The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

So how do you get your hands in there to rip the guts out

two fingers and a thumb if possible. If not, you can get them out using two fingers.

Doves are smaller

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Oh Oh, does this mean SCG is going to 'off 'her showgirl hen?

Never. But I did take out a silkie and then a showgirl cockeral today.

Miss Piggy did not seem at all disturbed by it. She knows her throne will always be there for her.

Amazing how quiet the remaining roosters always are for about 48 hours after butchering day. It's like they're laying low, pretending they're hens.

 

[bruceha2000]

Amazing how quiet the remaining roosters always are for about 48 hours after butchering day. It's like they're laying low, pretending they're hens.

 

[microchick]

Totally blah sort of Monday. Snowed all day (only an inch but some of it melted early on) and never got above 28 degrees. Lots of wind. Just nasty and a week and a half before Thanksgiving. I mean it's never like this before Thanksgiving here. Can't say never, just never in the ten hears since we have owned a piece of Missouri land. Usually got a cold snap and snow flurries right before Thanksgiving in IL. Geeze, looks like the sun spot people knew what they were talking about when they predicted a nasty winter.

I feel sorry for my standard birds. Half of them are in the porcupine stage of molting. They make me cold just looking at them. The young bantams who stand outside in a driving rain stuck their noses out of the coop. Several 'flew' over the patches of snow, and immediately ran back inside.

I have to salute you all who butcher your own birds. I just don't have the heart to do it. With the cold moving in early I'll probably wind up wintering the standards over till spring as it is. With their history of Marek's I'll be using them for dog food anyway.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Making dinner here Steak kabobs, tator tots, BF decided Carrots

 

[Latestarter]

Just got home from dinner... Free Vet day meal compliments of Golden Corral. Fine dining at its best! Love a decent buffet. How can you go wrong? Plenty to choose from.

 

[ronott1]

Totally blah sort of Monday. Snowed all day (only an inch but some of it melted early on) and never got above 28 degrees. Lots of wind. Just nasty and a week and a half before Thanksgiving. I mean it's never like this before Thanksgiving here. Can't say never, just never in the ten hears since we have owned a piece of Missouri land. Usually got a cold snap and snow flurries right before Thanksgiving in IL. Geeze, looks like the sun spot people knew what they were talking about when they predicted a nasty winter.

I feel sorry for my standard birds. Half of them are in the porcupine stage of molting. They make me cold just looking at them. The young bantams who stand outside in a driving rain stuck their noses out of the coop. Several 'flew' over the patches of snow, and immediately ran back inside.

I have to salute you all who butcher your own birds. I just don't have the heart to do it. With the cold moving in early I'll probably wind up wintering the standards over till spring as it is. With their history of Marek's I'll be using them for dog food anyway.

My Monday was lazy too. I did manage to make apple streusel though

 

[Beer can]

Okay now I need help with a badly clogged (don't ask) toilet. I tried all the things that have worked before and nothing! Thankfully have a half bath next to kitchen - that is my salvation. Knock on wood.

It's the upstairs full bath. One of those higher ones (not great for short people) with an oval seat. The crappy kind that is required by law - low volume 1.28 gals to flush. HA!!
I can just imagine what a plumber will charge. The guy I trusted (still charged plenty) only does commercial work now.

IF only it had waited till my son comes for the holidays and stays a couple weeks or more. He would have called a plumber immediately. Timing is everything and just don't have it.

Hopefully you solved it already, lol.
I usually just use the biggest pot, or bucket we have and dump water as high as I can down into the hole (only works for a toilet that is plugged/doesn't flush, water low or out). Otherwise I use a good toilet brush and just vigorously poke it in the hole fast repeatedly. Both methods IMHO work better than a plunger.
I have to deal with it every few weeks, water force plunge doesn't work, plunger no go, brush method gets it flushing again. New toilet a few yrs ago. I suspect some dumb kid may have flushed a toy or something that never made it all the way, and sometimes causes a blockage, have to take the toilet off some time to see. Just doesn't make sense that it only clogs once in awhile, and water still goes down slowly.

 

[Beer can]

Just got home from dinner... Free Vet day meal compliments of Golden Corral. Fine dining at its best! Love a decent buffet. How can you go wrong? Plenty to choose from.

Love Golden Corral, none around us but have visited some down south. The DD of ours that loves tomatoes, one in the pic I posted awhile back processing matters with the squeezo, she came back from the chocolate fountain with chocolate covered cherry tomatoes... said the were 'delicious'... I love tomatoes but

 

[CapricornFarm]

This rain is driving me crazy, i want to get things done. No end in sight.