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    BYC Café

    Yesterday hubby cut up some wood. I was safety assistant and stacker. Today we'll haul the wood to the woodpiles. Eventually, we'll split it, probably in October/November. The farmers are cutting the corn now. Because we haven't had any rain, they are not making a mess of the dirt roads, which...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I wear a size 10.5-11 shoe, am 5' 6.5" and remember my cousin saying, "Sally, you have big feet," when I was about 4. I thought he was just teasing. Sigh. I once saw a cute pair of shoes (about size 5) and they weren't cute in size 10. Another time, I asked if they "had these shoes in size...
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    🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

    I've seen a lot of bumble bees this year too. They find the flowers honey bees like first, it seems. I saw them on goldenrod and the asters before I saw our bees.
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    BYC's Random Funny Posting Thread! Hosts Mike & Sally

    My mom solved that problem by just saying all of our names: "Hey Sue-Sally-Bob!"
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    Roof for metal pole run

    @Henhouse1001, since most people reading this are in the US, I'll add that your dimensions are roughly 10 feet wide, and 6 feet deep. The 6 foot dimension is rather long to span with no support in the middle. Metal roofing is probably the cheapest option, but unless you run the sheets "the...
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    I'm so old I Remember when:

    Twirling the prop to twist the rubber band to the "over-twist" stage made me understand spinning wool on a wheel better decades later. :gig
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today

    I am going back to getting up at 6:00. (I'd been making it later to coincide with sunrise.) I will do laundry today. Unless we haul the wood hubby cut yesterday, I'll be weeding in the garden.
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    Winter cold preparations

    I ran out of the air filter material and used T-shirt material from old T-shirts. It had the same effect. I use white so it isn't too dark in the coop. The long winter days are dark and dreary enough.
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    LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

    @Jener8or, this is a safe thread for over-sharing. :hugs Hang in there! :hugs:hugs:hugs:hugs
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    LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

    I'll add some too! :hugs:hugs:hugs
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    BYC Café

    What's going on? Have you had it looked at? It sounds like a reaction to something.
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    Winter cold preparations

    I have several square feet of openings on my coop. ("open" means covered with 1/2" hardware cloth to keep out predators.) I cover them about mid-November with air filter material. There is still air exchange, but it cuts the breezes that blow through. I also put up wind block panels on the...
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    LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

    Having just had a claim for a totaled car this past summer, I'll mention this: The insurance adjuster low-balled us. I told her that the car had almost new (<2000 miles) tires. She said if I had the receipt for the tires, they could take that into consideration. Of course I didn't have the...
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    Ground cover considerations

    I almost never till anymore, unless I have to break up sod. Tilling can help put organic matter back into the soil, but it can also do some negative things too. Like bring up dormant weed seeds, or chop up weed/grass roots that will regenerate an entire plant from each piece. And, if you have...
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    LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

    Will insurance cover some/most of the loss of your truck?
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today

    It wasn't on my radar, so I didn't list the option of helping hubby cut up wood. So I did that instead of weeding. More wood for the winter. Or next winter, if it's not quite dry.
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today

    Glad you made it back, @sourland! I hope you had a great time.
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    Ground cover considerations

    I don't know anything about needle grass. One thing I know about alfalfa is that it is perennial. I once planted it as a ground cover for half my garden, intending it to be there for a year. Ha ha. I tilled it under and 2/3 of it came back. I tilled it again, and still was fighting about half of...
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    Ground cover considerations

    Alfalfa is good at breaking up soils and bringing up nutrients from down deep. Its roots can reach 10-20 feet.
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    Name 3 Things You Did Or Will Do Today

    I was going to do more weeding, but hubby needs my assistance while he cuts wood. I'm the safety officer, I guess. I'm there to call 911 if he gets hurt and can't call. I'm making yogurt. I will need to do dishes at some point.
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