for all those are sick.
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for all those are sick.
No. It was a lung function test, I they rescheduled. I have a PT scan on the 12th.
@getaclue! I'm so sorry to hear about the setback! Take care of yourself first and foremost. Shop on line when possible. Avoid crowds. My husband and I are to the point where we are thinking about wearing rubber gloves when we unload boxes that we get from shopping on line. I swear we both came down with a cold after unpacking a box we had come through the mail. The mail box was the only place we had been in almost 2 weeks. yet we both had colds. Since we both have horrible resistance to illness, we feel like we live like hermits anyway.
I even went as far as getting a flu shot this year plus my first pneumovax. So I felt lousy from the vaccines for two days , then got a stomach virus from being in the bug infested doctors office. I was supposed to try to get back this month so he could adjust my back for me but no way in blue blazes that they will see me there before spring.
Sometimes you feel like you just can't win. But seriously, get plenty of rest, drink lots of fluids, tea with honey and lemon and good old water to help keep the secretions thinned out.
We went from 50 degree weather to single digit temps in what seemed like a blink of the eye. Crazy weather. The only ones who seem unaffected are the chickens. They are out doing their chicken thing, scratching and fussing at one another. My two BO/Welsummer cross pullets and my Welsummer pullet from a June hatch presented me with eggs today. 6 months old to the day. Now that is predictability, bless their little feathered brains. I had to buy a dozen eggs two weeks ago to use for cooking and baking so we could save the few eggs we were getting for meals so I was calling them every name in the book besides chickens. They are redeemed for the moment unless the cold temps put the big chill on the few of them that are laying.
I even went as far as getting a flu shot this year plus my first pneumovax. So I felt lousy from the vaccines for two days , then got a stomach virus from being in the bug infested doctors office. I was supposed to try to get back this month so he could adjust my back for me but no way in blue blazes that they will see me there before spring.
Sometimes you feel like you just can't win. But seriously, get plenty of rest, drink lots of fluids, tea with honey and lemon and good old water to help keep the secretions thinned out.
We went from 50 degree weather to single digit temps in what seemed like a blink of the eye. Crazy weather. The only ones who seem unaffected are the chickens. They are out doing their chicken thing, scratching and fussing at one another. My two BO/Welsummer cross pullets and my Welsummer pullet from a June hatch presented me with eggs today. 6 months old to the day. Now that is predictability, bless their little feathered brains. I had to buy a dozen eggs two weeks ago to use for cooking and baking so we could save the few eggs we were getting for meals so I was calling them every name in the book besides chickens. They are redeemed for the moment unless the cold temps put the big chill on the few of them that are laying.
Okay fun here had to run to Olympia for the BF had a eye doctor appointment
coming home lots of snow flurries I-5 quickly going from 75 to 40 by the time we started up the exit to ours
northbound I-5 quickly becoming a parking lot we were headed south to 12 East
got within a mile of home van does a 360 stops aimed at ditch but our side and a bit sideways
BF slowly puts her in reverse she backs herself up and away we went taking side rd past the bulb farm
into town avoiding the light at the highway... now home safe and sound the birds water is froze
filling tim bucket with snow setting it down birds went cool
coming home lots of snow flurries I-5 quickly going from 75 to 40 by the time we started up the exit to ours
northbound I-5 quickly becoming a parking lot we were headed south to 12 East
got within a mile of home van does a 360 stops aimed at ditch but our side and a bit sideways
BF slowly puts her in reverse she backs herself up and away we went taking side rd past the bulb farm
into town avoiding the light at the highway... now home safe and sound the birds water is froze
filling tim bucket with snow setting it down birds went cool
Battling rats and the cold here again today. Happy Friday, y'all
10 Degrees here. Yuk. I know winter is a fact of life but the older I get the more I hate the cold. I'm not looking forward to going out to check on the flock and make sure they have fresh water and food. I'm not letting them out till the temp comes up at least to the 20s.
They are bound to be grumpier than I am this morning.
They are bound to be grumpier than I am this morning.
Penny your little fuzzy butts are so cute!
Yes it's cold here to this morning, but I don't want to play with the cold.
scg, sorry to hear about you having to battle rats. Been there, done that, and it's not fun.
For my last coop, the one the chickens are in now, I was very emphatic about the pen skirt. For this coop, Dh was thinking he would get away with cutting a few corners, like only making it 2 - 2.5 feet out, and not burying it too deep. He and I were locking horns a bit about it, until the day before yesterday, when one of our neighbors, with chickens, came over. The neighbor is in the dirt hauling business, so Dh was arranging to get some fill dirt from him. I had gone to the doctor's office, so I wasn't here at the time. They looked at the coop, and decided how much dirt was needed, but the neighbor commented about the pen skirt.
He explained to Dh that he too, only went out about 2.5 feet with his pen skirt when he first built his coop. There was a fox, and it tried to dig close to the coop. He wasn't concerned, because the pen skirt stopped it, but the next night, it began digging further out from the coop, until it found where the pen skirt ended. It dug under, and killed out his first flock of 25 chickens. He told Dh that he increased his pen skirt out another foot, restocked his coop, and so far nothing has gotten past the pen skirt.
When I got home from the doctor's office, Dh told me he was going to increase the size of the pen skirt, and what the neighbor had said. I am glad we are not locking horns on this anymore, but it ticks me off that he didn't just listen to me to begin with. I chalk it up to a "man thing".
The next discussion they had was about hardware cloth around the lower half of the perimeter to keep raccoons from reaching in to grab them, and to make sure the roosts, nest boxes, waterers, feeders, etc. were far enough inside the coop, not near the outer perimeter. When Dh began to educate me on how I had to set up the inside of each coop, I reminded him to think about how I had placed everything in my existing coop. Wow, lucky me that I accidentally got it right both times in my existing coop!
Another hurdle he's jumped is about my electric fence. I bought all the stuff for it, about a year ago, to put around my existing coop. He's been totally against it. Now, he's all gung-ho about putting it up. Between him, and our neighbor, they'll teach me how everything needs to be done to predator proof things, and keep my chickens safe. Life is good.
For my last coop, the one the chickens are in now, I was very emphatic about the pen skirt. For this coop, Dh was thinking he would get away with cutting a few corners, like only making it 2 - 2.5 feet out, and not burying it too deep. He and I were locking horns a bit about it, until the day before yesterday, when one of our neighbors, with chickens, came over. The neighbor is in the dirt hauling business, so Dh was arranging to get some fill dirt from him. I had gone to the doctor's office, so I wasn't here at the time. They looked at the coop, and decided how much dirt was needed, but the neighbor commented about the pen skirt.
He explained to Dh that he too, only went out about 2.5 feet with his pen skirt when he first built his coop. There was a fox, and it tried to dig close to the coop. He wasn't concerned, because the pen skirt stopped it, but the next night, it began digging further out from the coop, until it found where the pen skirt ended. It dug under, and killed out his first flock of 25 chickens. He told Dh that he increased his pen skirt out another foot, restocked his coop, and so far nothing has gotten past the pen skirt.
When I got home from the doctor's office, Dh told me he was going to increase the size of the pen skirt, and what the neighbor had said. I am glad we are not locking horns on this anymore, but it ticks me off that he didn't just listen to me to begin with. I chalk it up to a "man thing".
The next discussion they had was about hardware cloth around the lower half of the perimeter to keep raccoons from reaching in to grab them, and to make sure the roosts, nest boxes, waterers, feeders, etc. were far enough inside the coop, not near the outer perimeter. When Dh began to educate me on how I had to set up the inside of each coop, I reminded him to think about how I had placed everything in my existing coop. Wow, lucky me that I accidentally got it right both times in my existing coop!
Another hurdle he's jumped is about my electric fence. I bought all the stuff for it, about a year ago, to put around my existing coop. He's been totally against it. Now, he's all gung-ho about putting it up. Between him, and our neighbor, they'll teach me how everything needs to be done to predator proof things, and keep my chickens safe. Life is good.
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