Good Morning! <=2017

[baronrenfrew]

Lmao, to Hijack means you take power of a moving vehicle to force the driver to go to YOUR choice of destination. So Ross would have to be in motion and Kathy takes control and orders a new destination. So the two of them would be on it for the trip.

Sounds like fun!

[WLLady]

ha ha. i do not need a scooter or a walker or a cane anymore!!!! LOL.
i do need to sit down every once in a while, but that's it!!!! yay!

[ross]

How bout I bring this Kathy & put a chair in the wagon . Lol

[Killerbunny]

Took a drive down the ST Lawrence this am and came across a bald eagle and about 20 swans!

[WLLady]

it's perfect ross! LOL. i'm looking forward to coming if the weather is okay.

well, hubby went bunny hunting....apparently saw one, but also brought one dog home bleeding from a foot. the dog is all first aided patched up and no longer bleeding all over the floor. looks like he peeled a bit off his pad. sigh. of course, it's the bouncy one....so every time he bounces he opens it up again. we'll leave it wrapped for the night and see how it is tomorrow. he needs to go to the vets next weekend anyways, for his liver tests, so can get the vet to check it if it's not healing up well by then.

glad i'm not hatching right now but i miss it!!!! looking forward to later in the spring when i can get started again. took a few clippings off my african violets to root for a friend....that's about all the propagating for now. reminds me, need to cut the dead blooms off the amaryllis....guess i should do that before they end up on the floor and it's a major untaking LOL.
hope everyone has a great evening!

[JimW]

Good evening, watching football and thinking about what I should teach tomorrow in my classes, Our salmon eggs are arriving tomorrow for my environmental science class so we can hatch them. We will also be setting up a Hovabator incubator tomorrow in my biology class to put a few chicken eggs in on Tuesday, 6 Svart hona, 1 ayam cemani and a couple cream legbar eggs.

Hope everyone has a good night.

JimW

[ross]

Great nite man , I'm NOT watching football . Luck at school .

[WLLady]

jimw your students are really lucky!!! best we did in biology was had a garter snake someone had found in their garden. LOL. poor thing was terrorized by the students so the teacher let it go outside after everyone went home.

ross, i didn't watch the game either. the wonders of not having cable! or satellite tv.

well, been trying to learn some german and i think my brain is going to implode. managed to do a few of the chores today, and do some walking and i'm not really done done yet....just tired, but not DONE. so that's better than the last few weeks. Got the paperwork for applying for long term disability from work, they only give me 15 weeks before i have all this paperwork to do. i feel like i'm writing an entire grant application. so appointments made with the drs to spend all my money getting them to fill in forms. sigh. and made another vet appointment for the puppy. i'm pretty sure we are looking at cushings. polyuria, liver dysfunction, polydipsia....lack of hair growth on surgical site healing. short hair. cold intolerance. he also stepped on something yesterday in the field and sliced his foot open. that was fun. they were out bunny hunting...so wrapped it up....then he chewed off the bandage last night but at least it's healed over now. dog's pads heal so fast it's funny. it's just keeping the bandage on long enough that they stop getting red on the floor for a while and stop leaking!!! he's doing just fine today. actually laying over there snoring....
looks like some nasty weather on the way....rain for here apparently, i hope it's not freezing rain for you folks east of us! looks like it's building south west of us now. oh yay. can't wait for more mud! rumour has it 9C tomorrow. gah!

al, keep an eye on the weather now. 5 days above zero and you get out there and tap.....unless the long term forecast dips to -10 or colder again. heard that the people down the road are putting in 700 taps this year! holy crap! no point in me tapping anything when i can zip over there and buy a few gallons. LOL.

looks like pen cleaning happening this weekend when we aren't at the show in sarnia.....there's 15 pens, i'm not sure i can bribe my hubby into cleaning them all if we come to the show. guess i'll need some negotiation. it's a lot of work, and i'm kinda useless, i could probably herd the birds out, and put down the shavings and herd them back in....but i still can't bend over to do anything at floor level. gah. i sure hope this heals up fast!
hope everyone has a great night.

[Bayvistafarm]

Man its wet out!! Went out to get into my bus and the mirrors were all iced up. Thought it was just raining out, until I looked at the birch tree and seen it was all 'iced'. Nice. Dundas is just wet. Up the hill different story. As I drove along, it got icier and the roads started to slush. Hopefully with the warm up tonight, makes the ice disappear before it freezes up again.

The cows will need an extra bout of straw tonight. Kind of lax heading out to the barn. Don't wanna go out. The hens are on Amprol... a few of them had cocci and the rooster. Guess letting them outside when it was 'warmer', but WET wasn't such a good idea. They liked it tho.

got to take a picture of my young turkey girls. The ones that some of you didn't get last fall, lol. I need, or would like a new boy... and someone from Fisherville has a 6 month old boy, and my girls are the same. Thought one was a boy all along, was much bigger than the other one, but they are the same size now, and I 've never seen 'him' strut. Or gobble. I'd like to trade them both, she suggested a girl for the boy... but mine are a bonded pair of girls. Live together, beside some guinea's. They would miss each other. AND to put a single girl in with a couple yearlings may result in a fight.

I was talking to my red palm girl the other day, and ruffled her feathers to check for 'bugs'. What I found instead were huge scabs healed over.... and a lump of healed flesh that was likely ripped. Could be infected... once I got really checking, she didn't appreciate that. I removed the Tom, to keep him from treading on her. I will nip his toenails and look at his spurs soon. Shes still laying eggs for crying out loud. Every other day. I should have been keeping them.....but I am REALLY REALLY trying NOT to incubate anything. But she didn't lay hardly at all last year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the one I did get out of that pair.... was a really pretty pencilled red palm boy. What to do?????? And I know your all NO help in that department, lol.

The cows are getting bigger in the belly now. Soon, mid April on, we will be in the thick of calving. NOT looking forward to that again, lol. This year, calves to the new angus bull. Kind of excited to see his babies tho, out of those half blonde cows/heifers. Could get some nice grey calves. We AI'd some of the heifers to a charolais bull... but I think most of them repeated. So, the new bull probably got them.

I guess I'd better get out there. So I can come back in here by the stove. Nicer there, lol.

Hows your leg coming Dean.... and Jim W... I think after a couple minus days this week... another mild spell is coming!

[windwalkingwolf]

Good morning, all!
WLLady, have you gotten back into your pool yet? You're one seriously tough lady.

Well, I've been getting almost no eggs from about 45 hens, pullets and muscovies, even though several hens show signs of active laying. One of our pigs, Hamlet, is a worse escape artist than the goats, so he's loose in the barn and I suspected him of eating them. I have a new rooster that's done his month of quarantine, so I put two 'sacrificial' hens in with him two days ago, both of which I suspected were laying...Then yesterday, VOILA, two eggs in the quarantine coop. Sigh. I built a solid 'room' out of a box stall for Hamlet's father, also an escape artist--he would climb the walls, peel boards off and squeeze through-- but Hank is still in there, so I either have to build a new containment for Hamlet (the cow and goat stalls won't hold him), or turn a bottle raised pet into bacon, or never get eggs. I keep hoping all those eggs will make Hamlet fat enough that he won't climb the stall he's SUPPOSED to be in. It's held many pigs, just none as adventurous as Hank or Hamlet. Sigh. In the past few days, the Tom's have started all strutting like crazy, and the ducks and geese engaging in mating behaviour....I suspect all will be laying very shortly. I NEED to get that brat pig contained, but tough when I'm working so much to be able to feed them all in the first place... It's a vicious circle LOL!