Coffee anyone ?

[SageHill]

Happy mother's day, everyone!

Yesterday, prep & load up went well. Extremely so. Is that a foreboding? About 3 miles out, I discovered no phone. Rather than turn with trailer, decided I'd do without. Got to site pretty early for me. Unloaded, got paperwork, began looking around. Decided I'd go home & return in couple hrs. That's when I discovered keys missing. . Walk all over, backtracking. Nada....then went to truck & see them on seat . Now, no phone, can't call ins for lockout. Go to office to borrow a phone, & one suggests calling sheriff to come unlock. They called for me & about an hr later -- bingo. Sheriff & 2 min, door opened.

Should have come home but didn't....suffered thru a long, long, long auction. Finally left at 9pm.

On good side, I bought 13 really nice, 2' tall tomato plants @$1. ea. Later got 5 beautiful buff orp pullets, 12 wk old, for $8 each!! Pretty birds. And a doz hatching eggs for RIRxMarans, $7. Then they finally got to livestock on 4 legs. The goats sold well, very close to what I hoped and I left with a nice check, pullets for winter eggs, my plants and incubator fill....

So, get home, DS comes out & gives me my phone, which he'd found in the road that morn as he was going to work It was "a day" to remember.

Pics later -- obviously no phone while there.

Good thing you didn’t go back for the phone - you wouldn’t have found it or worse run over it! Overall sounds like a good day.

 

[SageHill]

Well, I went to the manure management and compost clinic yesterday. A whopping 5 people there for it, plus the presenters. Didn't really go over manure management - of the other folks there 2 were together and on I ~think 2 acres with a big garden no livestock, another from the city (San Diego proper) and a regular yard (small), another with 2 horses. Everything made sense (I've been to one of these just for composting years ago). Questions were given ok answers with "check this book" for a better answer. When it got to the you need to turn the pile 2x a week as well as monitor the temp ~3 times a week and adjust the green vs brown content I was thinking ah, yeah, like I need another time consuming project. Then they got to the part where, yes, it ~could start a fire and that sealed the deal - not something I want to take on. All pretty much based on a pile 3x3x3 and I'm thinking I've got a heck of a lot more than that close to weekly (I clean out stalls weekly). So - not a thing for me.

 

[fuzzi]

Hey y'all!!! I found a picture on FB, so here it is. Both me and @Margali are in it. Y’all figure it out. BWAHAHAHA!!

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I found you, can't miss that mane of white.

 

[fuzzi]

Well, I went to the manure management and compost clinic yesterday. A whopping 5 people there for it, plus the presenters. Didn't really go over manure management - of the other folks there 2 were together and on I ~think 2 acres with a big garden no livestock, another from the city (San Diego proper) and a regular yard (small), another with 2 horses. Everything made sense (I've been to one of these just for composting years ago). Questions were given ok answers with "check this book" for a better answer. When it got to the you need to turn the pile 2x a week as well as monitor the temp ~3 times a week and adjust the green vs brown content I was thinking ah, yeah, like I need another time consuming project. Then they got to the part where, yes, it ~could start a fire and that sealed the deal - not something I want to take on. All pretty much based on a pile 3x3x3 and I'm thinking I've got a heck of a lot more than that close to weekly (I clean out stalls weekly). So - not a thing for me.

I seriously doubt it would start a fire.

I've never checked the temperature of my compost piles, been doing them for 40 years. I recall that in cold weather it sometimes would "steam", temp probably about 100-110°. But by their nature compost piles are damp. Nothing or very little happens when they dry out.

 

[fuzzi]

I seriously doubt it would start a fire.

I've never checked the temperature of my compost piles, been doing them for 40 years. I recall that in cold weather it sometimes would "steam", temp probably about 100-110°. But by their nature compost piles are damp. Nothing or very little happens when they dry out.

Well, under certain conditions it can, but so can the following:

7 Conditions When Your Compost Can (Really) Self-Ignite

It's hard to believe. But, the grass trimmings in the compost bin can actually catch fire spontaneously, and become a fire hazard to your house and neighbors. What can cause a compost pile to self-ignite?

askgardening.com

 

[SageHill]

I seriously doubt it would start a fire.

I've never checked the temperature of my compost piles, been doing them for 40 years. I recall that in cold weather it sometimes would "steam", temp probably about 100-110°. But by their nature compost piles are damp. Nothing or very little happens when they dry out.

Living in a high risk fire area we do everything to prevent fire. Getting insurance here is always a roll of the dice every year.

 

[fuzzi]

Brace for impact and this is why I own this program and tablet. No warning it hits.
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What's the program?

 

[Baymule]

I found you, can't miss that mane of white.

I have a T-shirt that says “My hair is this color because I ate paint chips as a child.”

 

[Baymule]

I took a 2 1/2 hour nap this afternoon, now I’m wide awake. Phooey.

 

[canesisters]

I took a 2 1/2 hour nap this afternoon, now I’m wide awake. Phooey.

I took a 6hr nap..... I'll be up all night