The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Thanks @ronott1 I really liked that quote.

The Amish are the same way about vaccinations. They do not do them. It is not uncommon to have a whooping cough outbreak in the area. Of course that means that everyone, Amish and non Amish are exposed to it with little effort. Same with measles and strep.

I saw one of their anti vaccinating posters once in an Amish store. It basically said, when you get a vaccine they are pumping pus into your body.....it went down hill from there.

I guess ignorance IS bliss after all.

I've heard of vaccines being given in multiple small doses. Surprised they are not doing that with the Somalis.

I am not against vaccines in general, but for me i have enough problems without adding mercury to it.

 

[perchie.girl]

Before Dh built my coop, I asked him to paint the wood. That fell on deaf ears. Now that it's built, and time is taking it's toll on the appearance of the wood, I suggested mineral oil, like on a cutting board. I think he's leaning a bit more towards painting it. Has anyone had experience with the mineral oil?

Id do Thompsons Water seal first... YOu can paint over that and apply it with a sprayer....



deb

 

[CapricornFarm]

Did i tell you that our contractor offered to build our goat shed cheap so now i can save my energy for other projects!?

 

[perchie.girl]

Guy I work with used old motor oil on his barn, swears by it,
Add to that, my father painted/soaked his coop in creosote 30yrs ago and it still looks good.

Thats when you could still buy Creosote....Nasty Carcenogenic stuff...
Never did understand people that used old motor oil... either...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

You really can't go home again!

“The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

We moved several times while I was growing up... I have been back to each house except one.... That one was in Roswell.

Funny I have no particular attachment to any except the one i have now... and I cant live there... sigh

 

[Kusanar]

Yeah, ours had a metal roof when we bought it but the nuts just started falling recently.

I don't know how different house metal roofing is from barn metal roofing, but, the hickory tree that dropped nuts on the barn roof actually knocked quite a few small holes in the roof from all of the banging. Something to watch out for.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Before Dh built my coop, I asked him to paint the wood. That fell on deaf ears. Now that it's built, and time is taking it's toll on the appearance of the wood, I suggested mineral oil, like on a cutting board. I think he's leaning a bit more towards painting it. Has anyone had experience with the mineral oil?

Not with mineral oil, but linseed oil is used for preserving the wood in the older vehicles that used wood. A friend bought our grandpas 50s truck and he's using linseed oil on the wood in the box to keep it original.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

We normally get the flu shot, although we missed it last year. I started getting them when I started driving the bus.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I don't know how different house metal roofing is from barn metal roofing, but, the hickory tree that dropped nuts on the barn roof actually knocked quite a few small holes in the roof from all of the banging. Something to watch out for.

If that starts happening it is coming down. We have 13 acres of trees.

 

[chickadoodles]

I was reading this article this morning about turpentine and I was wondering if Ron or Scg had ever read it on the health benefits of it?

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