Good Morning!

[WLLady]

Good morning all!
Woke up to distant thunder and now its pouring out. We have had a record amount of rain here this year. Pushing 10 inches since june 1.
Still healing up after surgery. This one is easier in some ways and not in others than the first. I definitely need to downsize birds. This wont be possible going forward. I am still mostly useless for chores and anything involving walking or standing for any period of time. Of well. Better than the pain thats for sure. Not looking much like fall yet-the leaves are turning and falling so not a lot of colour this year. Our 4 fruit trees needing removal are down to stumps to be pulled... Not sure if garlic will go in or not. I found some saffron crocus bulbs!!!! Super excited about those. Will need to bug DH to plant those. Happy thanksgiving!! @TomK i would love for you to have 90% girls!!!! Fingers crossed. Are those kids from the lines from me from many many moons ago? I still have a few welsummers... Ironically they are my escape artists preferring free range to any fence lol
I hope everyone has a great thanksgiving. We are finally going to see one of my parents today for the first time in 2 years i think. Craziness.

[ross]

Good morning all!
Woke up to distant thunder and now its pouring out. We have had a record amount of rain here this year. Pushing 10 inches since june 1.
Still healing up after surgery. This one is easier in some ways and not in others than the first. I definitely need to downsize birds. This wont be possible going forward. I am still mostly useless for chores and anything involving walking or standing for any period of time. Of well. Better than the pain thats for sure. Not looking much like fall yet-the leaves are turning and falling so not a lot of colour this year. Our 4 fruit trees needing removal are down to stumps to be pulled... Not sure if garlic will go in or not. I found some saffron crocus bulbs!!!! Super excited about those. Will need to bug DH to plant those. Happy thanksgiving!! @TomK i would love for you to have 90% girls!!!! Fingers crossed. Are those kids from the lines from me from many many moons ago? I still have a few welsummers... Ironically they are my escape artists preferring free range to any fence lol
I hope everyone has a great thanksgiving. We are finally going to see one of my parents today for the first time in 2 years i think. Craziness.

Have a good one . Yep 2yrs ,better to be safe than sorry .Enjoy

[WLLady]

we had a very nice lunch-turkey dinner for lunch since my mom doesn't like driving at night. so we're still stuffed! LOL. so i got up this morning and started by peeling potatoes, and finding beans from the freezer and then some of our earlier this year turkey breast from our turkeys, and then did stuffed turkey breast. OMG so good! my new stove/oven behaves really nicely (nice change from the old beast). We had a really really good chat, i think we all needed that. I think she's been struggling with some of the mental aspects of covid-having nightmares that everyone is dying, that sort of thing. So. Good for us all i think. It's time to get back into something resembling normalcy....whatever that is LOL. We're all vaccinated, so.....Otherwise we did NOTHING. ate. talked. puttered around. looked at some photos. We figured out the last time we actually saw each other it was when i took her to her followup after her cancer surgery. geez.

finally stopped raining after another 1/4 inch. still doesn't feel very fall like out there....hm. still have the windows open!
happy thanksgiving everyone, i hope you all have a great holiday monday!

[Ontario Chick]

wow!...woke up to a torrential downpour this morning..just dark and heavy and straight down...we planted a bunch of silver maple last weekend and have been fortunate in the weather as it saves me worrying about water issues..

Not sure how familiar you are with Silver maples @TomK they are native here and just a heads up, they grow very fast in to giant trees if they have access to water, actually the only Maple from my experience that will put up with standing water for any amount of time.
This is a silver maple I planted about 10 yers ago, at the same time as the white pine in front of it, and Norway maple beside it, just to give a comparison....

[Killerbunny]

The ones I got from you @Ontario Chick are doing well in the turkey paddock which is a damp spot.

[TomK]

@Ontario Chick .yup...had some at the former residence in North Gower..had a back corner of the lot that never dried up..those trees we planted grew exponentially and were lovely...we lost a lovely grove of ash to the borer and i always wondered how they grew so well in such a wet place here...the silver maples came to mind right away so i got some...my only mistake was not spraying them with Bobbex deer repellant once the tree was planted...at least half were grazed on by the deer that very night...hope they take anyway..

[Happy]

We have a huge Silver Maple in my backyard and it is my best wet weather predictor. The silver glow that comes over it when it's leaves turn upside down with imminent rain is beautiful in my opinion. Lots of people seem to consider Silver Maple a "junk tree" around here but I beg to differ.

[WLLady]

Hi all!

we used to always judge rain coming by the silver maples and aspens they were usually right! (didn't stop us from getting caught out in the rain though....).

well, looks like mother nature flipped the switch. yesterday a balmy 17-23C with thunderstorms and this morning 5C, sitting at 10C currently. I love it! This weekend is going to be garlic planting weekend for me. I got some saffron crocus bulbs in the mail that i'd ordered eons ago and found they don't do to zone 5 so i planted them in bins in my front room. They're already coming up! I'm stupidly exciting about those. And almost time to put the bees to bed....have a couple of things on order that we're missing-like i one deep bee cozy....lol. We have one hive that is really quite weak being fed, so they're in just one box, not our regular 2.

Lost a couple of the super old girls from my flock in the last couple of days. usually happens at this time of year as the weather is cooling off the weaker ones go. These ones were going strong on 2 days ago....but at least 6 years old. and just went in their sleep last night. and time marches on. Will need to find the heated buckets soon i think....and put the extra plastic up in the horse door and close down the doors for the runs for the chickens so that it's covered in plastic too (they learned how to push through the plastic to get in and out). We'll need to thin the flock of ducks soon for the freezer. decide which colours to keep for next year. and then clean the barn out completely for the winter so everyone is dry and cozy. We're going down to about 10-12 chickens for the winter this year. one pen of ducks, one of chickens and one with the turkeys. everyone in the barn and contained. lol. we all know what happens with best laid plans LOL.

almost the weekend. i see the surgeon next week to see what he thinks about the fusion healing and if i can contemplate going back to work or not yet. walking is still a bit of a challenge, and i haven't even been in a car for 6 weeks now.....hm. we'll see. feels a little bit better every day. hope everyone has a great weekend!

[Killerbunny]

Fantastic weekend at th OPB SHow. Got to catch up with friends some of whom we haven't seen in 2 years! People laugh because I say this is our romantic weekend away with turkeys!

[Happy]

Fantastic weekend at th OPB SHow. Got to catch up with friends some of whom we haven't seen in 2 years! People laugh because I say this is our romantic weekend away with turkeys!

Ohoooh does this mean we have pics coming? How did your girls and guys do?