[OLChemist]

Hang in there

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by Alli3

One big bowl of chicken noodle soup please-trying to fight off this cold/flu thing.

Chuy makes the best chicken soup around ! (wd yells back) Chuy , go catch one of them schickens , this girls sick and need some fresh hot soup ! And don't fergit to wash it first !

Soups on it way ! Now I'll have some coffee ! We have babies hatching any time !

[Alli3]

Thank you! What kinda babies are getting ready to hatch?

[wardancer]

We have some Rhode Island Reds , Silver Laced Wyandottes , and barred Rocks. Not sure how many of each but a dozen wyandottes , a dozen barred rocks and the rest reds , however some of the eggs weren't fertile so we culled 6-7. 1 barred rock is the first to arrive and we should have more tomorrow !

[Toolbox]

Well Spring has arrived with a Nor'easter that will be dumping 12+ inches of snow here between tonight and tomorrow evening. This is the 4th Nor'easter to hit us this month, in fact the news jokingly referred to it as "Four'easter". The good news is that I was able to get my post-op in today before it hit and everything is healing up great.

Speaking of chickens. The borough I live in has a ban on keeping live chickens as pets or as livestock. It's been a huge debate recently since most of the borough doesn't care either way, a few citizens want to keep them and have been petitioning a lot recently, and the borough council is dragging their feet on hearing it and putting it to a vote to overturn the ordinance. Some people have been busted for having them, they got fines and the chickens were taken away, where I do not know.

Now it's time for some ice cream!

[Broken Arrow]

Originally Posted by OLChemist

LOL My hair is pre-messed. After the wind today, I have Yeti hair. Besides is anyone in their right mind going to tell the woman with a borrowed anvil, a couple big hammers and an acetylene torch that her personal grooming might need some attention?

I was looking at one of those 3M muffs. I've never been able to stand anything in my ear canals and haven't had much luck with the plugs.

I'm also supposed to bring a magnet to dampen the ringing of the anvil. I've heard this piece of blacksmith/jeweler's lore before, but I a dubious.

Well, Yeti hair, isn't that the latest modish hair style? Hm, I'll take the risk though messed hair may be a life style.

Try several of the 3M ear muff models before you buy one. They should have some which are quit flat and without electronics.

Than stay away from the plucks. That is unfortunate. My experience is, that they disturb the least in working.

[Broken Arrow]

LOL,

ice cream for Toolbox. Any special wishes? The ice cream shops open with beginning spring. LOL, you might get ice cream from the frozen lakes for nothing but w'll get milk ice cream delivered in many flavors.

Large pots of coffee for WD and I'll take some of the hot chicken soup.

LOL, today spring begins but winter hasn't left. We had a relapse with light snow in the last three days.

[Alli3]

Pretty exciting @wardancer; baby chicks are so cute! @Toolbox, @Broken Arrow, this might sound weird but I am envious of your weather-down here in the desert we are now transitioning straight into summer it feels like! Think I’ll take some ice cream too please. Gotta keep cool!

[Toolbox]

@Alli3 the snow is fun the first time it happens and for the first day and then it's a mess until it melts. It really sucks for the commute to and from work. I take a train in and out of the city for work and anything weather related just causes delays, cancellations, and miserable passengers. The other thing, and a real mind boggler too, is that for some reason most people here don't know how to drive in the snow (including when it just flurries) despite the fact that we have a winter here and we get several feet of snow on average throughout the winter months.

[wardancer]

coffee ! Been watching chicks hatch and we have around 15 so far. probibly 20 more eggs in varying stages of hatch. They work hard getting out of those shells !

[OLChemist]

@Toolbox, I think you'll are too close to the Mason-Dixon line for the snow driving/snow clearing thing to work well. I remember the first snowfall I saw in DC. Everyone ran around talking about how this just never happened and buying all the milk, bread and TP they find. I think syndrome is creeping north.

Seriously, I've seen a number of things that contribute to bad snow driving. Changes in automative technologies -- ABS, traction control, all-wheel drive -- have improved how cars handle on wet and snowy roads. People no longer have the habits of slowing down, leaving the longer following distances, etc that you needed for just rain in the pre-ABS days. Different chemical treatments are used.

Things don't close anymore. There is so much pressure not have to extend the school year or lose federal funding or make parents miss work that schools close less than they did when I was little.

Finally overall crowding. There's a half again as many people in the US as there were 40 years ago. They didn't come or get born with roads. There is just a lot more cars out there on a road system that hasn't increased in carrying capacity at the same rate.

[Broken Arrow]

@Toolbox and @OLChemist

Not very different from where I live. Traffic has increased in the last two to three years dramatic and a lot of people simply can not drive. And yes, the modern gadgets in the cars mislead to drive too close, to fast. Everybody is in a hurry and not much patience and tolerance left.

You can now drive for 200 km and more having truck after truck on the right lane of the Autobahn. The bridges are in great numbers close to collapsing. Best known bridge building site is the Autobahn bridge Leverkusen´, Autobahn 1.

Where I have no choice, the bridge of the Autobahn 3 crossing the A46 will in late 2018 been replaced. That will give traffic jams of the finest though it is promised, that the emergency bridges will be with three lanes in both directions but speed limit most probably about 60 km/h.

[Broken Arrow]

Coffee for Wardancer.

With those numbers, you are getting more and more a chicken herder. Sounds like the chickens are getting an ever greater family.

[subeeds]

Originally Posted by wardancer

coffee ! Been watching chicks hatch and we have around 15 so far. probibly 20 more eggs in varying stages of hatch. They work hard getting out of those shells !

LOL!

I'll be glad when it quits snowing up North, too. Those snow fronts bring us cold weather.

I'll have some coffee, too. I was all excited expecting the kiddo to come visit for a few days, and bring his new (well, they've been married over a year) wife, but now they can't make it. We've not met her yet. They had a small courthouse ceremony with just them and her 2 little kids. I know she crafts a lot and I was kind of looking forward to passing her some craft supplies. I have more than I will ever use. I've never met a spool of ribbon I didn't like-especially if it was half price at an after Christmas sale. Oh well.

[Broken Arrow]

Calm Sunday afternoon. Coffee is ready.

[Chalako]

Originally Posted by wardancer

coffee ! Been watching chicks hatch and we have around 15 so far. probibly 20 more eggs in varying stages of hatch. They work hard getting out of those shells !

Congratulations with the "baby's".

[Toolbox]

That painful feeling in your calves after dancing for the first time of the season, ouch.

I need some espresso!

[Broken Arrow]

Espresso, multi bene.

May be training between the seasons is helpful. It is said that training is overrated.

[subeeds]

I've got cake for everybody! Red velvet cake-one of my faves.

[Broken Arrow]

Originally Posted by subeeds

I've got cake for everybody![/IMG]

Hmmmmh.



I have coffee ready.


We need a coffee smily.