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[ronott1]

hasn't been long enough for me I have never been able to tolerate split pea

I understand. I am that way with Melons! The only melon I like is watermelon and I do not eat much of it

 

[pennyJo1960]

guess the older the easier it is to be fussy not get a wack right

 

[CapricornFarm]

I want to see the cat tower... BF had saved some thick cardboard round "pipes" from the dump and bought some sissal to go around them... but hasn't started on it, yet. Our 3 cats have 4 various "trees" across the house and of course they fight over one of them.

The soup is starting to smell amazing, and I just got my pumpkin pie slid into the oven (CSA gave us a pie pumpkin this week, and I couldn't resist... been thinking about pumpkin pie all last night and into this morning so had to do it). BF is out building the steps in the rain.

I posted a picture of it on my thread Helpful hints for building coops, but i don't know what page it is on. I will post another picture when i finish it. Hopefully today. Basically it is 4 , 6 foot, 2x3 posts with shelves. Covered in carpet of course.

 

[CapricornFarm]

hasn't been long enough for me I have never been able to tolerate split pea

I don't even want to consider it, and i love peas!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I don't even want to consider it, and i love peas!

I eat peas but you can have all the pea soup you want

 

[Peep_Show]

Stone soup is an old fable - but basically it's "whatever you have, find it and throw it in a pot and make do"

When my mom made it she grated a carrot in it and added a splash of Worcestershire sauce. It was good. Your hock will make it even better!

Sounds like a refrigerator cleaner casserole! (Mom's staple when we were growing up)

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Yep, looks like a Cuckoo Bluebar.

My egg vendor said she got her Cuckoo Bluebar parent stock from Brinkhaven, and that the assorted colors here in the 2nd generation will feather up true. [Note: That's what she said happened with her eggs. We'll see....] I had speculated they were a Cream Legbar/Blue Andalusian cross, but the vendor thought more Isbar/Legbar. Who knows? It sort of sounds like the Cinnamon Queen debate where any RSL can be called anything as it's a hybrid and not a proprietary breed. I hope, though, the blue egg gene didn't get lost in the mix. [Note: Another we'll see....]

 

[chickadoodles]

Sounds like a refrigerator cleaner casserole! (Mom's staple when we were growing up)

We grew on on beans once in a blue moon we got split pea soup so it was a treat.

I hope your chicks grow out like they should and lay blue eggs for your sake.

 

[chickadoodles]

Pretty birds Cynthia.

 

[Alaskan]

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.

fun post. You sound full of pep!

I get dry mouth too (Im 70) and know other seniors on the bus use some product for dry mouth - I think it's OTC, pharmacist could tell you. I find it best to chew sugarless gum when I need to. Gum chewing helps stimulate saliva output. I use spearmint. A plus with that is,it helps curb some of my over eating because food tastes funny after chewing spearmint gum. I also notice it makes liquids taste much colder. I have sensitive teeth, so have to wait for the taste to disapate before I have liquids.

good to know about the food.

I too have used gum for a mild cough.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I need to level up the one shelf and put a few more tacks in the carpet but you get the idea.