Washingtonians

[hallerlake]

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Where you are right now isn't so bad either, though I left the Bay Area for Washington nearly 20 years ago because it was getting too crowded and too expensive for me. I was back there last week. The air no longer looks brown (at least not that week), but the crowds are still there. Sometimes I miss the sunshine and the beautiful coastline, but I don't regret my move here at all.

It is a nice place, but I hate looking at hills or parks and just seeing dead grass. I like the trees and all the green and all the rain plus Seattle's just about the coolest city on earth and I want to go to school at UW!

Lots of BYCers from WA!

dead grass doesn't do a darn thing for me.

 

[Kaneke]

ok -- time for me to quit boasting about eggs -- looks like Christina (large pale mint green) and Phoebe (pale turquoise blue) earned their feed today

at least three, and I think actually four, of the girls are laying

I need to put webcams near the nest boxes (one in the coop, three in the run, but they aren't using two of those so I'm planning to remove those; possibly move one of them into the coop)

I thought I had a baby monitor around here someplace, but cannot locate it --- usually the buh-GAWK-ing is loud enough that I hear them through the balcony door anyway

got a couple of large glassed picture frames to turn into windows for the crate (the chickens are still in the smaller donated coop), and some very sturdy hinges, either to make a "Dutch door" arrangement for the crate, or to hinge the fancy nest boxes I removed from the donated coop --- they are too heavy and awkward and difficult to access, the way they were originally installed

hoping to hear good news from everyone this next week -- we have had enough "rain on our parades", time to turn that all around

 

[Ogress]

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It is a nice place, but I hate looking at hills or parks and just seeing dead grass. I like the trees and all the green and all the rain plus Seattle's just about the coolest city on earth and I want to go to school at UW!

Lots of BYCers from WA!

dead grass doesn't do a darn thing for me.

If it is on a steep enough hill, you can flatten it into an awesome "card-board slide." This is how I spent my summers as a youth. You have to be carefull though, sometimes both the cardboard and the grass would be worn too thin and I'd wind up with an awful road-rash!

 

[broodytood]

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Hey... That's where I was born!!!
I don't miss the dead grass but I have never gotten use to 9 months of grey, cloudy, rainy weather!

 

[Kaneke]

on the other hand, because of that grey cloudy rainy weather, you will have MUCH nicer looking skin for many more years

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Well see what happens when I get caught snoozin !!!! I get tagged as being a nice guy! Come on now ya can't be telling everybody or they will spect it from me all the time.

OK seriously to those who helped to make this happen Thank you very much. I am truly honored that my BYC BUDDIES feel this way about me.
Thank you all. I have said it before and will say it again. BYCer's are some of the kindest most caring people I have ever known.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Had a busy day starting with going to get a free picnic table. The table turned out to be nothing more than some very good building planks. But it is the other items that I am so happy with. Like an awesome little SOLID copper skillet with a solid brass handle. It is now polished and will find a new home on a wall. Adn there were some nice C I skillets, hames, wagon wheels, brown glass Purex and Clorox jugs, and several other old bottles, AND a 6' misery whip.
Then got some paint splattered on coops and burned up almost 5 gal of gas cruising around Michelle's lawn and then ours. Sure am glad that when DW insisted I get a riding mower a few years ago that I told her she could pick out what ever she wanted as long as it had a comfy seat and drink holder (for my soda sorry no beer here

). And the cruise control is just an added bonus.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

There's plenty of dead grass here too - in the summer and fall. I first visited in late August last year and wondered where all the green was (that everyone had told me about).

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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You lucky duck, where did you get wagon wheels? I've been looking for some (reasonably priced) forever. If you run across anymore let me know or pick them up for me. I'll come get them.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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OK, I have some good news. Our local feed store had a drawing for 2000 lbs of feed. They picked 10 people to get 200 lb ea and I won twice so I get 400 lbs free chicken food!