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[Hawkeye95]

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Well you should totally play the "injured and sad" card for your Mocha mint latte! hehee!! I would!! I love QT's hot drinks-- I like to mix french vanilla cappuccino and cocoa-- half and half. Then, there is another place downtown called "Mead's Corner" and they have amazing flavored coffee's. I figure just being a mom to 3 young kids entitles me to coffee treats!

I'm a much happier person after one. It's the little things!

Hhm.. true that the coons and possums can climb, but if they get caught out in the open, they are food, I imagine. We dont have any trees around here except in the tree line- and anything that comes into my yard- they are in the open, for sure. I'd much rather be dealing with coyotes than all the climbing critters.

Today I have big plans to clean house and purge a ton of clothes from the kid's closets-- I am pulling my hair out with all the clothes they have. I LOVE hand me downs, but we've been swamped in bags and bags of them from my sister in law and even from the older neighbor kids. I'll pick out the best and take the rest to Goodwill. This is going to be an all-day event. I need to get out and do the dog panels first and then get started on my sorting and laundry. Sigh. If we are going to sell, I need organized closets that aren't stuffed (so it looks like we do in fact have enough room)-- and the kids- I can barely shut the doors!! Yikes!

 

[Trish44]

Hawkeye, I don't know which direction you are outside of Wichita, but have you seen the buy-sell-trade sites that have sprung up on Facebook? We have several for Cowley County, which I'm on, but there are some for Derby, South Wichita, Butler County, Sumner County, just about everywhere now. You should at least get some money for those clothes rather than just give them away, I'm sure they're worth some money. I've been cleaning out my storage room lately & now am working on my attic & have been making some extra money for things for my pups & chickens, it's been nice. We have several sites that people are on for Ark City & Winfileld & I get people from both places buying my stuff. I've been somewhat of a packrat for years & am now cleaning out my collection. Anyway, you might check into it.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Just came back inside. My fingers are frozen and so are my toes. Yikes! I got my dog run put up and attached it and used those hammer in staples and hardware cloth from the coop and put it around the dog run. All holes covered. I doubt it is fully predator proof, but I don't intend on having them out at night. And the coop is right in my back yard where I can see them. It'll have to work for now until I can build a "real" run in the Spring. I tried putting a tarp over the top of the run- OMG, with the wind and me doing this by myself, it's a disaster. We'll see how long that lasts.

My DH doesn't get home until Friday. For one thing, it will hold the chicks IN. Which is all I need for now and the tarp will at least work for rain. If it gets any more windy, I don't know what will happen. I'm not going to think about it right now! I had to come in really quick before I put the chicks out there. I'm tooo frozen to do anything. It's up to 35 degrees now-- here's my heat wave, anyway. Better than when I started working on it earlier in the 20's. At least the sun is nice and feels good. Seymore is already in the pen looking around like-- how do I get out? I know she can just fly over the top of the run. The tarp covers everything except about 3 feet of it. I won't be surprised if she is out by the time I get back out there. BUt at least she is eating and drinking for the time being. I worry about her free-ranging and not getting real food and water.

 

[Hawkeye95]

Trish- totally forgot! Yeah, I've looked into selling in the past, and it takes too long! LOL I'd much rather give it away and get it out of my house asap. I'm so DONE with their clothing mess. It is nice clothes, too. There is a little thrift shop in Derby that I like giving the clothes too- then I feel like I'm helping them out. They are with my old church-- the Derby Woodlawn UMC. I still go to that church on occassion, I have friends that go there and when they ask for us to come visit, we do. My DH isn't thrilled about running around to a couple diff churches, but I think its fun to check in on them from time to time. It's where I took my confirmation classes. Anyway, we are down South-- south of Haysville, near Clearwater.

 

[Trish44]

Hawkeye, OH, OK, now I know where you are. Well I know it takes time to sell things, but I've been needing extra money lately for all of this stuff & it has come in handy. My DH considers anything chicken related my responsibility, even though he eats the eggs. Well the egg money will be mine, along with any money I get for selling chicks next year if I get my breeder coop built. The pups seem to fall under that category too now since we got them to watch over the chickens, sigh.

Yeah it's pretty nippy out there, I was out earlier & didn't want to stay long. I'm going to have to go back out there after while to try to cut out the doors on my nest boxes though. It seems my hens don't think the openings are big enough for them, so I'm going to have to take the reciprocating saw out there & cut them out bigger. I went out this morning & my automatic pop door hadn't opened & the chickens were sitting in the coop wondering what the heck. I tried to get it to open, but it wouldn't. This is the first really cold night we've had so I guess the cold is affecting it. I hadn't had any problems whatever with it until now. I opened the people door to let them out & they kept going over to their pop door & wondering why it wasn't open, they're so conditioned to use that door it's comical. My pups on the other hand don't seem to be affected by this cold at all, they're out there playing like it's nothing. My little indoor dogs don't even want to go outside!

 

[Konza]

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Oh gosh, I've totally been there. Even waking up the poor sleep-deprived hubby to help me fight fire. I'm glad you were home to catch it!

 

[Hawkeye95]

Well, turkey is still in the dog run with the tarp top. Chicks are now in the coop!!!!!

I took the silkies out of their pen in the garage and put them in the barn for the day. Now they have a lot of room to run around and be chickens. Only the ONE is still sneezing. Maybe they'll feel better getting more fresh air and getting to peck around. I got an email today that said my VetRX shipped today. Anyway..... everyone is in their places!

I have the chicks locked inside the coop. I don't want to have to chase them under the coop to get them put back up tonight. So I guess I want them nice and happy to go back inside and realize the coop is now their home. They were so excited to get in it- they immediately checked out the roosts and started kicking thru the pine shavings and running around. Now that I worked my booty off today and I'm frozen, I'm going to start work on the cookie tin heater. I have only done a couple loads of laundry, so I guess my "room cleaning" isn't really happening today. Sigh. It has been non-stop work, work, work today. But it all came together great!!!

 

[Ivywoods]

Danz I hope they figure out how to control the pain in your shoulder. I'm sure it makes it difficult to do much.

Wow. My hubby shocked me to death yesterday. I still don't know how I feel about this. He is talking about moving. He wants to get away from some of the cold. Neither one of us are spring chickens anymore, and we both have arthritis. The cold really seems to affect the arthritis. We just returned from Ft. Benning, GA near Columbus, GA. It was COLD while we were there. It was in the 20's. I sure didn't expect it to be that cold when we were that far south. I asked him just how far south we would have to go to get away from the cold. Mexico, maybe? Anyway, that ain't gonna happen!

All the water pans in my little pens were frozen solid yesterday. Fortunately the ice just fell out in a big chunk. I really need to make some more water heaters.

 

[checoukan]

Got my new rosecombs today, sure was looking forward to that!!

They shippped out of New York monday, but all the post offices said they were safe and warm during the trip.

Now I can look forward to having lots of rosecomb babies. I will get some pictures posted of my new babies.
Ivy- I think you need to move out of the artic North east kansas down to the warmer South east Kansas. We still get cold, but not like you are having to deal with up there.

! Do you know how much fun we could have if we were closer together.

Lord, our husbands

would never know what we were up too, or into for that matter!!

I'll see if I can get the picture to load of my new babies.

 

[Trish44]

IVY, wow I'll bet that was a shock! I know what you mean about the cold, we hate it too for the same reason. My DH wants to go somewhere warmer when he retires too, but that's awhile off. They do get some cold snaps in some places in the south, but not like we get here. When we went to South Carolina they had a night that was 40 degrees while we were there & they thought they were dying. We told them they didn't know what cold was. So are you considering moving? Where would you go & what would you do with your chickens & livestock?