Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[CarolynF]

I will never forget the time I grabbed my father-in-laws Brylcream and thought it was toothpaste in my sleepy state. Talk about a quick wake-up! Yuck!!!! In my 60's so most of those things are of my time. Chatty Cathy was my nick name as a kid. Nothing worse than being named Kathy and verbally blessed as a child. Chatty Cathy. My mother used to say I never met a stranger and I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

I like the part about being vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

Is that what causes it. I have had it also. It was the kind of trip that kept me scared of taking hard drugs. Couldn't crawl across the floor. Eyes darting back and forth. Room spinning. Not pretty!

There are other causes, but that's what did it for me. The sinus thing (which is very rare for me) caused me to lose 95% of the hearing in my right ear for about a week. I went to an audiologist in Poulsbo and they sent me to PT for the vertigo. The darting eyes was a big part of what they looked for in diagnosing it. It worked wonders and I was mostly "cured" by the time I left the PT appt. Thank goodness mine wasn't nearly as bad as what you went through... My Heavens! If that ever happens again, get it taken care of QUICK, it was SO easy!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

So I just accidentally scared the living daylights out of all my chickens. I took our red holiday tablecloth off the table to shake it off over the deck railing. Um, first they all came running because they knew there would be treats (crumbs) and then they all flew away in every direction as I shook it out! Apparently a red tablecloth doesn't just make bulls mad, it scatters chickens across the earth Poor babies, LOL

Hahaha. Every time I shake out the door step rugs, Pig Pen sounds the alarm and they all run for cover. Because a rug is such a HUGE threat.

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Oh ok, maybe it wasn't just the red cloth then, I thought for sure it was the color! LOL Yeah they all acted like there was a bear in the yard!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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Oh ok, maybe it wasn't just the red cloth then, I thought for sure it was the color! LOL Yeah they all acted like there was a bear in the yard!

I brought the step stool out of the shed so I could sit in the tractor while momma had the chicks out teaching them to eat and drink, and Pig Pen sounds the alarm. Man he is a paranoid chicken. The funny thing is, there are 3 others scattered around the yard for quick cover, but I guess one in my hand is bad.

 

[CarolynF]

Oh yes, Downtown Walnut Creek, CA in a Burgundy 51 Chevy Coop, 4 on the floor, racing wheel, black tuck and roll upholstery, raised in the back beyond legal limits and lowered so low in the front it was funny. And as Bill Cosby liked to say in 200 mph. It had pipes, pipes.... LOL. Learned to drive on Mt Diablo, it was so raised that I was level in the car going uphill. Good memories. Cruising down to Mel's drive in and getting cherry cokes with onion rings dipped in [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Roquefort Cheese[/FONT] dressing.

Oh My Gosh!!! It's hard to envision a GIRL cruisin' in a car like that!!! Our cruising grounds were either Golden Gardens (beach in Ballard) or Broadway in Everett. Cops in both locations so you had to be crafty not to get caught. And the drive-in of choice in Seattle was, of course, DICKS!!!! No cherry cokes, onion rings, or roquefort dressing, but lotsa grease!

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Oh ok, maybe it wasn't just the red cloth then, I thought for sure it was the color! LOL Yeah they all acted like there was a bear in the yard!

I brought the step stool out of the shed so I could sit in the tractor while momma had the chicks out teaching them to eat and drink, and Pig Pen sounds the alarm. Man he is a paranoid chicken. The funny thing is, there are 3 others scattered around the yard for quick cover, but I guess one in my hand is bad.

Of course...it was MOVING!!! Ahhhh!!!!!

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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"Dicks is the place where the cool hang out, the swass like to play and the rich flaunt clout". Sir Mix-A-Lot moment there.

 

[Oregon Blues]

....................---how many people are keeping more chickens than they are legally supposed to?

I am zoned for livestock, so no restrictions on numbers. What keeps my numbers down is the high cost of feed plus the way the price keeps going up. I don't want to buy anymore fed than I have to.

The big issue that I see with keeping more birds than what is allowed by local ordinance is that if the city gets too many complaints about chickens they might decide that it is too much trouble and rescind the law allowing 4 hens (or whatever it is that they have permitted). The way it works is that everybody gets punished for a handful of people who behave badly.

 

[CarolynF]

...... the most I've got going toward the season is making sure to drop the curtain over the window with the Christmas Cactus at dusk every night toward having it bloom sometime this month. Last year I turned it late and it was randomly Christmas until May on the back-side of it.

Another good way to encourage your Christmas Cactus to bloom is to let it get REALLY dry and stay that way for a couple of weeks, then give it a good watering and keep it moist. I found this out by accident (because I mistreat my plants) and then found out that Cisco was telling people the same thing!! It works for me every time, and has nothing to do with light. I can do it any time of the year -- again mostly by accident!

Works the same for my friend, too.

 

[DeesHens]

Quote: Yep. I have the CDs from the rock band "Cream". They sang an ad song about Falstaff beer. Seriously! ~Dee~