The Old Folks Home

[room onthebroom]

Push off some of the hitchhiker's and make room

Noooooooooo!

 

[Alaskan]

More data points that Al and I are related.

I found a cicada on a tree when I was a kid, ripped the rest of the abdomen open and wore it like a giant ring, with the legs going around my finger.

Come to think of it, that would have been a great look during my goth phase.

Opportunities missed.

I also wore them as rings.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'd love to learn how, but probably couldn't squeeze a quilting table on this tiny broom.

You can make crib quilts that don't take much space. Its the boxes of fabric that take up space. I left half of mine behind when we moved and i still have a lot.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I'd love to learn how, but probably couldn't squeeze a quilting table on this tiny broom.

Most of the quilters I know quilt on the kitchen/dining table. I have a tiny closet of a room that I quilt in. I have to move my machine to cut, and then put it back up to sew.

My knees are feeling pretty good, considering. Not well enough to work out, yet, but I can walk down stairs (or heck, down the hall) and not feel like they're going to give out on me. However, they still hurt and sometimes feel like they're "ripping." But again, compared to where I was, I'm good.


Do you ever do anything so moronic that you question your intelligence?

Just went out to Red Team Hive to put a super on it (the gorgeous nail art one that I made earlier this week). I put a super on Blue Team Hive a few weeks ago. Figured I still had some smoke after installing the Red super, that I'd check to see where Blue Team was. I open up the hive and the super is pretty light. It doesn't look right. Then I realize... I put the super on, and there were 10 frames in the super but apparently I didn't put foundation in all the frames, just the first three. Had to race back inside, make 7 more frames with foundation, then get them on the hive. I was only able to get 6 on, they had built some comb on the 4th frame which adjoined the 3 that were set up correctly.

Seriously. How does one do that? Signs you're getting old...

 

[ronott1]

Most of the quilters I know quilt on the kitchen/dining table. I have a tiny closet of a room that I quilt in. I have to move my machine to cut, and then put it back up to sew.

My knees are feeling pretty good, considering. Not well enough to work out, yet, but I can walk down stairs (or heck, down the hall) and not feel like they're going to give out on me. However, they still hurt and sometimes feel like they're "ripping." But again, compared to where I was, I'm good.


Do you ever do anything so moronic that you question your intelligence?

Just went out to Red Team Hive to put a super on it (the gorgeous nail art one that I made earlier this week). I put a super on Blue Team Hive a few weeks ago. Figured I still had some smoke after installing the Red super, that I'd check to see where Blue Team was. I open up the hive and the super is pretty light. It doesn't look right. Then I realize... I put the super on, and there were 10 frames in the super but apparently I didn't put foundation in all the frames, just the first three. Had to race back inside, make 7 more frames with foundation, then get them on the hive. I was only able to get 6 on, they had built some comb on the 4th frame which adjoined the 3 that were set up correctly.

Seriously. How does one do that? Signs you're getting old...

I love the bee hive stories!
Yo live an interesting life in Maine!

 

[pennyJo1960]

she sure does I agree .. I am active enough here but would not care to be more so
went into the auction this morning trying to get a couple dozen banty eggs for my egg customer he likes to pickle them well was too late so have to go earlier next week

 

[superchemicalgirl]

... and then you come out into the kitchen and realize you've left bread rising on the counter for hours and it's like The Blob Attacks

 

[ronott1]

... and then you come out into the kitchen and realize you've left bread rising on the counter for hours and it's like The Blob Attacks

Be calm, punch it down and shape into loafs.

It will be very tasty!

 

[pennyJo1960]

love the oriental guy there Ron been taking my time making bread as in no time left in the day hoping tomorrow can be kitchen time no running to do that I know of

 

[microchick]

Another home run quilt by Superchemicalgirl. I love the colors of that quilt, SCG.

I feel par broiled. It's in the high 80s 53% humidity. We were outside this morning working on the back of the house. We are replacing the siding, which is going to be delivered on Friday. In the mean time, we have to tear off the old siding, which is low loft metal siding popular with the Amish around us. We thought about redoing the whole house in vinyl and decided that the back was really the only wall that needed renovated. There is no insulation in that wall save the one inch sheet styrofoam insulation the builder put in under the dry wall when he built the place. We will add that also before residing. We worked until 11AM and called it quits for the day. We had worked all day yesterday. As of today we have about 75% of the nails pulled and about a third of the siding off. Our home, with the attached shop is 88 feet long without the little entry porch added into the mix. We got tired of spraying wasps and dodging them also.

From there I finally got the wire up for a new run so I could let the two broodies and their babes out. They loved it. Moms came out first, scratched around a bit, called the chicks out and the minute the chicks joined them they flopped in the dirt for a well earned bath. I went in and fell asleep on the sofa for a half hour. I managed to sleep through a cannon being shot off on High Chaparral. Sometimes I feel sooooooo old, LOL.

I went out to check on the babies and found two had staged an escape and were running around with the bachelor roosters. Little devils. I'm glad they got in with the roosters and cockerels. They are so much better with the babies than the pullets and hens are. My plan is to turn the nursery pen into a pen for my two little pullets that I bought to keep Lucky company. They are just so tiny there is no way I can turn them loose with my biggers or the littles. I'm hoping to put a few smaller bantam pullets in with them along with one of the smaller cockerels. Come next spring, I'm planning to get Egyptian Fayoumi chicks so I have something that is resistant to disease established in my flock. I'm also kicking around a plan to get three turkey poults and house them nextdoor to my chickens.

I'm at war with Marek's. And to quote Captain Kirk, "The best defense is a strong offense and I plan to start offending right now."

SO what is everyone having for dinner tonight? I picked a gallon bucket of green beans, pulled up a potato plant and about 6 onions, grabbed three ears of corn. Supper! Green beans, new potatoes with onion and a little ham thrown in for dinner. Corn on the cob.

Makes being hot sweaty and tired all worthwhile.