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[Chickielady]

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NOPE as much as I REALLY want to...not gonna do it. I am at 5 days and not gonna give up now.

Over the last couple days I did manage to finish setting the post and hanging gates at Michelles. Then I got to get back on the RIR B coop. I got the side window in and got the door and doorway done. Now I can work on closing in around the bottom of the coop and then do the netting.
Yesterday I aso managed to dodge the rain enough to get about 1/2 of the yard mowed. Hoping for some more dry weather so I can finish. I also really need a day of warm (50+) so I can open hives and check on the bees to see how they are doing and maybe feed em.

BTW If there is anybody in the local area who is interested in bees. We (Lewis County Beekeepers Assoc.) meet most months down stairs in the old CH. We will be meeting This wed 7:00pm. If you have any interest feel free to come see what all the buzz is about !!!

Now THAT is the way to do it!
Now do not give in!!!

When does Michelle come home ?
She need a hospital bed ?
Will you rent her one ?
Will she be in wheelchair ?
Lots of Q's here, hope she is OK.

 

[Chickielady]

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I need to take a photo of my climbing hydrangea, and my sisters; mine was slow to get going, and suddenly last year it was everywhere on the north wall of my house. When I pulled it off the house and trellised it I ended up with a four- part trellis, including one eight-foot chunk of livestock panel, one three-foot by four and a half foot chunk ditto, and two bits of decorative trellising I got cheap at Tuesday Morning, each with a rondel of glass in a frame at the top, one set on the porch rail and the other on the top of the dog fence (Deirdre: between my bedroom window and the big mock-orange). I finally got to the Iron Rooster yesterday and bought a second wrought Iron bracket to support the final corner of the big piece of livestock panel; I had a single nice hook from the blacksmithery at Puyallup Fair and the bottom of the trellis has eight iches of galvanized steel every six inches pushed into the ground, but I prefer having all four corners stabilized.

For those has not seen one, this is a Climbing Hydrangea in bud: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/DSC_0402-2.jpg. They get huge when they're happy; I remember a wall on the Richmond to London rail route which was thirty feet tall and a kilometer long, covered with climbing hydrangea in bloom; there also used to be a huge one out by Bruceport, but then there also used to be a Dr. van Fleet rose on the south side of 101 just past Cosmopolis that climbed 60 feet up into a cedar tree; it was cut down and replaced by a Grays Harbor PUD substation.

They are supposed to root extremely well, but not root by heel cutting very well...so I have 2 cuttings of each.
I love the curling twisting way they grow...my sister's is over 5 years old and is about 5 feet tall, she got it in a 5 gallon pot though.
Do you love it or what ?

 

[Chickielady]

OK off to work & I will be back later...gotta go see my Cochin babies !

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Don't know when she will get to come home but last I heard they were talking about her having to go to a rehab for a few weeks. I expected that but think it may have come as a surprise to her and family.
Don't know about the bed or chair yet.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I need to take a photo of my climbing hydrangea, and my sisters; mine was slow to get going, and suddenly last year it was everywhere on the north wall of my house. When I pulled it off the house and trellised it I ended up with a four- part trellis, including one eight-foot chunk of livestock panel, one three-foot by four and a half foot chunk ditto, and two bits of decorative trellising I got cheap at Tuesday Morning, each with a rondel of glass in a frame at the top, one set on the porch rail and the other on the top of the dog fence (Deirdre: between my bedroom window and the big mock-orange). I finally got to the Iron Rooster yesterday and bought a second wrought Iron bracket to support the final corner of the big piece of livestock panel; I had a single nice hook from the blacksmithery at Puyallup Fair and the bottom of the trellis has eight iches of galvanized steel every six inches pushed into the ground, but I prefer having all four corners stabilized.

For those has not seen one, this is a Climbing Hydrangea in bud: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/DSC_0402-2.jpg. They get huge when they're happy; I remember a wall on the Richmond to London rail route which was thirty feet tall and a kilometer long, covered with climbing hydrangea in bloom; there also used to be a huge one out by Bruceport, but then there also used to be a Dr. van Fleet rose on the south side of 101 just past Cosmopolis that climbed 60 feet up into a cedar tree; it was cut down and replaced by a Grays Harbor PUD substation.

They are supposed to root extremely well, but not root by heel cutting very well...so I have 2 cuttings of each.
I love the curling twisting way they grow...my sister's is over 5 years old and is about 5 feet tall, she got it in a 5 gallon pot though.
Do you love it or what ?

I refuse to have any plant I don't love, except for the ones which refuse to die anyway (see the hardy Geranium Claridge Druce, which is firmly on my Do Not Plant list and which is harder to kill than blackberries); I'm loving this one more now that it's trellised, because it's leafing out and will block the 5am June sun from blasting me awake by sneaking around the edge of the blinds. I'm sure some nice loud tweetybird will find a perfect place to sing its heart out on the trellis, but unlike the summer sun, birds eventually get over themselves and go away.

Mine was very little for a long while, and then BOOM.

If your cuttings don't take let me know; I suspect I've got a couple of lost broken bits that need dug up and replanted. It does better broken than cut, over all, in that broken bits root before you can get them picked up and properly disposed of.

 

[Ogress]

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Are the Cochins decent egg-layers? I love how big and fluffy they are when I saw some at Monroe. I pick my flock for its eye-candy properties because I love watching them roam the yard. Well bred or mutt does not make much difference to me, but I only like to have a couple few of each so I can tell them all apart. I really need to rid myself of 7 roos before I get more chicks.

 

[Ogress]

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NOPE as much as I REALLY want to...not gonna do it. I am at 5 days and not gonna give up now.

Over the last couple days I did manage to finish setting the post and hanging gates at Michelles. Then I got to get back on the RIR B coop. I got the side window in and got the door and doorway done. Now I can work on closing in around the bottom of the coop and then do the netting.
Yesterday I aso managed to dodge the rain enough to get about 1/2 of the yard mowed. Hoping for some more dry weather so I can finish. I also really need a day of warm (50+) so I can open hives and check on the bees to see how they are doing and maybe feed em.

BTW If there is anybody in the local area who is interested in bees. We (Lewis County Beekeepers Assoc.) meet most months down stairs in the old CH. We will be meeting This wed 7:00pm. If you have any interest feel free to come see what all the buzz is about !!!

Now THAT is the way to do it!
Now do not give in!!!

When does Michelle come home ?
She need a hospital bed ?
Will you rent her one ?
Will she be in wheelchair ?
Lots of Q's here, hope she is OK.

I've got a hospital bed that I'd be willing to loan out to her. We currently use it as a guest bed. Sure is comfy. Got it when I was preggo, Twin XL. I bought it on my Dr.s recommendation since I was having problems with bed sores (not allowed to turn - I suspect Michelle will need to be fairly stationary as well). I had been renting a very uncomfortable bed, and it was expensive to rent because my insurance did not pay for items used at home. I bought this and hardly used it as I ended up back in the hospital a day or two after it arrived. It's an air mattress on a motorized frame that you can raise the back and lower the feet on so you don't have to contract your abdominals to get up out of bed. This bed has no safety rails, and the mattress has an annoying habit of sliding off the frame bottom a few inches each time you flatten the bed out. I noticed that the new models now have a rail welded on to the bottom of the bed frame that sticks up and prevents the mattress from sliding. Mine has a remote control that allows you to adjust the mattress shape and firmness. It also has a massage feature, but that no longer works. The motorized frame is very heavy and bulky to move around.

 

[blueducklings]

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When I had my chickens in the kitchen for 3 weeks I shared a piece of banana with them every morning when I made my protein shake. They loved it - no ill effects. I'm always careful about not giving too much, I think the really ripe bananas have more sugar?

Watermelon they like, but poo is just

 

[blueducklings]

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NOT ME!!!!

I have had urine & blood tests. Oh and 2 ultra sounds and a CAT scan. I'm empty!! Not prego nor was I trying to be!!

I am very happy for those of you who are pregnant tho!! I have my twins. I'm good!

Chickielady is the one who swore that I was! (Especially after I dipped my smoked oysters in a onion/garlic mustard!!)

Congratulations to all the peas in the pods. TONY?

 

[Ogress]

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