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Post by Tim Horton on Feb 24, 2020 0:12:44 GMT
So this was today... 2020-02-23.....
To town today.. Pancake and bacon breakfast at a fund raiser we support.
Short grocery list to Walmart.. Not often Walmart has much on special to make a trip worthwhile. Today was worth it..
Test run today of Brunswick brand (Canada produced) sardines on special.. The ones in tomato sauce are good. Will do a small stock pile of these. This brand of smoked kippers are my favorite..
At Walmart we stepped in line behind a woman waiting to put her stuff on the belt.. She struck me as something not right.. Held back about 2 cart lengths from her.. She gave me a fish eye look, like what the hell is wrong with you ?? In just a bit I could tell she was a "tweeker" of some sort, and something was up.. Sure enough a couple guys eased in line, I gave one a small casual nod and let him step in front of me.. Sure enough she was one of there "usual suspects" in there shop lifting files..
An extra large tea from the drive through lane for the trip home, and all is good in the bush...
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Feb 24, 2020 0:35:59 GMT
Morning chores. Perused my usual websites, hoping to find something interesting to bring here. Breakfast of biscuits/sausage gravy, four basted duck eggs. Checked on the kids - y'all were behaving yourselves. Post a few innocuous comments just to let people know I'm still sentient. Went to visit a neighbor who's recovering from abdominal surgery, got there just in time to watch him change bags. Skipped lunch. Rearranged the garage to start my grow-out cage project. More checking on the kids, doggone y'all are well behaved. More innocuous comments while testing my wife's new recipe for chocolate pie. Evening chores. Grain the sheep/goats, put out more hay, fill the water tubs while my sweet bride puts away the birds and takes care of the rabbits. Coax the cats in for the night.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2020 0:58:48 GMT
This is creepy. I was just thinking this afternoon we should have a thread like this! Are you reading my mind?
Being Sunday I tried not to do anything too crazy and kept the projects at a minimum. *Was in the barn 7-8a getting feeding done and stalls cleaned. *Breakfast of blueberry pancakes and bacon. *Some light housecleaning. *Ground some wheat and baked a loaf of bread. *Tore down an old duck pen and cleaned up a small fenced in lot. *Used the wooden panels from the duck pen to start a fence for the orchard. It’s already enclosed on 3 sides just needed the side by the barn finished. *Took a short nap. *Got the does with babies and horses in the barn as well as everyone else fed. *Posted goat kid pictures on Facebook and Craigslist for sale. *Prepped all the feed for the morning chores before work. *Fixed supper and had a couple rums and cokes. *Ducks and chickens locked up for the night.
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Post by Tim Horton on Feb 27, 2020 5:42:54 GMT
Short town day today... Picked up some give away canning jars.. Nothing special, but usable.. Main reason for the trip was 3 of the 4 feed places in town said, yes, they did have incubator and hatching supplies... Turns out all the have is a few self water dishes, feed trays, leg bands and a small bit of accessory items.. No incubator or parts.. The only incubator I saw was the 4-6 egg, table top, class room experiment kind.
My cousin retired past president from the fighting chicken organization told me how to trouble shoot our incubator to tell what parts are needed.. Got them on order.. Got gas, stopped at one thrift store, lunch at the senior center and home.. Sweetie has made arrangements to get a new rooster.. Like the one on the corn flakes box... Not sure what kind that is.. Current rooster, Loud Mouth will make a fine soup..
Caught the weasel that was leaving half eaten mice in the chicken house mouse traps all before he decided to dispatch one of our scrawny hens...
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Post by BrewDaddy on Feb 27, 2020 5:48:09 GMT
Short town day today... Picked up some give away canning jars.. Nothing special, but usable.. Main reason for the trip was 3 of the 4 feed places in town said, yes, they did have incubator and hatching supplies... Turns out all the have is a few self water dishes, feed trays, leg bands and a small bit of accessory items.. No incubator or parts.. The only incubator I saw was the 4-6 egg, table top, class room experiment kind. My cousin retired past president from the fighting chicken organization told me how to trouble shoot our incubator to tell what parts are needed.. Got them on order.. Got gas, stopped at one thrift store, lunch at the senior center and home.. Sweetie has made arrangements to get a new rooster.. Like the one on the corn flakes box... Not sure what kind that is.. Current rooster, Loud Mouth will make a fine soup.. Caught the weasel that was leaving half eaten mice in the chicken house mouse traps all before he decided to dispatch one of our scrawny hens... Is this the one? www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/pearl_white_leghorn.htmlbd
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Post by Tricky Grama on Feb 27, 2020 13:04:25 GMT
The other day I fixed dozens of little pots planted w/various seed, flowers & veges, just in time for another freeze so I've been hauling 'em all back & forth from out in sun to utility room.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 1:18:07 GMT
I’ve mentioned before I live in an old house. Like this was once a stage coach stop old. Foundation isn’t the best but I knew that going in. Anyway I’ve started getting concerned about the floor joists under the wood stove. Went downstairs earlier this week and sure enough one of them has pulled away roughly 3/4” of an inch from the header. So tonight I went to Lowe’s and bought 2 support jacks and a couple brackets. Got them installed in a couple trouble spots. A couple more joists are showing some separation so I’m going to pick up more and install them. Can’t hurt and the peace of mind will be priceless.
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Post by blackfeather on Feb 29, 2020 0:57:14 GMT
Earlier this week we went from rain to snow and as the storm passed the temperature dropped into the upper teens. We started the wood burning furnace and kept the coal burning cook stove going. I should have plowed the snow but it is supposed to warm up so it will melt. So far we can get in and out of the drive way without plowing. Got my Harbor Freight catalog so I spent my free time wednesday and thursday after work finding any worthwhile coupon code to put into the book. ( at hfqpdb.com) This takes about 8 hours to accomplish. When a customer comes with no coupon for a product I use the coupon to sell service plan or ITC membership. (on average this makes me a dollar an hour more in my pay check and helps all the other cashiers make extra money as well. Plus it makes the store and manager look good.)
That brings us to today, In the morning we cleaned an office, the went to Harbor freight to drop off the finished catalog, and bought some pails and lids with the 30% off coupon going on for the weekend and got a free tarp. Then went to dollar tree and bought some of that shelf stable milk along with other stuff. Then I took my daughter to get an Iron infusion. She has low Iron stores due to the Ulcerative colitis. Even though she no longer has a colon, the J pouch does bleed when the weather is off. She started with the infusion and after 2 cc passed out. Quite a bit of excitement for the nurses, Shot her full of Benadryl. Apparently allergic to the iron infusion. We try again next week with a different product. On the way home she went to Big Lots and stocked up on coconut oil. (the coconut oil has a very long shelf life) I picked up dark chocolate hot cocoa to try out. My wife and other daughter stopped at Walmart after work and picked up yarn. Much of the yarn comes from China so there could be shortages of that. My daughter has been commissioned to crochet a blanket with a deer on it so she'll need yarn. That shot the day.
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Post by joebill on Feb 29, 2020 12:57:26 GMT
I’ve mentioned before I live in an old house. Like this was once a stage coach stop old. Foundation isn’t the best but I knew that going in. Anyway I’ve started getting concerned about the floor joists under the wood stove. Went downstairs earlier this week and sure enough one of them has pulled away roughly 3/4” of an inch from the header. So tonight I went to Lowe’s and bought 2 support jacks and a couple brackets. Got them installed in a couple trouble spots. A couple more joists are showing some separation so I’m going to pick up more and install them. Can’t hurt and the peace of mind will be priceless. Just a few words about tilting houses that prob'ly does not apply, but might help somebody sometime. We owned a very old house and commercial building that had tilting floor issues from long before we acquired it, and I set out to level the thing right off the bat, but as it turned out, the ground under it was soft mud, which made no sense, since the yard was hard as concrete anywhere we checked. Whatever I put down under there to jack against, it soon just sank into the mud and I lost all I had gained, and I COULD NOT see how the water was getting in there. I could not have known about the periodic giant hail storms, but I should have snapped to the snow. This was at 6200 feet elevation in N.E. New Mexico, and we are known for HUGE hail storms in summer, and that was what tipped me off to the problem. The steep roofs were sending piles of hail stones out a few feet from the building, and as it melted, it formed an ice dam, giving the water no choice but to run under the house. Of course, winter snows produced the same effects, and I suspect the house had NEVER been dry underneath from the day it was built, easily over 100 years previous. I never did come up with a solution, but I know it is still standing and have heard it is still tilted. I can only hope whatever small children who might still live there enjoy rolling a ball on the floor and having it return to them by gravity as much as mine did. No better state in the union to sell peculiar old houses than New Mexico, so we did fine on the deal.....Joe
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Feb 29, 2020 14:22:16 GMT
I was still working at the time, so we had a "remodel/addition" carpenter crew build our sunroom on the back of the house. Nice enough guys, kept telling me about their adventures in Mexico and South America building for their church missions. Got 75% done, and talked my wife into paying 100%. Never could get them back to finish.
After a couple years one side of the structure started settling. I pulled facia board off to find they hadn't poured a footer under that side, just some 6x8 posts holding that side up. Had to form and hand pour a footing, let it cure, then using some 20 ton bottle jacks brought it up to level from nearly 2" down. Oh, yeah, the roof leaked like a sieve too.
Like I've said before, if someone starts off telling you what good Christians they are, they aren't.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Mar 3, 2020 21:00:42 GMT
A little excitement on the homestead this morning. Went out to take care of the rabbits, and found 5 possums on top of their cages. We've got 27 kits with the does right now, and don't need those nasty possums getting their sharp little teeth on them.
Got the .22 and started down the line. It's absolutely amazing they'll sit still and look right down the barrel of a 10-22, even after it's done a job on another one three feet away. Two adults and two adolescents went with the trash man in a heavy duty bag. One got away wounded, and now I've got a hole in the tin wall.
I was going to start on the rabbit grow-out cage wire today, but got waylaid into flushing out the tankless water heater instead. A real pain in the butt, but I do it every 6 months to keep it from clogging up with crud. Even though we've got a water softener if I don't flush it out periodically it wants to default back to its lowest temperature setting when the hot water isn't running fast enough. It takes about an hour and a half, and I could have started of the cages afterwards, but any excuse is a good excuse.
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Post by ceresone on Mar 3, 2020 21:40:23 GMT
I so envy all of you.
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Post by Mari on Mar 3, 2020 22:45:22 GMT
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Post by DEKE on Mar 3, 2020 23:01:18 GMT
It must be for my rugged, good looks, because it is most definitely not for my sense of humor.
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Post by Mari on Mar 3, 2020 23:21:39 GMT
My day was probably boring in comparison to most of y'all's. I finally turned on the water line (shallow) that goes out through the woods and to a hose bib at the coops. I had been putting this off and hauling water by hand from the house to increase my step count. I religiously wear a pedometer by the way. But, since there are now several areas on the path that just try to suck the boots off of my feet - I opted to not schlep back and forth on the path today with watering can in hand. It was a nice day for Indiana I must say - we hit a high of 53° - partly sunny to boot. I did dump and refill all of my chicken founts and hauled feed (in a bucket mind you) around to the different coops as well. Heh, I never used the words "haul" and "chore" before I started raising chickens. Well, maybe I should attribute that to our farmer friend as well. Pretty much had my girl with me the entire time today... Pic of her last summer "striking a pose" We have had a lot of Cottontail Rabbits this year. I've seen tons of tracks when we had snow. My husband usually sees at least one if not more when he leaves in the AM. My girl flushed one out of a brush pile in the woods this afternoon which surprised me indeed. I FINALLY got that seed order off to Baker Creek for cryin' out loud. Also ordered some more Eucalyptus essential oil to have on hand as well. In the next couple of days we will be heading out to stock up on cat/dog/chicken feed as well as an ALDI run. Still working on that list I must say. Well, I think I will head out and lock up the coop that contains my youngest. I've got the telly on watching the different cameras and it appears that they may all be in at this time. Have got some Cod defrosting and plan on oven frying it coated with my special mixture. DH wants to make a smidgen of Scampie. Leftover Stellino's Oven-Roasted Veggies as well. Works for me! Y'all take care now - ya hear? ~Moi
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