Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[troyer]

I am typically not social in real life.... until I get started talking. Sometimes I wish afterwards that I would have talked less. Life is pretty easy physically here, but we are having a tough time getting back into normal USA life. It is sometimes bad enough that it seems like our minds are about go.........I can't think of a good definition. We feel like we don't really fit here and yet this is our home. We also struggled with Bolivian life, but I guess we probably just need a bit more time. One way that I relax is to go for walks in the woods and field edges, here are some photos of the farm and woods.

 

[1muttsfan]

What great pictures! That Forsythia looks so much like spring. And those beans - did you bring them back from Bolivia?

 

[troyer]

What great pictures! That Forsythia looks so much like spring. And those beans - did you bring them back from Bolivia?

Yes I did. When we came through customs in the USA they asked if we have anything to declare? If we had any contact with livestock or have seeds of any kind? We said that yes we had contact with cattle, a pig, a dog and handled some crops. They asked to see the seeds and we showed them what we had. They said, oh, those are for eating and sent us on our way.
The fellow that planted the beans planted only the Pinto Beans (red and white) and black beans. Somewhere in those genetics there were other colors hidden. I will plant them and see what happens.

 

[chickflick]

Pretty pics! Love nature pics. Love walking in the woods. Just so peaceful. Just let your mind go and really see the beauty around you.

 

[1muttsfan]

After three inches of rain in a day and a half we were totally thrilled to have sun today.

 

[troyer]

Pretty pics! Love nature pics. Love walking in the woods. Just so peaceful. Just let your mind go and really see the beauty around you.

That is exactly what I was doing! I let my mind go.

After three inches of rain in a day and a half we were totally thrilled to have sun today.

Wow! We didn't get nearly that much here. The sun feels great, I am still acclimating from a warm climate to a cooler climate.

 

[1muttsfan]

Yes you timed your trip home just right, that is how I wish I could manage things, go from Fall to spring in one big hop

 

[chickflick]

Yes, the sun felt wonderful! Spent most of the day outdoors. Today, another pretty warm day! Hope you all get to enjoy it!

 

[aart]

Wish my activity capacity matched the perfect weather.
Am going to have to tractor wrassle to go from throw to mow tho,
grass is getting tall.

5 days until hatch day!

Got a hen with an impacted crop, never dealt with that before.
Crated her last night with just water, she's pooped some but crop is still a semi hard almost tennis ball sized lump. Crap.

 

[bigmrg74]

Got some minor stuff done out in the yard today, and got some supplies for tomorrow as well. Going to go around the back pastures tomorrow and fix up the hot wires there. Couple of horses need their noses zapped so that they stop messing with the fence as much. Had to go out and get some T post insulators to make sure that I had enough.

Also got some new chick feed as well today. As I was filling up the feeder for my little ones today, I noticed a bit of mold in some of the feed. Not a huge spot of it, but I don't think that I want to give the little ones that stuff. Probably just that side of the bag got a little damp and that's what happen. Probably tossed out 12 pounds of it out by the back pot hole. Figure the local critters there will enjoy getting that stuff anyways and would know enough to not eat the moldy bits. And I did spread it out anyways so that it would be harder for them to eat the moldy stufff.

Big night for my little ones, they're spending their first night out in the little coop. Figured they're big enough and that the weather looks like its going to be pretty good the next couple of nights. And its not like they've been under heat lamp much in the garage brooder.