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Morning Michiganders and Welcome to all the newbies! Hard to keep up on the forum during the busy summers. We had kin from Florida visiting and now in another 4 days have a couple from Florida visiting for a week or two. Last week of August I fly to florida to celebrate my dads 98 !! birthday. September 6 I have friends I grew up with in Vermontville...coming to housesit/chicken care/and dog care for us for 2 1/2 WEEKS while hubby and I go to Colorado (sister there) Wyoming and Montana (cuz). A trip we have wanted for years!

We live on a "seasonal" dirt road (trail really). Not snowplowed and not graded by the county. Our mailbox is 1/2 mile away. Our town (Fife Lake) is small with maybe 700 people winters and 1,000 summers. The village has a hardware, two bar/restruants, a grocery store, post office, pharmacy and a tiny beach and boat landing because the town wraps around Fife Lake. We LOVE it here. Our home is only 1 1/2 miles from downtown and we can walk there. We can take the ATV or snowmobile to get groceries! This year....town people are actually driving down our dusty trail to buy my eggs (friends from church) or pick our rhubarb. We have a good life and feel blessed. We are 60 yrs old....hope to be able to manage the road and our property for another 10 years but who knows? There are always disadvantages to living in the boonies.
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We need RAIN really bad..none here for over a month I think. Rain dancers....please start your dancing up again!
 
Well, Fife...We finally got some rain yesterday and more this morning so far! So I will do a little dance for you to get some up there! Your life sounds great! We are working toward that, but live not quite so far out in the boonies...about 10 miles from town. But have the space to spread out finally! And love it!

Going out to do the dance for you now!
 
Lots of rain here... and it's started up again. No complaints, we sure need it. Will try a rain dance for you, fife. Gotta make sure the neighbors are not out and about first. Hate for the men in the white coats to come and get me.
 
wow the thunder crackers last night were shaking the window and the rain was so hard the duck pond looks full of clean water again. Glad the meat birds chicken tractor didn't turn into a boat and float away. It sure is muggy and the air is very heavy over here on the Lakeshore. July has flown by.

Hope ya all have a great day!
 
Aaaggghhh!!! Just got a call from hubby. Our church is having a rummage sale that started today and we have been diligently cleaning out cupboards, etc. to get rid of stuff that we haven't used since we moved into this house almost seven years ago. This has been a huge task since hubby is one of those "but we may need that some day.." type of people. He has been awesome in actually letting go! Well, I sent him to the church this morning with the third load of stuff and gave him strict orders that the only thing he was to look at was boys jeans for our son. Without these orders, he would bring home a load of really valuable stuff that we can't live without to replace all the stuff we just got rid of
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Of course this is the one time that he actually listened to me.... he was bringing in the last boxes of stuff to drop off and looked over at the check out area....someone was buying an EGG INCUBATOR!!!! Just my luck!!! I don't have a clue who would have donated this, but of all the things to miss out on. AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!
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I'm just going to tell myself that it was old and probably didn't keep humidity and was missing parts and wasn't wonderful at all.......sigh.
 
Special delivery! One noisy sun conure named Peaches! Goes by the aliases of Screechy Peachy, Wet Rat, Screeches, and Pretty Bird, to name a few.

In all reality, she is my LOVE! I've had her since I was twelve, she turned ten years old this past Cinco de Mayo (her hatch date!). She has been living with my parents while I was doing the college thing, and now that I have settled down, they are finally letting me take her back. While she is mine, my Dad is pretty attached to her too. He was going to say "
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u can't have her" but Mom convinced him otherwise.

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One thing she has over the chickens: she is potty trained. Oh yea, 'tis pretty awesome not gettin' pooped on
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Jamie, to insure the best quality apples spraying is a must. The first spray should be in late winter when the temperature is above freezing. This would be Volck oil spray and its purpose is to kill the bugs, larvae, and eggs that have overwintered in the bark. The next application is orchard spray and this is applied immediately after the blossoms have fallen. After that I try to reapply orchard spray every two weeks or after a hard rain. My last application is the last week of August.
 
Thunderstorms all night long with lots of needed rain. One very loud crack had all three dogs jumping up out of bed! Glad I got the lawn mowed yesterday. It's still raining lightly now and can keep going all day as far as I'm concerned. While mowing by my flowerbed behind the house I noticed a nice little nest in the lillies with one little green egg in it. Now who would have done that? I got two eggs this morning, one is huge and takes up the whole palm of my hand! The other is a small BR pullet egg.
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RaZ - I completely understand and agree with you on where you would like to live. I have a picture that I have carried with me for 20 years now of my ideal plot of land. It's a 72 acre private island in the US Virgin Islands called Little St. James. It is completely forested, beaches all around, a huge main residence, caretakers cottage, guest cottage, pool, boathouse and moorings and helicopter pad. At the time I clipped the ad it was selling for $12,000,000. I thought I wouldn't have to have any fences, the dogs could run free, everything could run free! I could run around my private island in my birthday suit if I wanted!! No neighbors to complain about anything! No neighbors!!! Woo Hoo! But I do have great neighbors who are willing to drop everything and help me if I need it, and they love my chickens AND my roosters. At least the ones on both sides of me.
Stacykins - Sun conures are beautiful, but a bit too noisy for me. My constant companion (sitting on my shoulder as I type and spell checking) is Merlin, my severe macaw. He's 8 yrs. old now and could live to be 80.
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