The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Welcome to the 'home' @NewBoots! So glad you stopped by to say HI to us.

Happy January 2 everyone. So the holidays are finally over. We all survived. Now the long cold sets in here but in the back of my mind are the words 'only two more months after January till spring!'

Its a weird winter. Up to 66° yesterday! Hoping we will see less rain , but they are calling for rain Thursday and Friday again! Going to get some pea gravel to put down in front of the duplexes for the quail and rabbits. Getting slippery out there!

 

[ronott1]

We moved into this house in the fall of 1998 and this is likely our last New Year here. Everything changes this year. On to our next adventure!

Similar to our experience here! We bought this house in 1999.

Enjoy the adventure!

 

[microchick]

Well my mystery hen who was laying pale green eggs for me is now giving me pastel blue. Still don't know who she is for sure. It's a medium sized egg. Very Pretty.

 

[ronott1]

Well my mystery hen who was laying pale green eggs for me is now giving me pastel blue. Still don't know who she is for sure. It's a medium sized egg. Very Pretty.

Nice! The brown coating is going away.

Maybe you will have to wait until after molt to tell-- the brown will come back at first then

 

[microchick]

I was thinking at first my Fayoumi hen was doing the deed. The egg is good sized but now I'm thinking it has to be one of my OEGB cross hens who has maybe an Easter Egger gene in there somewhere. Nobody has ear muffs or beards so it shall remain a mystery till I can catch the culprit in the act.

 

[JD4570]

Hope everyone had a happy New Year. It's raining here and cold . The starter on the heat-pump went out so we're using space heaters and the fireplace. Interestingly my wife has never used a fireplace....but for me it harkens back to my youth. Quite cozy in my opinion.

This weekend I'll be logging....even though the conditions are not ideal by a long shot.
Can't wait till spring hatching begins.....

 

[Bunnylady]

Since Florence destroyed the greenhouse, for the first time in many years, I'm not having to tend a fire in the wood stove out there. Can't say I really miss that, though getting fresh veg all winter was nice. Oh, well, maybe next year. Our heat pump isn't working either - the guy who supposedly fixed it this past Spring missed the fact that it instantly blows a fuse when the heat kicks in. Our primary source of heat is small gas heater for the time being. Looks like the guy who was lined up to patch the roof is a no-show.

Over 102 inches of rain in 2018, 7+ in December alone. . . and it's sprinkling now. I'm so sick of mud I could scream, but at least it's not cold (I keep trying to imagine that as snow, and count myself blessed! 2018 was one for the record books; I'm praying for 2019 to be boring as heck!

 

[NewBoots]

Thank you all for the welcome! Didn't win the lottery again. What is up with that? I mean I have to win sooner or later right?

46 weeks till retirement (unless that lottery win comes in) and at work, they are placing bets on how long I will last. I think a lot of money is on next week when partner and I go to look at lots. They're wrong, and worse, they won't let me put any money on a date.

 

[bruceha2000]

They're wrong, and worse, they won't let me put any money on a date.

I suspect there could be a bit of bet rigging if they did!

I'm praying for 2019 to be boring as heck!

Hoping the same thing for all you in the Southern Atlantic areas. Surprised you didn't all drown last year.

 

[microchick]

102 INCHES OF RAIN? Holey moley is all I can say!

We had such a miserable hot summer and for some reason I have the feeling that 19 will be even worse one way or the other. Either hotter or wetter. Frankly I can live with wetter easier......no wait.....hotter isn't all that bad. Of course that's talking out of the fact that the past three days it hasn't broken freezing here. It's like mother nature took a look at the calendar and said "Oh LOOK! It's January! Time for everyone to freeze their freaking bums off!"

Seriously, chickens don't even want to go out. Dogs don't want to go out, Heck I don't even want to go out!

I am finally starting to kick this crud in my chest, head, ears....geeesh it's everywhere. I've hacked so much mucus out of my bronchial system that my uvula is doing the backstroke.

I was a nurse for a looooooong time and I never did find a logical answer for the question of how does the human body make so much mucous when it is sick anyway? Asked doctors, they just shrugged and said ; 'Idunno, but it can make a load of it!' No help at all.

Anyway, I seriously hope none of you all get this. It sucks.