Official Squatch Watchers

[rjohns39]

Good morning folks

 

[Redhead Rae]

Good morning folks

Good morning!

Today, I think I have about 2 dozen eggs to move to the lock down incubator, Cornish and guinea.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Well , but he wants stuff cleaned. Not more coops built.

If it is indoor cleaning....mops, brooms, spray bottles and cleaning cloths are one size fits all.....including mens hands....

Good morning folks

Good morning!

Today, I think I have about 2 dozen eggs to move to the lock down incubator, Cornish and guinea.

Good morning y'all.

I am going to try and get more done in our sunny weather today.

I hope everyone gets to have a nice day.

 

[Redhead Rae]

If it is indoor cleaning....mops, brooms, spray bottles and cleaning cloths are one size fits all.....including mens hands....

My hubby is living proof. Of course, he doesn't work and I'm the breadwinner. I still do a lot of chores but he does dishes, most of the laundry and most of the main area cleaning chores. He also takes the boys and lets me sleep an extra hour or so since he doesn't have to get up to feed the baby at night.

That one month earlier this year when DH got the flu and it completely knocked him down was miserable. I'm about 50/50 on whether it was covid or not. Many doctors are speculating it got here earlier than we think because the borders were open for 3 months before they shut things down.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I didn't know Sumi but I'm sad for family and friends. I'm a person who believes she is not suffering any longer so her passing is peace for her.

I agree cleaning supplies are one size fits all. If it's so bothersome how it is do something about it. And complaining isn't doing something.
Do you have a cpap machine for your apnea? If not you really should. Apnea can be very dangerous and the lack of sleep makes life miserable. (Could also be affecting hubby and making his crabby)

I'm annoyed with my neighbor. Last fall right before the weather turned I had that tree fall then 6 or 7 more taken down. I started the cleanup but it's just me. And once I couldn't drag stuff with the lawn mower I had to stop. I guess there is stuff from the disaster on their lawn. And the landscapers will need to mow soon. I get that its in the way. I understand wanting it moved. It was the tone of "we want to be good neighbors and we are sure you want to be a good neighbor too"
Really I'd like no neighbors but that wasn't an option. And it snowed the other day. Actually stuck on the ground accumulated snow IN APRIL!

In happier news... My eggies go into lockdown tonight! I've never hatched this many peeps. So if you don't hear from me after this weekend I'm in my basement letting them run all over me peeping (and pooping).

 

[Redhead Rae]

It was the tone of "we want to be good neighbors and we are sure you want to be a good neighbor too"
Really I'd like no neighbors but that wasn't an option.

*dripping sarcasm* You mean you don't just love a passive aggressive scolding?

DH and I were on the receiving end of one from my MIL the last few days.

She's gotten on a tear about wanting to set up a hydroponics system INSIDE the nice new trailer we bought for them to live in. My FIL said no, DH said no, and I said HELL NO (not in those exact words, but that was the gist, just more polite). With their home being a cheaper single wide, water is not their friend. She wanted to set up a system with circulation and she has a habit of ignoring small leaks until they disintegrate the floor. Plus, the humidity wouldn't be good for the trailer either.

So, she decided she wants a greenhouse. Fine, we need one anyway. But she wants one with a climate battery (basically tubes run underground to cool the greenhouse during the day and warm it at night) and a thermal wall. The problem with the mini-geothermal system is that it needs to be precisely calibrated to work properly. She thinks it is as easy as digging a hole, slapping in a couple layers of pipe grid, and filling the hole back up. NOPE. First the pipes need to be 2' - 6' deep. Our water table is 4 ft or less below the surface. Also where we want to put the greenhouse is at the bottom of the hill, which means water flowing down the hill. The pipes don't work if they are filled with water. Oh, and if you have clay soil, forget about it. The water that condensates in the pipes as the air cools will just turn the clay around the pipes into a shell. Our soil is mostly clay and rock. So we would have to truck in ALL the material to fill the hole back in. Oh and the thermal regulation system requires a steady stream of power and a lot of sensitive electronics to work properly. Which doesn't work well for a SHTF scenario, which my MIL is mostly concerned about. The structure she wants above ground is less problematic, but very costly in time and materials.

On top of all this, she doesn't have a very good history of following through on gardens. She has managed to stay on top of making sprouts for all of us this winter, which I am very grateful for, but it doesn't translate well enough to gardening to account for us to start putting in a system that would cost upwards of $10-15k.

She threw a toddler fit about it on Monday. I was only in the room for 30 seconds of the harrang she submitted my husband to, but what I was there for made me want to kick her. I walked in during a break on making dinner I hear "Well, I need the greenhouse be cause YOUR WIFE won't let me set up my farm in the house!" No..... none of the rest of us want you to have it in the house. I left the room and continued making dinner. She eventually went off in a huff and pouted and didn't eat dinner with us.

I did some reading on the system and saw that the two systems aren't really that compatible and not ideal for SHTF. So I came up with a plan we can build a greenhouse that would only really work for spring and fall season extension, but would also work as a winter chicken coop so that we can prove that we will use it, then we can start work on a system that is more passive and 3 season, fall through spring, and supplement heat in the winter with a rocket stove (another one of her obsessions). That seemed to mollify her.

I'm more thankful than ever for separate houses.

 

[Redhead Rae]

23 eggs set in lock down. 7 guinea, 7 from one Cornish group and 9 from the other.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning!

Today, I think I have about 2 dozen eggs to move to the lock down incubator, Cornish and guinea.

I moved 96 to lock down yesterday!

 

[Redhead Rae]

I moved 96 to lock down yesterday!

I have 27 Cornish eggs and 8 Guinea possibly going to lock down next week.

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning!

Today, I think I have about 2 dozen eggs to move to the lock down incubator, Cornish and guinea.

Hi Rae, hope you've had a good day. Been stuck in class today and fell behind. Learning ServiceNow (aka CIO Central). Basically SharePoint on sterioids.

If it is indoor cleaning....mops, brooms, spray bottles and cleaning cloths are one size fits all.....including mens hands....




Good morning y'all.

I am going to try and get more done in our sunny weather today.

I hope everyone gets to have a nice day.

Hi Henny, sorry I didn't make it back today to wish you a great day. Hope you had one.

I didn't know Sumi but I'm sad for family and friends. I'm a person who believes she is not suffering any longer so her passing is peace for her.

I agree cleaning supplies are one size fits all. If it's so bothersome how it is do something about it. And complaining isn't doing something.
Do you have a cpap machine for your apnea? If not you really should. Apnea can be very dangerous and the lack of sleep makes life miserable. (Could also be affecting hubby and making his crabby)

I'm annoyed with my neighbor. Last fall right before the weather turned I had that tree fall then 6 or 7 more taken down. I started the cleanup but it's just me. And once I couldn't drag stuff with the lawn mower I had to stop. I guess there is stuff from the disaster on their lawn. And the landscapers will need to mow soon. I get that its in the way. I understand wanting it moved. It was the tone of "we want to be good neighbors and we are sure you want to be a good neighbor too"
Really I'd like no neighbors but that wasn't an option. And it snowed the other day. Actually stuck on the ground accumulated snow IN APRIL!

In happier news... My eggies go into lockdown tonight! I've never hatched this many peeps. So if you don't hear from me after this weekend I'm in my basement letting them run all over me peeping (and pooping).

Hi Nunny, again sorry I didn't wish you a great day, been that kind of day. Sumi was a good friend and her son is now in peril. I'm praying that the Irish authorities will follow through on her desires rather than just be blinded by normal law.

*dripping sarcasm* You mean you don't just love a passive aggressive scolding?

DH and I were on the receiving end of one from my MIL the last few days.

She's gotten on a tear about wanting to set up a hydroponics system INSIDE the nice new trailer we bought for them to live in. My FIL said no, DH said no, and I said HELL NO (not in those exact words, but that was the gist, just more polite). With their home being a cheaper single wide, water is not their friend. She wanted to set up a system with circulation and she has a habit of ignoring small leaks until they disintegrate the floor. Plus, the humidity wouldn't be good for the trailer either.

So, she decided she wants a greenhouse. Fine, we need one anyway. But she wants one with a climate battery (basically tubes run underground to cool the greenhouse during the day and warm it at night) and a thermal wall. The problem with the mini-geothermal system is that it needs to be precisely calibrated to work properly. She thinks it is as easy as digging a hole, slapping in a couple layers of pipe grid, and filling the hole back up. NOPE. First the pipes need to be 2' - 6' deep. Our water table is 4 ft or less below the surface. Also where we want to put the greenhouse is at the bottom of the hill, which means water flowing down the hill. The pipes don't work if they are filled with water. Oh, and if you have clay soil, forget about it. The water that condensates in the pipes as the air cools will just turn the clay around the pipes into a shell. Our soil is mostly clay and rock. So we would have to truck in ALL the material to fill the hole back in. Oh and the thermal regulation system requires a steady stream of power and a lot of sensitive electronics to work properly. Which doesn't work well for a SHTF scenario, which my MIL is mostly concerned about. The structure she wants above ground is less problematic, but very costly in time and materials.

On top of all this, she doesn't have a very good history of following through on gardens. She has managed to stay on top of making sprouts for all of us this winter, which I am very grateful for, but it doesn't translate well enough to gardening to account for us to start putting in a system that would cost upwards of $10-15k.

She threw a toddler fit about it on Monday. I was only in the room for 30 seconds of the harrang she submitted my husband to, but what I was there for made me want to kick her. I walked in during a break on making dinner I hear "Well, I need the greenhouse be cause YOUR WIFE won't let me set up my farm in the house!" No..... none of the rest of us want you to have it in the house. I left the room and continued making dinner. She eventually went off in a huff and pouted and didn't eat dinner with us.

I did some reading on the system and saw that the two systems aren't really that compatible and not ideal for SHTF. So I came up with a plan we can build a greenhouse that would only really work for spring and fall season extension, but would also work as a winter chicken coop so that we can prove that we will use it, then we can start work on a system that is more passive and 3 season, fall through spring, and supplement heat in the winter with a rocket stove (another one of her obsessions). That seemed to mollify her.

I'm more thankful than ever for separate houses.

Rae, You are correct. Auquaponics doesn't belong inside the home and does well in a greenhouse but takes a ton of daily monitoring. Geothermal needs to be at least 10' deep to be successful. Rocket stove option is best. If you want plans, I have them for a rocket stove in the greenhouse. btw, I'm struggling to keep my work week to 32 hours with school in play.

23 eggs set in lock down. 7 guinea, 7 from one Cornish group and 9 from the other.
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Best of luck on the hatch.