Good Morning! <=2017

[JimW]

Good evening and Happy Mother's Day to the moms out there. Busy weekend, Saturday morning made the 2 hour trip to Performance Poultry to pick up my chick order, I ordered 40 birds, but decided I did not need most of them and sold over half of them. Just keeping the 8 Mottled Houdans, 10 guinea keets and 4 Black Indie Ducks... I will post pictures later. Had a terrible hatch of my last batch of chicken eggs, lots of bad hatching luck this year. Hatching chicks might not be my thing.

Today did some running around to sell some chicks and did a bit of gardening before the rain started again. Just put 20 Beltsville Small White and 6 slate turkey eggs in lockdown, hoping for some better success.

To try and hatch some more chicks, and due to my terrible ability to hatch, starting tomorrow I can collecting my hatching eggs for 8 days straight to get a decent number of hatching eggs then I am going to take the eggs to Mill Pond Hatchery and have them hatch for me, they set the eggs on each Wednesday only 30 cent an egg to hatch. It is a 2 hour drive from my work but hope it will be worth it.

Oh ya 104 quail eggs being shipped to me from Perry in Alberta tomorrow!!! Mixed colour Jumbos and Blue Egg layers!!!

JimW

[Ontario Chick]

I am going to take the eggs to Mill Pond Hatchery and have them hatch for me, they set the eggs on each Wednesday only 30 cent an egg to hatch. It is a 2 hour drive from my work but hope it will be worth it.

I am really curious how the Mill Pond Hatchery works out for you, I am hoping to give them a try sometime in June.
It's a bit further for me, but I would gladly hand the hatching job to somebody else.

[JimW]

I am going to take the eggs to Mill Pond Hatchery and have them hatch for me, they set the eggs on each Wednesday only 30 cent an egg to hatch. It is a 2 hour drive from my work but hope it will be worth it.

I am really curious how the Mill Pond Hatchery works out for you, I am hoping to give them a try sometime in June.
It's a bit further for me, but I would gladly hand the hatching job to somebody else.

I will definitely let you know. My current plan is to take them eggs on Tuesday, May 23rd for setting on May 2th.

[WLLady]

good morning all!!
hope mill pond works well for you Jim!

well, surprisingly I actually got a lot done (okay, probably relative....but for me it was a lot!). i brushed the horses after work on friday. the starlings promptly raided us for the small pony worth of hair on the floor for their nests. finished hatching another 50 chicks for a friend's custom hatch, planted the russian sage, 2 bleeding hearts and 2 lily trees that a friend dropped off as a thank you for hatching for her, and one of the redbud trees, complete with stakes and ties so it wouldn't get blown over (good thing too because yesterday was windy!). washed off the bird covered lawnmower (thank you starlings), hubby cut the grass while i weeded out the grapevine row. found the seed potatoes, and decided where in the garden they would get planted. watered the greenhouse at least 4 times, picked all the asparagus (frost last night), picked a pile of rhubarb and gave some to my mom and to the same friend with the chicks. clipped dog's nails, and got them all heartwormed, dematted the one cat, did my physio, and my walking, and also helped hubby pull some of the old fallen ash from the bush. we're just pulling the logs up to the house where we will cut them up and split them over the summer. we had LOTS come down over the winter. there's more than enough on the ground we don't even need to cut the standing dead yet. so hubby pulled with the tractor, and i found i can drive the atv if i am standing up and taking the bumps with my knees, so i drove the atv with all the smaller stuff in the trailer on the back, and the saws etc. made a few trips and have 8 or so trees ready for rounding. Had mom over for dinner, nice maple porkchops with morels and onions and rice and fresh steamed asparagus and a rhubarb pie for dessert. mmmmm. and did all the chores! all in all a great weekend. and i'm still standing this morning! lol. it feels like i worked....and i'm really stiff and a little creaky, but it's not pain! whoohoo! i must be healing up some.
the weather was just gorgeous, and the big thunderstorms on saturday mostly missed us....although we had some lightning a little close for comfort. but the grass is cut, and most of the perennials are planted, and soon i will start on the garden, with the seed....the rest will wait until june 1 because i am not messing around with tarps this year because of a late frost. we had a hard frost again last night. have a fellow coming to pick up birds tomorrow night from me. he's got birds from me the last couple of years, and likes the variety, but so did a hawk....sigh. so he's getting a pile of mixed birds from me, colourful egg basket kind of chickens

and great news from work, another one of my papers was accepted for publication, yay! and i'm going to be talking to my physiotherapist about starting back in the lab doing lab work this week. if i can plant things i should be able to lift a bottle of chemical solution and do some work....so. i am looking forward to getting back to the bench!

hope everyone had a great weekend, and enjoys the day!!!

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[Dominion Link]

Hope everyone had a great weekend and all the Mom's got spoiled!
After paying bills to keep the horses going all winter, we finally hit the track yesterday in three races. Our second and third races didn't go as well as hoped, but the first race kicked the season off right!

[Dominion Link]

Morning all! Sounds like it's going to be mid summer weather today. Hope to stay out of the plant as much as possible, particularly the upper elevations

We started Emily in lacrosse last year at age 3. She's back at it this season but hasn't been nearly as into it as last year. I've ended up as coach so can't focus too much time on encouraging her on the floor. I've remained patient, don't want to make it unpleasant for her. She still wants to come so I figure we'll just go at her pace. If she wants to sit out for a few minutes here and there, no biggy. We might have had a bit of a break through at last nights practice though. She ran her tail off (she's fast!) and for the first time, she really got into the stick checking She may have gotten a bit carried away, but some gentle coaching got her to direct her swings more carefully. Her red cheeks and sweaty hair were testiment to a good effort

[ross]

Way to go Dad & Emily . Luck

[Dominion Link]

Thanks Ross :) Love lacrosse and love that Emily is generally enjoying it too. Hopefully it becomes one of her passions. I am involved with a Senior A men's team and when she's old enough I want to get her out to some of our kids camps.... Not sure why Emily's photos are right side up on my phone, but sideways on the computer? Weird...

[ross]

Live is full a mysteries .
Never know what the youguns will be passionate about just gotta be there for them . Luck man