Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Duck Drover]

Neat. My incubator is full with 20 eggs laid by my second generation Quechua-type Easter Eggers. Due on Tuesday. Cannot wait to see what hatches.

My thermometer is reading low apparently since I seem to have overheated some of the first eggs I set. I need to invest in a better thermometer to set my incubators but then I leave them alone once my hatches are on schedule.

 

[Chickielady]

We have had moles here but not as bad as other places. I nearly killed myself by accidently snorting the blue powder on the mole bait years ago. If my ex had not come home early that day and questioned me about being in bed I would have died. I was feeling sick after putting it down the holes but did not realize I had poisoned myself with strichnine. I was getting stiff before I even knew it was killing me.

Wehad some holes appear in the raised beds in the green house...a shagralai inside compared to the outside temps.....and no rain !
So I had DH put those gopher bombs in the hole...and lite them..and holy cow you would not believe how many places the smoke came out & looked like the green house was on fire !!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

It seems to come in batches. Dogs will eventually kill off the rats and we'll be free of them for 3-12 months. Then some move in.

There is a huge variety of rodents out here when we get rid of the rats. Voles, moles (I've seen 2 species), shrews, mice (at least 3 species).

The Pacific Jumping Mouse was probably the oddest ones. I've never managed to save them from the cats or dogs.


Cats aren't good at rat control. Rats are too big. Dogs have historically always been used. And ferrets. Whole reason ferrets were domesticated centuries ago.

There are so many ratter breeds of dog. It's been tempting to get one to help Athena. I think schipperkes may be the only non-terrier ratter.

I want 1 or 2 Scotties.
Alligator head on a small dog !

 

[Chickielady]

All this rat talk I thought was kind of funny I haven't seen rats like you guys are talking about since I lived outside Raymond years ago. My dog has just been going nuts around my truck for about two weeks every time I let him outside straight to the truck sniffing and running around it I have been driving my truck but same thing every day sniff sniff. I went to town yesterday and after I was done stopped at Taco Bell when I backed out of the lot there was a big fluffy pack rat that had jumped out from under my truck. I can't believe it had been riding around under my truck for that long guess he either liked tacos or maybe KFC.

I went to Olympia a year ago to visit @Totalcolour ....Katie McCoy....and her big doofus Airedale was going ape as we got there & so we visited & had lunch, and when we went outside to leave, her doofus dog had tore the driver side front bumper off the minivan !
Seems there was some Meeces living in the upper part of the intake, under the windsheild, and doofus could smell them, and so decided to eat the van !

 

[Chickielady]

Shout out to myself and Kitsap County. Bremertonian. 98312.

HOWDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

 

[Hinotori]

All this rat talk I thought was kind of funny I haven't seen rats like you guys are talking about since I lived outside Raymond years ago. My dog has just been going nuts around my truck for about two weeks every time I let him outside straight to the truck sniffing and running around it I have been driving my truck but same thing every day sniff sniff. I went to town yesterday and after I was done stopped at Taco Bell when I backed out of the lot there was a big fluffy pack rat that had jumped out from under my truck. I can't believe it had been riding around under my truck for that long guess he either liked tacos or maybe KFC.

I went to Olympia a year ago to visit @Totalcolour
 ....Katie McCoy....and her big doofus Airedale was going ape as we got there & so we visited & had lunch, and when we went outside to leave, her doofus dog had tore the driver side front bumper off the minivan !
Seems there was some Meeces living in the upper part of the intake, under the windsheild, and doofus could smell them, and so decided to eat the van !

Lmao

 

[Chickielady]

When I cook any of them it is a light steaming is all.. Mushy vegetables are icky

I have been putting mine in the Ninja, and hit the go button, and add apple, cherries, protein powder, cinnamon ? Vanilla ? yogurt ? and handfuls of spinach & always a carrot.........blend, and fills 3 gatorade bottles, for breakfast, brunch & lunch.
VERY GOOD !

Pizza for dinner........apple pie for dee zert
Gluen free !

 

[Chickielady]

Goat shed 3/4 done, pen paddock 75% done...need the hot wire put up.......and roof on the shed done...we are only 2 weeks late !

Hot wire insulators up..gates done...shed all done but the roof...............
Home Depot tomorrow for hurricane ties....we live in THE ZONE.
Then Anabelle & Cowgirl can move in !

 

[pennyJo1960]

Quote: Lmao
yupper what they live for love the airhead airedale

 

[Chickielady]

I was told by the arthritis study doctor that ibuprofen can cause kidney damage while it is the acetaminophen that damages the liver. I have taken too much of both to manage my ankle pain for all the months I kept walking on it but I have also had ulcers so I am not sure if everything got assaulted in a short period of time or if it is just advancing age that is to blame. I am going to try changing my diet and stay off pain medications so hopefully something I am doing will be effective even if I don't know what is responsible. I am not getting any younger so I can't fix that.

I can't imagine going through all you have gone through with your digestive system so I certainly want to avoid all that. I wonder if my stomach pain is really the gall bladder. I feel pain that I have assumed was from stomach acid but I don't actually know what body parts could be involved. I tend to eat bland foods like rice and pasta that fill me up without necessarily being the most nutritious and I like breads and pasteries too much so I need to give them up. I will have more bloodwork done in a month so that will give me an idea if changing my diet is helping at all.

I imagine it must be difficult having so many surgeries. I would like to avoid any more but it is fortunate that doctors can make life-saving repairs on bodies. It sounds like you have had one part fixed only to have something else need fixing. I am not good at pinpointing pain because my brain tries to dull it rather than focus on it and I tend to believe it will go away on its own. If there are things I can do to improve my health without a bunch of appointments and medical bills, then I want to figure it out and work on doing what helps me feel better. I definately need to lose weight so eating healthier will help that too.

It seems to make no difference if foods are bland or not, to your gallstones.
Some get them, some do not.
Some are huge, some people have loads of tiny ones, and yes they hurt, and the bigger they are, the worse they hurt.
The pain is behind your stomach, high, right under the sterum.........and for all the world, a small gallstone can feel like a serious ulcer....then it passes.
But a big one that stretches the passageway.and maybe sticks in a few places, can block liver bile from getting to the gut, and the bile can back up into the liver, and it can make you very very sick !
Not to mention any pancreatic enzymes AND INSULIN can also be blocked while the gallstone slowly scrapes its way down............dang it hurts !
Get your gallbladder removed ASAP