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[vehve]

Deb, hope everything's in order. Tell grandma to keep her heartrate normal.

 

[Alaskan]

Drat!
Air cells look like day 14, but it's day 18.... Blah
Hmmmm

When that happens I don't add water until pip.

Some people though, do a dry hatch... Maybe try that??

it was 90 here yesterday

Deb, hope everything's in order. Tell grandma to keep her heartrate normal.

X2!!

 

[1kluckychik]

Georgia cold? Lol!
Warm here, 40s, t-shirt weather splitting wood. Going to be single digits end of the week.

We are bracing for 27F Tuesday.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hope grandma is doing better, Deb...

 

[perchie.girl]

Hope grandma is doing better, Deb...

shes back to digging for papers and telling people the same stories over and over.....

Tuesday we are supposed to go to the Living Trust Lawyer to have me put on as the power of attourney.... we came across this in the hospital because she didnt know where she was... LOL... when she was asked she gave a smar-tass comment.... With a big grin she said she knew she was in a hospital... but not which one.

They said she couldnt sign the paper work so I had to. I told them I didnt have power of attourney it didnt matter. so I signed.

we are going to monitor her water intake closer.... and I need find a nutritionist that specializes in Geriatrics... our bodies change with extreme age and i want to make sure I am making the right things for her to eat.

In july she will be 100 years old.

deb

 

[getaclue]

Deb, glad grandma is doing better. You seem to shoulder the responsibility for her care very well. It's not always easy, to say the least, to care for our elderly parents, and grandparents. It's very wise to get power of attorney too. Good job, lady!

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, glad grandma is doing better. You seem to shoulder the responsibility for her care very well. It's not always easy, to say the least, to care for our elderly parents, and grandparents. It's very wise to get power of attorney too. Good job, lady!

thanks

 

[CanuckBock]

lol I'll getcha some pictures later..

So was waiting to see these...saw Peep's post below and thought...better go check it out, see what Amber had posted in clicks...nope!

Quote:

Amber --

Your Feb vegetable garden looks nice and low maintenance..... Enjoy!

Uh Peep...no photos from Amber yet...I think because she quoted me with the photos I posted of MY GARDEN for ice worms...you figured it was her... <<I think??>>

One of the issues when someone quotes someone and leaves the photos in...confusion prospers forth, eh.

@CanuckBock ever grow mammoth mangle beets for chickens?
Planting a 1/4 pound this spring.
I've looked into saving seeds. Might be difficult for some things, crossbreeding/cross pollination. Brassica's, kale,broccoli, cauliflower, collards all will cross breed, pumpkins with summer squash and winter squash, carrots with queen anne's lace. I plant two varieties of tomato, don't want them crossed.
I've even had potato plants grow tomatoes.

NO past experience YET with mangle beets...but that is on my order with Heritage Harvest Seeds (nfi).

LUV the description...but not thinking our length of growing season will reach this magnitude!

Gonna get: Colossal Long Red....here's what they say...

Heritage Harvest Seed catalogue; page 13:
I will keep this all in mind and sure hoping this savin' seed book I order lists out what can't be near each other AND what distances. I have had this thought about corns...that you want a 60 and like an 80 dayer, and can plant together with no concerns BUT if all harvesting same date, you gotta figure on how to stagger it out. I don't have much hope of too much in the keeping seeding at this point, but will try to learn and see where that takes moi.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Alaskan]

The Alaskan group was talking about the mammoth mangels.. Supposedly they are super difficult to get them to not bolt.

 

[Beer can]

Father in law said he grew them here many yrs ago for his pigs and cows. Said they grew huge.

Henry Field’s Seed Sense for February 1926. In it the author writes, “If you don’t grow mangel beets for anything else, grow them for your chickens. They furnish a very important food element for your laying hens. Your hens will loaf on the job during the winter if they do not have green food of some kind like sprouted oats, cabbage, or beets. Mangels are easy to grow and make enormous yields."

"Laura Ingalls Wilder, of Little House on the Prairie fame, was famous for getting excellent egg production out of her hens in the winter on her farm. She wrote of mangels in her memoirs saying," “Some stock beets should be raised to feed the layers in winter. The hens are fond of them and they act as a relish and appetizer as well as save other feed.”