I worked the wood burner ( work truck) this morning with a trip to the feed store and checking cattle.
This afternoon I had pleasant visit from Jakob and Naomi North 
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Wish I lived closer I’m sure those young people could put a smile on my face just pulling into the yard. Naomi I’m sure she could give me some canning and other food preservation tips. Also if I hadn’t seen this pic I wouldn’t have recognized her if she walked up and slapped me. I have a respect for the North kids they seem to do well at what ever they choose to persue.
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When I was building houses I couldn’t even find a young guy that could read a tape measure or figure out how to use a speed square. They were all good with cell phones though and canned a few of them who actually considered it their holy right to answer that thing or text something fifty times a day.
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Good Morning All,
Here is my newest garage-sale find-buy.
An Innova brand #3555 dial adjustable timing light.
Now I can make up a variable running adjustable small engine timing control.
I never wanted to risk long-term my much older, no-longer available Snap-on dial adjustable timing light.
This whole Saturday afternoon garage-sale shopping got sprung on me.
I usually avoid these like the plague.
The two foster girls had been split up: one with Mommy overnight. The other with us after the drop-off . . . .“And what special Rose do you want to do with us?” “Get ice-cream and go shopping with Grandma!”.
My wife instead of garage saleing Rural; hit up all of the upper scale housing developments down south county on the way back home to the farm. Talking, listening to Suburban’s is always an eyeopener for me.
Ha! Then later cost me my place in the big bed for her to do her special sleep-in without her sister-friend for company.
Wife; one dog; one big cat . . . . then a 7 year old . . . and no room for the Papa.
And I STILL had to read the going to sleep story book.
S.U.
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Beautiful Sunday to have a little fish with the kiddos!
Happy kids and interested transient neighbor cat
And onto the smoker they go with some apple chips, tasty treats later today mmmmm mm!
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Ok. This needs some clearing now. The middle is a chickhen egg. Then we have what apears to be a double yolk duck egg, and with todays egg harvest there were allso 2 of those tiny yolkless nuggets. Whats up with our fleet???
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Marcus, got me drulling for some smoked fish right now!! Not much beats that…
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Warmed smoked fish in the skillet at morning with fresh rich duck eggs is a delight as well! If only I still had ducks, need to buy a place so I can start farming again. I sure miss the morning goods from the hens!
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A HANDY tool there Steve!
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Hello JO .
I also find myself setting in the supermarket parking lot waiting on wife .
At this market there were another wood burner here early this morning but I was driving it
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Wayne, I feel your pain. It’s hard work, but someone’s got to do it
I sometimes join her to help with the shopping - pick a few expensive items outof the trolly and put them back on the shelf, whenever she looks away
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Seasonal allergies are getting the best of me so I called out sick today. Thought I could go to the scrapyard to make use of the time.
And of course it’s raining cats and dogs.
Praying the dead oak doesn’t drop any more branches on my house. We called a tree service that could take it down in pieces.
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Hi KristijanL,
The little yolk-less ones we call starter eggs.
Unusually from young chickens just first developing eggs. Gets better. Usually.
Double yolkers are just like “us” occasionally having twins.
And not uncommon for aging chickens to go thin shelled.
We adopted an adult Weimaraner dog who gave me entirely too much view of the sequential oviduct egg development! She’d kill and eat all of the chicken except the feet and the four eggs in development.
Hardest dog to chicken train we’ve ever had.
We got a lot of blood spotted eggs until that dog got trained to express herself ONLY on the rabbits and squirrels.
We’d thought the blood spots were early embryo development. The books said no. Chased stressed chickens.
Environmental stresses will affect mostly all. With always exceptions.
And no matter how well you control their environment the individual genes expressions will always show 1-2 to be weak sisters.
Just the way of it.
They aren’t all supposed to make it. Chickens, ideas, trees or us.
Steve unruh
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Well it’s official. I’m getting the 1998 Buick Century from my friend. Gave him 500 down and we will sign the title over next week.
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Ok I’ll show my stupidity. What kind of critter is that? I was thinking opossum but this has a furry tail. Doesn’t have the stripes or face mask of a raccoon. Enlighten me please.
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Looks like a hedgehog
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Be careful, he bite!
