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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I'll pay a little more at Walgreen's to avoid having to go to Walmart!
You should have seen the looks on the faces of the young, cute, skinny girls at Del's when I wore my woven straw gardening hat in there!(the one I have to wear in the sun now cause I have cancer brewing on my ears from too many years of ball caps and no sun block) I forgot that I was embarrassed cause the reaction I got out of them was so funny. They were visibly mortified for me because of the hat! It was hilarious!
People need to learn to lighten up about fashion! The person inside the clothes(as long as they ARE inside their clothes) is more important than what is on the outside!

It's not the hat. It's the angle. I have gotten compliments on Mr. H's bucket hat he got for hiking because I wear it at a rakish angle. My sister is a milliner. it's my duty to encourage the wearing of hats. I have a wardrobe of them.

I have an old lady gardening hat and I just love it. Very comfortable and keeps the sun out of my eyes. Functional. Shulda just told em' youse was a hillbilly.

 

[hallerlake]

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I don't have any answers, just sympathy. I have Meniere's. I have intermittent ringing. For a while there I was getting tapping. I didn't notice it during the day, but trying to sleep was another matter.

When the Meniere's is a problem, a diuretic helps. Maybe one would help you.

 

[hallerlake]

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Blu-kote is antiseptic and antifungal and hides blood because it's royal purple! I swear by it since my eagle attack.

 

[RedRoosterFarm]

Welcome! I have several friends in Spanaway with LOTS of birds and they said no limit. They keep the rooster population done though so no one complains. This is a site with great info.... Im up off 304th so might see you around some time! Anna
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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Alex is going to kill me if he finds out I'm posting this, but when we lived in Woodinville when he was about 3 or 4 we lived in a neighborhood will 9 boys all within a year of each other, and no girls other than Olivia who was an infant (The Crossings off Avondale Road for all you Woodinville people). No fences were allowed in the neighborhood, so all the boys would run around like a pack of wild dogs, Any mud puddle, and they would all be in it! The moms would call as they headed from house to house "No snacks, they just raided the neighbors garage freezer of their Otter Pops!" One afternoon I left Don and Alex home while I picked up a friend with a son Alex's age from the airport. As we turned into my street, here comes the pack of boys, Alex included, all of them bare naked and running from the yard across the street. "What is going on here?" my friend was asking kind of shocked as her son was yelling "Stop car! Stop the Car!" As soon as we pulled into the driveway, much to the horror of my way too uptight friend, he jumped out of the car, stripped down, and joined them! The mom from across the street came out from her yard then. She said the boys were playing in the mud and all came up to the house with their grubby little hands all over the porch door an walls wanting wome watermellon. When she saw all the mud, she pulled out the garden hose and started to spray them all down, but she told her 2 sons to strip down, so all the boys did! We did not bother to stop them, it was a hot summer day and they all spent the rest of it running around naked.

LOL. fun stories.

 

[KMHunter]

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Just got home and saw your PM. I PMed ya back. After I did the surgery, within 3-4 days, I couldn't tell which chick it was any more. I healed really fast! It's really not a big deal thank goodness!

It sounds like not a crop problem, but an object that has passed through the crop & plugged the "tube" that runs from the crop to the gizzard.
The crop holds food and funnels it into the gizzard.
Small, hard objects that enter this "tube" can lodge and prevent anything else from passing.
Grapes are notorious for this, or hard dog kibble.
Birds have no stomach acid to break down food.
If it goes in hard & cannot mush up fast enough, it can lodge in the tube.
No amount of crop irrigation helps if something is lodged in the tube.

Yeah, I thought of the conversation we had when I came to your place. Her crop was emptying at first, but maybe it was slow, I don't know. Then when I realized it was a problem it got slower and slower until it all but stopped emptying. I felt so bad that we(me & vet) didn't realize this was a possible problem until it was too late, she died this morning as I took her into the vet again. I don't even know if there was anything we could have done about it, but I would have done something earlier, even put her down so she didn't just waste away. So now I have the two I got from you and one of my original 4. 2 girls and one boy. Everybody else better stay healthy or I am going to throw in the towel.

I am just a little sad

and frustrated.

Next year I think I am going to hatch some eggs. Maybe some of my own and maybe get some others from my fellow BYC'ers, like maybe some Java's?

 

[hallerlake]

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It sounds like not a crop problem, but an object that has passed through the crop & plugged the "tube" that runs from the crop to the gizzard.
The crop holds food and funnels it into the gizzard.
Small, hard objects that enter this "tube" can lodge and prevent anything else from passing.
Grapes are notorious for this, or hard dog kibble.
Birds have no stomach acid to break down food.
If it goes in hard & cannot mush up fast enough, it can lodge in the tube.
No amount of crop irrigation helps if something is lodged in the tube.

Yeah, I thought of the conversation we had when I came to your place. Her crop was emptying at first, but maybe it was slow, I don't know. Then when I realized it was a problem it got slower and slower until it all but stopped emptying. I felt so bad that we(me & vet) didn't realize this was a possible problem until it was too late, she died this morning as I took her into the vet again. I don't even know if there was anything we could have done about it, but I would have done something earlier, even put her down so she didn't just waste away. So now I have the two I got from you and one of my original 4. 2 girls and one boy. Everybody else better stay healthy or I am going to throw in the towel.

I am just a little sad

and frustrated.

Next year I think I am going to hatch some eggs. Maybe some of my own and maybe get some others from my fellow BYC'ers, like maybe some Java's?

I'm sorry. Don't second guess yourself. You did the best you could with the information you had.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Sorry you are going to miss your sister's graduation. Bummer. I am glad things are going well for you though. So 8/16 is the bday? That is exciting.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yeah, this can happen. I've only intentionally killed one rose, and I can't remember the name of it: gorgeous pink climber with maroon canes and red thorns about a half-inch long (Not Rosa setigera; this was a modern climber one of the parents of which was the floribunda Sexy Rexy, and I think it's out of commerce now) which drove me crazy by setting out canes the way Himalaya blackberries do: BOOM, overnight, ten feet of thorny heck all the way across the driveway. Dr. W. Van Fleet and its reblooming sport New Dawn are worse, though: there used to be a Van Fleet growing 60 feet up into a cedar in Cosmopolis.

As I said: you might want to look at Queen Elizabeth, which is a medium-big HT style shrub inland and hits ten feet in South Bend. Another one that I forgot because I was all et up with envy about your solid Zone 8 and being able to grow Chinas and Teas (I'm in 7b, at best) is the very old pink Stanwell Perpetual, which is thorny as heck, blooms and blooms and blooms and blooms, and is scented like culinary rosewater. The biggest I've ever seen it was in the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh (which I think is the type specimen) was about ten wide by six tall, and several hundred years old.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Let's hope he doesn't smoke.

X2 I do not think I would spray that anywhere I had animals. Diesel (Kerosene) has alot of nasty stuff in it, and the oiliness would really attract the dust & make oily mud.
I knew an old man when I was a kid who would hold his horses' hooves up like to pick them, and pour turpentine in them, and like count to 100, to kill hoof rot.
It must have stung bad cuz the horses went nuts stamping their feet for quite a while.

DH's dad used to put kerosene on DH's head to kill head lice.

He does not come from the "healthiest" of backgrounds. There are tons of old home remedies that so many of us would just squeamish over.