We are getting chickens this spring. .sm

• You guys must be as bored as I am to be reading about eggs! nm - freebie
  • We are getting chickens this spring. .sm - chicken farmer
    • Point of interest-use older eggs for hardboiled, - easier to peel. nm
      • That is good to know. . sm - chicken farmer

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I absolutely find it hard to believe that some fool took all the recalled dog food and sold it to farmers raising chickens and pigs and that these fools bought it... now the chickens and pigs are contaminated.. Who eats chickens and pigs  WE DO... well we think India is a bad thing, dealing with the CHINESE is worse apparently, They have been adding melanine to made the protein content look higher.  THey were also caught selling off the sewage and some company extracted the fats and made lard out of them and sold that for human consumption also. 

What are all these people thinking of.. other than to exterminate US dogs, chickens and cows, enough of buying from these countries.  It has to stop somewhere, they can poison our food, all in the name of the almightly dollar or YEN or whatever they use.

Disgusted

I figure the dead leaves and stalks offer a little protection from the cold. The bed where I have the hydrangea stayed iced over for more than a week this past winter, and I thought I had lost the hydrangea. But in the spring I could feel that the branches were still supple and smooth at the bottom so we just cleared out the dead leaves, trimmed off the dead tips, and it came back beautifully. It has blossoms all over it that are getting ready to burst into bloom.

We just moved into this house last summer and I planted the hydrangea in a place where I thought it would have enough shade, but we had a bunch of 100+ degree days I was afraid the heat had killed it....until the cold came along and then I thought the same thing about the cold. But it is definitely "the little hydrangea that could"!! 

I guess spring really is coming, even though we're still under 18" of snow in my neighborhood (yeah, it's shady in here).  I'm about 30 miles north of Albany, NY.  Anybody see a robin farther north?

Here in the beautiful Pacific NW, I mean really cold, below normal temps, snow very late into the season...

We are expecting some 90+ degree days starting tomorrow into the weekend - and I for one am HAPPY!  My poor halter tops haven't seen daylight for so long I forgot what they look like.