Lannie, a few posting tips:

When you compose an extremely long post, like many of yours are, before hitting "Preview Post" or "Submit Reply" buttons, Copy all the post text to your clipboard. That way, if server is acting up and doesn't post reply properly, you haven't lost your text. You can then recompose reply by simply pasting your saved text back in text box! You can also paste this into a draft word doc as backup.

Another thing that works when posting gets bogged down or returns an error is to use Browser Back Arrow, which will take you back to the compose page. Then I would definitely copy and paste into word or text doc to save until issue resolved.

It's happened to me many times on Customer Service email pages where one has to type in long messages. Now, I always copy to clipboard before submitting, just in case.

Good morning Peeps!

You all are already getting wound up?

Lannie.

Try again with pics of Horus. I'm really interested in seeing what he looks like. Pics of Oliver too!

Yes - I think there is a difference in butter - Even store bought ones. European etc...

I would bet Lannie makes some terrific butter!

I have found the best butter you can buy at the super market is Kerry's Gold.
I use the cheap stuff for cooking but for steamed vegetables and the likes i use the Irish butter.

I use the Kerry Gold as well - unsalted. Sometimes Plugara (sp) - Believe they have more fat content - softer, melt easier, and more yellow in color.....

Posts like this one is exactly the reason there are NO young gun posters on the CT ! They don't have a clue who Francis is or what - lol

Same goes for Jed , Ellie , Granny , Mr. Douglas , Ebb , Andy , Barnie , The dancing Bear , and the List goes on and on

I was reading backwards and I already knew this. It's on the Kansas State Website somewhere.

It works very well!

Axel got skunked not once but twice. Dumb dog for going back for seconds.

The expression on his face after the second hit was pathetic. Like I am supposed to help you? Hows about helping me by not playing with skunks?

And, if properly trained in donkey IPO, we might see Francis, the new A$$, kicking some bad neighbor A$$ !!

Boy its been pouring here this morning and the wind is whipping ! TN - looks like the same for you too

I am glad I didn't have to do the correction. Mule, donkey.

Francis is a mule. SP needs one of these to help her chickies keep their feet warm on cold winter days:

SP - take it from Beau, who bought a quonset kit, on sale.
- they are a POS to put together, very labor intensive
- mine did not bolt together, without jimmy rigging ratchet straps to pull panels to line up
- I suspect, Manufacturing Company makes some out of spec. on corrugated angles...and liquidate the crap
- plus the base needs footings 1.5 feet deep of concrete...around perimeter of slab
- need loads of scaffold to erect, and 5 workers plus a truck hitch to winch up in position
- in the end, a more expensive build...than advertised



Don't do it SP, you will go over budget 2x....and learn new swear words.
- and need anger management training



Pick wisely - or SP & Alan relationship, will not survive the building erection spats.

It wasn't you guys, quit worrying! I have a well-developed sense of humor, and I can handle everything from sarcasm to weirdly sick and twisted, LOL!

I'm guessing I need to ask Rich to make the pics bigger when he sends them to me then. They show up big on the other forum we're both on, when posted as attachments. I used to have Photobucket but they took all my pictures and I refuse to pay the ransom, so I don't have a photo hosting site anymore. I doubt the other ones are much better, and besides it would be so much work, and so much time I don't have, to move all my pictures over to another site. The attachments are easier, for me, so I'll see if I can get them to be a little bigger.




Gah, you're breaking my heart. She did that EXACT thing! I guess they all do. It must be something they learn in Dobie school.




Yeah, no thanks! I have one hairy dog already and her prey drive is high. Huskies are through the ROOF! Although I do like Huskies I would never have one with all these small animals (and poultry) on the place. Nah, I need a Dobie.





I would love to see pictures of Toad, too. I've never seen him. I'm sure there must be pics somewhere on the forum, but I've never come across one.



He's under the house. Skunks don't usually go UP. They go down. If you go around your foundation and look carefully, I'll bet you find a little access hole. Probably behind a shrub.

If you want to try catching him yourself, I can tell you a pretty safe way to do it, but you need a live trap. First, find his (or her) access hole, then set the live trap near it with a can of cat food in the back. The skunk will go in to eat the cat food, they LOVE canned cat food. Then slowly and carefully, put a tarp over the trap so IF he gets scared and sprays, it will go on the tarp and not on you. At that point, what we do is carry the trap out to an open area, tip it up and let the skunk tumble out, then shoot it. It has to be a head or a spine shot, or it will spray. If you don't want to (or can't for some reason) shoot it, just take it nice and slow out somewhere far from your house and open the front of the trap and let it go.

We had a bad skunk problem several years back (had a "she" and she had babies), so we borrowed a live trap and dispatched almost all of them. (Don't yell at me, the babies were grown up by then.) None of them sprayed while they were in the trap covered by the tarp. They just curled up and waited to be let loose. Anyway, that's what the professional guy will do, so you can pay him or do it yourself if you feel up to it.

Hey, do you have a County Trapper in your area? We called ours and he's the one who showed us what to do and loaned us the live trap. He also trapped a bunch of foxes we were having problems with as well. Then we got the dogs (the Pyrenees) and haven't had a fox problem since. We still get the odd skunk passing through, but they don't stay, so it's not a huge problem anymore. Once every couple years maybe one of the dogs will get skunked because they're STOOPID and they have to chase. Missy is the worst, and she has long hair, so it takes a bit of effort to deskunk her. Zipper, being short-coated, was easy to deodorize.

If you don't already know this, here's the formula for deskunking:

Half a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in a large bowl or bucket.
Handful of baking soda.
Big healthy squirt of Dawn dish liquid (to degrease the skunk oil).

Mix that together with your hand and use a rag to sop it all over the dog (or whomever) where the spray hit, then use a clean wet cloth and follow up with a clean dry cloth. It would get 100% of the smell off Zipper and it gets about 99% off Missy. Missy will still smell a bit eau d'skunk for a couple days, but it's not horrible.

Disclaimer: The above is only my advice based on personal experience and no offense is intended to anyone.

Ok all done with the rolls - came out ok...Taste pretty good, perhaps a touch too much honey. Egg wash could be more uniform.

Francis is a mule. SP needs one of these to help her chickies keep their feet warm on cold winter days:

Alright!

Need to get the barn peeps together.

One of them buildings that zip together like this?

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C...WKqTqFKFTd_VWM

SP, why are you surfing for quonset huts?

Looks like a good enough barn to me!

Mister said a couple of things about sharing.

I am just shopping.

Mister and I have finally agreed on a building type.

He put it in the air.

Posts like this one is exactly the reason there are NO young gun posters on the CT ! They don't have a clue who Francis is or what - lol

Same goes for Jed , Ellie , Granny , Mr. Douglas , Ebb , Andy , Barnie , The dancing Bear , and the List goes on and on

Ok all done with the rolls - came out ok...Taste pretty good, perhaps a touch too much honey. Egg wash could be more uniform.

That new building be a great place for your new donkey!
May I suggest you name him "Francis"?



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