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Finished working on my drip irrigation system system (ran out of fittings).... It's 100 outside and threatening Thunder storms, when I finished I said, Okay Lord I'm ready now bring it on.....

I plan to spend the rest of the day working inside, I have finished the laundry for this weekend (I do laundry on Wednesdays and Saturdays), just need to hang up the wife's house dresses.

Yep, it's already been an 11 hour day, but I figure there are 5 more till it's finished.....

Happy Saturday.....
 
Going up to my brother's for a cookout tonight, and then he will put on a fireworks show. Rumor is that this will be the last year his wife lets him do it because he almost died in that fireworks accident last summer. He's ok now, just has a bunch of facial scars and a slight lisp from all the nerve damage in his face, but his wife is still mad at him to this day. 😂 We won't get home from that until midnight so I took tomorrow off from work. Not sure exactly what I'm going to do with my day off yet...
 
I spent the day at my son's place trying to help him figure out what happened to one of the circuits in his modular side by side. Is was one mystery after another spiced up with a disappointment here and there. It did reinforce my desire to adhere to electrical code and avoid using outlet boxes as junction boxes.

I moved forward in the adventure assuming that ease of assembly, minimizing cost of copper, and the modular house design drove the design of the wiring. Between my son's notes and labeling in the the service entrance I am of the opinion that the entire front half of the house is powered by a single 20 amp breaker. Good news is they used 12 gage wire.

The standing mystery is part of that circuit still works while other parts are dead. Further complicating the riddle is the outlets at the extreme left and right end of the front half of the the structure still work while the the outlets in between are dead. ?? ?

I borrowed a circuit tracer from my brother which helped but after 6 hours if riddling in hot humid conditions I caught myself making a safety error that could have been bad/fatal. So I moped my brow and rescheduled for episode 2 on Monday.

Whoda thought that putting an air conditioner, a pool pump, and a refrigerator on the same 20 amp breaker would be a problem? (He says sarcastically).

Tune in Monday for the next update.

Ben
 
Bacpacker said:
We planned to take a little road trip today, but wife woke up with fairly bad vertigo, so we stayed home. I picked some produce and otherwise just hung out here.
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I give you and myself license to do nothing occasionally. It is legal (subject to review by The Princess of course)

:rolleyes:


Ben
 
Bacpacker said:
We planned to take a little road trip today, but wife woke up with fairly bad vertigo, so we stayed home. I picked some produce and otherwise just hung out here.
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My wife use to have bad vertigo...Doc told her to take a Benadryl every night at bedtime.
She never had it again.

Jim
 
Found a rattlesnake in the driveway and my pretty wife took me to lunch in her new car in Eureka Springs Arkansas. Nice day!
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phideaux said:
My wife use to have bad vertigo...Doc told her to take a Benadryl every night at bedtime.
She never had it again.

Jim
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Wife has an inner ear deformity (birth defect) that was set off in a car wreck. It don't bother her alot but just flares up at times. She feels a lot of pressure in her ears when it happens. I told her to take benidyl. But I think we are out of them.
 
Amish Heart said:
I go for size more than anything. I figure a few more weeks. Mine are about the same age as yours. I'll just see how they do. I use dogs cages for itermediate cages with 1/4 in wire on the outside. When everyone seems mellow enough with each other and close in size, I'll open the door. But continue to keep food and water in the cage in case they want to go back in. I've got 3 in a smaller dog cage in one hen house, and 6 in a larger dog cage in another hen house. Just put up a dog panel chain link in one of the barns and put 10 meat chickens in it. They've got a couple of weeks on them yet. Then time to move 27 guineas in the dog panel cage. Let them acclimate to the barn for awhile, then open the door. Am hoping that they'll put themselves back in every evening, after running around the farm eating ticks and bugs. I'll keep putting food and water out for them. And a mirror. Guineas are vain. 15 chicken chicks still in the dining room in tubs. Not ready for the next step cages in the milkhouse just yet. My main two large chicken flocks will be a year old in about 3 weeks. I'll just keep adding newbies here and there to ensure eggs. Plus I didn't really weed out the roosters yet on the young ones. I have two good roosters in each of the main flocks, so will probably butcher the excess when they are big enough to eat. That's the plan anyway. And then there's the 6 turkeys in the turkey run that I'm only guessing two of them are Toms, but not sure.
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Thank you for info. Mine are locked up in feed room. I don't have to rush turn out. My small flock of 13 are 3 year olds. End of May, I was gifted with 7 juvenile hens that were 2 months old and I released them into flock on roost that night after dark. The next day I got 8 babies that daughter hatched in classroom and they were 4 days old. They have room to run around but will really grow faster when I can let them out. My chicken yard is a decent size and I won't let the birds out until I get home. Put chicken wire around tomatoes today so they can stay out longer. Army worms in yard and eating coastal. They were making some noise today!
 
joel said:
We just let the hen who hatched them take care of them, if you buy chicks, I would not let them out before they had true wing feathers, so 6-8 weeks.
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These were all gifted. I had hoped for a broody hen when I got these at 4 days old. In the past when I bought chicks and had a broody, I could slip them under her and she would raise them. My older 3 year old flock of Buffs and RIR have not turned broody at any time. My babies are 6 weeks now. Little rooster starting to crow. This are a mix of breeds so I hope I get some good hens. Thank you Joel for input.
 
Peanut said:
I've turned chicks out with the grown birds as early as 8 weeks. Like this last time but I was down to two hens and the rooster. Plenty of room in the roost.

Times I've turned out a dozen chicks when there were 30+hens... I put them in a side pen for a few more weeks. they weren't turned out completely until 10-12 weeks old but I left the side pen open for a few more days so there was plenty of room to roost at night.
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Thank you Peanut. I am getting closer to turn out
 
rusty said:
Oh goody, more rain. 6.6 inches Thursday night. More Friday, now T storms today.
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Quit bragging. Although 6" of rain would be very bad in a short period of time here in the high desert the 2 days of sort of rain we had was only about 1/2" We need lots more.
I theory, the weather morons are predicting more monsoon rain in a few days
 
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INresponse said:
Wuit bragging. Although 6" of rain would be very bad in a short period of time here in the high desert the 2 days of sort of rain we had was only about 1/2" We need lots more.
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We are having a lot of flood damage. Some places here got 11 inches Thursday night.
 
rusty said:
We are having a lot of flood damage. Some places here got 11 inches Thursday night.
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We didn't get that much, but we got a bunch a few days ago. The creeks that had dried up we're almost to the bottom of the railroad bridges, 8-10 feet deep. But today they were back to 6 inches deep. We need several more inches of light, soaking rain to push us out of this drought. We'll take whatever we can get though...
 
Lugoff, South Carolina annual rain Falls only 42 on average, that is less than 4 inches a month & some years we very little in late summer & fall, then more in winter. Still 6-11 inches in a 12-24 hour time frame is really bad, even if you have a holding pond.
I have read that in Texas you get a tax break if you have run off holding ponds for farm/ranch animals & wild life, these ponds can be large strips ponds made by heavy equipment, just for holding water year around, but I never been to Texas.
 
phideaux said:
My wife use to have bad vertigo...Doc told her to take a Benadryl every night at bedtime.
She never had it again.

Jim
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When I had it I did a head tilt exercise several times a day. It took about a week to take care of it. The last time I did it was in a hot tub, something popped in my ear while I was doing the exercise and it never came back since then...
 
Off to Sunday School and Church this morning, then Kroger for hamburger sale (going to can meatloaf with one pack and chili with another). Then Dollar Tree for cheap reading glasses.
Come home and walk dogs if not raining. We got 1.5" Friday and almost 4" yesterday. We will see what today brings.
When I get home, will cook bell peppers onions ham and eggs for breakfasts.
Bake a blueberry apple pie from the pie filling I canned a week or so ago,--one quart didn't seal and has been waiting in fridge.
That will be enough for today!
 
Made a small batch of spoon butter. Once it cooled I buttered up one cutting board and a half dozen spoons. I like how little I needed. The previous formula required a lot of butter for a very small area. Plus this recipe is only 2 ingredients verses the pervious one that used more. Tomorrow I'll butter up the rest of my spoons and another cutting board.

Roo and I made Mandazi last night after dinner. Not overly sweet. I am going to try beignets next time.

Trying to organize the dry goods since our pantry is smaller than a toe pincher coffin. I got the chest freezer organized and found 5 extra gallons of milk since K doesn't rotate them like I do. So we thought we only had 4-5 gallons in there before our trip to Costco and bought 10. With the 5 I found in the freezer we have 20! I'd love to have a little cow so I didn't have to keep so much frozen. But what do you do with all the extra milk? Besides butter and cheese.

Also does anyone have experience with freezing cheese? Cheese like mozzarella and medium/sharp cheddar.
 
Grimm said:
Also does anyone have experience with freezing cheese? Cheese like mozzarella and medium/sharp cheddar.
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I freeze blocks of cheese. It won't be any good for slicing though. When it thaws it will be crumbly in a chunky kind of way and will still need a bit of grating for most uses.

For sliced cheese, it needs to be sliced before freezing with waxed or parchment paper between the slices. It will still crumble easily, but the paper makes it doable if you are careful not to bend the slice too much.

I keep a lot of frozen block cheese.
 
I met this guy at work & we became friends & my family take a gun safety class from him, then we went on a cruse with him & his wife.
we see each other about once every 60 days or so, he the guy that sold me on Kubota tractors.
He went North Carolina to a relatives funeral & dropped dead from a heart attach, been married 49 years, great guy.
 
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