BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

Our first night of the season to drop into the high 20s. It's a crunchy frost out there.

The youngest batch of pullets/cockerels (Astrid's kids) are in their kung fu stage. That little dom white pullet is a pisser. She has been taking NO crap from one of the ermine cockerels.

I have fallen madly in love with Sarah, one of Astrid's black pullets. She has the most mischievous and endearing personality. She and her sister, Allison, has been really warming up to me lately. Two other pullets from the hatch are Cosima and Rachel. The lone black pullet from Astrid is named Mika. Who can guess where their names came from?

I have 3 hens in HARD molts. They are miserable although Tink looks to be over the hump. Two of my 7 year olds have not started yet. I hate it when they wait until the snow flies and the wind is howling to drop most of their feathers.

Today's plan is to rip out all the dead plants from my flower pots/window boxes and at least 2 of the 4 garden beds. I will also be making a roasted butternut squash soup with squash from my garden. If the weather cooperates, I need to run the tractor over the leaves to mulch them up and spread them around the yard.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and thanks for the coffee.

 

[Sally PB]

I plan to put up the solid windbreak panels today. I might get the shower curtains up on the west side too; there is a light breeze and if it gets stronger, it's a real struggle to get the curtains up.

 

[DobieLover]

I plan to put up the solid windbreak panels today. I might get the shower curtains up on the west side too; there is a light breeze and if it gets stronger, it's a real struggle to get the curtains up.

How do the shower curtains hold up?
I installed snaps to attach my reinforced poly sheeting to the framing and hold it in place. That gives me time to go back over it and screw on ripped down deck boards over all the vertical supports to pin them in place.
The sheets are going into their 6th year of service. I have a few torn out snaps and an area of one sheet that a determined squirrel chewed through but they are otherwise doing great. I have a bunch of material still left on the roll along with some seaming tape should I need or want to replace any.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good morning and thanks for the hot coffee! We are supposed to have a low 20 something freeze tonight.
Hugs, Sky... It sounds like you have a bit of work to do with coop roof repair and general clean-up. I wish we could pop on over and help!

 

[SkyAJK]

Good Morning,

1st Coffee of the day is ready. I got out early and quickly to get the kids out before the rain and the usual set up for the rain.

I love the cool weather you are having now over there. It is muddy muddy and humid with rain over here now. You are all getting ready for the colder weather, I am here in action for the muddy, rain and hailstorm season.

Thank you @Mtn Margie everyone here is so handy and know how to do many technical things. I try to do a bit of technical stuff like everyone here.

@DobieLover I have yet seen my chickens eat those fruits from the Chinese Elsm tree, finger cross they don't. I love reading about your chicks and pullets. I want to hatch some eggs with my 2 broody hens, but I can not manage anymore. The tiny rooster is a handful.

Today I will be with mom to meet with her home care manager about new increase of fees and charges. What we have over here is that a home care funding given by the government and held by a private home care provider to care for the elderly in their home. Our government wants seniors to stay living in their home instead of moving into a nursing home.This funding is to modify their home to meet their need, railing, wheel chair access, assistance with cooking, shopping, showering or nursing..etc..

The home care providers charges excessively on services they provided and also added 10% on top of any external services or purchases their clients use.The government stop them from doing that so now they find a new way to charge more. Now any communication with them will be charged minimum 15 minutes at the hourly rate of $130 an hour.

Lawn mowing people mowed my mom's lawn for $75, but the home care provider will take out of my mom's home care funding $110. They are back doing the dodgy charges again. It looks like I have to write a long letter to our local member and the federal aged care minister. I am certain many people will do this and the more people do it we have more chance of seeing action from our government. This government is working to improve the aged care industry since they elected in. It is not easy to make changes the aged care industry. In the mean time, find a lesser charge home care provider..is there even such a thing out there?

Have a great day

 

[Sally PB]

How do the shower curtains hold up?

I used the first set for 3 years. I replaced them, not because they were falling apart, but because they had yellowed quite a bit and felt like they were getting stiffer or brittle. I thought it would be easier to just buy new ones if/when I saw them on sale and start over with the new set in the fall. If one of the old ones had ripped in the wind in February, replacing it would have been a real hassle. One of my proactive thoughts.

 

[RoyalChick]

Good morning, Cafe'.

Today is up for grabs. Thinking 'sit on my butt and do not much.'

Sounds like a plan to me!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Heck was till a bit ago to get here.
Maybe site was down? Good afternoon Cafe!
Well darn, good excuse we had to go to town pickup one of my meds.
I did that yesterday George sat on my butt did not do nothing all day.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafè. Coffee is ready.