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[Olive Hill]

Thanks, ya'll. Luckily, toes heal. (I hope! After all, I would have said that about legs until mine didn't. LOL!) Just hope she decides not to be such a wiener tonight for round two, and tomorrow morning for round three. I haven't the patience!

I managed to finish the carpet cleaning, just decided I wasn't moving furniture this time. Done is better than perfect, right? Right! Besides, how dirty can it possible be underneath the furniture? Don't answer that. With three dogs, two kids, a cat and a house bunny I really don't even want to know.

 

[sarah92480]

Olive what do you do when you break a toe? Do you have to go to the doctor and get some sort of cast or splint, or do you just go about your business and let it heal? That sounds painful, but I've never broken one so I wondered.

 

[Juise]

Hahaha, Olive.I would say you've done pretty well for a cripple.

I steamed our basement carpet yesterday, I need to do it again in one or two particular places. Cats. Pee. Ugh. So bad. Our basement flooded a bit over a year ago... the water tank burst. It couldn't just burst and flood, though, oh no, that wouldn't be good enough. It burst in just the right spot for the high pressure stream of water to shoot directly into the litter box, and flood out from there.

The entire basement was so, so super nasty and smelled so, so bad. Anyway, we have sealed, recarpeted, repainted, etc. since then, the only place that isn't done is the section of vinyl floor that I am about halfway through scraping up now. But since the flooding, the cats started peeing under the desk down there, and they just won't stop!

There is no way to shut them out, either.

 

[Olive Hill]

My Grandma gave me my first Stephen King book at 10 years old. I used to spend a few weeks every summer with her and my Grandpa and that particular summer she was reading Desperation. I read his books for a few years after that and loved them at the time. These days I have a hard time forcing myself through most fiction. Not sure what happened, don't even really remember when I quit reading fiction and switched over to non. Looking back, it was late high school, I suppose. Mostly read memoirs and non-fiction information types anymore.

 

[kimmie6067]

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I close them in to keep them safe from nighttime predators. Our run is covered in hardware cloth, and we have a hardware cloth apron that goes all the way around the run and coop, so the run is really just as secure as their coop is and I don't need to shut the coop except in Winter. It depends on how much risk you are willing to accept, and everyone makes different choices there.

Edited to add: I don't think your chickens will eat the acorns. My kids hoard and drop acorns everywhere they go and I have never seen the chickens try to eat them. There also seems to be a lot of discrepancy as to whether or not acorns are good or bad for chickens.

I heard that the eggs will taste off. I hate these oak trees I would rather have maple. Thats one thing about living in the woods that I hate all the wildlife invading my space

 

[Olive Hill]

Sarah - You can go to the doctor, but there's not much they can do. Just tape it up to the toe next to it and let it heal, which I'm perfectly capable of doing myself, so no, I won't go. I won't even bother to tape it, give it's my big toe and seems pretty sturdy on it's own. Just makes it a bit tricky to walk.

Juise -- That cat pee smell just doesn't go away either. Yuck! A peeing cat is one thing I just straight up will not tolerate. Got one here that's headed to my mom's barn tomorrow because he's decided peeing on blankets and towels is great fun.

 

[kimmie6067]

Has anyone read Language of Flowers really good book

 

[Juise]

It is really persistent! Vinegar water works really well, from what I remember, while it is difficult to get the pee out, vinegar essentially turns it into salt, which can be washed out. Luckily, the new carpet is pretty snazzy, the pad has a "wet barrier" on it to keep anything from sinking in, the cement is sealed now, and the carpet doesn't absorb anything into the fibers, so it is actually possible to get it out.

I don't know which of the 4 cats it is, I can't catch it in the act. I am certain it is only one, though... and probably Mr Special.

 

[Olive Hill]

I heard that the eggs will taste off. I hate these oak trees I would rather have maple. Thats one thing about living in the woods that I hate all the wildlife invading my space

They have this great place now; created especially for people just like you. They call it "The City".

 

[Mish]

A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin.

Sarah: The Song of Fire and Ice series is pretty good. I am only on book 2 and they are looong but I have read stuff as complicated.

Juise: Depending on what you like to read I have a list a mile long for recommendations.

Ladyfeather, I am in need of branching out, I am run out and there are only so many times I can reread my favourite authors, no matter how good they are. I like sci fi / fantasy, but also like things like Sherlock Holmes, Jules Verne, etc., you get the idea. I have a hard time trying to find new authors, there are so many trashy / poorly written sci fi books out there.

I will not read Stephen King, or Terry Goodkind, which seem to be the first things people suggest to me for some reason. I do not like them, I think they are terribly cheesy and poorly written, so I will get that out of the way and hope I didn't just terribly crush anyone, lol.
I like Koontz better than King. Probably my favorite book is Watchers.

On the subject of cheesy and poorly written, however, I will admit a guilty love of The Wheel of Time series, though.. and I feel kind of crappy for saying it, since the man died, but... I love it so much more since Brandon Sanderson took over, he is very, very talented.
I liked the Way of Kings (waiting for more) and Mistborn series by Sanderson also.

Recently read the George R.R. Martin series and started watching the HBO series

. I've always loved reading and turn more to quantity than quality... although there are some great epic fantasies out there. I'm always looking for new although I read so much that after a few years I can also re-read and it's almost a new book. With the new Brian Herbert prequels to Frank Herbert's Dune I'm back into that series. The book I have open is Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham. My recommendation from recent reading is the Kingkiller Chronicles. I also enjoyed Repairman Jack and Dresden Files.