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[Hinotori]

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We live in a low spot. There is marsh and the edge of a 40 acre pond on our property. We looked at this place after it had been raining like no tomorrow, so we had an idea how much flooding was likely. Where the house and buildings are, there isn't any issue. Any spot that is a little lower than the surrounding land puddles during the downpour times. It doesn't take much to bring them up to level and get rid of that issue. There use to be a lower spot where the main chicken run and the silkie run are now. I filled it in last year. Like an inch difference is all it took to make it not a lake.

The big pond out there filled very quickly this year. It's just been so very much rain.

 

[CarolynF]

Those of you who sew, check these cute snow men out !

http://www.thenshemade.com/2011/01/sock-snowmen.html

CL... Thanks for posting this neat little project, I'd love to try it with the GDs!

 

[TerrorBird]

I saw the end of a very grim edition of this-treasure's-mine-you-can't-have-it when I drove up just a few minutes ago. I didn't see what it was that they were so into having for themselves, but when I entered the pen I found Pine Siskin feathers scattered liberally around. What lovely creatures chickens are, yeah?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I saw the end of a very grim edition of this-treasure's-mine-you-can't-have-it when I drove up just a few minutes ago.  I didn't see what it was that they were so into having for themselves, but when I entered the pen I found Pine Siskin feathers scattered liberally around.  What lovely creatures chickens are, yeah?

I should warn the darned Golden Crowned Sparrows who go into Ian and Sylvia's cage and the Hamburg cage. They're risking their lives!

(need to get finer mesh wire over the woven wire and yard fence- well, need to get finer wire over the woven wire and finish the Hamburg extension, but the fates have not been kind).

 

[LaughingFeather]

Free bird calendar

http://info.allaboutbirds.org/tell-...mpaign=2012-PFW-Calendar-v.2&utm_source=popup

Found this site while looking up what a pine siskin looked like. The "Bird-Watching Days" 2012-13 calendar is a gift to you from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

 

[Greg Richardson]

Rat-bite fever confirmed in Central Washington

By Associated Press Published: Dec 7, 2012 at 1:07 PM PST Last Updated: Dec 7, 2012 at 1:24 PM PST

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WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) - Rat-bite fever has been confirmed in a few residents of Chelan and Douglas counties in central Washington.

The Wenatchee World reports the Chelan-Douglas Health District issued a news release about the disease Friday. The district also says a Grant County resident may have been exposed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Rat-bite fever is a bacterial disease caused by infected rodents or consumption of contaminated food or water.

Symptoms include fever, headache and nausea. Some people develop a rash on their hands and feet. The illness is treated with antibiotics.

 

[Greg Richardson]

This girl could really need some prayer for not only her but her family also coping with this unbelievable situation..........................................


Doctors search for cause of young woman's severe illness

By Patrick Preston, KATU News Published: Dec 7, 2012 at 1:54 PM PST Last Updated: Dec 7, 2012at 3:59 PM PST

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Tabitha Schulke in an undated photo before she became ill (left) and a recent photo while undergoing treatment in the hospital. (Photos provided to KATU News by her family)​

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PORTLAND, Ore. - Doctors in Portland are trying to find the reason a Monmouth woman's life is in danger after she was recently admitted to the hospital with a mysterious illness.
In the last two weeks, Tabitha Schulke, 18, has lost her lower legs to amputation and was clinging to life. She first became ill on Thanksgiving, her aunt said. She is currently in critical condition.
Photos of Schulke, swollen, immobilized, discolored and breathing with a ventilator in a hospital bed, show a woman unrecognizable from the vibrant, attractive teenager seen in pictures taken before the onset of the illness.
Doctors said they think Schulke developed gangrene as a result of toxic shock caused by a staph infection, but what brought on the illness is still a mystery. The National Institute of Health said patients with toxic shock have a 50 percent chance of survival.
Lab tests will hopefully help determine what caused Schulke's illness.
Meanwhile, family members are devastated over what has happened to a young woman who was a Sunday school teacher and intent on helping others as a missionary.
"She's beautiful on the outside, but she's even more beautiful on the inside," Schulke's aunt, Katie Zimmerman, told KATU News.
Zimmerman said flu-like symptoms led to gangrene on Schulke's feet. "They looked like they were out in the snow, they were just getting black," Zimmerman said.
The gangrene spread, forcing surgeons to amputate Schulke's legs near each knee.
"When she came here, she was very close to death and she's come very far, so that makes us very hopeful for the future," Dr. Eric Chang with Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland said.
Zimmerman is confident Tabitha will recover.
"She's going to have such a testimony to what you can overcome with God," she said. "God will heal her and she's going to be there to tell everyone 'look what I went through and I still praise God.'"
Zimmerman said Schulke can still realize her goal of becoming a missionary, but for now, that's secondary to her family's goal of simply getting her out of the hospital and back home.
"Just her surviving, that's all that matters," Zimmerman said through tears. "Not Christmas, not anything, just... we want Tabi."
Besides Tabitha's serious illness, her family is also dealing with other challenges.

Her brother has an inoperable brain tumor and the family lives more than an hour away in Monmouth, making trips to the hospital time-consuming and expensive.
But they said they are getting donations and other assistance from fellow members of the Independence First Baptist Church.
There is a CaringBridge page for Tabitha and a ChipIn page where direct donations to the family can be made for her care.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Marge Best is awesome. I went to get a replacement chick for the one we lost last night, and she gave me 2. A Dark Partridge and a very Dark Blue. Yay

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

Marge Best is awesome. I went to get a replacement chick for the one we lost last night, and she gave me 2. A Dark Partridge and a very Dark Blue. Yay

What a nice person! I haven't gotten the chance to meet her, yet- Hopefully at the next WFF show or PNPA show.

 

[FirewifeJess]

So I should be in Bothel by 11 tomorrow, if the morning goes well. How will I recognize y'all? I'll be the one with 3 small kids along for the ride and hopefully my sanity

I might even have time to change purses so that mine is a chicken purse...maybe. I would love to know some names before we arrive?!