Lloyd Hogan

I should have clarified--these are INVASIVE blackberries, the Himalayan variety. They're not quaint little fruit bushes offering up succulent treats--they are a demonic entity that I have to keep in check (except my sword says John Deere on it):

@Ilopusife They definitely have a place in my timber stand--as a legume they pump a ton of nitrogen back into the soil--but, like blackberries, they will tend to overwhelm an area after thinning or logging.

@TheLloydFiles Aren't these kinds of flowers annoying?

Also on scotch broom. I HATE scotch broom.

@BitSlappin851 I'd hate em a little less if I got free blackberries out of it, but they only produce fruit where there's sun--everywhere else (if left unattended) I'm pulling 20' clumps of them out of the trees with the excavator.

@TheLloydFiles People complajning about free blackberries

Waging a 1 man war on blackberries.

@WellKnownDick @X9_redux “No plan survives first contact with the enemy”

@X9_redux @TheLloydFiles Blackberrys are gritty. He needs to plant figs. They’re almost as resilient.

@GlizzyZiggy @X9_redux That's the kicker--they'll grow berries if they're in the sun, and if they're not in the sun they will climb 20'-30' up my beautiful Doug Fir to find it.

@X9_redux @TheLloydFiles In the pnw they grow... EVERYWHERE. If sun hits them they'll grow berries. I often walk down the road in the summer and grab some to snack on if I'm out. On the atv going down to another part of the property? Berries. They get spread by birds that eat them out of the fields.

@X9_redux I'm totally down with our native Pacific Blackberry, but this is that invasive Himalayan Blackberry. It outcompetes nearly everything around it, climbs my trees, and makes the stand unwalkable.

@TheLloydFiles Why are you like this. Loool we help ours grow more. That be free food

You know how when you scratch em in just the right spot and they lift their leg and start kickin

An Easter tradition—now back to the excavator.

@PokerGO I’m cool with being a civilian at the $35 +rebuy Friday night Moose Lodge tournament.

Coming soon: Civilian Stakes Poker. ☠️☠️☠️

@LAChas77 That right there is why they say the gods look down in envy at mortal men.

Paused the war to get some dogs in. @LAChas77 it’s not your 3lbs of sausages in a cast iron, but we just don’t have that game in Oregon.

He has 6 more loads to drop tomorrow, and then in about a month he’s dropping ~150 trees, which I will be trailering out of there.

@WadingSmith check this out—a guy is building a couple of shops up the road and knocking down timber. He’s in too much of a hurry to market it, so he’s just chunking it up to fit in his dump truck and dropping it at my site. No mobile saw mill to call, so it’s just 2027 firewood.

@LAChas77 Let me do some deep breathing over like a 45 minute break and I could probably do one more

@TheLloydFiles 2! Only 2 👀 surely there are more

I’m about to have important company so it’s time to get fancy.

How your email finds me.

Not gonna lie, I do this about once a month along with a cigar. It recharges my tree farming abilities.