Feb. 24
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I have been awake since 10 am and have not napped at all today. So, a much better situation. I still need to get with Amazon for continuing problems.
We went to grocery and I now have sardines. There were no POSSUM sardines. But, I did have to get sardines in soy oil, something I did not want to do. I will try to get all the olive oil off that I can. This calls for paper towels, something I rarely use. And, I now have bananas. Nature's Own was bogo, dozen large Grade A Publix eggs--$5.99, 2 roach baits, Bertolli bogo. I forgot to buy onions. At Piggly Wiggly--cabbage, Land O Lakes Butter-2 pounds, Ronco Spaghetti. Between the two stores, we spent $74.
It breaks my heart what is happening to Ukraine!
I checked with my bank to determine if McAfee was trying to get into my account. PayPal is sending me warnings. But, they have not gotten into my account or attempted to take funds. I have not used PayPal in 20 years. I refuse to open the emails from them.
When, if eggs from Turkey are imported and sold here, I will buy none. I will pay the price at the store.
Today, when I dressed to go out, I put on a light jacket. It was scorching outdoors and suffocating in the car. I think it was 66F today. Tomorrow, I think the forecast is 70F for Tuesday. I love this weather.
I was hoping someone had bought one of the scooters in the yesterday post. Or, maybe had experience with one.
Even though I only slept until 10 am this morning, I got very little sleep last night. I warned Tommy that I would start using the phone when I awoke. He did not complain.
Okay, 'napped' from 7-12 pm. Still groggy and feel I had no rest.
Tomorrow, I will get up and start phone calls.
It was a beautiful day! Birds are all aflutter. My pots of tulips are so green. Hopefully, the blossoms will appear. The dandelions are ahead of all the other 'flowers.'
It is 1 am and I have not eaten since noon, so I suppose I should eat something, I have no idea what Tommy ate.
Will you buy eggs from Turkey?
Is the weather where you live warmer?
Possum Sardines were forced out of business around 2010, when the idiot Feds indicted them on RICO charges, They were accused of and found guilty of monopolizing the sardine market. That's also when the last sardine cannery in the US (in Maine) closed.
ReplyDeleteI love sardines too, and am a big fan of the Portuguese flavored varieties. I often enjoy a can of spicy or mustard ones for lunch. No crackers or hot sauce--just yummy little fishies!
Sue,
DeleteWell, now I know! I only like sardines in olive oil, no flavors or anything else. I gave up crackers and sardines, but now want some crackers.
PS: it's going to be 53 degrees here! Unbelievable! I am going to pot some tulip bulbs.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I'll buy Turkish imported eggs. Depends upon how desperate I get...
I believe there will be eggs, just expensive. Love the heat.
DeleteEggs from Turkey?! Who would have guessed that would happen. I remember a cousin telling folks on Facebook she is voting for T as Biden is the cause of egg prices.
ReplyDeleteUrspo,
DeleteI hear all those silly excuses for voting for T. Ridiculous.
I don't have to buy eggs, I have my own little flock of hens. And they laid eggs well through the several really cold days we had. I live north of Huntsville
ReplyDeleteNana10,
DeleteI lived in Cullman and had four hens that kept me in eggs. I had so many I could give to friends or people who helped me. Once, I even traded a dozen eggs for a chair at a yard sale. Now, I live in Birmingham.
The big egg farms have had several culls in the last 20 years for the avian influenza. They have always had the potential to vaccinate the chicks, but turned it down because of the nominal costs. Now they are over culling (since there might be a few million one-breed in battery cages -- stacked a mile high, with the layers on top pooping down on the rest) because without sunshine, or space, or different breeds -- the birds cannot even hope to build any natural immunity. I don't see the egg producers saying anything about this increase in egg prices --- watch they may never go down.
ReplyDeleteMaybe with the increase they can start vaccinating the chicks? Probably not.
The factory farming is the problem. I only buy my eggs from people who have flocks locally.
meetsy,
ReplyDeleteI never knew all this. Thanks. Vaccinating the chicks is best option. I hope they do.
meetsy,
ReplyDeleteI never knew all this. Thanks. Vaccinating the chicks is best option. I hope they do.
I will NOT purchase eggs from our good friends, (ha ha ha) Turkey.
ReplyDeleteMy three chickens are 3, and 4 years old. I think they are through laying, but I love them nonetheless. They have a coop rated for 12, and an attached, fenced run about 10x6. I don’t let them out in the rain or wind. Lately, we have had several days of 40-50 mph gusts (bringing in the warmer weather) so they have been cooped up for several days in a row. I guess if they are in the coop (4x9, 8 feet tall with separate roosting and nesting area) they can’t get cross contaminated with wild birds.
Every Christmas, a kid, different one each year, used to get tin of sardines in his/her stocking. Why? Because they got their stockings at the foot of their bed on Christmas Eve, after they had fallen asleep. The fun was hearing the cats battle to the bedroom door of the kid who got the sardines when kid would open them!
Meg,
DeleteThey also need small mesh so other birds cannot get in to share the water and food. I would put a solid top so a bird could not drop poop inside.
The coop is tin roofed and the bottom reinforced with a predator apron. The run isn’t mesh-topped, and I have seen a finch or two fly around, and sit on the run fence, but they can’t get in the coop. The whole setup is under some tree cover so as to keep the eagles from snatching them. Today it is sunny, 50 degrees, so they get to be let in the run.
DeleteLook at Carolina Coops website. That’s what we have. Daughter and husband built it. We had the movers move it from our last place to here, while a kid and I carried the chickens over in cardboard boxes designed to transport eggs. (As big as and shaped like cardboard pet carrier.) We thought it was funny to see the chickens in the back seat in boxes labeled “eggs.” It was also funny to see them calm down immediately when we closed the box for the ride.
My other favorite thing to do is look out the window at dusk and see them hop up the stairs in the coop to go to the roosting area.
The weather was beautifully here yesterday and today is supposed to be more of the same. I love it!
ReplyDeleteBelinda,
DeleteThis weather certainly lifts my spirits!