No, we have those in one of the basements, I need to get some fresh sawdust so I can start using them this winter.
I was told by the previous owners nephew it was used for caching smuggled booze during prohibition, I was hoping it would be full of rum lol. There is supposed to be another in my barn but I can’t check that one out until I can empty it.
Thats cool… Make some nice tinctures if the hootch is pure and not cut yet
I came across some old toys a minute back. So cool.
Yeah not sure what to do with them atm other than box them up and get them out the way. I need to start tearing put that room soon, once I finish tearing out the rooms below. I need to get the collector’s cards appraised for condition and value before I can advertise those. I don’t even know where to look to find someone to do it around here.
I like that kind of stuff. There is a market for it so I wouldn’t just give it away to this anybody if you know what I mean. I don’t mind letting someone have it. But it is better for me to know if someone will appreciate it. I have a few older stuff for my son. I was at a buddies of mine a few years ago and they had a bunch of old army toys. I tried to get back over there and get them. They’re probably still there.
https://www.ebay.com/b/Vintage-Antique-Toys/717/bn_1860860
Started some auto seeds as I don’t have time to build a grow room atm.
3 fem Purple Kush from Grease Monkey. 1 Green Monster from Sweet Seeds and 2 Tangerine Dream from Barney’s farm. All hatched except the Tangerine Dream atm, pics will follow soon.
Here they are potted up in 750 mil yogourt cups. Its a temporary measure as soon as it stops raining I will make up some 5 gal pots for each one. The soil is from my old worm bin that got brought when nwe moved house. Its a mix of old soil and 10 bags of sheep shit compost 4 bags of seaweed compost and about 6 bales of organic hay that was mulched down and eaten by the worms, so it shouldn’t be lacking anything, just hoping its not to hot.
Potted up.
Under the desk light tucked up for the night under an old curtain to keep them warm and cosy lol.
Looking good today, getting some colour to them.
Lost one of the Purple Kush, I think I may have cracked the stem potting it up, it was laying on its side 2 days ago but looked OK, the cotelydons were shriveled this morning but the stem and 2 inches of root looked good when I dug it out.
The 2 Tangerine Dream have done nothing so I put them on top of the soil in the now empty pot, to see if that might encourage them, I had a hard time getting orange gogi to germinate until I started them in soil, hopefully it’s an orange thing lol.
Going to throw a few more auto seeds into water, these were all fems what’s left in my seed box is all regular autos now.
Now I am thinking about it I may still have some of RekioX,s fem fam packs he gave me, left over, that was some tasty bud, smelled like a strong floral popurri. Locating specific seeds is a pain, at least I have all the autos in one bag. Trouble is I am going to see lots I have been really wanting to grow, knowing they are going to have to wait longer, which is depressing 
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Your soil mixture sounds sweet. Cool pictures.
No Bugs here
Those are great to have. They will eat flys. I just hate seeing the super big ones. lol
Nice set up.
Some pics I took of our front and back yards. I took these so we know what plant’s and flowers to expect next year and start making headway on the flower beds, as we have no idea if something is a weed or ornamental, there are a lot of wild type flowers as well as ornamental and some stunning flowering bushes.
These I took on May 23rd we were 3 weeks into a hot dry spell so everything was going flat out growing.
The snow drops, crucuses, daffodils have all gone but there are a few tulips about, but mostly bushes and trees in flower. Some tulips and the red bush not sure yet what it’s called but it has amazing little white and pink flowers on it. All the green ground cover in the front of the pic is called goat weed, it takes over everything took us 2 days to clear it all out of that small flower bed, if you leave the tiniest bit of root it grows back, I took out another 14 root shoots of it again in about 2 weeks after clearing it.
This pic is a little blurry, that is Odin our doggy, I was trying to get a decent pic of the red colored flowering crab apple tree to his right behind the rhodedendron and holy bush.
Looking at the sunroom side of the house, there were loads of daffodils in that bed but now it’s forget me nots, William and Mary with spotted variegated leaves, a clematis and about 6 other types of flowers I don’t recognize.
A close up of the red bush with the little white and pink flowers.
Odin’s arse, more forget me nots, Williamand Mary, tge grassy looking stuff is garlic. Big rose bush on the far left, all the green in front of the flowering dragon breath orange Azalea are Lupins and yellow Irises.
I love the color of this black walnut tree, it had yellowy colored flowers on it a while back, we have 3 dotted about the property, damn squirrels keep stuffing the walnuts in my workshop.
Looking towards the brook, forget me nots, and wild flowers starting to come up.
This big bush next to my workshop I rescued from my neighbour’s yard 2 doors up. They were having a new sceptic tank put in, and the workmen just tore it out and tossed it in the ditch.
This is the universe giving me a 1,000$ bush lol. For about two weeks prior my wife and I were seeing these amazing bushes driving to from the house. We said we got to find out what they are and get some. They are a small leafed and flower rhodedendron bush, we looked at some that were a ft tall and costing $40. I said, I wanted something bigger and we would keep looking.
The next day the neighbor asked me to give her a hand moving some large flat rocks on my trolley, she wanted to use as steps. After I helped her, she gave me a tour of the back yard and what she planned to do. I saw the bush in the ditch lying there and said, what’s happening with that. She told me it was ripped out by the workmen about 6 weeks earlier and she thought it was dead. I said, if she didn’t want it I would take it and try and revive it.
Took it home and put it there as I had already dug a hole digging out a load of rotted and composted wood chips, it was a perfect fit. Gave it a good soak 3 days in a row and leaves started to unfurl and get some color, still looking ruff in this pic, after 2 weeks it started to bud up amazingly, thought the shock would have thrown it off for a year. It turned out to be the bush we were seeing and really wanted, I got my wish for a big one it’s 6ft tall and about 8ft wide lol.
Out the front of the house, there are all kinds of plants in here, daffodils, crocuses, tulips, poppies, groun cover, forget me nots, Irises, lupins and the amazing white bush, and behind that some stinging nettles which I am going to move to the back of the property and expand for making fermentedteas for the plants.
Black walnut and apple trees.
Another angle of the Azalea and lupins.
Lavender tree and bushes, it was just startingbto bud up.
The porch on the right side of the house, has honeysuckle and a yellow broom bush.
Some Quince bushes, they dropped a lot of pears last fall, amazing red flowers on them.
Looking up towards the back I just love all the colors of the trees and plants.
Bro it’s no wonder you left the UK.
Your place is beautiful.
I look out my window and my views normally blocked by a Stagecoach number 12 
Yeah we got really lucky finding this place, every time I drive back to the house along the shore rd, I think how beautiful it is here. It was meant to be, when we look back at the timing if we had sold our house earlier like we wanted, this place would have been priced another 200,000 more and we would have looked elsewhere. But another 6 weeks later and 20 plus people had looked at it and not offered more than 300,000. So they were desperate to get rid if it before winter kicked in.
The house does need a lot of work, it’s livable in, but rough lol. To pay people to do the work needed I recon would cost 2 to 300 thousand plus your materials. I am hoping to get it done for 100, to120, 000 on the inside. I hope so as that’s all we can spare unless the universe wants to make me even more happier with money from somewhere and something else. I still got to sort out all the tin cars and toys that are sitting on the floor upstairs in the back room.
in the corner watching
What eye candy. Thanks for sharing. Looks like happy living.
AMAZING SANCTUARY @Shadey !!!
Thats a good word for it, it does feel like a sanctuary with all the wildlife that is here. The energy the previous owner created here is very peaceful and special.
My 3 autos are now in the sun room, the 2 big ones are Purple Kush and the runty one is the Green Monster, which is a little ironic lol.
The pots are made up and waiting, temps have dropped a bit and we have heavy showers for the next couple of days, so they will wait a bit longer before going out.
I still need to dig out some more seeds to germinate, if I had sorted them out properly and didn’t have so many it wouldn’t be such a chore lol
Sitting on the window sill.
The dwarf hydranger is looking really pretty that will be going out into a flower bed soon as well.
Bit of a wet and dreary day here but the Rhodedendron is looking good.
Well the 3 autos are potted up into 5gals. I have a fresh cut bamboo pole wrapped in copper wire on the 2 smallest. This an electro culture growing experiment to see how they compare to the cotrol plant.
Then we have some spuds in a pot at 1 week old in the ground 2 months for the big ones and 2 weeks for the tiny tops in soil.
Some lettuce in a pot, just going to pinch off leaves when required and try and keep growing them.
