Washingtonians

[Stumpfarmer]

And that reminds me, I need to go check the 1221 cow (Hannah- well, in full, Hannah Teeter Totter, daughter of Picabo Street of Dreams) who might well have a calf this morning.

Long day ahead for me, again, because Baachus pulled his tether peg over and got tangled up in blackberries. I'm tempted to take hair cutting scissors and cut out the last rolled-in thorny twig, not good for his fleece but better for our relationship than combing it out would be!

 

[Teva]

I'm a born putterer. Enough puttering will keep chaos at bay, but it looks so effortless one never gets any credit for it.

I need to learn how to putter.

 

[Chickielady]

I put them in the microwave for 15 - 20 seconds between two damp clothes or paper towels. My MIL who is 100% Guatemalan heats them in a pan in a little oil or olive oil and it makes them flex able... Not long enough to fry them just long enough to heat on both sides maybe 30 seconds place on a plate pat dry with a paper towel and then fill roll n plop in the pan. Also make sure they are fresh the older they are the more likely they are to crack.

Thanks to SarryEyz (sp?) and KMoran for the tortilla tips....
I will give the oil tip a try !


I have little time to chat, unfortunately........have so much to do lately.

I am doing 2 paintings for the American Buckeye Club that they hope to submit to the APA to correct the "awful folkloric" rendition that is in the Standard now.So far I have the Cock Portrait almost completed, then it will be Ok'd and then go to the printers to scan for Giclee prints & a digital master for club sales on T-Shirts, mugs, gift cards, stationary, etc.

Exciting !

I got the house elevation drawings done, so far, but just got the dormer blueprints in the mail from BarnPlans.com so I have to go over that roof elevation again....................I am there fore chained to my desk until further notice.
Hope everyone is well & CR's perfect head is not growing hair.....that would mean it is no longer perfect

All is well here, birdies & us, cept DH has a dental kinda emergency visit tomorrow & then I have doc visit in Oly Thursday................other than that, I will log on 1 X a day for messages & that 's all I can do........busy !

Hugs to all.............And I guess Cheryl is still prego...must be aboyt 12 mo prego by now !!! Poor kid!

 

[Zgoatlady]

OT - WE HAVE NEW BABIES!



Mom is Boer/Nubian, and was bred to a full Boer. JUST BORN!

So cute, now I wish I would have had some this year, it will be the first year in 11 that we dont have kids on the ground.

 

[CailetTempest]

My chicks are about ready to go out into big pen. At least some of them are. So are my ducklings... YEA!!!!!! Started looking at the muscovy eggs in the bator and they should have hatched already so we opened them carefully. 7 of them were quitters and smelt real bad.1 egg had think green goop in it with dead baby. It was very gross. the 8th egg we cracked the top and picked a little so we could see into it. and used my finger poked into the hole and the egg started moving. So covered it with wet paper towel and are hoping for the best. My son ran away from our eggtopsy section because he said it smelled bad. my 10 yr old daughter wanted me to move the chicks around so she could look at them and see all that she could see. She too is hoping the last egg will pull through.

this was my first time incubating eggs so i am still learning. My best guess is the humidity was too low during incubation. Now we have a humidity thermometer along with a regular thermometer in there.

sad day... I was hoping to have them hatch.

 

[Zgoatlady]

In Monroe I bought a silver Ameraucana pullet from Pips&Peeps. She gave me a fertile egg to take home. A nice little bonus for going to the show I thought! I put the egg in my pocket, then in the cup holder of the car for the drive home. Then it sat on the kitchen table in an egg carton, then in the garage. I turned it 3 times a day. I was waiting for the Ameraucana to lay more eggs so I could set them all together in the incubator, but do you think she'd give me anymore? Nada. So 10 days after I brought it home I set it.
Not wanting to waste ALL of the space in my Brinsea, I contacted zgoatlady and she was nice enough to share 6 of her Wheaten Marans eggs with me, so I set those the following day.
Day 21 for the Ameraucana - the "in my pocket, in my cup holder, kitchen table, garage", lonely 10 day old egg - and this morning I woke up to a "cheep!"
What an amazing thing hatching is! Hopefully those 6 other babies will be greeting me tomorrow morning.

OH thats great, hope the other eggs hatch too, we will see about the washed ones.

 

[broodytood]

OH MY GOSH! We read that book when I was in grade school in California. I could never remember the name of it. I thought it was so sad that the person got locked up and missed the sun and that the people had to live in a place with so little sunshine. Then I had to move to western Wa!

I think the sun came out for a minute right when you posted.

(I once saw a sci-fi movie about colonists on a planet that received only one day of sunshine a year. The kids got artificial UV exposure to compensate. And the day the sun was to come out, everyone took the day off. But the mean girls locked the protagonist up in a storage shed. The sun came out. It leaked through the crack under the door. She inched her fingers out so she could catch what she she could. The rain started again. I think of this movie often while spring drags on and the rain keeps coming.)

 

[mikeyb]

OT - WE HAVE NEW BABIES!



Mom is Boer/Nubian, and was bred to a full Boer. JUST BORN!

Hmmm, very nice. I'm thinking fall Bar B Q !
(joking)

 

[Totalcolour]

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Um, well, that's what we are raising them for - well, maybe BBQ ribs, and roasted legs. I'm glad they are both boys - no temptation to keep them!

 

[Totalcolour]

one more thing - just got back from the P.O. to pick up ten baby Welsh Harlequins, and they threw in a couple of other "HarleBelle" (what ever those are) black ducklings. So it's a busy day!