Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[maple]

Well, I donated 4 duck eggs to the 2nd graders and only one is left. She had 17 shipped and only 5 are left.

I don't know what they are doing over there...teacher says they smell stinky and takes them out...they have a candler so I'm hoping she's right...that they are doa.

I was thinking about my duck eggs. I thought, wow, 3 of them went bad? But then, the ducks some of them are youngish girls...they were born last spring...and maybe the drakes weren't fertilizing all the females? I know they are for the most part...I see them. I know if there was one viable egg that it would mostly have to be Ali and Quackers...they hatched thier eggs last year and got 3 out of 3.

 

[ibpboo]

Belle and Buff, you have stuff sprouting already?
The weather has not been freezing?

Or are they indoor sprouts, or covered or something?

 

[NellaBean]

I gave a first time duck egg hatcher a dozen eggs. For her new incubator. One was a triple yolker.....one quit. 10 hatched.

I sold the ducks and the new buyer put 35 eggs in incubator. 34 are developing.

I guess howard and his 3 ladies are good at what "they do".

 

[Southernbelle]

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Well, they're garlic plants. Buffy gave me the cloves last Oct and they overwintered in the ground. I was so happy to see them sprouting!

Our last frost date is officially tomorrow, but I've been planting all week because it's been unseasonably warm (low to mid 80s):
carrots
radishes
potatoes
3 kinds of tomatoes
4 kinds of peppers
spinich
lettuce
yellow squash
zucchini
potatoes
beans
corn

The strawberry, black raspberry and blueberry plants just came in the mail yesterday. I need to finish their beds, but the bad weather has kept me in.

 

[LarryPQ]

Lalallalala Murderdeathkill!!!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Okay, we have Belle posting her life-affirming plant-oriented love of all things.

Then we have Laree posting... well. Hmm....... Garlic sprouts or death? Which is better?

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Belle, our weather's only been in the low 50's lately, but I planted lettuce and arugula and snow peas. Wish me luck. Your weather sounds so much nicer.
BTW, how do you do all that when you have four chirplings?

 

[sparkles2307]

Ah gotta love a day in the life of Laree

SPEAKING of "murderdeathkill" we got a skunk last night after it ate a nest of eggs, ran between my legs, and ran headlong into DH's boots.

Loss of eggs: $2

Shotgun Shells: $1.50

Man with loaded gun quivering in terror: Priceless.

 

[Southernbelle]

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10 minutes at a time

and yelling things like, "You better be doing your homework!" in through the windows.

 

[Southernbelle]

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