The Old Folks Home

[tnspursfan09]

Wow! That's a lot of posts to go through. Welcome to all the new old folks. New/old? :/ Yay for rain in ca, new chicks and all the cute stories. Yes, I'm old...but not as old as I thought I was. Still mired in mud here, poor chickens are gonna go on strike if I don't let them out of the run soon.

We finally took the christmas tree down so Maddy is still pouting. If it was up to her we'd have a tree all year.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@Hangtown Farms might know; he manages a Nursery.

Hopefully he will drop in here and let us know.

Hangtown Farms is too young for the old folks home.

Okay, it may seem like I only come to complain about the weather, but

GADS, IT'S COLD OUT THERE!!!!!
We got 14.1" of snow out of this lovely little thing and it's currently -10 with a -22 wind chill. I'm DONE. (grabs snow shovel in a huff and stomps off)

I've been complaining a lot lately. Then I look at the weather map and realize everyone else has extremely harsh winter weather for their locale.

Now THAT was a walk down memory lane. I remember all of them except Howdy Doody. On another note, my 2 year old grandson loves scrambled eggs for breakfast. My daughter got this bug that's going around, and was too sick to come over, so she ran out of my fresh eggs. Her husband bought eggs at the grocery store. She scrambled him some eggs and served them. He took a bite, scrunched up his face, and said "yuck, that's not grandma eggs." "I want grandma eggs." His Aunt came over, and got some eggs for him. He knows the difference, and you can't pass off those nasty imposter eggs to him. LOL!

I occasionally go to a local sushi restaurant (oddly, everyone that works there is Chinese and not Japanese). I was telling the waitress that usually serves me about my eggs and how dark they are. She said her region of China had chickens that laid eggs that dark. Intrigued, I wondered what breed they were. Yesterday she told me she loves to eat eggs but the eggs she buys taste bad and all she can find are white eggs. She wanted to buy some of mine so I brought her a dozen. There were dark pene eggs and 2 normal brown eggs in the carton. She exclaimed, THEY'RE SO DARK!! I said, "you told me there were chickens in China that laid eggs this dark." She pointed to the normal brown eggs and said "no, like these". So I guess China may not have dark layers, at least not in her region.

I scored a perfect 15 on the test and I'm proud of it. Those were magical times for someone from that era. We enjoyed simple pleasures and fortunately, things that didn't bankrupt us to have. I don't envy today's kids for all the "excesses" they have, I feel sorry for them.

I'm old and I know it but, I don't care. I cut(clipper) my own hair, never dyed over the white/gray, have so many laugh/frown lines my face looks like a roadmap (to me). I consider every scar, every imperfection as a badge that "I have earned." When I was younger - I thought the world would end with- first gray hairs in high school, suddenly allergic to my required Maybelline eye liner/mascara, noticed tiny crows feet, etc etc. somehow I plodded through- can't believe how shallow I was. But, hey, I am still here and so are many of us (baby boomers) that we love to reminisce and bond by it.

PS Howdy Doody was my favorite, at the time. I remember "Princess summer, winter, fall & spring," Clara Belle," Beulah the witch,"
and others that will 'come to me', as soon as I end this. I remember - just don't recall where I put those memories for safe keeping.

Hey, guys I love ya

old or young, we have memories to cherish.

I really only remember the theme song, Howdy Doody and Clara Belle. You might be a tad older.
I usually tell people I'm older than I am.

I read an article yesterday about pullet eggs being sold in New York. They are from local Organic Farmers. They have convinced people that the pullet eggs taste better because they are from young chickens.

It was so funny! The eggs from my Three year old hens do not taste different from the 8 month old hens. It is how they are raised and fed!

It was so silly to read that article.

That's a new one. Maybe they don't have older hens so have to think of a way to market smaller eggs.
Almost every time I show anyone dark or green eggs, they ask what they taste like. Incredulously, I say, "like eggs".
They say, "no I mean do they taste different than white or regular brown eggs?"
Then I have to explain that the outside depends on the breed, the inside depends on what the hen ate.
They don't always seem like they believe me.
My wife's niece asked if the green eggs were safe to eat. After all, they're green!

It is raining in California! There is snow on the Sierras!

Livestock Owners will get some grass for their Animals finally. It will not change the water allocations for crop watering but it is nice to see some rain finally.

I saw the map this morning and it looked like the whole state.
Yahoo!

That is just mu problem-- which hardiness zone am I in now?? All depends on which map I look at.

I'll google for usda as a source and see if they too have movved me to a 6. THough I guess it dooesn't matter as Zone 5 is the same. ANy idea what the reliability % is or probability % is??

The problem is, when did the source update their map? Climate is changing. It doesn't matter because even in the 50s the map was wrong from year to year because it was the most likely last frost, not what was going to happen this or next year.

Quote: That's what I'll tell people that ask what the difference is between eggs.

 

[chickadoodles]

that's ok diva. We still enjoy doing things together. We married Oct. 2010.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote:
X2 ouch. Hope you are ok.

 

[chickadoodles]

Thank you-- will send a pm.

HAaahaaa-- Everything passable here but needs a final clean up , and prep for next storm in a couple days.

YEah!!!!! IT's working!!!!!!! You got it!!

I am just so glad I finally got it! Now to find some good eggs to try to hatch..... hmmmm.....

 

[chickadoodles]

It is raining in California! There is snow on the Sierras!

Livestock Owners will get some grass for their Animals finally. It will not change the water allocations for crop watering but it is nice to see some rain finally.

That's awesome Ron! I hope it keeps on for awhile!

 

[chickadoodles]

Welcome getaclue and hellbender!

 

[chickadoodles]

Having to reformat my computer today. A program I updated corrupted some of my windows files and I have been going crazy for two days trying to fix it.
This should do it... a pain.... I hope it works. Don't want to buy another computer right now.

 

[Pozees]

Goodness, it must be too cold to do anything outside so we are all here chatting!

Welcome new friends!

Ron, I am THRILLED you are getting rain - and have my fingers crossed it saves a little for us!

Arielle, as others have said, it really is just a guide - last year we had an overnight low of 11 degrees on May 13. Killed all the buds on my apple trees, luckily I had been procrastinating about planting the vegetable beds so not much to lose there, but it was really a shocker.

Came home last night to DH ranting about how everything we build from now on will be overbuilt to the max, doesn't care if he has to use 2x6s for wall studs if it means we can get enough insulation in there. Translation - he is irritated about cleaning and refilling waterers in zero degree weather, dropped one and broke it, and is worried about the chickens. He needed to vent. I quite understand.

Today it is supposed to get all the way up to 12 degrees (currently 3), and tomorrow back into the 30s. I sincerely hope it does.

SCG glad you had all that practice at falling well, sure paid off! Hope you are okay.

Chickadoodles I am so glad to hear you are having success, it is a rush isn't it?

tnspursfan - I felt the same way Maddy does for many years. Then I had to vacuum up after the tree one year. I had insisted on keeping it up an extra week, and it was a real tree. Never knew a pine tree had so many needles. I still love how cheery and festive they are - do you have a little tree or shrub outside you can decorate for Valentine's Day and Easter? Maybe that will make her happy?

 

[tnspursfan09]

tnspursfan - I felt the same way Maddy does for many years. Then I had to vacuum up after the tree one year. I had insisted on keeping it up an extra week, and it was a real tree. Never knew a pine tree had so many needles. I still love how cheery and festive they are - do you have a little tree or shrub outside you can decorate for Valentine's Day and Easter? Maybe that will make her happy?

Saved by the UPS guy. He just delivered Mad's present from my SIL...three new cartridges for her Innotab. She's playing the Doc Mcstuffins game right now.