Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[mikeyb]

Mikeyb whadda ya mean you haven't finished your cookies yet? They aren't getting any fresher.

Yes I know. I will try to do better in the future!

 

[TacomaFarms]

Here goes my every so often update: Tax season is pulling me down by my teeth! How come my baby chicks are getting so big so fast! I'm pretty sure my BO's are twice the size they were Sunday.


I have ordered ten 12" Western Red Cedars from PCCD that I will be picking up on March 1st or 2nd, can't remember. I only have room for maybe 3 of them. PM me if you are interested in one or a few of them for a couple bucks or trade.


Quote:

Don't know if Mikey spilled the beans, but SOON we will have a barbie here........we will have pork spare ribs and our home raised chicken cut up on the grill...............and looking for pot luck for salads & the rest..........HOUSE is looking good and we are needing a rest & laugh with our peeps !
maybe have T-Hi do some tunes and ?




YEEEEEE HAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is very beautiful! Congrats!

Hi peeps

just popping in to say HOWDY. I've got a sick kiddo here, and have my hands full. Besides that, I ran errands all day and spent the evening baking birthday treats.

I baked GF/CF/SF coconut flour cupcakes and make a dairy free chocolate frosting for them that turned out terrific. (FYI-Trader Joe's has organic powdered sugar that does not contain corn starch, for those avoiding GMO). They are all packed up in the frig, waiting to woo my son's friends tomorrow. I was going to use a mix, to make life simpler, but PCC Market didn't have even ONE GF/CF cake mix that was a regular flavor. Then I could not find my decorating supplies, so I used a ziploc with the corner cut off to frost the cupcakes.

My kiddo has a nose running like niagara falls, and we're hoping we can get it dried up enough to enjoy his guys night out tomorrow night.

I've got a 2nd coop all set up with it's own run, and it's ready for more chickens, but we're striking out lately on finding birds for a decent price. Question- what do you all think a person should pay for a non-show quality bird that is just used for eggs? I see people trying to sell hens on Craigslist for $25 and I think that's ridiculous, even if they have fed all organic feed.

The In-cool-bator is just about dialed in, almost have it perfect, or thought we did, but am now getting 2 different readings. On the bread thermometer, it's reading 98.6 (we wrapped a thawed freezer gel-pack around the thermometer) and the air temp on the new indoor/outdoor thermometer with probe was measuring 100.1. Which thermometer would you beleive?

Those look so amazing! If those were also egg free I would trade a hen for em! lol...

Sorry to hear about your sick kiddo. I swear by Mucinex.

I'm having thermometer issues too. I calibrated my incubator therm and the mercury got a bubble in it. I'm going to see about getting a third one.

Quote: Cookies!?! and cupcakes! Mmm...

Quote: X2

Teriyaki, the Buff Silkie pullet, passed over night. Lesson learned for me, smaller meat pieces for the chicks.

So sorry to hear about that Travis.

Sorry I haven't been on here in awhile. I have been having my old riding student out here for the last week or so. We ended up giving her a horse of ours because she has been the only one that this horse likes and trusts. If she comes out and helps me around our 5 acres and works the horse than she can have the horse and in return we will continue to house the horse and feed it. My student is only 15 and her mom cant afford a horse for her right now. So for the time being, she gets a horse and her mom doesn't have to pay anything for it Hanna, my student, will probably stay out here with us for the summer once we get the spare bedroom cleaned up. As for the chickens, I pretty much have almost all of them spoken for. Everyone is wanting pullets but if they take pullets, they get a cockerel as well ;-) the only way I can get rid of the cockerels unless I want to deal with people that don't speak English because I don't speak Spanish...lol. Someone is wanting 4 or 5 pullets so they will get a cockerel with those. a neighbor wants a couple pullets and a cockerel and someone is going to trade us a pair of turkeys for 3 pullets and cockerel. Ive decided that I will only keep 10 hens even though I want 12. Right now, I have 9 that are laying and my tenth one is a pullet from November's batch. She is so cute. She looks like a Dalmatian. If we find people that are wanting chickens, we may hatch out a couple batches but they will all go in the brooder/rabbit hutch with momma when they are first hatched since they will already be sold before coming out of the shell pretty much

Anyways, Ive rambled enough....

That is awesome what you have done for her and her mom. As a single mom of a horse lover, you just made that girls dream come true! I enjoy the rambles...

Congrats on rehoming almost all of them! I'd take a cockerel if I didn't live in the darn city.


Sorry if I missed anything, y'all are on a steam train with this thread!

 

[mikeyb]

Quote:

 

[Slinglings]

This is exactly what I want: http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/mat/3587442584.html Although I'm also totally willing to pay $280 for that...it's a pretty good price!

You'll need more than you think you will. I totally screwed up my left elbow/wrist doing rock work and shoveling, so be careful! I should have just paid for a pallet delivered, it would have been a lot less work overall so possibly wouldn't have hurt myself, who knows. You're a lot younger than me though My head still thinks I'm able to do things that my body obviously can't recover from. I have aged more in the last year than I have in the last 20 years before that, it seems.

Just getting the rock home is half the work. Then you have to move them over and over again to puzzle them together. I felt like I was in a Survivor challenge LOL.

If your chickens free range, be prepared for them to scratch dirt on top of the stones. My front walk looks great, but the one on the side of the house (past the gate at the end of this walk) is constantly buried under dirt and mulch.

 

[FirewifeJess]

Quote:
Basically we're willing to pay about $400 for the project. I hope I can get mine looking like yours though, how nice! Right now I walk through muddy grass to get eggs every day, or go into the run. It's annoying. Would love a path! There's really only grass around where I'll be putting the stone, so hopefully they won't have too much to scratch over the pathway, but my hose will reach so I can just hose it off occasionally.

Also...you're not that much older than me, and I'm WAY broken. I have pretty severe spine and nerve problems in my neck and arms and can't do the work either. We'll have to have something delivered for sure. Love the picture!

 

[Slinglings]

Quote:

I'm almost 40. Aren't you in your 20's still?

 

[FirewifeJess]

Quote:

I'm almost 40. Aren't you in your 20's still?

Oh!!! I can't beleive you're almost 40, you look 34 MAX. I'll be 30 in April

 

[FirewifeJess]

Did you put any sort of sand or layer down under your path? Mine's not entirely level so we though of lining/filling in holes with sand before we lay down the path.

 

[Slinglings]

Quote:

I'm almost 40. Aren't you in your 20's still?

Oh!!! I can't beleive you're almost 40, you look 34 MAX. I'll be 30 in April

Did you put any sort of sand or layer down under your path? Mine's not entirely level so we though of lining/filling in holes with sand before we lay down the path.

That's sweet, thank you . I wasn't fishing for compliments, I swear. But it's nice to hear . I have had some help. Lol. And I swear I looked 14 until I had kids.

I didn't put anything below the flagstone and I had I idea what I was doing honestly. It's just on top of the formerly existing lawn, which wasn't level. The path isn't level but that doesn't bother me. Over time it has settled and some stones rock a little so I go through once in a while and fill In under the rocky stones so they don't rock. I sprayed between the cracks with roundup a couple of times but of course I would NOT do that anywhere the chickens are (this Is my front yard)

 

[CarolynF]

That's a very cool thing that you're doing for Hanna! It's something she'll take with her forever and not just the horse. You're teaching her that if she works hard she can get or do just about anything. Best of all your teaching her how to help others and that you don't always have to get big bucks in return. People with good hearts are hard to come by!!!
Thanks for Ramblin

X 2 Well put.