Official Squatch Watchers

[Smuvers Farm]

3:30AM. Even on heavy pain meds I KNEW I wouldn't get much sleep.

#6 is breaking through. Gonna be here any minute. Peeps isn't quite fully dry yet, but runs towards the flashlight light when I shine it into the brooder. #15 has flipped itself over and has pipped a bigger hole, but not really by much. The rest don't seem to be ready to go yet. I am a patient girl.... NOW GET OUT NOW NOW NOWNOWNOW!!!

Well, chit! I see this:

I run to the kitchen, nuke a cup of water for 2:22 minutes, drop in a tea bag, slop in some HWC, get back to the bedroom, and THIS has happened:

And here's Peeps:

 

[Smuvers Farm]

A bit after 5AM. Here's our 3rd hatcher, egg #15!

 

[Molpet]

where do you have your ventilation during the winter?

The East side has a 6" gap at the bottom that I have plastic I can move for more or less ventilation. The south end is partially covered in this coop... the 8x24 has the south completely open and the north a couple of protected opening at top

 

[staceyj]

Good morning friends!
@Smuvers Farm, your little itty bitty babies are precious beyond words!
I can't wait til they're all out and toddling around together.
Will they be popping out left and right today?

 

[rjohns39]

@rjohns39 Do you have the Cocoa/Hot Chocolate recipe broken down for layered gift jars? OR if you just mix it all up, what size jars for gifts and what measurement (tablespoons, etc) to make an individual serving?

The coco I just mix up. 3-4 coffee scoops per cup. When I do meals in a jar they're not layered for pretty but some come out that way. I layer in the larger stuff first, then powders and spices get shaken down into the jar. I use quart jars which will make a meal for 4-6 people.

Caught up! PHEW.
@rjohns39 needs to make a video and upload it to whatever cloud all the videos flit around in (but in private) so that we can all learn to make mozzarella.

The bad news is I have a bunch of laundry to throw in and a bunch to fold too, so by the time I get back I'll be behind again.

Cute fluff balls smuv...

Morning all

 

[staceyj]

The coco I just mix up. 3-4 coffee scoops per cup. When I do meals in a jar they're not layered for pretty but some come out that way. I layer in the larger stuff first, then powders and spices get shaken down into the jar. I use quart jars which will make a meal for 4-6 people.

Cute fluff balls smuv...

Morning all

Oh wow! She makes it looks so easy.
That would be a fun project to do while the grown up kids are home for the holidays!

 

[staceyj]

@Smuvers Farm must be delerious from lack of sleep or knee deep in baby peeps.
Hellllllloooooooo smuvs.

We are waiting for more pictures!

 

[21hens-incharge]

I am up too. Getting ready to let the girls out. I am late and I am sure they are cranky.

We are already in the 40's!!

Love those little Chickies. They just exploded out as soon as Smuv wasn't looking!

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I heard about someone being on the bachelor who was in the funeral industry. I never actually watched it so I don't know what she really did in the business. People like to claim that their morticians, but don't actually ever touch a dead body. They like the shock value & other people's reaction. I've been an embalmer in California for 22+ years. Usually when I tell people what I do they don't really want to talk to me anymore or they become very uncomfortable.

I would find this fascinating. Not sure I could do it. I think certain cases would be very hard.

You provide a valuable service to grieving families.

 

[Redhead Rae]

You don't always do what you are told do you?

Depends on how reasonable I find the order.

I'm proud of what I do and wouldn't want to do anything else. I have a BA degree in English, but the only profession I could go into was teaching. Not for me. I decided to go to mortuary school & finally do what I always wanted to do.
Sometimes I just have to be careful when discussing my day at work with my family during dinner. Of course, they're use to it by now. But still, sometimes I forget & go a little too far.

My mom was a hair dresser. She had a bunch of old lady customers. One of them wad Mabel, a former music teacher who, along with my Grandmother(my mom's mother), who was a nurse, practically ran the elementary school they worked at together (because the principle was a drunkard who was golf buddies with the superintendent). She was almost a second mother to my mom. Anyway, I digress. My mom was a caretaker for Mabel and even did her hair and makeup after she passed. The funeral home director actually offered her a job. However, after working with one family, she decided it was too much trouble.

Not a terrier fan! Diggers and chasers. Mine barks at any animal on the tv! She hears the commercials and comes running.

My parents have a rat terrier (named Buttercup, but she responds to "Fat Dog" as well). She is the least terrier-like terrier I've ever seen. She can't jump, is shaped like a ottoman and doesn't dig. My parents' Cockapoo-Dachshund (result of a doggie daycare mishap, and is also named Cricket) is more like a terrier than Fat Dog.