The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Hi everyone. Hit the floor running today and just set down for the first time. Working on studio corner in hobby room, cleaning shop, working in garden, checking on chicks and moms since silly hens keep clogging up the water dispensers.

Good thing the days are longer cause I need every minute, LOL.

What is the deal with hens filling up water dishes with shavings?
I got a window installed in the Turkey coop on the open side. Need to cut plywood for the open parts around the window.

 

[microchick]

That's wonderful Micro! Happy early birthday to you! You are very talented!

Thanks Chicka! You are making me blush! Yesterday I set down for the first time with my watercolors and tried to refresh my memory on technique. I haven't touched paints since 1983 so it was like....ummmmm....which end of the brush do I hold...oh yeah, the end that isn't wet with paint...well, not quite that bad but close. I worked all afternoon on one piece and didn't get to work on it today. It's still taped down to the kitchen island counter top waiting for me to find time to work on it again.

@ronott1, I'm pretty excited not to mention thrilled with it. Here it is!

My old one was wood. This is waaaaayyyyy cooler.

 

[microchick]

What is the deal with hens filling up water dishes with shavings?
I got a window installed in the Turkey coop on the open side. Need to cut plywood for the open parts around the window.

The second time broody, Betty Jo isn't as bad as Cookie is. I have their water bottles sitting on top of scrap 2X6 wood and she scratches around in the dirt in her run with the chicks eagerly waiting for her to find a bug for them. Since the run gets wet when it rains, I put chips down in it then clean them out when they do their job....that's what she scratches into their water.

@bruceha2000, I don't know if I wrote about the conversation I had with a pharmacy rep who came around to the nursing home I worked at back in IL. He had to come in once a month to do chart audits and we got to talking about drug costs. I asked him why the steroidal nose spray I use, Flonase, was only 7.50 when I started using it, and in 2004 was up to 57$ and WHY could I cross the border into Mexico and buy the same drug for less than 5$? It was like that with all meds in the US. Antibiotics, some over 100$ here were under 10$ in Mexico. Without missing a beat, he said, 'Because they can't afford to pay the same prices we pay here in the US.' I told him I had news for him. We couldn't afford them either.

Frankly, I think it goes back to the insurance conundrum/catch 22. The insurance companies reimburse the pharmacists X amount for an RX, say insulin. Patient pays 150 dollars for a vial. Only they have medicare/private insurance, so they are paying 41$ (just guessamating here) for a non generic RX. The insurance company reimburses the pharmacy 50$ and the pharmacy writes off the rest. The pharmacy has to at least make enough profit to cover his wholesale cost of the drug and hopefully have a little left over for his time and trouble.

I know from talking to the pharmacist in the town where we used to have our office that it wasn't unusual for him to go in the red with drugs, paying more to get them for a patient than the patient's insurance company was reimbursing him even with the patient's copay.

It's a no win scenario for everyone.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Chicka! You are making me blush! Yesterday I set down for the first time with my watercolors and tried to refresh my memory on technique. I haven't touched paints since 1983 so it was like....ummmmm....which end of the brush do I hold...oh yeah, the end that isn't wet with paint...well, not quite that bad but close. I worked all afternoon on one piece and didn't get to work on it today. It's still taped down to the kitchen island counter top waiting for me to find time to work on it again.

@ronott1, I'm pretty excited not to mention thrilled with it. Here it is!
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My old one was wood. This is waaaaayyyyy cooler.

That is very nice!

 

[microchick]

Thanks, Ron. I think I'm going to love it.

 

[chickadoodles]

Micro that is a very nice desk.

Congrats ya'll on all your broody hens and chicks.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I wish I even had space for a desk like that!

 

[microchick]

I'm MAKING space, Cap! I'm already busy thinking up projects, and spent some money on more art supplies. Multi media sketch pads, more brushes, more water colors. Next I'm going get acrylic pains and canvas board!

Yeah,I'm really getting in the zone about this!

Thanks @chickadoodles. I wasn't expecting anything this grand! My old drafting table was simple, laminate wood. I had it and a floor easel that I used a lot for large projects. I think the larger drafting table with take the place of the easel and give me a lot of work space.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good hear your enjoy it Micro ..
We had storms roll in tonight even got the lights to blink like twice
not sure you can see her I have light in the at night now will try for a better one

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm MAKING space, Cap! I'm already busy thinking up projects, and spent some money on more art supplies. Multi media sketch pads, more brushes, more water colors. Next I'm going get acrylic pains and canvas board!

Yeah,I'm really getting in the zone about this!

Thanks @chickadoodles. I wasn't expecting anything this grand! My old drafting table was simple, laminate wood. I had it and a floor easel that I used a lot for large projects. I think the larger drafting table with take the place of the easel and give me a lot of work space.

There is just nowhere in this log cabin to make any space. I should have insisted on a bigger house.