Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[bigzio]

Minimum order is 300, but a good value usually …..
https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/treeplanting/order.html

bigz

 

[bigzio]

FFF again and ok with me to keep them comin week after week. Baked haddock with seasoned wedge potatoes and cole slaw from the fund raiser last night. We served 330 hungry folks and are calling it a success once again.
Colder than I care for with the snow on the ground and the strong winds...is it Spring yet?

bigz

 

[jvls1942]

DD#1 called last night. let's go out for a FFF.
OK , while we were eating the snow came.
17F, windy and white out conditions.
Annie drove 30 mph all the way home.
we got 4 inches of the slippery white sht..
I'm not going to plow yet. we will drive on it and make a nice hard layer on top of the granite.
I have to take the manifold off of the scooter. yesterday I discovered a piece broken off of it.. I will warm it up and fix it with Loc Tite..
but, I finally have all the vacuum circuits figured out..
.....jiminwisc......

 

[babylady4]

I left 72* weather yesterday to come home to 19*.... NOT acceptable! Again; why do I live in a place where the air freezes my face??????

Anyway, the trip was great and we accomplished quite a bit. It was so nice to see everyone again.

I did manage to get to Cafe du Monde before we left......

 

[ParkfieldFarm]

Sounds good to me BL4!

And now I want a fish fry....

I'm excited over here because we started ordering parts for the chicken watering system. Woot! There's a huge tank in the barn already ready for us to add pvc piping, a pump, and a stock tank warmer to, and we'll be golden for about 100 horizontal nipples worth of chicken waterin' (NON FREEZING) clean fun. I'm excited!

 

[babylady4]

The mower was under 2k, purchased at the Cub Cadet dealer in Burlington. Hubs knows how to score a deal, he was looking for a mower for the last few months.

This weather sucks a$$. I am freezing!

Cooked up the pheasants DH shot last spring. They were pretty good; I made wild rice and cooked them in a mushroom wine sauce. I think next time I cook pheasant I am cooking farm raised ones..... picking down out of B.B. holes is a pita! Maybe I’ll set up pheasant pens in the lawn......

 

[jvls1942]

If there is a BB in a bird, it will always end up in the piece I am eating.
I just super glued two nuts onto the carb float cover.. it is taking forever to set, unlike the glue I got on my fingers..
good packer win today.

there is one drawback on the mower deck.
fine chafe blows up through small holes and settles on top of the deck. It doesn't hurt anything, but I wash it off after mowing. If it would get wet, it could cause a rusty spot..
same as the grass stuck under the deck ..
tip: don't remove the deck unless you absolutely have to.. it is a real pain to get off and on.. don't depend on you tube to help you. their instructions are over simplified and grossly incomplete..
I am going to remove the blades for sharpening with an impact wrench from now on.. I made a ramp so I can get underneath.
......jiminwisc.......

 

[chickenlady25XD]

View attachment 1586699 I left 72* weather yesterday to come home to 19*.... NOT acceptable! Again; why do I live in a place where the air freezes my face??????

Anyway, the trip was great and we accomplished quite a bit. It was so nice to see everyone again.

I did manage to get to Cafe du Monde before we left......

Where is that place?

 

[chickenlady25XD]

Today I had to drive 1/2-2 hours to Milwaukee to visit my mom's cousin who is a baby! He's a cutie!

 

[ParkfieldFarm]

Today I had to drive 1/2-2 hours to Milwaukee to visit my mom's cousin who is a baby! He's a cutie!

Awwww babies! I want another one. But I SO DON'T WANT another one!

I spent all morning cleaning. We have eight pens on one side of the barn--they're 6x9.5. It took me four hours to clean out one of them this morning, top to bottom, and re-bed. They had been using sand but I'm switching to aspen bedding because I want to be able to compost all of it down completely and use it in the gardens/csa beds. And allllll of it is SO overdue for a cleaning. Like a year overdue. Jeff also put together a lip for the front of the nest boxes and a few new roosts, too. He's so much faster at that stuff than I am.

I'm so sore now. Hopefully I can do one a morning until they're all done, although I'd like to get the kids in there to do one or two. Of course it's never quite as 'done' when they do it, as when I do it. Then it's on to the other side where there are two long pens for the egg birds at about 24x10 each, and the brooder room... Those are going to take forever.Steady as she goes I guess.

We're also really trying to figure out what to do with our turkeys--what would you do? We have thirty young turkeys. Some are Narrangansett, and some are Bourbon Red, and some are a mix because they've been running together for the summer. I think some are only three/four months old. We have a slot to get all thirty processed at a local place at $11 a bird. Some are probably not even worth it. We could do it ourselves, but we're super behind. I have no idea what the weight would be on them. And then what...? Sell them? Stock the freezer and eat a turkey a week? OR overwinter them, which is a PITA, because the turkey pen needs an overhaul and there's no way to keep the water from freezing over there. But we could put some in the second egg-layer pen, they'd have room...but then what? What would y'all Cheeseheads do? Heritage turkeys eat like pigs and I want Narrangasetts but I don't even know if they're pure anymore or what we even have.