Surviving Minnesota!

[lvie]

I don't know about Ralphie but this mushroom hunting thing has me tired at night. And nothing done in the house. I have to put up pickles tonight.

The house will be there after the mushroom season is done. Not that we want the stools gross or anything but . . . . if the kitchen is sanitary and the bathrooms are doable then a little dirt on the floor does not hurt a thing. Do the mushrooms, which I know you will, with freedom from stress. Five years from now the experience will be worth so much more than the clean house. But you really already knew that. You just need some girl talk - which, by the way, we have not done on here for months.

 

[lvie]

Ralphie - please measure Bertha from between the upper part of the wings down to her tail. Lets get her covered up. I am going up to Aitkin this weekend while the DH wields his chain saw again on the lot. He is meeting a retired excavator up there Friday by 4:00 who is going to clear out what DH already took down. He has cleared the driveway and wants to work on the actual building site this weekend.

I will be in the 5th wheel sewing. IF I can get that measurement today I will cut out saddles for Bertha and make two just for her. You may have them Monday (I am doing Grandma duty and must leave here by 10:00 a.m. so maybe I will just leave at 9:30 a.m. and drop them off and head down to Watertown from Orrock) There is some warmer weather coming along next week too.

Anyone else wanting saddles? I just put one on a BA pullet. Evidentally Reggie likes her alot and I think the other girls have pulled them out of her tail. She did not like being held at all. I made her stay til she settled down.

 

[ejb3810]

Ralphie, the thought is nice but I do not need any additional ground squirrels. I am concerned about all of you mushroom searchers. I fear you may decide to pick and eat the wrong one, and that will be the end of it?

Winter is rapidly approaching and I have many projects to complete. So it is out to work I go.

 

[jerryse]

Morning . Ralphie it will be good to see you again . Shrooming we will go . I will be there for some October Fest food again this year .

 

[I Love Layers]

 

[duluthralphie]

Since I last posted I went for a walk,

It was a good walk:

 

[Minniechickmama]

If you could round up 50-60 ground squirrels and drop them off at EJB's he would be forever grateful, he finds them very entertaining, and would tell us their Latin name in a week or so...




Layers how long will the birds be in transit? I have never shipped adult birds or had it done, I am just curious. What was the cost to ship them again?




Ivie, Bertha is a chicken hen, it's Berts wife.

Live birds need special boxes if they are not day-olds, then they go out Express/Overnight. However, it doesn't always work that way. I shipped two POL pullets to Ohio a few years ago. It ended up taking them 3 days. They were fine, it was December and not too hot. They laid eggs on the trip too.
The boxes thatt need to be used have special filters in them so as to not spread dust and litter and possible contamination. They run $20 or so apiece.

 

[I Love Layers]

Live birds need special boxes if they are not day-olds, then they go out Express/Overnight.  However, it doesn't always work that way.  I shipped two POL pullets to Ohio a few years ago.  It ended up taking them 3 days.  They were fine, it was December and not too hot.  They laid eggs on the trip too.  

The boxes thatt need to be used have special filters in them so as to not spread dust and litter and possible contamination.  They run $20 or so apiece.

Ralphie I did not see your question. It cost $45 a piece to ship them, currently they are somewhere between here and Grand Forks, they were shipped yesterday at about 5 PM hoping they get here this evening before or after my home VB game

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Jerry: I think you ought to come early. Oktoberfest up here is this Saturday (the 17th) at the Firehall if that's what you're talking about. Plus the mushrooms on a few of my treks are looking a bit worse for the wear.

Some sprinkling/rain going on outside. That should help with mushrooming though...

Ed are you a chipmunk tamer? My DH is. We'll go to campgrounds and he'll have chippies eating out of his hands. Sunflower seeds/Roasted peanuts. The sodium running through those little veins must be unreal. I bet you're getting bait for your swedish thing-a-majig aren't you?

Ivie: I hear you on the house business. But I have to say last week I put a little elbow grease into the house and I do love that it looks better. Want to keep it up. I have about 42 loads of laundry to fold and put away though. That stuff always backs up on me. I don't mind washing, I dont mind drying. It's the folding and putting away. Ivie's Saddle making Company. I have yet to see saddles on that hen, @holm25 . Photo of Ivie's hen saddles. How is your girl doing? Is she healing up?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Erli what kind of Orange Pop are you drinking? Henry's did Ralphie say? I'll have to Google. I love Orange Pop. But it has like 56 grams of sugar in it. It's like drinking maple syrup.