I can’t for the life of me get the turkeys to go in with the chickens.I know their instinct is to roost outside but no matter how long I lock them in the coop, they won’t go in on their own. They roost on the racking of my solar panels which is located next to the coop. I guess I will wait until I know it’s going to snow overnight.
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I wonder if you need a separate coop for each. I have noticed when I was looking around for information on keeping Guinea fowl that people seem to only mix chickens Guinea and ducks the ducks with mixed result most of the information I saw had Turkies and Geese in their own spaces overnight even if mixed during the day. People said they simply return to the place they where raised for the first 6 weeks or so. As this is my first attempt at keeping birds I have no idea really.
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I got the chicks and poults at the same time. They were only a couple days old. They hang out together all day long still.
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Pumpkin? Something we don’t grow a lot.
Long legged pants??? Hot and humid here. This is the temp on the cool side of the porch 
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Yes Kristijan .
Those pumpkins do look like a chain gang 
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Great sentiment MikeR.
Dog days of summer here.
Move a little wood.
Mow/weed-whack a little on the grasses and weeds.
Stoop weed and water a bit the matured and droughting out vegetable garden.
Different berries picking and bag-freezing a bit every day now.
Too hot and dangerous dry to do too much of any one thing for too long a time, daily here now.
And now added my turns 1-2 days a week driving in and bedside sitting, reading to, with my favorite brother-in-law hospitalized on a respirator. He is my known 50 years proven true Brother.
Not Covid-19 they test say.
A rare skin cell sudden onset cancer. Merkel cell. Complicated much by a now body over reactive auto immune condition. HLH, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocycstosis.
The unsaid fear here is we all having to Portland Or travel to, and through, to family support him.
And if any one of us gets travel delayed or locked up in a “spontaneous” Demonstrator street blockage . . . . our frustration’s with our can’t do shit about his his disease progressions . . . if we are car travel blocked . . . will rage out vent. Even the family women feel this.
Please pray for our travels good-luck; and patience’s.
Strength and endurance experiences to the last breath ends, we have plenty of.
S.U.
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Grandson had a runny nose and wasn’t allowed to kindergarten today. From the moment he arrived this morning he started to go on about riding the woodgas truck. So, we lit up and went all over for an hour.
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The first photo looks like you are getting him trained early on how to stoke the boiler… all I could think of seeing that was someone stoking an old steam engine on the railroads. 
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Are there no thorns on your raspberry bushes?
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So far so good. His main interests when visiting are shoveling/bagging chunks, lightup of the gasifier and DOW. In that order actually. We’ll see how long it will last 
There are. That’s why Walter complained and wanted to carry on DOWing
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I completed overhaul of my car trailer, wire wheel and repaint the frame, 2X10 deck boards with SST carriage bolts, new 8 ply tires, installed a wireless control for the 5000 lb winch.
I found the BEST tire supplier in Georgia. Simple tire charged $57 for 8 ply class D 14” tires and free shipping. 3 day delivery to near Seattle WA. Then my son mounted and balanced them after hours at the Ford shop.
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Great!!!
Could you send out the name of the tire shop. I assume you meant Georgia as in the state. I have been looking for some trailer tires.
Is that Your machine? We work on one for a tree surgeon occasionally, they are extremely handy.
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The machine is a rental, $220/day. I used it to help a neighbor place recycled asphalt on some trails.
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After reading Bills post on elderberrys I went out and picked some to process into syrup. I now have 110 ounces ( 3 kg) in the freezer and 14 oz (400 grams) in the fridge. The recipe I have needs 1 1/2 cups of a syrup per 100 grams of berries. Now I wish I knew how our ancestors made their sweetners our here on the great plains. Time for a new book me thinks. Has anyone read the The Lost Ways??
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I haven’t read, ‘The Lost Ways’.
What I do is cook it in maple syrup. It’s already at the specific gravity needed for a long shelf life. Add some ginger root, cinnamon stick and cloves. You’ll thank me later.
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Well as I had said I’ve been committed to a lot of travel-too; and CVICU hospital bedside handholding and out loud reading to my very, very sick senior brother-in-law. That has concluded now.
So back to daily, about our village-town exercising health walking.
And there was a Lowes’s Home Improvement appliance delivery truck.
Whole inside row of pulled out failed washing machines and clothes dryers.
Hmm. Square metal box cabinets with round metal drums inside. ??? I’ve seen this before in the DIY woodgasifier world. Where? Who?
Lawrence Garringer
His youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4V82v7YdpT06YnYQgu-9Q
five videos
L.G. did use flat steel sheets stock to make up his systems.
Now I figure an earnest determined fellow could make up a wood gasfier system similar to his using only the metals, and materials out of cast off home appliances.
Make up a woodgas cooler/wood dryer out of appliance boxes too.
And this will be an earned/learned, valued skill set.
Enjoy his video proofs.
Steve unruh
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I hope it was concluded in a good healing way.
Thanks for the links
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Jeff, I love that term. You seem to come up with some of the best terms to explain what we are actually doing with wood. I will keep prayers going up for you.
Bob
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