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[Cowgirlgrace]

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So sorry Illia, can't imagine my whole place like that. All the flat areas are bad like the horse paddocks and I have let them into the pasture. I know they are going to tear it up but hopefully can get them into their pens again soon except two panels have blown off their shelter and rain is flooding the matts and eating area so need to get that repaired but ain't going to happen in the wind. My coops are all off the ground and most the runs drain pretty well except for a few so no flooding like you. Also our soil is glacial till so it drains well, not like clay some have to deal with. I just hate it when it's like this. The coops still get yucky because it's so damp and they stay inside more so it's constant cleaning and I hate to go out and clean in this weather. Hope things dry out for you soon. Maybe in March? April? Oh sorry, that wasn't supposed to be funny, more despair than anything.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Things are slow today. Is everyone out at the after Christmas sales or something?

 

[Chickielady]

I am here, on and off. I have to go back and read past posts though...
We are having one T-storm full of hail after another, still, the temp has been 40 give or take a few degrees for weeks now, so I am thinking of turning a raised bed and planting greens, mesclun mix, and slug bait, then cover with clear plastic. Usually the compost keeps it above freezing and nice and cozy, greens like to be cool...sounds good to me, planting on the day after X-mas !

 

[Chickielady]

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh love peeps !

 

[Chickielady]

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Sometime back I had talked about flatiron steaks. Love them. We have a traeger BBQ/grill (love it). We just grill them. I cook them on a higher heat. When done we Cut them across the grain, very yummy. I put a bit of seasoning on them...Salt, pepper, maybe a rub.

I knew I read something when the discussion was going about steaks! Thanks, have a flat iron in the fridge. Was going to have it for Christmas dinner( had the big dinner on christmas Eve so DS could spend Christmas day with his girlfriend and family) Well, then the neighbors had a big bon fire and hubby and #2 son went over there for the evening. All the guys, so I didn't go. They all drink beer and shoot the moon. He texted and said he wasnt hungry so maybe tonight for the steak.

Ha, talk about drama. When ever the neighbors family comes to their house he always has a bonfire with the beer and all. I go sometimes but all the wives and even his daughters are always nagging him to stop drinking and get inside, they are yelling this out the back window, his wife even came out to pull him aside to give him a lecture. The poor guy can't even have a drink with his buddys and enjoy some time with them. The guy only drinks a few times a month anyway. She is such a controlling nag. Thats why I stay home and don't join 'the women' in the house. I'll have a few beers by the fire then go and let the guys do their thing. The way I look at is at least they are drinking at home and not in a bar somewhere then driving home. My husband came home early and said there was way too much drama. He couldn't handle it anymore. The thing that really gets me is the wife on her birthday drank a bottle of wine all by herself, she doesn't usually drink so it was pretty bad, there was no one there for her birthday but my hubby and I and her hubby so he had a bonfire and we just had a good time with some food and our entertainment was his very drunk wife. Hmm. ok for her to be drunk by the fire but not him. Such a double standard. She was apologising to me the next day and I told her what happens at the fire stays at the fire. She needs to Chillax. She can't control everything and she can't change people. Just love them the way they are and let it go. You only live once.

My sweetie pie has his fort down the hill, his pole-barn shop with a woodstove in it. He has all his toys, hot rod magazines, posters on the walls of lead sleds...all his welding stuff and alot of tools, and workbench. He goes down there in the morning and takes his coffee like it is his job. He returns for breakfast, and goes back after, and does whatever all day, but at 5 PM he has a cocktail (the drink kind) and returns to the fort to close it down for the night , lets the dog run and throws the ball for him. It is a ritual. I seldom go down there unless I need a tool, or calling him to dinner. It is nice to have him have his own space !

 

[Chickielady]

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Boy you can say that again ! CL takes such awesome loving care of the DW...and the BiL should treat you better !

 

[Chickielady]

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Oh Cheryl she looks like a little Angel !!!!

So cute and beautiful !!!

 

[Chickielady]

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well I can see wees got our werk cut out fer us edacatin ya when ya gets here !!!!

darn tootin !

My grandpa had a whirley I loved. It was a little man sawing a log...and the faster the wind blew, the faster that little guy would saw that log. Then one day he was gone

blown away !

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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It's just a family thing !!!!! Sister, Mother and 1 of 2 of her brothers. Well to them I say

go drink yer nasty beer and think yer all that.

 

[Chickielady]

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wow, we have not had that much rain...not that much, but Illia does live in the only true Rainforest north of the equater.
Supposed to be sometimes in excess of 73" a year ??