Washingtonians

[mikeyb]

as to hospital charges; according to the mag from aarp.
apparently when you go to an emergency room and they say you have to stay or they'll admit you BEWARE, BEWARE. If they list you as being observed, or for OBSERVATION your insurance will most likely not cover it and YOU will get stuck with the bill (full rate) Even if you have medicare, it won't be covered if it is for observation. AND the hopital can change it even after you are truely ADMITTED, and its the nerds in management that do it and they do it over the objections of your Doctor.
This has become a real problem and there is growing interest in the problem by our elected officials but I don't expect much will change anytime soon.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Yeah like that's something to be proud of silly girly !!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: You KNOW IT GIRL I lived there for a short time near the hospital and then we moved to The Dalles in 1965.

 

[mikeyb]

for everyone who likes ducks:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/rescued-ducks-encounter-w_n_1943208.html

 

[mikeyb]

What an eventful day.
I met CL and Einstein today, alas it was just for a short while. I did get a very nice Jersey Giant roo for my girls.
Got him home (he's about 16 weeks old) and after about 2 hours in his crate and the girls being nosey I turned him loose.
Everything went very well, drank some water, went into the coop (I did too) and he checked everything out and then went back out into the run.
The #2,3,4 hens challenged him and he put them all in their place. He strutted his stuff and went into the yard for a little free ranging and ran into the coop boss. She apparently was not amused by his presence. They chest bumped, then they got their talons up and out and finally the coop boss had enough of this youngster and removed a beak full of chest feathers from him.
Yeah, he's learning. He ran off and sulked for awhile.
7 RIR, 2 Eng Orps and 1 young Jersey Giant in soft grey.

Started painting the coop today. Whew, I got one side done, primer only. All went well until clean up. Life is tough, but it sure gets harder when you add stupid to the formula.
I purchased 5 gals of good primer. The choice I had was tintable or non tintable primer. Since I had a difficult surface to cover I chose tintable and had it darkened from white to a deep pink. (another storey). I chose an oil base (I thought it was a water base) and when done I happily got my bucket and hose and proceeded to clean up my roller, pan and brush. I soon realized that I had a mess. sigh. Another trip to the hardware store for more trays, brush and roller and thinner.
Cant wait to hear what my neighbor has to say about my pink chicken coop. (it'll be barn red with white trim when done).

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Oh, hey, just realized I need to eat the other half of my breakfast and go take a nap. I was awakened in the wee small hours of the morning by my husband's voice saying "Oh, hello, big white cow" and got to go out in the frosty starlight to chase her in and chain the gate that some trespasser did not close correctly. We were lucky that it was one cow, no calves, not the bull; it could have been 31 all together and I do not know if any of you have dealt with thirty-one shorthorns at 3:30am while wearing your nighty, Carhardt hoody, and barn shoes so old they're probably more than 50% cow manure by weight, but I have, more than once, and it's really more of a life-enhancing experience than I'm currently up to.

Good to see you again, Stumpfarmer!
I know it wasn't funny to you, but that's quite a mental image of you out chasing cattle in the moonlight!

It wasn't amusing when it happened, but as these things go, it was about as good as it gets, unlike the time that the road contractors put down eight bales of nice first-cutting timothy for erosion control, in a dry summer like this one, and the cattle knocked down two panels of fence and were lined up out in the road as if eating from a manger.

I may even laugh at it, if I get eight hours of sleep tonight (for the first time since the equinox).

Also, amazing how very quiet it is with four fewer roosters!

 

[FirewifeJess]

Had a good day today. John had a flag football game, then we came home and had the in-laws over for lunch. Then we spent the day cleaning up the backyard. Neither of us could stand the mess any longer. We still really need to borrow a truck and make a dump run; there's so much crap we don't need! Ugh. To top it off, we got 9 eggs from 10 layers.

 

[pettec63]

What an eventful day.
I met CL and Einstein today, alas it was just for a short while. I did get a very nice Jersey Giant roo for my girls.
Got him home (he's about 16 weeks old) and after about 2 hours in his crate and the girls being nosey I turned him loose.
Everything went very well, drank some water, went into the coop (I did too) and he checked everything out and then went back out into the run.
The #2,3,4 hens challenged him and he put them all in their place. He strutted his stuff and went into the yard for a little free ranging and ran into the coop boss. She apparently was not amused by his presence. They chest bumped, then they got their talons up and out and finally the coop boss had enough of this youngster and removed a beak full of chest feathers from him.
Yeah, he's learning. He ran off and sulked for awhile.
7 RIR, 2 Eng Orps and 1 young Jersey Giant in soft grey.

Started painting the coop today. Whew, I got one side done, primer only. All went well until clean up. Life is tough, but it sure gets harder when you add stupid to the formula.
I purchased 5 gals of good primer. The choice I had was tintable or non tintable primer. Since I had a difficult surface to cover I chose tintable and had it darkened from white to a deep pink. (another storey). I chose an oil base (I thought it was a water base) and when done I happily got my bucket and hose and proceeded to clean up my roller, pan and brush. I soon realized that I had a mess. sigh. Another trip to the hardware store for more trays, brush and roller and thinner.
Cant wait to hear what my neighbor has to say about my pink chicken coop. (it'll be barn red with white trim when done).

Aww glad you got a nice cockerel to go with your girls!! That's a bummer on the paint!! I did a LOT of painting when I was in the Navy, it's not my favorite chore! And clean up really sucks!! Good luck! Can't wait to see it when you have it done!

 

[pettec63]

Here's a picture of one of my Buckeye Cockerels hanging out with our Togg/Nubian wether. He actually sat with the goat for most of the afternoon, when I looked out of my kitchen window and saw it, I had to sneak up and take the picture cause my camera sucks! I so admire the peeps on here that take such awesome pictures of their flocks!

 

[mikeyb]

Here's a picture of one of my Buckeye Cockerels hanging out with our Togg/Nubian wether. He actually sat with the goat for most of the afternoon, when I looked out of my kitchen window and saw it, I had to sneak up and take the picture cause my camera sucks! I so admire the peeps on here that take such awesome pictures of their flocks!

Nice pic. Very peaceful looking.