BYC Café

[sourland]

I hope we are ok with food this winter! I might need to stock up on more emergency foods

Sensible stock piling is not a bad idea. Added a pot of coffee to the selection on the counter. I'm becoming caffeine deprived.

 

[pennyJo1960]

About ready to head out to clean a few coops but one more cup so thank you

 

[CapricornFarm]

If everyone everywhere wore a mask in public, transmission rates go down 60% according to a new study. The virus is sneaky and very infectious. Other countries are doing much better than we are because they wear masks and wash their hands. It is quite simple to do

I too struggle to remember a mask when going out though

I started keeping my mask in my purse so I always have it along.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My coops are done see funny most of us here have common sense wash hands often and wear a mask if it is not washable change weekly

 

[sourland]

My coops are done see funny most of us here have common sense wash hands often and wear a mask if it is not washable change weekly

To this I'll add frequent use of hand sanitizer - after leaving store and before touching door handles or steering wheel.

 

[Perris]

in the shade on the town hall wall. It read 42C

no wonder the Spanish invented the siesta! do you take one in that sort of heat? I think an afternoon nap is wonderful in any circumstances, but especially when it's hot.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am all in for that siesta maybe this is why old folks nap also
think I will shell some peas

 

[DobieLover]

no wonder the Spanish invented the siesta! do you take one in that sort of heat? I think an afternoon nap is wonderful in any circumstances, but especially when it's hot.

Who could sleep in that heat?!! I'd be afraid I'd drown in my sweat.

 

[Perris]

Dobie, re your chick situation, you might find this encouraging:

while shutting up the coops tonight I found one of my 9 wk old chicks snuggled in the nest box with the 2 wk old chicks and their broody, Maria. Then when the other three 9 wk olds went in, one of them squeezed in with her too, while the remaining pair are cwtched up just in front of it; so cute! (The 9 wk olds' own broody, Eve, decided this week that she's had enough, and has been beastly to them to drive them away.) Perhaps my Maria will become like your Astrid; she's been very good with the older chicks, right since she emerged with her own brood. I wonder if she realizes that one of them is biologically hers...and the other three are Isabella's (Maria's sister, who went to live at the Castle, so her 'nieces').

 

[Shadrach]

no wonder the Spanish invented the siesta! do you take one in that sort of heat? I think an afternoon nap is wonderful in any circumstances, but especially when it's hot.

I don't. I wouldn't mind having a bit of a kip but I've usually got a couple of roosters in the house at that time of day, and, to do what I need to get done during my waking hours I would need to stay up until 2am to make up for lost time.
Animal care takes up a couple of hours of daylight. I have to do all the stuff that single people have to do, cooking, washing, cleaning and shopping etc. That all takes time if one is to eat properly and not live in squalor. Bear in mind despite my entreaties and bribery attempts I haven't managed to get the chickens to participate in house management yet.
Then there are lamps etc to be made. There is a constant stream of maintenance projects to be taken care of.
If you now wipe out four hours of that day when it's this hot because you just can't do stuff outside, the remaining hours are pretty busy.