Good Morning! <=2017

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:30 am

Not quite sure how a mother of five takes things easy, even with a partially domesticated husband and great and helpful kids, but whatever form it may take, do take it easy Lizzie , time to look after number one for a while!

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 2:16 pm

Good day!! Its so nice outside today! Just a light sweater!

I'm glad Lizzie is home. Hopefully she will get breakfast in bed... lunch taken to her easy chair.... and supper by the fire!! lol. I'm sure the family is spoiling mom rotten!!

I cleaned the hens out this morning, and switched the blue wheaton EE.. and the blue wheaton Ameracuana out with the layers. I thought that since they lived in the rooster condo side by side... they would get along with 40 + hens.. but nope. It was OK for about 1/2 an hour, first time the boys had ever been with girls..... but when I went inside, poor Ameracuana had his face totally in the corner, with A-hole still giving it to him. So.. each gets 24 hours with the girls.

My EE girls kind of quit for the winter... but now that they are laying again, I swear they out lay everyone else. Even last year. There were so many coloured eggs versus brown eggs, and everyone was laying well. My plan is to maybe hatch out some more EE's... in about 3 weeks. Right now, the girls are running from them, lol. When I first put the two boys in with them, one hen flew right up on my shoulder and proceeded to pick at me, lol. When she got too close to the eye, I took a picture of her, and then put her down on the ground. She is one of my hens that I was trying to do a project with the swedish flower rooster. Her dad was one, but the next roo I put with the girls was just plain too stupid for words. Shes very pretty.

Then I went out to the bee yard, and the girls are flying like crazy!! All over the place!! I'm sure they are super glad to get out and use the facilities, lol.

Gary and Dave are gearing up the maple sugar shack.... and I guess we are going to tap a few trees. When I grilled Gary as to why he was looking at maple sugar supplies and stuff, he said "nothing'. I thought maybe he was going to exchange our pan or something, but I see he has the pails and lids out, so I guess we are going to tap some trees again. With 2 grands 4 and 6.. and Dave wants to also... we will have a bit of help this year. I do know it uses a lot of wood, and we have hardly any left for the house. He will have to go find some really dead trees/limbs that are NOT on the ground to go cut.

Well, I started cleaning out the plant shelf with the lights, its covered with old invoices and bills and stuff. Got a big pile for the burning barrel. I'd better get going.

Brebis · Post by **Brebis** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 2:55 pm

That's one way to pluck the eyebrows BVF!! lol

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 4:17 pm

Brebis wrote:QR_BBPOST That's one way to pluck the eyebrows BVF!! lol

And eyeballs!!!!

LOL

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 4:23 pm

What an absolutely beautiful day. I have some of the windows open. Hubby had a horrid cold for almost 2 weeks so he slept in the spare room so it needed a good airing out! I totally stripped off the bedding from both rooms, washed all and hung out on the cloths line. Boy I miss my cloths line in the winter.
Also Spring cleaning in the house today, tomorrow and Monday will be the barn cleaning out pens and cleaning up dog

Enjoy the sunshine!!

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 4:53 pm

I see the sun here, too!!! It's been peeking out off and on all day, and I swear it's for the first time since August! It sucks that I had to sleep through the best/brightest part of the day, I wanted to be out puttering. But it's a nice promise of better weather ahead!

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 6:31 pm

we were outside all day in the sunshine n mud wearing long sleeve shirts without sweaters. motorcycles kept roaring on by. I was working on my truck cuz it wouldnt start for me right away this morning, never did figure it out. batterynwas at 12 volts. I cleaned up and and redid all the wires but couldnt find the phantom draw anywhere. shall see what tommorow brings and if the battery is lower than 12.8 I'll be looking at the starter. I put a new starter relay in it, no idea if that helped or not.

i took my chainsaw in to get professionally sharpened and he fixed it right for only $9, fixed the bar and i got all kinds of tips. bought a new chain to have on standby, a chain cover and a real sharpening kit. $65 total not bad i dont think to maintain a great saw. so i was supposed to be doing wood but didnt get to it after working on the truck... tommorow is another day.

beautiful day out. Lizzie is doing alright, shes a lil stuborn when it comes to asking for help... so ya i definitely try to think about what she wants or needs next...

have a great night guys!

Post by **WLLady** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 7:47 pm

We were down in chatham today and the maple trees are trying to bud!!! I am scared there wont be a very long syrup season and i also hope the buds dont go cause if we get cold again the leaves are toast....

Washed the inches of cajed on dirtvroad off the car and truck with the hose, let the turkeys out for some fresh air and cleaned waterers in the loft. Then birthday dinner in chatham. And opened the barn up.wide to get the air through. My chickens are starting to pick up laying! The minute i start getting turkey eggs i am collecting chicken eggs for incubating for my next generations.

Beatiful day today. 17c here and just a sweater and no gloves. Sooo nice. And so weird for february!!!!
But i will take it and enjoy every second of it.
Maybe tomorrow i will go for a nice long walk outside.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:13 pm

17C in February? Boy that'll bugger up the trees and critters. Its 6C here

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:32 pm

I havent even had a chance to think about maple syrup and it dosent look like there will even be a season here. since its warm now it can stay warm and I'll be happy with that. I sure hope the temp dosent plung and kill the trees, we sure as heck dont need any more dead trees around here! heres the my forecast, it dosent go below zero until next saturday, then only for a couple days and just barely.

so on Thursday, Allen came home sick from school, 24 hour flu. Friday after school Gage gets it, hes fine as of this afternoon. Now Tiffany gets it, just started, well that leaves the rest of us. I usually dont get sick at all. knock on wood! im trying my hardest to keep things sterilized so that Lizzie dosnet catch it, thats the last thing she needs. but hey at least its only the 24 hour flu. some of my friends were laid out for 2 weeks and in rough shape. one thing after another eh!

take care all!