A Journey Through a Different Way - Funny Story Pg. 69

[tink]

Hey....Glad you had a nice time on your trip. We too went out of town and had a friend stay with our group. The first morning we had a phone call....she couldn't get the dog to stop eating the cat food...(stop putting it in front of her!) so she let the outside cat in to feed him. Then she couldn't find the cat!! He roamed the house for a couple of hours. She then let all the chickens out. We had kept them in because we had seeded the yard. She said, "I opened the door and they all ran out!"
Imagine that!! Then she got in the chicken coup and could not get out. She pulled the wrong way on the latch for 5 minutes and then realized to push it....it opened right up!!! LOL She too is a highly educated lady. I gues they cant teach you common sense!!

All's good....everyone survived, the lawn is growing and no poo on the carpet!

 

[beefy]

y'all are funny.

hate to hear about ruth. shes like one of those byc chicken celebrities. maybe she just outfoxed you and is broody somewhere safe.

 

[basicliving]

I am just getting the biggest kick out of your daughter! What a hoot! I just love "the egg cooker thingy" and the "black hatching thingy". And I guess you really should talk to her about putting things in the toilet.....

She really is a sweetheart to help you out - don't ever tell her she's got a crew in cyber space laughing at her. It's just too funny. The fact that she's highly educated makes it even more so.

I had a couple of "city" gals come visit us - both highly educated - and had to stifle laughs all day. When I mentioned Bernie didn't really want me to get the roosters, one said "Well, that's silly. You'd never get any eggs from all those hens!" One asked me if we bring the bees into a barn when it gets cold. We live down a 2 mile long one lane road and as they were leaving one asked "Um, what do we do if we meet a car on that road?". I said "MOVE OVER". They both gave me the deer in the headlights look.

I know missing Ruth is hard on you. It's good you can maintain your sense of humor while hurting. You've done right by all your chickens - and you brought as much joy and love to Ruth as she brought to you. She may come back yet. But even if she doesn't, you can take comfort in the fact that you gave her a full, free life.

Take care,
Penny

 

[ruth]

Here's another funny "daughter farm-sitting" stories:

She had already told me she was really afraid of the roosters (there are 14 of them - 3 or 4 of the biggest sleep on top of the Chick-N-Hutch where I currently have some newly hatched chicks). I kept reassuring her that they were friendly and did not even have any spurs.

She had some of her psychiatrist friends/colleages here over the weekend and was showing them the coop and since it was dark everyone had gone to roost in there including the roosters on top of hutch. But she still needed to feed/water the babies so she was trying to get up the nerve to make the roosters move off the hutch so she could lift the top. She apparently was making quite the scene and voicing her fears and frustrations when one of the therapist's said "Why don't you just use the front door?" She said "What front door?" He said, "the wire door right there on the front." I think she said her response was "well shi_." She hadn't noticed it before.

She also said she had to carry one of the older hens in there and put it on the roost (just like I told her she would) because the roosters jumped it and chased it out of coop everytime it came in. She claimed that when she walked in carrying the hen, all the roosters tried to attack her and my German Shepherd Rex came running in and got between the roosters and her so they wouldn't kill her.

Not sure how much of that story was her imagination. I guess it's possible the roos took her as a challenger when they don't show any aggression towards me but in any event, Rex is now her hero - except for when he made her late for work....

Rex takes guarding baby chicks and ducks very seriously and the little ducks that hatched while she was here were in the upstairs bathroom in a brooder box. I often let Rex "guard" eventhough they are inside because he loves it so and takes it so seriously. Anyway, seems Rex either heard them or smelled them and went running up there and she could not get him out of the bathroom. Said he even growled at her when she tried to grab him. She got him out with the offer of playing ball but was mad that she was going to be late for work "again". I'm guessing this was also the same day she "forgot" to close the bathroom door and one of the cats, the one she calls "Can't get right" because it too has a crooked neck, got the sick/frail baby duck. I know if she had left Rex in there the cat would not have dared gone near the bathroom.

Same group of visiting doctors took lots of photos in the coop while laughing at her and said they couldn't believe she was standing in chicken poop surrounded by chickens.

It seems this place must be some sort of attraction or amusement park or freak show, I'm not sure which, but she keeps bringing psychiatrists, therapists, psychologists here because they all hear about the place and want to visit. The first time she did it I told her I knew what she was really up to and started singing "They're coming to take me away ha, ha,"

 

[basicliving]

That poor girl! I'm sure she does this because she's trying to understand what in the h*** her mother has gotten herself into now. Maybe that's why she invites psychiatrists, therapists, and psychologists over? You may be a case study for them. Although, it may be that SHE has ended up being the case study for them now

In all seriousness, it sounds like she's very proud of her mother - and with good reason. And I bet the whole time she has her friends over there she's telling them how great you are with these animals. She sounds like a wonderful daughter and friend. You are very blessed. But you knew that already

Take care,
Penny

 

[speckledhen]

I like that she was game to do it, even when it was clearly not something in her world on a normal day. Love the descriptions you wrote; gave me quite a chuckle.

 

[ruth]

One of the funniest stories she told, with me having to keep a straight face and say "I'm so sorry" was that she reached up into "the thing where the hay is" (nest box) and grabbed what she thought was a hand full of eggs and it was a hand full of poop.

She is a sweetie though and a real trooper but I don't think she will ever do it again. She did say her husband loved every minute of it and wants to live on a farm.

 

[ruth]

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Thanks Penny, actually it is I who is very proud of her. She's only 28 and was given a $200,000 a year job to travel the world and be a sort of PR person for a hoity toity rehab resort. She had to go to conferences and give presentation speeches and wine and dine celebrity psychiatrists for referrals. It was most young therapists dream job.

She quit because they were wanting her to do things she considered unethical - like talking wealthy people into commiting to a three month stay at the $30,000 a month cash-only resort when she didn't feel that they belonged in "rehab". Most people wouldn't have had a problem with letting someone who wanted to hand over $90,000 in cash do whatever they wanted especially go to a swanky resort but she refused to admit patients she did not believe needed in-patient care.

One of the jobs she got while in college was head of the Young Republican Party in Washington, DC. Again, very prestigious - got to go to fund raisers and meet VIPs and top-ranking politicians. She quit that job also because they wanted her to do things she considered unethical - like take off her wedding band when wining and dining VIPs, and organize groups to go and take down Democrat political signs.

I'm very proud of her.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Sounds like she is taking after her Mother. You have a right to be proud of just knowing someone like that but adding the fact you gave birth to her, well I bet proud doesn't cover how you feel about her.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

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Couldn't have said that better!