The Old Folks Home

[Parront]

Yes! I have been pressure cooking carcasses and bones for a long time in my pressure cookers.

I have 4 of them now: two fagor stove top models, a pressure canner and an instant pot.

I love them!

And I thought I was the only one with 4!

 

[ronott1]

I do hope so. The way the CA web site talks about the zone, I have a sad rememberance of the early 2000's and one reason I moved from CA with my flock of parrots.

CA has banned poultry from fairs and shows for now. Hopefully the outbreak will be over soon.

 

[ronott1]

And I thought I was the only one with 4!

It is very useful to have more than one and the different sizes help for different dishes.

The 8 quart is great for more spare ribs!

 

[Parront]

CA has banned poultry from fairs and shows for now. Hopefully the outbreak will be over soon.

I never took my birds to shows.

 

[Parront]

It is very useful to have more than one and the different sizes help for different dishes.

The 8 quart is great for more spare ribs!

I have a cool set that share a lid, a frying pan size 4 qt, and an 8 qt canner size. Got it from a neighbor for free, she never used it -- gift from her kids to me!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We finally got a non-rainy, nice weekend day, here.

I went out for a few (early) hours with a bad hand drawn map with the goal of GPSing all the known cemeteries in my town. I had found the "missing" cemeteries last fall and GPSed them, and had the others to get to and get noted and inspected for work needed.

The first cemetery I visited was the little 1 stone cemetery of the 2 year old boy that died in the mid 1800s that is right near my house. He was one of 2 stones in my town that I drove past every day and it bothered me that they were cockeyed or broken, so I got trained to do something about it.

Anyway, a few years ago he was my first stone in my town that I worked on (I've since fixed that other one that bothered me, too). I knew the stone had to have a base, but I couldn't find it at the time (too many rocks and roots when I probed), and thus just reset the stone into the ground, noting that eventually I'd have to build him a base. Well, with all the rain we've had recently, I spotted a wee corner of his base at the edge of the rock wall surrounding his little cemetery (probably about 8 feet square).



Dug it out and cleaned it up and it was pristine. Mixed mortar and reset it properly and I am so glad it is done, now.

I also seeded his little area with grass seed, as it splashes dirt on his stones when it rains, so hopefully that will help, some.

During my GPSing I found a cemetery that had a lot of unique stones in it.

The weather plans to hold tomorrow, so provided I'm not too sore from today, I'll head there and do a few hours worth. Both the headstone and base I had to haul out of the small cemetery today and up and over the rock wall to be able to clean them without making mud in the area I needed to reset the stone in. The base was at least 50 lbs. Then I walked the dog, planted onions, put another box on each of my bee hives, did some laundry, regular chores, etc... I'm already feeling sore.

 

[NotAFarm]

Great work, SCG!

 

[Beer can]

I do not think that the new castle disease infections are coming from geese or wild birds. It started from fighting cocks from Mexico and then spread to a poultry show. It looks like the spread and continued infection down south in California is caused by those running with infected birds or spreading from clothes or shoes.

It is not the same as Avian flu

Reminds me of something I read on the Jersey Giant club, came from same, http://nationaljerseygiantclub.com/media/Document_17.pdf

 

[Beer can]

We finally got a non-rainy, nice weekend day, here

Same here, non-stop rain forever , finally looking like a nice weekend.

 

[Beer can]

Added two broad breasted bronze turkeys to my too many to feed bird collection for some reason. Had to take them, free. Oldest DD boyfriends father picked up a dozen .50 cents each at a feed store, couple weeks later realized he didn't want to feed that many lol. Been prob 10 yrs since I've had chickens ducks and turkeys.