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[jbear]

Good morning!
Just stopping by to catch up before work... We have tech students coming in now, and it makes for a very busy sometimes hectic day, So I don't get ta keep up during the day!

SadieSue~thank you so much for picking up the pen thing yesterday, you will have made some baby chicks so very happy to experience grass for the first time--if we ever get SUN! lol!

see YOU later today, tomorrow or whenever.

I am getting excited for the Stevenson Show--how about you guys!

CGG--like RFF said, guard geese make more noise than anything, although-they are supposed to help keep hawks away etc.. which in my book would be a bonus enough to keep them if I had the room , and less neighbors.

Had a hawk scoping out dinner from a branch RIGHT above the garden on Sunday evening. Lucky I have my redneck hawk net up... *whew* Chickens and ducks were totally plastered under hutches, up against the house, in the hen house.. crows were going crazy.

 

[Chickielady]

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No ultrasound techs at your hospital ?
Most have full radiolgic amenities...maybe the hospital won't examine you unless you are sick...

Hope it all works out...
I have to look at your necklaces, I like greens...so will look at them.

CL: Remember this is Omak and an Omak Hopsital. And Omak Clinic.

Yeah~
I don't even think there was a clinic at all in Okanogan when I lived out there...if you got hurt up where we were (by round lake outside Tonasket) you had better have a full tank of gas & be able to drive.

 

[Chickielady]

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Artbeads is awesome - I buy from them often, especially when they have sales on sterling, of if I want just a few tubes of delicas for weaving; but when I have a huge order, pricing at Fire Mountain is usually best, and they are in Grants Pass Oregon (with a great shop just off I-5 that I can stop at on my way to Cali). Another nice shop is Shipwreck - they do discounts, but not on combined items like FM (FM can be any products, not just 10 of the same thing). Shipwreck has tigers eye that is far more beautiful than I have seen from anywhere else. It is a bit more pricey, but well worth the difference!

I've been to Shipwreck. i have a friend who lives in Lacey.

Hi Haller

I have a friend out in Oly-Lacey too (Boldogkennel) and I have seen the shipwreck bead place off I-5 (something snaps my head right around) and there is NO way I am going in there !
I will for sure 'catch' beadie-itis again...which is way more expensive and does not pay for itself near as well as 'hatchititus' does !

My ex-MiL owned "the Bead Box" in Campbell CA when I was in High School....she made beaded flowers & whole arrangements, and taught classes, and tons of beads.
I never caught "Beadie-itus" back then, I was too sick with "Horsey-itus". I was always riding~~
I did just climb up in the "attic" in this barn & get my box of beads down & dusted it off....now let's see what happens....

 

[Chickielady]

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where ?

I grew up in San Jose - last street at the base of the Santa Teresa Foothills. I saw one at someone's house here in NB as well; first one I'd seen since I left Cali. The house it was in front of was probably 100 yrs old. Sadly they cut down the tree a couple years back when they expanded and modernized the house.

DH is down there now, and the Buckeye seeds are rolling down the muddy canyons & going to start growing soon...want him to bring some back ?
Give him something to do while he is waiting & waiting & waiting~

 

[Chickielady]

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Interesting, Does he guard or does he herd?

That's what I'm always curious of.

Someone once crossed a Collie w/ a Pyrenese, and I was thinking. . . Is he going to chase the chickens, then guard, then chase, then guard?

I have a pyranees X Australian shepard cross, and he is at best, a lazy type dog, medium-large and loves to "watch" he is into voyerism!
When we play, at 5 PM when work is done, he will run & chase a red laser & tug of war & other "games" for a big 15 minutes before collapsing, he is a big dog.
One morning early, 5 Guinea keets about 2 mo old escaped their pen, and Jack "herd" them in the front yard and kept them there, and just laid down & watched.
Herd dogs are very good at making a "presence" of themselves, so the livestock knows they are there, and stay put.
He has never chased anything other than a tennis ball, and he is not a very good tennis ball dog.
he sits & watches you throw the ball, and watches it sail through the air, bounce & roll away.
Then he goes back to sleep.
He will be 1 year old, middle of next month.
Zgoat has a pyranees too.
I think the BIG dog genetics "tone down" any "herding/chasing" hyperactivity the cross may introduce.
And the Aussie in him, tones down the giant breed size.
He is a cutey too.
I am glad we rescued him.
The giant livestock guardian breeds are slower moving, liking to lay or sit & watch livestock.
How is your Chow with livestock ?

 

[Chickielady]

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Isn't it amazing given that they have no roots to speak of, and are generally just goo & water ?

they are capable of making many anchoring structures. In fact, most of what we harvest to eat (mushrooms) are just the fruiting bodies. The other parts remain alive for years, and are underground or spread throughout rotting wood or structure. In fact, some have been found to be miles long,.. and can lie dormant for years without producing fruiting bodies. Fungus are fascinating!

We fell several 120 year old Spruce last fall, and had limbs ground up into chips, so have several 8 foot tall piles of wood chips, and one day last fall DH came in & grabbed the camera and said come see this!
There was dog vomit on several 'peaks' of the wood chip pile...sure enough, it was dog vomit slime mold...soooooooo weird!

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/june99.html
It appeared over night, BRIGHT yellow, and looks for all the world like some animal (coyote?) climbed the pile & hurled right on top...then it pales and dries up over several days, then disapears.
Then reappears days later in other places.
We thought some animal just came to our property to puke...finally found the fungus on line.

 

[Chickielady]

Illia.quick question. Are you planning on planting any tomatillos ?
I love them...and tried last year half heartedly to grow them, my main energy going into greens, bean & tomatoes.
Just wondering if you have grown them & what success or methods you tried.

 

[Chickielady]

Am I the ONLY one here ???

Guess I will surf the seed catalogs.............go look at beads...........

I am convinced MiL is doing even better today, just a feeling...

Blue Duckling...how much you selling the Genesis for ?

 

[Ogress]

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I grew up in San Jose - last street at the base of the Santa Teresa Foothills. I saw one at someone's house here in NB as well; first one I'd seen since I left Cali. The house it was in front of was probably 100 yrs old. Sadly they cut down the tree a couple years back when they expanded and modernized the house.

DH is down there now, and the Buckeye seeds are rolling down the muddy canyons & going to start growing soon...want him to bring some back ?
Give him something to do while he is waiting & waiting & waiting~

I'd love one!

.... and if the season was later, so the grass was dry, I'd tell him to go down those hills on a cardboard slide! I miss those summers. We never had snow to go sledding, but we had sometihing even better when the grass was dry (most of the time!), the Cardboard Slides! All the kids from the neighborhood would climb the tallest hill and slide down on a piece of cardboard, and we'd repeat this over and over until the hill became very smooth and fast, except for a rough patch we kept near the bottom to try and keep from flying through the barbedwire fence and into the cement lined dry flash-flood canal. We'd go until the cardboard pieces were worn too thin, and we'd still go down, hoping the cardboard would last one more run, finally stopping when we'd wear through, all of us going home in the evenings with roadrash on our thighs under our cut-offs with scrapes from the gravel and rip-gut brome and the occasional impaled foxtail.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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No, I am here also.