Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

That looks soo good. I have never made a Quiche. I want to though as I think I would love it. If you do not mind could I get the recipe for that? My girls are picking back up laying and I no longer need to hoard eggs for myself.

Mrs BY Bob makes a great quiche. I'll see if she wants to share her recipe.

 

[BY Bob]

I adore fruit trees. My mom had varieties of peach, pear, plum, apricot, olive, sapote, quince, avocado, persimmon, fig trees ~ plus guava bushes. When I moved here almost 40 yrs ago mom gave me a purple fig cutting to root following her instruction (basically just stick the twig in the ground & it will grow!). I loved that tree as it grew fast & produced copious amounts of fruit. The drawback though was too many ants, rats, wild birds, & June bugs attacked that tree. After the 4th year I chopped it down as I got tired of finding most luscious figs destroyed by pests.

My neighbor has peach & nectarine trees & can't keep pests or birds off of them. So, when we looked for fruit trees as backyard chicken shade we chose what rats, birds, or bugs don't like ~ lemon, grapefruit, & pomegranate trees ~ & guava bushes for the front yard which can be trimmed like hedges. Birds & rats & ants especially leave the sour fruits alone & don't dig their beaks/mandibles into the hard pomegranate shells. Fruit pest problem mostly solved.

I would've loved a white sapote tree as shade in the front yard but the very sweet sapote fruit tastes like delicious soft custard & attracts not only rats, birds, ants, & bugs ~ but bees & angry wasps too. The soft white sapote fruit bruises so easily & rots so fast after harvested it's never found in supermarkets. Years ago we came across a Von's Market in Orange County that had them for one brief week & we bought the whole crate they had in the produce section ~ about 2 dozen & DH & I gorged on that heavenly tropical fruit & polished them off in a week & a half! Never saw sapote again after that one year!

White sapote skin tears so easily that if a hanging fruit brushes in the wind against a branch the skin scratches & bees instantly
descend on the exposed very sweet fruit.

WHITE SAPOTE
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My folks had a huge prolific white sapote tree on the farm so my uncle brought a beehive to collect the sweet nectar produced by that tree.

WHITE SAPOTE FRUIT TREES grow enormous
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I have never heard of a sapote before. Fascinating.

 

[BY Bob]

Same people? Working on breakfast?

Now they need a tanker truck of milk and a truck of bread.

Tax

 

[Marie2020]

Now they need a tanker truck of milk and a truck of bread.

Tax
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Don't forget that chestnut mushrooms and hash brown's

 

[BY Bob]

Don't forget that chestnut mushrooms and hash brown's

That would be delightful.

 

[TOMTE]

Got 2 eggs yesterday but I accidentally squashed them both in my pocket

These pics are from a few days ago. Can you name the animals that made the prints?

Oops! Someone slipped

Spoiler: The answer...

Squirrels and possums and whitetails, oh my!

 

[Marie2020]

Got 2 eggs yesterday but I accidentally squashed them both in my pocket

These pics are from a few days ago. Can you name the animals that made the prints?

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Oops! Someone slipped

Spoiler: The answer...

Squirrels and possums and whitetails, oh my!

No idea on those prints, maybe the fairies of even the leprechauns

I cannot count how many times I sat on eggs after I put them into my jeans pockets I don't know why it still shocked me after so many times of doing it. Then they were squashed into my dressing gown pockets

 

[SimpleJenn]

@TOMTE my dad had an egg crack in his pocket once! I've been lucky...but of course now I carry my egg basket because I know I am clumsy and it's just a matter of time haha.

Going to clean the house while I wait for the mail and the furnace person to come for a system check. I'm going to be a showoff about our new water heater!
Kiddo wanted to let you know she's going to be a chicken farmer and a car mechanic and a firefighter when she grows up. Busy girl!

 

[TOMTE]

Kiddo wanted to let you know she's going to be a chicken farmer and a car mechanic and a firefighter when she grows up. Busy girl!

Kids are just the best!! I wanted to be a nascar driver (used to pretend to be Mark Martin...why not? ), own a restaurant called Just Salads where we would serve salad, ramen noodles, and tang... A zookeeper... Those are the first 3 jobs I remember wanting to have and they were all around the same time LOL

 

[Ponypoor]

I have never heard of a sapote before. Fascinating.

Oooo another plant to grow when I retire!

https://everglades.farm/blogs/news/...fruit tree is pretty,space for a full orchard.

Way back Wednesday
June 2024

Might be a while until they can do this again!