What did you do in the garden today?

[NanaK]

I finally got around to decapitating the remaining sunflowers. My QA team of hens heartily approved of the seed samples I gave them.
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I grow a black oil type for my chickens. They love the sunflower buffet.

 

[Fishychix]

Well, my plans for tomorrow are to put the "organic fertilizer" into the beds. Rabbit and chicken. We'll see if I manage it. I dint see my rabbit poo breaking up in the beds. It seems to stay solid. Should ido something with it first? Not sure what, maybe bash it in a bucket with water??

 

[WthrLady]

There are literally hundreds of canning jars in my grandmother's root cellar. Unfortunately my uncle owns her house now and won't let me have them even though he has no use for them. Jerk....

I have an obscene number of jars, dating back to the blues in the 1800s. I love my Crown Mason with the refrigerator lines. My favorite are the more square quart jars. I have some weird jars down there. Amazing to me that at 90+ years, some of them, are still going strong.

 

[Ascholten]

I have an obscene number of jars, dating back to the blues in the 1800s. I love my Crown Mason with the refrigerator lines. My favorite are the more square quart jars. I have some weird jars down there. Amazing to me that at 90+ years, some of them, are still going strong.

They made things to last back then, they had pride in their worksmanship. Now they make things to break in a few years tops so you HAVE to get new. Look at appliances. When my parents died, they had a freezer in the garage that they got on their HONEYMOON. (They were married for 62 years). It STILL worked. Today, if you get an appliance that lasts 10 years you did well.

Aaron

 

[Ascholten]

Well, my plans for tomorrow are to put the "organic fertilizer" into the beds. Rabbit and chicken. We'll see if I manage it. I dint see my rabbit poo breaking up in the beds. It seems to stay solid. Should ido something with it first? Not sure what, maybe bash it in a bucket with water??

Mashing them with water is going to be a HUGE stinky mess.
DO BE AWARE, rabbit turds, they tend to piss on them too, so they are very HOT !! Just like fresh chicken crap, so be very careful about dumping unripened / uncured right into your plats.

I used to just throw them in, they eventually crumble down. Heck, let the chickens eat them, give them a chance at the nutrients the rabbits missed first time around

If you want to bust them down go ahead but the adding water, I just see a horrible mess on your horizon.

Aaron

 

[Sally PB]

Today, if you get an appliance that lasts 10 years you did well.

Which is why we still have our 35-40 year old fridge, and 42+yo dishwasher and stove. Dreading having to get new ones.

 

[esturtz27]

Penny is showing signs of being itchy again so DP checked with the vet and we're going to add the Benadryl back to her meds.
omg that is the best name! And your girl looks so prim and proper sitting there. Sweet!

Benadryl (adult not children's, my husband bought him children's once) works pretty okay for the hound. They gave us a shot for his itching once. Said it would last 8+ weeks foe 200$.. 4 days lol! I was a bit upset with them for that because it honestly just felt like a money grab.

Thank you! Honey-lemon is a whiting true green she is supposed to be reddish orangey with black tipped feathers but she looks more like a Wyandotte cross lol! I did get her from a breeder and the eggs are greenish. Her and her sister (Camilla) are just exceptionally prissy. Oddly since H.L had started laying she will follow me around and likes head scratches idk she used to skitter away. She's possibly my favorite besides Dot

 

[Ascholten]

Which is why we still have our 35-40 year old fridge, and 42+yo dishwasher and stove. Dreading having to get new ones.

Im surprised you can still get parts for it. I had a freezer, an old R-12 unit, it was GREAT, but it finally gave up the ghost and I had to get a new one. It's manu date said 1992 so it lasted 30years. Seems about 2000 was the year things really started going down hill and as a general rule, the more electronic crap on it, the faster it will die.

Your fancy ass washing machine with 30 different cycles (wtf do you need that many settings for, LEARN how to wash your friggin clothes !!!! ) in 5 or so years when the board pops on it, and they say, ooh, that model is 5 years old, we discontinued them, parts are no longer available, but we'll give you 50 dollars off a new 900 dollar model. Oh but you are savvy, so you search on the internet and goto the appliance parts warehouses... well guess what, THEY are savvy too, they KNOW you came to them because nobody else had the part, and that board will cost you $435 dollars. But they will warranty it for you for a FULL 6 Months !!

So you either reluctantly buy the board ,hoping to get another 2 or 3 years out of the thing, or another machine, if your wife is millennial she wants NEW NEW NEW !!! If she's gen z, she doesn't even know what a washing machine is

The thing I find amusing is, new appliances, they sell 'insurance policies' oh if it breaks we REPLACE it in this 5 year warranty period. So you mean to tell me, you expect this POS to die in 5 years? and enough of them ARE that you are selling enough of these policies to make it worth while? Most of the old stuff was warrantied for that long anyways, and if it DID die that soon that company would be on it's way out. Hello Tandy !! so they will want to charge you 200 dollars for an additional 3 years. Which basically tells you, a new unit....cost 200 dollars to make, so you are basically just paying for your new unit up front.

If you got an older unit, and it's still running, then YES, you absolutely MUST keep that thing going for as long as you can, if you can find parts, and most of them are 'generic' stuff you do NOT have to have this specialized whurligigger, or fine honed kanuten flapper for THIS model only garbage, general stuff works across ALL of them and it's cheap.

Aaron

 

[TJAnonymous]

Started a new thread specifically about herbs.

Thread 'All about garden herbs' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/all-about-garden-herbs.1548427/

Constantly trying to expand my knowledge here.

 

[esturtz27]

So you either reluctantly buy the board ,hoping to get another 2 or 3 years out of the thing, or another machine, if your wife is millennial she wants NEW NEW NEW !!!

So sorry but I'm going to have to disagree with the "millennial wife" stereotype
I am a millennial wife though an older country millennial raised poor I'm still part of the generation. I may suck at growing tomatoes but I fix every single appliance in my home and have fixed my mother's on occasion. I have a roper dryer from the late 90s and a standard ge washing machine. We got the pair for 125$ and I think maybe 50$ for the bad part. The point of me saying this is that I personally do not lump people in as one thing due to their sex and generation. My brother in law is a gen z engineer who writes Fabio style smut....we are all different and sometimes odd. I know a boat load of people my age who despise new things because exactly like you say they are trash! The millennial generation much like the boomers span a large age group( 39-27yrs old) many of us have learned or already learned the failures in materialism. None of us "millennial wives' are running around ecstatic about a new washing machine. Most of us are broke just like all the other generations.