Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[aart]

Oh yuck! I wanted eggs for dinner. Cracked 2 into the skillet and they had embryos. The third one was rotten. Stinky rotten. Now the whole kitchen stinks in the heat.

Gah!!! Risks of free ranging?

 

[1muttsfan]

Yes, at least if they lay in the nest box and it's cleaned out every day your chances of an embryo are greatly reduced

91 up here today. Air temp. But we did finally get some desperately needed rain. And a nice rainbow over the coop

 

[bigmrg74]

Note to self. Anytime going anywhere near an area that might contain Chiggers, be sure to layer on the bug spray!!

Had a client in yesterday that was in Texas a couple of weeks ago and they tagged him all over his legs. They're healed up, just still not quite so pretty looking to see on your legs.

 

[bigmrg74]

Hay baling weather.

Looks like we got the last 3 wagons of hay sitting in the indoor arena right now. If he could have just found himself a crew tonight we could have found that last bale. Going to be a pain in the neck for him to find somebody to work on the Fourth of July.

 

[rachelsflock]

Dude, it's not the LOOK of chiggers you've got to worry about. It's the fact they bite you near every seam that sits against your skin and itch terribly for weeks. And the bites are HARD and crunchy feeling when you unavoidably scratch them. It seems very damaging to the skin.

I grew up in rural Iowa and we normally had chiggers so bad once I bent over and let my face touch the grass for a split second while weeding and got a chigger in the corner of my EYE (guess what that did, lol). Also if you were out doorsy, occasionally getting them so bad you had to be on benedryl in order to not go crazy (as you rip holes in your very swollen skin) was normal if you didn't dust your yard. That year my parents abandoned their "natural" yard decision and started putting down a dust that reduced them by quite a bit. Using a push mower previous to that point was habitual self-torture. I assumed everywhere had chiggers that bad. So come summer I'd wear bug spray around the ankles, remove and change socks, shoes, and pants asap when coming in, avoid long grass especially, and don't sit or linger anywhere outdoors in the woods or grass in general. I actually love my part of Michigan because of it's lack of that childhood terror.
UGH, chiggers! Our roads may be terrible in this state, and things badly managed from time to time, but nature hasn't completely turned on us!

 

[Folly's place]

We have water! And no hurricanes, or volcanoes, or big earthquakes. No tsunamis! Nearly no droughts, or wildfires. It's a wonderful place to live! Also, very few poisonous snakes, no tropical cockroaches, no sea snakes. Mostly friendly people. We grow food here! I could go on, but you all know what I'm talking about.
Mary

 

[ijon]

When you live in paradise you have to expect a little hell. I live in Michigan.

 

[aart]

When you live in paradise you have to expect a little hell.

Texas or Idaho?
Where are you from?
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[RaZ]

Well I'm damn happy to be where I am now.

 

[1muttsfan]

Life is good.

Happy Birthday, America