baymule
Garden Master
Robins live here all year and my grandfather's name was Robin. I have a chicken named Robin too, not after my grandfather, but because she is a black sex link with a red breast.
Bucka, I missed this the other day. You said your FIL passed away on Monday. So sorry for your loss. Lots of times we get as close to our in-laws as we are to our parents. It is very hard to lose them. And now today was his special day. I hope it was a pretty day for him, and you.We are buried in snow here, but I am encouraged by everyone's stories. It has to come here eventually.
Today is beautiful, headed for 38 F and sunny. Back down to single digits and 20's this week, but I've noticed the sun is getting stronger and "cutting into the banks", so to speak. My FIL always proclaimed February 22 as the day the "water started to go downhill", as he would see the melting snow banks flowing down the street. He passed away Monday at 93, but we will always commemorate February 22nd in his honor.
Best wishes for you and your family!Thanks, so lucky. He was our last living parent, which makes it all feel very strange. DH will need to sell the house he grew up in, which is also the house his mother grew up in. One person asked if we would be moving in there, but it is a small lot in town. We would not trade our house that DH built (nor the 70 acres of land) no matter how much sentimental value the other property has.
It was 45 and sunny yesterday, so the water was definitely running downhill! So much so, that I bailed out part of the chicken run. Great spring cross-country skiing too, but it looks like the polar vortex is returning this coming week.
We did see robins 75 miles south of here in Portland a few days back...
I started with 6 (2 drakes, 4 ducks) and hatched a bunch last year. I think at one point I had around 30 but I butchered most and got back down to 6 again to go through the winter. This will be my last year with them. I'll let them hatch but will butcher everything in the fall. I don't care for the mess they make with the waterers.How many Muscovies do you have? We've had up to two-hundred before but that was our first year when we were just figuring out how good they were at hatching eggs.