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[Wisher1000]

Wisher did any of your plum seeds come up?

Chicka, I only had one sprout come up and I'm not even sure it was a plum. It died before it was big enough to identify. I don't think they were viable, but that's okay.


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Just wow. I can't believe how horrible this must have been for those kids but how amazing the way they handled it.

So sad, poor kids....

 

[chickisoup]

I mentioned a while back that I was having an awful time with the weeds overtaking my herb garden. Between still recovering from my accident last year so I didn't care for it as much as I would normally have, a late spring and then the freaky weather this year and the almost non-stop rain, my poor herbs and my garden, didn't fair too well. I am also limited on what I can use since all my gardens are certified organic.

I hope to be able to completely overhaul the herb garden beds after the first killing frost but in the mean time I discovered a solution in of all places, on Amazon!

 

[h2oratt]

Love the sign!

 

[bruceha2000]

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Not just any eye doctor, one that has been trained in Vision Therapy. It isn't his eyes that are seeing wrong, it is how his brain is interpreting the signals. Eye doctors are good at putting things in front of your eyes to make the images they see clear. That doesn't change what your brain sees. Ophthalmologists are basically surgeons that don't send their patients to PT after they operate. Unless your brain has a recollection of seeing fused images, it has no reason to try and fuse them even when they are looking at the same thing and will often ignore one image entirely. Thus no depth perception, no 3D vision.

thank you Microchick, my mind doesn't work as well as it used to. Is that what they also call "lazy eye."

Dyslexia has to do with how the brain percieves visual data and its something that doesnt develop. I am somewhat dyslexic. When words or letters are written backwards or numbers I dont notice.... I also transpose numbers quite often. I once knew a woman who was so dyslexic she couldnt get her drivers license. and her doctor suggest she take horse back riding lessons to help her with it By the time she was done she not only knew how to ride but she could get her lisence.

Lazy eye is what used to be called Crossed eye. If caught at a young age they will put an eye patch on the non lazy eye to force the weaker one to function better.

Here is a test for children
https://www.dyslexia.com/about-dyslexia/signs-of-dyslexia/test-for-dyslexia-37-signs/

wow I did not know it went into so many areas. I do know people who are severely dyslexic develope an excellent memory for things that are read aloud to them.


for what its worth riding lessons are excellent for isolating left and right cues and using your body to communicate with an animal who doesnt completely connect their left and right hemispheres. All using kenetic cues not visual or verbal.... Probably why this type of work is excellent for children with Autisim or learning disabilities.

deb

"Lazy eye" is Strabismus. The eye patch thing will work if someone's brain really wants to fuse the two images. The intent of the patch is to strengthen the muscles in that eye. If the brain is instead ignoring the input from one eye, the patch doesn't really do much. Again, an optometrist trained in Vision Therapy should be your destination.

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My favorite girl (a 4 Y/O Australorp) started laying shell-less eggs this spring. Always. She used to be my best layer. Then one day she walked away after I opened the barn instead of hanging around and "talking" to me. I finally found her under the pool deck fixing to die I think. She had a mass in her abdomen. I brought her back with Nutri Drench and antibiotics in her water. The mass is still there severall months later but she is her happy go lucky self foraging, squealing, bugling, whistling. I think she might have a tumor in her shell gland. When she does go, I'm getting the scalpel out to see what is there.

I have a Faverolles and an Ancona on the far side of moult, both are growing their tails back. Nothing obvious in the other girls yet though egg production is down.

Alaskan, I agree with Kusanar about maybe keeping the scab a bit moist. Have you tried something like Bag Balm on it to soften and toughen up the scab.

I spent most of the summer treating two Welsummer hens with bumble foot. Neither showed any symptoms except I noticed that their feet had some swelling around the webbing. One was so nasty that I squeezed a kernel out of it that was as big around as a pencil if not larger and about 3/4 an inch long. Some of the tissue had granulated around it so she has this thick pad of tissue on the webbing of that foot. It doesn't seem to bother her. I use vet wrap on her feet and leave them. When they start looking a bit worn, I change them. Right now she has blue bandages on her feet. When I ran out of beige vet wrap and went to the blue, she stopped looked at her feet as if thinking "what is THAT?" then decided that she liked the color.

So what I'm getting at is, have you tried to wrap her foot, using a soft gauze pad between her toes using whatever ointment you are using on the pad and then put another pad on the bottom of the foot then wrap the whole pad up with vet wrap? The pads would cushion the foot and the wrap would stabilize the foot and prevent the toes from spreading. Might help her get around and be able to put some weight on the foot.

As for fencing. Have you tried electrified netting?

My husband liked your weather wheel. He grew up in Wisconsin where they have two seasons. Winter and July.

Or Castor Oil. It has many healing properties and isn't sticky/slimy like Bag Balm or Vaseline.

We have many more seasons in Vermont even though we are about the same latitude as WI.
Winter, sugaring season, mud season, spring, summer, fall, leaf season, brown season (November).

 

[chickadoodles]

Wisher they may sprout come spring.

 

[drumstick diva]

Bruce Ha, glad your Aussie hen was granted a life extension for now, sounds like she is really enjoying it.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We got 12 pints of pears hot water bath canned today. We still have two trees left to pick. I'm glad they are dwarf trees. I'm already getting sick of peeling pears and we have a half dozen dwarf apple trees to deal with yet. I keep telling myself how good they are going to taste during the winter months.

What recipe are you using for pears? I will likely get another bucket on Monday. Hopefully there's better pears in it. Caramel (the goat) like pears more than she likes grain (and she has major grain brain). She refused to come in tonight for grain. I had to drag her butt away from the pears.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: I found a great recipe for the lazy I did not peal mine
turned out looking great

 

[microchick]

It's super easy. I like to use light syrup so I prepare 2 cups of sugar in 6 cups of water. Heat it to a boil, boil for one minute making sure the sugar is dissolved. Prepare your pears. I simply peel, cut into quarters and core and place them in water that I've added two or 3 tablespoons of lemon juice to to keep them from browning. I usually have a hard time figuring out how much syrup I need for X pounds of pears. Today I did a 5 gallon bucket of pears and made one and a half batches of syrup.....still had some left over but one batch wasn't enough. While I'm doing this, I prepare my jars and lids in hot water and get my hot water batch canner ready. When I have enough pears to fill the kettle with my syrup, I add them to the kettle and bring the heat up, boiling the pears and syrup for 5 minutes. Reduce pears to simmer, fill jars, add syrup to within a half inch of top, screw on lid and ring. Place jars in hot bath canner and simmer for 25 minutes. Remove jars, tighten lids and pray for them to seal.

Sometimes I will add a half a teaspoon of lemon juice to the jars while filling. I tried it without this time to see if the pears keep their color.

 

[Wisher1000]

Tonights supper - Seasoned green beans, fresh corn off the cob, sauteed baby portabella mushrooms with garlic and sea salt, new potatoes, and warm water lobster tails. I was feeling fancy.