Fuzzy's Farm

[NovaAman]

When it rains, it pours. I just paid the property taxes and heat fuel and now I am having problems with the jeep. Some where there is a short. So, sometimes it starts right away. Other times, it'll turn over then cut off like a switch was flipped and there is no power. Not a drain down of power... Just... I need to get it on a computer and find out where in the starting system it is wonky. I'd think the alternator, but the battery is not dying down. I'd think the starter, but then it wouldn't turn over at all, just click. The next thought is a bad cellenoid (SP?) BUT, I am thinking it might be somewhere in the battery cables, though they look good and are on tight... The battery is less than a year old... OH MAN what a pain in the rumpus.

I hope you don't need a whole new well tee. This sure isn't the time of year for it.

Took the boys to a Chinese resturaunt, (China Inn) and Jace tried a few things that I wouldn't have expected. Egg drop soup and fried dumplings. LOL. If only I could get him to be adventurous at school with the school lunch. But nope. He will not eat school lunch unless it is pizza, beef and bean burrito, or chips and cheese day... Snot.

 

[NovaAman]

2 weeks tll we get the new chicks. I've got to get the brooder out and Clorox everything. It's been sitting outside behind the coop and is pretty gross but yay for plastic. It will clean up fine. Don't think I'll put the babies in the library this time - lol. There aren't many doors that close completely (other than bathrooms and bedrooms) but I'm thinking the laundry room may be the place to go. It's gotta be somewhere the dogs can't get into...

I've got to get rid of this cold BY TOMORROW! The coop is really in need of cleaning, poor birdies. The shredded paper works great except in the nest boxes. The shreds stick to the fresh laid eggs when they are still damp and then you have to wash them to get it off. I don't like to wash my eggs 'cause of removing the bloom so think the paper is just going into the bottom of the coop. Go with pine shavings and straw in the nests.

I totally missed this post! So, you like the paper then? Are you mixing it like Bob does then? Now this is two people who say they likey likey shredded paper.

 

[gigiok]

I don't know how other browsers work since I use Firefox. With this browser, you can "save" passwords (or remember them) and retrieve them anytime you want. I'm sure other browsers have similar tools - probably in the toolbar menu under "TOOLS"!

Thanks, Total. And welcome.

I will totally try that. DH has a mac and uses safari - I think that has a password remember tool also. I'll see if Win8 ( wowhich I really dislike) has something similar. That would be great if it did.

 

[gigiok]

Triops are "prehistoric" shrimps...


Triops exist in the wild in areas where water can be very seasonal. The lifecycle is such that eggs can lay dormant in dry mud or sand for months or even years on end.
When the rain finally begins and pools of fresh water start to appear, any eggs in that area begin to hatch into microscopic larvae. Over time the triops grow – shedding their skin a number of times – and finally mature into adults that may be up to 4 or 5 cm in length.
As adults the triops breed and lay further eggs which depending on the environmental conditions may hatch rapidly to begin the cycle or, in the case

Oh my goodness. That is too cool. I wonder if OK has them. I'll have to look it up. Wish you were closer as I have a 50 gallon tank in the garage just sitting there empty...

 

[gigiok]

It must be one of those days where when it rains, it pours since we're all having a rotten day to some extent.

Our well pump and bladder went out this afternoon. DH thought it was the pump switch, but the guy that came out said the whole thing is shot. He's coming back out in the morning to do a procedure that might or might not work, but that will cost $1000 either way. If it doesn't work, we'll need to have a new well done for at least another $3500. This right on top of just paying out $320 on car repairs and still needing another $300-400 yet to be done on it.

Not sure how we're going to swing all this.

Nova, sorry about Sting. I liked him.

Tee, I'm so sorry. We thought our well had gone out but luckily it was the holding tank. That still cost $600. It seems like everytime you think you are getting ahead, bang, something goes wrong.

 

[teeville5]

Took the boys to a Chinese resturaunt, (China Inn) and Jace tried a few things that I wouldn't have expected. Egg drop soup and fried dumplings. LOL. If only I could get him to be adventurous at school with the school lunch. But nope. He will not eat school lunch unless it is pizza, beef and bean burrito, or chips and cheese day... Snot.

LOL. It's funny how they can picky like that. My daughters are the same way. It annoys me, though, when my youngest will 'ew, gross!' something she's never tried that I like. I always say how do you know if it's gross if you don't try it? or Just because you don't like it doesn't give you the right to voice your opinion if someone else does because there are things you eat that I wouldn't touch either, but you don't hear me gagging over them.

Anyway, did he like his adventurous food?

 

[teeville5]

Tee, I'm so sorry. We thought our well had gone out but luckily it was the holding tank. That still cost $600. It seems like everytime you think you are getting ahead, bang, something goes wrong.

I think I would be more hopeful if our well wasn't so old. DH estimates about 30yrs and this well kind is only meant to go about 25. The guy even told DH if we ever wanted to sell our home that we would have to put a new one in because we would never be allowed to sell it with this one. We're just praying it works tomorrow so we can hold off a year to get things together to put a new one in next year.

 

[gigiok]

I totally missed this post! So, you like the paper then? Are you mixing it like Bob does then? Now this is two people who say they likey likey shredded paper.

Yeah, I like it fine for the litter. Not for the nests. I got some of the smaller pine shavings and I'm going to mix those with the shredded paper. It seems like it's pretty absorbent - about the same as pine shavings. I don't like it when it get's tracked out because then I have these little white pieces of paper around on the ground which doesn't blend aesthetically - ha. The best point is that it is free, it does the job and it's recycling/reusing stuff. Now that I don't worry about the ink being bad for the compost then I'm happy.

 

[gigiok]

More saga of Georgie. We went out to feed the goats tonight and found Georgie stuck between the hoof trimming stand and the wall. No other goat has done this. She was crying like the world had ended. We had to unscrew the boards that anchor the trimming stand to the wall so that we could get her out but her sweater had caught on a screw and we had to cut her out of it to get her loose. Then I had to cut new 2X4's to block the bottom crack that she had managed to squeeze into and quick run in and make her. a temporary coat out of an old sweater that had shrunk as it's going to get down into the teens tonight and she's just tiny. That goat's going to do us both in.

 

[teeville5]

LOL.

She'd do me in, too, considering, but I think I like her. Goofy girl.