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Working with roughly 7000 meters of fiber each night, I do a lot of random knot tying. Of all the things I've had to teach my trainees, tying a knot is the one that continously eludes them. I think that it's the years & years of using haystrings for almost all repairs that got me those skills. 🤣

Your shelter looks GREAT!!!! Somewhere I have a picture where I used feed bags to cover the wire door to my coop. It did indeed make a lovely, snug windbreak.
Yes, of course I remember your 'bit at a time' advice 😁. Good advice that's going to work well for us both 👍
 

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I love hay strings. They come in all colors and southern California 4-H animal keeping areas are routinely held together and repaired with those colorful strings! LOL

We saved them for repairs and I brought a whole box of them with me to Texas since the rolled bales here don't have strings. :hit I have to spend actual money on zip ties!
 

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OMG.....life without hay string??? Well that repair material is a big part of hay value :idunno :lol: can't imagine the loss. I use it everywhere. We all do. I even have some long stuff that's used to tie the 21 bale bundles from a friend who buys trailer loads to sell. Mine is mostly blue or white.
 

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OMG.....life without hay string??? Well that repair material is a big part of hay value :idunno :lol: can't imagine the loss. I use it everywhere. We all do. I even have some long stuff that's used to tie the 21 bale bundles from a friend who buys trailer loads to sell. Mine is mostly blue or white.
I have orange string that comes with my straw bales. I've been collecting it in a plastic grocery bag, hanging on a nail in the shed...
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Rain is supposed to start here around noon, all night and clear out tomorrow morning. High today is 40F and low tomorrow night is 34F. Tomorrow night around 8 or 9, I have to meet my DD and family at my sister’s house to get my granddaughters and their dogs. DD and husband are going to Spain and back on the 19th. We are going to swap vehicles, and I’ll come home with kids and dogs. At least the weather won’t be horrible, just cold. Saturday night it will drop back down to 28F and after that it will stay above freezing for the 10 day forecast.
 
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