Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Imp]

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paint chip are good, especially the lead flavored ones.

 

[Hinotori]

Well, that's cool. I wondered about how the byc software was handling that mega-giant-wowza thread; the Proboards community I'm part of caps threads at 30 pages, and the blogging platforms I'm familiar with close down at 5000 comments.

I spent a whole lot of time and effort yesterday rejiggering the sheep pen roof support, and it came down overnight and has what looks like twenty gallons of water in it, so I know what I'm doing today...

Urgh. I feel for you. The roof on the silkie pen did that to me. I need to cut some more pvc and add a few extra supports.

 

[SadieSue]

Just when you get things decorated the way you'd like and have that cozy "lived in" feeling, you get moved to a new home. Works for me. Now I don't need to clean up that old thread anymore. Brand new clean walls to draw all over!

We're so chatty. I love it.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: We had that problem, and since our house is almost a hundred years old, it is probably lead paint. I set up an obstacle course in front of the wall. That worked but Mr. Hallerlake didn't like it. It was ugly. We got one of those reed screens at Lowe's, and attached it too the wall. It keeps the girls away from the paint and looks nice, too. They come in a roll.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_231190-8003...n&pl=1&currentURL=?Ntt=reed+screen&facetInfo=

 

[Slinglings]

Quote: We had that problem, and since our house is almost a hundred years old, it is probably lead paint. I set up an obstacle course in front of the wall. That worked but Mr. Hallerlake didn't like it. It was ugly. We got one of those reed screens at Lowe's, and attached it too the wall. It keeps the girls away from the paint and looks nice, too. They come in a roll.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_231190-8003...n&pl=1&currentURL=?Ntt=reed+screen&facetInfo=
Yesterday, I covered an ugly chainlink fence with something similar (it is made of fir bark though, looks more appropriate for my yard than bamboo/reeds). It looks pretty good, much better than the bent chain link fence that a car went through. My husband even said it looked good..I figured he would hate it.

I was wondering why you had that on your wall I almost asked..

 

[Hinotori]

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Mine is "GET OUT OF THAT POT!"

Almost 18 acres they can explore if they want and they prefer my potted plants for digging and dust bathing. I need to go cut out some chickenwire circles to put around the grapes. I picked up two of the little metal chicks from CR at the show and put them in with my lemon verbena. It's stopped the big hole they were trying to dig and the plant is doing better again.

Oh! Dealing with chickens and dogs. "Quit eating that!" and "You better not be rolling in chicken poop over there!"

They go roll where the deer and elk pee and poop too. So disgusting.
The dogs bring dead stuff back and leave it at the back door. Nothing they have outside is allowed inside so they drop it right by the door so they can get it when they come back out. The chickens help themselves to whatever they think looks good. Dogs will come back out and be looking for what they know they left right there.

 

[Hilatious]

I found ya'll

I think I have found a solution to my patio poopers, while catching up on posts. SAND du! Putting a layer of sand down on my patio will greatly reduce clean up time, Thanks Guys

 

[TerrorBird]

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Mine is "GET OUT OF THAT POT!"

Almost 18 acres they can explore if they want and they prefer my potted plants for digging and dust bathing. I need to go cut out some chickenwire circles to put around the grapes. I picked up two of the little metal chicks from CR at the show and put them in with my lemon verbena. It's stopped the big hole they were trying to dig and the plant is doing better again.

Oh! Dealing with chickens and dogs. "Quit eating that!" and "You better not be rolling in chicken poop over there!"

They go roll where the deer and elk pee and poop too. So disgusting.
The dogs bring dead stuff back and leave it at the back door. Nothing they have outside is allowed inside so they drop it right by the door so they can get it when they come back out. The chickens help themselves to whatever they think looks good. Dogs will come back out and be looking for what they know they left right there.
Another for chickens: "DO I NEED TO GET THE HOSE?!"

My young ones have been wreaking havoc on the garden we're trying to fix up in the back. They half dig up day lilies and rhododendrons and move to the hostas to shred the leaves. Once, when I caught them shredding the hostas, I got the hose and said "HOSTA LA VISTA, BABY!!" as I sprayed them.

We put bricks around the bases of vulnerable plants so that we don't lose everything to those pests.

 

[Justahannah]

Woo! A new thread is a way better surprise than the dead squirrel my cat left for me to step on this morning. Way better .

 

[Shyla-C]

I can't subscribe to this thread, I have NO smiley's to choose from, and no spell checker or anything I used to have in the old thread. I'm off to sulk, and try to figure out how to build a roof over the hen house since the pop up canopy didn't stand up to the wind we had last night. Went out this morning to let everyone out, and the canopy was a twisted pile of metal and canopy cloth. Good thing I had the legs bolted to 4 30lb elevator weights or who knows where it would have ended up!

See ya later. (I'd put the waving smiley here, but I can't they're all gone!)