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[Stumpfarmer]

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Covington is one of those Insta Towns that happen when you run a road through the middle of nowhere. Maple Valley cut off (aka Hwy 18) at Kent-Kangley Road, basically, nothing there more than twenty years old. Not a long long way to T-Hi's kid's school, but actually not very close to anything.

Earthworks fuchsia farm is in or near Covington. Fabulous assortment, and they do tiny, reasonably priced starts in the spring.

Ah! That's the tags for Fuschia starts that show up grown on to 4" pots at the Lacey Community Market.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I am thankful today for all the help I've received in getting as far as I have in this chicken thing, and hopeful for more sense in the year to come, as I always have.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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It was a bit blunt - says the one who often gets in trouble for her lack of tact.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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It was a bit blunt - says the one who often gets in trouble for her lack of tact.

Turns out that responding to such things also gets a little penalty.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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It was a bit blunt - says the one who often gets in trouble for her lack of tact.

Turns out that responding to such things also gets a little penalty.

What about responding to responses??

Anyway...I should go start cooking.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Turns out that responding to such things also gets a little penalty.

What about responding to responses??

Anyway...I should go start cooking.

I just realized that I may have to make one of the things I'm taking to my sister's this afternoon on top of the stove, which is going to be an...interesting experiment. On the other hand, if the oven really does have a broken thermostat, trying to bake something at 250F will be even more interesting? Maybe?

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Turns out that responding to such things also gets a little penalty.

What about responding to responses??

Anyway...I should go start cooking.

LOL!

 

[TifsBroodyBabes]

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Yea I know what you mean.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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There's a few of then, none native. Eastern Red Oak is a famous offender, and probably the one you're thiinking of. They're mostly from places that get hot summers, and the leaves don't ripen enough to drop.

I've seen the long-clinging leaves used as a selling point, but since my house just got twice as light when the leaves finally fell, I can't agree.

Thanks, I had always wondered if they might be confused!

BYW, congrats on the Wyandotte coop. It's a good feeling to get birds into their new home.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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There's a few of then, none native. Eastern Red Oak is a famous offender, and probably the one you're thiinking of. They're mostly from places that get hot summers, and the leaves don't ripen enough to drop.

I've seen the long-clinging leaves used as a selling point, but since my house just got twice as light when the leaves finally fell, I can't agree.

Thanks, I had always wondered if they might be confused!

BYW, congrats on the Wyandotte coop. It's a good feeling to get birds into their new home.

I just went out to find Ian and the youngest red calf in a deadly stare-down, with Ian complaining vocally over the incursion. It's so wonderful not to move that huge pile of wet wood, hardware cloth and plastic sheeting!

The Eastern Red Oaks are a problem in many ways- besides not dropping leaves, they're really sidewalk killers, they grow to 75-100 ft which is, of course, a problem with any urban tree, and they rot at the drop of a hat. There's a memorial planting of them down Legion Way in Olympia, one for every Washington resident killed in World War I: in the late seventies they were all topped because they interfered with power lines which had been installed after the trees were planted. The city should have taken them out and replanted with something more appropriate for the climate and location (like, say, that wonderful 25 foot maximum Magnolia grandifolia cultivar that Briggs developed, and which they'd offered to donate), but instead they're rehabilitating all but the ten trees that had rotted right down to ground level. Nobody gains except Asplund.