Consolidated Kansas

[Hawkeye95]

Too cool! Mine too - he has done the Pikes Peak Marathon several times. He starts training for it about 6 months before, by running up the stairs of a 26-floor building several times every lunchtime. Since it is so flat around here, its the way he builds up the muscles needed for the uphill of Pikes Peak. He did NY a few years ago but it was a really warm day and he had to quit about 23 miles in because he had heat stroke. Bummer. He's a much better cold weather runner.

yep, sounds like my DH. He does the stairs at the WSU outdoor Cessna stadium. This time, however when he was training, he just did an indoor incline and stepped up his pace to try to hit the wall faster and account for altitude. He did pretty good, but still didn't quite meet his goal. He's wanting to do Pikes Peak again this year, but the slots were sold out online so fast, he didn't get his in. Last year, he was in the first heat up the mountain since his times are pretty good. It's just as well, he is recovering from a hip flexor injury. He's running in the "Brew to Brew" run from Kansas City to Lawrence this next weekend. I want to make a mini vacay out of it, but we'll see. One of my best friends got laid off from Boeing and they just moved to Olathe and I want to see her and the new house she got. Her DH was able to get a job up there and she's still undecided if she wants to go back. That is a real bummer that he got heat stroke at mile 23. Yikes! We went to a marathon a couple years ago -- I think it was the Little Rock, Arkansas one- and there was an Elite 28 yr old runner that came in around 2:45 and promptly died at the finish line! I was there and when he came running in, he started waving and slowing down and then he nearly fell and dragged over the line and collasped. They started doing compressions right away and moved everyone back, but it was released later that night that he died before he got to the hospital. It was sooooo sad. They didn't state what the cause was, but I think it was heat stroke because it was one of the HOTTEST marathons we'd been at and everyone was dropping left and right. I was dying in the heat just watching and running along the course to meet up with my DH to cheer him on. So many people dropped out of that race. It's also a very hilly race and that alone sometimes knocks people out of the race. There are a couple bridges over that river on the course that when you're at the bottom-- even going midway up-- you can't see over the top, it's that high! I jogged that bridge twice and nearly killed myself. Fortunately, my DH came in fine, but he was 15 mins under his goal time because of the heat. He was really disappointed. If your DH does a lot of runs-- he might know my DH! I listed the two groups he's in-- does your DH go to those?? Or if he's a runner's blogger--- then let me know, I'll send you the link for them to hook up! Your DH should totally come to Joggers and Laggers!

 

[Trish44]

Hawkeye, I lost count of how many marathons my DH has run. He hasn't gone to any really far away like yours has. This will be his first in awhile because he had been in school for 2 years & didn't have much time to train. He's going to do the OKC one April 29th this time. He has done Fort Worth & usually does the Wichita one. I have always gone to about all of them before other than when I had my knee surgery, and I would this time, but it's not just one day I would be gone, it would end up being two days. He has to be down there on Sat. afternoon to pick up his packet & then we wouldn't be back until Sun.night because my son lives there & he will probably want to go out & eat if I go. Now really, could you all get brand new chicks one day & the next day go out of town for two days & just leave them to fend for themselves? What if something happened like the heat lamp fell & started a fire in the garage with all of my rabbits in there? The brooder box is directly across from the rabbit cages like 3 feet away. There is a multitude of things in there that would burn & I have all of those darling baby rabbits out there & a rabbit that will just be having babies in another week or so too. I would be a wreck worrying that everything was all right at home if I went & left them there. I would also feel really bad if I went & came back & a bunch of them had died while I was gone for one reason or another. I have waited so long for this order of chicks & now I just want to be here when they come & see them & take care of them.

That silly little hen I got in Yates Center refuses to go into the run & coop. She just runs around outside & when all the others go in she stays out & roosts somewhere unknown. Tonight she acted like she wanted to go in, she stood out in the yard & called to the other chickens & listened to them making sounds in the coop, but when I tried to get her in she just ran the other way. Even the two silly Lakenvelder hens have been going in, but now I have another one that doesn't want to go in there. She has found a planter on the front porch & has been laying her egg in there every day. If I had seen her in time when I came out the door I could have had her before she hopped down, but I had my hands full & she hopped out before I could grab her.

I don't know about you all, but I'm tired of the rain already & we have rain forecasted here clear through Thurs. It's already saturated here & a big mess, I can't imagine how it's going to be by that day. Yeah, we needed some rain, but not all at once like this. We had one year like this when I had gone to help a friend in Derby with a garage sale for the weekend. When I came back home the rivers were all coming out of the banks & our road had washed out in two places. I tried to drive to my driveway & my car just sank. It took 4 big men to push it out of there & then I couldn't get my car home for several days. The township had to send some guys out with rock to build the road back up in those two places, it was a total mess. Let's hope that doesn't happen this time because our new car is due in some time this week.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Sorry guys but I'm with Trish on this one. She's supporting him by not insisting he stay home to watch the new chicks.

That was a lame joke. But, for real, they're not joined at the hip or anything and it's fine if he likes to run but I don't think that obligates a wife to attend every race. I would be interested in his training and his results but attending every run sounds just horrible even without having new chicks and bunnies!

 

[Trish44]

Thanks KarenS for the support! I'm afraid that my DH's running keeps him away from home a lot of the time, especially when he is training for a marathon. If he's not running he's at work or sleeping. I just kind of hate it during that time because it's like I'm a running widow. I'm not able to run due to my physical problems with Fibromyalgia & Arthritis besides other reasons, so I'm kind of left out with all of that. It's something he enjoys so I don't mind that he likes to do it, but it seems like it takes priority over anything else. If something needs to be done around here it has to take second place to the running. So honestly I don't feel that bad when there is something that I enjoy on a daily basis that gives me happiness & pleasure because I should be able to have a hobby also. I think I support my DH on a daily basis pretty much since I rarely ever say anything about him being gone all the time to run. I do ask him how his run was & if he runs a marathon where they time them with a chip I usually follow him on my laptop if I'm not right there. So if I don't make it to one marathon I don't think I'm a bad wife. I'm probably a lot more supportive of his hobby than he is of mine, in fact I know I am.

 

[cherwill]

I hate to say it, but I'm not tired of the rain yet. It means I don't have to run out to the community garden every day and water! We got both plots covered with compost and tilled, put up the wire we use for trellises, and planted peas and beets. The guy who runs the garden says he was just notified that Kansas' official frost free date this year is May 7. What? I thought it was always April 15. Besides, I can't imagine a frost that late after the (non)winter we've had.

 

[Trish44]

cherwill, I agree I can't imagine it being that late for the frost date either, it's always been April 15th for as long as I can remember. We have 11 more days of March left, so far so good, but I shouldn't say that should I? We have had some doozy snow storms & ice storms in March. The trees all act like it's Spring, our bushes are all blooming & even our Redbud trees are in bloom & ours usually are behind even the ones in town, but not this year. Let's hope they know something we don't.

 

[sharol]

Yike, bite your tongue. That's like asking for a hard freeze in May.

I didn't get my peas and onions in before I left for Reno last week, so now it will be too wet to plant when I get back this weekend. Darn. I knew I should get those in the ground, but I didn't have the time. Lost opportunities.

sharol

I hate to say it, but I'm not tired of the rain yet. It means I don't have to run out to the community garden every day and water! We got both plots covered with compost and tilled, put up the wire we use for trellises, and planted peas and beets. The guy who runs the garden says he was just notified that Kansas' official frost free date this year is May 7. What? I thought it was always April 15. Besides, I can't imagine a frost that late after the (non)winter we've had.

 

[chicken danz]

I just got back from a retirement breakfast. I hadn't been to one since October, and they have one a month. I sold eggs which paid for the breakfast. It's always nice to go; I just hate getting up and getting ready and being there by 8:00. It's a little bit of a drive. It's all people that came from the maintenance group at the plant so they are people I've worked with and some of their wives. I don't think there are any other retired females that go. Almost of the entire department has been men. I've just always liked traditional men's work better. I couldn't stand to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day.
I too am sick of the rain. It's still sprinkling here. It's a lake outside. My poor birds are all wading out there. Can't be healthy for them. Plus it isn't helping me get any of my projects built.
I'm going to leave in a bit to go check on my parents and see what they need.
I have an inbubator full of chicks I need to get moved too. I had some of those big bunches of yard eggs hatch. I think I'm probably up to about 300 chicks hatched for the year so far. If you hear of anyone wanting mostly brown egg layer type large fowl chicks I have tons.

 

[Trish44]

Danz, I can put an ad on the Poultry Swap for you if you want, I'll just point them to you. How much are you wanting for the chicks?

I found this new kind of stacking storage thing at Walmart that is heavy plastic & it has a lip on the opening at the front & a lid on the top. It just looked perfect for a chicken nest. I was wanting to find something that my Ameraucanas would use instead of me having to get down & dig in the back of their house to collect eggs. I put it out there last night with straw in it & this morning I looked & one of my hens was in there sitting. Yay, I'm so happy! I was afraid they would ignore it like everything else I have tried, so maybe this is going to work.

 

[chicken danz]

Thanks Teresa. $1.50 to $3. One day to 6 weeks old. I just haven't put an add in because I've been gone so much. But if they could PM me I'll get back with them. I do give some discounts for multiple purchases, like maybe over 10 of them. I have another bunch of them hatching right now. I am running out of brooder room.