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[PitterPatterPalace]

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We just got a freebie Dogloo II XL off CL this past weekend. Look on there- you can find some good deals.

 

[blueducklings]

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Hope she is going to be OK. She is pretty...for a chicken.
But of course my duckie BonBon is prettier. LOL
What show are you going to???
I want to go too. Will there be plenty of ducks there??? And good food and yummy oysters??

 

[blueducklings]

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HEY Who is this stranger popping in here ????

*waves timidly* Hi! I am new here.

Hello new folks.
Where is T-Hi???
Anybody see her?

 

[Chickielady]

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*waves timidly* Hi! I am new here.

CR's bark is way way worse than his bite We are all happy to have you

I believe he was referring to Blue Ducklings, as he quoted her.
And she has not been around for quite a while!

So where ya been BD ???

And welcome to Mia!!!

Don't be timid here!!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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HEY Who is this stranger popping in here ????

*waves timidly* Hi! I am new here.

NO NO NO SORRY Mia I was talking to / about blueducklings as she has been missing for a while. Sorry you thought I was jumping on you. We welcome all here. Just keep yer runnin booties on cause things can get moooovin pretty fast at tymez.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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They have pushed over/smashed all the pasture fence, barbed wire topper or not- which is why I'm slowly (at the rate I can pay cash and not credit) adding livestock panels to the entire perimeter. They still knock anything up against the base of that to heck and pull tall grass out and undercut the posts, so I need a low hotwire to keep the bottom from being dug up. I might be able to get away with an apron + scrap wood + soil anchors except I either need to figure out where my two dozen soil anchors went (I suspect my BIL ran off with them when he was building pig runs) or find a way to cut the tangled-up mess of rebar that I already have. People who complain about soils developed on glacial till need to come try to make a secure fence in sand, especially with the kind of slopes I've got. I gave up on keeping everything stretched: it either pulls to the inside corner or the posts that are as little as six inches down-slope end up popping out of the ground after a heavy rain.

Not to mention the kind of mess that watering troughs make- and they're never good, unless you've got a 40X40 driveway quality slab under them. I went up to check to be sure the upper trough was turned off (we're trying to trap the bull and two cows in the orchard so the leased bull can go to a new home and two barren cows can be transformed into a new form but the pasture's so lush they aren't hanging out for water) and the trough at my cousin's has basically sunk into the ground. Cows walk away with mud on their feet and sooner or later you end up with the fence undercut.

*sigh*

What is it, "something there is that doesn't love a wall?"

64. Mending Wall

SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing: 5
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made, 10
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go. 15
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them. 20
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. 25
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. 30
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down!" I could say "Elves" to him, 35
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me, 40
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

Frost pretty obviously never lived in a neighborhood with kids who think it's the best kind of fun to come on to his land and shoot at the cattle with paintballs, for instance, or set barns on fire by various means.

Or suburbanites who think it's a great idea, when they're getting rid of the previous homeowner's landscaping, to dump Rhododendron in with the cattle. I'm all with the guy who's building the wall, when I read that poem.

 

[Chickielady]

I am surfing for good pics of wildlife, horses, farm scenes, fishing, salmon, hunting scenes, and so on, to paint.
Anyone have some nice photos ?
PM or send to [email protected]
Thanks, I may be able to use them to paint some paintings for the Fair.
I have exactly 1 month to do so..so am in a hurry, as usual...Thanks!!!

These are two I painted last year:

Beach Ponies:

Northwest Trek:

 

[Chickielady]

Gotta go!
Later friends!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Hope she is going to be OK. She is pretty...for a chicken.
But of course my duckie BonBon is prettier. LOL
What show are you going to???
I want to go too. Will there be plenty of ducks there??? And good food and yummy oysters??

Maybe.
I have sent a PM to the gal in charge asking about the PT testing, is a vet going to do it there (free) or do we have to get it done at our expense ?
So, if it is free, I may enter a few birdies.
I always enter a few paintings & vegies.
last year I won Grand Champion with my Roma pole beans

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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They looks so real, well done.