Coffee anyone ?

[Cecilia's-herd]

Coffee and a bagel over here. I need to use up this nasty coconut milk so I put it in my coffee. Drown it in the taste of hazelnut right?

 

[Margali]

Coffee is my only hope for day. Stayed up a little late having movie night with kids. Then work phone rang at 12:03am. I was up till 2am dealing with things, tracking down parts. It turns out operations overloaded the conveyor, ugh.

 

[Bruce]

That is sad Margali. Someone(s) need training.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Question for you all: if you discovered weevils in your flour, would you toss in the trash or make weevil bread for your chickens/pigs?

 

[Margali]

That is sad Margali. Someone(s) need training.

The conveyor was misdesigned and only has a 5HP motor. That's seriously undersized so it needs babied until we can rework it during Spring Outage. That's the annoying part- everyone knows you can't drop supersacks too fast but they still did.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

evening all. it started off as a slightly rough day and got worse.. kids were tired from company and hard play yesterday so they were cranky. then we go shopping come back to my husband father killing cats (he not nice obviously) start looking for our cats. our young female had be inside but had gotten out when we were unloading grocerys finally found her after 20-30 minutes. then found our old male cat who hangs out with my husband grandfather who has dementia and Alzheimer's plus broke his femur either early this year or late last year. well our male cat had been shot in the eye. he some how still alive. done everything i can for him. trying to figure out what else i can do for him as we just dont have the money for a vet. Dh is livid plus it was his dads buddy that shot my husband in the eye because his dad and him took a five yearold with them while they were drunk and decide to go shot things. i dont even know what to say expect your not seeing us for any reason at this point. dh grandparents havent asked us to keep the cat home and he doesnt have any live stock so not like that was going on plus we have chickens and the cat never even gone for a chick. and if he wants to go there he needs to keep his dogs at his house so they stop breaking into our yard killing what few chickens i have left. we had 16 i think we are down to 6-8 maybe a few more i have seen some of the birds, kids and dh claim there 2-5others are still around. pretty much there was no reason to try to kill our cat. grant he poisoned him twice before but we assumed by accident as he was spray fence lines with poison which made everyone out here mad. now i am not so sure but clearly the poor cat needs tlc and dh needs prayers. the kids arent to upset as he still alive and he looks like he pull through. if anyone has ideals what else i can do for him let me know. i was able to get some antibacterial ointment the dr gave us for our cuts on the eye but he bearly bit me and he was wrapped in a towel and restained so fun times.

 

[Alaskan]

Question for you all: if you discovered weevils in your flour, would you toss in the trash or make weevil bread for your chickens/pigs?

Depends how many weevils.

You are what you eat..

The flour will not rise quite as much if there are a bunch of weevils... but they don't change the taste much... just add crunch.

Use it in something that has some crunch, so you can ignore the weevils. I suggest pound cake with nuts. Pound cake freezes well.... so you can bake up 10 pound cakes (or how many you need to use up all flour).

Do clean the pantry well.. so they don't spread.

And no... I haven't had weevil pound cake, but the most recent weevils I ate were weevil peanut butter cookies... they were delicious.

 

[Alaskan]

evening all. it started off as a slightly rough day and got worse.. kids were tired from company and hard play yesterday so they were cranky. then we go shopping come back to my husband father killing cats (he not nice obviously) start looking for our cats. our young female had be inside but had gotten out when we were unloading grocerys finally found her after 20-30 minutes. then found our old male cat who hangs out with my husband grandfather who has dementia and Alzheimer's plus broke his femur either early this year or late last year. well our male cat had been shot in the eye. he some how still alive. done everything i can for him. trying to figure out what else i can do for him as we just dont have the money for a vet. Dh is livid plus it was his dads buddy that shot my husband in the eye because his dad and him took a five yearold with them while they were drunk and decide to go shot things. i dont even know what to say expect your not seeing us for any reason at this point. dh grandparents havent asked us to keep the cat home and he doesnt have any live stock so not like that was going on plus we have chickens and the cat never even gone for a chick. and if he wants to go there he needs to keep his dogs at his house so they stop breaking into our yard killing what few chickens i have left. we had 16 i think we are down to 6-8 maybe a few more i have seen some of the birds, kids and dh claim there 2-5others are still around. pretty much there was no reason to try to kill our cat. grant he poisoned him twice before but we assumed by accident as he was spray fence lines with poison which made everyone out here mad. now i am not so sure but clearly the poor cat needs tlc and dh needs prayers. the kids arent to upset as he still alive and he looks like he pull through. if anyone has ideals what else i can do for him let me know. i was able to get some antibacterial ointment the dr gave us for our cuts on the eye but he bearly bit me and he was wrapped in a towel and restained so fun times.

Oh... good.... grief.

I have zero good advice.

I am deeply sorry that you are dealing with this.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Depends how many weevils.

You are what you eat..

The flour will not rise quite as much if there are a bunch of weevils... but they don't change the taste much... just add crunch.

Use it in something that has some crunch, so you can ignore the weevils. I suggest pound cake with nuts. Pound cake freezes well.... so you can bake up 10 pound cakes (or how many you need to use up all flour).

Do clean the pantry well.. so they don't spread.

And no... I haven't had weevil pound cake, but the most recent weevils I ate were weevil peanut butter cookies... they were delicious.

Omg, I was asking if I should use the flour to make bread for the chickens, not for the humans. I bought new, non-weevil flour for human food baking. I might toss it in the freezer for a bit to be really sure minimal chance of weevils in the new flour.

I think I'll just add water and make weird pancakes to use up the flour/Bisquick, then freeze it and give them to the chickens over a few weeks. It's 10lb flour, two 5lb Bisquick, maybe a pound of quick oats, and a box of pasta.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

evening all. it started off as a slightly rough day and got worse.. kids were tired from company and hard play yesterday so they were cranky. then we go shopping come back to my husband father killing cats (he not nice obviously) start looking for our cats. our young female had be inside but had gotten out when we were unloading grocerys finally found her after 20-30 minutes. then found our old male cat who hangs out with my husband grandfather who has dementia and Alzheimer's plus broke his femur either early this year or late last year. well our male cat had been shot in the eye. he some how still alive. done everything i can for him. trying to figure out what else i can do for him as we just dont have the money for a vet. Dh is livid plus it was his dads buddy that shot my husband in the eye because his dad and him took a five yearold with them while they were drunk and decide to go shot things. i dont even know what to say expect your not seeing us for any reason at this point. dh grandparents havent asked us to keep the cat home and he doesnt have any live stock so not like that was going on plus we have chickens and the cat never even gone for a chick. and if he wants to go there he needs to keep his dogs at his house so they stop breaking into our yard killing what few chickens i have left. we had 16 i think we are down to 6-8 maybe a few more i have seen some of the birds, kids and dh claim there 2-5others are still around. pretty much there was no reason to try to kill our cat. grant he poisoned him twice before but we assumed by accident as he was spray fence lines with poison which made everyone out here mad. now i am not so sure but clearly the poor cat needs tlc and dh needs prayers. the kids arent to upset as he still alive and he looks like he pull through. if anyone has ideals what else i can do for him let me know. i was able to get some antibacterial ointment the dr gave us for our cuts on the eye but he bearly bit me and he was wrapped in a towel and restained so fun times.

I'm so sorry you are having to deal with this. I'm glad you were able to find your cats and I hope the male heals up. I'm praying you will find a new place far away from the current place so you don't have to deal with these crazy family members any more.