WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[Penny Hen]

I hear that a lot. Lol. I love to be in the woods so foraging is natural for me. We have our 60th annual black walnut festival next week so we are an area that is loaded with them.

Do you have a preferred method of cracking them and getting the meat out. Our family has traditionally used a hammer and an nut pick. I have a piece of I-beam that I use to place them on to smash them. But I have wondered if their isn't a better way.

 

[shannondee12]

Do you have a preferred method of cracking them and getting the meat out. Our family has traditionally used a hammer and an nut pick. I have a piece of I-beam that I use to place them on to smash them. But I have wondered if their isn't a better way.

I have used that way as well, for years. I have some family that uses a hydraulic nut cracker but I prefer the old fashioned method. I do like the hydraulic nutcracker for Hickory nuts because any other way will crush the delicate nut meats.

 

[chick-among-us]

OMG that makes me so mad!

Ok that emoticon is just too cool. It is not on the standard list. Is that a paying perk or how did you get it?

http://www.freesmileys.org

Fun,fun,fun!

 

[Penny Hen]

Does anybody have Fruitful Faith's address? She hasn't been on in a while. I finally got her spindle and wool put all together in a box ready to ship and looked back through our PMs and I had never gotten her address. I left her a message a week ago but have heard nothing. I know she is on one of the coastal islands in southern Alaska, but that is not enough to get the package to her.

 

[rbaker0345]

I am PMin it to you now. Not sure what is up with her, hope everything is okay. She was supposed to send me some Salmon and never did, which doesn't seem like her.

 

[chiqita]

I am PMin it to you now. Not sure what is up with her, hope everything is okay. She was supposed to send me some Salmon and never did, which doesn't seem like her.

She sent mine, but it never got here, and the PO could not track it, was a sad panda.

 

[rbaker0345]

That is sad. That may be what happened here. Unfortunately Salmon just do not run down in this part of the country. Maybe I could kipper some mahi and pass it off to my husband as salmon.....

BTW. I love the chicks that I hatched from your eggs. If I didn't have a husband I would buy some more from you. I got a blue showgirl and a perfect pair of bresse. The showgirl came out of that egg and all we could say was, "ewwwohh" how adorably hideous. But she's starting to look much more like a chicken and I named her vegas which will work even if she turns out to be he. The bresse are definitely meat birds. Why do all meat birds have a penchant for getting completely dirty and brown? Thank goodness its raining, maybe they'll be white again when they dry off. I have to remember to send you pics.

 

[chiqita]

That is sad. That may be what happened here. Unfortunately Salmon just do not run down in this part of the country. Maybe I could kipper some mahi and pass it off to my husband as salmon.....

BTW. I love the chicks that I hatched from your eggs. If I didn't have a husband I would buy some more from you. I got a blue showgirl and a perfect pair of bresse. The showgirl came out of that egg and all we could say was, "ewwwohh" how adorably hideous. But she's starting to look much more like a chicken and I named her vegas which will work even if she turns out to be he. The bresse are definitely meat birds. Why do all meat birds have a penchant for getting completely dirty and brown? Thank goodness its raining, maybe they'll be white again when they dry off. I have to remember to send you pics.

Showgirls purpose in life is to rub off on people . Glad the girls went well!

 

[Penny Hen]

Showgirls purpose in life is to rub off on people . Glad the girls went well!

You know I have only been so-so on Silkies until I saw Showgirls. They just have real style.

 

[rbaker0345]

Oh, they have style allright. Not sure what kind of style, but its style. Just kidding, we love our little Vegas.