Hinotori
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First pullet egg from the 3 young girls
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Lazy Gardener
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Lovely colors! I just love my EE gals.
Hinotori
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This is one of the little easter egger pullets. This one is 3/4 wheaten ameraucana and 1/4 partridge silkie. I love the light crest.
frustratedearthmother
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Nothing like getting that first pullet egg! I love the look of that girl. 
Lazy Gardener
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If she were in my flock, I think I'd name her Phyllis Diller.
baymule
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She's a cutie!
Hinotori
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Hubby takes bottles of water in his lunch because our water has so much iron it tastes bad. We were running low and I was worried I'd be spending a lot of time letting tap water sit out and rust before filtering it. Yes that is a thing.
We did get a pack from the Costco business center as most members don't know they can shop there. Urgh. Insane people.
We did get a pack from the Costco business center as most members don't know they can shop there. Urgh. Insane people.
Lazy Gardener
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Our water is also BLEAH!!! If it's been running for a while, and I put it through the Britta filter, it's ok, but... we do buy bottled water.
Daisy
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The dam water here is unsafe to drink, so they truck it in and the chemicals are unbearable. The shire put notices in the newsletter to report the bad fizzy, sandy water to the water corp for over a year, but most of us have given up on trying to get a response from them. There are at least 4 towns near by that have "run out" of water, so the water corp knows, they just dont particularly care with the majority of the population being on aged pension. I have yet to meet a person who doesn't have health issues, even the children seem to have a lot more issues than in your average city suburb. Safe and fresh food is in short supply too which really surprised me being in farmland.
I buy 10L of water at a time for $4. It was not an expense I considered when I moved here. I assumed mains water was safe water, and that Australia had basic living standards country wide. I was so naive haha I know that is certainly not the case now with the life expectancy being over a decade shorter for people who live out here. Diabetes is rife, even the trees are dying from salinity.
I went out this morning for a church meeting, but there was an accident on the highway and the police turned me around. I don't know what happened but looking on the emergency site it was reported 3 hours ago so it must have been pretty bad! I said a little prayer for the people involved and turned around home. Time for a coffee now I guess. I have a fair bit of housework to get through today.
I buy 10L of water at a time for $4. It was not an expense I considered when I moved here. I assumed mains water was safe water, and that Australia had basic living standards country wide. I was so naive haha I know that is certainly not the case now with the life expectancy being over a decade shorter for people who live out here. Diabetes is rife, even the trees are dying from salinity.
I went out this morning for a church meeting, but there was an accident on the highway and the police turned me around. I don't know what happened but looking on the emergency site it was reported 3 hours ago so it must have been pretty bad! I said a little prayer for the people involved and turned around home. Time for a coffee now I guess. I have a fair bit of housework to get through today.
baymule
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We are on community water, the well is within rock throwing distance from our driveway. The well is 1200' deep and it is some darn good water. While we are on sand, under that is red dirt and most of the soil in this area is red dirt. That means iron. I would suppose a shallow well would have a lot of iron in it.
