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[Chickielady]

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Enough to build a barn home?

Probably if it can all be done with 2x4 and 2x6 no more than 10' long!!

http://www.barnplans.com/showcase/main.cgi?month=may02

http://barnplans.com/showcase/main.cgi?month=jan02



http://barnplans.com/showcase/main.cgi?month=nov03

we will do all 2x6 walls, and need 2x8, 6x8 and 6x10 assorted headers,,2 x 10 for stairs, etc.

 

[KMHunter]

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That is what's biting me!!!! I have all these little bug bites on my hands, neck, etc. Stupid little bugs!

Only the females bite, and they have teeth, not a long skinny needle nose like a mosquito, so they itch worse.
And the females must have a blood meal to lay their hundreds of eggs..so stop feeding them!
They LOVE compost, so my green house is full of them, and I have tried to dry it out in there as they die quickly if the soil dries the slightest bit..but it is raining so hard here right now that I cannot hear the TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I like going to visit with my girls!!! I would miss them!!

The two I got from you are getting so big!!! If you do get out this way again you will have to stop by and see them.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Among the long list of thngs I miss from my younger days was the ability to get up, get dressed while the coffee brewed, and go check cattle before breakfast: now it's food and pills or the looming possibility of disaster. My BIL has finally started feeding cows in the part of the place I can see from the house during calving season.

I did dash out between downpours of icy rain to check the Hamburgs: the grass is too tall to see their run from the house, and I won't get the sheep until the end of June, so I've been whacking back the orchard grass and fescue with loppers before it starts shedding pollen. This is both exhausting and imperfectly effective.

 

[Chickielady]

You can surf the entire web site & see the hundreds of barns in all sizes being erected.
Big ones need a crane for the upper loft beans & trusses.
The trusses are just amazing!!
We will do the walls & upper loft floor, then build the jig to build the trusses, and stand them up as we go.
Putting the roof deck on will be a contractor job, he is a young man and can hang off the roof better than this old lady!!
hanging insulation & sheetrock on the ceilings will be for the contractor too.
We HAD aluminum scaffolding, but FiL sold it off cheap a few years ago as he never used it........

OK I am off to get some work done in between monsoons here..raining SUPER HARD!!
Like the rain CR had bouncing off his camper....worms are crawling up on top off my hoop houses, on the windows & tring to get UP, think they know something we don't ?
Like it is gonna flood ?
This is a worm gagger rain !!
later guys!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Only the females bite, and they have teeth, not a long skinny needle nose like a mosquito, so they itch worse.
And the females must have a blood meal to lay their hundreds of eggs..so stop feeding them!
They LOVE compost, so my green house is full of them, and I have tried to dry it out in there as they die quickly if the soil dries the slightest bit..but it is raining so hard here right now that I cannot hear the TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I like going to visit with my girls!!! I would miss them!!

The two I got from you are getting so big!!! If you do get out this way again you will have to stop by and see them.

Then spray yourself with Cutter spray, it works.
I had to spray the back of my neck, and spray my comb & then run it through my hair, to keep them out of my scalp...now I have about 10 bites on my scalp and it itches to high heaven..probably look like I got lice...maybe poultry dust would work?

I gotta go!! Bye all!

 

[renart]

Is it ok to comment in this forum about current senate bills in the state of Washington concerning chickens, or need I go to Random Ramblings to get on my soapbox ? This isn't a party this or party that .. so it doesn't seem to have an ability to draw lines between people. Especially since these bills are ALL ABOUT CHICKENS!

 

[Chickielady]

Some paintings to show Broody:

Bob again:

Hard to get this big paintings detail:

A more "washy" watercolor:

OK, I am outta here for now, and you can talk chicken!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I'm in a "show pictures of cows" mood today, although this was primarily a photo of the orchard in bloom. There's a tiny peek of my house down slope and to the left of center in the orchard; my cousin's place is framed out to the right (I try not to show people's back yards online for security reasons; since I've got sixteen back yards facing me every time I try to photograph a sunset, and another eight or so on other sides.it gets tricky. The white buildings behind the oak trees are a big apartment complex much like every other apartment complex built since 1995 or so (this one was built in 2001).

The bull, about 20% of the cows, most of the calves, and the orchard my Great-Great Grandfather planted with his father's help:

 

[renart]

So beautiful! Makes me want to run out there and lay in the pasture ..


Hey! Where did you get the sun at ?

 

[broodytood]

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Wow, Robin, those are great! My girls are drooling over the horses of course. I love the fox! Beautiful!