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[bamadude]

Could be the first one if you sit down to weed

 

[Alaskan]

Or if a bee is sitting on the weed

 

[NotAFarm]

Quote: Could be the neighbor's dog decided it wasn't getting watered enough.

More likely the three barn cats using my flower bed as a litter box........

I'm just glad the last two brutal winters didn't kill it off completely. I love those big fluffy flowers, whatever color they might be! I love looking at the different colors and shapes of my flowers against the vibrant greens.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

How are your "weed eaters" doing? Have you ever had the dwarf or mini goats? I am thinking I might talk DH into maybe getting a couple but I am concerned the little ones may not be able to handle our winters. Any thoughts?

I have the full sized goats and they're just fine in the winter. People up here have the dwarf goats and they're also fine up here. Heck, my banty hens and showgirls are fine up here. I am a firm believer in the "build a good shelter and don't be an idiot" and things will survive our winters.

Can I interest you in 2 full sized goats? They got on my nerves enough tonight that I was goaticidal. I didn't act on it, but they did go to bed an hour early.

 

[Latestarter]

Goaticidal...that's funny! Contemplating how a couple of goats could get on your nerves to that point... Hey, how are your bees doing now? Have you checked in on them lately?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have not gone into the hive. I'm not quite me, yet. Still sluggy.
I have gone down and looked at the external hive activity, and blue team has not improved and is very, very weak. Red team appears fine.

 

[chickisoup]

Goaticidal...that's funny! Contemplating how a couple of goats could get on your nerves to that point... Hey, how are your bees doing now? Have you checked in on them lately?

Be kind to this poor soul SCG, if he cannot understand how these critters could push you to the point of "goaticide" , he clearly has never owned them. This is one of my own main reasons for considering the dwarf as opposed to the full sized variety. I truly did love my goats that I had on my farm many years ago but I am no longer young enough or healthy enough to survive all that "love" from the full-sized variety.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
Cept the little uns are just the right size to bonk you in the back of the knees.... Always keep your weight on one foot.... I loved loved loved my goaties.... little reprobates.... they never messed with me but my roommate was terrified of them.

. They were disbudded too. She was afraid they would butt her... and when they stood on their hind legs and shook their heads at her she was done and out of there. They would always do that then come down on the ground just short of you... I kept telling her that it was like a play bow in dogs... hes inviting you to play... She was having nothing of it.

The thing is I NEVER engaged in that play with them. I would roll away and walk off. or would use my stick to run interference.... Yep I walked with a staff or cane with them.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

I am kinda excited.... the kids broke my washing machine... again..... and instead of shelling out about 300 to fix it, I decided to pay more than double that and buy a new machine.



I am super stoked... with this new machine.. For the first time in my life I will NOT have to roll about on the nasty floor of the laundry room to unscrew the front kick plate of the washer, then yank the stupid lint trap off of its rubber shock holders, unscrew the front, dump it out, and then put it all back together.


This new machine is an LG and actually comes WITH AN EASY ACCESS TO THE LINT TRAP!!!!!!!!

The joy! the happiness!!!!


I looked that the machines here in my tiny town, that I could have bought and brought home today (because almost a week without a washer, in a house that runs about 5 loads a day, is a very very bad thing, a scary thing) and one had the lovely kick plate, screw the entire thing off like what I have been doing for years, and the OTHER model had a SOLID FRONT!

I looked at the solid front one, and WOWSERS! Like really? I would then have to unscrew the door, and then the front? Or pull the entire machine out of its cubby spot, and unscrew a side?????

Not sure, but any which way, the exact opposite of tempting.

I asked the salesman how anyone can manage to keep a machine like that running for longer than 4 months since you have no real way of cleaning out the trap. He kind of looked at me and shrugged, he clearly didn't understand what I was talking about, or why anyone would have to clean out the washing machine lint trap about once a month.

That guy must not have kids.

Anyway... the thought of being able to just reach down and EASILY clean out the trap..... dudes, I could clean it ONCE A WEEK!!!!

I could keep it running like a dream! Purring like a kitten! And I would never even have to use a screw driver!

So awesome!

 

[Alaskan]

Oh, I wasn't clear on what the kids did....

my machine keeps busting out the beater bars... I can't keep all three in there to save my life.... I can manage to keep one in for over 6 months, but I can't keep all three (the number it is supposed to have) for over a month.

Each time I replace the bars, that is over a hundred bucks.

This time they busted out the last bar .... again .... I think it is the machine, not the kids.... but anyway

This time they ALSO washed a few nails, again.... which one more time got caught in the gasket and tore it up... kind of a problem on a front loader. I am getting really good at replacing the front gaskets... but that is another over hundred buck outlay.

I lined up all of the kids, and went over the proper emptying of pockets before washing stuff..... It has been over a year since the last time we chewed up the gasket, so I think they are doing pretty well for a bunch of boys aged 7 to 16 doing most of their own laundry.