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DH bought the tool for working with PEX. There were a lot of repairs with PEX in our first house, which was a double wide manufactured home..

I took the pooch to town for his annual vet check. On my way home, I couldn't figure out what was on the road in front of our house. Wild Turkeys!! I have no clue how many there are in that flock ... I think I see 37 heads

I sure hope you are right. I am kinda getting attached to the little guy. No touching yet, but the little beast no longer runs for the hills when it sees me. I can talk to it and it will just sit there and stare at me.

When I bought my first pickup, it had a bad fuel gauge. On the day I picked it up from the dealer, I went to the gas station and filled the tank. I then drove across the state wo Wisconsin, a 4 hour drive, to visit my parents. The gauge went down like it should. By the time I got home, the...

I am hoping for a male kitty, then he can stay. A female will have to find a new home. Hoping that since both of the other cats that look like this are male, that this kitten is male also.

Now that the COLD, sub-zero temps are past the chickens are starting to lay again. It is not going to be long before we are over-run with eggs. I brought in 8 eggs yesterday, 7 of them were the little pullet eggs. My new EE is laying the same green color egg that the Sapphire Gem EE lays, only...

The problem is getting my hands on the little stinker. I may have to resort to live trapping it.

We have 4 male cats living in our barn. The are 2 years old and litter mates. We had their mother spayed and then she disappeared 3 months later - so we will not waste the money to do that again. Recently, I have been seeing a new cat hanging out in our barn, it is about 1/2 the size of our...

I grew cat grass once for our cats. It was a clearance packet of seeds that I bought on a whim. I sprouted them in a small pot and let them grow to be about 4" tall. One of my cats ate it all the first time I put it out for them and proceeded to throw it up all over the house. Never again...

@SprigOfTheLivingDead Do you have a tractor to run a rear tine tiller, or are you looking for a walk behind? We bought a King Cutter tiller for my LS tractor and love it! It has enough power to rip through the pasture sod and with a little disking we have cleared areas for wildlife...

As a kid, when we lost electric during the winter, mom had us all sleep in the queen size bed. 5 little bodies seem to make enough heat to stay warm with a couple of extra quilts on top. That reminds me of Dolly Parton talking about growing up poor. They all slept together and during the...

We have a couple of friends who would like to go in with us on raising and butchering meat chickens. One lives in town and has never butchered before, but is willing to learn and help. Hopefully, he will be willing to be our back-up animal care taker so we go on vacation occasionally. It is...

I got lost on the "Fermenting rocks" also. I thought, does she actually get rotten granite from them? My excuse - I have a terrible head cold.

Our big invasive plant right now is the Phragmites. It takes over and crowds out the native plants. Our roadside ditches are filled with this plant.

The nest box that she was in was down on the floor of the coop, huddled into a corner with her head turned back and tucked under her wing. Hot air rises, so the roost should be a bit warmer than the nest box, especially with all the other birds up there to snuggle up to. I have a piece of...

DH says he can hear the rooster crow, but it is not loud enough to hear on the video conference calls. I lost another one of the Sapphire gems - i found her dead in the bottom nesting box. The Gems have never really p) used the roost, preferring to sleep in the nest boxes. At -12.0*F (ambient...

@HornyToadAcres do you have a specific use planned for your bamboo?

Yes, Wisconsin is a great area for growing gardens and livestock. Welcome to Sufficient Self

Thinking about it, 300+ does seem right. I am kicking myself for not grabbing a roll in 2019.

Around this area - radon is a real issue for some houses. Naturally occurring in the bedrock and enters the house through any cracks in the foundation or basement floor.