Surviving Minnesota!

[duluthralphie]

'Scuse me, all y'all.....

Not a MN resident, but it has come to my attention through ralphie that there is some waterfowl addicts here he is trying to "reform". To those members: (ralphie refuses to provide their usernames) Don't cave in!! A life without webbed adorable beings would be no life at all!
-Banti

Who me????

 

[BantyChooks]

Who me????

Originally Posted by duluthralphie

The footer is more of a joke to tease one of the kids on the Surviving Minnesota thread, he is totally and completely unhealthily in love with ducks and geese..... I am hoping as he gets older he discovers Girls or his parents will be completely disappointed in the lack of Grandkids.

Originally Posted by duluthralphie

There are a few on the Surviving Minnesota thread. BUT I am reforming them one quack at a time.

Yes, you!

 

[duluthralphie]

Yes, you!

Seems like my motives are well intended....

 

[lvie]

Rain started here at 2:00 or so. It has been going ever since. It made me even more tired that I usually am. I got the tomatoes in the other day. DH thought we had enough in at the first row. I got him to do the second with me, then I finished the third by myself. 40 tomato plants total. I have 53 pepper plants to get in too if it ever dries enough and if I ever get out to do anything more than rush through chores. The onions and potatoes are coming along but back-filling needs to be done. Again, if the dang ground with dry enough. The cabbage family is coming on after the seeds took forever to germinate in the ground. I started some inside too and they should got into the ground this week if I can get out there. I still have more onions to put in, and everything else. I guess I will skip peas since it is too late and the aphids will dessicate them before they fill in. I have never gotten them in as early as they should be, but after Memorial Day is a waste, the hot weather just attract too many pests to them.
We have a BOATLOAD of strawberries coming on. I will have to advertise to sell some this year if my daughter doesn't go out and gobble them all. I think that is unlikely since we have about 200 plants now. LOL The blueberries were coming on too, last I looked.
My husband had murderous thoughts tonight when he drove down the driveway and notice his artichoke plants I started for him were eaten off by cottontails. If they didn't eat the crown of it, they might grow again. I doubt it though. His hops are growing like crazy and he has them all trellised nicely. Now, to figure out how to harvest those things. Anyone have a cherry picker to loan us?

Its no fun to get outside to 'work' when it HAS to be done. I have experienced that and I hated it. I felt as if I wasn't efficient or something. Then I realized that there was ALOT to do out there! I have one garden that is ornamental and has to be ripped apart and replanted with a different, more low-maintainance plan. Otherwise I finally figured out that it is all work so I may as well enjoy it. And I do not have kids at home anymore. I prefer being by myself in the garden. Sounds reclusive. Oh well. Just Garden Vegetable is HUGE.

 

[lvie]

my Turkey Momma lost the little black Poult yesterday in the monsoons

I hope to move the Dominiques outside today. I have completed the run for them.


Looks like another day of rain..... I am going to harbor freight today and try to find a camera to look inside the tractor manifold for the runaway sheave.

Good Morning. Rain? Really? Hmmm I could get alot done inside today. I should get outside and move a mound of dirt BEFORE the drops start. Maybe weed some more in the little garden I have.

So what does the Turkey do when it looses a poult? Does it keep looking for the missing one? Or is there no maternal attachment like that?

What should I expect when I add the young chicks in with the older three chickens? Alot of fighting?

LOL I am a question box this morning! I know. Thank you fellow chickeners, for 'putting up' with me. Oh! but then I do not know if you are actually putting up with me because I can write anything I want and don't know if you read it.

 

[memphis]

Oh oh....Banti, you may have just stepped in the perverbial pile of duck poop.

Hi ya'll....raining in the south today too. Heat & humidity have settled in here for the summer. Oh well....

 

[MNChickMom]

Brrrrr what happened to summer?

 

[holm25]

Uh, you got my number!  Only I like them hot.  Yes, Caramel High Rise is similar in flavor but not exact, a lighter coffee flavor to it.

I might have to try a High Rise... Idk though

 

[Dandelioness]

It looks like a rainy afternoon here, but it's been clear this morning.

Looks like summer is back tomorrow -

Off to do some outside things before grad party hopping all afternoon.

Ralphie, thanks for the advice on the guinea/chicken egg thing. I suppose setting up a separate hatcher would eliminate the problem? Maybe I will borrow an incubator from a friend for that purpose. would one of those styrofoam ones be okay just for hatching??

Have a good day, all -

 

[I Love Layers]

Just about to board the plane in Denver