Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

I am planning on bringing a lunch meat tray...and a cheese tray, and a loaf of bread & a loaf or 2 of GF bread.
I am also planning on making a bucket of Toll House Cookies (in the morning) made with the Pamela's GF flour...THEY ARE SO GOOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All GF food I bring will be marked, I have recipe cards & felt tip markers.

Easy-breezy make a smandwich & chat is what I am shooting for.

I also have a 1 gallon coffee thermos -dispensor (like at the gas station) push on the top the coffee comes out...should I bring it (filled of course) ???

Lemme know.
I plan on bringing a limited amount of hatching eggs:
BBS Jersey Giant and BBS Marans (in the same coop) LOL
French Silver Cuckoo Marans
EX. Black Javas.
Probably in 6-packs unless someone wants more~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Chickielady]

JB or CL, I don't remember which one of you asked for it, but here is my son finishing 8th out of 50 for District XC Chamionship qualifying him for State. It is one of the funniest running pics I have caught. Alex is #75 looks like he is gonna punch the kid he is passing, which he did pass just before the finish line.

And he was sporting his pink laces for Breast Cancer Awareness

COOL !!! Must have been JB, but I have enjoyed the pic too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

So...I have unearthed another quilt project half done...and so I am working on that.
A 3-stripe which I want to use with heart blocks like the one my Mom did...so 1 block of stripes, 1 block with a paper-pieced heart.




Imagine a 3-stripe block alternating between the heart blocks.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

What I want more than anything and cannot grow here because of extremely sandy soil and wind exposure, is plain old Acer circinatum: Vine Maple. Best fall color ever, and the winter branches are a gorgeous twisty moss-garden. I can grow Big Leaf Maple (there are three up on the hill that are about 28"dbh) but on top of hallerlake's accurate complaints for plants near the house, I'm sensitive to their large fuzzy pollen grains.

Maples are hinky: you eithercan't grow the ones you want, or the ones you can grow take over like the hordes of Genghis Khan.

Did I mention that the squirrels bit through the probe wire for my last Indoor/outdoor recording thermometer? I broke down and ordered two new ones on Amazon (because after two weeks of local search all I've been able to find are the wireless kind that don't work with low-E windows of the generation I own) and also two hanging squirrel-baffles, as the one's I can find here are pole-mounted and need serious weather-proofing to work as hanging chicken feeder shields.

So now, lunch.

We have ALOT of vine maple here...I will scout out some for you as soon as I can, this time of year most leaves are off & difficult to find amongst leaf litter.
But I will try.
What they hate is dryness and sunlight.
They do much better in shady forests with a broken canopy.
Now that we have taken so many tall firs out, the remaining exposed vine maples (around the house) may just pitch a fit, get sunburnt & die.
Some are 20-30 feet tall~~~~~~~~~
There must be hordes off in these woods small enough I can find & dig for you though~~~~~~~~~~~

Cool. I might be able to baby one along after the Hawthorn is gone; they're well-behaved trees in the yard, but do need extra watering in sandy soil.

 

[Slinglings]

Zyrtec is a gift from God! I take it about 6 months of the year when the grasses and flowers are the worst. Make sure you buy the Costco/Kirkland brand. It's a full year supply for under $20 and works perfectly like brand name Zyrtec. Craziness.

Funny, my new allergy doctor recommended I try Zertec (Zyrtec ? sp ?) instead of eating dephen hydramine like candy...it makes me very sleepy...and sometimes tired enough where I do not care if my hair is on fire if ya know what I mean. Nothing gets done, it is all I can do to SIT.
He says Zertec does not make you sleepy but IS an antihistamine ?????????

Yes,, and it works great! You need to take it a lot less often, no sleepiness. SAMs club generic version is super cheap compared to other store brands even.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: I would.

 

[justbugged]

Hi All,
Back in town and getting ready for Chehalis Saturday and I'm even bringing a good friend that also has chickens... fun day all around.

Now I need to know....
1. Are we doing a food related get-together? I need to know what kind of food to bring and when/where are we meeting?
2. Are we doing name tags?
3. Does anyone want red dahlia tubers, Liatris bulbs, a thyme plant, a lavender plant, cilantro seeds? I'd rather not drag them around if no one wants them.

I'm sure looking forward to seeing y'all!


ETA: also Crocosmia bulbs (Lucifer, the tall red one)

I would love to trade you some dahlia, and liatris. I have Autumn Joy Sedum starts, and a lavender, yellow, and red and white dahlia bulbs. I also can have some variegated orange calla lilies. I need to know for sure who wants what, some that I can dig up what is needed. I will also post this over on the swap thread.

I also have sweet pea seeds.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Hi everyone

I've been gearing up for Christmas soap making - so haven't been around much. I try to keep up!
I am now at a dozen birds.

I was supposed to keep it to 8! And everytime I go to sell a bird, my son tells me I can't sell that one.

We have one out of twelve laying - Miss Blackberry molted earliest and re-started laying for a couple weeks now. (No lights.)

Four more one-year-old hens are molting. Poor Blueberry had a blue prickly helmet head for a couple days in the beginning - it looked so painful and yet so funny!

It seems my spring hatch birds started molting earlier - they are all almost done regrowing feathers, while my fall hatch bird (Foxglove) is just starting to molt really hard, and just stopped laying a few weeks ago. Poor girl is getting naked just in time for cold weather!

My oldest, Juno, has also stopped laying for the winter. She molted early - and gave me eggs for a few weeks then stopped again about the same time as Foxglove did.

I am hoping my Brabanters that were hatched in April will start laying soon! They should be followed pretty quickly by the rest of the pullets in a month or two.
I am excited to see what the bantam eggs will look like.

I've tried to look up what color eggs they lay, and haven't even found that! So it will be a surprise.

Went to the Seattle Farm Co-op meeting & barter fair with Honeysuckle Hills - was a lot of fun & ended up trading soap for a lot of good food (duck eggs, jams, jelly, pickles, fresh herbs, etc.) & cute hats. Was a lot of fun - check it out if you're in the Seattle area and want a good place to get supplies.

That's what is happening with us! Talk to you all later!
dawn

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Quote:
Hallerlake - I hope your Brabanter is OK!

 

[Sudsy Chick]

So...I have unearthed another quilt project half done...and so I am working on that.
A 3-stripe which I want to use with heart blocks like the one my Mom did...so 1 block of stripes, 1 block with a paper-pieced heart.




Imagine a 3-stripe block alternating between the heart blocks.

All of your quilts are so pretty!