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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2022 11:20:53 GMT -6
They even offer free treats for yer pooch!
Last year's polar vortex was a huge lesson with the buns. I still had to stay awake all night, but was stress free to just bring in the bottles and walk out a bowl of warm water for the fur balls every few hours.
It's COLD. Hoping it'll warm up so I can set the bottles out and take a nap.
I'm getting a little worried about the probabilities of getting pullets this spring. Any suggestions locally?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2022 13:47:17 GMT -6
Rain would be helpful.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jan 31, 2022 12:35:38 GMT -6
That can be pretty unnerving. I’ve felt only two earthquakes in my life, and both were really only tremors. One was when I was at a friend’s house in about fourth grade, and it shook me off the edge of her bed. The other was when I was an adult with two small children who were in quiet time. I was in the basement and went running upstairs in time to meet my daughter in the kitchen because she had run out of her room. She says that she remembers squash falling off the refrigerator. I don’t remember that, but I was only focused on making sure my kids were okay. My baby slept through it.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Feb 1, 2022 17:31:42 GMT -6
Bon,
I missed your post about buying chicks locally. I buy mine at Atwoods, but most feed stores can also order them for you. I've been at the Post Office on chick day. It sounds like a barnyard in there sometimes when all the local feed stores mail-order chicks at the same time, a few weeks before Easter. If you have a local farmer's Co-op or a really good feed store, you can usually talk the manager into tacking a few birds on to their order.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Feb 2, 2022 7:55:49 GMT -6
it's raining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurray! We had a little earlier this week, too, and might have more as the cold front moves down. I need to get outside with frost cloth this afternoon.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Feb 2, 2022 19:51:02 GMT -6
It’s been misty here today, but I understand that the precipitation is supposed to intensify overnight at the same time that the temperature drops. I don’t know what kind of ice we might get, but the area school district already closed for the day tomorrow given the forecast. I got the lemons, lime, artichoke, and onions covered up with help from my husband this afternoon, and I brought in loads of wood so that we shouldn’t have to go outside via slippery deck and walkways to fetch more. I feel for you and your rabbits with that cold wind. I’ll pray for you all to stay safe.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Feb 4, 2022 8:39:39 GMT -6
Bon, that doesn’t sound mean at all. We did get some freezing rain and ice yesterday. Not a huge amount (I don’t know exactly because the rain gauge is across the iced over deck—I’ll check it later).
I’m sorry to hear about incipient pneumonia but glad you have your helpers and a pot of chicken soup. Don’t forget to give yourself some extra rest, my stubborn friend.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Feb 4, 2022 20:58:24 GMT -6
Bon, how are you feeling?
I found half an inch of water in my rain gauge this afternoon after things melted off enough that I could walk over the deck to get to it. My daughter had a ball finding icicles on everything and pulling interesting shapes of ice of leaves and sticks and tall grasses. Even the yucca blades were encased and created whole spears of ice she could pull off.
I didn’t get any photos, but my herbs were a sight. It was beautiful (and kind of scary) to see all those little leaves just covered with ice. The cinderblock bed in the back was turning into a pond, though, this afternoon because it’s under the drip line of the eaves and once the sun came out, all the ice that had covered the roof started melting off and dripping into the bed. It’s going to freeze solid again tonight. My frost cloth and other covers are probably going to stay on the plants until early next week, maybe Tuesday.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Feb 4, 2022 21:29:28 GMT -6
Bon,
I'm glad you got your bunnies taken care of before you got to feeling bad. You are in my prayers. Chicken soup and sermons are the best medicine. Mom used to make us lemon tea when we were sick, by boiling the whole lemon, peel, seeds, and all. I don't know if that really helped or not, but it was a great comfort and a thing I dearly miss, though it tasted kind of terrible.
Chrysanthemum,
Thank goodness you held off on planting out the little starts you've been pampering. Glad no one slipped on the ice. Half an inch of moisture is better than none I guess, but that sure sounds sparce.
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Post by macmex on Feb 5, 2022 5:17:46 GMT -6
Will be praying for you, Bon. I just came off of a couple days with something. At one point I had a low grade fever.
I've always love owls. One time when I was about 15, I was running my trapline around 4:30 in the morning. Wading through knee deep water in a creek I suddenly felt like there were eyes on me. So I turned my light up and setting about two feet above me on a limb was a little screech owl! He looked like an animated toy, the way he blinked and turned his head. I turned the light out, to be polite, and then, when I looked again, he was gone. There wasn't a whisper of sound when he flew.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Feb 6, 2022 13:45:42 GMT -6
We love owls in our family, too.
Glad you’re feeling better, Bon.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Feb 6, 2022 20:38:52 GMT -6
I have a recording of a Great Horned Owl on CD. Sometimes I take it outside on warm nights and just sit in a chair and play it behind the house. It doesn't usually take long for an owl to show up to hoot back at the owl call. They are so quiet, all I hear is the sound of the bark falling from the branches as they land near me. They get surprisingly close, as if they are not at all afraid of people.
I am including a link here to a bird-watching webpage with several owl calls recorded on it. If you push all of the play buttons, you can listen to all of them at the same time. Pretty cool stuff.birdwatchinghq.com/owls-in-oklahoma/
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Feb 21, 2022 11:53:02 GMT -6
In my mind (which is a scary place made mostly of Swiss cheese) the green spectrum contains both yellow and blue. Those kind of seem like colors that a seedling might need, but you're right, there is a lot of reading up to do on things like that.
At Hank's advice, I bought a BloomSpect LED grow light about a week ago. I got it on Amazon with free shipping for $49.00 www.amazon.com/stores/BLOOMSPECT/BLOOMSPECT/page/6F8E0287-492A-401F-B4EA-EBFE94A33F02
That thing is crazy bright! The instructions say to keep it 18 to 24 inches away from seedlings 10 hours on, 14 hours off until they acclimate to it. So far, I am very impressed. My old fluorescents would have to nearly touch the plants. Even then the plants would get leggy.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Feb 22, 2022 16:42:50 GMT -6
In the days of old, when Knights were bold, and grow lights weren't invented, I built a two-tier rack from old 2x2 lumber and mounted it in our South facing kitchen window. It was a simple design that only took a few minutes to nail up and worked really well, but my wife complained to no end about how ugly it was until I stopped screwing it to the window frame every winter and put all of my seedlings in the window of the summer kitchen instead. I dragged it out of the barn and took a photo of it. It will hold four, 18" inch seed trays. I think my windows are 39" inches wide, so the whole thing is about 42-1/2" inches wide. The shelf landings are 15" inches apart. It sits right on top of the window sill, so the seedlings in the top tray can reach up to the top of the window glass by April. If there was an 'L' bracket added at the bottom, it could hold six, 18" inch trays, two at sill level. if a person was handy with a welder, one of these could be tacked up out of square tubing in no time. Or else just nail one together out of old pallet wood. It doesn't have to be purdy, it just has to keep your seed trays from falling in the floor.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Feb 22, 2022 20:42:16 GMT -6
Before I was born probably, or perhaps just when I was too young to remember, my parents built a custom plant stand as a piece of furniture for their house. They stained it to match the living room chairs and couch, and it’s basically a table that fits between two large picture windows, one of which faces south, the other west. It also has supports on the sides that go up to hold a high bar on the top with hooks for hanging baskets. It’s always full of plants.
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