Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[RaZ]

I intend to watch the Seahawks game, since I missed the last one...and not much else today due to monsoonal rain today.....maybe make a pumpkin custard (in Ramekins)

I just have to pop in and stir the pot...


Goooo Lions!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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[Chickielady]

Cheeka posted this from NY thread...beautiful country, awesome decoration !

 

[Chickielady]

Traitor !!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Apparently the Hawthorn berries are ripe: every robin in the neighborhood is gorging on them. I'm taking the tree out as soon as I can get the tree guy here, since it's chewing on the roof- it may be all I can afford to have done, even though I also need to have the old peach tree taken out (last summer it had five, head sized, peaches twenty feet off the ground) and at least most of the blackthorn by the front porch. The blackthorn took some ice damage, but the other two, which I dearly want rid of, sailed through the ice storm with all their twigs intact.

The chickens loved the peaches, but it's not a big enough part of their diet to keep it shading out the south windows in winter. The others are just thorny nuisances, and the Hawthorn has the added problem of smelling of diaper pail in the evenings when ity blooms.

 

[Chickielady]

Good lazy Sunday morning. Just checking in. Just wanted to mention that now with all the rain the chicken poop/sand cement is now poop soup. I'll be scraping that off today as long as the rain holds off.

My poop soup (that added up for 4 dry dry dry months) caked over the top of the pea gravel, is all gone.
The rains softened it up, and I helped it go bye bye with the hose/pump in the over flowing rain barrel water.
Pea Gravel is easy to wash.
Then I have a pyroclactic poop flow down the road, but hey, it's gone !

***** That reminds me of CR & T-H's "La Har Drill" story...laughing all over again !

 

[Chickielady]

Apparently the Hawthorn berries are ripe: every robin in the neighborhood is gorging on them. I'm taking the tree out as soon as I can get the tree guy here, since it's chewing on the roof- it may be all I can afford to have done, even though I also need to have the old peach tree taken out (last summer it had five, head sized, peaches twenty feet off the ground) and at least most of the blackthorn by the front porch. The blackthorn took some ice damage, but the other two, which I dearly want rid of, sailed through the ice storm with all their twigs intact.
The chickens loved the peaches, but it's not a big enough part of their diet to keep it shading out the south windows in winter. The others are just thorny nuisances, and the Hawthorn has the added problem of smelling of diaper pail in the evenings when ity blooms.

We have some trees here that bloom in bunches (like a elder berry) and stinks so bad of pure skunk...so bad it is scarey to step outside as you'd swear there was a skunk out there....the trees then get red berries...the berries fall off about Sept-Oct and are all over the place.
I think the trees are Mountain Ash...I hate the stink !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Apparently the Hawthorn berries are ripe: every robin in the neighborhood is gorging on them. I'm taking the tree out as soon as I can get the tree guy here, since it's chewing on the roof- it may be all I can afford to have done, even though I also need to have the old peach tree taken out (last summer it had five, head sized, peaches twenty feet off the ground) and at least most of the blackthorn by the front porch. The blackthorn took some ice damage, but the other two, which I dearly want rid of, sailed through the ice storm with all their twigs intact.

The chickens loved the peaches, but it's not a big enough part of their diet to keep it shading out the south windows in winter. The others are just thorny nuisances, and the Hawthorn has the added problem of smelling of diaper pail in the evenings when ity blooms.

We have some trees here that bloom in bunches (like a elder berry) and stinks  so bad of pure skunk...so bad it is scarey to step outside as you'd swear there was a skunk out there....the trees then get red berries...the berries fall off about Sept-Oct and are all over the place.
I think the trees are Mountain Ash...I hate the stink !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Mountain Ash can have all sorts of smell. Some are nicely honey scented, some dirty diapers, some skunk.

I have a shrub called Carolina Alspice which has nicely fragrant leaves and bark and pretty deep-red flowers which waft Eau de LePew about. Some clones of this species have spice scented flowers, but I got the skunk.

 

[Chickielady]

Happy Halloween Card to all !

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[Chickielady]

happy Thanksgiving Card came today too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is all happening so fast !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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