sun! and lawn!

[tielan]

Sunshine! Blue sky! Shadows!

A mown lawn!

The neighbour kindly mowed the lawn for us, using up all his lunchtime. He says it's in exchange for catsitting their cats while they're on holidays, but seriously, it's not a big issue. The cats are complete sweeties and almost always amenable to a snuggle. (Well, one of them is.)

Anyway, we'll take them a dozen eggs as a special thank you.

Also: LAWN CLIPPINGS AHOY. Considering just how sodden everything got, the chookens were delicately stepping through mud at the height of the rains. Now we shouldn't get more rain like that (shouldn't) but meteorology has no guarantees.

I did get the coop rinsed off, I was thinking to get it sprayed tomorrow, but am a bit worried about the rain. However, in the meantime I have tried to hunt up rubber gloves for handling the pesticide and discover that one or both of my sisters have made off with all the disposable gloves in the house. *sigh* B1 probably has a set in her car, but she's out right now.

So tomorrow morning de-miting the coop and surrounding areas is going to be it.

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I think I'm going to end up in Team 3 for hockey this year. Just not good enough or noticeable enough (or fit enough) to be in Team 2.

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Trying to import my older LJ in to DW but it keeps failing. I think it's a connection issue.

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Guardian Australia has some time-lapse footage of the flooding in Queensland.

Also from Guardian Australia: Lynching Postcards: a harrowing documentary about confronting history: I haven't watched/read this article, this is for later looking through.

I'm fairly sure the same kind of thing happened in Australia. Culture and people being what they are.

Comments

[velithya]

DW has been having trouble with LJ for a while now; there have been posts about it on both dreamwidth maintenance or news journals and the dreamwidth twitter. So whatever problem might be happening is definitely on the LJ end, I believe the current advice is to just keep trying every now and then and see if it goes through.

[tielan]

Yes, someone provided a possible reason on the other post I made, asking if anyone understood what was going on!

Ah well, maybe later today I'll try again and it'll go through. *crosses fingers*

[velithya]

Good luck!

[eggsbenedict]

What pesticide did you end up getting? I use Pestene on and off and it's pretty effective; Avitrol or AIL work for spraying actual birds or difficult spots but those have a withholding period for eggs, gah. Then again, our egg rate has been slowing down with an unscheduled change of food and all of the crappy weather.

LJ importing is slow and LJ also loves to block DW, especially lately. I'd just keep trying. :(

[tielan]

I ended up going with Coopex (permethrin) because it was the easiest to get and is also a residual pesticide, so should last for a couple of months. If we have to do a withholding period for eggs, then we'll manage. We only have one layer right now, everyone else is on a break...

But I will never ever ever get another wooden coop - particularly not one of these with all the little slots that look so nice but are hiding holes for mites. Have to start collecting things, and maybe will be able to replace this one by next summer. (The guy down the road in the Original House On This Street - as I think of it - offered me some corrugated iron, and I turned it down at the time. Now I have to go around and ask if he's still got it...