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Post by kimikat on Jan 28, 2010 20:19:33 GMT -5
Karen, I'll make myself available to help you cook...Just say the word!
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Post by kimikat on Jan 28, 2010 20:17:47 GMT -5
Hell...We could make a day of it on sunday. We can get up early and go to Marengo..BEAUTIFUL cave, there is also Squire Boone and Wyandotte (if its opened back up, was closed this past summer due to white nose disease). We could hit one of the caves in the morning and finish up at the lake after...Cave tour is about 2 and a half or so hours...Take a picnic...all that good stuff...
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Post by kimikat on Jan 26, 2010 20:27:53 GMT -5
Alan has been after me to drop by and post for a while now...I know I said I'd try to be around more often, but alas, when one spends 8 hours a day on a computer at the orange box, the computer at home is extremely unappealing.lol. So...There isn't a whole lot new. I had to have knee surgery to reconstruct (technically replace) my ACL. The injury of which pretty much shot the last half of my summer. But its all fixed now, and hopefully at my next dr.'s appointment I will be released completely from the doctor's care. My Dad and I save several seeds and seed pods off the rose of sharon that he and I started from seed off of a tree of my grandmother's when I was in the third grade (ironically a result of a seed project for a science class), and hopefully I'll be able to offer plants this year for it. Its a basic purple and bright pink flower. Since I can finally get around okay on the farm, I've been helping Alan prepare for baby bunnies, and turkeys and guineas. Planning things for the marketing of our products for next year. Hopefully I'll be able to get my herbs going this year too...We shall see...Maybe we can add about 15 more hours to the day, and hook me up to a straight caffiene drip, that may help. I've missed you guys! Kimi
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Post by kimikat on Jan 26, 2010 19:58:57 GMT -5
I like to call these people marinaders...
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Post by kimikat on Jul 5, 2009 19:19:05 GMT -5
We trick our banties into going broody by putting golf balls in the nest...Or just start collecting eggs and putting them in a nest eventually they'll just set on them. Our two momma banties actually just hatched a nest of 15 guinea keets.
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Post by kimikat on Jul 5, 2009 19:14:58 GMT -5
Karen it was great to see you guys that day...we were having a little party at our booth...lol. The picture turned out good...however, I will definately be rethinking the idea of wearing hats in public..lol.
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Post by kimikat on Jul 5, 2009 19:13:57 GMT -5
When I was a kid my Mom used to feed abandoned baby bunny (barely had their eyes open) milk replacer through a coffee stirrer (swizzle stick)...we saved a few that way...
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Post by kimikat on Feb 21, 2009 16:33:44 GMT -5
So...Since I have the insider knowledge as to when this day is...I decided I'd post it a day early...
Alan's Birthday is tomorrow...He will be 25.
Happy Birthday Baby! I love you!
***Correction, 25...because apparently I'm loosing my mind.
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Post by kimikat on Feb 15, 2009 13:29:22 GMT -5
Gorgous!! I found a huge yellow and black one last spring in the greenhouse...I had to rescue him and turn him loose...Alan got great enjoyment out of watching me try to catch it,lol!
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Post by kimikat on Feb 15, 2009 13:25:55 GMT -5
So I was able to pry my sister's laptop away from her long enough today to do some research for myself today. I found a site called www.organic-gardening-and-homesteading.comIts interesting...talks alot about doing things the pioneer way. also found www.ehow.com, can tell you how to do just about anything including soap making and candle making (other projects I'd like to do.) This site told me how I can make 'green' candle wicks from cotton kite string. Anyhow...just thought I'd share...
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Post by kimikat on Feb 15, 2009 13:20:54 GMT -5
I love asparagus...Gonna get some plants for it this year...Hopefully. Will have to find a place to put it where the "Bush Hog Monster/Great Dane Lawn Mower Monster" can't get them...It doesn't mater how many time was say "don't mow there" it gets mowed anyhow...It'll be a miricle if the gooseberries survived.lol!
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Post by kimikat on Feb 15, 2009 13:18:39 GMT -5
Yes...starts are awesome...Thank you Karen. Gonna have to find a place to put them to keep the gianormous flock of poutry out of them though...The little brats are getting to where they like to hide from the roosters under the porches now...Theres one little hen, that between the dogs and the roosters, its a wonder she hasn't ran herself to the point of having a heart attack.
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Post by kimikat on Feb 15, 2009 13:13:15 GMT -5
Before you know it they will be having him autograph the tomotoes too! lol!!! that would be funny!
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Post by kimikat on Jan 28, 2009 18:29:36 GMT -5
Well our electricity went off for about 4 hours. Our road is a SOLID sheet of ice...We made it to the end of the driveway in Dad's truck. But the driveway has about 7 or so inches total. An inch of which is ice. It was NO fun cleaning off the vehicles. Dad is off tomorrow...I'm SUPPOSED to go to work, however, I don't know yet if I'm going to try it. My car is a lumina, two wheel drive...etc...Dad's truck doesn't have four wheel drive, and he doesn't have to be out tomorrow at all...both factories were closed no electricity. My 16 year old Rose of Sharon is all slumped over in the weight of the ice. Made me want to cry. I think it'll be okay, but its just that its one that my Dad and I started from seed that came off of an ENORMOUS one that my grandma had.
So far as I know...there was no damage to the green house or wormhouse...etc. netting on the chicken coup did not make it. And there was a downed tree in the driveway that they had to clear because Alan's Dad is on the volunteer fire department in town. From what I understand there was much cussing coming from the green houses and chicken coups as Alan brushed the inside of the plastic to break the ice off...Multiple times...Was out doing it at 2 o'clock this morning. Also, apparently the truck tracks in the driveway make for an adequit doggie sled...as Alan went to feed the chickens this morning, Jimi went with him and got stuck in the tire tracks and ended up sliding about 15 feet down the driveway.
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Post by kimikat on Jan 28, 2009 18:16:45 GMT -5
Agreed there are worse things. I thought it was cute myself. Albeit hysterical that the guy squaled at his wife who was just about 10 feet away.lol!
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