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[pennyJo1960]

I have to admit the Doctor that said, you psoriatic arthritis hit the nail on the head. We looked for medication together, I did not want a Biological one.
Only one not is Otezla they have had it off testing and prescribing for 16 years.
Took all my pain I am so thankful and thank her every day!

 

[ValerieJ]

Ugh, same here, I'm wearing a back brace just to sit at the computer after throwing out my back twice in 3 weeks.

Sorry to hear that!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Darn wet here drying dogs before coffee.
Can't even swear yet. Well maybe?
Morning all!

 

[Smokerbill]

I made a little more progress on building the new chicken run. I put the front wall header board in place about 9 feet high. Up/down/up/down ladder day.

The first batch of chicks will be 5 weeks old tomorrow and it's becoming fairly obvious which are pullets and which are cockerels. So far, six, maybe seven are growing wittle wed wattles and have bigger combs that are turning red. If I get three pullets I'll be happy.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I call it lay a egg or crow sometimes.
Darn it is morning up at 7:30 this morning.
Master bedroom and the laundry room share a wall.
Moose starts to wail I wake up.
Better than a alarm.

 

[ValerieJ]

I took some stuffed mushrooms to a party last night and realized this morning that I didn't put chopped basil on top of them. The small batches of basil didn't look good so I got the big one. Now I'm left with a bunch of basil and I'm not cooking this week. So, I'm doing what Bill did with his extra herbs and freezing it. I washed it leaf by leaf, dried and spread them out on a cookie tray to flash freeze, then I'll store them in the freezer. Hope it works. I hate to waste it.

I saved up leftovers to pull out of the freezer this week while we are enjoying our cookie baking marathon.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have cookies all made need to plate them and get rid of them.

 

[Smokerbill]

I replaced the bedding in the brooder with new wood shavings, and am trying again to get them to eat pellet feed. Mixing up crumbles and water to feed them the last couple weeks has become a pain.

I weighed them all too, and feel pretty sure about my previous guess of having 6 or 7 cockerels in the batch. I decided that the leg bands weren't needed anymore so I removed them all. They're all pretty similar in size, lowest weight was a pullet at 427 grams, heaviest a cockerel at 577.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Took a shower made my mc muffin brunch I guess.
James is still in bed been up since 7.