Washingtonians

[LiLRedCV]

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Yep, looks like we're neighbors!

We're off 352nd & Meridian or 352nd and Mt. Hwy (depending on which direction you're coming from).

 

[LiLRedCV]

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This picture is of Mt. Rainier... and, yes, this is after the [alleged] heat of summer! There's always snow on that mountain tho'... maybe not as much at times, but then there are times it's even heavier still at this time of year. Just depends on our rain/snow fall and summer temps.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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WOW AWESOME what gen area are you in.

Rural Eatonville - and while Eatonville in and of itself is rural we're out in the 'burbs of that!

Very nice pic thanks for sharing and for the info.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I had a couple like that too -- I knew they wouldn't hatch

but they made excellent sunny-side-up fried eggs ... I was very careful about handling them, rinsed them gently in the sink before puncturing the membrane

I toss them in the air for my dogs to catch - they get egg on their faces

Eggs are too rich for my old'uns (Griz will be 15 this winter) so I'm stuck with a weird egg.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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The Mountain, and ever always so.

Rainier, Tahoma, it's easier just to say The Mountain.

 

[LiLRedCV]

QUESTION: Does anyone know of a mobile butchering service in Pierce County that travels to your farm to butcher chickens? Or know of a meat processing place that would take the live chickens and process them for us?

I did a Google search, but pretty much only kept turning up such places out of state like this one: http://piercecountymeats.com/specials_11.html They seem reasonably priced and hoped to find something considerably closer to home! If I could find someone who does this? I'd raise more chickens!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yep, looks like we're neighbors!

We're off 352nd & Meridian or 352nd and Mt. Hwy (depending on which direction you're coming from).

I'm thirty miles west of you, though, and have spent 85% of my live on that line of sight. Eatonville, Yelm, Lacey, with a year on the Westside of Oly, a year in Seattle, and two in Pullman.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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This picture is of Mt. Rainier... and, yes, this is after the [alleged] heat of summer! There's always snow on that mountain tho'... maybe not as much at times, but then there are times it's even heavier still at this time of year. Just depends on our rain/snow fall and summer temps.

Not snow so much as glaciers, although there hasn't been a week this summer that it hasn't snowed on the NW face for at least an hour or two.

BNF, we're above 47north latitude, and The Mountain is 14,410 feet tall: Mount Shasta is at 41 24 north, a few hundred feet lower, and is also glaciated. Welcome to the Cascade Range!

These two are Mt. St Helens, which used to be taller and pointier (actually, that's true of most Cascade Volcanoes; Rainier was much taller in the past, too), and Mt. Adams, taken on the 19th of May from just north of Ridgefield, Washington.

ETA actual photo, oops

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Hmmmm....cold and very overcast here....looks like rain but the forecast says only a 10% chance.

I wish it would rain for a few days...we really need it...it's so dusty here....especially after this latest fire.

 

[rsarns]

Raining pretty hard here on the Island... not a nice day to get any work done outside... need to get my other chicken run done!