Duckling Diaries: the Life and Times of a Welshie Trio

[shawluvsbirds]

Good luck with that one.

Maybe I should butter him up with some Eileen pics?

 

[BantyChooks]

Maybe I should butter him up with some Eileen pics?

That'd give you the best chance, yes.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

hehe
Here is a peace offering for ya Ralph y

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Oh wait. . I think that was a pic of me. . let me check the mirror. . nope. That's Shania.

 

[room onthebroom]

NAW, it's not hateful.... But I need to define Cidiots. Not all city people are Citidiots..

Citidiots are the ones that drive me nuts by their actions. It is easier to just list some of their misdeeds.

1) Pulled into my yard, stopped their car at 11pm by an outshed ran behind it, I had a small fence to block view of dumpster. I went out to see what was going on, to find a woman with her pants and undies below her ankles squatting and taking a dump in my yard........I was livid! I shined the light on her and she got mad at me. Screamed at me. She is taking a dump in my yard and has the nerve to scream at me?????????? She wanted me to stop "looking at her"... I refused, I was so mad I shined the light right were she did not want it and said as long as your doing what you are in my yard, I am looking... She called me names pulled her pants up without even wiping anything.....Grosss Citidiot!

2) I hear a car stop about 1/8 mile from the house, I look down the road and these people are entering my woods. I go there and they are setting up a picnic in my pasture.

3) We are at my uncles, this is during pheasant hunting season, my aunt had bantams. There are some eating in the ditch bank, a car slows down, a guy jumps out and shoots a rooster. We run out the door yelling at him, he says " sorry, I thought it was a pheasant" then throws the dead rooster in the car and speeds off........

4) I find beer cans every year in a pile under trees almost every year from deer hunters that cannot read the "keep out" signs.

5) a couple stop in to tell me my guineas are out and close to the road. Thinks I should keep them away from the road....really?? While in theory is makes as much sense as keeping guns out of the hands of gangsters it would be as impossible to do...

6) Do I need to mention the Jersey yearlong shot as a deer and on the hood of the car?

7) While working I got a call to a small town bar, to meet a man with a problem. That is all the dispatcher said. I get there and find a man outside his car. He cannot get in his car. He is afraid to open the door. He hit a raccoon a couple miles out of town. Thought it was dead, stopped picked it up and threw it in his car...He thought it was dead, it was just knocked out.... He went to the bar to knock a few back and brag about his nice coon he got........It gained consciousness on about the 5 beer... One PO'd coon in his car. My response while not very professional was, Do not drive that car or you will spend the night in jail....and that coon is your problem not mine. I suggested they figure out how to open the door and run, because the coon was so mad he would take someones leg off.....

They said I had to do something, When I said I could shoot it through the window of his new car, he thought I should leave and they would figure it out...



8) the countless families from the city that want chicks. They buy a day or two old chick, and have rugrats with them. I tell them to not let the kids play with the chicks as they are fragile and will die. They always call me and say I sold them a sick chick and it died. The record was a woman with 5 kids She bought a dozen chicks, I told her not to let the kids hold them. She said it would be okay.... I got a text and she said 5 were dead when she got home, wanted to know what was wrong with my birds....



I think this will help define the term "cidiots".... They are the cousins to the country Hicks.....

Ugh! What a nightmare! You guys know I live in the city. I live in this really odd area. Its a culdesac on a private road, across from a large abandoned field. I'm only a few blocks from all the big stores & the low income apartment housing. but once you get on my street it feels like you stepped into a rural area. When people happened to drive up my road, past the "Private Drive" & "No Trespassing" signs they completely loose their minds. Suddenly they have found the perfect place to hang out, smoke pot, have sex in their car, drink up, eat lunch, leave trash, take a nap, walk their dogs, walk their kids, exercise, ride bikes, ride skateboards, play with matches, take family photos.... The list is endless. I'm really strict about not letting people do any of this stuff, if I actually catch them at it. I've ranted on about a few of these instances on the 'dumbest things people say...' thread. My street is also a great place for utility workers to hide. They have easement rights, but I watch them pretty close to make sure they're actually working when they're hanging out in front of my house. One day a guy from the phone company found my street & decided to camp out in his truck doing nothing for a couple hours. DH (who also works for the phone co) came home, saw him there & walked up to his truck. DH was not in his work vehicle & totally took this guy by surprise. He said, "Did you REALLY think it would be a good idea to hideout in front of your bosses house for the last couple hours?" The guy almost had a heart attack. DH has used this story many times as an inspirational 'do the right thing because you never know whos watching you' speech to his work people.

Long story short... Thanks for the clarification Ralphie. I feel your pain!

 

[room onthebroom]

I have no respect for parents who can't teach their kids how to handle animals. People are stupid. I've known this since I was young. I used to hide my parakeet cage in my room when I was a kid and my idiot cousins would come over. There were six of them! They would have mauled poor rainbow to death if I didn't stand in their way. I couldn't even trust them around the fish bowl they would throw random stuff in the bowl to see if the gold fish would try to eat it.

 

[Debs Flock]

Ugh! What a nightmare! You guys know I live in the city. I live in this really odd area. Its a culdesac on a private road, across from a large abandoned field. I'm only a few blocks from all the big stores & the low income apartment housing. but once you get on my street it feels like you stepped into a rural area. When people happened to drive up my road, past the "Private Drive" & "No Trespassing" signs they completely loose their minds. Suddenly they have found the perfect place to hang out, smoke pot, have sex in their car, drink up, eat lunch, leave trash, take a nap, walk their dogs, walk their kids, exercise, ride bikes, ride skateboards, play with matches, take family photos.... The list is endless. I'm really strict about not letting people do any of this stuff, if I actually catch them at it. I've ranted on about a few of these instances on the 'dumbest things people say...' thread. My street is also a great place for utility workers to hide. They have easement rights, but I watch them pretty close to make sure they're actually working when they're hanging out in front of my house. One day a guy from the phone company found my street & decided to camp out in his truck doing nothing for a couple hours. DH (who also works for the phone co) came home, saw him there & walked up to his truck. DH was not in his work vehicle & totally took this guy by surprise. He said, "Did you REALLY think it would be a good idea to hideout in front of your bosses house for the last couple hours?" The guy almost had a heart attack. DH has used this story many times as an inspirational 'do the right thing because you never know whos watching you' speech to his work people.

Long story short... Thanks for the clarification Ralphie. I feel your pain!

This is one of those times I feel lucky about where I live. My road, which is quite literally my road, I have to maintain it and we're the only house on it. The road dead ends at my house. No one ventures down gravel roads in my area. We're a bunch of gun owning, big dog running around loose, type of folk.

Would love to find that thread...dumbest things people say. Got a link?
(I searched, but not finding it.)

 

[room onthebroom]

This is one of those times I feel lucky about where I live. My road, which is quite literally my road, I have to maintain it and we're the only house on it. The road dead ends at my house. No one ventures down gravel roads in my area. We're a bunch of gun owning, big dog running around loose, type of folk.

Would love to find that thread...dumbest things people say. Got a link?
(I searched, but not finding it.)

You guys are my kinda people!!! I have to share my road with 4 other houses (a couple of them renters.) Can you imagine 5 different houses trying to maintain one road. Its a constant battle between those who want it constantly maintained & those who couldn't care less. People here don't hesitate to roam up a rutted, damaged road that says "No Trespassing" ... I think they know that in CA I'm not allowed to actually shoot at them, but theres no law against me unleashing 47yrs worth of verbal, crazy in their direction.

Here's that link. I'm not sure the new format hyperlinks like the old one does. If it doesn't highlight when I post, I'll try again

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-meat-part-2-chicken-boogaloo.949464/page-341

 

[Debs Flock]

Yeah, the peeps on the road next to me have that ongoing battle. I do not envy them or you. Thanks for the link!

 

[BantyChooks]

This is one of those times I feel lucky about where I live. My road, which is quite literally my road, I have to maintain it and we're the only house on it. The road dead ends at my house. No one ventures down gravel roads in my area. We're a bunch of gun owning, big dog running around loose, type of folk.

Would love to find that thread...dumbest things people say. Got a link?
(I searched, but not finding it.)

I own the road I'm on too. Gov't still ploughs it for me, though, so I'll put up with having a neighbour drive on it occasionally if it saves me 36428 weeks of shovelling time every winter.