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by WLLady » Tue May 27, 2025 8:02 am
I think anything to get rid of the underbrush that is supporting the fires is a really good thing! We used to do burns in Quebec when i was a kid....to do exactly that-get rid of the flammable stuff so that a forest fire would basically burn itself out if lightning struck or something. Then all that was stopped....and now i think we're paying the price for not letting doing the controlled understory clearing.
Sorry i've been awol for a long time....my mother got really ill just before christmas, and that became a second full time job. She's back to being mostly independent again, but with ontario health at home help. Thank goodness for OHH. Otherwise this wouldn't be possible at all. She's now on the wait list for assisted living....but the wait times, i think she'll be gone before it happens. We shall see. And of course spring on the farm is the busy season. Trying to get the garden in. I actually didn't do any hatching this spring for the first time in 20 something years. just don't have time this year. And i have enough younger chickens to keep me through to next year. We lost our last clydesdale earlier this spring at 31 years old. She went down in feb, and we got her up, but then she went down again ....and we made the call to the vet. So all the horse fencing has been removed, the bees moved into the old paddock, a cedar hedge planted, the barn is slowly being cleaned out and the stalls removed etc. Waiting on all the darned tweety birds to hatch and fly and 2 ducks sitting on eggs to do their thing so we can fully clean the barn out. We'll likely convert it into a workshop. No more horses. Then another 5 deaths of people in the family or close to us....it's just been unrelenting this year. ug. but it's nice to have spring and see some of the plants flowering and growing. Still have to process ducks-only about 8 months late on that job.....i think i got the chickens contained....i have 3 escape artists, they think they're ducks. LOL.
I'll try to stop in more.....
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Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars