Washingtonians

[renart]

Plan for today: Quiet relaxing breakfast with the family. Leave at 11:00 to help set up for the 4H tacksale in Monroe.

What actually happened: Woken up at 4:00 with my husband saying there is something wrong with the dog. The dog is completely blind overnight. He was fine yesterday. He had a physical checkup on Thursday. Off to the 24 hour emergency vet in Lynnwood. Home at 6am with instructions to see the opthomologist today. Wake up at 9:00 to a whole lot of snow. Appt with the Eye doctor at 1pm. Don't know if we will make it to Monroe. Snow, flooding, canine crisis.

ick! Sending good thoughts for the bestest of outcomes for you all

 

[RedReiner]

Plan for today:  Quiet relaxing breakfast with the family.  Leave at 11:00 to help set up for the 4H tacksale in Monroe. 

What actually happened:  Woken up at 4:00 with my husband saying there is something wrong with the dog.  The dog is completely blind overnight.  He was fine yesterday.  He had a physical checkup on Thursday.  Off to the 24 hour emergency vet in Lynnwood.  Home at 6am with instructions to see the opthomologist today.  Wake up at 9:00 to a whole lot of snow.  Appt with the Eye doctor at 1pm.  Don't know if we will make it to Monroe.  Snow, flooding, canine crisis. 

do you have horses? use Ivermectin for anything? wormed chickens or any other animals?

 

[RedReiner]

just in case anyone is looking for a small mini incubator

http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/grd/2870483391.html

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Plan for today: Quiet relaxing breakfast with the family. Leave at 11:00 to help set up for the 4H tacksale in Monroe.

What actually happened: Woken up at 4:00 with my husband saying there is something wrong with the dog. The dog is completely blind overnight. He was fine yesterday. He had a physical checkup on Thursday. Off to the 24 hour emergency vet in Lynnwood. Home at 6am with instructions to see the opthomologist today. Wake up at 9:00 to a whole lot of snow. Appt with the Eye doctor at 1pm. Don't know if we will make it to Monroe. Snow, flooding, canine crisis.

 

[Ogress]

We have about 5 inches of beautiful fluffy wet snow.

Uhg.... I guess we won't be driving to Wild Ginger tonight. I was really looking forward to going out. DH and I never go out for nice dinners. I was able to talk him into this one as it is a benefit dinner for Stop Exploitation Now which is a charity started by a friend of ours after she traveled to Cambodia.

 

[Zgoatlady]

I think maybe - she just started laying for the year. I think it is her frst egg since sometime in the late fall. Are they darker when they start? My other BCM from CGG was hatched from a very dark egg, much like this one, and she lays a very dark egg, but it is a different shade of brown with lots of freckles on it. There was only 1 BCM egg yesterday, but since it is so different than the freckled eggs from the younger hen whom I have seen lay eggs, I suspect it is from yours. It is much darker than the eggs I got from her last year, and it had no freckles.

They do lighten up as they lay, but I have to say some of my hens dont. I always have dark one. I have one hen that lays really darks eggs. I hope I still have her. I only hatch the dark eggs so the next gen if with a dark egg rooster will have dark eggs.

 

[Greg Richardson]

If you can get out from where you are the low land roads look fine. In Duvall they look like they only have an inch or so. Roads fine down there.
http://info.kingcounty.gov/transportation/kcdot/Roads/TrafficCameras/allcameras/

It's going to warm up. Already has. Good thing cause the branches were beginning to break.
We have 7 inches now and snowing lightly.

 

[Zgoatlady]

Hello Everyone! I am in Deer Park, Washington, just North of Spokane.... I am totally new here and new to hatching. I've been fussing with my homemade incubator cabinet (it looks awesome!) but really am struggling with getting the temp below 103 degrees. I don't know what else to do as I have a rheostat as well a running a fan. I am trying to get ready to set 36 eggs!
Any suggestions?

Do you have holes so fresh air can come in. You can also take out the water in the jar that might help lower it. What do you use to heat it with? Are you sure also that the temp it right? My husband made me one a few years back and I love it. Not as wide as yours, yours looks really nice. You can Pm me and I can see if I can help you fig it out.

 

[justbugged]

I will confess to being a news junkie. I rarely ever take what news from a single source. I am well aware of reporter bias. I both watched, and read the interview with the teacher in the class.

I am a firm believe that eyewitness account can be inaccurate. But given the children's ages I am still heart broken for both of the kids. I am thinking that if the kid had pulled the gun and had been waving or pointing it around that there would certainly be people talking about it. I am not sure to what benefit it would be to change the story. It would have made a much more sensational story, if the boy had been angry and trying to kill all the kids in his class.

Neighbor interviews are rarely interesting to me. I don't know many that really know about anything that is truly going on behind their neighbors doors. I was raised in areas where I rarely even knew the names of neighbors more than a house or two away. Neighbor interviews are simply away of filling up broadcast time. I am also not impressed with the interviews of kids that were in neighboring classrooms. There always seems to be a kid or two that was a mile away, and will say that it could have been they could have been there. The teacher was believable. She talked about the confusion of what happened, and trying to figure out where the shot came from. She was there, and is greatly traumatized by the events of the day, and yet she worries about what will happen with both children.

I think that it is much easier to hate the boy, and his completely dysfunctional family than it is to worry about a 9 year old. I have found that when a child is being raised with that much dysfunction, it is difficult for them to make poor decisions about how they can solve a problem. After all I doubt anyone ever had a discussion about why he might not want a gun for protection. I admit that I don't know much about guns, but I do remember being a kid that did things without ever anticipating or intending the consequences. Heck I still have that problem at times. lol

I have read about children that have committed heinous crimes at very young ages. They all have incredible abuse, and dysfunction in their lives. Some of these children can not be allowed to ever function again in society. They are simply to damaged and will remain dangerous to everyone around them. I simply have a feeling that how this case is handled will make or break this child. I don't want to live in a world where we throw some children away, because the adults in their lives find it easy to neglect or abuse them.

Okay I think I am done with philosophizing about this. I have now used up all the words I have about this subject, and pray that I don't get anything more going about it.

 

[Zgoatlady]

For Sale :


Standing Water



There is lots of it here, only asking a half a penny for each load you take away.

I'll up that standing water and tell ya if you want my mud I'll pay you a half a penny, or a whole penny for my compost pile...