Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[SillyChicken]

Naglady said the "S" word! Have you no shame?

 

[SillyChicken]

To whoever asked (sorry, I am mostly lurking these days and lose track of pages so fast I can't locate past conversations), the wool I use for stuffing is the reject wool from my spinning. I used to try to put it out for the birds but they never took it so I started saving it for stuffing. It sometimes contains lots of vegetable matter but is clean and I honestly don't know what I have on hand at the moment as I am often stuffing the corners of closets with it for lack of better storage. I used all the black I knew of for the kitties but might have some elsewhere. I'm well on my way to becoming a hoarder apparently, at least as far as wool is concerned.

My chickens are also on hiatus. I had 21 girls. Two got eaten by the fox, two are non-laying pullets, seven are in hard molts, and the rest are in various states of stress from adding the two pullets to the coop while confining them because of the fox attacks. I get about 4 eggs a day, mostly from this spring's pullets, but the number is gradually increasing to 5 or 6, depending. I have a couple that are just real troupers and a couple that I think might be of better service in the stew pot. Anyway, I've been letting them out now that the weather is turning because they don't wander too far and spend most of their day rooting around in the sheep's straw and basically spreading out to where they're comfortable. I don't routinely add extra light. I mean, there's a light in their coop but I mostly use it to count heads after dark or when I'm opening up early in the morning.

Here's my remaining WHY?andotte in her moltage. Her sisters were snagged by the resident fox. I did eventually find the bleached bones out in our field, before our neighbor plowed it under. The good news is, I no longer find soft-shelled eggs on the poop board. Mystery solved. You can tell by the sun that I didn't take that photo today.



That's our neighbor harvesting the corn in our field by the old hickory tree. He's just so laid back with his thermos in one hand, I love it. He feeds the whole ears of corn into the roof of his monster corn crib with an elevator. I didn't think people still did that. Most corn cribs are rotting or rusting. His father sold his land to the nearby monster dairy farm (Oesch), leaving him nothing to work with when he bought his dad's farm. So he has gathered a network of small fields from homeowners like us around the community to farm what he needs to get his steer to market and pay the bills. I get paid in hay and beef. It roughly pays the taxes on our land and his steer are tasty - plus I know where the feed comes from and have been known to glean ears out of the field after harvest for the chickens.

Lady, the kitty's were adorable. Thats one I wouldn't mind having. What would you sell them for? And, I would love one in the black wool cause I love black sheep the best!

 

[Opa]

The original intent of the holiday was to commerate the end of the Great War and the sacrifice of so many. Sadly, many other conflicts required further involvement by our patriots.

 

[naglady]

oops that is a bad word... yikess..

 

[preciouskitty]

oops that is a bad word... yikess..

Yep. Thought we all agreed to "powdered sugar"

 

[naglady]

Yep. Thought we all agreed to "powdered sugar"

 

[MIchickens]

I put lights and plugs in the coop today....just before it started to .....ummm...rain fluffy cold cotton. Good thing I won't get chicks until spring. But at least I can work on the coop when I get home from work and it's dark out.

 

[MIchickens]

Oh.....Happy Veterans Day to all of you who served....and also to those who served at home while your loved one was deployed. You are Veterans in my book also!

 

[SillyChicken]

I would like some "powdered sugar" on the 15th (just on the back 40 where I hunt)...

I love fishes.. and have been wanting a little beta/tank in my office. I saw this one last night so I got him and a small tank. I loved the silver body w/stripes and red color in this one, the others were kinda blah. There are so many different colors out there it's amazing!

 

[preciouskitty]

Ummmm....why is powered sugar a bad word?.....just curious.  

Well, a few weeks back there were those of us simply not ready for winter yet. And definitely not the "s" word. (Or, if you're like me, I only like it for XMAS. Then as for as I'm concerned it can go back to being 80!!!)

So, we decided to call it "powdered sugar"