The Old Folks Home

[Parront]

It was nice today, got up to 70! Made more progress on the coop, but i have been suffering from too much shoveling yesterday.
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Cammo Coop!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I just want the carpenter bees to quit eating our house!

No, they really aren't eating it but our back porch overhang has an open ceiling. Next spring it is having fascia installed on it but the carpenter bees LOVE the pine 2x8 beams that make up the roof. That in itself isn't all that bad..bad enough but I can deal with them, mix some wood filler with a bit of seven liquid and spackle it into the holes. But last winter we discovered that eh local woodpeckers declared the old nests their personal all you can eat buffet. Again, not so bad except for the fact that they tore the begeebers out of the 2X8s in their quests for larvae.

This year I got up close and personal with the bees. I know they are wonderful pollinators and we need them. I adore honey bees. I thank each and every one of them that pollinates the blossoms on our fruit trees and berry arbor, but those carpenter bees have just ticked off the wrong red head. My husband thinks I'm demented, running back and forth swinging a broom at them. He stopped me this year, took the broom out of my hands and said 'here, use this instead' and gave me an electric bug zapper that looks like a badminton racket.

I'm sure by the end of the summer those bees hated my guts and if they could sting, I'd be refilling my Epi-pen over and over again.

Still, I want to hear how the bee houses work out. Heck I'm willing to build them a condo if they just.....leave......our.....house....ALONE!

Cynthia12. Good luck on the surgery. Good time of the year to do that and get it out of the way so you can spend winter recuperating.

It's 29 degrees here right now. Die bugs die!

I got some more work done on my chair upholstery project. Yes, I am taking pictures as I go. I told DH that I really wish I had taken some notes on how I had done the silly back on the chair cause I spent half the day trying to put the panels back together. Geesh, what 10 years can do to your memory.

@getaclue, I love your cat story. Amazing kitty. I read the post to my husband and he just laughed. Our diabetic cat is laying on the arm of the sofa and DH said "Cash says to tell that kitty she's silly for passing up an easy meal!" Yep, I can imagine any one of our cats saying that.And I can't imagine our cats being anything but killing machines when it comes to chicks.Although I did just see a picture on Pinterest of an adorable Delaware hen trying to cover two kittens and brood them during a thunderstorm.

I call this the bee house because when we moved in there were lots of carpenter bees as well as honey bees in the house! We got a bee keeper to come get the honey bees. We finally had to get a guy to spray the outside of the house to get rid of the carpenter bees. It is really annoying, here the woods are full of dead pine trees and they have to drill all those holes in the house?

 

[Beer can]

Cats chickens lunchboxes
Our cat slept on my screen topped brooder box, looked just like she does on top of the fish tank, no way would I trust her, except to keep mice away.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Cammo Coop!

I like that it will blend into the woods. Sadly i ran out of green paint so i am on the lookout for more oops green.

 

[microchick]

Cap, I love the coop. The camo tarps are some of my favorites. Well anything camo is my favorite, LOL. The chair I'm working on is being reupholstered in camo fabric and I'm hoping to have enough left over to quilt a protector to go on the sofa in the living room.

You've really mad good progress with the coop.

It's the same here with the carpenter bees. I keep telling them to go eat the timber, go eat the barn, just leave the house alone. To make matters worse, I've had them hover right in front of me at eye level about two feet from my nose and just hang there in the air like they are just mocking me to try and wack them a good one. Of course I try!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Cap, I love the coop. The camo tarps are some of my favorites. Well anything camo is my favorite, LOL. The chair I'm working on is being reupholstered in camo fabric and I'm hoping to have enough left over to quilt a protector to go on the sofa in the living room.

You've really mad good progress with the coop.

Thanks! I bought a camo tarp and put it on one of the runs. I saw how much better it looked than the blue and ran out and bought a whole bunch more!
I am looking forward to starting on the quilted wall hanging i will make for my friend in TN. She posts on fb every day how much she misses me!

 

[Beer can]

Looking for a good western on Netflix, watched 'Traded' the other night, not the best movie, not all that good but not terrible either. Trace Adkins played a small part but was hung dead pretty quick. Kris Kristofferson played a small part also, dang that guy looks about 80 yrs old now Lol!Cool he still is acting in westerns. I'd like to see Clint Eastwood do a remake of one of his westerns, 'Unforgivin 2' would be awesome.

 

[getaclue]

Shortly after my first granddaughter was born, I babysat for her. I put a couple quilts on the living room floor, and set her on the quilts. I watched to see what the cats would do. One cat was indifferent. The cat that likes chicks/chickens, came up and watched her for a bit, then laid on the quilt, but not too close to the baby. The first time the baby cried, the cat walked up, sniffed her a little. That didn't stop the baby from crying, so she jumped up on the couch, bugging me. She did that every time I babysat. According to my cat, babies are not allowed to cry, and if they do, get mama.

 

[Latestarter]

I moved to TX cause it was warmer than CO... so it's 37 right now and forecast to be 30 for a low, then 69 tomorrow and night temps back to a more reasonable (for this time of year) mid 40's. It is the end of October, so almost November... I guess fall has to end some time, right? Just not natural for it to be this cold here and much warmer in the northeast...

 

[Cynthia12]

Today's hatch of Cuckoo Bluebars now in the brooder box. Very interesting and diverse coloration. I especially like the champagne one!
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I hatched one...tell me if this looks like they are supposed to. I was told from the folks I got the eggs from, that the egg was a Cuckoo Bluebar, or Cuckoo barleg??
Oh man, On my desktop, don't have a photo on here..will post later from my phone. Don't want to download them right now. You have some cute babies there!