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[Stumpfarmer]

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As do we all.

I'm in all kinds of sympathy about the OCD hubbster: mine is on the hoarding/cluttering spectrum, but there's personality traits which are always there, including the constant (negative modifiers) control freaking.

Finally slept in for a while today, although awake from before six until after seven, so not much. Have to do morning chores and then slog through 3/4 of the shopping I usually do over four days: not only is Monday (daughter's second day off) a holiday, she has to take her BF to the airport tomorrow to fly to Boise for a family gathering; his grandfather is in his nineties, so the whole family goes their quite often. She was there for his birthday in the spring, and gets along well with his family, which is good.

Chores this morning includes dumping and draining Bacchus's water bucket; maybe it's just because I'm used to cattle, which drink heroic amounts of water, but he doesn't seem to be drinking enough, and I suspect he's unhappy with the smell of the bucket.

I gave up on the idea that I'd get the Wyandotte run and coop done soon enough that I could keep the tractor in the shade of the big trellised rose, and pushed it down the hill twelve feet (using 2" PVC Pipe rollers, which work really well once you figure them out) where they have zero shade, and pinned all the windproofing up. I'll put a tarp out to give them sone shade tomorrow- have ALSO to water the heck out of all the fence rows to cut down fire danger, and move Bacchus' pen. Somehow. With a show of strength unequalled since 2004.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Oh, dear. Does he have any idea how messy babies are? He's in for a shock.

Here's a t-shirt for him. http://www.cafepress.com/+i_have_cdo_dark_tshirt,437328017

GAWD, that's perfect! LOL

Yes, he knows about messy babies...but that's "different" because it's a human--not a filthy animal....

Some humans are filthy animal.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Fabio is a gorgeous bird- not so much with the extreme breed type, but high up on the "Roosters as Walking Works of Art" scale.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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No, sorry, I'm in Lacey, far from Omak.

Oh, bummer. I was thinking Moses Lake. Dang.

Sorry. On the other hand, if it's 110 in Omak and you look at the weather map and sigh for my temps, you could declare it a health emergency to come over and pick berries, right?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh, dear. Does he have any idea how messy babies are? He's in for a shock.

Here's a t-shirt for him. http://www.cafepress.com/+i_have_cdo_dark_tshirt,437328017

GAWD, that's perfect! LOL

Yes, he knows about messy babies...but that's "different" because it's a human--not a filthy animal....

Speaking as a mother and a farmer, both of which involve excrement as part of the job description: Poo is Poo.

 

[Chickielady]

Hi guys!!
I am finally catching up here, not going to be able to catch up with past posts though.
I have to go out in the onion bed & scoop soil from around the bulbs so they can better swell.
Dad says I planted them a bit too deep and they cannot bulb if deep.
They are sending up seed heads..so it is time!
Have just picked a big tub of huge strawberries for desert..and raspberries mixed in.
Birds are all doing great.
Have game & quail & pheasant pips tomorrow.
have a Cuckoo Maran fertility test pip tomorrow too!!!!!!!
New feather shanked & toed Cockerals are doing the job, and I cannot waite to see the chicks.
I also have a list of people waiting for these eggs..and chicks, so am collecting the largest darkest eggs for a new set

More news::: Going to denniselk's Tuesday afternoon to get turkeys

And stopping in to see T-Hi at her new digs

Yesterday we had a fantastic day!!
We went shopping, feed store, liquidators, and there we got 6 vacuum packs of Starbucks coffees at $4 a pack (versus $10-$12 a pack at Safeway)
Then we saw Stumpfarmer..and she has the most awesome chickens, little coop designs and ROSES everywhere!!!!!
Her yard is full of the prettiest flowers & rare blooming shrubs I have ever seen outside of a nursery.
And bought some great grass fed beef from her.
If DH likes it, we will go in on a quarter.
I wish we could have stayed longer, she is a wealth of information..but had to run, and then the day got even more exciting.
Bee right back!

 

[SadieSue]

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Well, shucks! I thought you guys were in a hurry! I loved visiting with you and your friend. I could talk chickens all day. When I get a fridge down in the tack room I can start offering drinks. We can sit on the porch and kick it with the country tunes! Let me know if the chickens work out for your friend, sorry, not good with names. She can always bring them back and try something else. The dogs love it when people come by. Dozer our Lab especially loves it when folks bring their kids. He tries to get in their car to snatch up all the crumbs and fries left on the floor by the younguns! They are very well socialized due to all our visiters.

Ha, you don't know how tempting that is CGG! Heck we don't need a fridge in the tack room, I'll just bring a cooler and some drinks on ice next time! We can talk chickens and just about any old thing we want to chat about when you have a few hours to kill.
Spoke to my gf, Phyllis, this morning. Chickens are doing fine so far but of course there is a period of adjustment. She has them penned separately in a little coop across the yard, but within vision of the other girls.
I love Dozer and Bella. They always put out the welcome mat as soon as we pull up. They are such sweet and pretty dogs.
You name the day and we'll come and shoot the breeze with you any ol' time - also, I know Phyllis would love to bring some models or clients out to your place and do a photography session. So if you need photos, bartering is always a good thing!
Thank you again -

 

[RedReiner]

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Prior to having kids I used to squirt soft-scrub with bleach on all the grout-lines on my kitchen counters and scrub them all witha toothbrush at least once per week, Everything in my house had its spot, and all was too clean. Now I just make sure the bathrooms are clean and there is a decent sized clean spot on the kitchen counter, and maybe I will get around to the rest some time during the year. I would have been disgusted walking into my own house a few years ago, but now I find that most people I know with kids the same ages as mine have homes in similar dissarray, and friends whose kids have moved away are back to having clean (but no longer spotless) homes.

As I sit here. My house is a complete mess... Dishes in the sink, floors need to be swept, toys strewn about, tiny little dirty socs lay where ever Chloe took them off... Hec I even have furnature up on my couches still... My dogs like to sneek up onto my couches at night. Thats a BIG no no here. Theres pizza boxes on the stove from lat night, my riding boots kicked off under a side table... Fish tanks have algea growth... Place is cluttered. BUT. It will only tae me 45 minutes to get it cleaned up. Everything besides laundry that is...
Need to have an electrician out to check my shop. The dryer is running on 110 instead of the normal 220... I only have one working plug in the entire shop... Outside fllod lamp no longer works, and even the stove upstairs is messed up. The previous tennant above the shop rewired the entire building to operate an illegal MJ grow set up... Since then nothing in that building has worked correctly...

if you dont want to put furniture on your furniture to keep the pets off, go to office depot or somewhere, walmart...buy the plastic runners that you put under your office chair or in a long hall way, they have little spikes on the bottom side to grip carpet so they dont slide. cut those to fit and flip them spikey side up and lay them on your couch at night...dog aint getting up there....

 

[Chickielady]

Ok, continueing on our way...
I had told my Mother we would be stopping by after going to Stumpfarmer's, but as usually my Mother had made elaborate lunch plans..cooking all morning some special gluton-free concoction she discovered.
So we had to have the late lunch there, so off we went back to Elam, and the traffic heading west was horrid!!
Three out of 5 vechicles was a boat, camper, trailer or big RV...going slower than molasses all the way down I-5 and out towards the coast....

So, finally got there, and sitting on the back patio, talking to Dad about his garden..and suddenly a swarm of honey bees came over the top of the house like a black cloud and were all around us !
I shreiked !
BEES!
My Dad was alarmed but say still...we all watched unmoving as they settled first in a grape vine, then over a 10-minute period floated into his pear tree.
There they clustered into a moving glob of bees....the buzzing was loud & clear and they were so awesome!!
We got ahold of CR, who gave recommendations to find a apiarist, and called the local guy, but he was not at home.
Our bee boxes were here at home

So we could not capture them..
Finally the old bee guy called, and showed up with a box.
We all sat about 10 feet away & watched him first sprayed the cluster with sugar water to cool & calm them down.
The bees then licked themselves, it was awesome to watch.
Then he collected the bees in a waxed paper milkshake cup, 12 fill 16-oz cups over flowing with bees, and put them in the hive box.
he captured the new queen, and I got to walk over (in shorts) and look at her.
SO COOL!!!!!!!!!
He got them all in the box, put the inner & outter lid on, and left to go check on another swarm he was capturing a few blocks away (why he was not home when we first called!)
The bees all went in & got to houskeepin'.
He came back later & took them home.
Next spring we will get hive splits from him

And all this coming winter, DH is building more hive bosies & honet supers so we will have plenty next spring.
Maybe have to get to one of CR's classes too.
I am reading alot of bee books, so am studying up.
Then we came home and made GF pizza...a great day.

 

[Chickielady]

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Well, shucks! I thought you guys were in a hurry! I loved visiting with you and your friend. I could talk chickens all day. When I get a fridge down in the tack room I can start offering drinks. We can sit on the porch and kick it with the country tunes! Let me know if the chickens work out for your friend, sorry, not good with names. She can always bring them back and try something else. The dogs love it when people come by. Dozer our Lab especially loves it when folks bring their kids. He tries to get in their car to snatch up all the crumbs and fries left on the floor by the younguns! They are very well socialized due to all our visiters.

Ha, you don't know how tempting that is CGG! Heck we don't need a fridge in the tack room, I'll just bring a cooler and some drinks on ice next time! We can talk chickens and just about any old thing we want to chat about when you have a few hours to kill.
Spoke to my gf, Phyllis, this morning. Chickens are doing fine so far but of course there is a period of adjustment. She has them penned separately in a little coop across the yard, but within vision of the other girls.
I love Dozer and Bella. They always put out the welcome mat as soon as we pull up. They are such sweet and pretty dogs.
You name the day and we'll come and shoot the breeze with you any ol' time - also, I know Phyllis would love to bring some models or clients out to your place and do a photography session. So if you need photos, bartering is always a good thing!
Thank you again -

Monica has a fridge stocked with soft drinks & wine coolers in her "sitting" area of her riding arena

The covered arena is about the size of a football field, and chickens run around all over inside, out of the rain