The Front Porch Swing

[TexasLisa]

October is my fav.... My son was born in October but beyond that I love costume parties... Back when I was Thin enough to wear a little black dress I was heavily into face painting and dressing up for Halloween parties. Back in the late sixties and seventies I forege when Laughin was on TV but I would do the face painting like for Goldie Hawn on my girlfriends.

One time for my sons tenth Birthday I did a mad scientist Birthday party. I brought disposable lab coats from work.... Rubber gloves and Goggles too... I was soo bad. but that stuff was disposable... And we did Science experiments using vinegar and baking soda. We blew up baloons with Carbon Dioxide and floated a baloon on a layer of Carbon Dioxide in an aquarium... Put out candles and while this even sucked an egg into a milk jug... I had to do that one because it involved fire not carbon dioxide.

deb

Deb, that sounds like an awesome party! Very creative thinking. I bet kids will remember that for a long time!

Thanks Bee, We really had to fight for his disability award. Took almost 4 years. He is doing so much better here in the country. How old is your son? We have been looking for a serious apprentice. Gunsmithing is a dying art. We have a forge that is close to being operational as well so learning smithing is also a possibility. If he would be interested please PM me. He does everything from the barrels to the complete stocks.(and we are only 40 miles from WV. )

You have a forge??? My DH loves to work on his forge (He has 3). When we lived in Indiana, there was a Blacksmithing Day around Dayton (I think it was). So many people (at least in that area) are really into it.

Lisa

 

[Beekissed]

It amazes me that the country I love so much - which asks so much of her young men and women - can be so slow and callous when it comes to taking care of them.

Thanks for all the good words on the coop. Bee, Ken came up with a brilliant idea (well, I think it's brilliant) for the troublesome north and west walls....heat registers! Going down to the Habitat Restore as soon as he comes back in and pick up several of them. We'll install them in the upper walls, then in the winter when it's really blowing hard all we have to do is turn the little wheel - the one that opens and closes the heat registers, to limit the wind coming in. We'll attach screening to the inside to keep nasties out. I think this could work!!! If it does I'm going to stick it in the My Inventions forum! And I'm so glad that you decided to keep your experiment with incubation going...we're all pulling for you!

Mamma, I'm anxious to see the puppy photos too! It's great that you're going to be able to get so much building done! The Lord does work in mysterious ways - just a mention of your husband's gunsmithing, Bee's son's interest, the closeness of your places, and WHAM - an amazing young man's career may be launched and your husband gets some much needed assistance. WOW!

Okay, off to the Humanity Restore! Keep your fingers crossed that they have some in!

I think Ken and I would get along like a house afire....that is the same suggestion I've made for many folks who can't seem to reconcile more venting vs. drafts vs. predator proofing and I usually suggest the heat registers as an easy, cheap and effective install into an already existing coop. Easy peasy and anyone can cut a hole and pop one of those babies in!

I know! It's just such ways that God works things out and it always leaves me shaking my head in wonder and saying, "How.....?" Wouldn't that be neat if it all worked out like that? Only thing better would be if Mamma had a wonderful daughter who needed a good husband and a farm house nearby he could rent. He loves horses, bowhunting and gun working....he doesn't even hunt with a gun unless it would be turkey, but he loves everything about guns.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Wish we lived closer. I found a secret stash of heat vent registers when I was sorting through the mountains of stuff in this house. I just piled them in the metal recycling pile acting as lawn ornaments. Some were brand new ... with wrappers ... And there they still sit ... awaiting recycling.

 

[LindaB220]

Just came in from tying down the dog kennel. It is warm and beautiful except we have 40 mph winds and it sounds like the house is coming down. Moved the chicks that were in the barn brooder to the outside coop today and moved the birds that were in the guest room to the barn. Since my husband is overwhelmed right now with fencing for the cattle and finishing a gun for a customer, I ordered a base coop building from an Amish company. They will come build the building on my site and we will do the interior. I have bought supplies for expanding my original coop and we have not been able to get it done. The stuff has gone into different projects. Don't have a specific date for delivery and build. It all depends on the weather. I have some good ideas for the interior after reading about Blooie's coop and seeing all Bee's suggestions. I will be putting that info to good use. We are also getting a run-in shed for the cattle from the same guy. That will be pre-built and I should have it by the end of the week. We were blessed to come into some unexpected money from a pension that my husband earned many years ago and that gave me the means to do these things. Doug has asbestosis from being in the Navy on Submarines and his breathing is very compromised. He works very hard but cannot work very fast. This will be the best way for us to go.
Took pictures of the GP's today and will try to figure out how to post them on this thread tonight. The pup is so cute.

That sounds like the perfect way to go. Good building. So much nicer than one of those ordered ones.

 

[Beekissed]

It got up to 88* here today!!!

But the wind was blowing so hard it didn't seem too bad, so it was a lovely warm day here. Looks like we have some warm temps coming up from 45-68 during the days and 20s-40s at night. Lovely!!!

What is the weather shaping up like at your place as we enter into April?

 

[Blooie]

It got up to 88* here today!!!

But the wind was blowing so hard it didn't seem too bad, so it was a lovely warm day here. Looks like we have some warm temps coming up from 45-68 during the days and 20s-40s at night. Lovely!!!

What is the weather shaping up like at your place as we enter into April?

Snow. UGH

 

[LindaB220]

Snow. UGH

Put freon in AC so working again. Eighties today.

 

[Blooie]

AND THEY SCORED!!! Came home with big locking doggie door to use as a pop door - $8.00 Two heat register looking vents that are actually designed for under soffits, with push in/then pull down levers that open the entire back of the unit - already screened and bigger than heat registers too! $2.00 each. Total, $12.00! Not sure when we'll get them installed - Evan's 9th birthday party is tonight and he also has a basketball game so the plan is for the whole family to go to the game, then to Tam's for cake afterwards and the forecast calls for snow and blowing tomorrow. But we have them, and that's got to count for something, right?

 

[Beekissed]

Terrific score, Blooie!!! Can't wait to see it all on the coop and you sitting out there with a cool drink in your hand, watching birds playing in the sun.

 

[perchie.girl]

edited because I am a doofus