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[Stumpfarmer]

And DH has said we will skip the clam dig scheduled for that weekend and go to the chicken show. 

He's hoping to find some heritage brahmas I think. He's got a thing for big old birds. Not that we really need anymore chickens at the moment...  Who's the enabler in this relationship, me or the guy who cuddles the cockerels and tells them how they have to grow up really big and kick hawk butts? 

Wait.... chicken show? Where?

Not that I can go; the level of wiped-out-ness I feel after the past three days (which included a daytime social event that left me gathering eggs in the dim twilight) leads me to believe I'm better off staying home and keeping my head down.

 

[pettec63]

OK, now put your thinking caps on and help me out here.
I got a great roo from CL, a JERSEY GIANT in soft grey. He's really mild mannered. BUT...I need a name for this youngen. So here's my thinking.
He's a young gun so Westerns come to mind, so after thinking long and hard about it I came up with the following name.

Lash th-roo. (now for some of you, you probably don't recall and some know not of what I speak.

WAYYYYYYYYYYYY back in the day, as a kid I use to go to the movies on a Sat for the matinee. Usually started about 11 am or 1 pm depending on the movie house. Could see the movie, get a fountian coke and a box of popcorn for just 25 cents. (I did say way back).
Any whoo, you would also see short subjects, a serial and the movie and sometimes it was a double feature!
Lash LaRue was the hero of western movies. His thing was a 12' bull whip he use against the bad guys, hense the name Lash. Whew, I really had to dig deep to get that info outta my memory.
So, give me some names for this youngen, please.

I like it!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Hang in there stumpy!!

Thanks so much, t'other Julie, every positive thought helps.

I'm staring in dispair at the amount of work I have to finish before Thursday; I really have to finish (for very very loose values of finish) the Hamburg Extension so I can move Elvis and the Roches out of their dust bowl before the rains st in, and am stymied by lack of help, as I have been since July. I have a limited amount of time and energy and the first time I need is building materials moved to the site (I accept that I may never get my weather-proof booth built between the old run and the new, short of money raining from the sky) and doing it at the rate which I can handle is what's left a pile of lumber laying where the car is parked.

As I said, life is full of reasons to gripe but no real excuses.

 

[pettec63]

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I hear ya!! as long as I'm sitting down I'm not in pain, so, I make a list of all the things I need to do! Then when I get up and I can't walk, there goes the list!!! So, yea, then I just narrow it down, and try and get one or two things done! Anyway, I can't change what's going on myself right now so, it doesn't help to complain.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Oh: speaking, weirdly, of wheat, and of the old Hamburg run: I'm contemplating ripping the roof wire off the old Hamburg run, leveling it with half-rotted sheep manure and waste hay (orchard grass) and planting it to winter wheat and dutch clover with the intention of making the run tall enough to stand up in and turning the Hamburgs back there next spring on a new surface with green grain to eat. Is there any problem with that idea as a way of improving their forage?

I'd use annual rye as a winter green manure except I've got a known respiratory allergy to the stuff; the year we put up rye straw (the BIL's grandfather planted rye for pig grain) I wasn't able to go in the barn at all. I know someone who used to plant wheat in half of his vegetable garden space every year and raise fryers on it; seemed to work for that purpose.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Hang in there stumpy!!

Thanks so much, t'other Julie, every positive thought helps.


I'm staring in dispair at the amount of work I have to finish before Thursday; I really have to finish (for very very loose values of finish) the Hamburg Extension so I can move Elvis and the Roches out of their dust bowl before the rains st in, and am stymied by lack of help, as I have been since July. I have a limited amount of time and energy and the first time I need is building materials moved to the site (I accept that I may never get my weather-proof booth built between the old run and the new, short of money raining from the sky) and doing it at the rate which I can handle is what's left a pile of lumber laying where the car is parked.


As I said, life is full of reasons to gripe but no real excuses.

I hear ya!!  as long as I'm sitting down I'm not in pain, so, I make a list of all the things I need to do! Then when I get up and I can't walk, there goes the list!!!  So, yea, then I just narrow it down, and try and get one or two things done!  Anyway, I can't change what's going on myself right now so, it doesn't help to complain.

Oh, absolutely. I do what I can, and if a lot of the time it looks entirely half baked, well, that's what I can do.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Oh, well, mistakes were made. Have a picture:

(From last month; the plant's been frost burned now)

 

[justbugged]

Quote: That would mean that you are just a baby. Me I am not planning on being old before I'm a grandma. So I praying that none of my kids gets knocked up.


I do wish thought that they had made more Gilligan's Island episodes though.

 

[Farmin Momma]

Today was my first 2 egg day!

I got 1 brown and 1 blue!

Good for you! I love when the girls first start laying, it's like Christmas! Congrats.

Thanks for letting me know that. I will have to decide between keeping them seperate or haveing them raised into the flock. Keeping them seperate might be what I do because I will beging breeding for pure breeds next spring so most of my flock will be in their own houseing areas.

OK, now put your thinking caps on and help me out here.
I got a great roo from CL, a JERSEY GIANT in soft grey. He's really mild mannered. BUT...I need a name for this youngen. So here's my thinking.
He's a young gun so Westerns come to mind, so after thinking long and hard about it I came up with the following name.

Lash th-roo. (now for some of you, you probably don't recall and some know not of what I speak.

WAYYYYYYYYYYYY back in the day, as a kid I use to go to the movies on a Sat for the matinee. Usually started about 11 am or 1 pm depending on the movie house. Could see the movie, get a fountian coke and a box of popcorn for just 25 cents. (I did say way back).
Any whoo, you would also see short subjects, a serial and the movie and sometimes it was a double feature!
Lash LaRue was the hero of western movies. His thing was a 12' bull whip he use against the bad guys, hense the name Lash. Whew, I really had to dig deep to get that info outta my memory.
So, give me some names for this youngen, please.

Personaly I LOVE the name Lash th-roo.

Quote: Yeah, that is the only thing. It was apraised at $6,200. but I figured a more realistic price is $4,000. It actually has a 350 turbo transmision in the head of it that runs the whole thing. These things are just amazing. When we moved in here the shop was packed full of machineing "machines" and tools, some of them were so old there were even hand crank tools. Just cool stuff!
WOW now that would be an AWESOME place to hang outfor a while just to drool over all the cool old items.
Well if we still had all that stuff here I would gladly have you over to drool and take some home, but sadly my DH sold all of it

. I have a few things left that I tucked back into a corner so I could keep them and then some of the stuff was also stollen by DH's now ex buisness partner and some of his goons. The part that really pissess me off is that just before we moved in (but after it was our property) the guys that had been renting the shop (old friends of the late Jimmy Collier) saw that I had found hundreds of pictures and personal stuff from Jimmy's life. You know the kind of pics that are so old that they are only in black and white or brown and white, where the babies look really scary there was a ton of those. I had set them aside so that I could put a few into frames and keep them here in memorie of Jimmy and his wife and then the rest I was going to put together in an album and send them to the last remaining relitive that was alive at that point (as there was only one). Well one of the guys felt that he did not want me to have them and he BURNED all of it

! We also found a few pics of cars that Jimmy had built and raced at the Evergreen speedway so many years ago, and Jimmy was in a few of them, along with at least 15 trophies that he had won there. So we took them down to the race track and donated the trophies and pics to them. Moving into this house and finding out all of this amazing info on Jimmy was just iceing on the cake for us because we race at that track and for years my FIL worked there as one of the push truck drivers and on the safty crew. When my truck is finnished (86 short bed chevy, 514 horses with 7inch lift and 44in tires) and I am able to take it to the track next year, I will be putting "In memory of the Candy Man- Jimmy Collier" on my truck. Because there are still a few old timers there that remember him and it just feel right that if I am living in his house and raceing on "his" track that I should show my respect for him in some way.
Over the next few days I will see what I can dig back up and take pics of so that you may see some of this amazing stuff I have!

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good to know! no wonders I've thought a few of my hatches where late!

Yeah, I have made that mistake a few times as well! But now I know.




On another note, just as I thought I have two out of three eggs (under a broody) that have piped this morning!

 

[justbugged]

Quote: So they still haven't had you seen by an Orthopaedic doctor yet?

It sounds like they hoping that you will die of old age before they have to treat you for anything.

As for the lady that wanted the puppy. She knew just enough to say the right words, but there had been clues. She is on a fixed disability income, and has multiple health problems. I felt bad for her, so I was making things work. Still I knew that she really couldn't afford a pet, and sure enough as soon as one of her brothers got sick she needed money to go help him out. She hadn't even completely paid for the pup yet. She wanted to pay me off so that she could sell the puppy, but I opted to refund what she had already given me. I didn't want one of my puppies bouncing around from home to home. It was a blessing that this all happened on a payday for DH and I. I am still out the cost of nearly 450 miles on my car, and the microchips. I don't know though that I regret having tried to help her. She did watch at least one of the puppies during the week that my kitchen was remolded. So I'm going to put this down to the cost of doggy daycare. lol It helped to have fewer dogs underfoot that week.

I'm delighted your back amongst the group here again.