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[orrpeople]

Our week is looking toasty! I think it's supposed to be in the 100s for three days starting tomorrow. Well, this is Redding, and I guess it was inevitable.
@Alaskan I think I may take your advice and write myself a bill of sale. I can also use the excuse that I don't like to sell chicks that have been at my house for more than a week because of our outbreak last fall. (Even though I keep them very separated, use quarantine protocols, etc... I don't have to mention that, do I??? )

 

[WVduckchick]

Our week is looking toasty! I think it's supposed to be in the 100s for three days starting tomorrow. Well, this is Redding, and I guess it was inevitable.
@Alaskan I think I may take your advice and write myself a bill of sale. I can also use the excuse that I don't like to sell chicks that have been at my house for more than a week because of our outbreak last fall. (Even though I keep them very separated, use quarantine protocols, etc... I don't have to mention that, do I??? )

I've told slow pokes that I decided to keep them myself!

 

[kwhites634]

@lazy gardener, or anyone else who knows:
This is 1 of 2 planter boxes I've just built for DW's greenhouse. I need something flexible & porous to lay over the slats on the bottom & up the sides that will keep the soil where it belongs, yet allow it to drain. Thinking along the lines of plastic sheeting, 'cause it won't rot, but I'm coming up empty.
Ideas?

 

[sourland]

Good morning denizens of the Pond.

I just need to suck it up & channel my inner city girl (...that chicks a little psychotic, but she's definitely a badass.) Wish me good luck & see you all Wednesday, I hope.

Well, gee, that's a big surprise. Not !

Have fun, 'City Girl'.

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I got a picture of my grand-geese from Shade today

They have grown so much! They're beautiful!

The Lord said He'd never destroy all mankind by flood again. Does He ever change his mind? After all the rain we've had, including yesterday's torrential downpour for a few hours, we got hit again last night. The drops hitting the East window of my bedroom woke me up, and two thoughts hit my mind immediately: Was the ground going to hold more water, or send it across the basement floor again, like a couple weeks ago? Were my young birds being given a crash course in swimming? I had to get up & check the basement. So far, so good, but I got a pair of chargers up off the floor, just in case.

It's quit raining, for now. When it finally got light enough to see, I went out to check on the chickens, half expecting to find the youngest ones' drowned carcasses. The makeshift coop they're in, one of those two-piece plastic dog houses, sits directly on the ground, at the low end of the tractor, and has a hole in the floor. I spotted them running around in the wet grass before I got there. Those goofy Orpingtons, that don't like to go inside the coop, weren't on their little "porch", and I couldn't see them on the ground anywhere from my bedroom window, so they must have been in the coop, for once. By the time I got there, they were down & milling around, waiting for me to take the cap off the feeder. Everyone safe.

I guess all this water means the Lord isn't going to destroy the world by fire, either; at least for a while. I guess I need to see if any of the boats on top of the hill will hold water, & if I still have any paddles.

Glad everything is ok!

Good morning Pond
We're only getting off and on bursts of rain and storms but they aren't lasting long enough to soak the ground.. just enough to keep me hanging laundry inside..

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I could use a little bit of that rain here. It's hot and humid. Why oh why can't we spread that stuff around instead of dumping it all in one place?

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

I could use a little bit of that rain here. It's hot and humid. Why oh why can't we spread that stuff around instead of dumping it all in one place?

Ikr??? Just more crazy weather.

 

[CapricornFarm]

View attachment 1425960 @lazy gardener, or anyone else who knows:
This is 1 of 2 planter boxes I've just built for DW's greenhouse. I need something flexible & porous to lay over the slats on the bottom & up the sides that will keep the soil where it belongs, yet allow it to drain. Thinking along the lines of plastic sheeting, 'cause it won't rot, but I'm coming up empty.
Ideas?

How about that weed blocker fabric?

 

[perchie.girl]

View attachment 1425960 @lazy gardener, or anyone else who knows:
This is 1 of 2 planter boxes I've just built for DW's greenhouse. I need something flexible & porous to lay over the slats on the bottom & up the sides that will keep the soil where it belongs, yet allow it to drain. Thinking along the lines of plastic sheeting, 'cause it won't rot, but I'm coming up empty.
Ideas?

If the slats have only a small space between them you can use coconut fiber.... accross the whole bottm. or Spagnum moss... couple of bags of spagnum goes along way at about an inch thick... Same stuff they use for lining hanging baskets.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

mornin.... Up to two last night.... this morning shoulder hurts knee hurts back hurts and I am hungry...

Other than that Things are peachy except when it gets up to ninety outside and eighty in the house....

Going to go get coffee soon take my Alieve with that and my Tylenol.

deb