Dixie Chicks

[minihorse927]

Lady Greys little fanged baby... turned into an adorable little grey...

@minihorse927 check out this tiny little bill...

awww, look at that little tude' showing!

 

[Ravynscroft]

awww, look at that little tude' showing!

Right?!?! Her 1st grey baby too... must know it, lol...

 

[Alaskan]

@Beer can the feet are there so that the plow doesn't bite in. They are super important when plowing bumpy gravel, since it keeps the plow above the gravel, and keeps you from wrecking the plow by sticking it into the rocks, and keeps you from wrecking the road by scraping all of the gravel off of the road and into the ditch.

Anyway, I had one foot, so as long as I kept the plow in a 'V', or made sore that the edge that was down was the one with the foot, I was fine.

However, with the steep slopes, it is super tricky to pow it with only one edge that can go down... anyway, I managed, but it was frustrating.


@hennible

SUPER funny! we had the day of harvest today.... so many things going on, I let the kids do only 2 (the ones we want for Christmas).

I had one kid take pictures for you, while two harvested.

As a result, I have LOTS of blood photos, lots of photos of the heads being chopped off, one photo actually got the head in mid air! However, there is not a single photo of the gutting or plucking.

The photos of the white snow splattered in blood are actually pretty artistic. again...

They also took two videos, both of headless ducks, narrated with something along the lines of "look how it still moves even without a head"

crazy town.

DANG! I am on my laptop.. and the hide button isn't showing... I wanted to post (under the hide button) the photo of the head sailing off.

Anyway, the way my boys do it, (to make sure that no boy fingers are lost) is that one boy has the head in a noose, and while holding the end of the rope, stretches the neck out nice and straight, and then the other boy chops the head off with the ax. This way the death is fast and painless.

Happy meat is yummy meat!

A chicken also needs rope around the legs, but the ducks are happy to stay where they are placed, so only the one rope is needed.

I can't tell you how much I am waiting to eat those ducks! I am already drooling!!!!!!

 

[Beer can]

Alaskan, we have hard dirt and rocks driveways here, unless you live in town with a blacktop drive the feet are detrimental to plowing, scrape it down as close to the dirt as possible or it builds up as ice. Where we lived before we moved here, our drive was a half mile long all up hill then across the hill sideways to our trailer at the bottom of what was a corn field, I had to plow it wide at the top to our place because you would slide downhill. Was great if the ground was froze.
Wife called middle of winter for a fuel oil delivery, they told her we were down for only seasonal deliveries because we didn't have a driveway...She was PO'd! I asked her what part of the 50 yard wide path of mud to our place do you call a driveway? First time I talked them into delivering in the winter the driver tried backing up all the way, very steep half mile he spun out and left! I was PO'd! of course he didn't make it, called them up, they said he backed up it because he wasn't sure he could turn around, ''You can turn a 747 around up here!!!!" Worked out good for a few yrs, until they did not do as I told them, deliver early in the morning when the ground is frozen and I'll have the whole driveway sanded...they didn't show up until the afternoon! Sun was out and a big patch of ice after the switchback (big drop off down the hill if you don't make the turn), the driver made it up but refused to drive back down, they sent the mechanic to make the delivery! He refused to drive back down. I said I would drive it, NO, I have some tire chains that would fit it, NO, I can lower you back down with my plow truck, all tires chained it's just like a dozer, NO, he said they put him in this situation they can get him out...they sent a real driver...

 

[vehve]

Baby bunnies made their first appearance outside the nest today. I'll try to get pics later.

 

[Beer can]

Found some! Only kept the smaller one, bottom left. I'll be back for the big one soon. Time to research making Chaga tea!

 

[sourland]

Found some! Only kept the smaller one, bottom left. I'll be back for the big one soon. Time to research making Chaga tea!

BC had to conduct a search to find out what 'chaga' is. Almost 75 years of hanging out in the woods , and I have never seen a chaga mushroom - not a lot of time in birch woods. An old man learned something today. "Thanks.

 

[Beer can]

BC had to conduct a search to find out what 'chaga' is. Almost 75 years of hanging out in the woods , and I have never seen a chaga mushroom - not a lot of time in birch woods. An old man learned something today. "Thanks.

I've seen them before, just didn't know what they were. We have birch here but not a lot. I've been looking all deer season, finally found them on the last day of muzzle loader yesterday. They were growing on a huge root that came out from the tree.
Wife says she is going to up my life ins. before I drink any Lol!
I found out about them researching medicinal mushrooms, plan on getting shiitake and maitake plugs for growing on oak logs in the spring. Just chanced upon reading about chaga, and I'm still amazed, even scientists and doctors are amazed. The highest levels of antioxidants in the world, plus many other health benefits. There is a area in Siberia where the people have drank chaga tea for centuries and have virtually zero cancer cases.

 

[hennible]

Ok that fungus looks like black bear crap...
Alaskan I can't wait to see that picture, I'm a bit morbid lol.

 

[Tumbling K]

Ok that fungus looks like black bear crap...
Alaskan I can't wait to see that picture, I'm a bit morbid lol.

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that thought that.