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Ray--Opo

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Yesterday someone came and put a splotch of white paint on the trunk of each tree to be removed to make way for the road widening.

Today six guys are out there with chain saws and the big chipper truck.

Pictures when they've gone.
I am sure @Maro2Bear what's the wood!?
 

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Absolutely gorgeous day here. Started with a very early shower, but once the sun rose, showers & clouds gone. Bright sunshine. ??

Might be our last REALLY nice day, sooooo I popped over to a wonderful spot I like to kayak & got a good three hours of kayaking, exploring & Autumnal leaf peaping. ?????
We finally got some daytime rain. So Opo was out enjoying it.
 

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Do tell more….?
Well 5 years ago I invested into gold and silver coins not bullion. I went in blind not really knowing what I was doing. I went by the advice of a gold broker. In 5 years I am up 101% it is kind of hard to believe. Sometimes I think I am in the middle of some kind of ponsy scheme. So I took 700 dollars and registered with a company called Coinbase. My son recently invested into cryptocurrency and then I found a friend of mine. Who is in deep with crypto. He is doing very well. So I thought I would start out small with 700 dollars. The only thing I dont like is I don't have anything physical to hold in my hand like the gold and silver coins.
 

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Well 5 years ago I invested into gold and silver coins not bullion. I went in blind not really knowing what I was doing. I went by the advice of a gold broker. In 5 years I am up 101% it is kind of hard to believe. Sometimes I think I am in the middle of some kind of ponsy scheme. So I took 700 dollars and registered with a company called Coinbase. My son recently invested into cryptocurrency and then I found a friend of mine. Who is in deep with crypto. He is doing very well. So I thought I would start out small with 700 dollars. The only thing I dont like is I don't have anything physical to hold in my hand like the gold and silver coins.

While you can certainly lose money on Coinbase, at the very least it doesn't list all of the small/super speculative cryptos so it's safer in that regard.
 

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As do Hybrid Poplar trees - cheap, easy to plant, fast growing. We planted about 15 a few years back. Now I prune them yearly to keep them in check.

I have to be careful what I plant because the trees will be up on level ground next to a cliff being supported by a retaining wall. I don't want the tree roots damaging the wall.
 

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I gave it a thought, however I can't figure out how to contain the spread.
You are right they do spread. I looked into the Hybrid Poplar Mark mentioned. I am kind of on the borderline in the growing region. I emailed the company and asked them. Waiting for a reply.
 

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While you can certainly lose money on Coinbase, at the very least it doesn't list all of the small/super speculative cryptos so it's safer in that regard.
That's my next step. Learning how to buy speculative cryptocurrency. I am watching a guy on YouTube called Bitboy Crypto. Trying to understand uniswap and pancake swap. So I can get leads on low cap crypto before they hit the main exchange's. Yes I picked crypto that are fairly conservative.
 

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I have to be careful what I plant because the trees will be up on level ground next to a cliff being supported by a retaining wall. I don't want the tree roots damaging the wall.
I sent for some trees from the Arbor Day Foundation. But 2 of them are Crapemyrtles and it says they don't root deeply so no invasive roots. Just a thought.
 

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Just had a rocket launch. This was the best I could get with my junk phone. There are 2 tall pine trees on the vacant lot behind me. If they were gone I could get a longer view. The lot is 5 acres classified as commercial. I am going to ask the owner if he minds. Whoever develops it will be clearing the land anyways. 20211110_211233.jpg
This is the image as it is moving NE away from me. The trees block the vertical launch.
 

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Just had a rocket launch. This was the best I could get with my junk phone. There are 2 tall pine trees on the vacant lot behind me. If they were gone I could get a longer view. The lot is 5 acres classified as commercial. I am going to ask the owner if he minds. Whoever develops it will be clearing the land anyways. View attachment 335916
This is the image as it is moving NE away from me. The trees block the vertical launch.

Very cool Ray. Yes, ask about taking them down.
 
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I sent for some trees from the Arbor Day Foundation. But 2 of them are Crapemyrtles and it says they don't root deeply so no invasive roots. Just a thought.

They aren’t the fastest growing, but they do produce nice flowers. Most of the houses around here have a few.

 

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Pity - you would have been great, I wasn't sure if you were still moderating for the other forum but yes I can see how it would take up time you're already short of with that and the Rescue.
Did you see your Rescue on the Alan Titchmarsh weekend prog several weeks ago?
I did indeed ?
 
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