The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

We had a ton of melt the last 2 days here, then yesterday afternoon the temps plummeted. My auto shop was under about 5 feet of water. They worked about 12 hours and got it out of there before it froze. A couple places weren't so lucky.
The worst of it here is our house settled and the front door wouldn't close. Then the wind picked it up and slammed it against the house, backwards. We'll need a new door in spring.
The goat door was also frozen to the ground but a crowbar worked.

 

[bruceha2000]

SCG

There is exactly ONE landfill left in the entire state. There was a landfill years ago in the city where we used to live, it was converted to a transfer station. I used to go maybe once a month with my PAPER trash compactor bag and 4 blue bins of recyclables. Always flattened the cans and plastic bottles. Non meat food waste went in the compost. In the summer, things that would stink (ie bones, fat) went in a bag in the freezer until trash day.

Here weekly curbside collection is in our taxes, no choice. The hauler has a 4 year contract. We are the ONLY town in the county that isn't part of the regional waste district. It is about $25/month which isn't bad IF one wanted to individually contract with a hauler, that would be about $10 more a month. I used to pay < $5 when I could do it myself in the old city and would do it here if I could.
They were going to give everyone two 96 gallon wheeled squarish barrels. How can anyone produce that much trash and recyclables a WEEK? The wheels don't roll on loose stone and snow just packs up in them so you have to drag or carry them. I'm sure they are fine for people who live in town, keep the barrels in their garage and blow or shovel the snow off their short paved driveway before rolling the "cans" to edge of the road. I opted for the 32 gallon ones. They are enough of a pain to get out to the road, I can't imagine the 96 gallon ones.

 

[bruceha2000]

Banties can be the Chihuahua's of the dog world. They have no idea they are small.

Or they DO know and figure they better be MEAN in hopes of scaring off the bigger birds.

 

[microchick]

What is amazing with the banti boys is that my Welsummer/Buff Orpington cross roosters are BIG. The alpha rooster's head is somewhere close to my knees and his brother is just a bit smaller as is my Welsummer rooster. They are all scared to death of those little bantam cockerels. It's sort of funny really but I've doctored two standard sized roosters so far from them ganging up on those big boys. My big worry is that they drive the larger roosters away from the food so I have to make sure there is plenty to go around.

Trash. 25 dollars per month isn't bad. I just got our waste disposal bill. It's 109$ plus change. We'd burn and bury it but DH and I both have asthma so it's worth it to us to have it toted away.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Miss Piggy gets herself into a muddy/pooey frozen predicament about once a year. This morning she was standing outside, miserable, in the turtle sand spa, but not moving. After about 20 minutes I realized she was waiting for the warm bidet to start.

Brought her inside and made all her dreams come true.

I will freely admit this is the only reason I own a hairdryer.

But at least she has a clean, fresh, poofy bum again.

 

[drumstick diva]

Bruce, our garbage service did the same thing with the square containers however, seniors could ask for the smaller ones and I did. It's still very hard to drag them over snow and ice to the area where a curb would be if we had any. We don't. They topple over easily because they are tall and narrow.

Idiots pile stuff on top of them and sure enough it blows off and ends up at the end of the block where I live. If I see where it came from I dutifully carry it back and anchor it.

 

[drumstick diva]

Miss Piggy is quite a babe. Has she ever brooded chicks for you?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I'm not sure what gender Piggy is, to be honest.

I think she's a girl but she has never once laid an egg, or even expressed any interest in a nest box, or even sex. She has also never crowed. So... I got nothing. She's gender neutral? Asexual? Too fabulous to spend her time doing the mundane tasks of a chicken?

 

[chickadoodles]

Cap you poor thing. Bless your heart.

Scg WOW!

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg your Miss Piggy is so cute. I understand her wanting a nice warm bath and blow dry.
Your so sweet to accommodate her.