Official Squatch Watchers

[Anansi]

Hoping for a safe delivery and á healthy baby.

 

[rjohns39]

Morning Folks

 

[CapricornFarm]

It sounds like it worked!

One of the worst things for me to read, over and over again, is someone thinking DE will kill bugs. Poor chickens then have to suffer and many die.

Myths die hard.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Morning Folks

Good morning!

 

[Chickassan]

Good morning! Iv'e got two little crowers now, Dick started but he only does half then runs from his own noise.

It sounds like it worked!

One of the worst things for me to read, over and over again, is someone thinking DE will kill bugs. Poor chickens then have to suffer and many die.

Lol! See sometimes it is perfectly o.k to piss a person off.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Morning everyone.

I am hoping Rae is doing well.

We will be hot this week. The mud should be dry by noon with such a hot forecast.

 

[apryl29]

I could and should have clipped his better than I did but my help makes them all nervous.
He's big,loud and talks his hands, chickens arent big fans.
For some reason he thought I needed a holder, nope never have don't know if Negan looked extra wiggly to him or what.
If he'd watched even once in like three years he'd know rooster just stands and gets clipped.

Yours will stand for it?! When I go to touch anyone's feet they dance around like I'm trying to steal their feet. I was trying to get some caked on mud from Loki's nails last night and she kept pulling her feet away from me. Maybe they see Klaus' missing toes and think they'll end up the same.. idk.

A vision test... do you see what's in the picture?

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The Misfits
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Baby Killdeer! :::squee::: They were so little. I couldn't help myself. I reunited them with Mom and a third sibling.

I totally missed the little birds until I clicked on it.

It actually rained here. Real rain not just a 10 minute misting.

My plants are happy! My birds not so much lol.

We are 45° with rain right now. I know many of us are sick of rain....really really sick of rain. Living in a semi-arid area this rain is pretty welcome here.

The alley behind us used to be an open canal. After the flood in 1976 (Estes Park dam that broke) it was reworked. Now it is a storm drain overflow channel. Normally it is dry. It IS 5+ feet deep and goes from 3' wide to really wide 12+ I think. It is about 2' deep in water right now. Very unusual for us. In the 20 years I have lived here I have only seen it full once. I would say I have only seen water in it maybe 6 times.

Yup we are DRY here most of the time.

Yay for real rain for someone who needed/ wanted it. We're supposed to get more today. I got sprinkled on on my way in, but more is coming.

Well all the spinach is pulled up. Three 13 gallon bags of it.


I do believe I will be spending a good part of the day blanching for freezing.

There are also 5# of strawberries now washed, sorted, cored and frozen. Not from my garden but I couldn't pass on $.88 a pound.
No I won't be eating those. They are for my son's smoothies he has been making.

I was going to pick lettuce and plant beans but it is raining so that will wait for tomorrow.
I did get a handful of peas picked for shelling.
I need to pick the snow peas and get those frozen too.

Bunnies have been partying in my garden. I saw one eating bean leaves this morning and seem to be missing several strawberries from the plants in the ground.

Super jealous of the strawberries. We have a farm here and they have strawberries for $2.25 and cherries for $4.75. We haven't made it out yet, but we usually try to get cherries from them. My kids aren't 'crawl around in the dirt and pick strawberries' age anymore, but they are 'pick some cherries' tall enough now.

I put out a bag amd 1/2 of barn lime in part of the poultry yard... smells better

I've been seeing about lime on instagram (I must be following someone.. IDK).. So what does lime do? I remember my mom putting it in her garden, and the insta people advertise putting it in water troughs.. What does it do, besides helping w/ the stink?

Hi guys. We are on the road to the hospital. Seems like baby decided to come before the induction. I’ll let you know when baby is here.
@staceyj @Texas Kiki

YAYYYYYYY for baby time! I hope everything is going/ went well and you had/have an easy, event free labor.

 

[drumstick diva]

I don't know nuthin' about birth'in babies!

tear up some clean sheets, boil water, let doctor take over

 

[21hens-incharge]

Some days are worthy.


My son is meeting with the horrible boss we had. Yup that boss called him wanting him to go back to work there.
Lots of promises about things being better, different, etc.

I won't go back there. I am still raw over it all.

Big parts made of plastic sitting outside warping in the sun, filling with ice and snow in winter, covered in road grime. No thanks.
Idiots fresh to production work getting paid more than me.....yeah he can keep all that mess.

 

[apryl29]

I was seriously wondering if Rae had her baby over the weekend when I logged on. So exciting!! And how great that she just finished up her work stuff. It's like the baby knew. Hopefully it's always that accommodating.

My giant human turned 16 yesterday. We went to see MIB4, which was good, but not as amazing as the first one. I made her an awesome cake. I have to share it b/c it turned out so much better than I expected. My kid is weird, she wanted a Croc cake & frog cakes. Frog cakes, if you don't know, are a dessert from Australia. Basically a cake w/ jam and butter cream in the middle, a scoop of buttercream on top, covered in green icing w/ dot eyes, then you cut a slit in the top to make the mouth of the frog. It's apparently a big deal there. One turned out almost perfect, the others were special.

She loves crocs and saw a similar cake online. First time using fondant... could be better, could be worse. I used froze sarah lee pound cake, blackberry jam, and homemade buttercream. I tasted pretty good & she was happy. Those frog cakes though.

Loki has gone broody again. She was hanging out in the Saturday night, then Sunday night she was still there (even after I took her eggs)... I tossed her out of the coop several times. I'll need to break her this weekend.

She is not happy w/ my attempts to stop her. Her belly is already naked. If it wasn't 2 weeks before we had to leave I'd consider letting her hatch (for someone else), but not while I'm gone. I have an egger who is molting up a storm. The run looks like someone had been attacked.