Might be escaping Kommiefornia soon

[popper]

If goats could eat goat weed I'd be happy. At least they leave the roots so grass will grow back.

 

[oscarflytyer]

Well . . . momma did it. She made me buy our retirement home in Blanchard Oklahoma.

3.1 acres and we will build a shop soon.

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I know, I know, interest rates are at extorshonist levels. My oldest who also works for Northrop Grumman same as I do, is ready to transfer to OKC as well. The middle kid and his wife are moving within the next 6-8 months down to Temecula with his job.

So that means I'll go back and forth for now until I sell this house within the next year.

I'm doing it fellas! I'm getting outa here!

Looks like the Lexington WMA shooting range is just 20 minutes from the house.

Can't wait to go hunting!!!!!

Mike

SO YOU ARE OFFICIALLY OUT?!?!?!?!?! If so, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[glassparman]

 

[Rick]

Mow that grass?? No way man, gonna get me a bunch of goats! Just gotta figure out how to keep them on my grass! LOL

Goats? Once they destroy the grass what you'll have left is a mud swimming pool. Mowing sounds like a far better option.

 

[Glaciers]

Goats? Once they destroy the grass what you'll have left is a mud swimming pool. Mowing sounds like a far better option.

Look you need to remember where he’s used to living. No grass. So mud will be just slightly different in the fact that mud won’t blow away and get into everything. Mud will just be on your shoes

 

[Rick]

Look you need to remember where he’s used to living. No grass. So mud will be just slightly different in the fact that mud won’t blow away and get into everything. Mud will just be on your shoes

The mud will be everywhere, in the house, everywhere. He's escaping Mojave where rain is a rarity not a once a week thing. Lose the grass and you can't go outside anywhere without walking in mud and probably up to his ankles.

 

[Winelover]

Look you need to remember where he’s used to living. No grass. So mud will be just slightly different in the fact that mud won’t blow away and get into everything. Mud will just be on your shoes

And everywhere else, including your house. God forbid you have the red clay, like we do in Arkansas. It just cakes up and will make your boots, twice as heavy. PITA, to remove from shovels and other digging instruments.

 

[Rick]

There is a reason why Oklahoma is called the red state and it isn't politics, it's the red clay/soil.

 

[Glaciers]

No I fully understand that. But, Michael lives in dust, gravel and such. He has a minor adjustment to make.
He might even own a pair of hip boots already and if so he’s set for mud.

 

[popper]

I wash the ATV and all the red clay just sticks.

 

[smokeywolf]

Mow it. If OK is anything like AR, your grass only grows from April thru Sept. and gets mowed 8 to 10 times. Put goats on it and now you have to buy feed for the goats during the winter.

We have a neighbor who rides his mower down the road to our place and does our mowing. We pay him a total of about $700 each Spring/Summer to mow. That pretty much covers his gas and all maintenance on his commercial grade mower, plus leaves him with some pocket money.
Unless you like the prospect of hauling gas home for the mower, changing oil, sharpening/changing blades, troubleshooting the plethora of mechanical issues that will crop up, find a local ambitious teenager who is doing garden service.
Kill off a half acre of your grass and plant a small orchard of fruit and nut trees.

 

[RBHarter]

Adjustment?????

The award for understatement goes to Glaciers .
Ain't nobody in the Mojave or Great Basin deserts owning muck boots or waders unless they're in waste water , drilling, water flowing, or creek fishing. No call for them in the DG dust . It just brushes off ,pops out and blows away . My grand mothers used to say it was nice clean dirt in the desert , they were all raised in AR , TN and Ohio .

 

[Petrol & Powder]

And everywhere else, including your house. God forbid you have the red clay, like we do in Arkansas. It just cakes up and will make your boots, twice as heavy. PITA, to remove from shovels and other digging instruments.

Red Clay -arrrrrgh!!!!

Virginia is no different. Or Tennessee.


Reminds me of a poem written by an employee at Oak Ridge during the WWII construction (Manhattan Project, Uranium separation facility)


In order not to check in late

I’ve had to lose a lot of weight

From swimming through a fair-sized flood

And wading through the ******* mud

I’ve lost my rubbers and my shoes

Perpetually I have the blues

My sprits tumble with a thud

Because of all this ******* mud

It’s in my system so that when

I cut my finger now and then

Instead of bleeding just plain blood

Out pours a stream of ***damn mud.

 

[CZ93X62]

one is all it takes to sort the southerners from the northerners.
it's the difference between geezus it snows a lot here, and F-this place i'm out.

The heat in Indio has the same effect. There are two seasons in the Coachella and Imperial Valleys--Summer and February.

 

[RicinYakima]

Kill off a half acre of your grass and plant a small orchard of fruit and nut trees.

This is an excellent option if you like spraying for bugs every three weeks and plan on living there for 10 plus years to get a crop.

 

[JonB]

It's the dog house. That's where I have to go when I'm in trouble until I build a shop!

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GRASS:
Looks like some decent grass right now...and some decent trees. That confirms trees grow there. So, I'd mow the grass for now, but start planting trees...lots of trees, any kind of tree that you like, that's known to grow there. I'd make that yard into a woods. CUZ you don't need to mow the woods
Of course, that all depends on home owners association agreements or town ordinances or such.

 

[JonB]

I wash the ATV and all the red clay just sticks.

MN has some Iron Ore pit mines, no longer mined, that the fauna and trees have taken back. Lots of trails, lots of great dirt biking there. The red dirt and tailings piles (when wet), stains all the rubber and plastic parts on a dirt bike...and clothes...can't wash it off.

 

[fiver]

they actually use the red-Brown dirt down in central and southern Utah to dye clothing.
i think it was just the Locals gave up and someone visiting finally noticed everything and everyone was a red-brown color and seen an opportunity.

 

[RicinYakima]

they actually use the red-Brown dirt down in central and southern Utah to dye clothing.
i think it was just the Locals gave up and someone visiting finally noticed everything and everyone was a red-brown color and seen an opportunity.

LL Bean used to sell it as "rust" when in canvas shirts popular 20years ago.

 

[glassparman]

Just joined the Oklahoma Shooters Association website!

I feel like I'm already there.

You can bet I'll be at the Tulsa show in April!