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re: Worm Farmin'

Posted by bovine1 on 4/21/24 at 2:20 pm
To harvest the castings when the bin gets full I separate the worms and undigested food out. The food goes in my overflow bin. The worms I separate by hand. You can make a sifter with a wood frame and screen of some sort on the bottom. Sometimes I lay clear plastic on the ground and put the castings...

re: Worm Farmin'

Posted by bovine1 on 4/21/24 at 2:12 pm
The holes in the bottom are for drainage. You want moist bedding but not soaking wet. The biggest mistake I made when starting out was overfeeding. It creates way too much heat and moisture. If you want to catch the drainage which is great compost tea put a basin of some sort under the bin. You have...

re: Worm Farmin'

Posted by bovine1 on 4/19/24 at 9:26 pm
I use plastic storage containers for my worm bins. Drill holes around the top and around the bottom. I've got 8. 1 for each day of the week plus an overflow. These work great for me. I get a lot of castings. I agree with catching the liquid if you can make it work....

re: ponds around baton rouge

Posted by bovine1 on 4/4/24 at 9:30 pm
I was in one such club in the early 80's while in Vet School. The Pond Ltd. Reasonable and we had access to around a dozen or so ponds. ...

re: Snake ID

Posted by bovine1 on 4/3/24 at 10:04 am
We've kept several rat snakes before. At one time we had 4. Ours were all much darker than this snake. They must have been older. Thanks for the help....

Snake ID

Posted by bovine1 on 3/31/24 at 5:16 pm
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/d07BsJJT/snake-photo.jpg[/img] Is this a juvenile rat snake? We've had several mature ones but they're darker around here. ...

re: Add photo to post

Posted by bovine1 on 3/31/24 at 5:14 pm
Thanks mental decline plus impatience is a bad combination....

Add photo to post

Posted by bovine1 on 3/31/24 at 2:18 pm
How do I do this? I have a snake pic on my phone I'd like to post for ID on outdoor board. It asks me for a URL which there is none. Be easy I'm old and not as computer literate as you younger folks. TIA....
It happened in one of our HS games. My son's senior year he was about 6'5". Plate blue calls him out on a pitch just above ankle high. Next AB he apologized to my son and told him 1st plate ump after the inning told him he missed that one. This was also at an away game which made it even more surpri...

re: Where were you in 1984?

Posted by bovine1 on 2/28/24 at 9:31 pm
LSU Vet School. Watching baseball at the old box....

re: Fixed income: Bonds versus CDs

Posted by bovine1 on 2/6/24 at 2:43 pm
Thanks I'll check it out. ...

re: Fixed income: Bonds versus CDs

Posted by bovine1 on 2/6/24 at 10:54 am
I agree Big Scrub but I stay under 5 yrs and ladder ind issues. I also have other liquid funds so I don't have to sell into a panic. I do use ce funds if I go longer. I buy at more than average discounts and neg z scores only though. I also like to use cefs and etfs in bank loans like BGT and SRLN. ...

re: Fixed income: Bonds versus CDs

Posted by bovine1 on 2/6/24 at 8:56 am
I use those funds at times but mostly I buy ind bonds. I don't like the principal fluctuation in funds and etfs people dump them on bad news that increases the downside....

re: Fixed income: Bonds versus CDs

Posted by bovine1 on 2/5/24 at 9:21 pm
I've been buying some of the J P Morgan CD's. It's aggravating that they are all call protected. The non call protected ones are paying significantly (to me) less. I've been buying more 3 and 6 mo. TBills with a few A rated and BBB corporates yielding 6-7ish %. The agency newer issues are all call...

re: Are there still affordable vehicles?

Posted by bovine1 on 1/21/24 at 4:43 pm
Manual transmission Nissan Versa....

re: Charles Schwab Fee

Posted by bovine1 on 1/4/24 at 9:28 pm
We got our HSA's transferred there from TD Ameritrade as well. They don't offer triple B bonds and seem to have more limited bond offerings in general than Vanguard. I usually either buy Treasuries at auction or Cd's. They seem to have a more limited CD offering than Vanguard as well. I haven't had ...
I'm 64. I look at it like this. If you have a nest edge that you are comfortable in retirement with why put it at risk. You can get 5ish% right now in the safest investments. There's also the old rule about your age subtracted from 100 is the percentage you should be in stocks. I'm also basically a ...

re: Dryer Heating Element Went Out...

Posted by bovine1 on 12/31/23 at 9:44 pm
I have a Whirlpool dryer. I buy the cheap elements off Amazon that come with the thermal fuses and thermostats. I've had some last 2 years or so. Some much less. For the money difference I'll replace them more often....

re: Foxes are some cool lil critters

Posted by bovine1 on 12/28/23 at 9:23 pm
Yep I agree. State Park guys had a resident fox that hurt it's leg. They livetrapped it and brought it in and my wife amputated the hurt leg. She lived several years at the park after that. They always watched for her tracks in the snow. Foxes are beautiful animals....