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Anyone have any experience of a gander drowning a female goose?
Comments (10)I appreciate the responses very much... Picklespickles, I think you might be right about starting over. It would be hard on me to do, but the thing is I am not sure if we could at this point. You mentioned getting another female or two. WeÂd love to but donÂt know where we could find them and donÂt know of anyone needing a couple of ganders... personally I could never eat the culprit (those who can, thatÂs great) and besides, heÂd make a mighty expensive Christmas dinner! lfrj, I donÂt think she was compromised in any way as far as I know. Just that morning when my dh let them out they were all strong and vigorous. This happened a couple of hours later. During the day they have a large grassy area for ranging behind our house including a 2 acre pond. My kitchen window overlooks it so most of the time theyÂre in my sight. We put them in a secure enclosure every night and they are glad to go there. We have lots of coyotes around and some creature has tried to dig itÂs way into the enclosure several times so I think it gives them security... also we had a small pen right next to them where we were trying to nurse a badly injured goose back to health (coyotes had gotten into our neighborÂs pen and killed all but her). This pen was sturdy and heavy but I went to let them out one morning and something had dug its way under her pen and killed her. I felt pretty sick. Must have done it for pleasure because only her neck was injured besides her former injuries. My geese had some less serious injuries as though they had been terrorized. The largest gander seemed to have a broken foot (the wire of the pen was bowed out on the side nest to the small pen and I think he must have kept hurling himself against it wanting to help while the other trauma was going on), three had missing toenails, all their beaks looked roughed up, etc. For days they didnÂt even want to come out which was very unusual. But they soon were back to normal, altho the gander limped for quite awhile. I wonder if your first theory could be right. IsnÂt this a little out of season for mating behavior or can that happen anytime? Maybe she wasnÂt receptive? Now I am worried about the other goose if the gander keeps up this behavior, which I see no reason why he wonÂt. There is a lot I donÂt know about geese, I guess. IÂd thought we were somewhat experienced....See Morefloor to ceiling closets that take up a whole wall?
Comments (12)In my front (main) bedroom I have what I think are the best closets that I've ever had. Sorry no pictures. The two closets take up the whole wall space, but you only see two doors which are the same as the door into the room; one on each end of the wall, left and right. The closets are ceiling high, with upper and lower shelves. They meet in the interior middle, with a wall there, but you only see the two doors. This leaves a lot of wall space for pictures, etc. I have a long "dressing" mirror on the inside of one door. I have never seen a closet like this before, but I surely do appreciate it....See MoreWhole house renovation/addition lighting design
Comments (26)I do not believe that six cans and a lighted ceiling fan is overkill for your living room, so I would add back in the ones you removed. I have 11 cans plus a center chandelier, and lighted built-ins (and lamps of course) in my family room. My room is 20x20. The more lighting you have, the more control you have on mood and atmosphere as long you have dimmers on specific groupings of lights. Most homes I’m in are completely under lighted and also have dark blank areas with no lighting at all. My husbands study which is 16x16 has 6 cans and a central chandelier and the room has ample lighting (not overkill at all). All my lights are on dimmers. I would also add two cans directly above the head of your master bed. Comes in handy when you need to read or look closely at anything while in bed. Of course I would still have lamps or sconces by/on night tables, but they will not give you the kind of light you might need for reading or close viewing etc while in bed. Also advise having additional switches by your bed to control all your lights. When you’re all comfy it’s nice not to have to get up to turn off your ceiling lights. And even though your secondary bedrooms are not that large, my suggestion would be to add 4 cans (in addition to the central ceiling fixture) because I would want more even lighting than 2 cans can provide (would make sure everything is on a dimmer) One thing I would consider is smart lighting which actually helps to cut down on the necessity for hardwired 3 and 4 way switches. When we built our home I had the electricians put 3 and 4 ways EVERYWHERE which was an added expense and the wall switch plates got very crowded with so many switches. After living there for a while we started to add in Lutron Caseta smart dimmers and found that it would have been much less expensive (and much simpler) to have single pole switches installed by our electrician and just replace that standard wall switch with the Caseta dimmers. With these single pole dimmers you can purchase tiny remotes and put them anywhere (you can have a 10 way switch if you choose by placing multiple remotes wherever you want). Lutron does have smart dimmers for 3 way switches, but they are more expensive and replacing the original switches gets a little more convoluted. So....wherever you think you need a three way switch, consider doing a simple single pole and use the Lutron Caseta’s with their remotes. You can even have your electrician install the Caseta’s initially instead of the switches he may be planning on providing. There is also an app which enables you to control all the lights remotely on your phone, set up schedules, etc. That will require their hub which is around $100, but the dimmers and remotes do not need the hub to operate....See MoreWhole home renovation/addition help
Comments (3)For 3 kids, I would eliminate one sink in their bath so you can have more storage. Storage will be used 100% of the time. Sinks are used a few minutes each day and can be shared. I agree that gray is on its way out. Wood is in. If this were my kitchen, I would do a wood island. From your drawing, your aisle widths are not visible. You will need 4' given all of the appliances you have opening into that space. So that means your width for living space & dining space is maybe 17 feet? Assuming no seats at the island. So your living + dining with clearance to the island is 14x24. A dining table needs about 10 feet, which leaves 14x14 for living room. With your current layout, I would put your TV and fireplace side by side on the far wall. The corner fireplace will just take up space and make it difficult to decorate. And, yes, definitely put furniture into this drawing and change your window placement based on that. The window locations now are kind of between "rooms", which makes them awkward. Have you considered other arrangements for these spaces? I would actually change the location of your kitchen and living room, and make your kitchen an L shape in the top of that space, which will give you more protection in the kitchen and potentially more counterspace. Dining table next to the kitchen, oriented up + down. Living room in the front. The pantry may be challenging to incorporate, but you can do a reach-in pantry which (honestly) would be my preference after having a walk-in. If you keep the kitchen where it is, put the dishwasher on the other side of the sink so it's out of the prep path. If you use a microwave, put it near the fridge. For your master bath, if you can squeeze your closet to 7' wide, you can gain space in the bath. The extra 1'-0" doesn't give you much. I'm not sure if the closet was made that wide for the attic access? Also consider a pocket door for that closet, which will make accessing clothes behind the current door much more pleasurable (we have a swing-in door on our closet and half of my clothes are behind the door which is annoying). I would also consider adding windows in the kids' bedrooms to take advantage of the corner rooms. Our kids' bedrooms only have windows on one wall and I wish we had them on two....See MoreRelated Professionals
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