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[snapkrackelpop19]

Saw this on craigslist http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/grd/2333574913.html good chance to get your Brinsea for cheap. I want it but it still costs too much

 

[jbear]

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He is CAY--ooote!!

I am so so far behind on posts i cant even see my backside!! What have I missed?? It took all my energy after the show to catch up on home and work.

My son and I went and sat in on the council meeting yesterday about the ordinance they are trying to pass. It has been postponed 'indefinitely for further research' thankfully. If anyone has been writing the reps-- I would continue to do so, if you can get your neighbors (if applicable) to also e mail the council stating that they aren't bothered by poultry etc ..

Some things brought up were:
hen houses not being 'up to code.

how dumb is that? Although I am sure this person was referring to commercial production, which back yard chickens are NOT.

Neighbors being concerned about odor. If a hen house smells enough that the neighbor can smell it .. I feel bad for the hens!!

And rooster noise of course.

Anyway - it was interesting. Another issue discussed was Shoreline Use... This law will tell you how to build your dock--shape and length-- and you may have to share a dock with your neighbor--like it or not. Also it will tell you how many water toys you are allowed in your dock area-- those water trampolines and stuff.. I wonder how many people who live on waterfront know this is being pushed through?? Probably as many rural unincorperated pierce county people knew about the livestock thing--very few.

-----> I LOVE my froggie and raven CR

Rooster noise - of course -

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Wouldn't ya know.... First nice day and my shoulders, ankles and back hurt so bad. I really need to work on that little coop for banties yes thats right the one I got in like feb when we had the bad snow! It has been setting on the trailer all this time. For some silly reason I haven't made time to work on it. I know it has nothing to do with getting 7 wonderful orders for bells and then spending all of my time making things to take to the Stevenson show. And now 3 more bell orders and a few other smaller things AND Rainwolf's avatar !! I am going to get out there and try to make something happen !!! be back on this eve.

 

[broodytood]

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He is CAY--ooote!!

I am so so far behind on posts i cant even see my backside!! What have I missed?? It took all my energy after the show to catch up on home and work.

My son and I went and sat in on the council meeting yesterday about the ordinance they are trying to pass. It has been postponed 'indefinitely for further research' thankfully. If anyone has been writing the reps-- I would continue to do so, if you can get your neighbors (if applicable) to also e mail the council stating that they aren't bothered by poultry etc ..

Some things brought up were:
hen houses not being 'up to code.

how dumb is that? Although I am sure this person was referring to commercial production, which back yard chickens are NOT.

Neighbors being concerned about odor. If a hen house smells enough that the neighbor can smell it .. I feel bad for the hens!!

And rooster noise of course.

Anyway - it was interesting. Another issue discussed was Shoreline Use... This law will tell you how to build your dock--shape and length-- and you may have to share a dock with your neighbor--like it or not. Also it will tell you how many water toys you are allowed in your dock area-- those water trampolines and stuff.. I wonder how many people who live on waterfront know this is being pushed through?? Probably as many rural unincorperated pierce county people knew about the livestock thing--very few.

-----> I LOVE my froggie and raven CR

Rooster noise - of course -

CHICKEN HOUSES UP TO CODE!!!!! Oh my gosh, I'm gonna hide my dog house now cause it will be next. How long before my hamster is a target??!!! I think little kids being neglected by their druggie parents should be way more of a focus than someone wanting to grow their own eggs!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Thanks glad you like them. BTW I don't think the Raven has been seen on here.

 

[herbandteas]

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If motrin helps with your pain take it before starting on the coop.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Thanks for the advice but that won't do. Also I prefer not to mask the pain because then it is too easy to really overdo it. I just try to work through it and if it gets too bad for that then it is bad enough I need to stop before further injury.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I like rocks. Next time you come up, be sure to have me show the two we brought back from Sinclair Island.

Speaking of rocks, does Washington have flint or flintstone?

Not a lot of it; it's something that forms in chalk or limestone, and what we have for the most part is continental basalt and, for a change, marine basalt, with outcropings of the BC batholith (white granite) and assorted bits and bobs of random sea bottom on the Olympic Peninsula. Most local napped stone tools are made of calcedony, or of obsidian traded up from Oregon or west from Idaho, or metamorphosed basalts (greenstone) or jaspars which got hauled in by the Vashon glaciation.

(Hi, I'm Julia, and I have a BA in Anthropology from WSU and would have been a PNW archaeologist if I hadn't got all big-headed and tried to do grad school at UW).

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yeah, it's always the same: first warm weather in the spring makes us remember how much we could get done in a day last summer, when we were in shape from working all spring and that much younger. I had shin splints last night and couldn't sleep much.

(Eating lunch, now, and about to go out and glue up a lining for the chicken coop.

 

[Kaneke]

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Speaking of rocks, does Washington have flint or flintstone?

Not a lot of it; it's something that forms in chalk or limestone, and what we have for the most part is continental basalt and, for a change, marine basalt, with outcropings of the BC batholith (white granite) and assorted bits and bobs of random sea bottom on the Olympic Peninsula. Most local napped stone tools are made of calcedony, or of obsidian traded up from Oregon or west from Idaho, or metamorphosed basalts (greenstone) or jaspars which got hauled in by the Vashon glaciation.

(Hi, I'm Julia, and I have a BA in Anthropology from WSU and would have been a PNW archaeologist if I hadn't got all big-headed and tried to do grad school at UW).

at rendezvous, we pick up translucent or white quartz -- works well for fire starting and can be knapped to make flints for the muzzleloaders --- and that is all over the place, thanks to our glaciers ...