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[Hinotori]

DH got a phone call about 7pm one night last week. "Hello sir - this is XXXXX power company and because your account is past due we will terminate your service by 9pm unless you send pmt over the phone right now."

Power in Texas is very important right now - but we didn't just fall off the turnip truck, lol. Wrong power company(!) and we were in no way late on pmt.

We had one of those last week. For "Pacific Electric" not mind you, Pacific Power which is a real company near here, but not the supplier here and definitely not eastern Oregon where my phone number gives as location.

 

[Mini Horses]

. Cheese cultures arrived in mail today!!! I need to use up more milk....now a project has arrived. Cheese day tomorrow.

Today, cutting grass. 😬

 

[flowerbug]

DH got a phone call about 7pm one night last week. "Hello sir - this is XXXXX power company and because your account is past due we will terminate your service by 9pm unless you send pmt over the phone right now."

Power in Texas is very important right now - but we didn't just fall off the turnip truck, lol. Wrong power company(!) and we were in no way late on pmt.

i feel sorry for people who get snared by such scams.

i always crack up laughing at the Microsoft scammers as if they really knew that i don't run Windows. if i felt like taking the time from them i could set up a honeypot fake system and play around with them and pretend to try to transfer money to them from a fake bank account or something, but really i just don't want to waste my time any more than answering their phone call has taken. most of the time i don't even say hello if i hear people talking in the background (like it is some kind of call center operation) and i just hang up. the delay and then beep and transfer to someone to talk to is a giveaway too. no, i don't really have people like that who normally would call me for any reason so any types of calls like that are not ones i'll talk to.

 

[Alaskan]

Rain, rain, rain over here!!!

STILL haven't finished painting the trim! Not enough break in the rain for the raw wood spots to dry out!!




But actually... it is great, and so much better than clouds of smoke from rampaging fires!!!

 

[flowerbug]

It's nice to walk into clean and orderly! Housekeeper day was my favorite -- when I had one, so many years ago! 🤔😔.

it was a bargain for me to have someone come and vaccuum, dust and clean the bathroom once a month. best $40 i spent for the whole house.

 

[farmerjan]

Egg candling.... I always candled twice. Once at 7-10 days to kick out total "duds, not fertile.... then at 15-18 days as a recheck, pre-lockdown for hatching.
Dark and green tinted eggs are harder to tell. I have never had a "too bright" bulb to candle with. The room has to be DARK.... and the slot or hole the eggs are held against has to basically be covered by the egg to direct the light through the egg.
If the veins look like "veins" with no blurred edges then they are viable. Most embryonic deaths of eggs are in the 10-15 day range. That is mostly when you will see the blood ring very clearly. Before 10 days, mostly the egg just doesn't start to develop or just starts and has a very small hazy blood ring. There is small movement of the veins and the darker the shell, the harder it is to see the movement of the veins. If you ever have a chance to set a couple of white shelled eggs, and see the veins, you will really see the movement.
Do not over handle the eggs. Too much, especially too rough, will cause the veins to rupture, especially early on.
By 2 weeks, the eggs will be very much more "solid looking" with the developing chick. There will be some movement but the chick is filling up the space quickly.
Look up egg candling on the internet. I think that BYC has a pretty decent chart of progress from start to finish.
If you see veins, then leave them to develop. I have only had 2 or 3 eggs burst in the incubator over the 50+ years... mostly they just are duds, handle carefully when you take them out to dispose of.
Sounds like your eggs are doing good.

 

[Mini Horses]

I've used a cardboard tube from TP to help candle. most full sized chicken breeds have eggs the size to fit nicely at one end, light at other. Helps concentrate the light.

Sorry. Bantams, silkies and quail eggs are too small and slide thru!!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

So! Darn! Cute!

 

[Cecilia's-life]

It's cooking H O T HOT 🥵. Narrly enough breeze to move a leaf.
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Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸

YIKES! Keep the A/C on for that one.

 

[CrealCritter]

@CrealCritter ya know how your cows "just happened" to be available when you wanted, had disappointment and then materialized almost without warning???

I've been wanting another buck for a while, things didn't work and this week, the unexpected shock happened...😇 Devine intervention....meet Cosmo. Things aligned.

I keep looking at him he's a beautiful animal to look at

@CrealCritter ya know how your cows "just happened" to be available when you wanted, had disappointment and then materialized almost without warning???

I've been wanting another buck for a while, things didn't work and this week, the unexpected shock happened...😇 Devine intervention....meet Cosmo. Things aligned.

I keep look at the picture you posted. I know next to nothing about goats, but I do know that's a beautiful looking animal and he looks content, not all "buckwild".

Jesus is Lord and Christ 🙏❤️🇺🇸