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[Mtn Margie]

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Good Morning cafe peoples!! On my breakfast coffee here...sun not up yet. Supposed to be a beautiful spring day today...I hope it follows though!

 

[krista74]

'Morning Moxie

It's 9.20pm here right now so I'll be heading off to bed shortly!

It's weird to think of you all just getting up. Have a great day!

- Krista

 

[starbuck123]

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Originally Posted by krista74

'Morning Moxie

It's 9.20pm here right now so I'll be heading off to bed shortly!

It's weird to think of you all just getting up. Have a great day!

- Krista
Ah, and it was 5:20 am my time when you posted this. I'm trying to figure out if you're ahead of me or behind. It's Tuesday morning for us in the States.

Wow, talk about a temperature change - last Thursday March 5 it was -10 F. Yesterday March 8 it was 60 F. That's a 70-degree difference. So, so odd but I'll take it!! The snow has just about melted here. Yay!

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning from CO! Goodnight Krista! Beautiful day ahead for us and so I suppose I will get some coop chores done. Yesterday was not very productive for me as I was still recovering from the weekend and I wasn't even partying and pulling allnighters! Must have been the time change... I think we should just compromise on 30 minutes and never bother with it again. It was really strange when we lived in AZ; there we would switch Time Zones, not the time.
Maybe I will start some leek seeds today and get the gardening fix in. I did make a broody cardboard box nest that I will put in the coop. It makes cleaning up easier after the hatching and all.
Well, guess I will go make more coffee and get the day seriously rolling.

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

Todays chores...since it is beautiful and sunny out....I am hosing down the chicken tractor to get it cleaned up for the new hatch. Whenever the broody decides to go broody. I had 3 cockerels in the bottom level....awaiting their long anticipated trip to freezer camp. Since DH and I have been sick with the flu this past month....as well as dealing with DH's responsibilities as executor to his friends estate......chicken processing has been bumped down on the priority list. Now I have 5 cockerels awaiting their trip. Looks like it might be me....handling the processing all by myself again.

 

[krista74]

Ah, and it was 5:20 am my time when you posted this. I'm trying to figure out if you're ahead of me or behind. It's Tuesday morning for us in the States.

I must be ahead of you Moxie, as it was Tuesday evening for me. So that puts me around 16 hours ahead of you. That's why every time someone here says 'have a great Sunday' I think to myself but it's already over, lol.

Good morning from CO! Goodnight Krista! Beautiful day ahead for us and so I suppose I will get some coop chores done. Yesterday was not very productive for me as I was still recovering from the weekend and I wasn't even partying and pulling allnighters! Must have been the time change... I think we should just compromise on 30 minutes and never bother with it again. It was really strange when we lived in AZ; there we would switch Time Zones, not the time.
Maybe I will start some leek seeds today and get the gardening fix in. I did make a broody cardboard box nest that I will put in the coop. It makes cleaning up easier after the hatching and all.
Well, guess I will go make more coffee and get the day seriously rolling.

'Morning Margie! Yeah, I kind of feel like I'm chasing my tail a bi at the moment too. I see to have so much to do and so little time

My garden is a shamozzle, I really need to get planting out my Winter seedlings too. Good idea with the cardboard brood box. I use an old garbage bin tipped on it's side for my broody box. It has plenty of room and I just tip it out into the vegie patch after hatching. After taking out the hen and the chickies of course

Todays chores...since it is beautiful and sunny out....I am hosing down the chicken tractor to get it cleaned up for the new hatch. Whenever the broody decides to go broody. I had 3 cockerels in the bottom level....awaiting their long anticipated trip to freezer camp. Since DH and I have been sick with the flu this past month....as well as dealing with DH's responsibilities as executor to his friends estate......chicken processing has been bumped down on the priority list. Now I have 5 cockerels awaiting their trip. Looks like it might be me....handling the processing all by myself again.

Oh gosh, good luck with that Moxie. I can't do the deed myself, and nor can my wussy husband (who I shall refer to as Batgirl, as I AM BATMAN!) We pay our vet to euthanize our chooks when they are sick or old. I could never eat them as I only have a small flock (8 hens, 3 pullets, 1 rooster) and they are all my surrogate children

My big job for the day is to clean my coop and run. A good once-over will take me about 2 hours. Then I am planning on relaxing for the rest of the day.

- Krista

 

[starbuck123]

question time - how old were each of you when you started to drink coffee?

The reason I ask is I have to drive my kids to school; the youngest is 13 and in 7th grade. The oldest grade at the school is 8th grade and many mornings as I leave the curb I glance in the rearview mirror and see a kid exiting the parent's car with a Starbucks cup. granted, it could be one of those tooty-fruity frappachinomocalicious drinks. My cousin went to England in 7th grade and came back drinking coffee - black - which I thought was hilarious! I didn't start drinking it until I was about 21 and working full time at a place that had free coffee in the breakroom and one of my co-workers was a coffee drinker too. I'd always *happen* to take my break at the same time as him (and we were married a few years later

Anyway, I see these kids trying so desperately to look grown up and it makes me chuckle. around here it seems to be the cool thing to do which i guess is ok since when I was that age, smoking was considered cool; which is why I was a total geek. I wasn't one of the cool kids.

 

[Mtn Margie]

College, sometime in college, probably my Junior year. I have two sons that started drinking coffee in high school and the others love hot tea, but I think it is more of a product of where we live and having a hot drink to sip on being wonderful than needing the caffeine. In the summer, all three days of it, we aren't real big coffee drinkers....

 

[3goodeggs]

I was in high school when I first started drinking it, but I did not drink it and enjoy it until college.
The first pot of coffee that I ever made was at my grandmother's. I was in high school. This grandmother had a very monotonous voice and was not adept at conversation. Her house was hot and stuffy in the winter and freezing in the summer. She entertained 'us' (read "me" because everyone else would clear out ) by running down all of the marriages and births and who was related to whoms going back to the revolution, then occasionally pop in with an "are you listening?"
And because I could play back what she just said -because by the time I was 17 I'd heard it hundreds of times- I was able to repeat the last few begets by heart, but in order to do that I had to stay awake enough to know where she was in our oral history.


I couldn't tell a word of it now. I wish I had been allowed to hang out with my grandfather the farmer. I would have learned something useful and I probably would not be addicted to coffee.