Michigan

[NovaAman]

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My parents have a pellet stove and it didn't take long to pay for itself in fuel savings. But the main problem: if the power goes out, the auger that feeds pellets into the little burning pit doesn't work. Fine if you have a generator to feed it juice, but yea, useless in a power outage otherwise. The wood/coal furnace I run relies on power for the blowers that send the warmed air around the house, but since it is in the basement, it heats just fine when the power is out and keeps the entire house toasty through simple convection and physics. All the hot air rises through the vents still to warm the house.

The pellet furnace I was looking at was about 300 bucks and nothing electric about it, you had to feed it yerself... But I was interested in the fact that a skid of the pellets for tsc only cost 179 buckaroos!

 

[taprock]

AngelaB - Congratulations to your daughter! We need more women hunters! We don't have big bucks like that up here. This year we have lots of tall spikes on our property. Nothing impressive but it's my sons first year to hunt with a gun and one of those little guys would make his season.

When we built our house last year we had to decide on what kind of furnace, we had always been in town and had natural gas. So the choice was outdoor wood or Geothermal. There was a $4,000.00 difference. We went with geothermal. My husband said that never having to cut, haul or buy wood was more than worth it. It's a little different to turn on the heat and hear the sound of water.

 

[KrisRose]

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I would love Geothermal. The price tag for me was about 15000. Need to win the lotto.

 

[KrisRose]

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Well, that would explain why Penelope keeps breaking into choruses of Kum Ba Yah and demanding S'mores!

 

[Mom 2em All]

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I'll have to try that. I thought at least they might start honking in the morning as I come to let them out their Upscale Luxury Gated Community, as I call it (they insist on referring to it as Goose Jail). No, they just keep up a soft chatter which clearly says "hurry up, you're so slow, we've got places to be," but in an oh-so-polite manner. The three days I work they only see me in the dark now. Penelope in particular is quite suspicious of the flashlight. Seems a little startled every time the beam of light comes close to her. But they are getting quite used to the routine of going into Protective Custody, I mean their Gated Community, every night. The last two nights I have just had to walk behind them and not even use the herding sticks--they walked right in. And they are all eating the grumble quite happily now.

oh! I forgot to tell you that! They are scared of flashlights...I figure that it looks like the glowing eyes of predators to their instinctive brains..when I fed them in the morning, I had to use a flashlight- they hated it. They couldnt understand why my voice was coming from the 'predator'.
awww.

 

[SillyChicken]

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Congratulations to your daughter on her VERY nice buck!!! Looked like a great shot too! I LOVE seeing young girls getting out to hunt and being sucessful! Nice wall hanger for sure!


Went up north for about a 4 hr ride and picked up a couple Lionhead rabbits. They're so cute, and friendly. I sat for quite a while lastnight and combed the doe and she just sat there nice and still and quite. I'll post some picts soon.

 

[AngelaB]

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Congratulations to your daughter on her VERY nice buck!!! Looked like a great shot too! I LOVE seeing young girls getting out to hunt and being sucessful! Nice wall hanger for sure!


Went up north for about a 4 hr ride and picked up a couple Lionhead rabbits. They're so cute, and friendly. I sat for quite a while lastnight and combed the doe and she just sat there nice and still and quite. I'll post some picts soon.

Thanks! I love rabbits. I have always owne Flemish Giants. Mine right now is running around the house....lol

 

[rebecky1305]

Anyone in the Lansing Michigan area that would like 2 Khaki Campbell female ducks, I have two that need new homes. About 1 1/2 years old. Both great layers. Have never been completely free ranged, have been in a fenced in run, so I'm not sure how they would do loose, so would prefer they be fenced.

 

[Opa]

Just got home last night after two weeks in Missouri and since I took my laptop with me this is the first time that I haven't had to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to catch up on past posts. I'm glad that those of you who went to Fowl Fest had a great time although I sure wish that I would have been in town to have attended. I've always enjoyed it in the past and have always looked forward to hooking up with some fellow BYCers.

Like always going on vacation is nice and as always arriving back home always feels great, but a always the amount of things I need to chatch up on and do before the cold weather hits is scary. The portable fencing needs to be taken down and the area raked to remove the melon rinds and other debris that has accumulated. The main run needs to be tarped and the lights installed so the birds will have somewhere to go out into this winter. The first year I didn't tarp it and shoveling snow from a chicken run isn't high on my list of enjoyable things. I had hope to have gotten a water line ran down to the coops with a freeze proof faucet but that didn't happen so I will be toting water from the house again this year. Next spring I have definitely got to make that happen.

On this trip south I was able to pick up a new light weight straw hat. It's difficult finding anything around here that I like the looks of. Since having to have a skin cancer lesion removed from my nose a few years ago I try to protect myself from the sun as much as possible. Since I have rather prominent ears it requires a big hat to put them in the shade. I was able to find one with a Gus crown and a 4" brim so now with this lighter weight I can keep my head cool and my nose and ears in the shade.

 

[chickflick]

Welcome home, Sam! We missed you at Fowlfest! Glad you had a good time with your family. How did Granny do while you were gone? Thought of her often and hoped all went well.
Crazy beautiful weather we're having, but it's suppose to start changing tonight. So enjoy while you can!!