BYC Café

[Shadrach]

Good morning Cafe. This morning I remembered to brew a pot of coffee for everyone.

I'm anxiously awaiting full dawn so I can see if I nailed two mice. I forgot about the "stuff a piece of bread into the peanut butter" part of baiting the traps and the little vermin just licked all the PB off the first night. I'm pretty darn sure I nailed them last night.

On the run camera, it looks like one of the traps flew out of the crate. That was some precise flipping to get through the wires. Shad would tell me to leave it there and let the chickens tear up the dead mouse and eat it.

The trap circled in red is out of the crate. The one in the blue square is upside down inside the crate.
I hate emptying them though...
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Shad would if he was confident that the mice hadn't eaten poison.

 

[Shadrach]

Good morning and thanks for the coffee! Fireplace ashes work great for ice, I'm telling ya...
Our snow totals have dropped in estimation to only 3 inches, works for me.
Shad, what is your first meal in your proper frying pan? Enjoy the day, Cafe!

Tomato sauce of course Margie and very nice it was too.
I don't eat much in the way of fry ups, eg, bacon and eggs etc so mainly it will get used for sauces and stocks that get transfered to a dish that cooks in the oven.

 

[Shadrach]

Yeah, I was actually able to work on some door trim/baseboard pieces out in the barn!
That won't be happening again for a couple of days. Besides being painful, it isn't safe to work when you can't feel your fingers and gloves just don't cut it for woodworking.

I see others working with gloves on but I can't do it.

 

[Shadrach]

There was bright frozen blood on the south roost with a big frozen splatter on the poop board. I couldn't find anyone in distress. I just can't remember who was in that spot last night but I know I put one of the nest box lurkers there. I'll have to go take a closer look at combs when I go back out to clean when it warms up a bit.
I also had a collapsed roost in the run that I'll have to strap back in place. And add support strapping to the ends of the rest of the branch roosts in there too. That must have shook them up a bit when their roost collapsed out from under them.

That must have really upset them. It's like having the branch of a tree your roosting on snap!

 

[Shadrach]

Morning Cafe! Rain came back today .. I bought some walking onion on Amazon. Showed up in a zip lock looking like they where dead.. Wet them under a paper towel now in a cake pan with dirt if anything comes up ?

What on earth is walking onion?

 

[Shadrach]

Good morning Cafe.
Coffee is made.
Rainy and grey here. Stuck a rather large hole in my waterproof jacket vaulting a crash barrier fence walking home last night. Not at all impressed. Looks like I'll be buying a new one.
I shouldn't be vaulting fences at my age according to one of my daughters.

 

[DobieLover]

vaulting a crash barrier fence walking home last night

Was someone in hot pursuit of you? Why on earth would you be vaulting fences on your walk home?

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe and thanks for the coffee, Shad.

I reattached the branch that fell yesterday with a length of plumbers plastic pipe strap. I secured all the branch ends just in case so they all now have a safety catch. I'll watch them on the cameras today to see if they hop back up on their perches.

Of course Fabio had lots to say about that confounded, infernal power driver I did the work with. He gave it a good peck when I set it down to cut some strapping.

 

[N F C]

Good morning Cafe, thanks for the coffee Shad!

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks for the coffee.