I'm so old I Remember when:

[notabitail]

When it took around 30 minutes to send an email a short paragraph in length.... AOL... LOL. Hah
In the 80's tho..?

I have a late 80's personal computer.

 

[Ricky rick ricky]

When it took around 30 minutes to send an email a short paragraph in length.... AOL... LOL. Hah
In the 80's tho..?

I have a late 80's personal computer.

1's n 0's lol. My first I saw in a home, I think it was around 1990 a friend of mine, his mother bought one.

 

[Sally PB]

I need to net mine to actually get a crop. When I keep the birds away I can count on about 25 lbs per season.

Oh, yeah, if I don't net them, the birds get the all. If I do net them, they get about half.

I need better netting. What do you use?

I wish I could use chicken wire, but we have little songbirds and they'd go right through.

 

[Rick589]

Oh, yeah, if I don't net them, the birds get the all. If I do net them, they get about half.

I need better netting. What do you use?

I wish I could use chicken wire, but we have little songbirds and they'd go right through.

I have been using that cheap plastic bird netting that you’d get at Lowes or HD. But it ends up being one season use because of how tangled and torn it gets. I’ve been wanting to upgrade to a much more robust and longer term netting, just can’t seem to pull the trigger on it for some reason.

 

[MROO]

So what do you do with the whey?

BAKE!

 

[MROO]

Wait. . . What's whey from?

That's the runny stuff that seeps from cottage cheese. Miss Muffett feeds it to the spiders.

 

[MROO]

Remember when an impromptu dinner at a friends house after having vanished all Saturday playing with friends, unseen by your parents, was cleared with a simple phone call on a rotary phone.

... and privacy on a phone call meant over-stretching the curly cord so you could hide in the bathroom with your hand over the receiver. Oh, and listening carefully for the quiet "click" that meant your kid brother/sister just picked up the extension!

 

[MROO]

So glad my post came in handy.

... in addition to being funny!

 

[MROO]

When it took around 30 minutes to send an email a short paragraph in length.... AOL... LOL. Hah
In the 80's tho..?

 

[BDutch]

So glad my post came in handy.

Thanks. I got so many compliments bc of you. They made me continuously happy.

Oh, yeah, if I don't net them, the birds get the all. If I do net them, they get about half.

I need better netting. What do you use?

I wish I could use chicken wire, but we have little songbirds and they'd go right through.

I used bird netting in the past and songbirds got caught in it.

Now I just harvest the blueberries before I let the chickens out to free range.

On top of the run I use stronger netting : the ones they sell to cage predator birds and cat netting for balconies.
Its more expensive but a 100 times better. Still okay after 10 years. Just do not use it near the ground if you have rats. Rats bite through netting for predator birds . The cat netting I have is enforced with a thin metal thread . But I didnt dare to use it from 50 cm height like I did with the netting.