Hi Everyone!
It has been so long since I posted, or even visited, that I hardly recognize anyone.
Chickielady - your house looks fabulous! Are you still planning to paint a close up of a salmon on the side or am I halucinating? I have that same Farmtek thermometer - it also posted temperatres of 100, but my car thermometer was at 84. I think the car is more accurate. Last monday it read 65 while it was snowing - 2 inches on the ground! It did get to 65 that afternoon. Maybe it predicts future temperatures. It is at 60 now. That is probably close.
My hens are laying like crazy! I get nearly an egg a day per hen.Someone wants one of my roosters for their flock - woohoo! Now if I could only find homes for the beautiful banty boys.They are too old to eat.
I've got to do something about the rats that visit the rooster coop and my green house. Found a HUGE nestin the engine compartment of the riding mower which was stored behind the garden shed for the winter. I asked DH to deal with it this time. I think I need poisons. They no longer will enter the zappers. I put poison in bait traps up in the rafters of the main coop and banty coop last year. Took nearly 3 months before those darn roof rats went for the bait, but I have not seen them around for months. Then in February I went to check on the lemon tress in my green house. It had been a few weeks since I had been in there, and the lemons were almost ripe. Well, the entire plant was stripped bare! No lemons, no leaves! Other plants were missing branches and I noticed a bunch of fresh greenery including lemon treee leaves sticking out from under a low shelf - a nest! Norway rats had been getting into my rooster coop which is next to the greenhouse and eating the food. Some of those ratties got too big to squeeze through the wire so instead they moved into the greenhouse and ater the plants. When tey ran out of plants, they gnawed at the pots! No sign of them in the main coop nor banty coop.
I bought an electric mower to mow the yard while I wait for DH to clear the nest and for the swamp that the mower is trapped behind to dry. A charge lasts about an hour and a half, so it takes me 3 days to mow the yard, and I can't even get to the orchard which would be about half the yard! I got one with power assist for the hills, but I can't even use the option, as the hills are too steep and the power assist cuts out on them! I'm getting some shapely arms.
