Temps have dropped some 20 degrees this month. AND we got a nasty mini-flood. It took two hours for us to get home that night! Had to go around to the south of E'Town then North of Fort Knox then West to near Irvington, and south to get back home! I know that if it is chilly in Kentucky, it has to be freezing north along the Great Lakes! Found a couple of Kentucky sources for Dominique chickens. Will be able to get a dozen or so in spring. Still have a couple of pullets left from the last hatch of Rhode Island Reds, one hen and one possible roo out of four hatchlings. Gave the pups that killed the other chicks back to my parents. They were hunting and eating rabbits and digging moles. Chewed everything they got their teeth into. They were just too much trouble! Wouldn't mind getting a nice border collie who would round the critters up without killing them. Finally got the pastures bushhogged, killed all the ragweed before it set seed. When we got the lawn mower running again I mowed the rest of the weeds down. Am hoping for a nice Indian summer to bring the grass up for winter pasture. A real tractor is on the wish list, but doesn't seem to be on the horizon for this year. Right now I'm thrilled to have a riding mower instead of having to PUSH. As our second year here at Jordan's Croft winds down, I am glad we have so many needed projects completed. We started with a blank slate, no barn or fences. Worked on the barn all winter to get stalls, a poultry coop, hay loft and a grain/tack room. I can look around with a great feeling of satisfaction for us to have come this far.

I think someone else would be more qualified to answer. I don't have a problem with them. I'm just not accustomed to Lesco selling individual varieties of bluegrass. They have a few, but not nearly enough selection. Mainly they sell bluegrass blends.

Bestlawn: The local Lesco dealer. I also used their starter fertilizer which I had success with last year. I put it down in the Fall with new seed (afer core aeration) and the lawn came up early ...like it was in Ireland in the Spring. I don't know why, but it was a dramatic green color, as though the root system had stored the nitro. over the winter. Maybe I was just heavy handed with the Fall application of starter fertilizer, but a lot of people were dropping their jaws when it greened up to bejesus two weeks before any other lawn around here. Thank you for all your great advice here.

Oh. Mah. Gawd. You guys are freaks -- freaks, I tell you! And I love you all the more because you're so freeeeaky! There is some amazingly awesome stuff in this thread. Makes me want to add even more bizarre stuff to my house, because, really, who wants to live without humor and whimsy and ... freakishness in their lives? ;-D Well, I'm the only person I know of whose house is Tudor cottage in the outside, Little Mexico on the inside. What's odd is that I recently learned from the woman who grew up in the house in the 40's that her mother was fluent in Spanish and had a love affair going on with the Latino culture. I had sent this woman some current house pix, and she said her mother would have loved it. Here are a few of my oddities: This hideous little truck - how I love it! It's moved from my kitchen to my living room mantle. My nephew came over one day and played with it, and ended up gouging the wooden bun feet of my sofa with it. ::sigh:: I have a Tatouage chicken on my hallway wall: There's a rusting rooster guarding my side entry: And a scary troll dude sitting on my front porch.