Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

Morning 15° here. Opening deer today, not sure if I will go out though. I might set eggd this evening, I wish I had looked ahead at the calendar so I could have had them hatching over Thanksgiving break

 

[I Love Layers]

Morning 15° here. Opening deer today, not sure if I will go out though. I might set eggd this evening, I wish I had looked ahead at the calendar so I could have had them hatching over Thanksgiving break

 

[shawluvsbirds]

It did get cold here, but I don't think it affected the coconut crop, yet. A few of the banana's were tinged a bit.

Pineapples look as good today as they did yesterday.. All in all a chilly breezy day... Of course, I had to leave the nice warm house, and go "look" at the WWD's car. She claims a tire is low on air.....No idea which one. I told her a sensor was bad, but that was not good enough... So I froze my cute little behind off checking the air in her tires.. I have those indicator valve stem caps on her car. With my gloves on, I managed to drop one and it rolled under the middle of her car, so I had to get on my belly and wiggle under to get it...NOT FUN!...

I got back in the house and she says. Did you check to see how tight the nuts are??..
So back out to practice the futile act of checking the tightness of the lug nuts.... All tight.... That woman can have more imaginary problems with her car than anyone I know.

I have learned after nearly 45 years no sense trying to reason with her...just go do the foolish waste of time she thinks should be done. I keep telling her to find a garage, but she never does.

And you guys call her Saint Judy....I had some pet names for her myself, which I kept to myself, but none of them had the word saint in it.

If only she would remind you to check the lug nuts on you lawn mower!

 

[MNChickMom]

Hey Ralphie this should make you feel better . Janet asked me to check the oil in her tires . So I said do you want me to check the blinker fluid also . She said yes . FYI I knew what she wanted . She knows there is no blinker fluid . So I checked the tires and filled the washer fluid .

There is such thing as blinker fluid! I saw it myself. I was driving down Division Street of St. Cloud MN when the lady in a fancy BMW SUV slowed to a stop, I saw something move in her drivers side rear tail light. Sure enough it was half full of a liquid. Seeing as I don't own any fancy vehicles like that I can only presume it was blinker fluid but then again with the monsoon summer we had it may have been rain water.

 

[BantyChooks]

There is such thing as blinker fluid! I saw it myself. I was driving down Division Street of St. Cloud MN when the lady in a fancy BMW SUV slowed to a stop, I saw something move in her drivers side rear tail light. Sure enough it was half full of a liquid. Seeing as I don't own any fancy vehicles like that I can only presume it was blinker fluid but then again with the monsoon summer we had it may have been rain water.

Cars these days are awful fancy, huh?

 

[lvie]

So Ony is standing up in the kennel. Hasn't bothered eating and this would be the second day. No bodily fluids in the kennel either. She is taking water because I force her. Standing is better than yesterday. she opens her eyes once in a while. I kinda think this will be the only time she gets to come in out of the cold. She can go back out tomorrow when it will be 40.
I have no heat in the coops this winter. Erlibrd - is your coop insulated? I am going without lights also. All this to let their bodies do their natural thing. I am a little concerned about below 0 and no heat.

 

[MagpieDucks]

@lvie What are you using or bedding in your coop?

 

[jerryse]

Finally ventured outside . Mowed my leaves again . Last time I hope .

 

[hmarg06]

Grandparents farm was right off of 16 there. On the other side of the peak. Mom would get the dairy cattle down from milking off the hill side or hang onto tails coming up from the root river. Picking wild flowers. Bare foot. Sort of dreamy thinking of her there with wild flowers and cows ambling along that pretty spot.
Grandpa helped buy the place and built a home with money he earned as a laborer building the Alaskan Highway.

My Dads folks and our farm was near Utica. Their farms bordered Whitewater state Park.
Beautiful memories of that country down there. We have Lake life now with less acreage of course but I think I’ve influenced even my kids with that Love of farm life - both son and daughter have voiced they’d want a farm.

Very cool! I'm glad you can still pass on the love of farming to your kids! I like visiting lakes, but I think I's miss the bluffs if I left. I grew up in Wilson, which is just outside Winona city limits, but I worked in Lewiston for a while, and know that area pretty well!

I hate to keep bringing this to the top, I only go on here about this time on weekdays while I eat my lunch.

Anyone offering me Coyotes can keep those haha. Some nights they start up their howling while I'm closing up the chickens, and my God, I feel like I'm walled in. It comes from every direction around me. One was only in a few rows in the cornfield that ran next to my yard this year when I was out playing with my dog, luckily he doesn't seem to pay them any attention. I'm not sure if that's good or bad?? The field is only about 40 yards from the house, and we were between there and the field. Too close for me.

I'm going to try to participate in conversation a little more. I've just been stalking the thread for about a year now . I feel like I kind of know you guys, but you have no idea who I am.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm going to try to participate in conversation a little more. I've just been stalking the thread for about a year now . I feel like I kind of know you guys, but you have no idea who I am.

I'm sure nobody here would mind a formal introduction. We don't bite, except Ralphie. He's the one eating glue over there in the corner.