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[Latestarter]

Hope Flo doesn't do what Hugo did... As I recall, Hugo was a smallish cat 3 while 100-150 miles from the coast then grew into a cat 5 monster just as it hit the coast. Take care Bunny lady and any others over there on the SE coast an even inland.

 

[chickadoodles]

Ls I agree I have been praying for days for everyone's safety.

 

[chickadoodles]

I know the garden season is over but I took a few pics before it's all gone.

Butterfly laying eggs on my purple passion fruit vine. We raised a lot of butterflies this year again.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Cap, if the area around the bite resembles a pepperoni, go get medical assistance.

No, it still resembles regular skin. Thanks for this tip. Though as a nurse, i do have some assessment skills

 

[CapricornFarm]

Thanks Chicka. You too!

@CapricornFarm. I agree with the poultice ideas. I would try the baking soda and if that doesn't work, I would make up a poultice using meat tenderizer. That works well with bee stings. I'd also keep up with the benedryl and put an ice pack on it.

Might be wise to take a look at it with a magnifier and see if there are two bite holes or just one. Two = spider bite. Then you have a whole bunch of new worries, namely brown recluse.

No, that is the bite on my chest. I caught and killed the culprit in my shoe.

 

[ronott1]

I know the garden season is over but I took a few pics before it's all gone.
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You place looks very nice!

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Ron. The grass needs to be cut. lol
We have been visiting the grands for the last two weeks.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Ron. The grass needs to be cut. lol
We have been visiting the grands for the last two weeks.

I need to mow too....I do not have much to mow though!

 

[microchick]

We just got done mowing and baling the yard. Geesh, everything was brown and crunched when you walked on it. 4 inches of rain later and the grass is past our ankles and growing fast! The chickens are loving the clippings. Also the squash skins. I got one of the Red Warty squash processed and got four good freezer pints of squash out of the smaller one. The larger one may just go to the chickens as it is getting bad spots in it.

Chicka, great pictures. So summery. DH was looking at them over my shoulder and said. "they have a tower in their backyard! Lucky them!" that's the dream of every HAM operator. A cell tower in their back yard and the owner's permission to hang an antenna on it!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Back from Dr. appt for 6 months prevnar 13 pneumococcal vaccine while I was there arm is sore but beats the disease again .. managed to get out clean my chickens before our deluge started here been raining for 3 days so fall has dropped on us hard ... started wearing my rubber boots to the coops again