BYC Café

[sourland]

Lilacs are a favorite here.

 

[aart]

Do you bring lilacs in when the come into bloom?

No lilacs here, but when I did have them they were best enjoyed outside instead of letting their cloying odor envelope my house.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good frosty morning! Sunny until it starts snowing again but not supposed to get much.
Today, I think the onions will go in the ground. The lows are supposed to stay above freezing for over a week. That should give them some time to settle in. I need to get the rest of the cool plants here and acclimating. I have lingon berry and nanking cherry bushes coming in this week. I will be potting them until it is time to plant.
Enjoy the weekend!

 

[Sally PB]

Darl, my rooster, died last night. I found him on the floor of the coop this morning. His comb was purple-ish, so maybe a heart attack...? He head was at an odd angle too, so he may have broken it when he fell.

I'm sorry/not sorry about this. He's been a butthead to me many times. But he was good with the girls. I'm wondering what the flock dynamics will be now.

 

[bruceha2000]

Always hard to lose a bird, even when they aren't a favorite.

She still showed up for work tonight.

I currently have 2 "working" in the "spare coop" stall. The other resident, not in the buster, is Daisy the egg eater. I better not get another applying for the job because the buster isn't big enough for 3.

Not usually a fan of fresh cut flowers,
but cannot resist bringing a few Daffy's into my house each spring.

They are my MIL's favorite. FIL used to get her some for her birthday (12 days from now) but given he is in the skilled nursing area of the retirement community I don't know how he will manage that. BUT we have a bazillion daffodils, up with flower heads forming. Hopefully they will bloom in time to take some to my MIL for her birthday.

 

[DobieLover]

I better not get another applying for the job because the buster isn't big enough for 3

Time to buy another buster...

Hopefully they will bloom in time to take some to my MIL for her birthday.

That would be nice. Where is your MIL living?

 

[bruceha2000]

Time to buy another buster...

That would be nice. Where is your MIL living?

Buy a buster? LOL. Tonya, I am like you, I build everything.

She lives in the unit they've shared for 10 years. It is a "must be of sound mind and body to move in" retirement community. They have a lot of independent living units, an assisted living unit, the skilled nursing unit and a memory unit.

FIL is the youngest of 5, they all eventually moved to this facility, the oldest of them right when it opened. He is now 97 and the lone survivor. His sister died in February, she was 104. Lived independently until nearly 103, didn't get the wheelchair until late last year.

 

[bruceha2000]

I took DW’s ‘06 Prius in for annual inspection, fog light replacement and tire swap last week. Went for a walk, the building is the school where we vote. I never noticed this before.

This is for Tonya

Note the construction, no bolts, it is pegged, originally built in 1865.

Sadly the mechanic found that the brake lines need to be replaced. Not unexpected I guess in a 16 year old car that lives with salted roads and is just shy of 250,000 miles. So another visit in 2 weeks.

 

[Shadrach]

Good evening Cafe.
Down to my last cooked then frozen meal. I'm going to have to do some more.
Warm enough for outdoor bathing today it seems.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Not warm enough here 41 out is the high but low is not much lower .. My birds are lined up along the fence with Smudge looking on no baths outside all still mud ..