Vines for chickens

Some vine varieties that are considered safe for chickens include: arrowroot, trumpet vine, and most types of berry vines (like raspberry and blackberry) as they can eat the leaves and enjoy foraging around the plant, although it’s important to monitor them and ensure they aren’t consuming too much of the plant’s fruit or foliage; just be sure Read More …

The world’s smallest violin plays for wine apparently

Wine enthusiast Steven Nordhoff typically spends about $25,000 a year adding to his 2,500-bottle collection, including reds from Italy or champagnes from France. But not now. Trump’s threat to slap 200% tariffs on European wines and spirits has the Southern California family law attorney pausing his purchases from abroad. I read this in the news Read More …

Hypocritical Turd – Elmo Musk

This is the guy saying there is so much bloat and waste in the government….. and yet, it seems he is the largest benefactor of government spending in modern times.  Talk about conflict of interest. Every article I see is referencing the Washington Post research.  I find this interesting, is the Post is now owned Read More …

Cleaning a Backyard Chicken Coop

It really doesn’t take much to clean a small coop like this when you want to keep a small number of backyard chickens.  You have to pay attention to a few specific things, but other than that it only takes an hour or so, once a month to keep things clean, and the smell away.

Meme Stock – NOVA – Sunnova

Admittedly I have 4 shares of this company that I bought at the $3.02 mark.  I thought the bottom had hit, but was not quite sure.  So for $12.08, the cost of a couple of cheap months of Netflix, I lost $10, as I am selling today, but I learned a valuable lesson.  There is Read More …

What is a Dig Skirt?

A “dig skirt” in the context of poultry keeping, also known as a predator guard or anti-dig barrier, is a barrier made of metal, like hardware cloth or welded wire, that’s placed around the outside perimeter of a chicken coop or run, buried or secured to the ground, to prevent predators from digging under and Read More …

Some not so quick reads

Japan Birth Rate Thread Reader How both parties have failed The Masquerade & The Void Farewell Address The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads Read More …

Elmo adds to his conflict of interest

Just wanting to add to the growing list of issues with DOGE, and Elmo’s ability to decide what is a good or bad government program. Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract At this point, he is just being blatant about it, knowing that there is hardly anything anyone can do, because the petty orange man-baby is Read More …

DMTA – Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique

This is a tough album for me to review. The reason I picked it first was it fulfilled 2 requirements. One is simply enough, I owned the album. The next requirement, was that it was first in alphabetical order of the albums I owned. OK, on to why this is tough to review.   I Read More …