The Old Folks Home

[microchick]

Always harder to try a new sport when you're older because you don't bounce as well and, well, falling down is embarrassing....makes you feel like a 5 y.o. klutz. (Well, me, anyway.) Kids just bounce back up. We oldsters perform gyrations...

Folks had a condo at Incline Village (Lake Tahoe) for years and we got A LOT of skiing in. My knees cannot do it anymore, so I'll be happy with lodge sitting (a book, fire in the fireplace, hot beverage) and keeping cozy.

Micro -- My first vision of the 5 brats in harness was pretty funny, too. Gawd knows where y'all would end up with them on a tear. Our St. Bernard/Shepherd cross Gabby would've been perfect for skijoring as she was powerful and tireless -- kind of what I imagine Buck from "Call of the Wild" would be personified.

LOVE the noble fir tree. That was the kind Dad always insisted on getting. Does anyone do tinsel anymore?

Weather is COLD here (20's in the mornings) but no snow. Two of the Marans have started laying again (intermittently), so trundling out to the coop a couple of times a day to avoid finding frozen eggs.

Funny for the day.... (dog folks will get it)

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Yeah, we're dog folk and we got it!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey Old Folks had to finish the christmas shopping and feed store got both done came home went out to clean was going to wear my boonie hat but it was full of cat hair rolled myself silly getting it off sprayed for rain as it has been awhile since I wore it .. I bought a bag of alfalfa cubes for the birds 40 pounds little bales tiny amount at wally are 6.99

 

[microchick]

GAAAHHHH! Used to pay 1.75 per bale for pure alfalfa hay, 1.50 for mix alfalfa and brome. Silly price for them even by Wally World standards.

I usually laugh when I fall down in something soft..DH and I were out riding our mountain bikes once, using our Garman to lay out a course as we rode. We came up to a gravel road that Garman said was a shortcut to a paved road that we wanted to meet up with so we took it. It had rained the night before and the road looked solid but wet. DH was ahead of me and hit a soft spot. Bike immediately sunk but he was able to peddle out of it and yelled back at me to keep moving. I plowed on and sure enough, hit the soft spot. My tires sunk about 4 inches but I kept pedaling oblivious to the fact that the muck was building up on my tires and lodging in my break cables. When they reached the point of no return the wheels locked up and I did an Artie Johnson plopping sideways into the mud.

DH said all he could hear was me laughing and he looked back to see me pulling myself out of the muck. Me and my bike pretty much mud covered but undamaged.

What's that old saying? I laugh because it keeps me from crying? Usually it just keeps me from inventing new swear words.

 

[pennyJo1960]

You and me both Dad was a truck driver before he married Ma so I can swear like one BF just laughs when I walk in all wet he knows I did it again he makes sure nothing broke but other than that he's like oops as he has tears coming out his eyes laughing

 

[pertnear09]

Hey Old Folks had to finish the christmas shopping and feed store got both done came home went out to clean was going to wear my boonie hat but it was full of cat hair rolled myself silly getting it off sprayed for rain as it has been awhile since I wore it .. I bought a bag of alfalfa cubes for the birds 40 pounds little bales tiny amount at wally are 6.99

I've never fed my chickens alfalfa cubes. Do they tend to over eat them?

 

[pennyJo1960]

no just like once every two weeks through them some think it was IM or NFC who gave a recipe I did not do it but the birds like it so why not mud in winter stays dry in the coop

 

[perchie.girl]

I used to feed my chickens a flake of alfalfa once a week ... No green grass here and they love disassembling it...

A bale of 3 strand that weighs 135 lbs runs about seventeen dollars here. I fed the goats alfalfa exclusivley free choice the horse got a flake of Alfalfa per day if I was living at home... And Bermuda free choice.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

See I can buy full bales 18.55 at the feed store we use get a price break but have to buy 100 or more bales I bought the bag thinking I could through a handful of cubes easy

 

[ShrekDawg]

Commandeered most of the laundry room for the new brooder

Going to put the heat plate and the chicks in tomorrow morning.

For now, I am going to go pass out because I have to get up at like 6 and I also fully cleaned out the big girl’s coop today as well as carried a ton of super heavy stuff and also worked (walked/played with the dogs) and ran some errands today and just generally did a lot and am super duper exhausted and sore and in pain cause I did too much lifting and cause I kept cutting my feet and hands on the dang hardware cloth. It’s been a long day.

Goodnight all.

 

[ShrekDawg]

How is everyone’s day going? Hopefully ‪better than mine. I just accidentally gave myself a HARD uppercut to the jaw and now my head hurts