Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[SimpleJenn]

Mugs, Liara.

I messed my knee up very badly last night, so of course kiddo needed a bath today. Let me tell you, kneeling beside a tub on a bad knee is no fun.

 

[featherhead007]

I have spoken French, German and Russian to Dakota. She doesn’t really like English. I think she prefers French. Softer flowing language than Russian. I’m still learning to speak chook. (So many different dialects)

 

[Sylvester017]

There are a number of elderly people in my community that have gardens. You could still grow a small garden.

Yes, I still garden but a whole lot less than when I was a youngster

Garage wall front yard ~ Roma, Better Boy, Mortgage Lifter tomatoes

Red Angel pomegranate tree planted in frontyard w/ 7 Strawberry Guava bushes awaiting planting

Guavas got planted 2 yrs ago

Guavas

Meyer Lemon Dwarf in chicken run

Meyer Lemon in front of canopy & Rio Red grapefruit behind canopy ~ we have 3 canopies in the chicken run

Ariana pomegranate & Wonderful pomegranate trees ~ on each side of bridge in chicken run ~ the hens love pomegranate seeds and will eat any low hanging fruit from the trees

Two 4'x 8' raised garden beds fenced off from chicken run ~ tomatoes, cukes, zuchini, other squashes, bell pepper, etc. while DH has a few container pots of his herbs, chili's & sweet pepper plants.

I used to sprout my own but it takes up so much space. This is just one of 4 trays and it wound up growing WAY more than necessary.

Growing up on a farm I've had my fill of canning & pickling in 100 degree heatwaves (mostly a lost art these days) so we've resorted to hobby gardening now w/ foods & plants the chickens are safe being around.

Fallow garden beds are fun for dust baths!

 

[Sylvester017]

I have spoken French, German and Russian to Dakota. She doesn’t really like English. I think she prefers French. Softer flowing language than Russian. I’m still learning to speak chook. (So many different dialects)

We used to give our Rottweilers commands in Russian so no one else could lure them away w/ English commands

 

[Sylvester017]

Just beautiful! I'm a person who wants a beautiful garden with lots of veggies and flowers trapped in the body of a lazy old woman.

15 yrs ago when I was 65 I started w/ just 6 contaimer pots of tomatoes and some littler pots of herbs & radishes just for fun.

I got hooked on gardening & before the year was done I counted over 100 tomato varieties in containers and built my first raised garden bed! We got chicken fever the same year !

 

[LhickenChicken]

Yes, I still garden but a whole lot less than when I was a youngster

Garage wall front yard ~ Roma, Better Boy, Mortgage Lifter tomatoes
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Red Angel pomegranate tree planted in frontyard w/ 7 Strawberry Guava bushes awaiting planting
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Guavas got planted 2 yrs ago
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Guavas
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Meyer Lemon Dwarf in chicken run
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Meyer Lemon in front of canopy & Rio Red grapefruit behind canopy ~ we have 3 canopies in the chicken run
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Ariana pomegranate & Wonderful pomegranate trees ~ on each side of bridge in chicken run ~ the hens love pomegranate seeds and will eat any low hanging fruit from the trees
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Two 4'x 8' raised garden beds fenced off from chicken run ~ tomatoes, cukes, zuchini, other squashes, bell pepper, etc. while DH has a few container pots of his herbs, chili's & sweet pepper plants.
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I used to sprout my own but it takes up so much space. This is just one of 4 trays and it wound up growing WAY more than necessary.
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Growing up on a farm I've had my fill of canning & pickling in 100 degree heatwaves (mostly a lost art these days) so we've resorted to hobby gardening now w/ foods & plants the chickens are safe being around.
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Fallow garden beds are fun for dust baths!
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You must live in a warmer climate than I do, because any lemon trees or pomegranates that I would try to grow would die almost immediately. Russia has a similar climate to Alberta, so Russian peppers work really well in this climate. I had two straight years of failure with peppers until a friend who moved to Russia sent me some peppers.
Those are beautiful plants! My corn is nearly ready.

 

[LhickenChicken]

So two installs of Windows I presume? Also, did it not tell you it will restart during the install? Usually Windows will boot into the disc first, then run the base installer, copy files, restart, finish install, restart again, and boot into OOBE (Out-Of-Box-Experience, aka the thing where you input username, password, etc.)

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No. It was at the stage where it said it was initializing something and then it'd restart. Then I tried installing it again, when my computer crashed. It was plugged in but the power pack malfunctioned. Then I ended up with two Windows on my computer.

 

[LhickenChicken]

I used to have a lovely garden

Then I got chickens, goodbye flowers and tomatoes

I fenced off my gardens so the chickens didn't get into them, all the same Dawn somehow slipped into the greenhouse. Thankfully she didn't eat any of my cucumbers.
Sometimes you get those chickens that leave the plants alone while going after your weeds and bugs. Lhicken was that kind of chicken, although I saw her sneak a bite of lettuce once!

 

[notabitail]

No. It was at the stage where it said it was initializing something and then it'd restart. Then I tried installing it again, when my computer crashed. It was plugged in but the power pack malfunctioned. Then I ended up with two Windows on my computer.

That's odd. Would it just not boot into anything at all and keep looping in a restart?

 

[Sylvester017]

You must live in a warmer climate than I do, because any lemon trees or pomegranates that I would try to grow would die almost immediately. Russia has a similar climate to Alberta, so Russian peppers work really well in this climate. I had two straight years of failure with peppers until a friend who moved to Russia sent me some peppers.
Those are beautiful plants! My corn is nearly ready.

I have the opposite problem. I wanted to grow Russian and Hungarian tomatoes & got seeds from Tatiana's site (Canada?) but the result was dying plants that didn't like my warm climate! I got a couple Azoychka tomatoes and one Hungarian Heart but the other varieties died.