BYC Café

[pennyJo1960]

raining like heck here think I will give it a break wait 20 minutes

 

[CapricornFarm]

Here ya go Cap! Enjoy
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She gets scared outside
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For some reason, she like's to nibble, lick on my face!
Hard to take pics 1handed!

OMG, adorable!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have polish chicks hatching today. 2 so far.
I have been trying to put some plants in the ground. The clay is rock hard! Have to water it and let it soak in before digging. What a pain.

 

[007Sean]

I have polish chicks hatching today. 2 so far.
I have been trying to put some plants in the ground. The clay is rock hard! Have to water it and let it soak in before digging. What a pain.

Know exactly what a pain that is ....had to do that with one of the enclosures I built. Ground was so hard, had to dig 4 inches, soak it down dig another 4 inches, soak again, until I got a 2ft. deep hole. Of course it was August, temp 104°F with a heat index of 108°F. 42 posts in all. Didn't want to rent an auger, or borrow my neighbors, so dug them the old way, by hand posthole digger. Never again!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Thunder torrential rains today nothing happening outside doing what we need to
between storms and the thunder rolls

 

[ShrekDawg]

Just saw a MASSIVE raccoon next to the chicken coop... just sitting on the roll of hardware cloth I put on the side (after something had dug in) amd the food was knocked over. I'm thinking this thing is after the feed and not the chickens? Didn't even move when I screamed "HEY!" or with that 10000 lumen flashlight we had on (were looming at my plants) and shined directly on it...... my dad had to go over there and even then it was slow moving. Let the dog out but he doesn't seem to care.

 

[Alaskan]

Here is a pretty cool pic of the pollen storm, taken by a neighbor.

good grief!! That doesn't even look real! Seriously....

So where do such things happen? How often? And pollen from what plant?

(I expect a giant 100 foot tall ant to come up out of that mist)

 

[drumstick diva]

Kdogg, raccoons acting differently than normal (who knows what is normal for a raccoon) can be rabid. In most areas raccoons are considered to be rabid. It is so common in them lately. Good thing your dog ignored it - if you/he gets bitten or scratched - it would be prudent to get the series of rabies shots given.

 

[pennyJo1960]

seems to be more prevalent today seeing more rabies

 

[drumstick diva]

Alaskan want to know what is worse than clay? Try gardening or anything, on property that was once a quarry. It's impossible in our immediate area ,to dig down farther than a few inches without the scritchy noise of hitting rock. Never little rocks, always boulder type rocks. If you manage to extricate them - the dirt around it will drop several inches. I never have anything to fill the holes with. Sometimes I would put them back.

Some city person, and yes, she was a blond. Said she noticed all the big boulders "growing", her word not mine, in the forest preserve at one side of the street. I tried to tell her that they didn't grow there. People dug them out of their yards and dumped them in the woods. She insisted they were growing there.

Another observation of hers was that trees knew electricity(electric wires) were bad and that's why they branches didn't grow near them. The electric company cuts off any branches (sometimes the heart of a tree) to keep them away from the wires. You can plainly see they have been cut. They might as well just remove the trees, because they are so misshapen that they end up breaking in the next windy spell or storm.

One more story of hers and then I'll quit. She said people could easily find another planet to live on because they ALL have oxygen just like ours. Aside from trying hard not to laugh, she always gave me a bad headache.

I have a headache now, just from telling all of this.