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[jbear]

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don't worry T.. ours isn't up yet either. I JUST got Christmas stuff in the house a few days ago.. and lights up last week.. soooo.. a lil behind this year. Decided I am not gonna care though.

Hope you get better soon!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Ditzsy !
Take some flying lessons from DH, installing elevators he was working on top outside of one and the ladder went sideways, 3 stories high...well if you want anymore flying lessons, call my DH~~~~~he still has asphalt in the back of his funky head...
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NO MORE flying and landing on yer nogging !!!!!!!!!!!!

Goodnight all !
And wanted to ask Illia...I have these moths laying eggs on my bird net a few month ago...OK I am going to bed ~~~

I am serious that I have X-mas trees here free...

 

[Ogress]

Wow, I have a lot of reading to catch up on! The few times I've been home, I've been trying to catch up on my sleep with some power naps. Between staying up late helping kids with HW (which we start late due to wrestling meets, harp lessons and such), trying to get dinner cooked, the loud storms we have been experienceing, and my husband who sounds like he's sawing down a forest every time he sleeps, seems like I get no sleep, and I'm so exhausted that the laundry piles just grow, the mail pile is spilling off the counter....

Cute chick pix ... I'll go back and look this weekend. Getting out the last of the last-minute holiday gifts people requested I make this week ... The extra $660 I made this week is nice!

CR- I'm buying a bell from you. I'll PM you sometime after we cut a Christmas tree ... assuming the weather cooperates. (If not, I think I'll just pick a tree up at QFC). I'm not in a rush for the bell, so any time is fine. It's not a gift.

What I came on here for ... What causes a hen to lay an egg with a soft shell? My New Hampshire who started laying eggs 10 days ago laid 6 eggs in 6 days, then I thought she took a 2 day break and had another good egg Tuesday and one this afternoon. I pulled out the trays under the roosting bars in my eglu today and found a full-sized softshell egg on one of the trays, and evidence that there may have been a second soft-shell that was partially eaten as their appeared to be egg insides with no shell on the litter tray. (I had last cleaned the trays on Sunday afternoon - I usually do this daily, but the weather has been so nasty!). Until this afternoon, after I found the eggs, the New Hampshire was the only gal of laying age in the Eglu Cube (The others are 19 weeks, but don't have any bright red bits on their faces). Her hard eggs have always been in the nesting box. Last week I caught her ignoring the layer food and chowing down on chick developer, so I mixed hen food with the chick food and added a tray with oyster shell and grit.

Tonight I moved my 2 other hens (which should lay any day - they are both squatting and doing the butt waggle whenever I come near) back into the Eglu cube. Initially the RIR and New Hampshire started their fight again, but the RIR quickly decided the NH is just too big, so now she avoids her. Can't wait for fair weather to let them roam again, or at least a roof and raccoon guard on the 10'x10' dog kennel. (I did manage to get the panels mostly straight again - sometimes being overweight has its advantages.) The Catawba wooden coop is just too difficult to use in we weather. The doors are too difficult to open, I'm always planing them down, sawing bits off, and then I can't get them shut without a hammer and a prybar.

 

[Ogress]

Oh, and DH's ride through the puddle was an expensive one .... The car did not start the next day so he paid $78 for the tow, $45 per day to rent a car (who knows how many days but the kids have sporting/music events in different cities at the same time so the rental was not an option), Who knows how much for a new computer on the VW bug. If you own a bug, do not drive through a deep puddle. The computer is right under the flooboards. You will flood it. I guess that extra cash I've been earning is all going to the repair on his car because he thought making the bug swim would be easier than driving an extra 5 miles ... (well, maybe 8) to get home the back way.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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OK sounds fine but we will have to work out a few details. Like what color, do you want a short bell or long, do you want bracket? And most important how to get it to ya. I don't know where you are !!!

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Nice looking Ameraucanas. After I get settled I will need to take a quick tour of the state and stop by, maybe stop by several place to pick up eggs/chicks and birds.

Of course !
You must "tour" the state...maybe we BYC'ers could pass you about, and show you "our" stomping grounds, nice restaurants, good fishing areas, great get away spots, etc...that would be nice !

Getting to know "your" stomping grounds, restaurants, fishing, hiking and camping areas is a great idea.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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I do give lessons for a very reasonable fee. Could probably save ya some $$.

Would you take hard labor or chicks as payment?

 

[Ogress]

CR - Long Bell! and the bracket

DH requests dark red.

I'm off I-90 a little SE of North Bend - I can drive and pick it up sometime if the kiddos aren't in school that day and don't have anything going on.

Do you need any old steel SCUBA tanks? They've only been used a couple of years, then DH got a re-breather, then we had kids and stopped diving. Then we built a house and ran out of $ to take up the sport again so we got fat and now we can't dive even if we wanted to. Dive shop said it would cost their value to have them re-certified as they are now nearly 20 years old.

I just joined a gym because one day I will dive again, but DH's tanks are waaay to big for me; and besides, I think I must have gills as I can make a small tank last a long time.

Got DS the Tippman 98 you recommended. It was in a package with the mask and other things on sale at Sports Authority. I think DS will have to earn the balls!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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OK that is easy.

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Do you know that I am down at exit 68 off I-5 ??

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Sure they are probably aluminum and I don't know how well they would ring but am sure I could do something with them.

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Very cool I am sure he will like it. Make sure you get a tank with it and get the tank filled. I can imagine the let down of getting that and then no place open to fill the tank so he can play with it. I remember one christmas as a child I got a battery powered train but they forgot batteries. There was no place to get batteries until the next day!!

 

[Robert Blosl]

Did you go get batteries at the Yard Birds? That was my favoirte place. bob