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[1kluckychik]

Thought you were gonna grow those out??

Hard to refuse that offer. Almost 600% profit

 

[1kluckychik]

Poly-fil is a great idea.

Does it end up being heavy enough to use a flat rate box? My postal clerk saved me some money by suggesting I use a plain box because the weight was low enough that it beat the flat rate price.

We have a beautiful and historic Polish church called St. Stanislaus Kostka. Established in 1880 to serve the Polish community in our Archdiocese, considered to be the best example of the opulent Polish Cathedral style of architecture west of the Mississippi. But it was not owned by the Archdiocese. All the property and assets were held independently by the parishioners.  It became famous in the news when our new Archbishop Burke tried to confiscate their holdings which prompted a huge legal battle. The Archbishop declared the church board and it's priest excommunicated. His plan was to disband the parish and sell off the property and keep everything for the Archdiocese. The parish responded by holding a Christmas Eve mass that was attended by 2,000 people.
The legal dispute was settled 3 years ago and the church remains and is managed by its parishioners as a non-profit corporation, calling itself Catholic but in no longer affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.
There is talk of it becoming an Episcopal church or joining the Polish National Catholic Church since all the parishioners have been excommunicated.
Wild stuff.
I called Archbishop Burke the 'Antichrist'. He shut down every church/parish/parochial school that had declining numbers. Many of the Catholics in our area have moved to more suburban/rural areas. There used to be about 40 parishes in North St. Louis county and North St. Louis. Now there are about 10.
When we were doing maintenance on our church and school just before it was sold, I said, "I sure hope the Baptists like what we did with the property."
It ended up being sold to the public school.

They're not all bad.

Not familiar with miner's lettuce. Is it a west of the Rockies thing?
Lots of animals pee and poop in your garden when you're sleeping.
A bad mushroom I picked almost killed me about 40 years ago. I'm growing shitake, blue oyster, lion's mane, maitake and reishi mushrooms.
I don't recall the story. Please send it to me. The memory isn't what it used to be.

All sounds good.

It is a never ending battle here. Turn your back and the predators are here. In order from worst to least offensive - mink, raccoon, neighbor's dogs, opossum, hawks, coyote, fox. Weasels and bobcat have yet to kill any but they're here too.

Interesting about the chainlink.
The closest mountain lions are about 40 miles away. Black bears about the same distance. Just a matter of time.

Bonus.

Nice. I lost my flock that was laying the darkest eggs. Their feather color was wrong but the eggs were beautiful. I think I was able to hatch a few chicks from them.  Raccoons chewed through the door and killed 9 birds.


Backscratchers are the best.

Our local PO only stocks the flat rate boxes. We just ordered everything on the USPS.COM site. It probably will be less expensive using the USPS medium mailing box or the regional box B.

Keep an eye out for peaches headed your way in a few weeks!

 

[1kluckychik]

klucky I am SURE my " sending you Great hatching vibes," lead to your success with the Ayam Cemani eggs. Maybe you would like to respond by adding to my "eatstarter fund," to help keep me in ice cream. You know the prices keep going up, and the containers keep getting smaller. LOL

Gonna be hard to ship ice cream. Do you like any fruits or veggies?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hard to refuse that offer. Almost 600% profit

Yeah, but your potential profit from future sales woulda been better... hope you get a great hatch from your new batches... I posted some new pics of ours on the Cemani thread, Candace said they looked good...

Our local PO only stocks the flat rate boxes. We just ordered everything on the USPS.COM site. It probably will be less expensive using the USPS medium mailing box or the regional box B.

Keep an eye out for peaches headed your way in a few weeks!

Depends on where you're shipping to... sometimes flat rate is cheaper with this years rate hikes... :/

Btw, I use shavings for filler... got great feedback and results...

 

[drumstick diva]

If you weigh your boxes (filled) you can go to USPS and use their "calculate a price." guide. I also check what the flat rate would be against using regular priority mail. Also tried sending very light packages, first class mail. The postmistress said 2 day service, took 8 days once and 6 another. Won't do that again.

The flat rate boxes are supposed to be up to 70 lbs. at a certain price. But their boxes are so mall. You'd have to ship ball bearings to come up with a weight of 70 lbs.

I ship plants now and then - they don't weigh much but they need bigger boxes so I get cheated a lot. Fiberfill is very useful, I wait till I get 50% off coupons from Michaels Arts or Crafts or Jo Ann Fabrics and then buy the big bags of fiberfill. I have 3 sitting around now. I use to wrap the collar of the plants so stems don't get broken.

 

[Pensmaster]

Poly-fil is a great idea.

Does it end up being heavy enough to use a flat rate box? My postal clerk saved me some money by suggesting I use a plain box because the weight was low enough that it beat the flat rate price.

We have a beautiful and historic Polish church called St. Stanislaus Kostka. Established in 1880 to serve the Polish community in our Archdiocese, considered to be the best example of the opulent Polish Cathedral style of architecture west of the Mississippi. But it was not owned by the Archdiocese. All the property and assets were held independently by the parishioners.  It became famous in the news when our new Archbishop Burke tried to confiscate their holdings which prompted a huge legal battle. The Archbishop declared the church board and it's priest excommunicated. His plan was to disband the parish and sell off the property and keep everything for the Archdiocese. The parish responded by holding a Christmas Eve mass that was attended by 2,000 people.
The legal dispute was settled 3 years ago and the church remains and is managed by its parishioners as a non-profit corporation, calling itself Catholic but in no longer affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.
There is talk of it becoming an Episcopal church or joining the Polish National Catholic Church since all the parishioners have been excommunicated.
Wild stuff.
I called Archbishop Burke the 'Antichrist'. He shut down every church/parish/parochial school that had declining numbers. Many of the Catholics in our area have moved to more suburban/rural areas. There used to be about 40 parishes in North St. Louis county and North St. Louis. Now there are about 10.
When we were doing maintenance on our church and school just before it was sold, I said, "I sure hope the Baptists like what we did with the property."
It ended up being sold to the public school.

They're not all bad.

Not familiar with miner's lettuce. Is it a west of the Rockies thing?
Lots of animals pee and poop in your garden when you're sleeping.
A bad mushroom I picked almost killed me about 40 years ago. I'm growing shitake, blue oyster, lion's mane, maitake and reishi mushrooms.
I don't recall the story. Please send it to me. The memory isn't what it used to be.

All sounds good.

It is a never ending battle here. Turn your back and the predators are here. In order from worst to least offensive - mink, raccoon, neighbor's dogs, opossum, hawks, coyote, fox. Weasels and bobcat have yet to kill any but they're here too.

Interesting about the chainlink.
The closest mountain lions are about 40 miles away. Black bears about the same distance. Just a matter of time.

Bonus.

Nice. I lost my flock that was laying the darkest eggs. Their feather color was wrong but the eggs were beautiful. I think I was able to hatch a few chicks from them.  Raccoons chewed through the door and killed 9 birds.


Backscratchers are the best.

Miners lettuce seems to be a west coast plant and was supposed to have protected the early miners from scurvy. While most gardens have lots of animals peeing in them any garden left open to the animals here would be devoured in milliseconds. Not uncommon to have 6 deer walking through yard on any day. They now sleep between the barns in the breezeway. Once I left the gate closed but not latched. I hope it's the last time I make that mistake. Pruned every fruit tree I have. I learned they don't like plums or pluots

 

[drumstick diva]

Klucky I'm not a fruit, or veggie person. Cash is always easy to send - JUST KIDDING honestly.

I bet you could have gotten $ 100 a chick. Were they old enough to sex.? Hope you'll keep a breeding pair next time.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We have a beautiful and historic Polish church called St. Stanislaus Kostka. Established in 1880 to serve the Polish community in our Archdiocese, considered to be the best example of the opulent Polish Cathedral style of architecture west of the Mississippi. But it was not owned by the Archdiocese. All the property and assets were held independently by the parishioners. It became famous in the news when our new Archbishop Burke tried to confiscate their holdings which prompted a huge legal battle. The Archbishop declared the church board and it's priest excommunicated. His plan was to disband the parish and sell off the property and keep everything for the Archdiocese. The parish responded by holding a Christmas Eve mass that was attended by 2,000 people.
The legal dispute was settled 3 years ago and the church remains and is managed by its parishioners as a non-profit corporation, calling itself Catholic but in no longer affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.
There is talk of it becoming an Episcopal church or joining the Polish National Catholic Church since all the parishioners have been excommunicated.
Wild stuff.
I called Archbishop Burke the 'Antichrist'. He shut down every church/parish/parochial school that had declining numbers. Many of the Catholics in our area have moved to more suburban/rural areas. There used to be about 40 parishes in North St. Louis county and North St. Louis. Now there are about 10.
When we were doing maintenance on our church and school just before it was sold, I said, "I sure hope the Baptists like what we did with the property."
It ended up being sold to the public school.

This is fascinating. We've had quite a few churches (mostly Catholic) sold in our area recently, too. I guess dwindling numbers of parishioners plus how expensive gas was a few years back really killed them. Even this church, while magnificent, had some visible water damage on the frescoes near the outside roof edge in a couple places that was just patched with plaster.

 

[1kluckychik]

Klucky I'm not a fruit, or veggie person. Cash is always easy to send - JUST KIDDING honestly.

I bet you could have gotten $ 100 a chick. Were they old enough to sex.? Hope you'll keep a breeding pair next time.

No. But they bought the ones with the biggest combs

 

[1kluckychik]

They picked them out.