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Offline Maineshops

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Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« on: May 10, 2020, 12:38:04 AM »


Boy it was tougher shooting today. Hard to keep the sights from  drifting over,,,Dan

Offline flinchrocket

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2020, 02:35:15 AM »
You need a covered firing line. ;D

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2020, 03:48:20 PM »
3 deer out there pawing for apples this morning. Had to feed the doves twice yesterday...Dan

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2020, 01:20:08 AM »
Just got home found roses in bloom (wife had cut 6 already today) and hanging baskets blooming. 83 degrees out (thats late June early July temperature here in the Willamette Valley).



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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2020, 01:26:44 AM »
Our daffodils are not in bloom yet🤔

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2020, 11:50:08 PM »
The tulips bloomed a few days ago along with other stuff.  Yep, had a snow last week but the temperature and the ground were so warm it melted mostly on contact with the rest melting in 20 minutes.  If colder it would have been 2"-3".
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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2020, 01:42:27 AM »
The apple blossoms were out in a different part of the city. Ours, on the North side of the house, are
still only budding, but the leaves have started to unfurl all over, cotton woods, aspen, mountain ash
on the street, the crimson maple in our front yard - all greening up.(except for the crimson maple, of
course, it's red-ding up)
Daryl

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2020, 01:55:33 AM »
We had a hard freeze and may have lost the apples and peaches.

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2020, 04:17:57 PM »
My apples have not buddied yet. Sorry for your freeze. Dan

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2020, 04:41:31 PM »
  IT'S May in Michigan...so as the saying goes..it may snow, rain ,freeze, sunshine ,  or high winds..yeah just never know...
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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2020, 02:36:12 AM »
I'm further from the equator than Daryl, but our crab apple is in bloom...on the decline now.  Here's a pic...



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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2020, 02:56:09 AM »
We had a hard freeze and may have lost the apples and peaches.

This is the first year here in Middle Tennessee in 5 years we didn't lose the Peaches... So nice to see them laden. Can't wait to ride the 4wheeler through the Orchard to the range and snag a peach off the limb!

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2020, 06:29:11 PM »
Most trees in full blossom now. Beautiful!
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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2020, 01:37:54 AM »
Best Part of Spring in The Willamette Valley is the roses. You can see why Portland is called the city of roses, only we live 30 miles west in the beautiful wine country of Yamhill county.



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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2020, 02:56:47 AM »
I'd tell you what the weather is like here but this time of year is so unstable that it's hard to keep up...

Typically it begins with warm temperatures, a south wind, and enough humidity to hard boil an elephant. Just when you think you're going to drown in humidity the low pressure cold front from the north moves in and all heck breaks loose for several hours... Then you have a day or two of relatively cool damp cloudy days... Then it warms up and starts all over.

Meanwhile you can HEAR the grass growing.

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Offline Maineshops

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2020, 03:49:53 PM »


Easy today

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Re: Tuff keeping my powder dry today
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2020, 11:54:20 PM »
There's different weather. Seems in a lot of areas, spring came late this year.
Maybe it's true about global cooling trends now?
Daryl

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