Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[1muttsfan]

Chicklets have learned their first dust bath lesson well. Big Mama was off picking around - mini Panic attack when I couldn't see them right at first

 

[Devyn Nagy]

Anyone planning to go to the Ionia Free Fair next week?

 

[Devyn Nagy]

Anyone planning to go to the Ionia Free Fair next week?

I'm considering buying some 4H chickens there.

 

[Sally PB]

Anyone planning to go to the Ionia Free Fair next week?

I avoid Ionia during the fair. The road through to the highway, or down to Menard's is bumper to bumper.

Short answer is... um... no...

But post pictures if you go!

 

[Sally PB]

I think we got 2-3 inches of rain last night. I haven't looked to see if there's damage to the garden, or if the driveway or roads have any serious wash. After seeing pictures of Vermont, I have nothing to complain about.

 

[saysfaa]

Wish me luck - I found a poultry textbook from the 1950s in the pictures of an estate sale. I'm waiting for dd and sil to get done with dr appointments before going saleing. I really hope it will still be there.

I'm amazed, first that there is one and more that I could make out enough of the words on the cover to guess what it is. Usually, the pictures are too out of focus to read.

I'm hoping for an air purifier, too, that I saw in the pictures.

 

[Devyn Nagy]

I avoid Ionia during the fair. The road through to the highway, or down to Menard's is bumper to bumper.

Short answer is... um... no...

But post pictures if you go!

Yeah, the traffic sucks. Parking too, unless you want to walk five miles. But hey, it's only once a year. We live just a couple miles south of Ionia.

 

[Sally PB]

Good luck! Report back on what you get.

 

[saysfaa]

Wish me luck -

Whoo hoo!!! It was still there! $2 for a nice, clean, tight copy of 1946 Poultry Science and Practice.

Another $2 for a beautiful 1948 copy of Morrison's Feeds and Feeding. That was a surprise because it had a plain brown paper cover.

I passed on the 1930-something Maintenance of Farm Machinery put out by John Deere. It was also in nice shape but just too old - too many of the examples didn't even have three point hitches. I'll do better with the later copy I already have.

The air purifiers were gone.

I found two chamios ($2 for both), a nice deep wooden bowl ($2), a pair of gortex gloves big enough for my son ($1), bottles of red wine vinegar, champaign vinegar, molasses ($1 each), a oxo push top container full of white rice ($1), a half a roll of aluminum foil ($1), two cotton zip pillow protectors ($3 each), two like-new, goose down pillows ($20 each), and a flipper spatula that is our favorite type, hasn't been made in decades, and we've found twice so far - various of our kids took both (50 cents).

I think that is all. We went to three sales.

I checked the price of a wringer washer (we have three to sell), and several other things we also want to sell or at least not have anymore.

All in all, it wasn't really worth the cost of the miles but it was fun, we got some exercise, fresh air, sunshine, and it was nice doing this with dd and dsil. And I got a boost in the resolve to stop adding to my "stuff" problem and to keep thinning down.

 

[Sally PB]

a half a roll of aluminum foil

One of my neighbors buys a lot (maybe most) of that kind of thing at estate sales. Candles, matches, cleaning supplies, etc. And she usually gets the "last day" mark down on top of the sale price, because those aren't the things that sell quickly.