Official Squatch Watchers

[staceyj]

That was funny.

Lololol wasn’t it you that emoji “smacked me” for the very first time!?!

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Chickens are Checked!

Everyone survived. Heater is still going and I didn't use up all the oil in them. I turned them up just a hair.
Currently -5° outside. -29° with wind but the coop is almost 2°.

 

[Redhead Rae]

It’s a balmy 36 here.
I fed my chickens in my nightgown, super fast, with no jacket even, Just chicken shoes.




Please don’t smack me.



I’m sorry.

*glare*

 

[staceyj]

Chickens are Checked!
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Everyone survived. Heater is still going and I didn't use up all the oil in them. I turned them up just a hair.
Currently -5° outside. -29° with wind but the coop is almost 2°.

You look somewhat like you’re ready for a jousting tournament !

 

[staceyj]

*glare*

So sorry.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Chickens are Checked!
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Everyone survived. Heater is still going and I didn't use up all the oil in them. I turned them up just a hair.
Currently -5° outside. -29° with wind but the coop is almost 2°.

Nonononononono........I can still see a tiny bit of your nose!!!!!
<< Running to get a scarf >>
You NEED more layers!!!!!!!

Seriously I am glad you and the birds are ok.
Also that the heater stayed heating!

 

[Molpet]

Chickens are Checked!
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Everyone survived. Heater is still going and I didn't use up all the oil in them. I turned them up just a hair.
Currently -5° outside. -29° with wind but the coop is almost 2°.

I checked, watered and fed the 3 coops with layers.... the first coop no one drank so I moved the iced over water to the 3rd incase someone there was in need, they ignored it. I'll switch it later when I get to the bachelor pad.
The main coop has a dollar store thermometer. -10f no heat in a tarp covered hoop coop..
-22f in town

 

[Molpet]

Chickens are Checked!
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Everyone survived. Heater is still going and I didn't use up all the oil in them. I turned them up just a hair.
Currently -5° outside. -29° with wind but the coop is almost 2°.

LOL I need those goggles
FYI that extreme care helps on the face... I got it yesterday. Before I used it my face was getting burned, and it was warmer , not as windy ...than today

 

[apryl29]

plot thickens on not so old guy i was helping...no so blind
Between storms I did go over to help him do laundry.
not so blind because he told me I was going to punch the wrong button to start the dryer I was heading to the far left button for the time( which we had just set) and on the far right is the button marked start. He claims he is totally blind I didn't call him out on it. I had a sweat shirt on that didn't make any noise when I moved, so he didn't hear the difference... and we were in a basement with a light on behind us

I explained to him that I can't come when it snows or it's below zero because I have drives to plow and eggs to get before they freeze. I told him this several days before the first storm.. and...every..single ...day since
I did say I would call every morning... every day he wants me to come over... every day he complains about the same past offenses and that no one will come over to help him.... upon further conversation someone is over most days, but nothing is done right.


oh I plowed his drive last winter, but in the summer he put up a pair of 4' gates so the guy upstairs couldn't park in the drive. I have an 7 1/2' plow and can't make the swing now on the narrow in town street... he also put flagstone between the entrance and where the upstair guy parks, so I can't plow the street side parking... he says the upstairs guy is a jerk.. ummm

house was his parents and is in a sisters name. I think she is paying the taxes/utilities and needs the upstairs guys rent... I bet it will not be too long before they put him in a home.
oh the upstairs guy is an elder in his church
and I wondered why the church wasn't helping him more, they send someone every 3 days... yesterday they sent someone to go get his RX's, but he didn't have them put it in the day of the week pill holder.. he thought I could come over and do that today...blowing snow and zero when I called at 11... I don't think so... told him Sunday it would be a week before the weather cleared enough for me to come over.

Wow. So I wonder if he was more blind, but he's getting better... he probably won't tell you b/c he likes you coming around. I never understand why people are so curmudgeonly (literally the only time I've gotten to use that word!), but still expect other people to come around. It's like you're voluntarily opening yourself up to abuse. Sounds like he enjoys giving people a hard time and having them jump for him. It's really nice of you to help him even though he seems really ungrateful. Now i wonder if that person who was helping him before was really that bad, or just didn't run around doing everything he asked (even if he knew it wasn't part of their job).

So here's what happened.

I was driving to work this morning on the Garden State Parkway (or the GSP as us Jerseyans say). It is like the freaking Autobahn. You take your life into your hands when you drive it, but it's the only way to get up and down this stupid state. You can fly by the state troopers doing 90 and they don't even bat an eye, b/c you are just keeping up with traffic, although the speed limit is 65, which is a joke.

So I am talking to my hubby on the Bluetooth, toodling along at--I dunno--80 mph. All of a sudden--out of literally nowhere--a *Christmas tree* explodes out in front of me. It must have fallen off a truck. (Ok, but...WTF. It's almost February. Right?!)

This big log that was once part of the tree trunk goes right in front of my left front tire, I'm talking not a second to swerve. I yell "F***!!! F***!!" as I run over it and it immediately punctures my tire and destroys my rim. My hubby is like "Were you just in an accident?!" cuz he heard the thud (it was loud). No, I go, I just ran over a log from a Christmas tree. (?!?)

I pull over, heart thumping, put on my flashers, and eventually a state trooper comes by and asks me what's wrong. I go, It seems I just narrowly escaped death (what if it flew through my windshield? I would have been, like, decapitated) from a Christmas tree, officer. He goes, "Yeah, it was a Christmas tree. I just cleaned it off the road." (whoever dropped it just kept going, in true Jersey style, and left the exploded crap all over the road for a mile or two. B*stard!)

Anyway, long story short, hubby jacks up the car, takes off the tire, drives me to his mom's, and puts on this old donut tire from his 93 year old mother's Buick Century (2000 or 1900, I'm not sure which century really) that just happens to fit on my axle on my car, and I arrive to work almost two hours late, flashers on the whole time doing 60. Unbelievable.

My little sister laughed her azz off when I called and told her. She was like, "That's really messed up, and if you died I would have been sad, but in a couple years it would be a really good story, and I would chuckle as I told it." She is my favorite sister.

That's it. I'm alive, and so are you, if you are reading this. And that's a beautiful thing.

That's the craziest store I've heard in a while. Glad you're ok. It always floors me how people will drive around losing their load and not even notice it. Semi tires drive me crazy too... like if it's just a thing that it happens and they just carry on, then the truck businesses should have to pay some kind of tax that pays for someone to pick that crap up from the side of the road.. and I don't mean prisoners.

I know, right???!!

No, trust me, I was laughing when I got into work! It IS an excellent story, and I couldn't wait to tell it. I came in and immediately told my friend Joan-the-guidance-counselor (who is the only other semi-Jewish person I have ever known in my life) "You are not gonna believe this, but my semi-Jew, atheist azz just almost got killed by a FRIGGING CHRISTMAS TREE!!!" and then she tells me something similar happened to her last weekend. (again, ?!?!)

Why are people flying down the Parkway at the end of January with an UNSECURED CHRISTMAS TREE MISSILE in the back of their janky truck???!!!

And why, oh why, don't new cars come with a spare tire anymore? There is a hole for it in the trunk....but no tire. It's a conspiracy.

And even stranger...why does a donut from an old lady's 18 year old Buick fit my zippy little car? It makes no sense.

For real, my sister's response made me laugh till I cried. She is the BEST. So sarcastic. I love her.

Note to self - don't ride around w/ PBM..
It's probably just the post configuration.. there's only so many ways to align them, plus rim size... Glad you were able to find a tire & get to work, but no one would have blamed you if you had taken the day off.

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Soooooo I set up this crazy contraption in my coop today. It's a trash can heater!
31 gal galvanized trash can. Set up on 2 cinder blocks. Then 50 lbs of play sand in the bottom with 3 old school oil lamps lit inside. Holes drilled around the top and bottom for air flow.
My coop temp went up. Not much but up. And its warm when you stand next to it. Or on it like the chickens are sure to.
Fingers crossed for non frozen chickens!

That is brilliant. As the heat expands from the heater it'll warm the whole coop. It's not like it has a thermostat that will stop it from warming so it'll just continue to warm until it burns all the fuel. I wonder how warm the actual can will get though.

HAHAHAHA!!! I'm dying here....

It is so stupid that there is no spare!! Seriously. You pay 20K for a damn car, there should be a spare tire in it. That wasn't even an option when I bought it!

I'm just going to the junkyard and getting a Buick Century donut. It looks ridiculous, but it fits, somehow!

See if you have enough space to fit a full size tire in your trunk.. If you do, don't even bother w/ the donut. That's what we did w/ my old taurus. I got a flat and my brother just went to the junkyard and got the tire off of one of them. Of course, that was in the olden days when cars had a full size spare. Actually, grab 2 b/c then you'll have a new rim to replace the bad one (if you haven't already).

Now see! This is why you never openly hate Christmas...it knows I swear it does!
Learned my lesson a few years ago, I was gifted on of those ridiculous....uh I mean FABULOUS inflatables. Around two in the morning I saw a bright light and heard crackling?! And low and behold an eight foot Santa was now an eight foot fireball! Caught my bush "green kind" on fire scorched the paint off the car.
I ran out jerked the plug and dumped a coors light on it...didn't do a dang thing! Screamed FIRE nada..ended up just letting that sucker burn himself out.
I'm glad you survived, just know Christmas knows and Christmas is a vengeful mofo.

That's horrifying. I hope you thanked whoever gifted it to you with a .

We hunted down a full size tire and run for my car.

It IS ridiculous not to have a spare!

But then......My hubs tows quite a few vehicles that didn't have a spare......money in the pocket for us.



edited because autocorrect thinks it knows it all.....including carp I did not type because doing so would make ZERO sense!


Adding that up there I typed CRAP not CARP!!!! WTF autocorrect??????

My phone cannot accept that I've never in my life meant 'duck'.

Honestly can't take credit. I'm a nervous wreck at work and that thing is lit in my coop with my babies. My mad scientist friend told me the plan and I got everything to do it. The words fire and coop aren't supposed to be in the same sentence.
But scientificly it is a sound heater.
Cost me about $75 to buy everything. (The cinder blocks I had on hand are frozen to the ground.) If I had planned better and bought ahead it would have been a little cheaper but hey, they are getting a little warmer.
I'll take more picts and show it better.

How is it this morning? I'd be worried too. It's hard not to worry when it's your babies.. we worry that the cold will kill them, & that our attempt to keep them warm enough will kill them. Animals are so stressful.

Keeping my weather numbers to myself, y'all would shoot to me to have what we have, and I prefer to not have any new holes.

We might you, but we'd never shoot you. You get some crap weather too sometimes, so we won't hate you too much.

My e thermometer needs cold weather batteries but -50 wc in town
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Oh, that's just brutal. So you & Aurora are kinda close-ish... I saw that Wisconsin & Minnesota are getting some horrible lows too. I guess you never have to wonder what it's like in Antarctica... I'm hoping that some penguins might spontaneously erupt from the ground.. but w/ my luck it'll be polar bears instead.

It’s a balmy 36 here.
I fed my chickens in my nightgown, super fast, with no jacket even, Just chicken shoes.




Please don’t smack me.



I’m sorry.

Jealous. You get a pass b/c of the hurricane you had earlier this year. You've suffered enough.

I remember that... I felt bad for you

I was unfamiliar with that too

Same.. It's so hard to gauge personalities online, esp w/ new people. I also felt a little put off in the thread at first, but partially b/c other people (none of you guys!) had been kinda rude after I'd responded to threads and it's intimidating to jump in after someone rips your head off. Glad everyone stuck around.. All of you all are pretty great people.

It had something to do with a recipe from our buddy @rjohns39 , that someone else had made, maybe @Texas Kiki (?) idk, but somehow I thought they were a couple or something... hey , could have been possible (but goofy) that two people were both members or something and chatting at the same time...

I was so new I didn’t yet know that our @rjohns39 was a virtual encyclopedia of culinary knowledge and accomplished chef!

Like that dang Christmas tree...
nowww it’s funny!

I remember that... I had trouble w/ that too! It kinda seemed like everyone knew-knew each other, like in real life.

 

[21hens-incharge]

"It kinda seemed like everyone knew-knew each other, like in real life."

What?? This isn't real life??

Well CARP!