What Did You Buy Today?

[coolidge]

One of ours. We usually keep 3-6 layers and lose 1-3 a year to hawks. It was mixed feelings with the bald eagle, to bad for the chicken but cool to see the eagle!

I had an eagle land in my front yard a couple months ago, good lord it was the size of a medium dog it was huge.

 

[yota]

my next-door neighbor lost a hen to a big hawk recently and a guinea fowl to what they think was an owl in the early morning hours.

 

[Dhal22]

bought myself a pair of leather slip on shoes from goodwill to wear while I'm welding as I'm getting tired of melting holes in my socks

Nothing like hot slag melting through your tennis shoes and between your toes………

 

[SouthernChap]

I had an eagle land in my front yard a couple months ago, good lord it was the size of a medium dog it was huge.

A front yard only the size of a medium dog?

Sounds kind of small to me...

 

[coolidge]

A front yard only the size of a medium dog?

Sounds kind of small to me...

I WISH lol. Why did I think I needed an acre to mow and weed and play pick up sticks with all my trees. So glad I didn't buy the 2-3 acres I originally wanted.

 

[coolidge]

Wrong thread, deleted.

 

[projectnut]

I had an eagle land in my front yard a couple months ago, good lord it was the size of a medium dog it was huge.

Here's a couple eagles looking over the lake by the family cottage in central Wisconsin. They've had quite a comeback in the last 20 years or so. They are commonly seen on almost all the lakes and nest in some of the older trees.

 

[ChazzC]

I WISH lol. Why did I think I needed an acre to mow and weed and play pick up sticks with all my trees. So glad I didn't buy the 2-3 acres I originally wanted.

OT Post

First house in Pennsylvania came with 1-1/2 acres; good points:

• Hey, I can get a riding mower!
• Only ornamental trees in the front yard (mower mulched the leaves well)
• Real 2-car garage, with 2 separate doors, 4' on either side of the doors & between the doors and 8' behind the cars and the back wall
• Huge basement, 8'-8" clear
• Giant Family Room the same size as the Garage
• Million Dollar view from the back deck, looking over gently sloping alfalfa fields (still there, no development)

Bad Points

• Garage was under the Family Room, which meant sloping drive and snow-drifting in front of doors (but I got a Big Snowblower!)
• Poorly insulated and not tight
• Electric Hot Air heat

 

[dkemppai]

I was handed this earlier today. No idea why it was made. Obviously someone ground a tap down, but why???

This may be pre-,1960's work. No idea for sure...