Coffee anyone ?

[farmerjan]

Glad the sale went good for you @Baymule . It will help with the feed bill as well as stretch out the grass that you are growing too....did you keep the 2 bottle lambs????

Scrap metal here has been way up compared to last year. DS hauled 5, 20 ft trailer loads last month. Several old trucks/frames, washing machines, some old culverts, old crappy fence and wire.... an old freezer and a fridge.... you name it he has loaded it and hauled it. Was getting like 7.50/100 lbs and it was down in the 2.00/100 last year. He has been cleaning up at the farm and gotten several hundred lbs of stuff from work they were going to put in the dumpsters there.... he is trying to help pay for the hay shed he is going to build.....and clean things up....
Saw a guy with 2 trucks, and other stuff in the beds of them just last week and I know they were headed for the scrap yard.... Best prices we have seen in years.

 

[Niele da Kine]

Can the Katahdin hair be used to make things like carpets?

Since we already have some coffee along the other fence, I may put in the tea. Maybe a mix of 'regular' tea and the mamaki tea. Maybe more flowers for more butterflies, too. The Kamehameha butterfly likes the mamaki, I've heard the monarchs like the crownflower. Although, crownflower isn't a tea plant. Hmm, maybe a tea & butterfly garden? Well, a tea and butterfly hedge, anyway?

 

[Alaskan]

Back when I lived where it was warm...

My garden was only plants for butterflies, hummingbirds, and other birds. The only exception was a single heritage rose bush.

Ah.... I did have a bunch of house orchids... but you just can't beat a plant that has flowers that last over a month, and those were mostly inside.

I had some vegetables in pots on the deck.

Ok... so I guess more than the one exception.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on.
Happy Easter!
6 more kits, litter number 9. Photos on my farm thread. More does are nesting, a few more days for them.

 

[Baymule]

Thanks for the coffee, it’s good this morning. We were invited to our daughter’s for the weekend for Easter, but with 90+ Cornish Cross chicks at the moment, we can’t be gone. She has to come here in April for work on her Doctorate and will bring the girls, so we’ll get to see them.

@farmerjan yes, we kept the bottle lambs. Panda has been banded, he will become a companion for Ringo. Tiny may make size and if so, will join the flock. For such a pragmatic, tough ok’ gal, I sure can be a softie. LOL From now on, if I wind up with bottle lambs, I’ll feed them about a week, then take them to auction. We’ve watched people pay $40 to $130 for bottle babies, a few of which were not doing so good. I think we’d come out better cutting our losses and not dump $$$$$ in them, buying more in milk than they will ever be worth. It’s been fun, we fell in love with them, their personalities are precious and charming, and we have learned.

 

[Mini Horses]

Happy Easter to all!

Cool this morning but sunshine and warming. No young ones here, so no egg coloring. But cooking a ham which I'll share with DD and DGD. Ham sandwiches for work this week.

Today is my youngest's Bday.....she's 51….geesh!

 

[CLSranch]

Good morning all. Thanks for the coffee.
As far as tea or coffee to be planted, I'd go with the one I'm most likely to process/use.

But cooking a ham which I'll share with DD and DGD. Ham sandwiches for work this week.

Mmmmmmmmmmm. Fresh ham. I love some fresh ham. I did my first one last thanksgiving. It was great the whole week through.

 

[Bunnylady]

And just WHY is lumber so high? Oh wait, I know! COVID. Blame everything on Covid. Vaccinate the trees.

Covid is part of the problem, in that it caused a reduction in production at American lumber mills (some by necessity, some by design). The other part is huge tariffs slapped on imported lumber by the previous administration (this is how we keep America great, folks!)

Happy Easter, y'all!
@promiseacres congrats on the new litter. Your post got my rememberer going . . . I once had a litter of Mini Rex born on Palm Sunday. One little doe was a broken, and her markings included a perfect white cross on her forehead. She got named Hosanna.

 

[goatyyymama164]

Hello everyone!

 

[caprines.n.me]

Could you please point me to the source of your statements?

It's not hard to find if you research it. Google is your friend.