 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / April 2005Thunder,Lightening,Rain & Wind!(OT):-)
We had all sorts of thunder,lightening,rain and wind in my part of NE Texas last night. The worst was somewhere around midnight. Lightening hitting so close 2 or 3 times that I could well hear it even though I didn't have my hearing aid on! :-( Now that's loud! LoL The lights went off and on a few times;but as far as I know they never went off for any extended period of time? Don't know for sure though as I went on to sleep. Went outside this morning and saw no major damage anywhere. Just some small to medium size limbs down in the yard. Noticed the wind did break one of the shoots off a tomato plant. :-( But that's not so bad as I can root that and get another plant out of it! :-) Checked my birds this morning and they were OK. Went out and leaned my hand up against one pen and a blamed red wasp stung me on my left thumb! :-( LoL So far it's not hurting too bad and after he stung me I hit that wasp with my fist for some reason, :-) so he's not hurting either :-) and he'll never be stinging me or anyone else again! LoL Got Mom fed,her beddings changed and the clothes in the washer this morning and decided I better get offline a bit and hang those out and do a few other things around here. :-) My cousin was supposed to come somewhere between 12 and 1pm to look after Mom. So this morning I thought I would take that time to try and find a guinea nest? I know those guineas are laying somewhere;but there are so many places to check for nests what with the trees,brush and all in our fence rows and yard! Kept about 10 of those birds up in their pens until 5:30pm day before yesterday and got 5 or 6 eggs!:-) Kept a few less up yesterday and got 3 eggs. I think I have 12 of them in their pens today and mean to keep them there until 5:30 or so this evening and see how many eggs I get today? Have 14teen eggs so far in the house and one I saw this morning in one pen. Want to get a few more before I put them all in one of my incubators. Hate to keep those birds up so long now each day before I let them out to eat grass and bugs;but it is just easier this way as to finding the eggs!(ha) And I dearly want more of them to incubate,so I can have more guineas! LoL I did get the load of clothes hung out this morning. Didn't know if it would do any good as it was so cloudy and thought it might rain some more;but the clouds went off and we've had two or more hours of beautiful sunshine now. :-) Cousin didn't show up,so don't know what's going on with that? Sometimes she's sick or has a doctor's appointment; but then her Mom always comes by and leaves a note on the door if that's what's up. Keep checking at the door;but no note yet. Went out back and saw I now have two eggs in one guinea pen. :-) Walked over most of the yard and can't find a nest anywhere. Have two bunches of trees with more little trees and undergrowth under those and did my best to look through that;but haven't spotted a nest in those places. Still have 2 fence rows, about 200 yards in length,to check out later and our old hay barn too. So many places those blamed guineas could be laying eggs when they are out! :-( LoL Better go for now and get some other stuff done or just take a nap! :-) Tried getting one a couple of hours ago and kept getting woke up. Ronny, just out of curiosity, do you let the guineas run around the tomatoes so they can eat the bugs? I remember my Grandma lamenting when she couldn't keep chickens in her garden anymore because she said she never had a problem with bugs then. Karen > We had all sorts of thunder,lightening,rain and wind in my part of NE > Texas last night. The worst was somewhere around midnight. Lightening [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] > Better go for now and get some other stuff done or just take a nap! :-) > Tried getting one a couple of hours ago and kept getting woke up. > Re: Thunder,Lightening,Rain & > Wind!(OT):-) [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > y.webtv.net... (snip) > --- Ronny: Karen,this one gets complicated because I can't personally vouch for guineas not hurting/eating on any plants like tomatoes. I raised some guineas-had around 3 dozen;but that was a long time ago. I know we had those for at least 2 or so years before varmints and their getting in the road and run over killed the guineas all out. Just don't remember if we had a garden or not when we had those guineas? And I just got these present guineas as eggs to incubate and a few young ones last May. And I didn't let them out of their outdoor pens until late fall. But what they did then was eat up a lot of grasshoppers we had around here, :-) grasshoppers that were eating on flowers and nearly every thing else. :-( What I know for certain is that 2 to 3 dozen guineas will wipe out a huge infestation of grasshoppers and that on several acres of land! Thats what our 2 to 3 dozen did a number of years ago. That's why I decided to get another start last year. I wanted to start back to doing some vegetable gardening. And it made me sick to see grasshoppers eating the flowers in the yard. So what I've read and heard about guineas and gardens is that guineas won't bother garden plants like tomatoes,etc. They won't scratch up a garden like a chickens will. Guineas do eat grass & grass seeds and a lot of insects. I had a small 4x4 foot bed of onion bulbs I planted last winter and covered those with leaves. I never saw any guineas get in that bed and bother anything;but the chickens I got,got in that bed,scratched around in it and just made a mess! :-( And that despite the fact that the fool chickens had leaves all over our yard to get in to do that! :-) LoL So I've read guineas won't bother tomatoes;but I also read one place that they will if you feed them old tomatoes. So somebody said never feed them whole tomatoes or such like that that you grow of intend to grow in your garden. Cause if you do,then the guineas will eat them off your garden plants. I've read one book on guineas where a woman said they ate all sorts of bugs off of her flowers;but never bothered the flowering plants or scratched up the flower beds like chickens will. I'll get back to you in this thread with a webpage link or two to some guinea posting boards and you can find out more about guineas,vegetable gardens & how the two do or don't get along on those. The people who post on those boards have raised guineas for a lot longer than I have,so know more firsthand about such than I do. Ronny, don't go to any trouble for me. I live in the 'burbs and my neighbors would kill me if I tried to keep chickens here. It was your post about guineas and tomatoes that brought back a vivid memory of my Grandma and for that, I thank you. Hadn't thought of that part of her in years, but she always had a garden, just couldn't have chickens after she moved in with my uncle. I do know she swore by chickens to keep the bugs away. It's a shame to realize that many of the kids in my neighborhood have never had a fresh tomato. Karen > > Re: Thunder,Lightening,Rain & > > Wind!(OT):-) [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] > post on those boards have raised guineas for a lot longer than I have,so > know more firsthand about such than I do. > Ronny, don't go to any trouble for me. I live in the 'burbs and my > neighbors would kill me if I tried to keep chickens here. It was your [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Karen I grew up in New Jersey, and I want to tell you that they grow some wonderful tomatoes there. Every summer we ate them till they came out of our ears! My father always had a garden, and the flavor of those homegrown Jersey tomatoes was out of this world! Most of my childhood was spent where chickens came from the butcher or the grocery store, but when I was very young my dad kept chickens and turkeys and ducks. No chicken ever tasted as good as those my dad killed fresh. We then moved closer to his job and you couldn't have chickens in that area. Now I live where there are still a lot of farms and fresh produce is so cheap, we nearly live on it. There is always such an abundance every year. I can hardly wait for the fresh zucchini and fresh farm grown veggies, but I still get my chicken from the grocery store :-)  SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn (to reply personally, remove 'sox') >> > Re: Thunder,Lightening,Rain & >> > Wind!(OT):-) [quoted text clipped - 62 lines] >> post on those boards have raised guineas for a lot longer than I have,so >> know more firsthand about such than I do. My next door neighbor (a widow like me) has a new pet in her back year--a rooster! I am so glad my bedroom is on the opposite end of the house and I have a new privacy fence in my yard between our houses. I can still hear that rooster crowing all day though. We are in the city limits so she may not be supposed to have it, but doesn't really bother me so I don't worry about it. We don't see each other too much, but we are always friendly and I see no need to change that. Gwen > > Ronny, don't go to any trouble for me. I live in the 'burbs and my > > neighbors would kill me if I tried to keep chickens here. It was your [quoted text clipped - 91 lines] > >> post on those boards have raised guineas for a lot longer than I have,so > >> know more firsthand about such than I do. > My next door neighbor (a widow like me) has a new pet in her back year--a > rooster! [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > need to change that. > Gwen Wow, I wonder why she decided to keep a rooster? Strange pet..... but what do I know :-) SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn (to reply personally, remove 'sox') In university I lived in the middle of Toronto in a vaguely decrepit apartment and I can still remember waking up to the crowing of...you guessed it...roosters. I have no idea who had them right smack at St. George and Bloor, or where they were keeping them, but someone had roosters in the neighbourhood. Or how about the Italian guy who lived next door to me in the other half of an old semi in another Toronto core neighbourhood who kept about 80 rabbits in his garage, which he raised for food (and yes, it stunk). Strictly illegal, and although he insisted they were pets, they kept showing up on the spit on the barbeque he made out of half an oil drum (the smoke from which billowed in my kitchen window, aiiieee!). Ah, livestock. The joys of urban life. Mary G. We had a neighbor keep a pot bellied pig in her back yard for awhile as a pet until one of the other neighbors told the city authorities. I figured if it didn't stink, I wasn't going to say anything (and it didn't). Funniest thing was watching the pig and my dog (Golden Lab mix) run to the fence to sniff noses every time the dog went in the back yard. They'd both wag their tails. Not a typical sight in the 'burbs. :-) Karen > In university I lived in the middle of Toronto in a vaguely decrepit > apartment and I can still remember waking up to the crowing of...you [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Mary G. Mary, I would have liked to have shared those rabbits with him! Would take mine fried though. Gwen > In university I lived in the middle of Toronto in a vaguely decrepit > apartment and I can still remember waking up to the crowing of...you [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Mary G. > Re: Thunder,Lightening,Rain & > Wind!(OT):-) [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > would kill me if I tried to keep > chickens here. Ronny: Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Have been busy;but also stupidly trying to keep up with a flame type war deal in one ng I've posted in for a long time. I just got so tired of one poster trying to boss me around and tell me how I had to post or else I should keep my mouth shut. Just thinking the guinea board I sometimes post on is probably made up more of people that live in rural areas. :-) But you never know sometimes about the law on raising poultry in your area. Was shocked to read recently that in New York City there's a law that said people could keep up to 30 chickens! :-) > Karen: > It was your post about [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > garden, just couldn't have chickens > after she moved in with my uncle. Ronny: You're welcome :-) and I am glad my post brought back some good memories for you! :-) And you know,that's one thing I like about posting on some groups,I just never know when someone is going to say something that brings up a good memory for me too! :-) LoL > Karen: > I do > know she swore by chickens to keep the > bugs away. Ronny: Oh your Grandma was right! Chickens are great about eating bugs too! :-) I think guineas are better for that in someways; but at least I never had to worry about chickens running off and last year nearly all of my guineas headed up the road and half of them never came back home! :-( > Karen: > It's a shame to realize that > many of the kids in my neighborhood have > never had a fresh tomato. > Karen Ronny: Now that is a shame! :-( To think they would grow up thinking that tomatoes taste only like the kind that come out of a big chain grocery store! (ha) Which reminds me,I need to get a few cherry tomato plants to. :-) I just don't need to get carried away and buy more than a couple of plants of that kind! Sometimes I have been known to get carried away and end up with a lot more tomato plants than I need or can take care off! LoL Just thinking here,since you live in the suburbs,we could get you to raising quail since it might not be the best idea for you to have a few chickens or guineas! :-)LoL Just laughing because I know how I can get carried away at times talking about my quail! LoL Have that one small incubator of mine full of quail eggs now and they should start hatching about the 20th or 21st. Then I've got to get offline pretty soon because I have to go to town shopping today and part of that is checking at a couple of stores to see it they have the one or two parts I need on my 2nd little incubator? Got lots of quail eggs and guinea eggs that need to be set in that pretty soon! Gotta get a move on!LoL And in a way it's kind of crazy that the other day I put 18 eggs under that setting hen out back who's in the old doghouse. I don't think it's like we're going to need the eggs from some of those chickens later on. I say that because the grown quail I have now are laying plenty of eggs! Enough for eating and incubating more. Ah well,things will work out one way or the other! LoL BTW,it takes about 4 quail eggs to equal one hen egg. Some people wouldn't like the idea of taking more time to crack more eggs like that for a recipe or cooked eggs; but it's no big deal to me. Doesn't take that much longer and they taste just as good as chicken eggs. Just want to add here that I have read the rest of the posts in this thread and it sure has been nice reading what others have said as well. :-) Ronny ----------- > "Ronny TX" wrote in message > news:16647-425B5A03-521@storefull-3331.b > ay.webtv.net... (snip) > --- The mention of guineas brought back a memory for me. We had one guinea hen when I was a very little girl that I claimed as mine. One day the school bus ran over it in the road and I just cried and cried. I thought my worlld had come to an end. I don't remember a thing about the guinea hen until she got run over, but I'll never forget that! Gwen > > Re: Thunder,Lightening,Rain & > > Wind!(OT):-) [quoted text clipped - 97 lines] > > ay.webtv.net... (snip) > > --- |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.