TheShovler3's WunderBlog

Antique Bottle Digging/Hunting

Wed, 7 May 2008 04:13:00 GMT

Recently, while in the woods cleaning up and looking for composted leaves i ran into an old Pepsi Bottle i dated it back to 1963 making it 45 years old. This peaked my interest.I'm really starting to get into it, i was out at my girlfriends house in her woods at the site of a old house where i found a bottle that read Scott's Emulsion and had an embossed man carrying a huge cod over his should and on the bottom it said 'Cod Liver Oil' The company was started in 1876...
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Its Maple Syruping time again!

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:21:00 GMT

UPDATE 2.3.08 A four tap tree at the farm is pictured below.Sap collecting vehicle for the farm. Carries 80 gallons at a time.Another large tree at the farm poses for the camera.Sap Streams from the tap into the bucket! Crystal Clear just as it should be.___________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________Hello everyone! Its about time for me to start tapping the Maple tr...
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Gardeing Here we come.

Thu, 24 May 2007 02:03:00 GMT

Will post pictures soon. Last week i planted 30 tomatoe plants 9 cherry toms, 10 egg plant, 20 zuks, 10 yellow squash,15 green bell peppers, 15 yellow bell, 10 hot peppers. 10 watermelon plants 5 yellow, 5 red crimson sweet. Planted potatoes and leeks in another garden. Had trouble due to sun scald any tips, a lot of my tomatoes were damaged. Some permanently others look like they might come back.Anyone got any gardening experiences good and bad?Also planted 50 str...
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If you tap it, Snow will come

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UPDATE: I tapped a couple of test trees yesterday, and don't you know that the storm that was gonna slide south is now trending more northerly. It never fails that when i tap trees i get snow!Nevertheless, its about that time of the year where i start my annual maple syrup making. This year i've upgraded my barn with a reverse osmosis machine which takes 75% of the water out of the sap before i even have to process it(much more energy efficent). I boil it off in a 2...
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