Dacjohns--Changes

[dacjohns]

Here's the thread on BYC. I found the OP interesting but now it seems to be getting torn apart.

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=278036

 

[dacjohns]

This is not only my to do list but is also illustrative of the many things that we experience not only as home and property owners but also as people trying to achieve a degree of self reliance.


Revised list. Some of the tasks go partly together like neglect, storm damage, and fire break. Some are continuing projects that may not ever get done, like firewood and NNIS eradication.

Forget about prioritizing. Too many things happen simultaneously and are weather and mood dependent.

Go bow hunting
Take cat to vet? Get blu-kote to put on cat's paws. Scratch the blue-kote. Don't use on cats according to the label.
New house built.
More firewood cut.
Clean around sewer drain
Get some chickens back from niece.
Fix garage light.
Seal floor by toilet.
Dam cleaned off.
5 years of neglect cleaned up--firebreak, driveway, autumn olive, back 20, dam
2 winters of storm damage cleaned up--includes some firewood and firebreak. This is a do in conjunction with other things.
Fire break prepared for prescribed burn--includes some firewood
Trail to back 20
Clear "backyard", get some firewood out of it too.
Fruit trees pruned.
Cut fence posts and continue with timber stand improvement in cedar area.
Fencing around the orchard.
Fencing around the garden--mostly done, have to close gap at bottom of fence.
Eradicate non native and invasive species--autumn olive, phragmites, Nepalese browntop, honeysuckle (yeah right)
Burn piles
Timber stand improvement--more firewood and NNIS eradication.
AC installed.
Family history.
Write articles for SS.
Go through stuff and get rid of accumulated stuff that isn't needed. Yard sale?
Garden taken better care of.
Rabbits.
More chickens for the freezer.
Clean up and fence around cemetery
Make front porch
Make shed for firewood. Put tarp on frame and put it over the firewood until the shed gets built.
Make deer jerky added and completed
Deer stand repaired.
Finish trim work around doors, windows, and baseboards. Buy wood for trim work
Get opossum
Clean chicken coop and put old litter in garden and around blueberry bushes. Put new litter in coop.
Do something about old brick house
Gravel for driveway
Hydraulic leak on tractor
Battery for truck
Purchase emergency power supply as in generator. added and completed.

 

[dacjohns]

Add to list:

Purchase emergency power supply as in generator. Done.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

what happened to kitty's paws?

also - what the heck was all that on the BYC post??

 

[dacjohns]

I went to TSC yesterday to get some Blue-kote for the cat. Since I am a label reader I read the label. Not to be used on cats. So I didn't get the Blue-kote. I just keep putting an antibiotic ointment on the front leg and he licks it off. The front leg is getting better and the back leg doesn't seem to be getting worse. I'm keeping him well fed and watered and am even giving him time in the house. I'm not quite ready to doctor the back leg. Cats have sharp teeth and I don't know he tangle yet. I probably should have him isolated in case of rabies or something else.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

even if you can get a little bit of neosporin on him it will help. better if you can get him in a cage to keep him warm and dry. our barncat had a pretty bad bite and completely healed in a couple days. we brought him inside and put as much ointment on him as we could - and then he was up!

great list btw.. its reminding me what i need to do.

 

[dacjohns]

Got a couple things done so far today.

Got the generator unloaded.

Got the new tarp on the frame and over the wood pile. That will make bringing in firewood easier. Just hope any wind doesn't destroy it but then it is temporary until the firewood lean-to gets built.

This is not only my to do list but is also illustrative of the many things that we experience not only as home and property owners but also as people trying to achieve a degree of self reliance.


Revised list. Some of the tasks go partly together like neglect, storm damage, and fire break. Some are continuing projects that may not ever get done, like firewood and NNIS eradication.

Forget about prioritizing. Too many things happen simultaneously and are weather and mood dependent.

Go bow hunting
Take cat to vet? Get blu-kote to put on cat's paws. Scratch the blue-kote. Don't use on cats according to the label.
New house built.
More firewood cut.
Clean around sewer drain
Get some chickens back from niece.
Fix garage light.
Seal floor by toilet.
Dam cleaned off.
5 years of neglect cleaned up--firebreak, driveway, autumn olive, back 20, dam
2 winters of storm damage cleaned up--includes some firewood and firebreak. This is a do in conjunction with other things.
Fire break prepared for prescribed burn--includes some firewood
Trail to back 20
Clear "backyard", get some firewood out of it too.
Fruit trees pruned.
Cut fence posts and continue with timber stand improvement in cedar area.
Fencing around the orchard.
Fencing around the garden--mostly done, have to close gap at bottom of fence.
Eradicate non native and invasive species--autumn olive, phragmites, Nepalese browntop, honeysuckle (yeah right)
Burn piles
Timber stand improvement--more firewood and NNIS eradication.
AC installed.
Family history.
Write articles for SS.
Go through stuff and get rid of accumulated stuff that isn't needed. Yard sale?
Garden taken better care of.
Rabbits.
More chickens for the freezer.
Clean up and fence around cemetery
Make front porch
Make shed for firewood. Put tarp on frame and put it over the firewood until the shed gets built.
Make deer jerky
Repair deer stand.
Finish trim work around doors, windows, and baseboards. Buy wood for trim work
Get opossum
Clean chicken coop and put old litter in garden and around blueberry bushes. Put new litter in coop.
Do something about old brick house
Gravel for driveway
Hydraulic leak on tractor
Battery for truck
Purchase emergency power supply as in generator.

 

[dacjohns]

More done today. Can you pick it out of the list?

This is not only my to do list but is also illustrative of the many things that we experience not only as home and property owners but also as people trying to achieve a degree of self reliance.


Revised list. Some of the tasks go partly together like neglect, storm damage, and fire break. Some are continuing projects that may not ever get done, like firewood and NNIS eradication.

Forget about prioritizing. Too many things happen simultaneously and are weather and mood dependent.

Go bow hunting
Take cat to vet? Get blu-kote to put on cat's paws. Scratch the blue-kote. Don't use on cats according to the label.
New house built.
More firewood cut.
Clean around sewer drain
Get some chickens back from niece.
Fix garage light.
Seal floor by toilet.
Dam cleaned off.
5 years of neglect cleaned up--firebreak, driveway, autumn olive, back 20, dam
2 winters of storm damage cleaned up--includes some firewood and firebreak. This is a do in conjunction with other things.
Fire break prepared for prescribed burn--includes some firewood
Trail to back 20
Clear "backyard", get some firewood out of it too.
Fruit trees pruned.
Cut fence posts and continue with timber stand improvement in cedar area.
Fencing around the orchard.
Fencing around the garden--mostly done, have to close gap at bottom of fence.
Eradicate non native and invasive species--autumn olive, phragmites, Nepalese browntop, honeysuckle (yeah right)
Burn piles
Timber stand improvement--more firewood and NNIS eradication.
AC installed.
Family history.
Write articles for SS.
Go through stuff and get rid of accumulated stuff that isn't needed. Yard sale?
Garden taken better care of.
Rabbits.
More chickens for the freezer.
Clean up and fence around cemetery
Make front porch
Make shed for firewood. Put tarp on frame and put it over the firewood until the shed gets built.
Make deer jerky
Repair deer stand.
Finish trim work around doors, windows, and baseboards. Buy wood for trim work
Get opossum
Clean chicken coop and put old litter in garden and around blueberry bushes. Put new litter in coop.
Do something about old brick house
Gravel for driveway
Hydraulic leak on tractor
Battery for truck
Purchase emergency power supply as in generator.

 

[grannyB]

You got your chickens!

 

[dacjohns]

Drug a couple of cedar posts out of the woods.
Cut a couple of tractor bucket loads of firewood. Dead locust, that stuff is hard on a chain.
Watched chicken TV. Looks like the Brahma is top of the pecking order and the red hen is at the bottom.
Tried to fix the tarp over the wood pile. Are any poly tarps any good?