Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[1muttsfan]

I always use 1/2 pint jam jars, never had any issues with breakage.

 

[Sally PB]

I really like glass containers, but the lids are plastic of some kind. I like the non-reactiveness of glass.

Well, it can react violently when subjected to gravity and hard surfaces.

 

[RaZ]

Someone asked for pictures. Here are a few.

I spent most of yesterday working outside. Work had a trailer full of scrap to give me. Some of the steel I use directly in the garage as shelves. These are fixtures that are mostly intact as is. Some assembly required.
I also scored a watermelon crate full of broken potting soil and other garden centre soils. Plus 15 bags of charcoal briquettes. The big bags. Other than having tears in the bags, none of this stuff is damaged. Other stores would tape up the bag and reduce the price. Not my store. I'm just lucky that they let me have this stuff. Maybe I shoul change my name to Fred Sanford.

 

[Folly's place]

A brief rant: It's hot, and hasn't rained, except for a brief drizzle yesterday. Rain all around, and not here.
And twenty hens, all 2+ years of age, and five eggs again today. April and May chicks are growing, so we will have actual laying hens again, later.
Straight run Chanties and bantam EEs, hatched in May, are starting to differentiate. No lack in cockerels in this batch!
More hot weather this week too...
On the very good side, air quality is finally good, two days in a row. May it continue!!!
Mary

 

[Dreamzchaser]

Happy belated 4th of July everyone

 

[Sally PB]

We got one of those "scattered showers, heavy at times" yesterday. I had laundry on the line, so it got a second rinsing. We got 3/4-1" so the clothes were totally drenched. Oh well.

I was weeding earlier, and making good progress, until I got nailed by a yellow jacket. I put baking soda on it, and that made a huge difference. Little swelling, not much pain. It's more swollen now, and it itches. I'm definitely going to do the baking soda treatment should I ever be stung again. I was expecting my finger to swell up a lot more.

To be fair to the yellow jacket, I think I put a trowel into its nest.

Ooo! Maybe that will keep the voles out of that bed...

 

[TheDandyLion]

If you haven't ever tried it yet, the next time you get stung, try looking for some plantain in your yard (the weed, not the banana looking fruit). Chew it up and put it on your sting. It will help. Baking soda works well, but you can usually find either narrow leaf or broad leaf plantain around, should you not be near your home at the time of the sting.

 

[1muttsfan]

Try After Bite on stings and bites, it takes a lot of the ouch out. I always keep a tube on hand in the medicine cabinet.
We got one of those scattered storms also, rained like crazy, first rain we've had in three or four weeks.

 

[saysfaa]

This barn had such a happy face! It is even better in focus but my camera is so much slower to adjust than my eyes that I just couldn't get it in time.

I've been this way many times without noticing this barn. It took a very nasty storm behind it to let it shine so much. It shined even more from the angle I first saw it.

 

[Dreamzchaser]

Not much for rain on this side. Critters are all fine. Just weird that Pitbull keeps going into the nest and sits on the ceramic eggs various times of the day,lol