Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[Alaskan]

It’s supposed to be warm-ish out today, and I thought it would be a good thing to go to the dog park (albeit muddy). The dog decided to go for a run in the neighborhood instead.

Oops... did you have trouble tracking him down/ getting him back?

 

[BullChick]

No, he comes back after a few minutes anymore. I don’t know if he’s getting old, six, or there isn’t enough to smell.

 

[bobbi-j]

Hello, Pond!
No school today for MLK day, so I canned some chicken that I bought. Five quarts of drumsticks, 9 pints of thighs. Bought them at Costco yesterday.

It was grey and drippy out today. Temps in the mid-30’s the past few days.

Have a good week, everyone!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Made a cheese cake today 4 berry compote made to go on top.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Good morning pond. 35°and rain here. It's supposed to warm up through the day. Yesterday was 50°and sunny... beautiful! My mom had knee surgery last week so I've been driving down the mountain every day to "babysit" her. She talked me in to taking her out to a couple stores yesterday since it was so nice out and we had Olive Garden for lunch. She thoroughly enjoyed it We'll see how she's feeling today lol.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Pond.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ponders good morning one and all!

51 sunny 76% humidity feels like 45 rain 0%.

I think I'll stay inside today.

Had ice on the windshield this morning.

Have a great day!

 

[Pyxis]

Still recovering from my stupid back injury over here. Physical therapy office finally called me back and left a message, but then when I called today, the person who answered didn't know what was going on and said he had to have the receptionist at a different office call me back - they haven't called back.

On top of it all, the neighbors apparently have two hogs for slaughtering that they are not keeping contained. One of them has been over three times at least now damaging my property. I hadn't been able to check it out - my dad has been doing the feeding and watering for me while I heal but he doesn't really know what he's looking at to tell about damage.

Yesterday I finally got out there to check on things. The pig broke into all of my runs and damaged fencing on all of them. It also ripped the doors off the hinges on both of my chicken coops to get to the feed inside. And tore the hardware cloth off the bottom and off the doors trying to get inside.

This of course released all my chickens, of which there are about 20 missing. Probably taken by hungry winter predators while they were loose and unprotected.

Oh, and it did its level best to get into the emu pasture too. Messed up about $400 worth of chain link panels, including bending the door and pulling up the chain link on the bottom trying to get under. Now luckily the fence held up and it didn't let my emus loose, but the fencing is messed up now.

I sent a message to my neighbors - who already knew about the problem because my dad had talked to them the first time this happened - and outlined all that I said above, and basically said I need them to confirm they have the pig contained and it won't happen again. Not asking for damages because they've done nice things for me in the past like catch the emus when they got loose and plow my bird yard, but I NEED to know the pig isn't going to come back over and do this again.

They saw the message over twelve hours ago. No reply.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Pond. It is wet here.
Real tough spot if they do not reply.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ponders good afternoon one and all!

72 partly sunny 70% humidity feels like 70 rain 0%.

I would take pictures of all the damage, send them a copy.

I hope you hear from them soon.

Have a great day!