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Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 08:43 PM
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 08:44 PM
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 09:25 PM
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cb66
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Cool photos of beautiful backyard and pretty pups! CB
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 09:41 PM
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dogcatcher
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Great pics, I especially like the hydrant and pump water falls.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 10:08 PM
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BigPig
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Awesome back yard. I want to see more pics of the hydrant and what it's pouring into. The turtles are freaking cool
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 10:20 PM
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My stand is pink camo
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Great looking dogs! Beautiful backyard! Thanks for sharing
I will take a good rain or a new calf whenever I can get it -Jack Ratjen
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 10:52 PM
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Sniper John
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 11:00 PM
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The turtle garden pond and stream drains into an underground cistern made from a large sportsmans cooler with two return pumps to the spitting frog and old hand pump. Without a picture would never guess what I used for biological filter media in the cistern. Gravel, small fossils, and small shells cover the grated drain/pvc pipe in the middle of the pool at the end of the stream to the underground cooler. One end is only covered by dirt and has a door so I can easily remove the dirt off the door to access the pumps if I need to. Wiring for everything from a breaker box is underground as well. The pond has Butterfly Koi that take care of any mosquitoes.
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 11:24 PM
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Michael W.
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Love your back . Nice job on it.
A clear conscience is often the sign of a fuzzy memory.
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/22/16 11:49 PM
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Nice looking dogs. Love your turtles, too!
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 12:23 AM
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 01:21 AM
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Very nice John
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 02:17 AM
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Great pics! Love the Turtle Garden. May have to do something like that for old times sake. When I was a kid I collected turtles.....didn't matter what kind. If I could catch them they came home with me. My record was bringing home 5 Box Turtles in one day.
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 02:21 AM
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Great looking dogs! Beautiful backyard! Thanks for sharing 2x ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A true friend reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 06:24 AM
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 08:00 AM
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Nice pics.
I had 17 box turtles at one time when I was a kid.
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 11:04 AM
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I love it........awesome job on the whole space
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 12:43 PM
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I love it........awesome job on the whole space X's 2, no doubt you enjoy doing all that, had to take some thought and elbow grease to get it done, but man, I'd rather have all that rather than a pool I bet you can sleep all day back there when the weather is nice!
If at first you dont succeed, then skydiving is not for you..
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 12:54 PM
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I love it........awesome job on the whole space
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 12:57 PM
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thanks for sharing, lot of work
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 01:16 PM
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Great pics and a very cool backyard. Especially like the one of your dog in front of the fire hydrant
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 03:05 PM
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Very creative. Lots of fun things that you've done there. The squirrel feeder caught my eye, so did that amazing habitat that you created for your turtles and tortoise, which is what I'm guessing I saw in your pics. Is that right?
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 03:20 PM
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Love the dogs,I think there the smartest breed in the world.
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 03:22 PM
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sig226fan (Rguns.com)
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Very nice. And I see you are well supervised during construction ...
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Re: Blaze, Dash, Yard Art, Turtle Garden, and baby birds.
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04/23/16 04:00 PM
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The turtles are my wife's. She reminds me of Ellie May Clampett sometimes. They all come running to her when she goes into the turtle pen. There was a couple box turtles that had been living in an old gravel dog run on the side of the house for several years. She wanted a pen for them in the back yard. She also wanted a small pond water feature with fish. And she had seen an old fire plug landscaped into a garden somewhere and always wanted one of those too considering her dad was a firefighter as am I. With no real vision of how it would all turn out. I just picked a spot and started throwing it all together last year. Lots of repurposed materials. The Rocks were picked up at the hunting lease following hunts. I also built the habitat to be somewhat self sustainable. Most plants used were dug up for free and chosen because they are kinds that are also eaten by turtles/tortoises or attracts snails and bugs they also eat. It draws lots of volunteer critters as well. It is nice to sit outside with a drink and listen to the water. But I will admit when the frogs and toads start singing it can get way too loud.
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