Chicken Tray

Today it or last night it snowed 1/2 inch of snow, it should melt away today, the ground is not frozen yet, it is muddy on the path to chickens. 

Today we have a friend coming to make a shelf of sorts to put under where the chickens roost at night, this will catch all "poo" and keep things much cleaner for me and the chickens. 

Gonna use cat litter to fill the trey and I will then put just a small amount of cedar chips to cover the cat litter so the chickens don't think it is a spot to take a bath. 

It will be a quick and much cleaner clean-up for me and all will stay healthier because of it. The free fertilizer will be placed all over the place to help green things up in the spring from the garden to shrubs and trees to just greener grass. 

Pic to come later on when done. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

 

  

                         Lucky and Speckles                                    Inside of covered pen

Nesting boxes                                         Heat lamp & tray area

Shed & covered area 

Guineas and Chickens

Morning everyone, 

Do have to keep chickens and guineas closed up until we get the top netting for their pen, the guineas are flying up and over the fence and we are having to catch them up each night and put them into the shed for safety. The netting should be here in the next few days or so. Once done we can turn them all loose again in their larger run area. 

I am tired already of chasing birds to put back into the pen area, the guineas get the chickens to going and then they also go over the fence. The guineas were on top of the shed last night and we had one chicken join them, so far now, they are being detained inside their plastic-covered area. 

Will have some pics to share when they are outside again. Will come back and post the pics on this page when we are done with it all. 

UPDATE: 

Later on, we got the netting and got it spread over the huge chicken area. Much safer for the birds, and it was larger than we thought, so now we have a huge extranet, could be used on an outdoor aviary. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

                           

SNOWING

Morning all, 

It is or was raining out now turned to SNOW and it is sticking. When I let the chickens out this morning, it was raining and they did not like that too much, but when it turned to snow, they all began to run to get inside the covered area of pen or under bushes. There first good rain, then snow for them, this will be their first winter. 

Lucky laid a double yoka egg yesterday that is her 4th egg like that. and she is not even one year old yet. 

Love and Prayers,

Margo

Fall time clean up & Chicken chores

Morning to all, hope you are having a wonderful day. 

Today we started bringing in the outside plants that come in for wintertime. I have cut way back some of my trees that come in this year, just too large to handle in small spaces for the winter. I am just letting go of many others as they are old and leggy, need to just get new ones in spring. 

Then it is out to the chicken pen and clean up the wet soggy straw, and new plastic on the sides of the pen and then put in new dry straw which will stay that way once we get it wrapped in plastic.  Better for the hens also, lets the sunlight in and blocks the cold wind. This next week we should be getting the fencing put up so the chickens can have their room to run around and be free until dusk and time to return to the safety of the pen and then shed as night falls. 

We are gonna be egg-poor when they all start laying. We will sell fresh eggs, gonna put up a chicken sign for next year when we have extra eggs to sell. 

Pics will follow after the pen is cleaned up and the new fence is done. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Happy Halloween

Hope all are enjoying the Fall of the year. Right now it is raining and has been for several days now, feels like I am walking in a water puddle when I go to feed the chickens. Before too much longer the addition to the fence we had done will have a place divided off so the chickens can run wild during the day, hopefully, they all come running back to the shed for evening meal and then get locked up for the night. Not a lot of color this year for some reason.

We got our electric bikes well, one bike and one trike. Found out from our house to the main road is all downhill, I thought it looked level, but it is all uphill to get back home. Learned just how out of shape I am in, got a lot of work to do. We ride together to the main road and then uphill all the way back, thank God they are electric. Would never have made it back otherwise. A little at a time and we will get better. Think I will also try the bike and see how that handles over the trike. 

We will have to go to where there is a flat area to ride so I can enjoy the ride better. I won't give up and will keep working on it. I do love to ride bikes always have. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

HAPPY     HALLOWEEN

Frosty Club Information

Hello and good morning to everyone,

This is my FROSTY

This is an invite to my new Frosty Club, you must read and understand that membership dues will be due the month of Dec. 2021, before you ask to join the club. This club is on MeWe and "private", which means you have to be invited in order to join,

The artwork for many of my designs is copyrighted by my sister (Nita T.) and her husband (Larry Twardzak). I alone have their permission to digitize her artwork. Other artwork is either free or I have paid for the designs OR I have hand-drawn them myself. 

Oct. and Nov. are free to help get us started and settled into the new group.  This group is "Private" and you can only join if invited. So if there are any of you that wish to join my new group on MeWe, send me an email. Go to the "contact tab" at top of the page and send me an email if you are interested in joining my club. 

The new group is a club and membership is $8.00 a month. I feel we can all afford that amount each month. You can cancel anytime. Designs are grouped into months and years depending on when I add them to the club. There will be between 10 - 15 designs per month + extras + Holidays. Any questions ~ Just ask away!  New designs are added each month! Lessons are given on how to digitize, Applique design sew outs, crazy quilt blocks my way, free-standing lace,  some on loom beading, some on scrolling in wood, and more to come.

You pay your dues on my website here: https://www.craftyroseangel.com  

Click on "Frosty Club" at top of the page. Read the information and use the "donate" button to pay dues thru PayPal.

Members joining after November 2021 looking for designs in the past years or months, tell me which ones you want and donate for that month and year and I will send them to you after your dues are paid for that month.  If in the event you lose your designs, if you paid for them you can always get them from me after checking records as I will have a backup of all sales. 

Designs will be emailed to you at the email address you used to join the club (make sure it is correct) and a password will be given to you if you have paid for that month. Make sure you backup passwords and designs when you get them.

Remember: Do not share any of my designs with others, instead have them send me an email so they can join in on all the fun themselves.

My U-Tube channel:  Alaska-Ohio-West Virginia

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO-2EpylFWRtstjkDxrjcvA

My channel is up, just have not added anything just yet! But go ahead and subscribe to it if you can and be sure to like it and ring the bell after things get started. 

New things are coming!

All my designs are copyrighted by Margo Phillips of Crafty Rose Angel. 

https://www.craftyroseangel.com   

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

UPDATE ON LARRY

Hello to all,

 

Larry called yesterday and we talked for a while. He is doing as good as he can, sounded tired from the treatment, but sounded good. He has enough treats as he calls them. He is enjoying the ALEXA we took him, they were able to get it up and running. So I am sure he is giving that thing a workout. 

So if you can get him to answer the phone give him a call and chat with him. He will answer if he can hear the phone. 

Love and Prayers, 

Margo

Update on Larry

Hello everyone, 

This is an update about Larry. This is for my family and friends of Larry so I can keep you updated as to how he is doing. 

He called the other day and wanted an Alexa taken out to him at the manor. So Vince ran one out to him, and the people that work there got it up and running for him. 

So he is now talking to Alexa and having some fun at least more fun than without it. 

Other than that he is doing as good as he can. He is very short of breath you can hear this when he is talking on the phone. He has been that way for a while now. 

I try to call him all the time and he does not answer the phone, says he can not hear it. 

But I noticed the other day that someone is leaving him messages again and that fills the phone up to where it will not even ring, when you call it goes to "leave a message". I think I posted on Facebook to stop leaving him messages, he can not operate the phone to move through it to find the spot to check the messages or delete them. 

So again Please stop leaving him messages, he does not read them, he will not call you back, it just clogs the phone and then I can not even get ahold of him, and right now with Covid on the uprise again, we can not even visit him, leaves him in the dark so to speak. UNLESS he decides to give me a call. Which he does call now and then.

A pic from Germany days

Love and Prayers, 

Margo