Cross Continental Friends!!!

[qwackers]

Kellogs, what an awesome name! Now I wish I had a rooster just so I could call it kellogs the 2nd!

Wow you guys sure have some conversations while in in bed!

I feel so bad for you Karen, it's one thing after another! why dis the cyclist stab him!? Did he nearly hit him with his car or something?

I'm glad your starting to feel a bit better bill even if you are feeling groggy.

I'm not sure I could face 'getting rid' of any livestock. I don't know how you guys stomach it. Unless you have so many you don't get attached? I'd have to really hate something to be able to eat it!

 

[el pollo rey]

Yea it is a cute name my wife said he looks like the rooster on the cornflakes box so I guess it just stuck ,,, we never seem to intentionally name any of our birds but they develop nick names along the way that just kinda stick lol

 

[el pollo rey]

And Karen I hope you didn't take my comment about pulling up stakes as insensitive it was not meant to be ,,, I hope everything settles down for you all that going on in a day has to be overwhelming as I read the post I was thinking I was reading a script from a law and order episode wow I wish you a much better tomorrow

 

[Megan Amber]

Jeez Karen....what a chaotic happening!! I do hope that things begin to settle back down in your life!

 

[qwackers]

One if the adult ducks somehow found a cute froggy, so me being me chase her round the garden till she drops it. Poor thing didn't look too good. Bloody duck. Think I could probably stomach her right now! They are all honking too, think they are mad at me for pinching their dinner. Cry me a river!

 

[el pollo rey]

One if the adult ducks somehow found a cute froggy, so me being me chase her round the garden till she drops it. Poor thing didn't look too good. Bloody duck. Think I could probably stomach her right now! They are all honking too, think they are mad at me for pinching their dinner. Cry me a river!

Lol

 

[thedollysmama]

All: Albert is not doing so good, his brain is swelling and they sawed off the top of his head to relieve the swelling. This was the first image that came to my mind, Dr. Finkelstein from Nightmare Before Christmas:

It may be insensitive but I think it was funny!
Sr. Pollo Rey, we are making vacation plans right now. My drunkard brother in law won't be able to get time off, all the better.

Here are some more bunny barn photos, this one the inside:

Auto waterers and again the down draft swamp cooler for ventilation. I would show a pic from the other side but it is dreadfully messy just now. I have a high work table and my brooding cage next to the door and the piece de resistance (as Gomez Addams says that's French, you know):

Dirt floors, swept basically daily, and lights and power outlets!!

This is the original goat pen. Grandpa always kept two goats, one had to be white or mostly white and was always named after my sister in law, Jean, regardless of gender. Our last goat named Jean dropped dead about two weeks before she was due. Huh.

Hay barn, holds more hay than we need in a year, 7 tons when we need about 3. Great building to house a collection of rodents who are usually being pursued by snakes. One deceptive thing is the terrain: there is a very slight slope down to the creek. The soil has so much clay you can make pinch pots out of it just by grabbing a piece of mud and playing with it. In the winter rain the mud gets slippery and I fall a lot, downhill, towards the creek, but especially at the door to the hay barn. I fell flat on a ewe one day, took her out. I got up and she laid there for a moment giving me a startled look. I apologized and helped her up, she was the ewe that later died...yikes!

Stud pen, where the 75 foot cottonwood took out the fence and gave us a lot of my surprise babies. Nothing exotic but spacious and easy to feed the boys.

My place of employment:

My garden department:

And finally my actual house. No, I did not pick the color. Yes, I am aware of the trim color. No, we aren't changing it, grandma and grandpa actually liked it. It's tradition, you know?

That's about it but for the garden, which can wait...

Karen

 

[thedollysmama]

Oh, I forgot to mention the great inebriation experiment! We wound up with close to 30 gallons of beer in kegs after a fundraiser. I can drink a lot of beer but please! So, because we are having to return the kegs and they dump out any left over beer! The penny pincher in me was aghast so I have been mixing it with wheat middlins and giving it to the critters. One of my goats, the Toggenburg, adores beer so she is getting her own straight beer in a bucket. No apparent signs of inebriation in either the chickens/turkeys/ducks or goats and sheep. Tomorrow I will start a batch of beer bread, too, but a three times batch only uses the equivalent of about 3 cans anyway...
Off to give the stock their night caps!

Karen
Don't waste the beer! Can I freeze it if I am going to use it in bread? Does beer freeze?

 

[thedollysmama]

I was just thinking about how things happen for a reason. There is all of this strangeness in my life and God gave me 30 gallons of beer....

Karen
Laughing!

 

[el pollo rey]

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I was just thinking about how things happen for a reason. There is all of this strangeness in my life and God gave me 30 gallons of beer....

Karen
Laughing![/quote that is a interesting way to look at a windfall of beer ,,, I'll have to give that a thought lol