I'll see you all in September then. Have a good one!
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It's Summer
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See ya? I didnt know this was a yearly thing. Anyway, have fun wherever youre going!
24 year long tradition thus far. ;) Thanks; you too! Whatever you choose to do!
Summer Loving Had Me a Blast
Summer Loving Happen so fast
I met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days drifting away to oh oh the summer nights.
Have fun.
Groovy tune. Thanks!
It's Summer, A Bittersweet Time For All Cyberdevilian Fans, As We Bereave The Digital Absence Of Our Beloved Nordic NewGrounder. But We All Bid You A Most Grandiose Farewell, & Send You Our Warmest Regards. For Your Leave Is For The Greater Good Of Sweden That You Grow Crops For Others To Feast Upon, In Concurrence, Your Carefully Tended Produce Is Plentiful In Fiber Therefore Promoting Good Colon Health, Lol. We Will Miss The Clever Raps, Abundant Reviews, And Enlightening Content. May Your Voyage Feel Long But Bountiful, While For Us May It Pass Like A Swift Breeze As We Look Forward To Your Seasonal Return. Yeah...
An Inspiring Farewell! I Shall Use This Limited Span Of Time For All The Wondrous Things Only Summer Time Can Be Used For, Like For A Fleeting Moment Forgetting About Time Completely And Letting Days And Weeks Pass By As Mere SunRises And Falls, Without Conquests For Digital Rewards Or Obsessive Gathering Of EXP. Instead I Shall Gather Trees And Be As Free And Savage As I Can In That Northern WilderLand I Am. Soon. Yeah...
oh cool a rare VicariousE sighting lol
Woot!
I know you've got a shorter growing season than I do... is there stuff already in the ground? Hope you have a rototiller in case things look unwieldy in the weed department. I put some stuff in a few weeks late :\ but I've been okay so far this year, just need to keep the deer away; using a spray made of egg whites and garlic, random truck patrols, gunfire...
Yepp, my parents finished planting the crops about a month ago... they've had a little trouble tending to them since then. :) I don't know exactly what we have, but it's probably the usual: a little of pretty much everything that grows up North. And lots of potatoes. I should take a few pics too; let you know how it goes! Hmm, gunfire in a spray? How does that work?
Yo Bob, Happy 10th of July and see you man next year ^^
Also, have fun wherever you go :)
Yo Oh-Sama! Thanks man, I will, you too; hopefully before next year. :P
Cyberdevil: SEASONAL ROAD ONLY
That's the way!
For the record, I sent the letter out an hour ago. There's lots of odds and ends in there, along with your.... tribute, of sorts :) Now all I need is a box and a Tyvek bag for gamejunkie's parcel, which I'm sure will cost a shit load more.
Kinda feel bad though... I sent a 70 y/o horseshoe from our last farm horse to a friend in Oregon... and you're the part time farmer! But he really needs the luck it will bring, along with the HD I couldn't send to him directly (from Egghead).
Woo, I am looking forward to it! Whatever surprises await! Thanks again! Getting hyped up! Hope it survives the travel OK!
Well I have a couple of old rusty horseshoes hanging above doors up North, so no worries! I doubt anyone's a full 70 y/o though, but they're all finds so who knows... how did you keep track of age? Was it saved within the family all that time? First horseshoe your family ever bought?
Lol, no auto-turret for the deer, but I got a 'motion activated garden hose sprinkler thing', but it only works within a certain range.
The age of the shoe is approximate, since the last plow horse died a few years after WWII. Potatoes, eh? You have to dig them out by hand, or do you have a mechanical digger? We had a nice one that had iron wheels. Yeah, definitely take pictures... I should've taken a few shots of the PTO rototiller in action; at least 2 meters wide, and the dirt is quite fluffy :)
Nice gadgetry! :D I'm stopping by the city myself to finally purchase a water pump today, to partially automate the process of bringing up water from the lake. It should handle 6500 litres/hour, where we've previously during dry days been carrying up at least 2-300 litres by hand. Time to put all that energy to better use...
A, a retired relic from remarkable times past! We do have spades or... whatever those tools you traditionally use to excavate these crops be called, but it's manual indeed. Had - no longer? lol, fluffy dirt... sounds efficient!
Hmm, guess you'll need some chicken wire around the pump inlet then. Using aluminum irrigation pipes? I worry about plastic constantly... always leeching nasty things into the water. Solar or electric? Wow, that's slightly more water hauling than I've had to do recently!
There's a nice birch tree on our farm, I was burying a raccoon next to it. Shovel? You don't use a type of fork to pry the spuds up? How long do they need to sit before they're (more) edible? I think in Idaho it's around 6 months...
Woah, nothing that advanced! We just placed a metal plate on the sand (we have a shallow shoreline), the pump atop of that - it's the submersible kind - then connected four 25m power cables and three 10m large clothed lengths of water hose. They are plastic but... since we're not drinking any of that stuff it shouldn't matter, and watering the lands was a real breeze! Electric. Didn't see any solar ones in the shops we stopped by!
Well, we're water hauling no more, I can't imagine how many hours we've saved thanks to this genius invention; investment this year. :) Twas only two months vacation instead of the 'usual' three, but I barely noticed a difference, maybe that had something to do with it...
Hmm, roadkill? What do you do with dead rodents btw, bury them too, or leave them for preying animals? We usually leave them at the edge of the property for birds to pick up, but this year wasps have been feeding off em instead. I had a wasp nest in my room too, between inner and outer roof, bit troublesome until we found it and taped it shut. Managed to knock down two other large ones. Way more wasps than usual!
Nope, no fork (though we have those too), it's like a... let's see... like this but with a bit more bent blade: http://cja.nu/shop/ws85/38385/art85/h0205/22580205-origpic-7eae80.jpg
We leave em as long as we can, plant them as soon as the ground is ready and start digging them up in late August - early September - pick up all remaining ones when the frost bites, usually sometime September. We have geotextiles (Google translated that, in case that's not the right word: they're thin sheets of cloth that you cover plants with to keep them warm) to stall any momentary surges of early winter. So... at most around 4 months. We have a bit of a vole problem though, so we've been salvaging a few rows earlier on, just in case they raid everything in one go, probably trapped/killed close to two hundred of them this summer... and they're still running rampant!
happy birthday!! have a good one lol
Thanks! I realized first time I tried logging into NG via public computer that... I couldn't vote on stuff. O_O No Flash. O_O Kinda didn't log in since then but... thanks again! It was a good day lol
S3C would've beaten me (2 teh punch) anyway... I thought about saying 'happy birthday!! have a good one lol' but was outside busy, like you probably are now... no time for reading or writing. But while I was tidying up the place for my sister's arrival, I was thinking.... so how old now?
I really hope that letter gets to you... I sent a videotape to my brother once, took 4 months :| It was a Sony Digital8 recording... so the spooks probably had to wait for a D8 cassette deck to check for secrets |:
25 to life! Yeah, I got the letter on my birthday, give or take a day or two. Great timing! :D That certificate will be a much treasured keepsake, think I'll frame it in and hang it on some wall somewhere. I was planning on sending a postcard back but never got around to it. I mean - I haven't got around to it YET...
Hah, good thing there were no tapes in this one then. :D A fun batch of stickers and stuff, though! Thanks a bunch!
@VicariousE beat you to a forum thread too lol
Woooah man! :O Maybe the first B-Day thread in my name ever, me never being here this time of year and all... it's an honor! Bookmarked; saved; tempted to bump..
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1370420 Well done @S3C!
Thanks for the link!
oh geez it september yet!? wake me up when september ends?? Looks like I got another 2 months of Indian doctor humor!!
Not before September ends?? How about now, when September's here and all, and we're all cleared to Fall?
An Indian doctor walks into a bar with a duck on his head.. nah, forget it. Damn, I wish you had mail forwarding to your bucolic retreat. I guess they'd send it back to me if it wasn't kosher :\
We never talked about who you sell your produce to, or is it all canned and hoarded away for winter? We had a few inches of rain, and some borer worms started eating into the beets :p hope they leave my few stalks of corn alone!
Aw man, just when it was getting interesting! :/ We do have forwarding, we put up a mailbox soon as we get there; take it down when we leave. We had paid forwarding a few years, but this year me/my sister have been sending all relevant mail up North. I got it! Woot! Yeah! Awesome!! (incase the previous message didn't show the correct dosage of emotional appreciation such a send out deserved)
It's all hoarded, and later eaten during dark winter days. There's not enough of it to make a profit, and most of the salad and such is eaten during the time we're there. In fact, we probably eat most of our product already during summer... potatoes, carrots; berries last well past Christmas though. I've sold cloudberries a few years, they're the only one you don't need to work for slave wages to make a profit with, if you just have enough time. Farmers have a hard time making a profit here, but I guess it's the same everywhere. You need machines to get the greens!
Oooh, beets! http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/keryth/beets-by-dre
I'll keep my fingers crossed (if there's any left to cross fingers for - how did it go?). We've had incredibly dry weather this summer. Barely a drop of rain in all of July, and August was a nice balance of rainy restful days and hazy sunshine! Some vegetables that usually give up and don't grow up North actually flourished, like: Spinach. And for a while we had an endless wave of sugar snaps and strawberries - more than we could eat! Worms have been eating our turnips though, like crazy.
Hey there! i don't know if you are already around but i found this guy here http://roostahfari.newgrounds.com/
His gallery is really promising and i really like his not porn stuff.
However he is primordially a furry porn artist, and i don't really feel good scouting that, i already confirmed his identity (so yeah that means i just made a Furaffinity account...) so his art is his, and well there is only scouting him, but yeah i want but not that much... do you want him?
Heey... you scouted him after all. :P Yeah I'll be back in a month, I mean I'm back now, a month later. Itching to read that expectedly (since it's two messages) incredibly long and informative review!
Yo man forget about it, i ended up scouting the guy anyways.
Word.
VicariousE
Oh Gob, I forgot you run off this time of year! I had to do some extra checking, but I can send you a letter (containing what it does).... thought I might get it to you before your birthday next week :(
Dude, I been busting my ass on the farm and at the house next door, no time to run to the other end of town (post office), I'll post a pic when it's (the crops are) all looking good.
Cyberdevil
Ah yeah, that letter! :D And you remembered my birthday! Looking forward to it!
It'll be a sight to behold! Yeah I'ma probably have to really plummet into the patchland plotting too soon as I get up there, considering how long overdue this vacation start is. It'll be in dire need of weeding I see in my mindly screenings.