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[pennyJo1960]

Hey good morning Cafe, made these Pepperidge Farm pastry.
They are really flaky but darn good.

 

[DobieLover]

I euthanized 1 hen last month of reproductive illness and now ....more ill health...this is the part I hate about having chickens....diagnoses, guess work, possibilities, treatment,might be better or deciding to euthanize or not to euthanize.

It's never fun. The incidents of having to deal with these things increases with their age.

My near 8 year olds (hatch day 04/29/2018) are all doing quite well. Astrid, the gal who has now given me 2 eggs, has been sleeping in the nest boxes lately. This is not because of illness but for avoidance of the boys. She's had enough of them. I had a nice long talk with her about it this morning. I explained to her that this is the consequence of her having to hatch out all those chicks.
Every.
Stinkin'.
Year!

You must now deal with your sons. Maybe she'll pass on going broody this year.

 

[Sally PB]

Here's my contractor question, starting with backstory.

The president (Dave) of our bee club is a licensed builder. He did a presentation on doing "cut outs." People call him to get the bees that have made a hive in a wall. He had a slide show of some of his projects, and the before and after pictures were impressive.

So, we thought he might be a possibility for our wrap-around porch. I talked to him at the last bee club meeting. I told him that his work on the cut outs was impressive and would call him. He said he was going on vacation, would be back the end of March. He texted me a couple days ago that he got my message and would be in touch after he got back home.

We wanted to get three quotes. I looked up several places... and looked up Dave. Wish I hadn't talked to him already. Only two reviews. Both one star, scathing remarks.

My question is... should I even ask him about the two reviews? Ask him anything...? look for any more information? Is there anything I could look for specifically? Ask for references? Hope he forgets to call me and we line up someone else?

We thought maybe we'd just get the other two (or three) quotes and tell him we're going with someone else. By text, probably, because I do NOT like confrontation. (Neither does hubby.)

I don't want to piss him off, because I still want to go to the bee club meetings.