➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

the alligator legs would be great battered or unbattered in an airfryer

I don't have an air fryer...yet. I'll have to look them up.

I was thinking BBQ pit.

 

[NanaKat]

Look what just showed up.
This will be my first time eating rabbit.
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Rabbit stew, grilled rabbit, fried rabbit....

The packages were torn open and just there in a drawer. I had no idea they would actually sprout.

I suck at gardening still.
I'm trying to figure out if now is the time to plants some or if I wait.

Take those tiny sprouts and put in pots! ASAP! Cover with 1/4 inch of potting soil and place th plant tray in filtered sun. Keep moist. Set out in the garden in a few weeks.
In your temperate zone, you can plant squash, cucumbers, etc in mounded hills now. Should be up in 10 days or so.

 

[NanaKat]

Got the birds in their pens. Also put 7 roosters in one pen to butcher tomorrow after Ruby's vet visit.
Having a little lunch...ham sandwich and iced coffee while the feeders dry after scrubbing them.
Then back out again to work on those coops...may get all three repaired and the roofing on all before my next break.

 

[RUNuts]

I suck at gardening still.
I'm trying to figure out if now is the time to plants some or if I wait.

https://harris.agrilife.org/hort/publications-links/veggies-herbs/
first PDF is the Vegetable-Herbs-planting chart for Houston.
Right on time for peppers and tomatoes. Get them going.

The tomatoes I attempted to start aren't doing well. I direct sowed some. The basil and tomato volunteers from last year let me down this year. Oh, get some basil started too!

 

[Kiki]

Rabbit stew, grilled rabbit, fried rabbit....


Take those tiny sprouts and put in pots! ASAP! Cover with 1/4 inch of potting soil and place th plant tray in filtered sun. Keep moist. Set out in the garden in a few weeks.
In your temperate zone, you can plant squash, cucumbers, etc in mounded hills now. Should be up in 10 days or so.

Going to put them in dirt today. Thanks.

 

[ShrekDawg]

What? I was offline all morning/all day so far, I shut both my phone and my tablet off and stuffed them in a suitcase stuffed with clothes and haven’t touched them once but I only came on now cause I wanted to see something. But I have been working all morning so far. I finally got my seeds planted and I woke up at quarter to 11 which was later than I wanted but early for me but I originally woke up at 8 ad fell back asleep. I was good and did not use any technology today so I genuinely fell back asleep fast and actually slept which I think I needed. And then I have been working non stop but I figured I would take a quick like 5 minute break since I had to go to the bathroom anyway. And I actually have not missed it at all all day and could have gone all day without it but the only reason I logged on was cause I wanted to check the other thread. And as soon as I do that I am putting it back down and going back out to work. I have accomplished a lot more than usual today even by just putting it away most of the day. Which I think is good. Also last night I put it away at like midnight and then I read a book and I didn’t even pull it out to check what time I went to bed because I didn’t want to start using it and I didn’t want the light to mess me up/wake me up. But I spent forever picking out a book and reading the back covers and such that it was probably at least 1 or 2 that I went to sleep which is definitely not the best but at least I was reading and not glued to a screen and I actually slept the best I have in a while. I am doing fine even if I didn’t manage to stay off it the entire day today. I think 5 or 10 minutes of using it is way better than the 14 hours I was on yesterday (if you count me staying up till 6 the previous night). Especially since I have actually gotten a lot accomplished today.

 

[Conan]

Look what just showed up.
This will be my first time eating rabbit.
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Teriyaki that rabbit. Then grill it. It will blow your mind.

 

[Kiki]

Why do I always want to go to Hobby Lobby on a Sunday?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Good morning everyone!
We ended up with 2.5 inches of rain yesterday and into the evening.


Sure hope she and family are okay.

@KDOGG331 you were up past 10 pm! Sure hope you went to bed.

Today I'm going to put birds in the pens!
Will also move chicks to their next size pen in the barn...had 11 hatch yesterday...time to rotate.
Plan to repair two more coops today and put tar paper on the roofs. Too wet to start any painting. May try to stretch out the shade cloth too.

I need to transplant some seedlings today if they have their first true leaves. Lots of tomato and pepper plants are up.
Will move the big plants out to begin hardening them off to set out in the garden this week.

Well, I think I was actually up until 1 or 2 BUT. I turned everything off around midnight and haven’t touched it since until a quick break now* so I was reading an actual book all that time. Which is also why I say I don’t know what time I went to sleep because I didn’t want to turn technology on to check. But I spent a while picking one out lol and then today I have been off technology and working all morning/afternoon so far. Haven’t missed it at all but couldn’t stop thinking about this thread. But I finally got my seeds planted. Although I figured out I actually have a lot of direct sow ones which is good and bad. Good because it means I’m not as behind as I thought since most can’t even be planted yet and bad because I am still behind on the ones that aren’t direct sow. But tomatoes usually grow really fast so I am sure it will be fine. I planted eggplant, peppers, and 4 kinds of tomatoes. Still need to plant more but I only have one seed mat. Had another but can’t find it so I ordered a new one which is what I am using. I am worried the eggplant won’t pop up in time but hopefully it will be okay. If not, oh well. Not a huge loss. I will just buy some maybe. But I have the seed mat and it’s set high so hopefully they grow.



*Was supposed to be like 5 mins but been probably half hour or slightly more now but I’m just checking all the threads then putting it back away.

So long as you work on a plan of improvement, all is well

Thank you. I am definitely working on it. Got a lot accomplished today so far and still more to do. Just wanted to check here and then back to work.

I was speaking on the motivation, not the mental state. Everyone has something going on in their lives and with themselves, and as long as you work on bettering it then you’re fine. Keeping yourself motivated will help chase those other feelings off, trust me, I know.

Yeah, I’m sorry I was so harsh/mean/bitchy last night. I figured you were probably speaking on the motivation part but I wasn’t sure because you said feelings so I guess I kind of assumed you meant something else. Idk. Sorry. I was probably a little defensive but I know you didn’t mean it this way but the way it was worded/the way you had said you can’t base feelings off it and then listed all the stuff you did I kind of thought it was like saying it wasn’t an excuse or being dismissive of it something which was kind of why I reacted like I did. But I know that you would never intentionally do that or say anything like that or anything mean or whatever so I shouldn’t have been so reactive but it’s just there are people who do and people who dismiss that sort of stuff/don’t believe in it or say people are just weak mentally or lazy or whatever so I think sometimes I get a little overly defensive because of that cause I’ve run into people like that and it can be hard to tell on the internet and especially tone and intentions and stuff. But I should have known you would never in a million years have any malicious intentions or anything so I am sorry for going off like that. And I’m sorry if you know about it too

 

[ShrekDawg]

Also you are right, I feel way better today from actually accomplishing stuff lol plus I actually slept, have been in the sun all day, and doing stuff, and no technology so I feel way better lol need to do this more often.