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

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Pond.
Dry here and cold as can be 34 on my lily pad.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ponders good afternoon one and all.

72 cloudy 86% humidity feels like 73 rain 56%.

Have a great day!

 

[Alaskan]

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.

Wow!

I hadn't been checking in, just saw this.

And now? Any more pig damage?

I missed you hurting your back. How did that happen?

 

[sourland]

Damp on my lily pad. Good morning, Pond.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ponders good morning one and all!

57 mostly cloudy 70% humidity feels like 56 rain 0%.

Lily pad is wet from last nights rain think I will stay inside today.

Have a great day!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good Afternoon Ponders. Dry our lily pad 7 days they say.
Been doing lots of baking this morning.

 

[bobbi-j]

Hello, Pond!
A bright, sunny warm day on my lily pad! It’s a balmy 36*, so I took advantage of the nice weather and did some chickeny things today. I put fresh bedding in both coops, spread some dry leaves and straw that I took out of our falling-down barn in one of the chicken runs so the silly things will go outside, and removed a mud wasp nest that I noticed inside one of the coops. I broke it open and tossed to the chickens. It felt good to be moving around in the fresh air.

I hope you all have a most wonderful week!

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Pond.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ponders good afternoon one and all!

63 sunny 72% humidity feels like 59 rain 0%.

Have a great day!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Pond. We are dry here.
Fire feels good this morning.
Can hear Smudge calling girls here.