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[ChooksChick]

Blech. Snow. Ick.

I know you'll be laughing at me when I'm complaining about it being 110, but I'd rather that to any more snow. I never claimed to be in my right mind. No one sane would choose to get the extreme heat AND the extreme cold like we have in Kansas...

Has anyone seen if the edition of Chicken magazine with my articles in it isoutyet? they don't have it at our Tractor Supply. I need a copy, for crying out loud!

 

[insanity]

Chooks wich one are you looking for? I get them at Wallmart.

 

[Cynthia12]

DiDi, that's what we got, about an ich, It is supposed to snow off and on all day I guess. At least it isn't minus degrees, or in the single digits. That was just awful. People always get excited when the weather gets into the high 06's, or low 70's in April. They plant. Then when it hits down into the high 20's at night, they wish they hadn't. I usually wait until mid May. Oh well, won't be long now, just like Chooks said, it will get warm! We need the moisture here. I just want the spring .. to spring!

 

[Bitterroot]

Kansas is gorgeous, but I always hated driving across it in all that wind.

 

[ChooksChick]

Chooks wich one are you looking for? I get them at Wallmart.

It's the one that's supposed to be on the shelf- Chickens May/Jun, I think...there's an article about cleaning the coop and another about grit listed on the front...the one about cleaning is me, as is another inside about integrating new birds to the existing flock. I got 2 copies a month ago when they issued the final copy, but I had them stolen by family members...so I haven't got one for me!!

DiDi, that's what we got, about an ich, It is supposed to snow off and on all day I guess. At least it isn't minus degrees, or in the single digits. That was just awful. People always get excited when the weather gets into the high 06's, or low 70's in April. They plant. Then when it hits down into the high 20's at night, they wish they hadn't. I usually wait until mid May. Oh well, won't be long now, just like Chooks said, it will get warm! We need the moisture here. I just want the spring .. to spring!

I'm guilty. I put my Three Sisters plants into the ground, as well as the tomatillo, tomato, pepper and pimiento seedlings I'd started. Apparently rabbits can get through chain link.

It isn't cold enough in town (heat bubble) to frost yet, but I'm watching like a hawk. Have sheets, will cover!!

Kansas is gorgeous, but I always hated driving across it in all that wind.

I'm fortunate enough to live in the NE area, which has trees, creeks, rivers, valleys and hills. It's not bad, but still brutally hot and cold. We get the wind in rural areas, but Lawrence is in a valley-ish area and isn't hit nearly so badly. I'm just a big baby when it comes to anything other than excellent, sunny, bright weather. I like the sun!! I can't handle cold, at all.

(wanders off to find her mukluks and parka...)

 

[refamat]

many islands had no usable grains to begin with or roots or tubers so a seafood diet was the only way to survive. This is also true in the frozen tundra regions..man never adapted to eating like the reindeer, so ate the reindeer.
but, there was always a lot of fat eaten by primitive man. Lean meats were not the first things hunter ate. They ate livers (before anything else often) and brains and bone marrow , and the fat was mixed with berries for a travel food. only with fish were lean meats ate right off the bat.

 

[ChooksChick]

american college of cardiology says current target cholesterol of 130 is too high and we should aim for total cholesterol of 100 or even 80.

200 is a very old target

I thought I posted this already, but I can't find that it actually appeared, so I have to bring it up:

My HDL is 96. I can't even guess I'd be able to bring that down without eating lots of crap food...so my total is 202...and I'm in generally good health aside from migraines. Low BP...what would ACC say about this scenario? My doc chalks it up to: "good cancels bad, go home and be healthy."

I've just ignored it because I eat a lot of veggies.

So, I'm going to have to re-sprout the veggies the bunnies ate and put up chicken-wire inside my chain-link so they don't eat all the new sprouts. That's disappointing. I had such a good jump on the season!

Anyone else plant Malabar spinach up their fencing for the birds? This year, I've ordered a lot of extra to plant it heavily. Sunflowers, too- that's going to go in 1" hardware cloth cages to protect the roots.

I put in 6 more grape vines to help shade, as well. That's my favorite, so far- training the grapes to cover and protect the run while shading and providing treats!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Maybe get that potting table supplied and start a few seeds? THat might make you feel better.

People get overly excited when we get a few nice days here, and plant. They forget that we are still in April. April in Utah means, nice days, and some cold, even down into the freezing. So, I wait until May to plant my veggies.
I am getting ready to plant some herbs in some pots. Haven't done that before, but I'm thinking it will be better than what I did at the last place we were at. Does anyone know how mint can spread?? Well, I'm thinking a pot just might be the ticket to keeping that stuff under control. Have some lavender to go in, some Cilantro, sweet basil, and oh, will plant some chives in a pot this year.

Haahaa, it is usually May here and the peas fail. So decicded to go with mid April and see if they thrive or fail. Our ZOne has become much warmer than it used to be and being coastal, much warmer than the nigh mountains.

I picked up a few herbs too. I use lots of them. ANd don't mind th extra cost in the store for fresh-- the intense flavor is well worth it. Lavender, basil, chives, and something else.

Oh good Goddess, I just calculated back to the evening I gave Punkin three eggs when she went broody in the dog bed! Two weeks, plus five days.....It's Day 19!!!!!

Somebody heat the water! Get me some clean shoe-laces! Oh, wait. Wrong "tapes" in my head there for a moment. Whew!

She has not left the nest today.

 

[Arielle]

Quote:

I can't remember ever living without mint-- some is more invasive than others. My mothers is wicked and needs clear boundaries. I went into the dog pen and I didn't mind the dogs diggin in the garden!! Bricks on one side slowed the roots down, just needed a little weeding between bricks. Now I have the chickens to keep it short!

I have other mint that lives as a small bush and is hardy enough to stay alive, but is not invasive.

Mint needs containment. If the top falls over, it roots.

I used it crushed in my iced tea.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Which is why I don't do paleo or south beach-- I like fats.

At different times of the year the animals were thin, or fat. We can handle it all. BOy I 'd love to try reindeer meat!! Living coastal, I ate a lot of seafood myself. Lean meats were actually NOT a good thing-- we need the fats to build a huge number of biochemicals to funtion well.

Much discussion goes on about the lean meats and the oo, but Atkins has another take. Basically we were sucking down meat for millions of years and we didn't get the quartet or diabetes, or gout, or arthritis or a zillion other illnesses that we now accept as normal. THere needs to be more studies of course, but for now Atkins has presented more than enough European studies to validate: eat meat, eat fats, eat vegies, nuts and berries and be healthy. A little over simplified but we humans made the carrots---the wild carrot is barely a thick hair. QUeen Anee's lace. Atkins does allow for potato, corn, etc-- IF the body doesn't gain weight eating such things when eaten in small quantities. Potatos are realatively new also; as are most of the grains. Not sure how old corn is. A group of S AMerican Indians still live on fish and mantioc. More fish than mantioc.

I have heard a number of arguments about the leannes of wild meat. THe bear was valued for the fat in the fall, a boon. Generally, the diet lacked fat. Now I"m not so sure, perhaps availability of extra fat was tied to the time of year. I recently ate a hen bought from a dealer that became a roast because she was very thin and in poor condition. She still produced asurprizing amount of fat for a thin bird. SO I am thinking that we did eat plenty of fat , just more at some times of the year.

Fish spoils rather fast--eat it quick. Drying came later , and salting. Easier to dry meats by thinly slicing to dry. Fish were usually salted, but I don't think salting was used on dried meats usuallly. Some was of course; maybe I"m thinking of jerker meats, and that is smoking to preserve.

I bought my pound of bacon today!! ANd the tom turkey is headed for the roaster this week.! I love the taste of fats.