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[TheReidHomestead]

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No it isn't, 30 below is cold, as in North (north north) Idee-ho.

Heck, +15 is pretty f'in cold as far as I'm concerned.

I have to agree with that!

You guys are on a roll already tonight!!!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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You coming up to meet them in person this weekend??? I'll talk to DH later to see if he made plans with the IL's or not.

Yes we are coming up that way & will try & stop by...waiting on paperwork & keys being mailed by Ogress.............

Cool beans! DH says he hasn't made plans to go visit, so guess we aren't going?

We do have a 4-H Judging Contest in Monroe from 9:30 to 12. I may be able to bale out of it though. DH can take the girls!

 

[Ogress]

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I'm so sorry.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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That's more ambition than I'm likely to develop: I did some security work on the Tower of Solitude, fed the elder Wyandottes and the younger Hamburg, and washed and hung out a load of wash cloths and tea towels. Which sounds all virtuous-like until you realize I have not the foggiest hint of what we're going to have for dinner. Darned people, needing to eat all the time.

Don't you just hate that?
Just about the time when you are totally into a project or task, you have to stop and go feed people !!!
Then ya gotta do the dishes...by the time ya get back outside to get back to your FUN...
Ya gotta go back inside & cook again...geze louise!!

I ended up turning left-over rotisserie chicken into a sort of Florentine-ish thingy: garlic, onions, thyme, oregano, mushrooms, Kalamata olives, left-over roast chicken and broth from the bones and skin, and grated asiago cheese, served over linguini. Praise be for Trader Joe's, so I can afford to keep the olives and cheese in the house when I need to convert over-cooked roast chicken to acceptable dinner. I was going to make pad prik kring (Thai chicken with basil and green beans) but I don't have enough basil in the freezer and the slugs got the first planting.

 

[KMHunter]

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I'm so sorry.

X2! My Prayers are with you and your family!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Is it really cold there in winter?
Stick to pea combs then, If not, try a couple Cuckoo Marans or Black Copper Marans...you will not be disapointed.
One thing everyone needs to do when picking out a breed is to consider the weather where you live.
Frostbite can be an ugly issue to those on the Eastern & North of the state, and can get low temps here!
I keep my standard comb birds locked in the coop during the few days of 20 & 10 degree days we have....
By the same token, feather footed breeds get so muddy here it is insane...covered with clay dingle balls and have to be brought in & bathed to soften & remove the dingle balls.
If I were going to get dotties, I would get some chicks from WA4-HPoutryMom, babies from Wyatt & Wynona , both birds are on her BYC page.
Gorgeous!

"Really cold" is relative

I've lived here for 35 years. Coldest that I've ever seen it was about -15. Twice in that time span. Normal winters for us could have a week or so of single digits. We will get into the teens every winter. I will probably run power to the coops to keep the water from freezing, so heating is not really a problem.

I don't like feathered-feeted birds

Dave


BTW: -15 is *really f'in cold*

When we had the Thousand Banty Army, (who were, uh, well, OEGB mostly? Possibly a passing American game or two, over the years?) entirely free-ranging, tree roosting, no-cover birds (well, the broody hens had nests in the hay in the milk cow barn, which sometimes made feeding the milk cow an extreme sport) and the only time we had any frost-bite was the nasty Arctic Outbreak of 1984, when my husband and I saw snow in Los Angeles and thick ice on the streets of Waco; I think that system had a local low of -3F. On the other hand, rose combs are pretty!

 

[Ogress]

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He must be awful good lookin'.
They say if you aren't good looking, you better be handy.

Crap. I'm very handy.

I always assumed that was a genetic thing that came on all Y chromosomes, my dad and brother worked and fixed things and "invented" stuff all the time. Then I got married, missed on both accounts, but then I'm nothin' to look at either.

DH came home all bummed out today - another re-org at Microsoft. You can't do that in a place filled with Aspie's, they can't deal with change! Always makes this household a shaky place for the next month or so as DH gets depressed and wants to quit, which means we would lose everything as we paid 3X the value to have it built, and we owe most of that. Crud. ATwo weeks ago his manager called him into his office and told him he was doing such a great job he's up for promotion and a nice raise. The someone higher up decided their group does not make enough $ (he works on a FREE product), so they may get rid of it or limit it in ways he does not want to be associated with. This product was his baby, his idea, and he has been working on it for 6 years, and at MSFT for over 20.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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My husband is a professional fixer of computers, so I cut him a lot of slack on other material skills.

Mr. Hallerlake has a way of making pretty objects fly to him (including hallerlake herself, of course).

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I think that's a sentiment we can all get behind.

 

[Ogress]

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Crap. I'm very handy.

Are ya uglier than...well, you know...

Post your photo and we'll let you know.