Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

I got 10 June bearing and 20 everbearing. There are 3 different varieties of everbearing. They will go in a raised bed since the ones I planted in the ground last year only did so-so at best.


I'm only going to make wood beds. It's cheap compared to cement blocks. I want to put a lot of beds in eventually. I've saved quite a few feed sacks to use to grow some purple potatoes in. I know peas do well in our native soil, but should do even better in the bed

I really want a big greenhouse.

That is what I need, about 20 or so ever bearing.
The June bearing are HUGE and early but then quit............that is where the ever bearing would start in for the rest of the summer.
I have 10 monster blueberries plants (monster berries but plants still small) up on the hill, and the chookies pick them clean every year despite my making rings of wire around them.
I need to get my rear in gear & move them.....

 

[Chickielady]

Did I tell you guys the hysterically FUNNY thing that happened to me yesterday ?

 

[Chickielady]

It's an Oncidium. The only Oncidim I grow. It has long scapes with small dark, red and white flowers that smell like chocolate. I need to divide it anyway. i'll put some on a pot for you.

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Oh, that is nifty.

Speaking of "needing divided" my Miltonia needs either divided or potted on again. It's good that stainless steel mixing bowls come in increasingly large sizes. My last-but-one sack of orchid bark managed to hold on to a fern spore even being treated to the boiling water treatment, so now I have a baby tropical maidenhair fern there, too.

I'm going to dump the one Dendrobium I have; it was the first orchid I ever bought but Stewie thinks it's particularly tasty, and has finally killed it dead, dead, dead.

 

[RustyHen]

Yesterday I finally got a chance to look at the Kennel parts I was given as scrap. I didn't do too bad! I got 2 3' gates, 3 4' gates, 2 6' gates, 3 4'x8' panels, 1 6'x6' panel and one 6'x10' panel. These will work nicely into my current expansion project.

That sounds great, with your imaginative ideas you should come up with some thing wonderful!

 

[lilfarmmomma]

oh, that's very sad!
Our lab is very, very, very TOO interested in the silkies, He licks his lips whenever we're holding them. I trust his as far as I can throw him!

It was. They were so sweet too. I was hysterical. She is a Mastiff and I didn't think she would go after them. When we had chickens before, she would lay in the yard and they would roam all around her. She would just lay there. There was only one time that she attacked chickens and that was when she followed our Malamute into a neighbor's yard and they killed a large portion of his flock. That was costly. But she must have just gone along for the ride, because she never touched our chickens, even after that incident. Until yesterday. The malamute has since died, so I thought we would be safe to start again.

 

[fikeyismybaby]

It was. They were so sweet too. I was hysterical. She is a Mastiff and I didn't think she would go after them. When we had chickens before, she would lay in the yard and they would roam all around her. She would just lay there. There was only one time that she attacked chickens and that was when she followed our Malamute into a neighbor's yard and they killed a large portion of his flock. That was costly. But she must have just gone along for the ride, because she never touched our chickens, even after that incident. Until yesterday. The malamute has since died, so I thought we would be safe to start again.

So sorry I love Mastiffs!

 

[RustyHen]

Did I tell you guys the hysterically FUNNY thing that happened to me yesterday ?

Okay, tell, tell, tell?????

 

[Chickielady]

Okay, tell, tell, tell?????

I guess I didn't tell you guys ?
I told a few people so I wasn't sure.
Yesterday I was looking over the Cornballs....they are 3 weeks old now and the size of a large softball...and one had a peck sore going on the side of his Pope's nose....a common thing at this age.
So I get out the Bluekote, had it on the incubator and went to grab the cornball, easy enough to catch the little fatty.
I sets him on top the incubator & got the Bluekote dabber between Right thumb & forefinger, and then the cornball takes off...breaks free & runs across the incubator and I grabs him with remaining 3 fingers of the right hand & my left hand.............and so the dabber (dripping wet) is held above & between his wings...and that was when he decided to fly.

And he tried to fly about 150 miles an hour although I held on tight enough..............

The blue kote was then splattered ALL OVER ME< THE CEILING< THE BIRD< THE WALLS< THE INCUBATOR>
Everywhere is purple splatters !
All over my face, arms & glasses is purple freckles .....hands are purple, purple fingernails.....purple speckled shirt..........
I tried to get it off with isipropal alcohol, and for the most part got most off, but I still have faint purple freckles that are just gonna have to wear off.

Oh, and I now have a purple Cornish X.

 

[Chickielady]

OK so now you have had your laugh of the day, and I have chores to do....LOL