Arizona Chickens

[pdx2phx]

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Here's praying they find the cure for crainial rectosis!

***Edited for proper language***

That's a good one....I sometimes call it an picky-Cranial Inversion

Wow...I posted it as "Anol-Cranial Inversion" with slightly different spelling and it was autobot changed to "Picky"

Kinda funny too, but doesn't have quite the same je ne sais quoi.....

 

[Mikey D]

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Cactus feeds bout $30

I'll keep my eyes open for a blue drum. I used to have a bunch, in OK.

Thanks!

It'll be the main housing for the plucker. I'd like to use a fresh one as they get brittle with sun & age.

 

[Tracydr]

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I would love some pomegranates or prickly pears to make some jelly with.
I share!
My favorite jelly so far is habanero gold. It has dried apricots and I sub all hot peppers instead of sweet. Second favorite is actually a runny preserve that I made with pears and vanilla beans.
I made a really yummy apple syrup for pancakes or english muffins last year from the juicing leftovers. Just let them drip for two days and made that into syrup. So good!

If I can get my pomegranate tree figured out you can have some of mine.
I read that they are ready about the time you start seeing the bugs that bore into them. Well, we have the bugs but the seeds are still white and don't taste very good.
I haven't been able to figure this one out for 3 years now.
Even Tree Land (that usually helps me with these kinds of problems) is clueless.
I'm about ready to pull it out and plant something else!
Also, my mature lemon tree has 2 lemons on it this year and my orange only has a few. Pitiful. Other years we haven't been able to keep up with the citrus.

How strange.
Are you getting pollinators for your citrus? Fertilizer, water? I have a great crop of lemons this year. I've found a few wonderful lemon recipes to use them in and now I never have enough.
I also buy those huge boxes of sale oranges and grapefruits for juicing. I want to can clementines for mandarins oranges this year. I wish I could figure out how to easily peel that membrane off the grapefruits I'd can some grapefruit segments.
Can't help you on the pomegranate, never had one. Just peaches and apples. I'd love to have one, along with figs and mangoes but with planning a move I can't see planting trees.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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Yep, on all accounts. The trees look great, they just don't have a lot of fruit. I seem to remember something about the blossoms getting blown off but my memory is fuzzy of that time.

 

[Tracydr]

This reminds me of what I did when I left me ex-husband. Now, let me explain. He was an awful, awful, psychopath. Meanest person you've ever met. When I left in the middle of the night, literally, he didn't know where I was hiding. I was staying with my parents, here in AZ. Anyway, my mom and I were tracking his movements by his cell phone bill as he was searching for me. One day, we decided to play a trick on him and raise his blood pressure, maybe give him a little heart attack.

While we were logged into his phone bill, we changed all his options to the maximum of everything. It probably added a couple hundred dollars onto his bill. My mom and I were giggling so hard, imagining him opening his phone bill and having a stroke, we had tears coming out our eyes.
Pay back can be a b*** sometimes.

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[Mikey D]

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Note to self:

Don't piss of Tracy!

 

[mclevinson]

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When is later?

Don't I wish I knew. Guess not tonight or they'd have called. Probably have to run it past the neighbor again.

 

[mclevinson]

Note to self...keep notes, have lunch with Tracy, take more notes...

 

[mclevinson]

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Here's praying they find the cure for crainial rectosis!

***Edited for proper language***

Ok Papa Mikey, you totally outdid yourself with that one. That goes to FB next time I log on.

 

[Mikey D]

Let it never be said that a day went by when I didn't share the cutest peepers on Earth with Ya'll!

Here is the Temporary nipple set up. It is actually the second iteration as when I drilled through the spaghetti container that the control tower gave me I cracked the bottom. Yes I should have known better, yes I piloted and stepped up the drills this time. Thank you dear heart for donating a second Tupperware container (that was my mother's she said). I held it up with a very scarce and rapidly vanishing resource - a wire coat hanger!

Here is a bottom view - oh I'm sorry did a peeper photo-bomb the shot and steal the focus?

That's a little better, still too much cute in the way to see clearly.

They were not too interested in it - I think it's bed time for peepers!

The Production Red and Australorp seemed like they were thinking of pecking it.
Maybe I should put some cheese on it?!?!