Michigan

[fuzzybutt love]

Well, i managed to get a picture out of my camera, gotta love cold batteries! For now the chickens are getting this plus under the camper, as soon as i'm able to get the other fencing i'm putting in a little covered area behind that will have the space under the camper too, for when i'm not around. The front of the camper is getting fenced with scrap pieces of lattice, should be pretty when all up! Will be nice to sit in the shade with the gals, and not have to worry about dogs. I have the du'ccles in mind too, i want them protected. The front piece has a lot of cover from the tree too. I have a bench in there for me, and one outside for visitors (yes there's 4 foot fencing there, just can't see it good.)

 

[Opa]

I certainly didn't intend to offend anyone with my suggestion about using Remington or Winchester on cats. I LOVE cats. It's just that I couldn't eat a whole one.

 

[Olive Hill]

I have that! But doesn't the crap have to age a bit first?

Next year going to have some awesome compost for sure!

Meh. I don't. Day before you came to get them I cleaned up the side yard and put the goose poop, along with a heaping pile of alpaca poop directly in the bed I'll be planting my corn and squash in this year. I wouldn't plant in nothing but manure, but in a good mixture with your soil I've never noted any ill effects. I used to maintain a big compost pile and still usually end up with a decent one, but I cut out the middle man a while back and am not in any hurry to bring him back. As much as possible goes straight to the garden. Why haul it twice?

 

[teeville5]

Wide awake now after a 5 hour nap after work due to a splitting headache that just refused to go away today.

Opa- that looked like a really nice tom
RIRjen- congrats on your birds at the show
Olive- ow
And for all the book readers, I haven't heard of most of the books you are talking about, but I love to read. I tend to be a bit diverse and will give a book a try, but if it doesn't hook me right away, I don't typically finish it. I plod on through a few to a boring end that made the time it took to read wasted so I just don't anymore. I love to read about Tudor era England both fiction and non, and I have also read King, Koontz and Roberts(aka Robb), but have recently ventured into young adult just to see why all the teens are so big on them. I just finished the Hunger Games trilogy and have read a bit of Clockwork Angel. Sorry, Taprock, but I just didn't like Meyers' work and couldn't get very far into The Host before giving up. I am going to start reading Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter tonight. Odd choice, yes, but I loved what Seth Grahame-Smith did with Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. I have read almost all Jane Austin and just got a kick out of his twist to it. Also for the history buff, I recently read a book by Robert Leckie called A Helmet For My Pillow. It covers WW2 and was one of the books used for a storyline in the movie The Pacific. If you want a good country living satire, try Susan McCorkindale Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl and follow up 500 Acres and Nowhere to Hide. There are many more that I have read, but it would take too long to go through the whole list.

 

[EMAW]

This morning just got better. As I sat drinking coffee Hope spotted two toms dancing at the back of the property. I grabbed my shotgun and quickly stalked the 150 yards that separated us. Fortunately there is a large mound of dirt that blocked their view of me. Belly crawled up and over the berm and only one tom left. Opa, nice Tom, congrats.

So sorry to hear about your toe Olive.

My middle son, Benjamin, is running a temp of 103.4. New something had to be wrong as he was quite sedate for way too long. Bianca, sorry to hear about you son, my youngest was down for about 3 days with a similar fever. Doc said it was a viral thing going around, Motrin and Tylenol to help make him comfortable. Hope he is feeling better soon.

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.

Olive, hope you get your mobility back soon, broken toes are painful. Glad to hear the sow was more cooperative for round 2. /p>

I've been using a product for years that is very effective for eliminating those nauseating cat odors. It's made by Remington but the one made by Winchester is equally effective.

It's amazing how many uses those items have for household nuisances.

 

[Opa]

Just got back from making a donut run and it sure is cold out. While it is too early to tell how much this freeze is going to affect things I'm more than certain it's not for the better. While it was difficult to tell with any certainty, the leaves on the apple trees appeared to be hanging rather limp. I'm afraid that this year's fruit crop is going to be rather abysmal.

The coffee is ready, fresh donuts sit on the counter, so why don't you help yourself and let's sit a spell before our day begins in earnest.
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[Mom 2em All]

Good Morning...coffee is almost done here..

Little roos are crowing away out there- they are starting to sound roosterish.
Got my dog pretty good today. He was barking out the gate in earnest..opened the door let him in, and he came to the front door- hmm. I opened that for him, he took a look, then asked to go back out the backdoor..

At that point, I went out with him *barefoot* (brrr!) and figured out that he was barking a single bark after a roo would crow its little girl scream from inside the coop...eeeeekerrrrr WOOF eeeeekkerr WOOOF...muffled screaming girls in my backyard.
Smart boy..

I have to bundle up and fill feeder both outside and in here this morning. I wish the temps would warm up..

Gardensmart people, I dug up a bunch of ferns and other plants from my stepdaughters house last night. She plans to rototill them all down- so, tell me..can I even transplant ferns?
In this lovely weather this morning, seems pretty bleak. Cold out there; but I figured I will put them in, and hope for the best.

 

[1muttsfan]

Sure mom, just keep them well-watered got the first few weeks.

 

[taprock]

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What is this handsome little one? Serama?


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Yes, My parents live in the woods and she wanted a natural flower bed on her terraces, we transplanted ferns, Jack in the Pulpit and Solomon Seal from her woods into the flower bed with no problems.


Olive - are you certain they don't do anything for a BIG toe. I was thinking baby toe and I know they just tape them, but I honestly don't know anyone who has broken a big toe.

Opa this is what your turkey made me think of. You and your coffee, but then you didn't have to sit and wait!


Does anyone know of a place in Michigan to get California Quail or hatching eggs. My son has wanted some since last year for a 4-H project. I don't want to buy the 100 chicks and the only eggs we can find are 30 in number and 70+ in price. I'm not willing to do that for his project.

The sun is bright this morning no wind, and not a cloud in the sky. Now if it would just warm up.

 

[taprock]

With this new web site does the add in the top right corner track your use? It has changed several times to things I have viewed in the past few days. I had never seen an add for the product until after I had gone to the website. There were also a couple that were businesses that are local to my area. Anyone else notice this?