INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[Chaos18]

I require the sum of three dollars and fifty centavos....

Figured as much

 

[Chaos18]

We might let the campers do it. I have to see what DH thinks. We let the campers vote on Facebook when we named the boys.

But BYC is way more better than facebook.

 

[campingshaws]

We might let the campers do it. I have to see what DH thinks. We let the campers vote on Facebook when we named the boys.

But BYC is way more better than facebook.

Different set of friends.

 

[Chickenluver106]

What does DH stand for

 

[campingshaws]

What does DH stand for

Darling Husband.

 

[runt325]

You don't know the half of it.
You do know that beer and wine are food groups.
I've been called the original party animal by men 20 years my junior.

It is definitely an acquired taste, just like hard liquor.
No one that tasted those things the first time would continue to consume.

Ignorance of the law is no defense.

I have been at war with several of the utilities and actually won once.

I'm on a septic system but started getting sewer bills. I didn't pay them. After a year or so they threatened to cut my water off. I responded that I wasn't connected to the sewer at which time they countered that they were treating my runoff. I informed them that they weren't. They sent me a map of my property showing buildings and paved surfaces implying that those surfaces produced runoff they had to treat. I instructed them that what they showed as paved surfaces were in fact all permeable hardscape so there was no runoff. Further that all the buildings downspouts drain into a water garden and the back of my property is bermed so nothing runs off and even if it did, from there any runoff would enter the creek downstream from their lowest treatment facility.
Eventually, they said they agreed that they weren't treating my runoff, however there was still the issue of the $200 outstanding bill. I said that if they weren't treating my runoff, then I didn't have a $200 bill.
I never heard from them again.
Score 1 for the little guy.



In the first 30+ years of my life, the only time I ever drank coffee was when I was in the Army and had the duty of Charge of Quarters which required that I be awake and alert for well over 24 hours. During the night, when it was really quiet I would drink black coffee to help me stay awake, much to my chagrin. I even added some drops of caffeine to the coffee. There was a product you could buy over the counter at German drugstores called X112. I'd add about 4 drops to a cup of coffee and there would be no way to fall asleep. I used that time to write letters home which I did on a typewriter because in that condition I could knock out a dozen letters in no time. Periodically, I'd have to get up and run up and down stairs to burn off some energy.

My wife switched to black to avoid fat just a bit before I quit completely.

I LOVE the smell of roast coffee.


Sweet n' low is a no no. As is aspartame. No wonder you have scary thoughts.
http://www.totalbeauty.com/content/gallery/best-worst-sugar-sub/p104142/page2

Between chickens and gardening, my water bill is sometimes out of sight.

The thing that gets me is that I have a gas bill whether I use gas or not and an electric bill whether I use electric or not.
The first $30+ of each bill is for nothing other than having the utilities connected to the house and any usage cost is tacked onto that.

They look like dreadlocks.
I never drank coffee regularly till after I was married. My wife would brew a pot every morning and I started drinking some with honey and heavy on the cream. More like a little coffee with my cream. I eventually was able to take it without honey but never could without cream. She quit the cream a couple years ago.

Quote:
Washington, where coffee is king.

Just as it is in Costa Rica. If I moved there again I would probably start drinking it.

At the height of my consumption I was sometimes drinking 3 pots a day when I worked midnights.

Same here. But I quit about 30 years ago.

Similar. More vitamins and protein than conventional scratch but lots of fat. It will still generate heat when digested.

That was my dad's saying.
Boring people have no imagination.
An Asian Indian friend/coworker always walked around work complaining of being bored. I kept telling him to get a hobby.

I do most things by myself.

That's cause you're in the Pacific time zone.
I'm here. Just got back from playing pool with my son and his friend.
I'm out to set some traps and trail cams.

u got me

 

[Chaos18]

Different set of friends.

Not really........then again I don't have Facebook

 

[runt325]

Not really........then again I don't have Facebook  

I do

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Wonderful! Especially the fresh wild salmon! That is somthing that we don't have at all! We have fresh imported salmon from Norway but all of them are from farmers! Fat meat and low in Omega 3 compared to the wild ones.

I used to think fish farming was a good idea to prevent further depletion of wild stocks. Then I learned how ocean going fish are farmed.
It is very similar to the difference between free range poultry and commercially farmed broilers.
Farmed fish are kept closely confined in net pens. They can't escape the sea lice, flukes and anemia causing disease and parasites. Antibiotics and pesticides are used to treat these things. The outbreaks of sea lice on farms are now endangering wild populations.
I quit eating salmon sushi when I found out it is always farmed.
Catfish farming has produced good quality fish on southern farms from Missouri and Arkansas to Mississippi and Alabama. However, most of the catfish sold in US grocery stores now comes from SE Asia and most of that from the Mekong river because it is cheaper to import that than grow the fish here.

I had this breakfast in your honor.
Grilled wild caught salmon, English walnuts and blueberries. (blueberries are really cheap now)

Try a good Italian coffee and then see, excuse me but what you call in the USA coffee is not more than.....

Or Turkish.
When in Italy, I only had espresso. Doubles.

My favorite coffee (the one I grew up drinking) is a Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee grown at about 5000ft above sea-level.

That is wonderfully smooth coffee. We stayed in Port Antonio, Jamaica - which is right at the base of the Blue Mountains. We had Blue Mountain the whole time and brought a bunch back with us when we came home.

Coffee is meant to be drunk, Benny, not chewed

When I made coffee for my midnight shift students, I made it strong.
One guy would ask if he could have more 'concentrate'. He would put less than an inch of coffee in the bottom of his cup, fill the cup with water and then microwave it.

I am supposed to be in vacation, ok supposed is the word that should be ampecised, nothing but chores, house, children, took my car to its 10,000km treatment, and tomorrow its anual test, and so on and so on...
And yours?

With your annual test, do you have to have an emission test?

A baby can be afraid inside the womb, so I guess a chick could feel fear at this point too, but I think you see my point.

When are they due to hatch? Do they have ears yet?

Beer, it's not just for breakfast any more.

A guy's due to show up about 11:00 to talk to us about installing solar panels on the roof. They claim there's no cost to us, but I'm skeptical ; someone has to make $ somewhere.

Maybe they'll use your place as a sales tool.
Someone wanted to put up a big metal building here so they could show it to people as a sales tool. I declined.

Apple juice!

There is no cost to you because of all the money you will be saving.

Likely.

I know. Solar panels don't grow on trees, and I can't see the installers working for free out of the goodness of their heart

They are coming down in price but you're right.
I installed solar thermal, water and voltaic as well as windmills for about 3 years after Ford kicked me out.

Oh, so there's a cost up front that the consumer supposedly recoups over time, then?

Even with energy produced, the first task at hand should be to make the house as energy efficient as possible.

Solar water and thermal (hot air) are very cost efficient. Electric is still costly.

Yeah, but only when I run over it with the mower!

Oooh, that's painful.

I have a problem with flies in the house every year. What can I do?

Besides the electric racket, I used to have a couple plastic guns from a game I had as a kid. You could load them with 4 rubber bands. It helps your aim and almost always kills the fly. They may still make them.
I found one for you.
http://www.ecanyons.com/rubber-band...auVLG9bV24Pa9tMfcP0qnEsilp4RXXVEngBoCC1bw_wcB

If you want to bring out the big guns, Golden Malrin Fly Bait. Be very careful with it.

Did you try not breathing on the hygrometer?

It is a hygrometer, not a breathalyzer.

Wonder no more, people. It's highly unusual for me to carry more than $15-20; I use a debit card almost exclusively. That cash was from selling a car last year.

Oooh, that's even more painful.

If coffee itself was good, it would be good with maple syrup, I'm sure! Maple syrup is good on lots of things: eggs, strawberries, fingers .... (I did not mean that, for all of you who were thinking it.)

LOL that sounds disssssgusting!
...

I have some pure maple syrup, I think I'll use the next time I have paleo pancakes.

This kind of coffee is meant to be chewed... Yummmmmm

Those are good.

What did I miss

Discussion of coffee, chewable coffee, edible coffee beans and more coffee discussion.

Not really........then again I don't have Facebook

I've refused to join to this point also.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I think the baby goats are coming!!

lolololololooooooo! Finely! After all this time! I thought that you have an elephant!