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[T Hi]

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That is funny but horrible!!! Glad they were all ok!

Blueducklings is in the land of duckling math!!! (I believe she received her shipment from Holderread's!)

 

[TheReidHomestead]

So I am frantically bird shuffling today. I still have teenagers in the main brooder box!!!

I am one outdoor coop/pen short and have had no where to put them! I only have the broody orp and big old Baxter Beetle black orp roo in with her. I think I might try and move broody mom and chick inside tonight, move Mr Baxter Beetle in with my two new Lav Orp pullets who are in isolation, and then there coop/run will be empty for the teenagers. Currently pulling out the teenagers and placing them in the pet carriers so I can clean the brooder boxes and shuffle everyone around!!! At least it's not raining!!!!

 

[Kaneke]

just you wait! -- that rain is comin' to get you

 

[broodytood]

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OH how fun for you!

 

[Kaneke]

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what terrific news --- wonder if there are any more chicks hiding in there

 

[broodytood]

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That is funny but horrible!!! Glad they were all ok!

Blueducklings is in the land of duckling math!!! (I believe she received her shipment from Holderread's!)

Oh good to hear that she is OK. And probably very happy! Quite ducky as the Brits say!

 

[Rainwolf]

I have a Appenzeller Spitzhauben egg hatching

 

[broodytood]

Sorry, but I just had to! This theme music is the bomb! Forgive me, it has been one of those days where I can't get outside!

 

[broodytood]

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Congrats! You have waited long enough, eh?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I'm prone to get bad weather from three different directions: the stuff that comes straight up the Puget-Willamette Trough on the due south wind and hits CR and Broodytood first, the really ugly storms from the southwest that come in the Chehalis Gap after washing CL and dumping most of their rain on the Bull Guy in Oakville (the only ones that get counted by the official weather station at the Olympia Airport) and the energetic and dangerous but brief squalls that blow in the Highway 8 gap, give The Evergreen State College 60 inches of rain a year and Kamilche snow when nobody else has it, and make it possible for me to get laundry dry on the line as long as I time things right. Kaneke, you and I (and Bolddog, I believe) share the not unmixed blessings of the Nisqually cold air flow, where air gets refrigerated by the glacier and spills out of the ravine at Yelm Prairie and down river from Allen Creek; when there's a forest fire on the Fort in summer it paints that pool of cold air (trapped by Johnsom Point , the Home Peninsula, and Anderson and Ketron Islands) in brown on satellite photos.

It's the latter, and long hard experience, that keep my family from planting our vegetable gardens before Memorial Day; the fact that my place is in a closed stagnant air basin that occassionally leaves frost on the grass in August is why I don't plant tender plants here.

Looking at the weather satellite just now it seems that the rain may at least be warmer today?

yes, I'm glad we're a little bit east of you (I was thinking we were north also but directions the roads go are a bit different here, we are actually straight east of Tumwater as the crow flies, so probably south of you instead)

since we're a hundred or more feet above the river, we don't get as much stagnant air, instead the cold air spills across our plateau and down to the river level valley -- and those hills five miles south of us, divert some of that Willamette trough blast ... we have native oaks here, which means it's drier --- usually 10* colder than Olympia in the winter and 10* hotter in the summer, and often clear when Oly is socked in with fog ... and frost in the mornings when no one else is affected

Yeah, I'm in the oak/pine belt too, amusingly enough my NE corner of the quarter-mile square property gets five inches of rain a year less than the SW corner because I'm in the rain shadow of a 120 ft tall esker, and I've got on average ten degree colder overnight lows year round than my cousin's house, which is all of a hundred feet away and twenty feet above mine. He pays for it in wind, though: I chose this place because it's in the lee of the hill for big storms.

I can't get confused about compass points: I grew up with Mt. Rainier due east, and started doing surveying with Dad as soon as I could hold the idiot stick. It makes the ridiculousness of Map Quest directions physically painful, especially when new reporters for the Zero start talking about people going "West on Meridian Road" or equally ridiculous directions. I'm glad you've got a sense of humor about my pickiness.

However, as anyone who's ever tried to go anywhere with me giving directions knows, I've got no sense at all of left and right.