🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 ⛈ Our 2026 Weather / home projects thread.

[bama alum]

That's why you go to key west for the winter

My wife and I are in Key West now. It's warmer in Alabaster than it is here.

 

[TerryP]

My wife and I are in Key West now. It's warmer in Alabaster than it is here.

Find Kayne. @Krimson alum knows a little about eatin' ... time to step up here.

 

[Krimson]

Is the baby more tender? Does it have a foul smell....ehehe.

Never had it but squab is pigeon under a month old.

 

[TerryP]

Never had it but squab is pigeon under a month old.

I've mentioned this before. Bubba Gumps and pigeons.

Kayne. I HATE these birds. Hate.

 

[TerryP]

I have to make a trip to buy a small 8-10" tree saw. It's been at least a decade since I cut back the crepe myrtles; it'll be another before I do it again. One of those "cheap tool trips" is what I can't escape thinking: Harbor Freight kind of purchase.

A dozen Crepe Myrtles.

The "trash" (as in limbs, etc.) truck runs Wednesday. There was the goal.

I started Monday morning ... and sure as hell the last limb was cut just AS the truck was turning on my street Weds, 2'ish.. I was literally dragging the last branch to the street when they started dropping their braces for the bucket. The pile was almost head high and as wide as four parking places. Yeah. I'm still tired.

HOWEVER...

Best purchase I've made in a while was dropping a few bucks on a cheaper battery powered 8" chain saw which may weigh three or four lbs with the battery. Understand, three of these trees were 45' or higher; the shortest at least 20'. They were planted in the spring of '93. But, that saw...geez, made quick work of them.

 

[PurlJam]

Damn climate change. I've cut my grass twice already. Wife is already talking landscape work and the salt generator has kicked on for the pool (it runs when the water gets above 60).

 

[64Tide]

Damn climate change. I've cut my grass twice already. Wife is already talking landscape work and the salt generator has kicked on for the pool (it runs when the water gets above 60).

If everybody would line up and pay the carbon tax, Al gore would have more money and problem solved.

 

[sean]

Damn climate change. I've cut my grass twice already. Wife is already talking landscape work and the salt generator has kicked on for the pool (it runs when the water gets above 60).

Mine could stand to be cut, again, but it's not too bad at this point thanks to not having any rain for the past couple weeks. But it's supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow. But even if it didn't rain tomorrow, it being Easter means I'll be at my sister's house most o the day. And today I have other plans...putting down weed block and stone down 1 side of my shop and behind it.

And week after next I'm off, so I'll be taking my mom to get some flowers for all the pots and planters...which is quite a bit.

 

[TerryP]

And week after next I'm off, so I'll be taking my mom to get some flowers for all the pots and planters...which is quite a bit.

Here's one of the interesting things I found about Charleston.

I need to make a run for a few plants myself. I'll check in HD, Lowe's, ACE, and maybe Walmart. Three of those are within a 1/2 mile of each other. And, now that a corp. has bought ACE...I wonder about their selection.

The interesting thing ... when I check out those three all of their plants will have arrived from Bonnie Farms. It really fits with smack talk in the off-season.

"Nice flowers! Where'd ya get 'em?"
"Lowe's"
"Ya know where they came from?"
(Here's where your best impression of Keith Jackson is required.)
"Alabama."

 

[Krimson]

Here's one of the interesting things I found about Charleston.

I need to make a run for a few plants myself. I'll check in HD, Lowe's, ACE, and maybe Walmart. Three of those are within a 1/2 mile of each other. And, now that a corp. has bought ACE...I wonder about their selection.

The interesting thing ... when I check out those three all of their plants will have arrived from Bonnie Farms. It really fits with smack talk in the off-season.

"Nice flowers! Where'd ya get 'em?"
"Lowe's"
"Ya know where they came from?"
(Here's where your best impression of Keith Jackson is required.)
"Alabama."

Pretty difficult to get plants in the south unless Bonnie decides to grow them unless you start from seed. Near impossible to find a creole or tropic tomato or most heat and humidity tolerant varieties.

 

[sean]

Here's one of the interesting things I found about Charleston.

I need to make a run for a few plants myself. I'll check in HD, Lowe's, ACE, and maybe Walmart. Three of those are within a 1/2 mile of each other. And, now that a corp. has bought ACE...I wonder about their selection.

The interesting thing ... when I check out those three all of their plants will have arrived from Bonnie Farms. It really fits with smack talk in the off-season.

"Nice flowers! Where'd ya get 'em?"
"Lowe's"
"Ya know where they came from?"
(Here's where your best impression of Keith Jackson is required.)
"Alabama."

I try not to buy plants and/or flowers from a big box store. Their selection is usually lacking in my experience. I like to go to either Andy's (2 locations within 25 minutes of me) or Myers Nursery. They both specialize in plants and flowers and always have a good selection of stuff you usually don't find at HD, Lowe's, Walmart, etc. Although I will say that with Hostas, Lowe's has pretty good prices on them most times. And I still need to get a few more to fill in some bare spots in the beds that I redid last year.

 

[TerryP]

I try not to buy plants and/or flowers from a big box store. Their selection is usually lacking in my experience. I like to go to either Andy's (2 locations within 25 minutes of me) or Myers Nursery. They both specialize in plants and flowers and always have a good selection of stuff you usually don't find at HD, Lowe's, Walmart, etc. Although I will say that with Hostas, Lowe's has pretty good prices on them most times. And I still need to get a few more to fill in some bare spots in the beds that I redid last year.

When it comes to turf, trees, and your landscaping plants? That's my "gig." All the way down to disease diagnosis. I spent a few years in the industry and while I have forgotten a lot, I've retained quite a bit as well.

But, flowers and like? Ain't gotta clue. Nadda. None. I'm having lunch with a friend Monday and we'll hit the stores together. Geez, she'll know what she want's as she spends $100 or more just on her front yard. I'll look at pictures and may pick some. Who knows?