EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

Three days in a row! It's a miracle!

Do we dare think she's back to stay?

 

[kwhites634]

nice!! I totaled 14 kids and 5 are here yet, four are going though we are only keeping the little devil one. I see buds on the lilacs but thats about all! they finally want it 70's friday and sat!! but a chilly start today 25 degrees!!! ughhh my grass hasnt had a chance to even get green yet!!

Spring onions up in full force here, but I refuse to wear a coat to mow grass!

 

[kwhites634]

I appear to be talking to myself, again, so I guess I'll go move some more firewood before I start answering myself. BBL

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Mercy! You're on a roll, and I totally agree; our's has become a throw-away society, but I do all I can in the opposite direction. DW gets on me 'cause I hold onto things that I think I may have a use for down the road. Admittedly, I may wind up tossing it years later, when I'v still not found a use for it, but it's been there, in case.

One thing I won't do is buy bottled water. Not only is it usually nothing more than regular tap water with chemicals added to it, but the bottles fill up the landfills at an alarming rate, even though there are companies that can reprocess the plastic into new plastic.

Regarding the gas cans, my only gripe with them is the nozzles. It seems each nozzle is made to only fit a single size can from a single manufacturer. And those non-spill nozzles that won't work unless you turn the collar at the bottom, and hold it in place, if they work at all. I usually end up taking the nozzle off and pouring gas into a funnel, or directly into the tank. I've never had a problem with the cans deteriorating from constant exposure, 'cause I keep them under the deck, in the barn where the mower & ATV are parked, or in the shed. Even when I was mowing for the public & usually had two 5-gal cans of gas on the trailer, the only damage I incurred was fading; never have had a leaker. The only steel can I remember having eventually sprung a leak in a bottom seam.

Ethanol-laced gasoline is a total waste as far as I'm concerned. It's supposed to lessen harmful emissions, but it doesn't. The simple facts are that ethanol gas doesn't yield as many mpg as leaded gas does, so the driver has to buy more gas to go the same distance, adding more emissions, although reduced, into the air, negating the supposed improvement in air quality. Also, leaded gas acts as a lubricant in engines, allowing them to run more efficiently on less fuel, and last longer. The only real benefit is to the pocketbooks of the fuel refiners, automobile manufacturers, and the government (in the form of the taxes on each gallon pumped). Oh!...BTW...where does that extra 1/10 of a cent (the result of the consumer having to pay an extra .9 cents / gal.) go?

My rant's longer than your's. Your turn.

LOL.. sweet reply my friend.
We have about 12 gas cans. The jumbo plastic one I posted, we have about 6 of them. We live in Hurricane alley. At the beginning of Hurricane season we fill up every can we have. If a Hurricane is headed towards Florida, our fellow Floridians panic and buy up all the gas at the stations and plastic bags are over all the pump handles. And if there is that single gas station that a tanker made it to, the line is a 3 mile long parking lot of people WASTING GAS in a line idling for 2 hours with their car air conditioner blasting.
All of our fuel will be purchased before the prices go up as well. We add stabilizer to keep it fresh. Eventually it slowly makes it into our automobile tanks.
Hurricane Irma knocked out our power for a solid 7 days. Our poor generator got very thirsty. After the Nation Guard was escorting tanker trucks to the angry consumers, the price of gas went up. But we were locked into pre Hurricane prices.
So around May 1st, we will shell out big bucks to save bucks, with our cheap deteriorating crappy plastic cans once again. Oh! and one old school heavy duty MADE IN OLD USA Can..

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I appear to be talking to myself, again, so I guess I'll go move some more firewood before I start answering myself. BBL

I was here... just pushing tablet keys..

 

[kwhites634]

LOL.. sweet reply my friend.
We have about 12 gas cans. The jumbo plastic one I posted, we have about 6 of them. We live in Hurricane alley. At the beginning of Hurricane season we fill up every can we have. If a Hurricane is headed towards Florida, our fellow Floridians panic and buy up all the gas at the stations and plastic bags are over all the pump handles. And if there is that single gas station that a tanker made it to, the line is a 3 mile long parking lot of people WASTING GAS in a line idling for 2 hours with their car air conditioner blasting.
All of our fuel will be purchased before the prices go up as well. We add stabilizer to keep it fresh. Eventually it slowly makes it into our automobile tanks.
Hurricane Irma knocked out our power for a solid 7 days. Our poor generator got very thirsty. After the Nation Guard was escorting tanker trucks to the angry consumers, the price of gas went up. But we were locked into pre Hurricane prices.
So around May 1st, we will shell out big bucks to save bucks, with our cheap deteriorating crappy plastic cans once again. Oh! and one old school heavy duty MADE IN OLD USA Can..

USA...isn't that a little town on the outskirts of Hong Kong, totally owned & funded by Walmart?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

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[Lazy Farmer]

 

[kajira]

@Sally Sunshine

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[pjnbill22]

@pjnbill22 did you survive the rain?

We did! How about you? We didn’t get nearly as much as we anticipated, and we’re fine with it. It drizzled most of Friday, then we had some heavier rain Saturday afternoon, but it didn’t last long- per our daughter. We left town late Saturday morning and went to the city for the SF Flower & Garden show at the Cow Palace. The show was a ghost town, but the weather was beautiful, the company was great (sister & niece) and you just can’t beat the chowder! PJ