can drive my chair onto it and lock it in. I would definitely put a winch on it. Because I know I would get it stuck.?
 

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Rose left today for Iceland. She will be gone until the 23rd. She and some of her life long friends are going to see the northern lights!? So it's just my mother in law, Opo and me. Time to have a party!????
Yeah, but stay out of the soft mud!
 

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On the way back from kayaking yesterday, I had to do the crazy man swerve so as to NOT hit a nice Eastern Box Turtle. Nice warm, sunny day so still out on the prowl for food. Next week they are predicting overnight low temps in the low 40s.

There was a car or two right behind me so I couldnt stop to do a rescue. Hope it made it across.
 

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It was much easier to roll across the yard.?
I didn't have my phone with me. So I needed to roll to the door to get Rose. When I first got out of the chair on to the ground. Opo came over and sat down next to me. I had to wait for him to get out of the way. To start my rolling.
If you'd stayed there long enough he may have pushed up to the house just to get you off his patch :D
 

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Rose keeps saying she is going to get me one.
It's very worth it and you need it. Your insurance would cover it and even so they're not really expensive. You can also get one that you can go outside with. I need to check on that for myself because I do go outside and sometimes set it off for nothing. They're not foolproof because I have fallen and didn't set it off buttt. If I can't get up I'll push the button and they will come. Mine is Critical Signal Technology and there's many others.
 

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I keep talking about pruning back our Hybrid Poplar trees & today we tackled another one. Eight down & just two more to go.

Here’s a bit of what they look like Before (left pix) & After.

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That's what I hope my Crab apple tree looks like soon ?? It's the wrong time of year to do that but after this year I don't care ? good job ?
 

Chubbs the tegu

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I keep talking about pruning back our Hybrid Poplar trees & today we tackled another one. Eight down & just two more to go.

Here’s a bit of what they look like Before (left pix) & After.

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I planted an apple tree about 5 years ago and its growing sideways lol
 

Cathie G

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Darn.. even the trees sag with age lol
Ohio (at least my area) has been very weird with fruit trees this year. They went nuts ? All of the people I've talked with had so much fruit that limbs were breaking from the weight. One person had to cut down some peach trees because the trees fell apart from the weight. Nature has a way of telling us something and I hope it's not what I think it is. Bad bad winter ?
 

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Ohio (at least my area) has been very weird with fruit trees this year. They went nuts ? All of the people I've talked with had so much fruit that limbs were breaking from the weight. One person had to cut down some peach trees because the trees fell apart from the weight. Nature has a way of telling us something and I hope it's not what I think it is. Bad bad winter ?
Its telling u that Ohio has a bunch of nuts and fruits haha
 
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