Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[taprock]

Today has been an interesting day. I did some sewing this morning, my son did his projects for the day... Sewing hats, painting and wrapping gifts. We were supposed to start on baking when the power went out this afternoon. He has never really experienced power outages so the poor kid was totally confused. We ended up him playing with toys while I read him "The Hobbit". He wants to hear it before we go see it next week. Anyway we got more read tonight as the power can't seem to make it's mind up. DH got home about 7:30 and was told to be back in by 4 am. I don't have anywhere I have to be so I don't mind the snow too much. I'd rather have it now instead of Christmas Day.

Cute piggies farmer boy.

 

[drumstick diva]

Taprock - saw The Hobbit twice - it's especially good at the ending(of part 1). I just found out Legos had an offcially licensed HOBBIT Hole(?) set you know Bilbo's house and it looked adorable - they totally sold out (at $ 70) oh crud. I'd love to have one. I've seen the small sets in Walmart and Gollom looks great. I'm 65 but, would still love to build and play with them. My niece works for them but, really can't get much of a discount- darn.

How great that you are reading the book with your son. One of the best things in my early life was my dad used to let us pick out a Golden Book at the grocery store and then he'd read it to us.
Pretty soon we were reading it back to him. All 3 of us sibs ended up being terrific readers, and our kids as well.

 

[kimmie6067]

I hated the power outage, I couldn't sew or read or anything. Went outside to close up the chickens and it was a blizzard, didn't get all 16 eggs like the other day, the girls only left me 8. I had so much snow on the top of the canopy covering my coops, heavy snow I got some off but it was so heavy. Here's a pic of my coops.

 

[Opa]

Farmboy, do you intend to neuter the boars?

 

[tjbeckman]

Is there anyone near the thumb looking to sell any hens? We are looking to expand the flock. Thanks

 

[Trefoil]

Farmerboy- Congratulations on the piglets. They are soo cute. Are they mulefoot?-

 

[snowflake]

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Originally Posted by shadygrovefarm

Just want to let everyone know that the honorable Judge Solka has ruled in favor of Shady Grove Farm U.P.!!!!!! Another Michigan Right to Farm victory!!!!!!

great news!!

News flash!
Annabelle had piglets last night!!! 7 of threath, it was cool.
They are born about the size of a pop can, so small.

Proud Mama eating yummy bread. She is about 150 lbs.

SWEET!!
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[1muttsfan]

Let it snow!! The dogs at least are enjoying it. The chickens not so much. My ducks were out bathing in a puddle during it though, do they EVER get cold?

I was JUST thinking about you yesteday and wondering what you were up to! Isn't that funny,

I hear is snowed a lot up there Taprock - managed to fly out of Kinross yesterday morning at 6:30 just before it started snowing, and we are in Florida. Cool here too but 63 feels pretty good to me. We are going to get the boat in the water today and get out fishing. Hope the chickens and horses are all doing ok, hard not to worry even when I know they are being cared for.

 

[Elyssia001]

We finally have a tiny bit of accumilation downriver. Everything is so wet that it really isn't sticking much, but it's pretty on all the rooftops. I'm hoping that it'll dry up some before the roads freeze up. Some jackass always has to take risks and get other people hurt when the roads are bad.

I'm planning out my garden for the spring. I think I'm gonna try putting amaranth in my front flower bed. I'm curious to see how much grain I can grow in that space. I'm planning radishes, carrots, broccolli, peas and spinach for the backyard.

This'll be my first time playing with a spring crop, so I am excited and nervous. Not as cool or as interesting as chickens, but it will be something new and interesting.

RaZ, I've been wondering, would it help your case if I were to start buying eggs from you? Since I'm only a few miles away from Garden City, I was thinking of trying some fresh humane eggs, and so I am looking for a supplier with some surplus nearby.

 

[taprock]

Enjoy the warmth 1mutts - it's definitely not here.

I have netting covering my chicken yard. It is the cheap slippery stuff. The snow usually doesn't stick but I do take it down when we get a large amount of snow. Well I didn't even think of it until yesterday morning and noticed it was the wet sticky kind of snow. So my choice was to leave it and let the snow take it down or try and cut it down in the wind and snow and end up with a tangled mess. I let the snow do it. I know we got at least 8 inches but with the wind it's hard to tell. There are several areas where it was up to my knees.

So now I will have a mess to clean up when the wind and snow finally stop. The plus side is, no big hurry because the chickens won't go out there anyway.


The garage and cemetery beyond


Driveway and road.

DH was called in this morning at 3 am. He called me later to say he was clearing one road and was only able to go 15 mph because of all the trees he was pushing out of the way with the snow. I'm glad there are guys like him who actually like the job because I sure wouldn't want it.

Now to finish wrapping gifts and bake! I'm going to attempt a homemade flock block for the birdies. I figure if it doesn't turn out they won't care, they will eat anything!