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[Farmin Momma]

my dog that had a heart attack over the weekend. As we can see he's doing fine and back to being a gentleman. My Oscar holding me down from running to the door every time a car stopped out front. They showed up YAY and OMG way more eggs then I expected. I got the box and was excited cause it was heavy. really excited about the blue/green eggs. The ONLY two that didn't survive. They were stacked on each other one had the top of the egg smashed the other had the bottom of the egg. Not sure how they only hurt two eggs. Happy about it only having been 2 though.

Very happy that you dog is doing better! Well you said not to tell you how many eggs I sent. I wanted you to have a big surprise and be able to have the choice of which ones you wanted to hatch. I threw in the blue and green eggs just in case you wanted to try and hatch them. I know they are fertile. Hope you like them.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

AHHHHHH NOOOOOOO stupid fan. My back up incubators fan just decided to die. WHYYYYYYYY I'm ordering another one on e-bay i get it in 4 days. I don't think demon will stay wagging his tail against the vent that long though.
BTW anyone know about spider plants? I killed 3 of them. One was over 20 years old and I killed it. My pot of dirt hanging in the living room looks pathetic.

 

[mikeyb]

So after feeling smug and tell DH a few weeks back that "I don't think I'm going to do any hatching this year since we've got enough hens and the coops are pretty full", I'm starting to get hatching fever. I was checking hatching eggs here on BYC and someone had beautiful multi-colored olive eggers. And I have been saying I NEED an olive egger in my flock for the past two years, so it's not like it's a new plan or an impulse, right?

But then again, after starting with 7 silkies last year I ended up with only a few when most of them turned out to be cockerels, so there's room in that pen. I saw that Karen Larson had a nice assortment of silkie eggs available for shipping. And I do have that broody silkie in my VF coop who would probably love being a mama, so then I wouldn't even have to raise chicks in the house, right?

But that cr** "kit coop" I have in the backyard is finally disintegrating so if I hatch new chicks I would need a new small grow out coop, but it's not like I would need to find a space for it since I'd just be getting rid of the one I already have and put the new one in it's place, right?

All reasonable points I think - all perfectly justifiable. I think I might look for the right hatching eggs and figure out where I can find a small grow out coop. Just a 3X4 hutch with a small run is all I'd need. Shouldn't be a problem, right?

Whew. All issues worked out. I feel much better now.

And chocolate is GOOD for you and enhances the figure.

 

[Slinglings]

BTW anyone know about spider plants? I killed 3 of them. One was over 20 years old and I killed it. My pot of dirt hanging in the living room looks pathetic.

They like to totally dry out between waterings, they like to be pot bound (if you want babies), (pot bound means that the roots fill the entire pot~ once this happens the plant knows that it doesn't have room to grow and that it needs to reproduce. If it isn't rootbound it will put it's energy into the main plant instead of making babies). They love bright indirect sun. I couldn't keep them here in Seattle, but in Iowa my spider plants were Huuuuge. If the leaves turned black or yellow then it was overwatered (this is the usual problem--with all houseplants, really)

 

[SadieSue]

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Not only is chocolate good for me but so is red wine. Lucky for me the combination is delicious so I can stay twice as healthy!

 

[mikeyb]

OK avid gardners you. I have a request, but remember I am over 70, have a pulmenary concern or two and basicall been lounging for 6 years or so.
Last year it was, build coop, get chickens = excercise. Well that worked out OK.

New goal for this year: PUT IN GARDEN
disclaimer; I ain't really fond of gardening, but hoping to learn and besides, I love fresh veggies.
I do have some tools to help.
1 Lg Cadet rotto tiller,
1 manual post hole digger
1 lawn tractor with a dethatcher attchmnt.
I live in ROCKchester. Soil is excellent drainage and somewhat fertile.

What size would you reccomend? Side and Front of house will be reserved for peppers,tomatoes, broccoli and cauliflower.
I also have ample space in house at windows to start plants.
What other plants do you all say?

PS..Still have a piano for free to any budding musician or friend thereof.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

They like to totally dry out between waterings, they like to be pot bound (if you want babies), (pot bound means that the roots fill the entire pot~ once this happens the plant knows that it doesn't have room to grow and that it needs to reproduce. If it isn't rootbound it will put it's energy into the main plant instead of making babies). They love bright indirect sun. I couldn't keep them here in Seattle, but in Iowa my spider plants were Huuuuge. If the leaves turned black or yellow then it was overwatered (this is the usual problem--with all houseplants, really)

I don't know what happened. I was watering it once a month is all. I had it alive for 3 years then over night the leaves turned brown completely and fell off. The other two i got as babies and they died. The person that shipped those two babies to me did them in a ziplock bag and it took a week for them to get here. They were nearly dead when i got them and finished dieing when i potted them.
I knew it didn't need water or anything like that, and that it does best rootbound. Kinda upsetting it was given to my husband by his aunt that died years ago... I kind of wonder if it needed repotted into fresh dirt or something.

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Not only is chocolate good for me but so is red wine. Lucky for me the combination is delicious so I can stay twice as healthy!

actually dark chocolate or coco chocolate is good for you. and is it just me or do most the candy bars and chocolate covered peanuts taste like it's wax instead of chocolate?

 

[Hinotori]

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I had a huge beautiful non-variegated spider plant back in Virginia Beach. Had that thing 10 years. It didn't do as well here, but still was good. I gave it away when we moved to this house because of lack of a good window for it. I'd rooted many a plant for friends of mine back in Virginia. It was the only plant that one of them could keep alive, even though she almost killed it once until I told her to just neglect it and water it once a month, or when it started wilting a bit, really good. Only houseplant I have here is a christmas cactus. I need to repot the thing this year. It's gotten to big for it's pot. It was a tiny little thing with just three branches in a 4 inch pot when I got it two years ago. It's over a foot across now. East widow in the kitchen, but I need to move it unless I put in a deeper window sill (which I would love).

 

[Totalcolour]

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Well, I think in many instances it is possible to tell if someone is angry by the way they write. That's one area of study in Semantics. Words can be used very effectively in Marketing for instance. We don't realise how much we are influenced by the written word, and I know, I worked in a Marketing department for many years!


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Although I will say after years of doing daycare, and being a nanny for a few years kids that had only cloth diapers potty trained easier then the ones that had those disposable diapers. Maybe it's because parents put more effort in when they have to wash poopy diapers instead of just toss them outside in the garbage?

I had both my girls in cloth, the elder took forever to potty train, the younger was a breeze. I suppose it varies, but I think you are right about parents paying more attention - kids do notice attention!


Quote: I don't have a veggie garden, but I buy organic, or trade for home raised meat when I can (since we raise so much meat here.).


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I so agree; if someone is feeling hurt by something, just ask the person who wrote it what the "intent" was. I think in almost every case it's just a matter of misunderstanding.