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[chickadoodles]

No I don't. But here is the link to the BST page https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/807621/homemade-hickory-or-pecan-pancake-syrup

 

[chirpingcricket]

Thanks Chirp! 
How are you doing today? 

Pretty good. Sold a roo and 3 hens yesterday!!
Brother still on vent, having issues with BP and bleediing? Still need prayers love, thanks, Verna.

 

[ozexpat]

I am going to get an extra cuddle when i visit my wife. I just bought her some hickory and pecan syrups from Chika

 

[chickadoodles]

Pretty good. Sold a roo and 3 hens yesterday!!
Brother still on vent, having issues with BP and bleediing? Still need prayers love, thanks, Verna.

I'm happy for you selling your birds! That is a great feeling!
Still praying for your brother and your family Chirp!

 

[ozexpat]

Pretty good. Sold a roo and 3 hens yesterday!!
Brother still on vent, having issues with BP and bleediing? Still need prayers love, thanks, Verna.

my prayers are with you also

 

[chickadoodles]

I am going to get an extra cuddle when i visit my wife. I just bought her some hickory and pecan syrups from Chika

Yes you will!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

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Yeah, real subtle, Oz.....



(let me know if it works.)

Hm... I think that worked for you once, didn't it?


You know it's wonderful to get your first tomatoes out of the garden. One of my early varieties (not aptly named Fourth of July) finally gave me 2 almost-red tomatoes today. They didn't make it into the house. I think my cucumber plants are slipping, I only got 13 cucumbers today.

I have got to locate some fresh dill (goats ate mine) so I can pickle them.

 

[chickadoodles]

As soon as it gets dark enough I will be candling my first hatching eggs for the last time before they go into lockdown! I am nervous but so excited! Wish me luck!!!!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

As soon as it gets dark enough I will be candling my first hatching eggs for the last time before they go into lockdown! I am nervous but so excited! Wish me luck!!!!

How long have they been in the incubator? What kind are they? I'm excited for you!

By the way, soon you will need a straitjacket.

 

[ChooksChick]

My garden started out rough because the stupid squirrels dug up the seeds I planted (from Baker Creek, mind you!!) 4 times or more...I lost track. We got a decent amount of early rain, which I thought was great, but the soft soil made it that much easier for them to go to town on my seeds...at least if it hard-baked it would slow down the tree-rats.

I started using clever defenses like piled rocks, but by then the flipping heat set in and the rocks became stone solar ovens, and so I ended up with 2 squash and 5 tomatoes. The tomatoes are starting to produce, but the neighbors' trees are finally cutting off the last of my deep sun and so the plants are lanky. The squash refuse to blossom anything but male flowers. I did get an eggplant, but it was just one the size of my thumb. I'm disgruntled.

I'm finally getting my head together about losing all of my birds. I'm overwhelmed by requests and haven't any idea how to value unique birds. I mean, how do I know what a flock of 2nd gen Chocolate d'Uccles ought to go for? No one has them. I made them. I don't want to be greedy, but I don't want to minimize the YEARS put into this from acquiring the gene, driving on of the first 2 chocolate birds in the country home, learning another language to speak to an imported bird....

What is all my time worth!?!?!?

Oh, the HUMANITY!!!!!!!!

Just kidding...Im not really that traumatized, but it's close. I really am stumped. And sad I can't see these projects to fruition.

And now we're having funky weather and it's about to storm with flood warnings, yet my neighbor is outside making dust-storms as he mows. It looks like PigPen from Peanuts is running laps in the neighbor's yard.

I had better start rounding up chicks before it hits!