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[vehve]

vehve, when you mentioned your breakfast with shallots, I had to chime in. This past spring, we got shallots to plant from Home Depot. They were $6.00 for 6 of them making them $1.00 each. That's outrageous! I planted them, and left them alone. They multiplied. I now have almost 100 ready to go for next spring's planting. I don't understand why they are so expensive.

That sounds a bit expensive... Still, 6$ for a hundred isn't that bad. And it's the best tasting onion.

It looks good!

Thanks!

 

[hennible]

Vehve, I can't see the whole sheet on my phone... And read it. What are you plotting, egg size?

 

[getaclue]

Well, we found a place, and were going to put a bid on it, but our loan officer said that due to recent changes regarding VA loans, they won't approve any mfd. homes in this state. Dang! We are working with a realtor that seems to be pretty good, but like he told us, there is a trend towards homesteading, and a lack of availability. We will keep looking.

 

[vehve]

@hennible , I've logged every single egg's weight every single chicken has laid so far, mainly to track the egg size development, but since you get the amounts too you can calculate all kinds of trends. But I write down how large an egg each chicken has laid every day.

 

[Alaskan]

Well, we found a place, and were going to put a bid on it, but our loan officer said that due to recent changes regarding VA loans, they won't approve any mfd. homes in this state. Dang! We are working with a realtor that seems to be pretty good, but like he told us, there is a trend towards homesteading, and a lack of availability. We will keep looking.

 

[vehve]

@getaclue don't worry, you'll find the place eventually. Good things come to those who wait... (or have a lot of spare cash).

 

[vehve]

I tried to get a better picture of our roo Eemeli today, but he's so skittish that I couldn't get close enough to him with my phone. I might need to dig out the Canon again. But I think I managed to capture the shine of his feathers really nicely, I'm still amazed how completely brown saddle feathers can appear to have a white shine to them in the right light. The green glimmer of the black feathers really shows nicely too. I think he has a bit better posture here too. Now if he would just regrow his tail feathers.

 

[Bunnylady]

Even without his tail feathers, he's starting to get that "I am the king of all I survey" look, isn't he?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

First thing to do when buying a gore tex garment, is to stand in the shower for 15 minutes with it. If it leaks, go to the store, tell you did that and tell them you ant a new one. With shoes or gloves, submerge them in water. Gore gives a nice guarantee on their products, and if they can't withstand that, they are faulty. I bought a pair of Gore combat boots a couple months ago, just last weekend I spent 4 hours walking through swamps with them - my socks were completely dry afterwards, even walking through water they were breathable enough to transfer moisture generated by my body out.

That's interesting advice.

@hennible These are the boots I got, I can wholeheartedly recommend them:

http://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/alpina-trapper-rj-brown/23477

If you consider something similar, get leather gore tex boots, the cordura stuff wears through too quickly. Leather can be kept good for ages with some mink oil and bee wax products.

Mink oil, HMMM, wonder where I can get that?

I just saw 1 of my neighbors in walmart. He had his dog with him. Apparently he bought a harness thingy for handicapped working dog. He had on dark glasses. He was in sporting goods section looking at fishing hooks...

Sounds like the perfectly able bodied people that pull into a handicap spot, hang their grandmother's handicap tag on the rear view mirror and stride right into the store.

I'ts itnretnisg how you can sctwih lerttes in wrdos as lnog as you keep the frsit and lsat lteter in pacle and it's siltl udentsrdnalbe.

That may be why bad spellers don't really care that they're bad.

Dangerous if they have a bat. I'm in the south and we don't mess around with racist jokes. It can get you hurt

Racist jokes, not good. Ethnic humor, funny. I look at ethnic humor as a joke about the stereotype rather than the ethnicity.

Here too. 50% native 50% white ( pretty much, some Asia families)
But the best racist jokes I've heard have been told to me by natives.... It totally depends on the relationship

This metro area has just about every ethnicity. Native Americans are few and far between here but my part of town is about 60% black 30% Caucasian and the rest are Middle Easterners, Latinos and Asians.
There are huge Asian majorities in parts of the city.
I love stand up comedy. the minorities tell some great jokes about their sectors of society.

Yeah, it's a bit of a powder keg over there (according to my extensive personal experience based solely on movies and TV).

We don't really have similar tensions here. I'm a part of our largest minority, we make up about 6% of the population. My native tongue is the second official language of the country, genetically we live 7 years longer than the national average and are healthier, we're usually better educated, employed and payed.

What minority is that?

I left my feelings in the afterbirth. I dont care what anybody says about me...i think idiots come in all shapes and colors. Good people do too. Imho sometimes some people use discrimination as an excuse to be a dummy.

I've been a little on the sensitive side much of my life but still, after being brutalized most of my life in grade school, high school, 305 years in industry, I have some real thick skin. I don't have a lot of patience for those that get overly offended at small stuff.

My favorite thing to argue about is gender inequality. Every time I get into a discussion about how men make more money I like to ask the other person (if they're a woman) when the last time they asked for a raise was. There are of course other factors at play, but according to studies, men ask for a raise 8 times more often than women do. I bet that explains at least a part of the income gap.

I've seen those studies too. One lately said that men thought they were worth more than their qualifications while women tended to undervalue their qualifications.

I think the genders are equal but not because we can do the same things equally. Does that make sense?

Yes. Both of equal value.

There are several things men are usually better at than women. And there are several things women are usually better at than men. There are also several things that people can be good at regardless of what gender they are. Men and women are different. Not all men are the same, nor are all women. Instead of deciding that a company needs to hire a female or male or black or Latino or German midget, they should focus on the individual's skilllset and experience. I don't care if the firefighter carrying me out of the burning building is man or a woman, but I know that I most certainly don't wan't her or him to be hired because of her or his gender or race, I just want the best possible firefighter to do it.

I apprenticed for a woman who was my journeyman electrician. Occasionally we would have to change out welding transformers that weighed between 75 and 250 pounds. I've always been pretty strong but she was strong enough not to need my help and if I didn't pull just right she'd move the transformer and carry me with it.

In 1941, the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) secretly signed a dwarf, Eddie Gaedel to play in a double header against the Detroit Tigers. He came out of a papier-mache cake between games to celebrate the American League's 50th anniversary and a Falstaff Brewery promotion.

He entered the game as a pinch hitter wearing the uniform number 1/8. When the umpire called out the Brown's manager, he brought out Gaedel's contract and a copy of the roster with Eddie on it.
The team owner, Veeck, gave Eddie strict orders never to remove the bat from his shoulder. Veeck told him he had taken out a 1 million dollar insurance policy on Gaedel and Veeck would be standing on the roof of the stadium with a rifle ready to kill him if he attempted to swing.
Eddie walked on 4 straight pitches and was immediately pinch run for.
The St. Louis fans gave him a standing ovation. He was paid $100 for the plate appearance but thanks to lots of TV appearances it earned him many thousands of dollars.

What did you call me?

Have you been lurking?
Or is that undercover duty?

Did anybody leave a girdle in my truck?

The above mentioned electrician co-worker came to work one day fuming. She worked midnights and when she went home the morning before, she found a pair of panties floating in her pool. They weren't her size. Another co-worker reminded her that it was quite windy that night so they must have blown in from someone's clothesline.

Studies show women who have a little extra weight live longer than men who mention it.

Does this dress make me look fat?
No, the fat makes you look fat.

Wisher : Dude, how long have you been wearing a girdle?

Bamadude : Ever since my wife found it in my truck.

with poop shelves... sure, that would be great.


I like multi-leveled coops.

You just gave me an idea I had toyed with before for roosters. I like vertical gardening so vertical poultry only makes sense.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

vehve, when you mentioned your breakfast with shallots, I had to chime in. This past spring, we got shallots to plant from Home Depot. They were $6.00 for 6 of them making them $1.00 each. That's outrageous! I planted them, and left them alone. They multiplied. I now have almost 100 ready to go for next spring's planting. I don't understand why they are so expensive.

Lowe's sometimes sells tomato plants for $6.95 - EACH!!!. I don't know how one would get $6.95 worth of tomatoes off of one. I've thought about hanging around to see who buys them and remind them that a whole packet of seeds is about $2.

Well, we found a place, and were going to put a bid on it, but our loan officer said that due to recent changes regarding VA loans, they won't approve any mfd. homes in this state. Dang! We are working with a realtor that seems to be pretty good, but like he told us, there is a trend towards homesteading, and a lack of availability. We will keep looking.

Frustrating. Eventually something will turn up.

Patience is a virtue. AND I WANT IT NOW!

I tried to get a better picture of our roo Eemeli today, but he's so skittish that I couldn't get close enough to him with my phone. I might need to dig out the Canon again. But I think I managed to capture the shine of his feathers really nicely, I'm still amazed how completely brown saddle feathers can appear to have a white shine to them in the right light. The green glimmer of the black feathers really shows nicely too. I think he has a bit better posture here too. Now if he would just regrow his tail feathers.

pretty bird