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Comments (5)Thanks for keeping your fingers crossed for me! I know that high winds can damage plants because they get battered around and dehydrated, but "wind chill" doesn't affect them. Wind chill only makes it feel colder to people because we lose heat faster in it; the true temperature isn't affected. That said, if it looks like it may approach freezing any night, I will bring my babies into the garage and set up a little heater for them :)...See MorePuppy Parenting Tips!!
Comments (26)Lurki, I understood what you meant. Since he is 8 weeks, I haven't scolded him YET. I generally wait until I am pretty darn sure they know where to go potty before I scold them. Jack is not there yet. He does well on a leash when we are walking but putting it on him in the yard has been a nightmare. He grabs it with his teeth and rolls over and over. (Think alligator death roll.) It's dangerous right now! He does fine if I'm walking him but standing around to wait for him to do his business isn't working. He comes when called, so I have been taking him way out in the yard to do his business. He still thinks he should run to poop on the porch but I have distracted him each time and mopped the porch with bleach water. (I think he is used to going on a pad.) ***He has peed and pooped in all the right places last evening and today***. Woo!! I'm slowing changing his diet. I know all about that. Roo, I will readily admit I plan to be a terrible mom right here and now. He will be eating commercial dog food. Bill-Jack is high end. I've raised a few pups on it and feed the high end salmon stuff to my adults. I simply refuse to cook for two dogs with a collective weight of 150 pounds. If they were small dogs, no problem. I cooked for 120 pound Dubs for 4 months and I'm soo done with that for now. I'm taking Jack to the vet for a check up in an hour. He has a health guarantee if we get him in before three days. Now THE VET is the place that scares me for contracting Parvo, etc. I won't let him down inside the vet hospital. I am a years long, ardent watcher of The Dog Whisperer although I admit to projecting a bit of human feelings on my dogs. I'm trying to watch the messages I'm projecting but got stressed out once this morning when he was spazzing out, biting everything in sight including my robe and a blanket. I gave him (and me) a time out for a few minutes behind the puppy gate. When he quieted down for a few minutes, I let him back out when both of our mindsets had changed. I do think dogs feed on energy so I'm trying to be aware of mine. As far as puppy classes, we've done them with the last three pups and will do them again for socialization/refresher. We live rurally and the puppy classes we took were much like I imagine Petco's to be, only way more expensive. He's not quite old enough for puppy classes right now. I don't feed milk bones for treats either. Oakley, I took Jack outside before bed and he slept until 6:00 AM. Success!! Bulldog pups and Lab pups are hugely different! Bullies are low key as pups. Lab pups can eat your sofa before breakfast! Thanks everyone!! If you think of anything else, please post it. It takes a village to raise a pup!...See Morefirst time on highway....scared!
Comments (9)In my opinion, your 250cc Ninja is a little too small for expressway riding. it is being pushed to its limit to maintain a 65 mph speed and it may not be behaving well at that speed. There should be no shake in the handle bars, just the ususal jolts from road roughness and at speed, the front suspension should be absorbing most of the road shocks. At first, try riding on highways were the speed limit tops out at 55 mph. Develop a feel for your bike and get to know your comfort zone, before tackling the high speed stuff. Do one other thing. Check the alginment of the front wheel with the rear. The contact spots should align as near perfect as possible. The rear wheel can be adjusted a bit to alter this alignment. For a quick test, run through a puddle while maintaning a straight line, then stop and look at the tire tracks. The rear tire should be tracking exactly on center with the front. You can create a temporary puddle in a oarking lot with a bucket of water. Interesting ride feel can develop when the wheels do not track each other. The bike will behave differently in a right hand turn compared to a left hander. There may be a strange steering input (feeling) when a bump is encountered. Check the rear shock absorbers. (I'm assuming your bike has the conventional two-shock setup.) These shocks should be as near alike as possible. If one shock is sacked out and the other is not, there will be rear wheel steering input when going over undulations especilly in curves. If one shock bottoms out bfore the other and you weigh more that 200 lb, there can be dangerous rear wheel steering in corners. (When one shock bottoms before the other, or damps more heavily than the other, it may distort the swing arm throwing the rear tire our of alignment with the front.)...See Morehelp designing my irrigation system
Comments (9)600 feet is nothing, 20 gpm is good flow. We have a well that was put in for automatic animal watering troughs that runs at 5 gpm that we dont have an issue with (yet!). The 1" mainline should suffice, as you will lose pressure due to friction in a smaller diameter. Run the PVC to the garden, then connect to 1/2" poly tubing or layflat for a submain and run your drip tape off of that. They sell pressure gauges that you can attach to the end of your lines to check your pressure. I would definitely go that route before buying a pump. You will need to regulate the pressure downward when going from the PVC -> submain line. Props on working towards becoming a full time farmer. I started last year and I am broke as a joke but wouldn't trade it for any job with a boss or a timecard!...See More
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