Oh don't be. It's the same in the summer when we hit the longest day. Although, it is a lot nicer in the summer

I will go burn my yule log and sing to Odin....or is it Thor? Eh, whatever, the darkness and cold still stinks. Perhaps there is no making good out of this climate.

I feel slightly better looking at seeds, chicken coops and chicks. (Yes I have done this before and know exactly how insane it is.)

You MUST be a farmboy!
I had to quit getting my horse/pet feed at the store that sold baby chicks and ducks because i never could control myself. Would inevitably bring home a couple chicks/ducks to my kids. They're so dang CUTE

But by spring they are fullgrown and POOP EVERYWHERE

Has our PN forum perhaps got a bit off topic ?

I luv u guys

but UP from here?
Don't know about you, but...I am almost ready for one of Mrs D's recommended light visors! Yep!
Hard to get any SUN on your head when the sky is overcast, isn't it? - j

Also time to consider your Vitamin D levels. Improving them
improves pain and inflammation!

I have hardly needed my visor this year... since I increased to 4000 IU daily (except for July/August). I think my SAD was due to low D.

Sorry, farm GIRL, or a tomboy, whichever term one wants to use. (Perhaps I had a missing twin and I am a chimera and that is at the root of my autoimmune disease.)

The funky screen name alludes to my former passion, biking.

I do not have one eye, but some may see me as an ornery monster. That is occassionally true.

I grow organic veggies and fruits now. Kind of a retirement gig that is hard work and doesn't pay. That said, I need to mechanize. My poor back and hands are not going to take this much longer.

I need poop for my garden. Problem is one has to either butcher the layers or overwinter them. I would like to overwinter them, but it gets soooo cold here, I can't imagine thawing water for 5 months. Not to mention shoveling out frozen poo and collecting frozen eggs.

I would ask my local farmer for his cow poo, but that cow poo does not smell like cow poo used to. It smells like chemicals. So, I want chicken poo.

Summer is fine and dandy, but winter here sux.