At risk of sounding redundant. It's still snowing over by Detroit. The snow is over my boots now, which for cold/wet haters like me means things are getting serious. This is going to be a lot of water to melt off this week (Wednesday/Thursday?). I would not be surprised if we saw some flooding later.
They don't plow or salt or sand well here, but it doesn't matter much to us because we may live on a swampy acre in a factory area, but we can walk to at least two big box grocery stores within an hour in fair weather, and bikes still work so-so in the snow, so we're almost always only 10 minutes from restocking the shelves. I hope no one else needs to get anywhere.
Now quality chicken and rabbit food is what would have me worried if we were anywhere near running out, but we're not.
I might have to downsize on my bird flock this year. I'm not yet 30, but I'm starting to get symptoms what I'd not be surprised winds up being really bad carpal tunnel, especially when it's chilly, which would mean plucking endless muscovy to put in the freezer would be out of the question. If that winds up being the case I'd be torn, because the huge population boom helps control mosquito in our yard, but they kind of exist to try to take over the world every year. You've got to keep the population under control, and there's not enough market for what they produce, and every time I pluck, it messes my hands up for the next day or two. Stuffing the freezer full to bursting is sure fun though... I might have to find a less producktive duck to clean up the larvae or just give up and do what the duckless neighbors do and hide all summer evenings. Repellent doesn't even work, there are so many, but each year I have ducks we have fewer and fewer biters. A processor isn't a good option either unless we get a bigger car (boo hoo, more car space for feed and hay, but insurance by Detroit is high, so it's not to be taken lightly). Aw well, we'll see what the doctor says. I want to be able to open cans and screw things in again! (and pluck ducks! and shovel snow! and lug feed sacks without hand related repercussions!)
..sorry...hang in there!
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