First Post of 2006

I haven’t written anything for awhile here. I have tried. This is my umpteenth time to do so, it must work therefore. 🙂

The children got colds. I later pick one up. CE (Cold-Ease) I took when they came down with the cold. They took it too, but little one (5 yo) didn’t quite live up to doing so right. In any case, they were all coughing and not so nice for Christmas. I thought I was coming down with it, but it just stayed light and easy. Then the last day of the year I went under fast. I can say looking back it’s that I was very allergic to something from before Christmas to now and that they got colds and later I got it, and have been struggling with allergies all along and then a cold on top of it and it’s basically that I can’t stop that with something like CE. Allergies make me more unable to resist a cold germy. Of course.

This Winter is so mild. It’s so Spring-Like in many ways here in the SE. Something is making my allergies horrid. As if it was Spring-Time. Really.

In any case I’m on the mend, but it’s just this allergic stuff that’s keeping me below the level I’d wish to rise above. I’ve taken Benadril several times even. That is enough to let anyone, who knows me well, quite alot about how things are going. I hate Benadril … it’s an evil needful thing at times though. It’s not something I can take a full dose of and it’s not something that does more than trade allergy horrids for Benadril horrids, but it’s worth the trade sometimes.

This is all part of me and why I just haven’t written much of anything anywhere online, and nothing here. I have updates to do and things to change and I couldn’t care one hoot about it. :rolleyes:

I’ll write a tad about my hennies though now. In Dec. I got a light out to the A-frame hennies. On Dec. 28 we found 8 brown eggs in the corner 🙂

We got a device to put outside (a digital timer) that has many settings and plug-in spots. We also got a second light and put that light in the Leghorn pen, and plugged that and the first one into the timer. So they have all gotten light from 5-7 am and from 5 to 9pm every day since Mid-late-Dec.

Those first finds were from a few days most likely … after that we had 2 or so a day until Jan 5th we got 4 brown eggs then, as well as on the 6th and 7th. On the 8th we only got 2 brown eggs, but we also got our first white egg! The next day we got a white egg and 5 brown eggs. Improvement! The leghorns were looking nice, I noticed then. Yesterday, Jan 10, we got 3 brown eggs and 5 white eggs.

See now why it seems so very much like Spring? A simple change of just getting each pen a light on timer and voila! Eggs as if it’s Spring.

Of course that’s just a method of providing light enough to mimic Spring/Summer, enough light to turn on the hennies laying machines.

But it’s so mild, we have had lots of rain, not too much though, and so little freezing weather. Other places are mild too, it’s not just us, but it’s exactly like our early Spring in the temps and the feel of the air. Just not enough sun to truly make it Spring, since it’s January. 🙂 We had a little ice storm in December. That’s a bit odd. Usually they come in January. Last year (2005) we didn’t get one until Febuary, that was odd to me.

Weather here in GA is that the Winter is mild, but usually not THIS mild. It’s normal to have night temps very low. Lots of very cold snaps, then back to low 50’s for highs, and in the 30’s or lower at night. We don’t use our hvac any more, so take it from us, natural house folks, we’ve had very little use for the fireplace. Most days I’ve had to use it at all it was just to take the edge off early morning overcast days. Full days of fireplace have been only a handful. I like fires burning, tending them, but it’s mostly been the question “Is it cold enough to make a fire?” and the answer is usually, “NO!”.

15-day weather outlooks have given us a mild look into the future, and they’ve been fairly right. The little cold we get is soon undone and warm stuff rules once more, but overall it’s just been so very warm (as in Narnia, Aslan is near proportions … 🙂 )

It’s the temps I like alot myself, 60’s and 50’s are nice liveable temps (with a bit cooler alright, not bad really, I hate it above 70 degrees though.) Something has me itchy allergic and I’d be glad for things to freeze over for awhile soon. Will it come to us, or not? Even the great north (Canada) looks pretty warm this winter, right now at least.

Just weather patterns though. Nothing to get excited about. I’m just writing about how it is here, natural eye witness, with sticky feeling eyes, itchy nose, etc. It’s not Spring, nothing’s “blooming” much, not like in Spring, but it sure feels like it’s ramping up for the normal cacophony of Spring. Must just be a big mold time, though on accuweather they have “tree pollen” as in a “low” catagory for allergy maps on our region. That’s something I’ve not looked at this whole time. I don’t need to see it to know though. When it’s allergy stuff I know it. They also have “air quality” in the category above “good” whatever they call it. I know I’m a pretty sensitive individual and my witness to it all is that I’m half-way to miserable-ish.

We have a storm going over us today as well. That means suppression feelings, of course. Rain off and on. “aches and pains index” is fairly high. It’s part and parcel with me, the low pressure systems are not only noticeable with lack of light, but I can feel the pressure I can feel the suppression. I can feel it coming and am so glad when it goes away, though I love Summer rain and storms … they tend to come and go quickly though, and produce grands fireworks shows with catches my intense interest. We have had some of them just in the past few weeks, which is odd and a delight to me. We were under Tornado Watches as well. We’ve been fortunate to not have had any tornadic activity close enough to damage our property, though not far away in Spring it often happens, and these last storms had tornadic activity remotely near our region if not closer. We are going to have more Thunderstorms this weekend, they say.

I’ve noticed The Weather Channel on TV (as I’m a Weather Channel Junkie, not always watching, but sometimes it’s practically me watching TWC and nothing else and glued to it long hours, and functioning in it’s presense a bit around the edges, but in normal times I’m easily functioning without it mostly, just checking in, but when weather events of high interest occur I’m glued to it, and it’s the only channel to watch in the middle of the night quite often, if I’m awake, which is normal for me to be so often.) and how it’s just an entire continent of mildness, not just our region, not just the US, but it’s way north that it’s warm too. Accuweather has some nice little quips (articles available on their main page) about different details happening of late (paragraphs, graphics, etc.)

Of note, since I’ve been writting this (I began writting earlier this morning and let it sit awhile before coming back to finish) the front (line of storms) passed over and the High is over us nearly, the radar shows the storms far gone east. I must say noticeably since sitting down the last 30 minutes at the computer I feel quite better, lack of that hang-over pressure. It’s a lightening of frame sort of thing, absolutely pressure orientation. The sky is still overcast, but the clouds are much lighter and it’s therefore much brighter outside now.