Do we have other ways to contact them to be sure they are ok? I see Roberta on fb so I think she just had been busy as usual, but I don't know about suzanne, carolyn, or al.
Hi, everbody. I'm still on this side of the grass. Some days are better than others, though. **** Polymyalgia Rheumatica is a bummer. Today is a good day; happy to say. Prednisone dosage has been carefully diminished over the past seven months. Am now down to 7.5 mg one day and 5 mg the next. Alternating every day like that.
Also I hired a personal trainer to come to the house around 6pm three times a week. He works me and DH out for a full hour: weights, and cardio and ab crunches. Even on bad Rheumatica days it's ok, because the bad only shows up at dawn and the early morning Prednisone manages to calm the inflamed muscles by noon or so.
All six hens are doing fine and starting up to full scale laying. Gave away two dozen eggs to friends yesterday. I've a dozen hard boiled in the fridge and a full-to-the-top egg-skelter on the counter. Also have about a dozen still in the freezer of the three dozen that I put there in November to get me through the shallows of winter. But the two EE's kept laying through the cold months, so I didn't need them. I've been scrambling them every now and then and feeding them to the flock. They just go nuts for them.
Have had chickens since 2009 and this is the first time that I had mice in the ChickArena. Have caught and killed about five so far in the past two weeks. Haven't seen any running around for the past two nights though, so I'm hoping that's the last of them. I watch them on my home security camera monitor at night, and also look for droppings in the morning when I let the girls out. Still have five snap traps loaded with cheese out there on top of the little wooden hen house, but as I said, no action for the past 48 hours.
Bought a blue Betta fishie today for granddaughter's 8 year old birthday party next Friday in Brooklyn. It's sitting on my kitchen counter right now. Swimming lazy circles round and round.
I've been lurking on BYC; not on every day; some weeks I check in only once. But it always makes me so happy to see all your names and I often go check that photo that I took of the five of you that visited here with me last summer. I'm still using the dishcloths; still have that glass rooster next to my rocking chair. Thanks for making me some great memories.
And YES; me too with wondering how is Roberta?
Stay well everyone. I am so moved that you thought of me. Nice!!
-Carolyn in Freeport
