Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

[CanuckBock]

I had the flu (we had that dinner date with my SIL at their campsite out here Saturday-- stay a hermit!)

and coffee'd my keyboard!

I feel sorta OK but it's not OK.

Just got to go to buy another keyboard this weekend....

Tara, did you ever get a replacement keyboard?

this weekend .... go to the city to buy another keyboard.... I have a good mouse tho

I have to cut and paste words and letters ... tedious

but photos work great .... I thought about writing a note and photoing that

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[vehve]

Tara, there should be a onscreen keyboard option, you can find it somewhere in the ease of access options. It's pretty gruesome to use, but maybe a bit better than copy pasting everything.

 

[CanuckBock]

Fixins has eyes only fer her Dad Rick!​

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Originally Posted by vehve

Tara, there should be a onscreen keyboard option, you can find it somewhere in the ease of access options. It's pretty gruesome to use, but maybe a bit better than copy pasting everything.

http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/mcmw/using-windows-on-screen-keyboard-windows-8-1/

After what I have had to endure to cut & paste letters, one tedious letter at a time...your willinginess to gratiously share yer inner computer system wisdom is AWESOME!

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This is dreamy (not so gruesome as that cut & paste ordeal using the mouse!!).

Maybe I will skip buying the replacement keyboard ... jest kidding!

I will however stop doing the free for all chicken dancing with an overfull coffee cup whilst ILL! Not only is it hard on the eyes (Oh my eyes!) but it is rough on the hardware!

Some of the security login systems WILL NOT allow cut & pasting of access codes...blah!

You KNOW this angle makes my butt l00k bigger than it really is...so stop it already!​

Did I mention this is onscreen keyboard is AWESOME!

Thank you fer teaching an ol' dawg a new trick!--truly appreciate that (tho suffering those few dazes was GOOD fer moi--"keep java IN the mug!")

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[vehve]

Happy to be of service

I saw a hermetically sealed keyboard on sale somewhere, that might come in handy when reading BYC with coffee in your mouth.

 

[CanuckBock]

Happy to be of service

I saw a hermetically sealed keyboard on sale somewhere, that might come in handy when reading BYC with coffee in your mouth.

No laughing...first computer we bought as adults, ordered up form fitting keyboard cover...took awhile to show up, but worked fab!

Rick knows me (poor sap--fer better er worse, eh?) and few years back, came home (Christmas in July?) with a new laptop (to replace the one I was flicking keys off of!). He told the owner of the store it HAD to be "moose proof!" Not mean at all...but the plain truth...sigh! Its keyboard was covered in a rubberized coating (which I still pulmetted with massive onslauhts of flying fingee marks!) and the whole unit lasted me about a year before issues started to surface--agh--no "brain surgeon" in moi! Delicate is NOT a word used too often to describe me.

This time, a new DESK top computer last winter with the understanding I would likely go thru a few keyboards during the PC's useful life time! But at least we expected it to happen!

I am indebted to your generous kindness...

Spent yesterday clearing out growing up pens which means that Stanley (the stainless) got his brooderness scrubbed out & refilled for all the numerous babe chookins on the grow. Twas HOT out for us here too (30C/ 86F)...so made puttin' the babes in temporary holding containers way less stressful!

Some Red Chanteclers (partridge x buff)​

Tres stinky baby foodie pooED BEDDING...har har--'grow my pretties!'

See Stalker? Bottom left & having a bill dipped--"Here's them beaty eyes still stalkin' & gawkin'!"

Older ducklings are getting physics sorta like adults but need dem feathers before I even consider any overnighters in an outside pen--bring on feathers, eh!

Turks are mostly feathered up nice but the majority of them are still too young size wise​

Besides them turks require more heat than chooks or duckers--might change my mind when I see how quick their area filths up again! Both a blessing & a curse--eat to grow..inputs & outputs ramping on up!

Two pairs of the Tufted Buff geese

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Still amazed at what properly balanced diets can do for improving plumage (whole grains & waterfowl pelleted ration)! Brought this US line in as adults and thought it was genetics to blame for dull & awful patchy colour expression! Given our reg rations since this spring & moulting out very well!

Bantam duck bevies yesterday evening - my fav; lawn ducks!
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Laugh--like a dog shedding, big mess when moulting but THEY look rather nice in new suits surrounded by all their castoffs!

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Have to get Rick to "mow" the bird yard or maybe since it WAS hot enough, I can roll about in a vat of my namesake (tar) & go fer a rollabouts on the lawns? Be tarred & feathered EARLY for Halloween? Ditzy & dizzy!

Pudger ducky sleepers!​

It kills me -- l00kit them nappers! I'm bustin' my hump looking after the next generations of...of FREE LOADERS! and I can see where this all ends...with even more of the same! FTD...

Village Idiot's dirt plotter - yesterday​

There should be beans (OH dem beaners) to harvest soon...lots of flowers & heat just passed with 3 days of rains next! Getting growthy green enough to <almost> hide my tacky but tres chiq garden ornaments!

Talking motivations to grow big, bigger, "oh heck, please, for the love of chooks--HIDE her concept of decorative ornaments!"

Rick just l00ks a bit pained now when I return carting "more items" fer me veg garden! "Fifty percent off!" -and he jest replies, "They should PAY you to haul it away!" ..."Ten of them FREE with every purchase of laundry soap!"

Ah, my Hero--"I am SO loved..."

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Romaine thinnings for another
Caesar Salad & some for baby birds...tiny bit

Sugar or snap peas starting up -- Oh Fixins! Time to start circling the veg garden fence!


"Oh Fixins! Hello?" Best leave sleepin' dogs lie!

Her feel best place--laying on Dad's feet. 'Cause if he moves, she don't miss out on nothing. What a sweety gal!

Another handful of raspberries!​

Kinda a nice size to have...not so many berries produced each day that you have to put some by, and yet enough you feel blessed to enjoy a few. A rational plan of sorts!

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Oh, and before I forget, there was a 4.3 magnitude earthquake about 40 kms northeast of us at 9:30 am last Saturday. So the last one of any note was 4.1, in...2001 I think? Only been about three like this in Alberta since 1985 but does make you ponder fracking costs--lost forever water & now they say "manmade" quakes--sigh--not like we are gonna stop going fer loser laps, eh?

Fires, floods, hail, tornadoes, etc. ...no perfect place on Earth but what we make of it--livin' here in paradise!

Got chooks, turks and yet more FTD's hatching, so off to go check on Buster the 'Bator--see what he has belched forth into our world...whee hee hee snort!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Dragonfly216]

Lol! Felix, you are just too much! I wanted to say how much I have enjoyed your "company"! I have a few favorites on here, Tara being number 1!, and you're rising in the ranks! Your eggs are so beautiful, too! Oh, I've been curious! Are your chickens' names Finnish names or do they have a meaning behind them? I really like their names! And I'm totally going to start an egg spreadsheet one mine start laying!

And Bama, you're still one of my favorites too....please don't be upset..... ;-)

And I have to say, I love having chicken friends from all over the world! I love hearing about different foods and customs and clothes, but we all love our chickens and new eggs!

 

[Dragonfly216]

I love your ducklings, Tara! AHHHHHHHHH! FTD indeed! I just loved Mr. Duck telling Mrs. Duck to hurry and come nap! Lol! And ohhhhh love all the fruits you have! We have some blueberry bushes (I made blueberry preserves and syrup for the first time!), a tiny fig tree, some struggling strawberries, a tiny pomegranate tree, and I bought a small raspberry bush to try and see if it will do anything. We have a large peach tree and a giant bunch of grape vines that both need to be trimmed back and fertilized and maybe we'll give us something good next year!

 

[vehve]

Lol! Felix, you are just too much! I wanted to say how much I have enjoyed your "company"! I have a few favorites on here, Tara being number 1!, and you're rising in the ranks! Your eggs are so beautiful, too! Oh, I've been curious! Are your chickens' names Finnish names or do they have a meaning behind them? I really like their names! And I'm totally going to start an egg spreadsheet one mine start laying!

And Bama, you're still one of my favorites too....please don't be upset..... ;-)

And I have to say, I love having chicken friends from all over the world! I love hearing about different foods and customs and clothes, but we all love our chickens and new eggs!

The names are pretty much traditional Finnish names, the neighbor's kids named them before we had a chance to do it ourselves (quick buggers those kids). Wilma is an exception, Vilma would be a traditional name, but I went with a more Merkan spelling since we had three names beginning with V already (those landraces we bought at POL and they came with their names - Veera, Virpi and Viiru, Viiru means stripe, she got that name as a chick). Töyhtis isn't a real name either, it would roughly translate to "Tufty".

Here's some food from our table today:

Minced lamb patties filled with Koskenlaskija cheese, in a onion-mustard cream sauce, steamed green beans with crispy bacon bits and cauliflower, steamed in cream and puréed. Traditionally something similar would maybe be made without the cheese, and the meat would be of bovine origins, and the cauliflower would be mashed potatoes, but I like to mix things up a bit.

Tara, it seems your husband shares my hate of garden gnomes (although I must admit that I like Mr. Stump Chicken), and Karin is banned from food and beverages by my laptop.

 

[ronott1]

The names are pretty much traditional Finnish names, the neighbor's kids named them before we had a chance to do it ourselves (quick buggers those kids). Wilma is an exception, Vilma would be a traditional name, but I went with a more Merkan spelling since we had three names beginning with V already (those landraces we bought at POL and they came with their names - Veera, Virpi and Viiru, Viiru means stripe, she got that name as a chick). Töyhtis isn't a real name either, it would roughly translate to "Tufty".

Here's some food from our table today:

Minced lamb patties filled with Koskenlaskija cheese, in a onion-mustard cream sauce, steamed green beans with crispy bacon bits and cauliflower, steamed in cream and puréed. Traditionally something similar would maybe be made without the cheese, and the meat would be of bovine origins, and the cauliflower would be mashed potatoes, but I like to mix things up a bit.

Tara, it seems your husband shar's my hate of garden gnomes (although I must admit that I like Mr. Stump Chicken), and Karin is banned from food and beverages by my laptop.

Nice!

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Looks very good!