Good Morning! <=2017

ross · Post by **ross** » Tue May 31, 2016 11:27 am

1 1/2 " rain here Sunday nite everything green . Cut for 2 hrs yesterday another hr today . Chanty banty hen setting on another clutch of eggs . 2nd this year . Cool breeze off lake today no A/C luck

Post by **WLLady** » Tue May 31, 2016 12:36 pm

wonderful redninja! they've been little egg laying machines for me

they LOVE ranging too....but if they are free ranging outside they will lay their eggs in the smallest hardest to get to spot ever. The one girl (the one with a bit of treading on her back) also hatched for me last year-someone elses eggs at the ripe old age of <6 months LOL...she hasn't looked broody at all this year (yet)

Thanks KB!
yep, tonight at some weird hour....figure i'll just sleep in the scanner LOL

Ross, i swear i could SEE the rain on sunday, it probably hit glencoe and missed my farm

wow, i just discovered a whole new layer of paperwork i didn't know existed at the university here. just to hire a student in (unpaid) for the summer. FUN times i tell ya!

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Tue May 31, 2016 12:51 pm

im really enjoying that nice cool breeze blowing on me sitting in my chair in the living room Ross, 72º in the house, perfect.

I just finally finished tilling our new 2500 square foot garden. its 3/4 planted with a bunch of stuff. we grew half from seed and bought the other half from a lady at the Chatham farmers market. great deal and great plants. we're much more organized this year than we ever were before. this garden is guna be awesome. I still have another spot to till up for potatoes but it was previously a garden and im not expanding it so it shouldn't be that bad or take me as long. its about 1/3 the size of the big one.

we also turned, weeded n planted a herb garden beside the house that used to be a flower bed. we left all the surviving bulbs/flowers alone tho. looks great. weeded n pruned the blueberry patch. im so glad they survived the move!

were rookie gardners so we'll see how it goes LOL.

yesterday i was under the house checking things out and noticed its very cool down there. its insulated really well with spray foam. today I go to the thermostat, put it on cool, the fan comes on and its blowing cold air out of air ducts! sweet deal! so i turned the thermostat up to 72 and it shuts off, even sweeter deal! I cant wait to see if it will actually keep the house cool, we do not have nor want a/c and didn't use it at all last year at the old place. the new house is a century old brick farm house, there's air vent holes in the upstairs floor and man can you ever feel the air circulating through this place. everyday we just love this place more and more.

have a great day all!

ross · Post by **ross** » Tue May 31, 2016 1:18 pm

Looks good Al . Well last day of spring turkey think I'll go out & sit for a few hours later . Luck

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Tue May 31, 2016 1:21 pm

thanks man. yup im thinking the same here Ross. waiting for Lizzie to get home... good luck to ya!

hayladee · Post by **hayladee** » Tue May 31, 2016 10:37 pm

Evening all, seems like I have NO time to myself anymore during daylight hours.... five grands in the house will do that I guess. Today after making breakfast and getting the 7,8 and 9 year olds off to school I did some major cleaning, bathroom, kitchen and living room where they all sleep in sleeping bags with air mattresses on the floor. Told them its time they started picking up after themselves again...getting clothes ready the night before, putting dirty clothes down the basement stairs to be washed, hanging up towels after baths.... I've been their maid for long enough...would your believe I found 1/2 a hotdog in an inside out sock last week? Tonight asked 7 year old to pick up her sock and put down stairsteps... it was inside out so had her turn it first.... it was full of shepherds pie we had for supper tonight! Hard to keep a straight face at a time like that....lol. Of course though it was her sock, "I didn't do it" was promptly stated.... couldn't tell for the life of me... her sisters were smirking .... Told the little monkeys if I found out who was doing it they would be eating out of a sock the next day... more smirking, They still haven't figured out that this gramma doesn't make threats.
Two chicks escaped (I think they had help) from the pen out in the yard today and were madly running around it trying to get back in to the rest, 18 month old grandson, Tanner, chased after them squealing trying to catch them, ran into the handle head first (its a chicken tractor) too funny ...put his hands over his ears and wimpered a couple seconds then the chase was back on... stubborn and hard headed, that's my Tanner man.
Well a load of hay to deliver tomorrow and two loads of used shavings to pick up and bring home...that about shoots my day, still haven't planted the tomatoe and pepper plants I bought... still plan on using 25 gallon plastic mineral tubs as raised beds since I haven't gotten my garden tilled and its turned back into lawn.... figure the grands can each plant one too, then I can get them to water mine when they water theirs.... might work? lol

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Tue May 31, 2016 10:38 pm

Sandy: re collecting water off a shingle roof. I would not hesitate to use it. The "tar" used for shingles has to be heated to be liquid, so runoff is extremely unlikely. Collected water would show a "slick" on the surface as well. The rain water could contain a number of chemicals collected from the atmosphere. There's no perfect water.

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 2:54 am

Brown grass and straggly hay here. Two little wild birds drowned themselves in the pot I have out for the young geese, trying to get a drink no doubt. Planting garden like crazy later today, then I think I'm doing a rain dance.

Post by **Killerbunny** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 7:43 am

Really need it here. Of course this year I planted new nut trees and others and fruit bushes!

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Wed Jun 01, 2016 8:11 am

Morning y'all

Could you pls take the time to pop over to http://www.poultrytalkontario.net/forum ... php?t=1297 and fill out the form if you're heading to the PTO PikNik.

Thanks!!

Martin, thank you for doing that!!! You're very resourceful and it's definitely appreciated. Cheers