The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

LOL up in the mountains we do get snow but its only good for cross country... not the true alpine experience.

Annual precipitation here is about ten to twelve inches. Rain and snow combined.
We are in the rain shadow of the mountains.... they get about five to ten more inches than that.


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part of my driveway facing the house...

deb

Yes!

We have to go to the Sierras to get Alpine Skiing...and this year they are still skiing up there!

 

[perchie.girl]

Yes!

We have to go to the Sierras to get Alpine Skiing...and this year they are still skiing up there!

I heard there may be skiing up past the fourth of July....

deb

 

[ronott1]

I heard there may be skiing up past the fourth of July....

deb

I read that too! It is amazing the amount of snow up there

 

[perchie.girl]

Yeah our mountains are only five thousand feet high.... My house is at Three thousand feet. We do get a very very cold wind blow through.... Everything has to be lashed down... They close the freeways...

One time I found all my trash cans about five hundred feet from the house in a gullly... That morning My horse was standing in the middle of her corral amongst a sea of leggs... Her shelter... She was wiggling one legg with her upper lip....

I hollered at her and she looked up at me like.... "What!!!"

 

[pennyJo1960]

oh my lucky she was alright there Deb damn .. We have skiing going on up here Paradise had like 6 inches of new snow last reported suppose to get more this week like Wed to Fri We do not get that here

 

[Alaskan]

I would like to end it too, and also join the Atlantic Time Zone.

Good idea.

Alaska I think is technically in 3 time zones.... with the tail of the westward islands in a fourth...

But everyone voted that it was nonsense... so the entire state is the same timezone.

AND, the timezone to go with was the far east one... where the capital is (stupid place for a capital... no road access).

Anyway, works out well... noone cares about sunrise verses go to work time anyway.

Sun changes so fast throughout the year.

Nice to be only 1 hour different than the west coast.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Washington finally passed to succeed from daylight savings bought time liked when I lived in Juneau and they did it is so tough on me I hate time change about kills me for 6 months

 

[getaclue]

No more daylight savings time for Florida either. We voted it out. I guess we voted out snow too. Maybe some of you guys should start a petition for shorter, less harsh winters in your state. It seems to have worked for us.

Remember that baby Sandhill Crane I helped awhile back? I've been enjoying watching it grow up all this time. They are nearly as big as the adults now, and harder to distinguish from their parents at a distance.

Normally they are pretty quiet, but a couple weeks ago, there was a loud clamor from them. Several of us went to see what the commotion was about. Another trio of Sanhills had come to enjoy the bounty around here. The younger ones flocked together, while the older ones held back just a little, but they stayed together the whole day.

When it was time to go home, there was a problem. Youngster from group one, began following group two. Mama Sandhill hollered for youngster one. All the youngsters headed to her. Mama two hollered for hers to come back. All the youngsters headed back to her. Both mamas began hollering. It took a bit for them to get the youngsters to cooperate, sorted out, and head back home. It was a problem for a couple more evenings, but after the third evening, they all had it figured out.

The wild baby bunnies are doing fine, and growing. They run around in the late evening, and early part of the night. Dh tried taking the grands out to see them a couple nights ago. They were too noisy, and scared them, so they didn't get to see them in person, but we catch them on our surveillance cameras, and let the kids watch them that way.

 

[microchick]

Morning all! Finally! Sunshine this morning. It's windy and warm so hopefully the soggy ground will start to dry out a bit and rain will hold off until it does.

Woke up and dealt with the dilemma of 7 dogs with the runs. Okay you guys, quit laughing, it's not funny. Well yeah, guess it might be. I have been trying to feed them some of the chickens that are in freezer camp but no matter what I do, their digestive system isn't tolerating it. This time I chopped it up in one inch squares and used it for reward treats. Each dog got at the most 6 little one inch squares (or smaller) of chicken breast and scrap meat during a training session. This morning I awoke to an unbelievable mess. Bucket and mop brigade to the rescue and they are out in their yard till it wears off. Now I stuck with about 40 pounds of chicken in the freezer and have to figure out what to do with it other than crock pot it and eat it.

Then last night I had a shock. I found one of my favorite roosters dead. I've posted pics of Z before. He was a big gentle cross of who knows what. He had beautiful fawn colored barring on his feathers and just the best personality. I would assign him to take care of the cockerels and juveniles. Currently he was fostering my Fayoumi juveniles and doing an excellent job. I could walk up to Z at any time, bend over and pick him up without a fuss.

Last night I went out to close up and found him dead, floating in a tub of water that I had collected to use for watering. The tub is an old mineral tub for cattle. No more than a foot deep. I've had it there for three years and no problems with it. I've seen the birds hop up on the rim and get a drink. I've even seen them fall in and launch themselves up and out. It wasn't too deep for him to 'drown' in as he could stand up and his head would be above water. He was floating on his side with his head hanging over the edge and outside the tub. No water drained from his beak when I lifted him out and he was quite rigored.

Yesterday at noon he was fine. 8 pm he is dead and I have no idea what happened to him. DH speculated that maybe he got in a tussle with one of the other roosters and got stunned, flew into the water and couldn't figure out which way was up. IDK. It will remain a mystery. But in the meantime I really miss my guardian 'daddy' rooster.

@trumpeting_angel. DH retired at 62 and I retired with him at 60. Our health wouldn't take being constantly exposed to illness and have no regrets. Retirement is great.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

@getaclue - Your cranes are hysterical!

When it was time to go home, there was a problem. Youngster from group one, began following group two. Mama Sandhill hollered for youngster one. All the youngsters headed to her. Mama two hollered for hers to come back. All the youngsters headed back to her. Both mamas began hollering. It took a bit for them to get the youngsters to cooperate, sorted out, and head back home. It was a problem for a couple more evenings, but after the third evening, they all had it figured out.

I wish I had been there!

@microchick - I'm so sorry to hear about your roo! I have to brace myself for occasional shocks now that I'm getting into this. We have built Fort Knox for a coop, are still perfecting the predator-proofing of the run (but I think we've got it), and I try to keep up with all the disease-prevention methods. Right now they are getting Nutra Drench in the water because we moved them from their big brooder indoors out to the coop. I even gave them some in the week before!

Try white rice for your dogs. Mine hates to eat it. I mix it with his low-fat food and he waits till the end of the day and, with nothing better forthcoming, finally eats it. He is very old and has lots of diarrhea. :-(