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Coop off the trailer and rain too!
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@fuzzi ... sorry, that rain that was pouring was in Columbus Ohio....this morning, before I left.... not here at the house. Only had .1 inch in the rain gauge from Friday eve and with the wind and all, you can't see where it did anything.
With temps forecast to get down that low, got all the plants in the house except the big pots of spider plants and they are covered up... Got to figure out something for them tomorrow.
Got some other things to get done before dark...
Well, I got sidetracked and then took a shower and went to bed.
So, here it is Monday morning.... FREEZING COLD Monday morning... Temps got down to 31 last night and are maybe going to hit 40 during the day. Tonight even colder... 20's and even some teens... Warming back up by the end of the week.
NOPE, no real rain here, only that .1 inch. BUT, all the rain and cloudy stuff I came through coming home yesterday, changed to some snow and they got anywhere from 1 to 6 INCHES of snow in places west of here... Glad I just came on home when I did... I am not wanting snow yet... This is a warning, and it will warm up again, and we will have some nice weather still, but it is a "get ready" preview.
I will be doing some mowing and collecting the leaves and dried grass in bags for the chickens for the winter too... in the next week or so. And get on DS to see about going to get the big poultry house I bought, at the people's house where they were going to get the ditch filled in from getting the building up and water and elec lines run... I want it home here... set up, before it gets too cold and nasty out. The whole idea was to have it to be able to use it for the chickens for the winter..
Sun is out so not a terrible day. Just made some oatmeal, which I like to eat... not one of those "it's good for you" things... I like it...
Time to see about going out to get some things done... check on the new birds... go check the heifers and their calves and all the normal routine things. No one scheduled to test but will call a few since I do not want to be doing them all the week of Thanksgiving either...
There is a bred cow and bull sale Tues night here at the closer stockyard and I think I will go to see what the prices are doing... with all the ups and downs in the futures markets on feeder cattle... I have never seen it see-saw so much in my life....
With temps forecast to get down that low, got all the plants in the house except the big pots of spider plants and they are covered up... Got to figure out something for them tomorrow.
Got some other things to get done before dark...
Well, I got sidetracked and then took a shower and went to bed.
So, here it is Monday morning.... FREEZING COLD Monday morning... Temps got down to 31 last night and are maybe going to hit 40 during the day. Tonight even colder... 20's and even some teens... Warming back up by the end of the week.
NOPE, no real rain here, only that .1 inch. BUT, all the rain and cloudy stuff I came through coming home yesterday, changed to some snow and they got anywhere from 1 to 6 INCHES of snow in places west of here... Glad I just came on home when I did... I am not wanting snow yet... This is a warning, and it will warm up again, and we will have some nice weather still, but it is a "get ready" preview.
I will be doing some mowing and collecting the leaves and dried grass in bags for the chickens for the winter too... in the next week or so. And get on DS to see about going to get the big poultry house I bought, at the people's house where they were going to get the ditch filled in from getting the building up and water and elec lines run... I want it home here... set up, before it gets too cold and nasty out. The whole idea was to have it to be able to use it for the chickens for the winter..
Sun is out so not a terrible day. Just made some oatmeal, which I like to eat... not one of those "it's good for you" things... I like it...
Time to see about going out to get some things done... check on the new birds... go check the heifers and their calves and all the normal routine things. No one scheduled to test but will call a few since I do not want to be doing them all the week of Thanksgiving either...
There is a bred cow and bull sale Tues night here at the closer stockyard and I think I will go to see what the prices are doing... with all the ups and downs in the futures markets on feeder cattle... I have never seen it see-saw so much in my life....
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It looks like we got 2” of snow here! My thermometer says 26 degrees. Brrr! It’s for sure a reminder that our Indian summer is ending and I need to get serious about prepping for winter.
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Well, it is WINTER Temps out there .... in comparison to even yesterday when it was still in the 60's when I got home and put the chickens in the pen etc and so on....
WOW... COLD with the wind. It hit 42 on the thermometer and with the wind chill the weather report said it felt like 35... and they were probably being optimistic... That wind was cold and biting.
NH's look fine, and the calf hutch is great for no wind.... my other birds are looking a little stressed from the wind. There are a couple of windbreak panels against the sides to make a corner, but it is not "air tight" . I am getting some of the heavy duty vinyl to use to wrap a couple of sides of the pens... tried 2 different thicknesses... ordered some of the "ends" of the rolls, seconds so to speak. Still not cheap. but should last for a good long while... I am tired of spending money on clear plastic that only lasts a year and needs replacing. Will see how I like this. It's not cheap, even getting the "seconds"... but if it is as nice as the sample bundle they sent... then it ought to last for several years. It is touted as being "marine vinyl" and being good for greenhouses and chicken pens and the different thicknesses for replacing windows and enclosing porches and such... It would cost quite a bit to do that because you would not want to use random sizes....but even to buy some fairly heavy plastic now is pretty expensive... and if it only lasts a year then what a pain to redo, and expense every year... So we will see...
It was so windy and cold, I told DS not to worry about trying to do the chicken coop/run this evening. He went to a hoof trimming class offered today... and by the time he got out and headed home it was 2.... he still had to feed the cattle at the barn, they checked for calves and he sent me a text about a new one... and I told him he needed to feed hay at snyder's for them. The heifer that finally calved the other day before I went, is doing good with the calf. I saw it nursing her vigorously this evening so all is well there. Which reminds me, he asked where the clipboard was when I was at the show, he wanted to move the rest of the heifers we preg checked and wanted to be sure of who was open and who wasn't... I guess I will have to text him to find out where it is because he did not bring it back to the house... which is typical... never returns stuff...
I gathered up several bags of papers and some cardboard and stuff that will get burned in the burn barrel... but it was too windy today to do so... I had a bunch of junk mail papers and such... all the glossier papers and just paper from in the house... they have gotten so fussy at the recycling center that I am tired of dealing with them about it... I do not take my newspapers, and it seems they don't want so much... and if it is going to the landfill like so much of the other recycling stuff, I may as well burn all I can, here... Newspapers and some cardboard I will use for a base to put mulch on top... but I have alot of small pieces of cardboard and some is partially rotting from being on the ground and I just decided to clean some of it up... At least the ashes in the barrel I can dump in the garden regularly.
Got all the big hanging planters of the spider plants in the house in the entry way... Not "warm" but much warmer than outside... They can stay in there for a couple days, then when it warms up again outside, I will take the time to repot a few that the pots are cracked/broken, get them all cleaned out of leaves and junk from being outside with the tree leaves falling, put in some new soil where I can, and get them situated for the winter. Also have to do the smaller pots that are right now in the couple of plastic tubs. I usually put them in the back room where the freezers and the washing machine is... corner windows so they get some light and easy to water etc... want to put up some hangers and a new light once the kitchen gets done... it will be after the first of the year before he can even think about it... had a rush type job that has to be done for friends that was supposed to be next spring but they have to move into this house by the first of the year or something... totally NOT in his plans... so, the tearing apart the upstairs ceilings and all will be a winter/spring job now it looks like. I get it from his point ...
Have a sink full of clean dishes and pots to put away and some other stuff to do... put 3/4 gal water in the jar but it was too cold to make sun tea... doubt tomorrow so maybe Wed... I want to make some pudding with the milk before it goes bad.... get more milk the end of the week.
Then some more junk mail to sort through, papers and stuff that can get thrown in the bag to burn... some more clothes to fold that are still in the baskets... all the things that just get pushed aside and piled on the couch when you are "single" in the house and no one else there; so don't worry about "keeping up with things"....
Tomorrow, Tuesday, I will leave fairly early, to go to Sharp Shopper since I have not gone the last 2 times I thought I might... Tues is bread day, so will get a couple loaves of bread.... some other things I can use...need cat food too... plus I want to go look at a new "desk/office chair"... this one is adjustible, but it does not stay up where I put it and I get tired of it slowly "sinking".... very uncomfortable. I have put up with it for over a year and it has to go... Enough is enough. So I will swing by the office furniture store near the SS and also go by Staples....
Got 2 texts out to farms to see if I can get anyone to test this week... Have 2 farms that test 45-60 days that are due to test and I do not want to be crowding them the week before Thanksgiving.. along with the ones that are testing mostly every month.
It is already down to 28... guess that will take care of any of the flowers that are left out there... Oh well. The mums might survive it. Want to get them planted along the split rail fence once I "scalp" the grass/weeds and then will put mulch on them.... Have 2 trees/bushes I want taken down in the yard also... Making a list of outside "To Do" things once the growth has stopped.
Ate bacon and scrambled eggs for supper... using some "older eggs" I got from a friend.... before they get too old.... but they are kept in the entry way and there is no "heat" there with the doors closed to the rooms, so stays real cool.
Well, time to get to working on some clothes folding at the least....
WOW... COLD with the wind. It hit 42 on the thermometer and with the wind chill the weather report said it felt like 35... and they were probably being optimistic... That wind was cold and biting.
NH's look fine, and the calf hutch is great for no wind.... my other birds are looking a little stressed from the wind. There are a couple of windbreak panels against the sides to make a corner, but it is not "air tight" . I am getting some of the heavy duty vinyl to use to wrap a couple of sides of the pens... tried 2 different thicknesses... ordered some of the "ends" of the rolls, seconds so to speak. Still not cheap. but should last for a good long while... I am tired of spending money on clear plastic that only lasts a year and needs replacing. Will see how I like this. It's not cheap, even getting the "seconds"... but if it is as nice as the sample bundle they sent... then it ought to last for several years. It is touted as being "marine vinyl" and being good for greenhouses and chicken pens and the different thicknesses for replacing windows and enclosing porches and such... It would cost quite a bit to do that because you would not want to use random sizes....but even to buy some fairly heavy plastic now is pretty expensive... and if it only lasts a year then what a pain to redo, and expense every year... So we will see...
It was so windy and cold, I told DS not to worry about trying to do the chicken coop/run this evening. He went to a hoof trimming class offered today... and by the time he got out and headed home it was 2.... he still had to feed the cattle at the barn, they checked for calves and he sent me a text about a new one... and I told him he needed to feed hay at snyder's for them. The heifer that finally calved the other day before I went, is doing good with the calf. I saw it nursing her vigorously this evening so all is well there. Which reminds me, he asked where the clipboard was when I was at the show, he wanted to move the rest of the heifers we preg checked and wanted to be sure of who was open and who wasn't... I guess I will have to text him to find out where it is because he did not bring it back to the house... which is typical... never returns stuff...
I gathered up several bags of papers and some cardboard and stuff that will get burned in the burn barrel... but it was too windy today to do so... I had a bunch of junk mail papers and such... all the glossier papers and just paper from in the house... they have gotten so fussy at the recycling center that I am tired of dealing with them about it... I do not take my newspapers, and it seems they don't want so much... and if it is going to the landfill like so much of the other recycling stuff, I may as well burn all I can, here... Newspapers and some cardboard I will use for a base to put mulch on top... but I have alot of small pieces of cardboard and some is partially rotting from being on the ground and I just decided to clean some of it up... At least the ashes in the barrel I can dump in the garden regularly.
Got all the big hanging planters of the spider plants in the house in the entry way... Not "warm" but much warmer than outside... They can stay in there for a couple days, then when it warms up again outside, I will take the time to repot a few that the pots are cracked/broken, get them all cleaned out of leaves and junk from being outside with the tree leaves falling, put in some new soil where I can, and get them situated for the winter. Also have to do the smaller pots that are right now in the couple of plastic tubs. I usually put them in the back room where the freezers and the washing machine is... corner windows so they get some light and easy to water etc... want to put up some hangers and a new light once the kitchen gets done... it will be after the first of the year before he can even think about it... had a rush type job that has to be done for friends that was supposed to be next spring but they have to move into this house by the first of the year or something... totally NOT in his plans... so, the tearing apart the upstairs ceilings and all will be a winter/spring job now it looks like. I get it from his point ...
Have a sink full of clean dishes and pots to put away and some other stuff to do... put 3/4 gal water in the jar but it was too cold to make sun tea... doubt tomorrow so maybe Wed... I want to make some pudding with the milk before it goes bad.... get more milk the end of the week.
Then some more junk mail to sort through, papers and stuff that can get thrown in the bag to burn... some more clothes to fold that are still in the baskets... all the things that just get pushed aside and piled on the couch when you are "single" in the house and no one else there; so don't worry about "keeping up with things"....
Tomorrow, Tuesday, I will leave fairly early, to go to Sharp Shopper since I have not gone the last 2 times I thought I might... Tues is bread day, so will get a couple loaves of bread.... some other things I can use...need cat food too... plus I want to go look at a new "desk/office chair"... this one is adjustible, but it does not stay up where I put it and I get tired of it slowly "sinking".... very uncomfortable. I have put up with it for over a year and it has to go... Enough is enough. So I will swing by the office furniture store near the SS and also go by Staples....
Got 2 texts out to farms to see if I can get anyone to test this week... Have 2 farms that test 45-60 days that are due to test and I do not want to be crowding them the week before Thanksgiving.. along with the ones that are testing mostly every month.
It is already down to 28... guess that will take care of any of the flowers that are left out there... Oh well. The mums might survive it. Want to get them planted along the split rail fence once I "scalp" the grass/weeds and then will put mulch on them.... Have 2 trees/bushes I want taken down in the yard also... Making a list of outside "To Do" things once the growth has stopped.
Ate bacon and scrambled eggs for supper... using some "older eggs" I got from a friend.... before they get too old.... but they are kept in the entry way and there is no "heat" there with the doors closed to the rooms, so stays real cool.
Well, time to get to working on some clothes folding at the least....
