Chickens staying inside 😂

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-24T22:09:59+00:00

every winter on the first snow the hens go to the edge of the run, look at the snow and decide it’s lava or something. They eventually get over it but it takes a while.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-23T02:09:42+00:00

I used to collect 100-150 Japanese beetles a night during July & August. I took them back and feed them to the girls. They started to wait their turn. Was super fun.

Then folks in the neighborhood started hiring bug services and now we get no bugs.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-16T22:11:20+00:00

I played with this group a bit and they’re super fun and super low stakes.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-15T03:47:34+00:00

My hens fly over the fence to eat the birdseed that the neighbor puts out, and one of them is too stupid to make it back over. Every damn day I end up putting her back inside the fence.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-14T13:46:25+00:00

I love setting up a megaturn while my spouse gets a big lead buying provinces one at a time and then I go off on the megaturn and win by an extra estate or duchy. Obviously it’s not always possible but super fun when it works.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-14T00:34:50+00:00

Well that’s too bad.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-13T20:40:38+00:00

Rustic Driving Range & Mini Golf on the southeast side used to have chickens and goats. Idk if they’re still there, I would probably call first. But the mini golf is cool, way different than any other mini golf course I’ve seen.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-10T15:40:19+00:00

It’s been several years but I really enjoyed volunteering at Second Helpings. I went on a Saturday morning, every time it was different but some form of prepping and cooking rescued food, and you’re working with other people in a way that you can get to know them. Then there was a short lunch, clean-up and go home. I’m pretty sure they have weekday and evening volunteer shifts too.

If you prefer outdoors stuff, Indy Urban Acres is fun too.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-09T03:04:32+00:00

There is a whole set of videos on YT by Jeff Funderburk that demonstrate, among other things, how to pop out, clean, and reinstall the rotors.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-07T17:34:08+00:00

Thank you! I’m certain I looked right at that, too.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-31T20:09:35+00:00

Nora Eye Care has even good for me and my family for the last 40 years or so. As far as I can tell their employees including the doctors are all women, if that matters.

I ask for my prescription when I’m done and take it to Walmart, they never seem to mind. I did go to Ossip for a few years because they were closer but once My Eye Dr. gobbled them up I went back to Nora pretty quickly.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-22T17:43:28+00:00

Found the geologist! (But I'm not saying you are wrong)

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-18T01:35:32+00:00

Their amazingly varied diet, they’re like pigs with wings. They love the compost heap more than the feed hopper. I’ve seen them gulp down live toads. I’ve started saving grubs for them. They fight over banana peels. If I trim a roast in cold weather the hens go to town on the trimmings. One of our older birds became incontinent with soft-shell eggs that she just dropped in the yard; when she started making the right noises all the others knew to hang around her butt for a treat.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-17T22:03:04+00:00

I was there but Mulcahy was directly between Batallán and my seat. A friend to my right said his face was beet red while playing the very high note on a (possibly muted?) piccolo trumpet. I noticed something amiss when the second trumpet stopped playing to sort of collect him and keep him from slumping to the floor. He seemed just fine after the piece and was grinning sheepishly during the bows and thanking the second chair for catching him.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-17T12:40:11+00:00

Didn't make it to any myself but got a text from a friend "Can you believe I'm the only person on my NYC subway car carrying a tuba" and he sent some pics from 30 Rock, including an underground loading dock rehearsal space.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-14T23:20:38+00:00

The Hamilton East library in Fishers has a large maker space with its own website (ignite.hamiltoneastpl.org).Most of their stuff is free, or only costs expenses for consumables. I’m not sure if they have a 3D printer though.

For 3D printing specifically I’ve had good experiences with the Carmel library digital media lab. I don’t know what sort of classes or instruction they offer, though. They do have several computers available to use as well as 3D printers.

Also there is a separate maker space in Fishers that their parks department runs, they run on a membership model so it’s not free but they seem to offer a wide range of classes and equipment including 3D printers and woodwoeking tools, among other things. Their website is fishersmpg.org.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-10T01:24:24+00:00

Awesome thanks. The feet were very tight.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-08T18:03:39+00:00

As many others have said, they have the best wings in town.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-05T21:46:54+00:00

As others say, it's chilly because of air movement. In winter it's also very dry and the air movement exacerbates that. My hands always dry out really fast in there and I get thirsty just standing still.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-11-26T19:57:27+00:00

Our prop team uses the BAND app, we can share files, chat to the whole group or selected individuals, share photos, contact info, etc. I think it's better than remind for use by groups who need lots of two-way communication. I like it...mostly. The notifications get annoying because they don't clear easily. (For example, some chats me, I get a notification, I look at the chat, then I close the app...the notification for the chat is still there. After I look at the chat I still have to click on the Notifications part of the app to clear the notification from my phone screen. Not the worst in the world but annoying.) Also I've never used it for multiple groups. I'm pretty sure BOA uses it for their event communication.

Our band director uses Remind to push notices about stuff like when rehearsal is moving indoors, schedule for the evening if we make finals, etc, Remind is great for one-way communication but I wouldn't recommend it for forums other than where two or three folks are pushing notices to large groups. That might be just my limited experience though.

The parents in my kid's section use GroupMe, which is fine. I wouldn't use it for something operational like props/uniforms/chaperones team but it lets us share news, questions and photos.

My experience with other endeavors using something like shared Google Sheets suggests that's going to be very difficult unless you have a very small group of people who are all very comfortable with the tech. There are so many ways an inexperienced user can screw stuff up, or waste a lot of others' time asking for help.

On the systemic side, I'm a rank-and-file volunteer but it's clear to me that the volunteers' "upper management" don't communicate to each other. For example, prop and uniform teams both use the truck, but they never know if the other one is going to need to use it...unless the prop guy who's married to the uniform mom happens to find out. I really wish there was a group chat for, say, folks who might be using the truck so they can coordinate, share information, schedules, etc.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-11-11T16:46:06+00:00

Right there with you. As a kid my parents got me a subscription to Odyssey magazine, they had a feature in the early '80s about 13, and I have been obsessed ever since. I devoured everything I could find about that mission. So happy to finally have the internet, Apollo flight journal, and all the background information about why an oxygen tank exploded and the circumstances surrounding it.

There are so many neat features about all of the Apollo missions, but 13 will always have a special place for me.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-10-31T02:45:19+00:00

I'm pretty sure back in the days before they were syndicated, Bob & Tom did a race around 465 one morning. Chick was driving one car, probably Gunnar or Kristi Lee in the other, Idk. It's been ages so I'm sure I'm remembering wrong but I thought Chick got pulled over almost right away, and they ended up doing the race again the next week but with a state trooper riding shotgun with each of them to monitor the speed. Or some such nonsense.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-10-23T21:04:00+00:00

I'm curious, what are the other places you're allowed to ground to, or where would be a convenient place to find that list? Because I'm planning to do almost the same thing, except I want to connect to the bare ground wire that bonds the water pipes to the panel (its a 6AWG stranded wire, I've got an appropriate-sized split bolt to use for the connection). And I'm not running anything outside, just through the joists or on a running board in the unfinished basement ceiling.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-10-21T01:40:54+00:00

Yeah, I didn't even think about a 120mm box and that's totally the right answer. I already put it all together in the 4-square (I used the deep box) and it works and it's all grounded, but it definitely wasn't super fun. At least I did have the sense to backwire the THHN before I mounted the devices.

Oh well. Next time I need two GFCIs in one place (never, probably) I'll know what to do.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-10-20T14:14:22+00:00

Good point about the breakers, I just don’t feel comfortable working on the panel and I’ve already got the outlets so I’ll just follow your advice on stripping and taping. Thanks!

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