the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Good evening!

Just a wee reminder that DIY centers are clearing their plant stock at the moment to make space for christmas trees so you may get a few bargains for the garden

Christmas trees? :eek: But we're still having summer here.......:D
Well, I was out all day in my shirtsleeves, and I picked a big pile of mangetouts last thing, just before the light went at 5pm. Inside the old polytunnel the toms and peppers are still trundling along, although I've moved the best stuff into the conservatory now

Admittedly, the squash and courgettes have all shuffled off their mortal coil, but otherwise, the garden is still producing.

That's more than can be said for the hens! Were it not for the Australorps and the occasional Dorking, we'd be buying eggs.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

That's more than can be said for the hens! Were it not for the Australorps and the occasional Dorking, we'd be buying eggs.

ironically I'm just starting to get eggs properly again:rotfl:.

alfie_1

right ,evening all...
sorry iv not contributed lately but heres my meagre news...
i have 2 marrows growing and obergines in pots outside my gate against the hedge...i went to pull em out and realised they were still producing !! it is VERY mild here at the moment, honeysuckle is out,fuschias still in full flower ? i cant remember having so many flowers out at this time of year.
i intended to take lots of c**p to the tip...BUT son needed a hand moving a table and chairs in my van...[a really lovely old pine one i "aquired" and had stored at a mates house] i said he could have them on perm loan... then id lost the will to live [or rather shift c**p!] when i got back !!:D
so i chopped a stack of wood,filled the cupboard beside my fireplace [i took the door off and it looks good seeing a tall neat stack of logs in it now]. cleaned out the chooks etc and put all nice sawdust down...i love seeing animals in fresh bedding. i gave Mabel half a bale of straw in her house and she sorts it..:) she looks hilarious running around with great wadges of straw in her mouth...she loves it and when shes fluffed it all out she just literally throws herself into it !!:D i took the hose over and filled the waterbutt there too. i did give her a shallow heavy metal bath for her drinking water but she just up ends it !! it took 2 of us to even drag it into her area !:o yet she has 2 big old jam making pans for her water and never tips them ??

anyway it looks like im "van man" again tomorow as my sons txt me to say hes bought a sofa on LeBay.... i am appeasing him at the moment

i think the chicken coup canopy defies all measures of sanity and IF they sell any then the people who buy them deserve to see them gaily disapearing over the horizon this winter taking out all in its wake !!:rotfl:

i have BIG BUCK [friends dog] stopping this weekend so im sort of squeezed on the sofas between 4 dogs....:D love it really !!

well if your not asleep by now reading this woffle....!!:rotfl::rotfl:

alfie_1

LIR....question for you !! SCARCOIDS OR SCAROIDS ?? I KNOW THEY ARE POSS CANCEROUS GROWTHS BUT WHATS PROGNOSIS ?? theres a sweet pony that "needs" a home but has very small sc.....ds... thought id ask MRS wiseowl [no offence to davesnave's mrs:)]

rozeepozee

lostinrates wrote: »

Its looking promising then for the house then rozee?

Our house is leaking. I need a roofer.

At the right price, I suppose LIR. The land is about what we'd want but the property probably needs about £100k chucking at it as it has never been modernised and that's without budgeting for any outbuildings that Dave has reminded me we'd need As we all know too well, home owning tends to be expensive!

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR....question for you !! SCARCOIDS OR SCAROIDS ?? I KNOW THEY ARE POSS CANCEROUS GROWTHS BUT WHATS PROGNOSIS ?? theres a sweet pony that "needs" a home but has very small sc.....ds... thought id ask MRS wiseowl [no offence to davesnave's mrs:)]

Special girl has a sarcoid, though she's not grey..and she's in her twenties (in only developed in her late teens). I've heard of a treatment from someone whose used it with HUGE success (NOT camarosa ointment) I might try..which I'll pm you about if you want to try it, but personally, I wouldn't remove surgically. I'm not mortified that Special girl has one, but personally I'd not buy one with sarcoids, but if one needed a home here I suppose I'd consider it. Its highly likely, we might have a grey in the future (though I'm trying to avoid it, I want a dun or a palamino or a liver chestnut really), and while I have done NO reading on sacoids for well over a decade, I'd rather not introduce a cancer which has a viral element to a herd. (if I were in the situation I'd see what modern thinking was on that, so I'll have a read around for you if you like).

You can have them frozen off too...if they are small, which I think is reasonably successful, but of course, a price for this, and that its not comfortable and that their will be white hair or less hair on the spot afterwards.


I'll order the stuff I want to try next week...I've needed a nudge. we have seen a pony that would be great for dh, but she's going to be white when she's grown up and I don't know if I can face trying to keep a very milky grey something near white, rather than mud brown and pee yellow tail:o.

You can

alfie_1

LIR .... that would be great thanks.. i am wary now re introducing one to our herd !! just incase..:o

re looking for a hoss for DH try freeads. put in your location, click on free stuff,then horses and youde be amazed at what people are looking for homes for [due to usually pregnancy or loss of grazing !!] [human pregnancy that is...:rotfl:] theres some fantastic ones....:) free !!


p.s. albert has to go to vet 1st thing tomorow. :(his leg is swelling. vet said think he will be ok till then to avoid mega call out fee...he is a sweety

kazschow

Rummer wrote: »

Good evening!

Just a wee reminder that DIY centers are clearing their plant stock at the moment to make space for christmas trees so you may get a few bargains for the garden

Thanks for the thumbs up on that, I got 3 x 5 cyclamen plants in B&Q today reduced to 5p a pack

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

LIR .... that would be great thanks.. i am wary now re introducing one to our herd !! just incase..:o

re looking for a hoss for DH try freeads. put in your location, click on free stuff,then horses and youde be amazed at what people are looking for homes for [due to usually pregnancy or loss of grazing !!] [human pregnancy that is...:rotfl:] theres some fantastic ones....:) free !!


p.s. albert has to go to vet 1st thing tomorow. :(his leg is swelling. vet said think he will be ok till then to avoid mega call out fee...he is a sweety

how would animals cope without us? Albert is very lucky. Please tell me what happens. I'll pm you details of the stuff....ita c ompany I use and endorse some priuducts whole heartedly some less so, but I've heard really good stuf from unbiased people about this stuff...I'll order it and keep you in the loop.:)


I'm having grass dilemma. I'd be expecting the summer grazing to be running up really light now...and be thinking about moving off this month in order to give a decent start of year to a hay crop out there, but there is loads grass. I want to really graze that down, but also, want to get the paying guests eating hay and realising some profit on that!!!

I wish I had a crystal ball so I knew what the weather would be next year, heading back into spring. I have options....prudent grass wise, leave horses on summer grazing as long as possible, and then move later. More prudent profit wise, especially if its a short winter, move horses into winter grazing NOW, and get the top off that.

I could swap whats left of the summer grazing for some lamb meat I think, or let a couple of local bulls on it in return for a future favour to be called in.

If we new it would be an early spring like last year, or a late spring or what the dickens to expect the decision would be so much easier......but we don't!

alfie_1

or let a couple of local bulls on it in return for a future favour to be called in.

:rotfl::T:rotfl:

leaves a lot to the imagination !!!!