The Old Folks Home

[CapricornFarm]

Based on the sign on the mirror he apparently paid $12,995 for it Seems like a good price for a 4 year old car assuming it isn't high mileage.

No, it has a lot less miles than the car it replaced.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I was getting about a dozen every other day from my girls that had started laying again. Then the deep freeze and the snow hit and I've gotten one a day except for two days when zero were to be found. Can't say that I blame them. Poor babies spent days just sitting on the roost boards fluffed up trying to keep their toes warm.

So Prince is still inside? See, said he was going to be a house rooster!

Sorry I gotta tease you a little. He is one well loved, lucky little rooster.





Yeah, unfortunately it does. My hair used to be waist length and so thick I would have to have it thinned. No more. I don't miss my long hair, gave it Locks of Love when I turned 50. Now it's about an inch long and I wear it like Hallie Berry used to wear hers when she was a Bond Girl....only I'm about 40 years past being Bond Girl material unless Sean Connery was still alive and then I might just be perfect for the job!

We made it up to 36 today. Down to 25 tonight then back up to 36 tomorrow. 50 by Tuesday so bye bye snow and hello muck. Frankly I'd rather live with the muck, thank you. We are hoping the snow and cold are behind us. I did hear some geese honking tonight so that is a promising sign.

Sweeeeeet. Great price too! What year is it and have you found a new truck for yourself?

Have y'all recovered from the ice storm that hit you?


I had an aunt by marriage who went silver white headed when she was 18. She had gorgeous hair. I always said I would be willing to trade in my red hair for hair like hers. When I started to go gray, I was in my mid 40s and nursing my terminally ill mom. I had these two lightening bolt gray streaks at my temples. I called it my Bride of Frankenstein phase. One day after I had got mom back to bed and positioned, she reached up and touched my gray hair and informed me that I was going gray. I laughed and told her she was just paying me back for all the gray hairs I'd given her when I was growing up. She told me to het her purse for her and when I did she dug out her wallet and pulled out a 5$ bill and handed it to me. "Go buy yourself some Clairol" she told me. 'You're too young to be gray". It was one of those times when I had to leave the room to keep her from seeing me cry.

Okay, the story of the momma heating pad. The Box and instructions said mine was an auto off model and would turn itself off in two hours. DH plugged it in and gave it 12 hours on each setting. It never shut off. He got on line and looked up the comments from buyers and hit on one that said that for some reason this model was rated as being auto off and it wasn't. There was another model that was similar to this one and it was an auto off model.

Thank you for the confusion Sunbeam!

Any of y'all use the heating pad in your brooder and how tall do you make your frame for it?

I use heating pads in some brooders, just lay them flat with shavings on top. The chicks like having warm feet. If your feet are warm, so are you. I tried suspending it on mesh but then they just got on top of it.
I am not sure what year, but newer than the one we replaced. That car was given to me by my Mom. I didn't test drive it, if he liked it then it works for me. He did a lot of looking online and research.
My truck is going to be repaired, so I shouldn't have to replace it. So happy about that. But I may or may not have it back by the time of the first swap.

 

[Perris]

how are your goats Cap? do they find winter challenging? and did their fencing survive all the storms?

 

[CSolis]

I was getting about a dozen every other day from my girls that had started laying again. Then the deep freeze and the snow hit and I've gotten one a day except for two days when zero were to be found. Can't say that I blame them. Poor babies spent days just sitting on the roost boards fluffed up trying to keep their toes warm.

So Prince is still inside? See, said he was going to be a house rooster!

Sorry I gotta tease you a little. He is one well loved, lucky little rooster.

I've got 12 hens/pullets and am getting 10-11 eggs daily now so I'm not complaining. That's a lot of eggs. Time to put a sign out front I think.

Yup, Prince is still inside. He's crowing now and walks around with his hackles raised up quite a bit. Grabbed my pant legs a few times to give them a jerk and I just stomped around after him and he quit that funny business. I was waiting on him to get mature enough to go out with the girls since I didn't have a free pen to put him in. Either I'll have a free pen soon, or he'll be old enough to keep the pullets he's going in with that are a few weeks older than him from picking on him. Stand up, be a man! He's really hilarious. Wherever Gator is, he is... mostly. Tried to get him out on the back deck yesterday but he wasn't having none of that. Laid on the runner in the sun next to the open door. Mommy is tired of being the cleaner upper at the back of the parade.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, OF - hope that things are warming up wherever you are located.

 

[CSolis]

Good morning, OF - hope that things are warming up wherever you are located.

Yes indeedy.. warming up here for sure... Almost time for that bathing suit to come out (j/k). Sitting here eating a couple of sunny side ups on a Belgium waffle and drinking liquid go juice. Hope you are warming up too.

 

[sourland]

Supposed to reach the mid 30's today and then day time temperatures in the 40's for several days.

 

[Perris]

good morning OF.
We're between rain bands - fortunately no risk of flooding here but there are 25 floor warnings (i.e. flooding expected) in place across Wales; over 10" fell in some places last night!

 

[Sally PB]

Gorgeous, but COLD morning. Single digits cold, but the last, I hope, for the season! Pretty sunshine, some ground level fog on the snow. Going to warm up to the 30s today. Heat wave...

The snow on the ground will pack down into ice. That's the only downside.

 

[getaclue]

A strange thing happened. Dh and I have the house to ourselves today. Dd #2 took our grandson to Legoland as his birthday present. Dd #1 took the girls to the zoo. They will all have an exciting day, and stories to tell when they come home.