Nevadans?

[2seth2]

WooHoo! I just won 12+ Standard Frizzle Cochin eggs off a BYC auction! They are shipping out this week! Better fire up my Bator

What color

 

[2seth2]

do you guys know if pams polish are standard or bantum

 

[chicharomirinda]

In my research on the subject I only found one that would continue to work all the way up to the speed the tower was rated for - 120 MPH!

It is a grid-tie system that also could have solar panels hooked up to it. Unfortunately, the company is located in Minnesota and they don't have any distributors out here. I'm seriously thinking about becoming their west coast distributor...

on our trip driving from reno to minnesota 2 years ago, we saw so much wind power in the midwest. It was very cool. I think we should have much more of that and solar power here. we have plenty of both sun and wind.

 

[chicharomirinda]

This past summer, my family turned the electricity off for entire weekend... we did it in July so we didn't need heat and could cook outside. We were allowed to have a refrigerator and alarm clocks, but the showers had to be cold and the food had to either be cold or cooked outside. It was very educational, and it really made them think about how much harder we'd have to work in the winter for all the things we take for granted. I'm glad we have a yard here, because, if SHTF for a week or more, we could cook on the grill or dig a pit and set a grate over it, then bring hot rocks inside for warmth.

great idea to try that at home!

We love to camp. We didn't get out last year with all my big projects but this year we will.

WooHoo! I just won 12+ Standard Frizzle Cochin eggs off a BYC auction! They are shipping out this week! Better fire up my Bator

keep us posted! love to see how they turn out.

We had solar water heaters in California. I miss having them. Our water was so hot and you couldn't turn it down back then. Not sure if you can yet or not. The water came out almost boiling it was so hot.

many people in mexico also have the solar water heaters. it's such a good idea. wish our state would get on the ball with more of this stuff--solar and wind.

It's called Ventera Energy in Duluth MN. Their system is great!

When I would go camping - also for long periods of time - we would take a 5 gallon plastic bucket and cut the bottom out of it. Then we attached a cheap toilet seat to the bottom. You then dig a small hole, and put the bucket over it upside down (i.e. toilet seat up), and presto! A throne fit for a king (or queen

). When you're finished, you just fill in the hole and it's all good.

Duluth is 60 miles south of where I grew up in Minnesota.

 

[2seth2]

i had a SQ splash silkie pullet set up but she needs room for all the chicks and it has to ship from boston monday. they are hatching and i dont have a coop yet

i wanted her so bad oh well the breeder felt really bad but had no room she is really coopritive i hope i find a silkie lader

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Pam pour your polish standard or bantum.

Standard. They're only 6 months old so not full grown yet.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Way to go Cecilia! Steve is getting my bator out of storage right now. I have eggs coming to hatch soon. I bought a new Brinsea one touch thermometer and a new hygrometer too.

We still have all our camping equipment and that tent set up in the living room will keep us nice and comfy. Camping used to be a huge passion of mine and so I've gotten really good at cooking on open fire. We've gone 2 weeks before without power when camping so it wouldn't be a big deal to me. The only thing I've ever really, reeeeally missed when camping was a working toilet. That little contraption is what I most take for granted! Such a simple thing but so wonderful to have!

I know I can't be the only camper on here...

Yes in your area Kim a DIY wind turbine would be just fine! You don't get these hurricane force winds we get here

Ron do you have a link for this system? I can't find that one I saw the other day. Now I'm thinking it was in a magazine not on-line. Can't remember though. This area could definitely use a distributor for a system like that! I would love to be on grid with that set-up. I like the idea of being paid for the extra power I generate.
Up here we are on a coop electric company so they are already set up for it. They don't pay what it's really worth though. Still, it would be great to not have to pay them!

Love, love, love to camp!

 

[2seth2]

is there like a chicken boarding place that cold hod my pullet becuase i really wanted her

 

[aubreynoramarie]

ill hold her seth, im getting some silkies this weekend so they could hang out

 

[americanvalkyrie]

A few months after we moved into our current house, we had a billing mixup with the Water Authority. The problem was fixed within a half hour, but they told us, "We have until the end of the business day to turn the water back on." By the end of the day (Thursday,) the driver was too busy and didn't make it. Apparently, the same thing happened Friday. We called Friday an hour before the end of that workday, and the answer was the same... they didn't have time. And they don't work on weekends. We had no water until Monday at the END of the workday.

Thankfully we had gym memberships, including the kids. So we worked out nearly every day just so we could shower, and the other baths were done with a pan full of hot water. I stole water from the ponds for the gardens (this was in July.) By the time we had water again, the ponds were half empty. We took gallon containers to a friend's office to fill up for drinking water and to flush the toilet in my massage office.

But at least we could heat water on the stove to wash our hair and take spot baths. At least we had an alternate shower source, a laundromat, a source of clean water, and a source of garden water. Now we keep a few gallons of water storage, just in case. Totally did NOT expect to have to deal with that.