Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Peep-Chicken]

Haha BYC was funny for a few seconds

 

[aart]

Haha BYC was funny for a few seconds

That's one of the best articles on BYC!!

Was a couple of gorgeous days, bet the folks who have to be stuck at a job all week enjoyed the heck out of it. I spent the day today doing insect sampling on the local river.

 

[RaZ]

Was a couple of gorgeous days, bet the folks who have to be stuck at a job all week enjoyed the heck out of it. I spent the day today doing insect sampling on the local river.

Find any good macro-invertebrates?

 

[bigmrg74]

This may be a tad political in nature but it certainly is not partisan. I think that it is more educational than anything.
We are only a few weeks away from an election and voters should be educated when they cast their ballot.
I hope I am not stepping on any toes with this post.

http://sustainablefarmpolicy.org/not-about-chickens/vote-for-a-better-food-system

Wish I had read through that a little better yesterday. They had Terry Lind Land at the GVSU homecoming game yesterday, along with a few other west side GR area candidates out to press the fresh there. Probably wouldn't have all that great of an idea to really talk to her as I was already about 3 beers in and there may or may not have been some Jagerbombs there as well. God I miss College.

Then last night/morning wasn't much better. I stayed late after the game talking with some friends, made a few other stops and I didn't get home until 4:30. usually its a little earlier than that if I wasn't crashing over there somewhere. I probably would have if it wasn't for the fact that I had a big team meeting for work this morning at 10. But I got woken up even earlier than what I had planned on as Mom found one of boarder horses had somehow during the night managed to dislocate and about tear off his rear ankle. **** shame, he seemed like a pretty nice horse. Popped the stall front out and Mom got him outside of the barn on 3 legs and heart, and the vet put him down there. Not something you want to deal with at all.

 

[Folly's place]

So sorry about the horse! I think they are accidents waiting to happen/ suicidal. What an awful day. Mary

 

[bigmrg74]

So sorry about the horse! I think they are accidents waiting to happen/ suicidal. What an awful day. Mary

yeah, it was just a freak thing to happen. odds are he had just laid down in his stall for a while, and when he went to get up, it popped and gave out on him, and that's what tore everything open.

 

[aart]

Quote: Sure did....6 teams at 6 sites found probably 10-15 different species within an hour or so. Team leaders with extensive experience identified more varieties than the MiCORE protocol had categorized for counts. Overall water quality ranked above average according to our data entered into the protocol report forms.

This pic from the Two Rivers Coalition FB page:
"Stonefly larvae are very sensitive to diminished water quality so finding these at several sites is a good thing."

 

[Peep-Chicken]

So sorry about the horse!  I think they are accidents waiting to happen/ suicidal.  What an awful day.  Mary

Defiantly! That must of been terrible

 

[tntchix]

Such a beautiful day out there today. All things considered, I would rather be watching the football games. Since I cut the cable last winter I have lots of time for chores.
It's a perfect day for moving firewood. I probably haven't moved as much as Robo-Opa but I have moved several face cord up under the patio cover.
One thing I have noticed is that there is no sign of mice in the wood. I'm giving credit to the parakeets for being good mousers. Most of the firewood is stored in the aviary.

That is all for now, back outside to build another rack and stack some more wood. There is something of a Zen-like quality to stacking firewood.

Robo-Opa

 

[tntchix]

I rarely eat deserts or sweets. Never had a sweet tooth, so the diagnosis really threw me. No family history of it either.

How did it get diagnosed? Could it be a false positive? I mean, I know sweet toother's are more prone to it but if that's the case I should have had it years ago.