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[Ogress]

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Thanks! Like Alex's haircut? He did it himself because he got silly putty stuck in it.

I was just talking with a friend of mine who will be a grandma for the second time this week. I was thinking wow, her son had kids early, then she told me he is 30!!!! I remember going to a halloween party with co-workers at his moms house when he was 12 and his little brother (6) hid under the car because he was afraid of someone's cow costume. Now Alex is 12! It did not seem like that long ago; 5 years maybe.

 

[cheryl98117]

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That is why I go with horse power not horse poop. See with a motorized toy ya only gota feed it when ya wanna use it. And it doesn't have a mind of it's own so will only do what ya tell it to. Granted accidents can still happen but they driver error not due to pissy pony.

Most of the accidents with horses that I have seen HAVE been due to rider error. Then there are the few cases where the horse is just plain dangerous. Delt with a few of those as well.

 

[Ogress]

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I have seriously thought of doing this, the problem other then a bright white full moon beacon moving around the yard is this is the time the bugs are out. Mosquito bite in your back crack is no fun I tell you.

I have been building some chicken tractors, I cut the wood outside and bring it inside to assemble the side panels.

Thanks for the picture!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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This must be a different place than Cinebar, WA I lived there for many years and it is about as open as you can get!

Nope, same place: above a kink in the Cowlitz that traps warm, humid air in summer, although the basin is about ten miles across. Cinebar and Toledo between them hold (or have held: I don't know how that horrid heat wave in July-August 2009 effected the records) the Wetside heat records for both summer day high, summer average high, and summer highest low temp. The cold-temps-below-200-feet belong to Puget Sound locations, though, summer and winter.

Pe Ell is more humidity and less heat: it's in the fog zone, and in July and August gets just about maximum sun hours; the combination leads to high humidity from sunrise until mid-afternoon. The SE exposures of Michigan Hill is another hot spot, from private weather records I've seen.

These's places I'd like to have the weather records for: Butts Road just west of Morton, for instance, I'm willing to bet that both Raintree and Burnt Ridge benefit from higher-than-average temps year around; they're above the cold air flow down the Cowlitz (all glacial streams have a layer of air as cold as the water that flows down the valley summer and winter) and just barely above the shadow of the facing hills in winter, although still in the lee of SW storm winds. I've been out there on a sunny day in April and felt like I was being microwaved.

Most of this is stuff I learned when I was instructed by my father "since you're going to the library anyway, see if you can find out for me...": he had a life-long ambition to make the best hay possible, and lordy would he have loved being able to look up animated satellite and radar weather images! He was also always looking for some place to move that wasn't being eaten by suburbia, but somehow never stopped haying long enough to do that.

 

[RustyHen]

The good news is I found good 4-h homes for my 3 extra bantam cochins , the bads news is its 82 in the shade here already and I just put ice bottles in both of the runs water and a frozen milk jug for them to cool off with and it's not noon yet! We jumped into summer with both feet

 

[Ogress]

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Yummy!

My chickens ate mine

I did manage to save a few plants and I stuck them in hanging baskets.

 

[RustyHen]

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I have seriously thought of doing this, the problem other then a bright white full moon beacon moving around the yard is this is the time the bugs are out. Mosquito bite in your back crack is no fun I tell you.

I have been building some chicken tractors, I cut the wood outside and bring it inside to assemble the side panels.

Thanks for the picture!

mowers crack !

 

[broodytood]

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Thanks! Like Alex's haircut? He did it himself because he got silly putty stuck in it.

I was just talking with a friend of mine who will be a grandma for the second time this week. I was thinking wow, her son had kids early, then she told me he is 30!!!! I remember going to a halloween party with co-workers at his moms house when he was 12 and his little brother (6) hid under the car because he was afraid of someone's cow costume. Now Alex is 12! It did not seem like that long ago; 5 years maybe.

Silly Putty has been banned from our house for all eternity!!!! I love/ HATE that stuff!!! It's cool to play with but always seems to end in frustration! Never had a kid with it in the hair though.

Speaking of hair...My DD with nice long hair decided to make a swing in a tree with a nylon rope and a chunk of 2x6. She found that if you twist the rope up and then climb on, you can go round and round for a long time. Sadly, her hair got twisted around the rope and she now has 2 bald spots. One the size of an electrical outlet and another the size of a 50 cent piece.
Scary part is, she said it didn't hurt that bad. Makes me wonder about her pain tolerance levels. She didn't even flinch or cry getting her ears pierced.
She only cried when she came in the house and saw the bald spots!

 

[VelvettFog]

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But it is a dry heat

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Thanks! Like Alex's haircut? He did it himself because he got silly putty stuck in it.

I was just talking with a friend of mine who will be a grandma for the second time this week. I was thinking wow, her son had kids early, then she told me he is 30!!!! I remember going to a halloween party with co-workers at his moms house when he was 12 and his little brother (6) hid under the car because he was afraid of someone's cow costume. Now Alex is 12! It did not seem like that long ago; 5 years maybe.

Silly Putty has been banned from our house for all eternity!!!! I love/ HATE that stuff!!! It's cool to play with but always seems to end in frustration! Never had a kid with it in the hair though.

Speaking of hair...My DD with nice long hair decided to make a swing in a tree with a nylon rope and a chunk of 2x6. She found that if you twist the rope up and then climb on, you can go round and round for a long time. Sadly, her hair got twisted around the rope and she now has 2 bald spots. One the size of an electrical outlet and another the size of a 50 cent piece.
Scary part is, she said it didn't hurt that bad. Makes me wonder about her pain tolerance levels. She didn't even flinch or cry getting her ears pierced.
She only cried when she came in the house and saw the bald spots!

I think it was an occurence very similar to that when my sister's and my nice long curls got replaced by a pixie cut.