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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today

    I will clean and put away the broody breaker. I will brew another batch of tea for kombucha. I'm "retraining" my kombucha SCOBY to work with honey instead of sugar. I will go into town and do some errands.
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    Open Contest BYC Pets & Livestock Caption Contest 07-25-25 Pic by TicaCielo

    I'll hold you up so you can look out the window too.
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    Open Contest BYC Poultry Caption Contest 07-25-25 Pic by iwltfum

    "Flight 864, you are cleared for landing."
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    As long as it isn't treated with chemicals or dyes, your mulch should be fine. It does help with drainage by fluffing up the soil. For a potting soil, finer, shredded bits would be better. "Wood" is a rather broad term. Depending on the particular wood, it could be good or bad. Good: old wood...
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    The Old Folks Home

    76° at 6 am this morning, and nearly 90° this afternoon, with lots of humidity. A cold front is going through now, but the rain is missing us.
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    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    Oh, no. That vehicle will live on in song and story. And this thread. RIP, pallet pickup friend. May your bits of metal find life in another form.
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    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Flying ants... nom nom nom....
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Just about everything will do well with a pH of 6-6.5. This was a good reference. https://soiltesting.cahnr.uconn.edu/plant-ph-preferences/ I don't get too worried about pH unless I see problems, or know that something is an outlier, like blueberries, that like really acidic soil. I've stopped...
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    Sally's GF3 thread

    We just got back from my neighbor's Celebration of Life. A few weeks before she passed, she told me she wanted a gathering in a park, with games for the kids, and an ice cream truck. This is exactly what it was. It was lovely. I was so happy to see so many people there. Jamie touched a lot of...
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    BYC Café

    We just got back from my neighbor's Celebration of Life. A few weeks before she passed, she told me she wanted a gathering in a park, with games for the kids, and an ice cream truck. This is exactly what it was. It was lovely. I was so happy to see so many people there. Jamie touched a lot of...
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today

    I talked to Jamie (the neighbor) a few months before she passed. She said what she really wanted was a gathering in a park, with games for the kids and an ice cream truck. That was exactly what she had. It was lovely.
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    Wyrd Sisters (the Discworld chickens)

    Can you put a tarp over it, secured with bungee cords? Or use an old bed sheet inside to filter the light. If you build a larger coop, this could possibly make a brooder or hospital or isolation coop.
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    : - c Hubby came up with that as a pout emoji. Without the spaces, it comes out like this: 🏔️ snow capped mountain? What the heck?
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    Wyrd Sisters (the Discworld chickens)

    I love the Discworld series. Terry Pratchett had so many great turns of phrase. My introduction to him was the blurb on the back of the book, Mort. Blurbs are supposed to make you want to read the book, and this one surely did, with its first sentence. "Death comes to us all, and when he came...
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    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Memories are priceless. Keeping them alive is a good exercise in frugality.
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today

    Today I will: Bottle a batch of kombucha Hopefully put away the broody breaker Attend my neighbor's Celebration of Life 😢
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    Our Backyard Bee Journey!💗🐝

    AHA!!!! That's makes sense! Ignorant question... Do you use the freezer as an airtight box so that the frames are safe from pests, or do you actually freeze the frames? If the latter, when you take them out, is there anything special to do when you thaw them?
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    BYC Café

    I let Widget out of the broody crate late this afternoon. She's still making her pre-broody noise: bup-bup-bup-bup. :rolleyes: I closed off the nest boxes. I hope to see her on the roost with the other ladies in a few minutes. Really, Widget... it's too hot for you to be in the crate or...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    What do you do with the dead canes? I'd heard that they can harbor pests over the winter, so I burned them in the burn barrel.
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    Hello Michigan Friends!

    Hello! :frow Another life-long Michigander (Michihen?) here. There is a thread for the mitten people: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/michigan-thread-all-are-welcome.697050/page-5855 Stop by and say hello. Also... the knowledge pool here is wide and deep. If you have a question, go...
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