Okies in the BYC The Original

[Sooner]

I have no idea how hot it was here today, I think I made a point of not finding out! IT was just Hot!!!

How is everyone this evening??? I am finally in the house & at least sitting still other than laundry! I made soap a couple of days ago & considering it was my first try, I am very proud of myself. I plan to make more "fancy" soap later this week. It will be my Christmas gifts this year! I am also going to start making some of the chicken aprons that POCO was nice enough to share. I have the best helper on my projects (Maddie).

 

[CityClucks]

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If you werent so darn far.... I would be interested in learning more on either or type of foraging I think that would be good to know...

Hmmmm....could another term for Urban Foraging be Dumpster Diving?

 

[CityClucks]

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Maribeth! I could be wrong, but haven't you brought guineas to sell at POOPS the past couple of times? This post made me laugh...are you DEAF, woman?!! To me guineas sound like a loud computerized robot being dragged down the road behind a pickup truck. They are allowed the run of the place out at my folks', but my parents had to put chicken wire enclosures over their onion bed because they said the guineas eat their onions into the ground, although they don't bother anything else in the garden while they're decimating the bugs. I am convinced they are an alien species - maybe God hadn't had His coffee yet when he created them - He must have been distracted before he finished them and didn't have time to perfecting the sound they make and messed up their heads.

(Yet, if I ever move out to the country I'll probably get some guineas!)

 

[CityClucks]

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Hi Sooner!! My best friend's sister opened a thrift store in Missouri a few years ago, and the three of us spent an exciting night in Branson digging through the dumpsters behind the outlet malls for hangars...so I feel that I'm a pro at Urban Foraging.

I just read the book "Farm City" about a couple who raised poultry and a couple of pigs on a vacant lot in an inner city ghetto of Oakland, CA. They did a lot of Urban Foraging behind restaurants late at night to get thrown-out food for their animals. Buster has probably read that book, or knows of it.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Maribeth! I could be wrong, but haven't you brought guineas to sell at POOPS the past couple of times? This post made me laugh...are you DEAF, woman?!! To me guineas sound like a loud computerized robot being dragged down the road behind a pickup truck. They are allowed the run of the place out at my folks', but my parents had to put chicken wire enclosures over their onion bed because they said the guineas eat their onions into the ground, although they don't bother anything else in the garden while they're decimating the bugs. I am convinced they are an alien species - maybe God hadn't had His coffee yet when he created them - He must have been distracted before he finished them and didn't have time to perfecting the sound they make and messed up their heads.

(Yet, if I ever move out to the country I'll probably get some guineas!)

Yes, I tend to get too many guineas and then Dean wants me to downsize them when they start flying at windshield height across the street about dusk.

Actually, I love the sound of guineas. I think it is a wonderful mix of sounds and I am ready to have enough of them that I can hear them from my bedroom window again. With the current 5 adults, they are not very noisy. I do however have about 15 that are 2 months old and am waiting for them to be old enough to be released to free range. They are still small enough to be preditor food if allowed out on their own.

 

[Buster52]

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Tell me about it! We were visiting family at a get together at Robber Cave park near Wilburton and started home at about 2:30 and the AC went out in the car. Rough drive home, all the way across state! I'm not a manly man like Al and some of you other folks and don't work outside, so I'm not acclimated to the heat. High humidity and high heat. I thought I was gonna die.

We ended up stopping to get a bag of ice and we used a trick taught to me by a relative who is a scientist. We had a small ice chest and some plastic bags. To cool yourself quickly, you hold the ice bag to areas with high blood flow, as it is in cooling the blood that cools your body. Wrists, neck over the jugular and carotids, forehead, etc.

We were still miserable, but least we ain't dead.

Sorry to pop in and out at Fletcher yesterday, guys. It was great seeing everyone, but I was there just to pick up my cage and the money from birds I was selling. I had about a million kids at the house we had borrowed from various relatives around the country for a visit. Seems everyone wanted to hang out at our place and fish at the pond or play with the goats and birds before school starts.

We are like Disneyland to all these city kids.

We are now mercifully (if somewhat sadly) kidless again. Peace and quiet at the home front.

 

[Buster52]

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You think you know me so well, don't you?

But you're right. By Novella Carpenter. I love that book! They raised up two hogs to butcher weight on the discards from restaurant and grocery store dumpsters alone. She squatted on a nearby vacant lot to create a raised bed garden. And her duck, chicken, and turkey adventures are fun to read,

I still pop in to read her blog every now and then.

 

[Sooner]

LOL, too small of a town here, not but to dive for & not enough time here but I sure use the thrift stores, goodwills & the like when I need something. Got a stick blender for 3.00 to use making soap the other day along with a cabinet thingy that I will remove the doors off of to use as a mold......one less thing that will go in the trash.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I love thrift stores for buying pyrex bowls, glass loaf pans and similar items for food and water dishes for the individual cages of birds and rabbits. I still have a lot of "standard" feed/water equipment, but it sure is handy to be able to grab a thrift shop baking dish for travel cages and the cages with hens and chicks. I like the baking dishes because they are sturdier and less likely to break into a million pieces if dropped.

 

[Sooner]

I have managed to find just about anything there! I have stocked my camper with sheets & cooking items, my mom will still get sheets to make her rugs. I have to admit I have more fun doing it in OKC or Tulsa. I have also started picking the same glassware to use after following you around the flea market!