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[Chickielady]

all is right in the world...except for the Discover card bill..

oh yeah we will pay for the trip, the building permit, and acess permit with the power company to have them come out twice and turn on and off the power...on top of the property taxes due in December in California, AND Christmas...with 6 kids between us I wrote them all out checks before the meter went haywire....

Good night and anyone want awesome Marans for sale PM me.

 

[Imp]

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Or ducks.

Chickielady,

Is it safe to assume that Koi would be vulnerable to Raccoons?

Russ

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

okay....all the Mexican food talk....we are having nachos or tacos or taco salad (depending on which one of us you are)....but yum. I am having a sip of Patron with my small nacho and 1 taco that I am having. Are they authentic....NO...very americanized....but still yummy.

 

[Ogress]

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Oh I remember how every weird smell, even so familiar smells would set of the gagging...I had to quit Architectural classes because of the smells and puking first thing in the morning.

I love being a mom, but I was not a good pregnant person. Even a photo of a hamburger was enough to make me puke! (which made it all the more bothersome as I knew it was psychological, yet I had no control over it.) A co-worker was pregant the same time (babies born 3 days apart). I hated seeing her skipping through the halls at work, eating anything she wanted. I carried a bucket with me wherever I went and used it often. It all evened out though, Alex was a piece of cake as a baby ... slept through the night from day 1! He did not have a temper tantrum until he was nearly 3 and it lasted less than a minute. Her baby was a screamer! I never met someone who threw more tempertantrums! By 2 weeks, Mom was wishing there was a way to push her back in. At 18 months when her husband was on a business trip, she called 911 because she could not get DD to stop yelling and she thought she was going to have a nervous breakdown. (If you do this they will immediately send out multiple emergency vehicles to your house ... paramedics, the sheriff, CPS .... she was not even off the phone yet, and they were already pulling up, and she lives out in the middle of nowhere!) Her baby is now 12 years old, beautiful, good natured, well-balanced. You'd never suspect she was such a handful.

 

[Chickielady]

Koi or anyother fish are very vulnerable to racoons or green or tall stilt-like herons unless the pond is DEEP.
There has to be a deep end -I would say at least 4 to 6 foot deep where they ca hide. They also over winter in deep holes as the water is warmer there. There needs to be no circulation during winter.

notice crab float...4700 gallons

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2800 gallons

this is a pic of koi "asleep" (they do not hybernate) in 14 degrees of water at about 16 feet down...the water was so clear...the white sock thing is the outvent filet for the bio-filtration system...

 

[Ogress]

H.Hills: Love your garden pics! Do you have to walk up all those stairs to get your eggs? That's a beautiful coop. Looks like you can compete with The Fancy Farmgirl!

http://www.thefancyfarmgirl.com/heres-the-coop/

 

[Chickielady]

water jewelry.....anyone want imfo on koi, ponds, water filtration , let us know. That includes native fish and disease.
Good night !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See ya tomorrow T !!

 

[Chickielady]

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And freaking Martha.

Everyone wants to be Martha.

I love the photography.

 

[Chickielady]

Goodnight all !!
Stay warm !

 

[Illia]

Cold still, everything is still frozen and covered in frozen hail from 2 days ago, and I'm feeling really drained today. . .

Hope tomorrow is at least a bit better.