I'm about 3 days behind on reading, I'm sure you have all been very busy too. I didn't even lay down last night until 1:00am and I had to get back up to take pies out at 1:30am and put the ham and turkey in and do a cook/hold setting because I didn't want to get back up until I had to.
Cherwill, I'm sorry you had an rough day, some days are just like that. All of the other pressures this time of year doesn't help any.
PrairieChickens, zazzle sounds really awesome. I think I should check into that. I love designing things but I haven't done anything in that area.
Nope HEChicken, I wouldn't expect too many eggs from Cyrus either.
I'd love to have your overflow of egg cartons, it sounds like you got an efficient system going though. Those are good ideas. How did you hold up with your cooking? That's so funny about Madge and Ned, I'm still trying to figure out the turkeys too. They are so fun to watch. I don't know what it all means but I think it means something. Hopefully they had some type of a break through and they will live happily ever after. Casper and Colt were displaying like crazy for me today, it's so cool to watch them. That hangy down thing turns all dark red but then after a while it turns blue, I don't know what it means. Then Casper does this stomp and hiss/spit sound and I have no clue what he's doing but he's so serious. He's just walks like he's trying to get attention and that's exactly what he gets.
Thanks for the links chickies-duckies, I opened them so I can read them later.
KansasPrairie, our turkeys aren't going to bed that early, but it does still seem early. I will pay attention to the time tomorrow. That does sound stressful to be cooking a huge meal and butchering a deer at the same time. I hope all is well and settling back down now. The highlight of Thanksgiving is seeing my adult kids, that would motivate me to try to not let the stress get me.
That's just what I was looking for Danz, THANKS. I will keep it handy now. I don't know what BOSS is. I feed the chickens tons of scraps too. The night before last I boiled all of the sweet potato peels for them, there is almost always something I can give them. I don't have their light on yet, that's on my to do list. Are thost cookie sheets the ones that are the same size as the oven rack? I know that the holidays are a special time and all but do you ever think about why we do some of the things we do? I mean, why do we cook more food than what we could possibly eat only to be tired and cranky? Seriously, isn't a sandwich with family special too? Why do we have holidays that are hard to do anyway? Some things us people do are just as silly as the turkeys. For instance, my dd said she's going to not have decorations at her wedding reception because she's going to tell everyone that she took them down so that no one will have to work that hard to take them all back down. We put it all up, we take it all down, we cook it and throw too much away, we clean the house and answer the door with a smile. I just think it would be so much more fun for any day to be a special day, it doesn't have to be a holiday and it doesn't have to be huge to be nice either. Every year, the same thoughts, and every year I do it again.
OMGosh, that's terrible that Karen is so sick. I'm praying.
Trish, it sounds like you had lots of fun. Sorry you lost one while you were gone.
Hi redsox, those are some interesting points I've never thought of. I'm going to follow along. medawinks, I wish I were good at telling the pullets from the roos but I struggle with that all the time too. I can't wait to hear what others say about your pics.
Lizzy, you rock with the percentages! How's it going?
That's AWESOME PrairieChickens!!!! Congrats on selling your awesome mugs.
Karen, I'm so glad to hear that you are back home. I was scared it was meningitis because my son in law just had a run with it after just having the flu. You never know what the flu can lead to. I hope that you are taking it easy.
