Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

[oldhenlikesdogs]

So sorry you lost your chicken Barb.

 

[Callender Girl]

Jim, you don't clean the gutters yourself, do you? I am terrified of heights and getting on ladders more than a couple of feet off the ground. I was approached about buying fancy gutter guards, but a very nice young man cleans mine for $150 -- less than one-tenth of what the gutter rep was trying to sell me.

While I'm sad to lose Althea, the extra space in her coop has opened the possibility of moving some chickens to new digs. The youngsters, who happily crowd into their coop, are wall-to-wall at night. There's much more room in Althea's coop, the four remaining hens there can shift to the 4-hen coop that only houses two Easter Eggers and the EE's can move into the youngsters' coop.

How hard can it be to shuffle 13 chickens into new houses? By myself? Yeah, this scheme may wait until the Work Crew shows up at the end of the month. Anyway, one of the four hens is in serious molt right now (Valentina, a Columbian Wyandotte, looks like a white pin cushion) and probably doesn't need to be more stressed.

Although Carolyn and I picked all the ripe pumpkins, there are a couple that might still turn, and even if they don't, I'm sure the ruminants will eat them at some point.

I keep thinking I'm done picking cherry tomatoes, but they keep ripening. Yesterday, it was 90 degrees!!! In October!! It's 53 this morning.

I have bags of mulch that need to get spread but it was too windy yesterday. Plus, there were FOUR baseball playoff games on TV

 

[jvls1942]

sorry about the chicken . they just do that to you
I had a small skin cancer removed on Friday.
it was just a speck above my lip. as a result I have an incision from my right nostril almost to the corner of my mouth. yes, it hurts like hell.
I am forbidden to lift or bend over for a week.
that should cover all the rest of the warm days of October.
Barb, do you explain your antics to your neighbors ? lol

 

[Cebarmlds]

Jim that sounds like it'll make eating difficult.

I have a hand rail to the basement after all these years! it's temporary but it'll probably be there forever. lol. My husband found two wooden closet rails he had in his pole building, he saves a lot of stuff, so he used those. We got brackets from menards.

 

[jvls1942]

Cbar, that handrail sounds plenty sufficient.
I am not satisfied with the second hand rail.
I am going to remove it completely and raise it an inch. it doesn't match the first rail in height.
yes, eating is not easy. my lip was frozen from the novocane until late on Satu rday. hurts to open my mouth wide. drank my coffee with a straw.

 

[Callender Girl]

Thank goodness you still found a way to drink coffee!! Sorry about the whole lip thing, but hurray for getting it taken care of.

And, Cbarmids (sorry, I don't know your name), congrats on the hand rail. Many of the "temporary" fixes here have turned out to be permanent.

Jim, one of the great joys of living where I do is that my neighbors are within sight, but usually not close enough to hear or be heard by. The possible exception is when I'm yelling at coyotes. But, I'm guessing they haven't heard me because the sheriff has not sent anyone out to do a welfare check on a crazy woman who screams in the middle of the night.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Thank goodness you still found a way to drink coffee!! Sorry about the whole lip thing, but hurray for getting it taken care of.

And, Cbarmids (sorry, I don't know your name), congrats on the hand rail. Many of the "temporary" fixes here have turned out to be permanent.

Jim, one of the great joys of living where I do is that my neighbors are within sight, but usually not close enough to hear or be heard by. The possible exception is when I'm yelling at coyotes. But, I'm guessing they haven't heard me because the sheriff has not sent anyone out to do a welfare check on a crazy woman who screams in the middle of the night.

Cebarmlds is just a scrambled word... see if you can unscramble it.
It's not my name

 

[Callender Girl]

Gee, I hope this isn't a timed challenge. I'll give unscrambling a few tries later -- after chores and more caffeine, perhaps

 

[Callender Girl]

Well, I scrambled my brain to get it!

 

[Sequel]

I lurk on this thread because I’m curious about gardening in different climates. I have to laugh at the dog poop picking being a 3 season activity!