- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:21 am
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Today, in preparation for this springs planting, I took some Better-Gro Orchid moss and blended it to a nice texture...not coarse, but not real fine. Roughly a half gallon. It's amazing how it fluffs up when you do this. The pulse switch on the blender works nicely. I *almost* got through before my wife got back from jail. Thankfully I still have all my hair and no bruises!
Ok, so I looked up the price of some chicken wire to stretch around some fence posts and throw some over the top. Ok, so then I looked at Panman's Squirrel Defense 5000 and pm'd him about it...you know, that old "enabler" over in Georgia. We talked about his Squirrel Defense 5000, about me possibly getting a smaller version. Not once did Panman try to dissuade me from getting a coop...not once! I studied the pros and cons of them. I read review, after review, after review. I dreamed about chicken coops. I dreamed about chickens.<sigh> I don't have a really big collection of plants but I'd like not to make the squirrels dig uselessly for that acorn they swore they planted in my pots and in the process uproot and destroy everything.<sigh> So after careful consideration, consternation, meditation, constipation, and a few other "things" I pulled the plug on a....chicken coop! Well, I had tried to plan delivery to be close to this coming weekend, I even waited a day longer after I'd made my decision to click the button on it so the timing would be right. Guess what?...they shipped it early.<sigh> It was delivered today! It was scheduled to be delivered between 9:40am and 1:40pm....it made it at 4:30pm, right on time! Thankfully...no rain, though. So, I help the guy load it into the back of my utility trailer. We did our "take care", "be careful", etc.,. and I told him to do a 3-point turnaround being as this stretch of road is literally deadly. I went to get ready to weatherize the box until the weekend. I came back out and he was still sitting at the end of the drive. Long story short...a pictures worth a thousand words. Sorry, I didn't get a shot of the *third* delivery truck that showed up. Three delivery trucks, one towed to my house by a wrecker to swap for the broken down truck, another showed up to take half the load, and of course the broken down truck. And all it needed was a battery.<sigh> By 6:30pm all was gone. I wasn't expecting the coop today but I'm glad they got it to me and won't be tossing it around another day...I don't think the box could've handled it. I guess I'm just lucky I got it delivered today, after all...kinda makes me feel akin to this fellow. Definitely an interesting day, but productive...a little.
I pulled my seed stash out of the fridge a couple of days ago to let the bags/jars "come to temperature" before opening them. Today I opened them up to see what I wanted to get growing, a major production...possibly. Here are this spring's candidates which I will try to plant all of.
The problem I have is squirrels...and deer...and jackolopes (the hateful things are moving in from Texas ). I don't have a protected area outdoors to grow a bunch of this stuff. Actually, I don't have a protected area for the plants that I already have. <sigh>Ok, so I looked up the price of some chicken wire to stretch around some fence posts and throw some over the top. Ok, so then I looked at Panman's Squirrel Defense 5000 and pm'd him about it...you know, that old "enabler" over in Georgia. We talked about his Squirrel Defense 5000, about me possibly getting a smaller version. Not once did Panman try to dissuade me from getting a coop...not once! I studied the pros and cons of them. I read review, after review, after review. I dreamed about chicken coops. I dreamed about chickens.<sigh> I don't have a really big collection of plants but I'd like not to make the squirrels dig uselessly for that acorn they swore they planted in my pots and in the process uproot and destroy everything.<sigh> So after careful consideration, consternation, meditation, constipation, and a few other "things" I pulled the plug on a....chicken coop! Well, I had tried to plan delivery to be close to this coming weekend, I even waited a day longer after I'd made my decision to click the button on it so the timing would be right. Guess what?...they shipped it early.<sigh> It was delivered today! It was scheduled to be delivered between 9:40am and 1:40pm....it made it at 4:30pm, right on time! Thankfully...no rain, though. So, I help the guy load it into the back of my utility trailer. We did our "take care", "be careful", etc.,. and I told him to do a 3-point turnaround being as this stretch of road is literally deadly. I went to get ready to weatherize the box until the weekend. I came back out and he was still sitting at the end of the drive. Long story short...a pictures worth a thousand words. Sorry, I didn't get a shot of the *third* delivery truck that showed up. Three delivery trucks, one towed to my house by a wrecker to swap for the broken down truck, another showed up to take half the load, and of course the broken down truck. And all it needed was a battery.<sigh> By 6:30pm all was gone. I wasn't expecting the coop today but I'm glad they got it to me and won't be tossing it around another day...I don't think the box could've handled it. I guess I'm just lucky I got it delivered today, after all...kinda makes me feel akin to this fellow. Definitely an interesting day, but productive...a little.
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