BYC Café

[N F C]

Morning! We had those same wicked winds last night. Snow coming in tonight. Too much fun...
Thanks for the coffee!

Hi Margie...batten down the hatches for sure. Stay warm!

 

[DobieLover]

Thanks for the fresh pot of coffee, @N F C . I'll have a cup.

Sounds pretty windy west of the Mississippi.

Thankfully, it's a beautiful sunny day so I'll get no arguments renting the compactor. I just got a haircut and DH is in the chair now. Then we'll get the compactor. Still texting around trying to find someone to help unload and reload it.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Hi Meg!

Those 60+ mph winds are what I was driving home through yesterday...no fun!

Sounds like that inch of snow will probably be gone soon. I'm sure you'll get enough to make up for that yet this winter

Hope you have a good day!

Oh dear, that doesn't sound like any fun at all! Glad you made it safe and sound!

Everyone keeps saying it supposed to be a rough winter...I guess we'll see

 

[Shadrach]

Thanks for the fresh pot of coffee, @N F C . I'll have a cup.

Sounds pretty windy west of the Mississippi.

Thankfully, it's a beautiful sunny day so I'll get no arguments renting the compactor. I just got a haircut and DH is in the chair now. Then we'll get the compactor. Still texting around trying to find someone to help unload and reload it.

Reading this reminded me of a completely useless bit of information. In the UK, those portable compactors are called Whacker Plates.

 

[Shadrach]

Oh dear, that doesn't sound like any fun at all! Glad you made it safe and sound!

Everyone keeps saying it supposed to be a rough winter...I guess we'll see

They are saying that here.
Rough here tends to mean lots of water rather than freezing temperatures. Even with the sudden downpours that come with the storms here that may not last more than a few minutes we get landslides.
There are already four or five 2 to 3 cubic meter small slides at the back of the main house car port. A serious slide there will take out the back wall of the car port.

 

[N F C]

They are saying that here.
Rough here tends to mean lots of water rather than freezing temperatures. Even with the sudden downpours that come with the storms here that may not last more than a few minutes we get landslides.
There are already four or five 2 to 3 cubic meter small slides at the back of the main house car port. A serious slide there will take out the back wall of the car port.

Any danger to your house with slides?

 

[Shadrach]

What criteria will your club use to judge the sites? Enjoy your meeting!

Seven took part. All Catalan with varied levels of English.

Five sites.
Poultrykeeprer
The Poultry Site
Feathersite
Backyard Poultry
Backyard Chickens.

Four classes.
Media
Articles
Usefulness
Medical

Poultry keeper came first in every class except media
Backyard Chickens came last in every class except media where it came first.

The club found Poultry Keeper much easier to navigate and thought the articles relevant to the topic easy to find.
All seven found threads confusing and largely irrelevant.
The Poultry site was liked, but it was considered to be aimed at large scale meat and egg producers.

It was interesting. These people don't use the Internet for animal problems in general.
Some have books on their animals. Some have family notes, like a diary of what was done to who and when. I wished my Catalan was better because there are some gems in there I'm sure.
Amusing is there are two members around my age who get quite heated about women keeping chickens.
Surprisingly the 'pet' view of chickens that you find on most sites wasn't at all a problem for any. Two of the members I know have the chickens wandering into their kitchen like me and other can remember their parents having various animals wander around the house.
Many of the old farmhouses are laid out with kitchen and toilet (if there was one) on the ground floor. Bedrooms and living rooms middle floor and an open attic for storage.

 

[Shadrach]

Any danger to your house with slides?

Not really. It is feasible for one of the terraces above and to one side might give way. Even then I don't think enough soil would reach the roof and overload it.
Assuming an earth bermed house like mine is correctly built they're largely immune to wind, water and with some luck, fire.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

They are saying that here.
Rough here tends to mean lots of water rather than freezing temperatures. Even with the sudden downpours that come with the storms here that may not last more than a few minutes we get landslides.
There are already four or five 2 to 3 cubic meter small slides at the back of the main house car port. A serious slide there will take out the back wall of the car port.

Well, I might take the rain, but not the landslides That's basically unheard of around here. We get washouts on mountain roads, had a culvert collapse in the middle of the interstate last year, and usually a handful of culvert replacements in dirt roads every year.

 

[N F C]

Seven took part. All Catalan with varied levels of English.

Five sites.
Poultrykeeprer
The Poultry Site
Feathersite
Backyard Poultry
Backyard Chickens.

Four classes.
Media
Articles
Usefulness
Medical

Poultry keeper came first in every class except media
Backyard Chickens came last in every class except media where it came first.

The club found Poultry Keeper much easier to navigate and thought the articles relevant to the topic easy to find.
All seven found threads confusing and largely irrelevant.
The Poultry site was liked, but it was considered to be aimed at large scale meat and egg producers.

It was interesting. These people don't use the Internet for animal problems in general.
Some have books on their animals. Some have family notes, like a diary of what was done to who and when. I wished my Catalan was better because there are some gems in there I'm sure.
Amusing is there are two members around my age who get quite heated about women keeping chickens.
Surprisingly the 'pet' view of chickens that you find on most sites wasn't at all a problem for any. Two of the members I know have the chickens wandering into their kitchen like me and other can remember their parents having various animals wander around the house.
Many of the old farmhouses are laid out with kitchen and toilet (if there was one) on the ground floor. Bedrooms and living rooms middle floor and an open attic for storage.

Very interesting stuff! I've used the Feathersite before but not looked at the others.

About the guys that got heated about women keeping chickens...is it mainly a man's job to do that in your part of Spain?