BYC Café

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe'. Coffee awaits. 4 hour delay at the airport, but at least we were not canceled. Yesterday Newark had 300+ delays and 13 cancellations. Starting tomorrow there will be a 10% reduction in flights.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Cafe still wet here.
Thanks can use a few extra cups.
I understand when you don't get paid.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe and thanks for the coffee.

This has been the work week from HELL. I can't wait to get out of here...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Thought you liked where your work or just not want to at anymore.

 

[DobieLover]

Thought you liked where your work or just not want to at anymore.

I do. It's just a rat race lately with all the floor issues and new engineers to teach.
The good news is, my workdays have been flying by.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I was the top of my work for eons, still when life stopped me I had to leave it. Had allot put away, then I was robbed of it.
5 years later I re met DH we went back to each other.
Bought the house we still call home.
Both retired now it's today and I have lost him.

 

[Sally PB]

Penny, I'm sorry about the negative turns.

Yesterday I ran into someone I'd see at work; he delivered our press paper. He now has Parkinson's.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Good afternoon! We were without power for the whole morning.
I have been doing the cleaning that I wanted to do earlier.
Some person got Moosed-up and transported to the hospital near "our" big lake, yesterday. No idea if it was dog related or not.
DAF and I will be out on the town tomorrow with doc appts and food shopping.
Rest well, Cafe!

 

[DobieLover]

I think the hawks have been hunting them for a while because they've been scarce for several days.

I was worried about them with Fabio gone. He was always on watch and alerting. Doc is improving but not up to Fabio's level of devotion. I also think Annie, the perpetually infertile crowing hen who has watched over more than one dying flock mate including Fabio, had stepped into his shoes as watcher and peace keeper. But she's 6.5 years old and it's not her job. Doc and Wyatt need to get with the program.

When I pulled into my driveway after work today I saw a hawk sitting on one of my chickens in the upper left corner of my run. I turned off the car and ran out after it and it flew away. It was Jody. My little d'Uccle bantam. Her head was gone and all of the muscle along her neck. The hawk was working on her back. Her body was still warm.

HTG was there working on the ditch and he said that when he pulled in about 20 minutes before me he saw the hawk attack her by the large shrub at the end of the run. He said he chased it off about six times but it kept coming back, grabbed her body and flew to the other side of the run with it just before I got there.

I was a bit traumatized by finding her like that but immediately went into confinement mode for the rest of the flock. Five or six of Savannah's and Astrid's kids were tucked under a perennial grass as tight as they could get and weren't moving at all. They didn't respond at all when I ran by them. When I went up and grabbed the first one she started shrieking but I carried her into the run and threw her in. Then I got the scratch bucket and kept throwing it into the run to try to encourage everyone that was hiding to come into the run. It took HTG and I about 10 minutes to round everybody up.

I did headcount and I was down 2 birds, not 1. Tink, my Sebright, was missing. We continued searching the run for her but to no avail. HTG had to leave. I went back out after feeding the dogs and there she was frantically pacing back and forth in front of the door trying to get back in.

Everybody will remain on lockdown for at least a week until this juvenile red tail hawk moves on.

Jody with the one and only chick she ever hatched and raised.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ah crap I am so sorry that happened.