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Am I doing something right that my waterers have not frozen over yet? The lows are about 20 degrees, and while I have had a thin sheet of ice when one is really low, it is nothing a touch of a beak wouldn't get through.
Just wondering. I am holding off on the water heaters as long as possible.
 
you must be doing something right... wherever your waterer is kept, it's not being exposed to the low temps entirely... most mornings, I have more and more ice as it's getting colder. this morning wasn't as bad, a good peck could have broken through, but yesterday, there was a good half inch...

early enough day today, took the gang out for sunshine and grass... one of the non-local neighbors stopped while I was outside to tell me he could hear the rooster early this morning and heard coyotes answer him... he was up for hunting, he wasn't complaining, just interested in all the sounds, and are the birds protected... he thought Royce was a fine lookin' bird... I gave him some eggs.

Gots Me 5 more freshies today... Blu has switched over to morning... no pretty green egg... so she's the Ogrre today.

OK, Wilma will poop on his truck, and if he leaves his window open, maybe she'll poop in the truck too!
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Give Wilma a handful of blackberries before she goes! The idiot neighbor was shooting all day today, all day. They come down once a year to hunt...then wonder why they never get a buck. To top it off, it is illegal, and its Sunday. We never test fire the week before season...and there goes this noodle. Great. See alot of pickups hauling atvs too. Every year, they swarm...maybe letting the air out of tires parked on my property will make me feel better. :) :)
 
I'm thinking about painting one of my waterers with high heat black paint...think it'll help? It sits in the sun now and was warm today. I don't have electric out to the coop...last year I'd just alternate waterers...bring out the indoor one, bring the outdoor ice cube one inside by the woodstove. Too much hauling water.
 
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I'm thinking about painting one of my waterers with high heat black paint...think it'll help? It sits in the sun now and was warm today. I don't have electric out to the coop...last year I'd just alternate waterers...bring out the indoor one, bring the outdoor ice cube one inside by the woodstove. Too much hauling water.
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So far the water in my coop has not froze. The one outside in the run freezes every night.
 
Achickenwrangler#1 said:
I'm thinking about painting one of my waterers with high heat black paint...think it'll help? It sits in the sun now and was warm today. I don't have electric out to the coop...last year I'd just alternate waterers...bring out the indoor one, bring the outdoor ice cube one inside by the woodstove. Too much hauling water.
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I think the paint might help it thaw out quicker but it will still freeze at night.
 
what'd you bake???????
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I made peanut butter fudge and caramel sauce tonight. both super fast to make and super yummy to eat! I put some caramel sauce in my cup of coffee... ooooh sooooo gooooood !

I love puzzles, and the old fashioned games like dominoes, backgammon, checkers... and lots of card games... I'm pretty good at chess, thanks to my Dad, but it's not my favorite... unless I'm in a "heavy thinking mode". About 25 years ago, during a bad storm, I put together a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle in about 5 hours. it was so cute a scene, I glued it and framed it, and still have it hanging on the wall in my upstairs office/spare bedroom. I love miniatures, have lots of miniature shelves with teeny things on them... and this puzzle is a picture of a general store, made out of miniatures. for example, the wood stove is a hand grenade with a fat black magic marker for the stove pipe... the bolts of fabric are sticks of chewing gum with different wrappers, the ceiling is the back side of a deck of cards spread out like tiles, and things hanging from the ceiling are hung from nut crackers. the floor is a chessboard and the welcome mat is a crossword puzzle... I think there are over 150 everyday items in the scene. my favorites are the shell peanuts in a barrel made to look like flour and the... oh I'll show you...


had to take it on the angle bc of the light that's in the upper corner... was in the middle for a straight on photo... and the next, is without flash, terrible, but you can see the detail better... I love the lamps with candy, chess pieces and pencil sharpeners... from the time I was a kid, i've loved puzzles of all kinds... good brain exercise!





it is wonderful that you appreciate and value time with your grandparents. get the family history, ask questions about their childhoods... you can learn so much. I didn't have any grandparents by the time I was 21, but they were awesome people with great knowledge about so many things! I have a granddaughter, she's 3, and a grandson on the way
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. i talk to my sweet girl on the phone everyday, she lives in NM... pretty far away... but it's so fun to listen to her chatter, mostly about Tinkerbell these days... she carries the phone around with her like it's her baby doll, wraps it in a blanket, puts it in her doll stroller and wheels me all over the apartment and the deck... pointing out the kitty and the piano and the ...something i don't quite catch... all the while reassuring me "I got you Omi" "You goin' fo' a Wide Omi" and laughing..pure sweetness and love... .
 

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