The Old Folks Home

[bruceha2000]

I just consider all ticks to be evil disease carriers and proceed from there.

I'm OK with that! We have ticks here but so far I have managed to avoid them. Given we have deer living up in the woods and traipsing about in the fields I have no doubt that I need to be careful. "Logging" is always jean legs down into the work boots.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Old folks another reason to be out here no ticks this level higher in the mountians .. No bad snakes either ..
My Dad had this idea to move here so many years ago because of the beauty .. We stay because it is pretty mild all around

 

[ronott1]

I got them Saturday, so tonight (Monday) will be their third night here. I think the Jubilee Orp is a couple days older than the Blues; I thought she said the Orps were hatched Wednesday. I think the Blues were Thursday. I have Save-a-Chick in their water.

That's what the breeder said! She said a LOT of hatches have gone south everywhere, commercial, breeders, and backyards. She told me someone kind of jokingly suggested it was all the 5G towers... but maybe that could be part of it.

Anyone heard anything about that?

Usually they stop dying after three days. Shipping stress can cause kidney failure and that kills them in two to three days.

Hatching stress works the same.

 

[ronott1]

Ah, but you can open the windows and let that cold air in so the house is cool even during the day when you hit 100° outside!.


My GUESS is that if there are ticks on the beach they came from dogs and dog ticks don't carry Lyme. Could be wrong though.

The triple digit days have lows from 61 to 67 next week. I do trap the cool air in the morning with the whole house fan.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We are in cold streak just 65 for high with rain at least do not have water the garden all week

 

[Peep_Show]

It's neither the 3rd of June nor another sleepy dusty Delta day here, but I found myself humming "Ode to Billy Joe" as I was picking peas before the day got too hot. Will be doing a bit of shelling in the cool of the inside later today!

 

[microchick]

I baby sat new grandson. Grilled(or started to griil)cheeseburgers and franks until thunder chased me inside to finish.
only about 1/2 hay on farm has been cut/put away. And when it's all done, it's about time for the second cutting to start. Our kids have their own houses on the farm. The granddaughter is the 5th generation here--a full family operation

Whow, you guys start haying early. Here things don't get rolling till the end of June first of July depending on how the weather is going.

One of the nearby Amish farmers does our 7 acres of hay. We don't have any use for it so we give it to him in return for him mowing it for us. We usually ask for one bale and give it to somebody we know who has live stock to feed and talk a few bales of straw out of him for general use. We usually get 8 to 14 big 5 foot + round bales out of it.

Our pasture grass is almost to our hips now. The cattle dogs are breaching their way through it like whales or porpoise when they are out for their runs.

'Nother hot day here today. And I bet real money we get another pop up thunderstorm as it is humid as all get out. 85 with humidity at 71% is just plain uncomfortable.

 

[microchick]

The triple digit days have lows from 61 to 67 next week. I do trap the cool air in the morning with the whole house fan.

Ron, is the water situation in the reservoirs as bad as the news is reporting it is? The way the new is now a days I'd rather get it from people who are 'on the scene' than depend on the fake news networks, which is pretty much all of them.

 

[pennyJo1960]

All the rain we are seeing they say was needed out here. Also to stop some fires but the did allot of pre fire season burning of excess brush.
I just know I am tired of rubber boots

 

[ronott1]

Ron, is the water situation in the reservoirs as bad as the news is reporting it is? The way the new is now a days I'd rather get it from people who are 'on the scene' than depend on the fake news networks, which is pretty much all of them.

Yes, we saw a picture of Lake Berryessa and it is very empty.

We had very little rain this year and not much of a snow pack on the Sierras. Our City will be putting us under water restrictions soon