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[pips&peeps]

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What is your Auctions take of the sale price? The Enumclaw Sales Pavilion keeps a third of the sale price. It would have to be worth the full hour of driving from here to there. At least I could stop by for a visit, while I would be in the neighborhood.

These two auctions down here are in a real nasty battle against each other. The one at yard birds takes 20% and I was told the one up coal creek takes 15%. RedRooster Farm told me that she gets more for LF up coal creek and more for bantam at yard birds. I know that from what I have heard it sounds like the locals prefer the yard birds sale.

I wish we had an auction over here.....

 

[hallerlake]

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Hmm. I'll have to remember that. I really only need to have it on when I wash shirts.

 

[SadieSue]

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We have gas heat. It's kept at 68 degrees during the day and set on the timer to go down to 60 at night. We need new windows though so often my house still feels cold even at 68. Just one more of those huge expenses that it is SO hard to think about, but it's obvious we have failure in a lot of our double pane windows.
Not an uncommon topic of "discussion" among flock members though!

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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Wow, I'd freeze if I did that. Ours is set at 67 around the clock, though I sometimes bump it up a couple degrees during the day/evening, if it's particularly cool. I've tried going lower at night, and I can't sleep because I'm too cold.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

It doesn't help that my room seems to be the coldest in the house. So when it's 67 at the thermostat, it's a few (if not several) degrees warmer upstairs (where DS sleeps) and a few degrees colder in my room.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I used to keep the house between 62-65 on cloudy days (on days like today it gets up to 75F with the heaters off; passive solar for the win!) and wear a long sweater at all times, but now I have two very old dogs who need to be warmer, so I aim for 68-72.

I tend to keep the bathroom about five degrees warmer, so I can duck in there and warm up if I get too cold outside.

DD was baking last night and the house was about 75 when I went to bed!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Day time 68 (though Mr H prefers 75)
night time 60
My orchids need cool night temps for bud set.

I was going to suggest a radient desk heater for Himself, but realized it would probably be problematic for the desk itself.

DH needs higher temps than the dogs, even, or his ironmongery gets chilled and he aches and aches. He is NOT good about wearing long johns or sweaters, in winter, and hurts more than he should.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh, they are FUN cats, no doubt about it. Stewie has decided that the way to get me out of bed in the morning is to lean on my bedroom door and purr loud enough that I think he's in the bedroom. He also gets all snuggly and purr-y when he wants fed: drowns out the TV, he does. I'd forgotten what cats who were brought home as tiny kittens were like. Lana was a little older, and is a little more standoffish, but like Bumble her idea of fun is sitting on the back of the office chair and typing people's hair in knots. He's over ten pounds now, and not even a little done growing; she's 8 1/2 pounds and just finished removing all her own stitches from being spayed.

Here they are in their favorite crash pad. I have no idea where they found the cushion, which I searched the house for when I rearranged the furniture a year ago.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Julia_here/P1020438-1.jpg

Your Lana looks so much like my Achmed the Terrifying Terrorist.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/21930_kittens_and_fishys_006.jpg

I like the steps; that's something I could put together for them more easily than the cat trees I've been looking at. I may try to do a Catio this summer, although the space that would work best from a construction perspective would need a lot of tailored holes for the landscaping.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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our people coop is kept at 65 degrees

HTH!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Auuggghhh! I just got caught up on the postings where you said it's a sealed unit. Ignore what I said above.

No, it's OK. I actually have done a lot of water heater maintenance over the years, on the general "hold this" level of plumbers helper work. I think you were not around when I introduced myself, but: my Dad was one of those old-time farmer/logger guys who wanted kids to get crew, and ended up with two daughters. I had my own wrecking bar before I started school. I've learned a lot of construction/maintenance/ random manual skills over the years, including splitting shakes and setting chokers. Only now I'm SOL for doing most of them myself, thanks to the accrued damage of sixty years of farming while clumsy.