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Smuvers Farm said:
Hiya kids!!! I really need to set an alarm to MAKE myself come out here and report in.... I've just been terribly wrapped up in so many different projects that I can't keep up.

1. Business cards and banner arrived from vistaprint today..... and they are HORRID! The banner came in stained... it looks like it's been out in the elements for a few months, or rolled up and stored, uncovered, in a leaky garage. Then we noticed, all the cards have 2 small stains in the upper right corner, on both sides, on every damn card!
Contacted vistaprint and they immediately corrected it. Said the design is supposed to make everything look *rustic*, but even the customer service guy said it looked dirty to him, not rustic. He put our template onto a different background and is sending out new business cards and a banner. Awesome customer service!!!

2. I HAVE TO get the website up and running, yet I can't seem to focus enough to read and do the pages. I am seriously frustrating myself.

3. 25# bag of peanuts to make boiled peanuts. 100, 16 oz cups to fill. Doing math to see how much per filled cup out of pocket cost is. Luckily, I am fantastic at math... so this one isn't as problematic... it's just taking a lot of time cause I have to make a # of boiled peanuts to properly measure how many will fit into the cup. Yikes!

4. All of my labels and jars aren't arriving when I need them to! :barnie

5. Decided on a Cattle panel hoop coop for yon ducklets... and found a kick arse trough to use for their pond. Going to TRY and do a DIY bio filtering system, AND use rainwater runoff from the gutters to help refill their pond. So, this weekend we'll be outside... a LOT... building 3 hoop coops, staking deer netting over our 3 raised bed garden, re-netting the top of the run cause Purple Thunder gets out daily, and has now taught her sister, Brain, how to get out too. No bueno!

6. Plus raking out the run and coops for their compost before putting down new layers of straw, hay, alfalfa and sawdust. We may be making a trip into TN, about 40 miles away, to pick up some XL bales of hay, made mostly of timothy grasses and stuff.

7. Tiniest ducklet we have now has a funky eye ball.... so trying to figure that one out. We have antibiotic eye cream and oral amoxicillin and oral penicillin, but nothing injectable and NO IDEA where to buy them. (https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/white-spot-in-eye.1239402/)

8. Trying to make a list, and checking it 376 times, to make sure I'll have everything for the farmers market on the 12th. I'm sure once I have all the BASE supplies down, the next farmers markets won't be as anxiety inducing! lolol

9. Our test run for our fertilized eggs was a bust, but I think it was kind of everyone and everything being at fault. I think some of the eggs weren't fertile. I think that possibly the incubator got too warm a couple of times. I think we had a few quitters. I also think they had low humidity and didn't get turned as much as they should have. I don't think I'm going to try incubating them again... however, I am going to take the unsalable (ie: dirty eggs) and start cracking them open to check for the bullseye. Definitely going separate out a few dozen eggs and sell as fertile, hatching barnyard mix!

Being over the age of 45, weight isn't going to melt off me....... so, I WILL just keep very active... and also let @staceyj know she was right.... I'm not eating enough protein... and not enough calories in general. Gonna reset and try again! :D

:hugs to everyone. Chickie losses, bunnie losses, weird ass neighbors who aren't smart enough to know humpy stuff means sex (kinda feel bad for her hubby/bf or whatever).

QUICK POLL

If given a chance to attend a free class, AND become certified, which would you choose?

a. HVAC
b. Plumbing
c. Electical

POSSIBLY as a future job to fall back on, definitely to be able to use around the farm.

Miss you guys and I'm gonna sit on my duffer and DO MY WEBSITE TOMORROW.... dishes can wait... but a website that is printed on our business cards cannot wait! Gotta get professional!!!
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CapricornFarm said:
Did i tell you hubby and i were discussing getting an elephant yesterday? :lau Really.
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That is very advanced math!

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apryl29 said:
I really want to see this! I don't do theaters (except w/ the kids) so I'll wait til it comes out on dvd (or netflix), but good to know it's good.


Good luck. Are you going to put them to work?


I fell asleep during the movie Payback in a theater.. My bf (ex-husband) was pissed, but it was a terrible movie and I was tired.


Wow, that's a lot of stuff going on. For the website, can you make it a PIC project? Obivously, you'd oversee things before it's published to the web, but you could have him do some of the stuff to get it started, or work on it together. I know my giant human has website design as a hs elective, so it should count for something.
As for the poll I'm going to say Electrical b/c it can kill you if you don't know what you're doing and you'll be able to make $$ doing electrical stuff for people who don't want to risk death.


Maybe run it w/o eggs for a bit to see what's going on. Keep a log of the temp at regular intervals. It could be that something internally is failing and causing it to spike. I know my stupid electric oven doesn't work correctly and even though it's set to 300 it will heat up to 350 and if I put it on 350 it goes up to 450. See if you can find a manual for it, it might describe how that works.


I was wondering if you were close enough to be at risk for flooding your home. Be safe!


Thank you! I was so excited!!

Olive looks like a hot mess right now. Her neck is naked. Here's a pick of her beardlessness. (her eye isn't cloudy, just a bad pic)View attachment 1358420
Last night I let them all out and she's eating some worms under a board I moved and one of the amberlinks runs up and grabs a feather from her butt! I stuck her back in her cage, but next week it's going to be in the 70's and I don't want to keep her trapped in the coop all day long. I was thinking about putting her in Odin's space so she can get outside, but then he'd be in the main coop and I don't want him over mating everyone. I still have the side space that's much smaller that I can put him in, but I'll need to clean it out this weekend.
I need to go get tags for my car, but the engine light is on so it's not going to pass echeck so we need to work on that. And I need to get a new driver's license which means I have to get my stupid picture taken. Luckily I've was taking my rosacea meds so at least my face doesn't look all red and blotchy. So grateful they don't use hi-res photos for that.
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You can go to a self e-check place and just say the light is off. Or unhook the battery and let everything reset. You'll lose radio stations and such but that should turn the light off. They will have to put the sniffer in the tail pipe but generally they pass. If they ask about it being reset just tell them you got an oil change and they cleaned your battery terminals.
 
apryl29 said:
Olive looks like a hot mess right now. Her neck is naked. Here's a pick of her beardlessness. (her eye isn't cloudy, just a bad pic)View attachment 1358420
Last night I let them all out and she's eating some worms under a board I moved and one of the amberlinks runs up and grabs a feather from her butt! I stuck her back in her cage, but next week it's going to be in the 70's and I don't want to keep her trapped in the coop all day long. I was thinking about putting her in Odin's space so she can get outside, but then he'd be in the main coop and I don't want him over mating everyone. I still have the side space that's much smaller that I can put him in, but I'll need to clean it out this weekend.
I need to go get tags for my car, but the engine light is on so it's not going to pass echeck so we need to work on that. And I need to get a new driver's license which means I have to get my stupid picture taken. Luckily I've was taking my rosacea meds so at least my face doesn't look all red and blotchy. So grateful they don't use hi-res photos for that.
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Often the check engine light is nothing but a timed reminder to get the oil changed. My Honda has a way of resetting it by turning off the car if it is running, pushing the mileage reset and turning the car to on but not start. Wait 10 or so seconds and the check engine light blinks. You are done and the check engine light is off.

Different cars have different ways to do this so look it up for your car

If the light is on because there is a sensor issue, you have to fix the sensor. The computer will not go into the correct control mode if there is a sensor problem. It will run to rich by default and not pass the test
 

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