Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[nluoma]

It's so odd to hear all the wishes for rain. We've had so much my garden drowned, and my yard was more mushrooms than grass for a while. Then I broke my mower bed (dratted woodchucks digging enormous random holes...) and the grass in the last three weeks has now reached knee height in my yard.

 

[ladyrsanti]

I am poor for I have no friends.

Going back to bed.

 

[1muttsfan]

.My DH helped with the stuff I needed two hands with, but he was not exactly loving the project (sample whine: "Can I have my life back now?" LOL).

Bet he happily eats the eggs...


When my 97 year old grandmother needed 24 hour a day care, and while mentally very good could not be trusted to call for help at night at home (she didn't want to bother anyone), we had to place her in a foster care home. My dad stopped by every day to visit her and see to her needs, and she actually enjoyed the company of others close to her own age (all her own friends had passed years before). There were many ladies there who, despite having family close by, were visited very seldom (in one case never) by their "loved ones". My dad was very popular, as he would stop and sit to visit with all the ladies when he came by. While I was living several hours away my job at that time took me on the road often, and several times a month I would get the chance to visit Gammie, and enjoy the company of the other ladies there. One, due to a stroke, could not speak, and I think her son pretty much wrote her off - although it was clear to both Dad and I, and the lady that owned the home, that she was mentally very alert and understood us just fine. His "care" of her was pretty much being in charge of her checkbook.

 

[Amastacia]

it amazes me how little family can mean to people these days. both of my DH's grandmothers are still alive and both need assistance. the one, in her mid nineties and living in the middle of no where WI, has pretty serious dementia. she can't remember more than about five minutes these days. her youngest son lived in the old farmhouse next door until he was shot and killed this past spring. rather than put their mother in a home, my FIL and his sister have been working together to make sure she is taken care of. my FIL moved out there to live with her for the summer at least. i'm not sure they have really figured out what they want to do after this, but they have been working together on everything to make sure she will be taken care of. i think it is wonderful that my FIL is doing this for his mother. my MIL's mom is a little young and is in a slightly better shape mentally. my MIL and her sisters can't decide what to do with her. they don't want to put her in a home because it is so expensive (she can afford it, they just want to protect their inheritance) and none of them want to take care of her. it rather disgusts me.

 

[1muttsfan]

The St. Ignace marina this morning

 

[gladahmae]

DH and I were gleefully watching the Tigers game last night, and I kept seeing lightning off in the distance. It was the bottom of the 8th, 2 hours, bases loaded, and Cabrera was up to bat. I looked at my husband and said "you watch. the pitcher's going to throw the ball, and then the power is going to go out, and then your phone will ding to tell you he hit a grand slam." Well, it wasn't a grand slam, but it was a bases clearing double, and the power DID go out before he hit it. Sometimes it's no fun to be right.


In other news, the sick chicks I discovered last weekend are going to get put back in with their respective flocks tonight. I did lose the one BLRW chick the day after I discovered their problem, but the barred rock and the olive egger seem to be completely normal now. Thank goodness!

I picked a whole lot of tomatoes yesterday. probably about a 1/2 bushel if I combined all of the types. I sent some of the heirloom and cherry tomatoes over to BIL's house since we just won't eat them before they go bad, but I'm saving my romas for sauce! Anyone have a good spaghetti sauce recipe they'd like to share? I'll be heading out to my mom's to pressure can sauce one day next week.

 

[Stacykins]

Lost power at the nursing home I work at last night. A severe storm rolled in right after supper. It was a mad scramble for flashlights so we could get residents safe. The kicker was that the backup generator is supposed to kick in immediately. It took a half an hour for it to come to life! So that was a half an hour in the dark, running for oxygen tanks since oxygen concentrators need electricity. The generator eventually came online. Though the only outlets powered were in hallways. So the folks on oxygen had their beds moved into the hallways for the night, as the tanks only last so long.

By the time my shift ended, the power had no yet been restored. I'd never seen the town so dark! The night shift probably had a stressful night, too. Without the air conditioning, the building was getting so hot and stuffy! Fans can only move around so much air...

 

[preciouskitty]

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BEAUTIFUL!! Wish I could've gotten a good pic of the doe eating in my backyard yesterday morn ~3am with that full moon shining off her coat....

 

[tsetse9]

Oh sorry yorkchick, I think it is actually hardware cloth, it is a very tight mesh. I had read that about chicken wire and don't plan on using it. Thank you though, if I hadn't known you may have saved me from disaster.

Evermystique, I am looking for specific, one daughter wants a silkie really bad, and I may have found a place nearby that has them. One daughter loves the australorps, and I would like some easter eggers. I also met and spent some time with a sweet older local farmer lately and he had some RIRs that he will sell me. He is trying to talk me into incubating and loaning me his equipment for that, but I'm a bit too scared to do that right now. I think he just thinks the kids would love to see it. Maybe eventually I would do that but not ready for that yet, lol. But thank you for asking. Amazing what I have found in the last couple weeks. Starting my research I couldnt find much nearby but through asking questions and digging further online I have found more and more resourses, many nearby that I would never have realized.

 

[gladahmae]

Evermystique, I am looking for specific, one daughter wants a silkie really bad, and I may have found a place nearby that has them.

He is trying to talk me into incubating and loaning me his equipment for that, but I'm a bit too scared to do that right now. I

If you get a silkie, you won't NEED an incubator!