Daniel, as a fellow "chicken tender", I can tell you Leghorns are aggressive. Great layers, but wear a full set of armor if you have to move them! We have eight Astrolorps, a cross bred that is adapted to our heat. Our ladies are fairly calm, lay lovely brown eggs, and are slightly overweight. We get eggs and entertainment, as I hope you do, too.
@marlingardener that's interesting. I wonder if there are sub-breeds. Our White Leghorns have bee very timid. I have noticed that they stay together, away from the brown hens and vice versa. The lone duck seems to wander around all of them.
This morning went to the dentist for my 6 month check up and i had to tell him that i was having problems with one of my back teeth. Years ago it broke it was built up and a cap put on, but I was slowly losing the gum around it and it started getting loose. It became a bit infected even though I keep good dental hygiene so had it out today. My mouth is still numb from the injection and not supposed to do much today.
As I said in the Good Day Thread, I'm sorting old things. My grandmother left a treasure trove of greeting cards, postcards, photos, and letters from the late 1800's to mid 1940's. Some of the items must be left from the generation before her because she was born in 1907. She probably kept them for sentimental reasons, and boy, am I glad she did! I've found letters from the USA to Norway dated 1914, even older funeral programs my grandmother kept for some reason (she was younger than the funeral programs), Christmas cards from the 1890's, etc. The penmanship is exquisite. Man, did putting words to paper mean that much more those days? Yes. Yes, it did. My great-grandfather's writing set bears witness to that. Lovely craftmanship, silver pens, a joy to look at. The best bit? Letters from a young man who had emigrated to the USA and wanted his heart's chosen to come join him without asking her directly to come join him. The way he describes his life there, how well he'd done for himself, and how he misses the old country but won't bother to visit unless there's something to visit for is truly wonderful to read. I'm sorry to report I don't think she went with him but I have to research further to make certain. Some people in my distant family past had the same names. Being named after a grand- or great-grand- something was important. Sorry for the rant, but I had to share this. It's too good to not share with people, so I'm going to contact a museum person who might be interested in seeing this material. Well, anyways, I'm busy doing this on days with bad weather, and will garden on days with good weather, whenever they come along.
@Droopy that's great, it's nice to find something like that and you can look into it, good luck and enjoy it.
Thanks, @Logan, I'm really enjoying myself. I'd rather be gardening, but since it seems I won't be able to for another few days I'll concentrate on the old stuff. It gives me joy.
Droopy, your treasure trove is truly a treasure! Contacting a museum is a great idea. The paper can be archivally preserved and will be there for future generations. The museum will likely make transcripts of the letters, and photo copies of the cards.for display and for research. You not only have a family treasure, but a treasure to share with others (my envy showing?)
Thanks, @marlingardener, and no, I can't spot any envy there. *whistles and looks around* I've also got some old, embroidered and monogrammed bed linen from my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and one of her sisters. It's probably been kept "just in case" by my thrifty relatives and all of a sudden it's antique and we can do nothing else but keep it. Did I mention the old Bibles? We have a heap of Bibles, gothic print and the works, and family history notes in them too, so we're stuck with those as well.
@Droopy that is wonderful! Those are treasures and a part of history! I found home for our old family bibles, a cousin. Written in the bibles are births and deaths from the families that emigrated (Rheinland Palatinate and Alsace) the 1880s to the 1940s. Some added papers give causes of death (stomach bleed, cancer, alcohol). A lot of children from a few months old to pre-teen died. Given the timing, my guess is either the great influenza, or in some cases diphtheria or smallpox. A lot more died, than lived. I found another home for immigration papers for great great grandparents (Prussia), which I gave to a more distant cousin. Here is one paper that I scanned With snow, I am giving myself the day off from garden. I did make a nine-day supply of dog food.
What a find, @Daniel W! So glad you manage to keep them in the family. History is so interesting, especially when it's your own family's history.
Usually I do the week's shopping on a Tuesday morning, but shortly we're off to the doctors' surgery for the "next round" of Covid jabs.
Yesterday, I noticed our next door neighbour (not the adjoining semi) had the builders in to repair their leaking flat roof over their lounge extension. The amount of debris the builders put on their drive suggested it was a big job. They were back again today. Nearly all the houses in our road were built to the same specification in the sixties and most have had the same extension since then. The houses were built with an extended kitchen. The practice has usually been, if you want to extend the lounge, to get your neighbour to have theirs done at the same time so you share a party wall as you do in a semi. (Or at least let you do it). It cuts down on cost. We and our neighbour did that. A few others have had it done at different times and the first one not got permission from the neighbour to put the wall on the party line, so they lose about a foot and a bit in width. When that neighbour, or a new one after the house was sold, wants an extension, the first one as evidenced in a few cases, won't let them tie in. This is crazy, as if the second person has an extension at a later date, they can tie in to a party wall and not lose any space. Otherwise they both lose space as they each end up with a side wall with a small gap between the two. This is ours. You can't tell that the bit with the French windows was added in 1976, 10 years after the houses were built. It's only a small extension to a small house, but you end up with a decent sized 20ft long lounge. From the inside you can't tell it's an extension, as there's a full length straight wall on "the party side." Our extension starts from about the middle of our old settee. The problems with flat roofs is that they can eventually leak. Some houses in our road, have had the job done twice. We had ours re- done 25 years ago. It wasn't actually leaking, but I noticed that there were a couple of soft spots in the felt when I'd been up on the roof re-cementing the ridge tiles. So water had penetrated the felt and was rotting the first layer of roofing ply. It took a roofer half a day to replace the damaged ply and re-felt it all. So it wasn't too big a job. But since then, I've not had that bedroom window or the bathroom window next to it, cleaned by the window cleaner. I can clean the bedroom window, "periodically," by leaning out of the small window, which opens horizontally or vertically. We don't worry about the bathroom window. The usual practice is that window cleaners put a ladder up to the roof and stand on the roofing felt "with their big boots." Pressure from those 25 times a year, on the fire retardant gravel on the roofing felt over a decade or so, can eventually cause a leak. If I've needed to get to the guttering, I've always put down a board on the gravel on which to place a ladder.
Just bought this cone swag from my Littlewoods catalogue, it was reduced from £49.99 to £39.99 and I had a discount code of 20% as well. They still had Christmas decorations to sell so i thought why not with the reduced price and discount. It's 1.8 mtrs long and I'm going to put it on the window sill at the right time of course. Also I can pay with weekly installments but I get a statement monthly.
