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[Chicken Rustler]

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Is that oak? Locust? I know a lot of the old homestead locusts are finally coming down in my neighborhood, great firewood once it dries enough to split.

I miss having a wood stove- especially when the lights go out- but not splitting or stacking wood.

Nope it's silver fir but what the heck it was all cut, split, seasoned and best of all free!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Is that oak? Locust? I know a lot of the old homestead locusts are finally coming down in my neighborhood, great firewood once it dries enough to split.

I miss having a wood stove- especially when the lights go out- but not splitting or stacking wood.

Nope it's silver fir but what the heck it was all cut, split, seasoned and best of all free!!

Burns a little faster than doug fir but smells really nice, and seasoned is what's good. The first year we were married we had to cut 3" maple saplings and dry the rounds in the house so they'd burn. Our landlord (who was a real peach let me tell you, and the reason we decided the social stigma of a mobile home was worth it to live on our own land) insisted that the rusty oil tank was full and we could heat with the furnace: it was full, alright, full of scummy water with a bit of rainbow sheen on the top. We spent all our wedding money on a woodstove and stuck it in the drafty amatuer-built fireplace, and scrounged firewood anywhere we could.

 

[Kaneke]

yes I remember after we were married and moving into a house my hubby's coworker sold to us (he was moving permanently to Alaska)

there was a six week wait to get oil delivery for the floor furnace, so we scrounged leftover Christmas trees, all over town ( college town, Corvallis Oregon) --- and burned those in the fireplace to keep warm

nothing to chop them with, so I would stick the cut end into the fireplace and shove it in bit by bit as the flames consumed each tree

did not help that I was several months pregnant; as soon as that was established, we had moved out of our initial cramped studio apartment and negotiated with Den's coworker

mostly Douglas fir trees, a few pines, only one spruce which I hated -- the needles were savage!

when we ran out of trees, we cut up dry blackberry vines and burned those

luckily it was a milder December and January than usual -- rained buckets but not much frost -- until we finally got the oil delivery, and almost burned down the house before we got that $%^&* floor furnace properly ignited

 

[cmsdvm]

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And I had always heard turkeys weren't bright. I guess yours are proving they are the exception to the rule. Cute pics. Your rooster is very vibrant!

My midget white turkeys were dumb as shrubbery, but these bronzes I have this year seem quite personable and intelligent. Does anyone have a female bronze turkey they want to part with, by the way? I have 5- all males.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Hopefully it will closes up & resolves on it own or the doc was seeing things that weren't there. Not like a first time mom and dad need anything else to worry about.

I know!

 

[pettec63]

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And I had always heard turkeys weren't bright. I guess yours are proving they are the exception to the rule. Cute pics. Your rooster is very vibrant!

My widget white turkeys were dumb as shrubbery, but these bronzes I have this year seem quite personable and intelligent. Does anyone have a female bronze turkey they want to part with, by the way? I have 5- all males.

I will take pictures of mine, I have no idea what they are, I think they are hens (is that the right term?) and I think they are spanish black?? I'm really getting atached to them, they are very calm and follow me around and are really pretty cool!

 

[RustyHen]

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Very Cool...
you have giant worms?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Well, DH & I have come to the conclusion we cannot afford the "Abby's Farm" crib set I have been wanting.

The cheapest place I found it was here....

http://www.babyviva.com/show_produc...ogle&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_term=999513-7330

But it's still too spendy.

I have the wall hangs & the mobile already....

Anyway, I'm shopping for another set....the walls are a pale yellow....

These are my top choices....(in no particular order) so far:

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-JOJO-DESIGN...626?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27bce65a9a

http://cgi.ebay.com/JOJO-BROWN-PINK...292?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a129fc63c

http://cgi.ebay.com/Boutique-GEENNY...429?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45fc10afc5

I have several fitted mattress sheets (and a waterproof protector) already.

 

[Kaneke]

let me add a word of sympathy (that you feel you cannot afford the set you want)

babies are destructive ....

what comes out of both ends, stains .... and some of those won't come out even with careful laundering

frequent laundering will definitely be in your future

you were wise to start out with wall decorations ... those will STAY pretty

I started out with pretty sheets and accessories ...

I soon found out that for ME ... plain white was the best, it can be bleached !

thick woven but sturdy cotton blankets were FAR better than the pretty fluffy ones I was given as gifts

plain cotton diapers were great, not only for spit-up cloths, but ever since, a myriad of uses around the house

Huggies brand unscented diaper wipes are the best (and you can use them on YOUR face too !)
(they are the same thing as the much more expensive facial wipes sold by the cosmetic companies)

but you know what? your focus will be on your beautiful daughter, after she arrives, you won't have time nor energy to look around at her surroundings

and she will love the mobile once she learns to focus her eyes

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

I can tell you that there is no difference between 105* (Friday and Saturday) and the 107* we had today, its all miserable. Suppose to be 107* tomorrow also.