The Old Folks Home

[hennible]

 

[vehve]

Haha, christmas lights on a stealth coop might be tempting faith...

Diva, yes, even color and sound in our movies...

Bama, I look nothing like the whiny Canuck "singer"...

 

[JW12]

It has always amazed me that somthing as big and fierce as a bear is happy to eat bird seed!

On another note I just put 6 more duck eggs in lock down.

On an even more fun note for my craving tonight I made peanut butter fudge!

 

[drumstick diva]

Oh fudge!! I haven't had any in years. It just made my teeth hurt - like when your teeth are sensitive to cold. Guess it made my sugar meter run too high.

The best I ever had was Mackinaw Island Fudge, they used to set up a booth at the International Kennel Club dog show in Chicago. I had just bought some and was decided which to eat first, when the dog on the next bench

Zhomey fell off his bench. He didn't know how to get back on because the chain was so short. I had to pick up this big Vizsla dog from the back end and maneuver him back where he belonged. Takes longer to type than to do it. Must have been the merest blink of an eye. When I turned back, my dog had devoured half the fudge, and slobbered on the rest. I dried it off the best I could and brought it home to the family.

Every body was taking a sample when I casually remarked - "that's the fudge Brucie drooled all over." It was the honest truth but, I got to finish the fudge after that. Hey, fudge was mighty expensive to a 12 year old kid. You can't let a minor thing like dog slobber get in your way.

 

[drumstick diva]

I wondered about that very same thing. A bear would have to eat buckets full to have any effect on his appetite, and yet they steal bits from a bird feeder

 

[vehve]

I think bears have quite efficient digestions, so they can probably utilize those birdseeds a lot better than us people.

Diva, our dachshund is that kind of a opportunist as well. If there's a bag of potato chips on the living room table, and you get up to go to the toilet, you will hear a rustling sound once you're behind the corner. If you come back and take a look, the dachshund will be back in the same spot in the couch. Then you go away again, and hear the sound, and sneak back behind the corner, and see her taking one potato chip out of the bag, and return to the couch. When she spots you, she stops chewing and looks very innocent. Sneaky little thing. But if she knows that she has no chance of getting something otherwise, she will lunge at things, for example if you were to drop one of the potato chips, she will inhale it withing half a second.

 

[vehve]

Veera rejoined the layers after a monthlong hiatus again. She started with a pretty small egg though, I hope she builds up the size soon. Only 37 grams.

 

[ozexpat]

Sliding windows by there nature can only have fifty percent open at one time. Thus its more economical to have a window under six feet wide open just on one side. Windows over six feet have a solid center and two windows that open - one on each side.

The smaller windows don't have the three panel configuration per fire code. You have to have an alternate egress 18 inches or wider and 30" high.

While locks may be easy to pick, external hinges are the weakest link. The pin can be removed with a hacksaw even on fixed pin hinges.

I have 3D shaped key dead bolts on my external opening rear door - one for each side.

My front doors are double doors with a pair of those locks with the fingers that go down into rings but I did not install the cylinder on the outside so they have to be opened from the inside.

My hinges all have one screw that is three inches long to pass into the framework past the door jam. The screws on the door side are all 2.5". I have four 4x4 ball bearing stainless steel hinges on each door.

I have bars on my windows. 1/2" round bar 4" apart with a vertical bar every 12 inches. There is no further than 25feet to a door to egress.

Inside the house I have a room with a steel door and concrete on all sides including the ceiling. It has our most important stuff in it. If we were in a tsunami prown area I would put the scuba tanks in there. Though extremely rare, we are quite isolated and could be a target for home invasion.


Most home security sucks. The basic principle is to make your home harder than the neighbor. The roof is generally the easiest access in modern times and battery operated power tools.

 

[vehve]

You can also install rods on the door that push into the frame on the hinge side. That way, taking out the hinges won't allow the door to open. But most house locks are pretty easy to open with a proper hammering drill anyway, sort of a fireman's utility key. Here the easiest access would be the windows though. Sure, you risk cutting yourself, but yo can go through a window in seconds with an axe or a hammer.

Luckily, home invasions don't happen here. The few hostage situations that you get here, are usually among people who know each other, and have been let in voluntarily.

This is the most common type of setup for door hinges and locks here:


Self locking latches, no need to lock with a key separately.


The key can be inserted both ways.



Hinges on the outside.


These are not a part of all hinges, but here, cutting the hinge won't allow the door to open, since protruding parts on each part interlock when the door is closed and can't be pulled outwards.

 

[Double Kindness]

I used to sell custom replacement windows for houses, and the sliders only open so far for security reasons, so no one can slide the window open all the way to break in/sneak out lol. And different windows sliders, casement, single/double hung for air flow/ventilation based on layout of tge home & for building & fire codes. I'm pretty sure most doors can swing open and closed either way, as long as yhe hinges are inside the house.

We did a mj event recently and snoop dog was there. Tommy Chong is super nice. I look like a preppy soccer mom, but I've had a green thumb since I started growing special plants 32 years ago in Fairbanks, AK. In a few hours o have to head back to champs, an mj industry trade show of epic proportions. I can talk special wacky tabacky plants and geek/nerd out hardcore. I really want liquid and gas cromatography spectrometer lab testing equipment, but I don't have 40k for it atm. But I will settle for a couple nice bators and fancy rare fibromelanistic chickens for xmas this year.

I did tell my bf recently that I do expect a ring on my finger by our 10th anniversary in 14 months. 10 years is long enough to be with someone before getting hitched right?

My 2 ayam cemani roos are recovering nicely from decrowing surgery Tuesday and should be home this weekend