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[Mia_]

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May I join in too?

oh yeah! after being only child with very few cousins that I knew about, I just LOVE to find more cousins of whatever generation

if it's early Maine or Massachusetts .... it's probable

Well, my family settled Pennsylvania, and my uncle and cousins' family was in northern Virginia. Both families moved to Ohio right after the Revolution. I am part of the first generation to be born/raised outside Ohio since then. I was born there, my cousins were not.

 

[Mia_]

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We try to get up to Port Townsend a couple of times a year. It's always a good day trip.

Hey, I went to Lacey yesterday!

I was in Lacey yesterday. Mainly because someone barely messed up, and someone else was very picky about it.

 

[Kaneke]

OK -- the rain just started to spit here -- looks like it will be intermittent and perhaps momentarily heavy (small clouds well scattered, but quite dark periwinkle gray

 

[Kaneke]

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oh yeah! after being only child with very few cousins that I knew about, I just LOVE to find more cousins of whatever generation

if it's early Maine or Massachusetts .... it's probable

Well, my family settled Pennsylvania, and my uncle and cousins' family was in northern Virginia. Both families moved to Ohio right after the Revolution. I am part of the first generation to be born/raised outside Ohio since then. I was born there, my cousins were not.

could be there too, on my dad's side there are a bunch from Pennsylvania (one lot moved to Ohio, and stayed there for awhile, the English and Swedish-Finnish bunch -- out of Philadelphia area) (another bunch migrated to Kansas after family split up, English and Swiss/German/French -- mostly from around the Carlisle area ... )

 

[SadieSue]

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To eat them.

Some of us actually like healthier more humane chicken.

I only wish I was near enough to you city folk to collect your roosters for you. . . Out here if I'm low on roosters I have to do some serious and usually failed hunts for free roosters.

So I met the guy yesterday to deliver my sweet rooster to him. He had told me he liked how big he was because he wanted him for breeding. When we were transferring the roo into his box I mentioned I'd love to see him when he's fully grown and gets his tail feathers in and maybe he wouldn't mind emailing me a photo? He paused for a moment, looked at me like I was an alien and said, "okay bye".
Now I'm not so sure he was pleased at Cocky's size for purposes of breeding.
Oh well. I just won't think about it.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I did what I could to help: I had a load of laundry on the line and two sprinklers going when we went off to do grocery shopping.

YAY!

 

[cheryl98117]

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I did what I could to help: I had a load of laundry on the line and two sprinklers going when we went off to do grocery shopping.

YAY!

Well its rained enough to knock down the dust. lol Its also cooled off too. but man 'O man is the wind kick'in today! Just scanning my property, and I see three locust limbs that are just barely hanging on. Snapped and held on by bark... Ugg storm clean up, yeay! lol Just makes me glad that we took the limbs from above the horse trailer out last week...

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Upset is hardly the word: perplexed is much closer.

*sigh*

In any case: first blood drawn. The chicken buyers bent a piece of loose wire, the chickens tipped their water over and then fastened it to the ground with a loop of grass, and when the latter let loose I caught the back of my right hand on the former, tracing a six inch scratch parallel to the one inflicted by the kitten the other night, so that bandaging the new without ripping open the healing old is going to be a challenge.


I'm challenging my own record for fastest use of 100 assorted size flexible fabric bandages.

Mondays. Never did trust the things.

much better to forego the bandaid types and use, instead, gauze pads or commercial panti-liners, held on with athletic type bandaging tape, the waterproof stuff, run completely around whatever got savaged ... after a smidgen of Neosporin applied (actually vaseline is just as good)

experience from DH repeatedly bashing the top of his (more or less hairless) head on the bottom of the airplane's throttle-body or strakes -- ditto running hands into those or other stick-outy sharp pieces of metal or fiberglass

I developed an allergy to neosporin due to another of my multiple screw-ups; I have this nice viitamin E stick that I use for everything from under-eye moisturizer to wound dressing. And, while I always have bandaids (which are cheap and adaptable for many purposes), I do not in fact have any of those other things. I usually have Vetwrap around to use with clean rag for larger or flatter applications, but that wouldn't be applicable to these scratches. These two scratches are tricky because they're on the back/outside of my thumb, the cat one on the web-side from the second thumb joint spiralling to the wrist and the wire one right at the ball of the thumb spiralling around and crossing the other one.

I used to just butterfly that kind of injury with paper tape, but the latex free kind is NASTY: doesn't hold any tension and the glue turns to guck in about an hour.

I looked at the wire I got cut on, because it had been safely bent and crimped, and all I can figure is that it was caught on the chicken in a box when he was passed protesting out of the hoop house.

 

[Rainwolf]

went berry picking and it rained on me the whole time.
Last gathering of Oregon Grapes and Creeping raspberry to jam.

 

[cheryl98117]

I don't use neosporin, I use bag balm. I do have neosporin on hand for my daughter, as its easier and less messy to apply on a wiggley child, but the bag balm works well for me.