Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

I caught a glimpse of something while skimming the thread the other day. I think it was a question on whether or not it was appropriate to refer to people as "hillbillies".

I now have time to reply to that.

Here we celebrate hillbillies.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1349075249694876

We have a carnival, a parade and so much more. We celebrate this festival hard because it was started many years ago by member of the "Shriners for children" hospital. To this day a good chunk of the proceeds go towards this charity and hospital.

 

[Sylvester017]

We have some wildly different looking birds!
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Goldiebird, look at that crest! Next to them is Delft.
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Chocolate looks completely different
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Nosy Posy
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Slowpoke far right, then Periwinkle, Blue, and Cadet. Yeti is the white
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Navy
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Delft and Periwinkle.

Slopoke is very delicate...is she possibly a bantam genetically? TY for Periwinkle who is turning a pretty color... as is Delft .

 

[SimpleJenn]

Slopoke is very delicate...is she possibly a bantam genetically? TY for Periwinkle who is turning a pretty color... as is Delft .

They are silkies with legbar genetics, so half bantams. They're all supposed to stay small.
Yes, Periwinkle is so pretty! I love the rusty colors they seem to all be developing.

 

[Sylvester017]

Sloppy, floppy, snotty, Twirp, whiney, beyachey, and dingdong

Just kidding

No, really, I like your names... no worse than the Disney ones!

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Good afternoon everyone.

Today is a rough day and one with mixed emotions.
It is dad's birthday but it is proving so hard to feel up to celebrating. Today also marks 1 year that Grandma passed away and it hit hard as soon as I woke up. I think about her all the time. So much has happened in the last year that she would have loved. She never got to see George. She wanted a polish before her mind finally slipped. She would love the silkies I have accumulated and already have pushed me to have the incubator up and running and full of their eggs. My yard is full of the "wild" greens that she so loved I do not know why but I have had the urge to pick a mess full. I'm also setting myself up for a fight with the chickens but I brought several of her planters home last weekend. They are ready to go and by Tuesday will be full of black seeded simpson lettuce and green onions. That was one of our favorite meals in the late spring early summer, "Kilt" or wilted Lettuce and onion salad with fresh piping hot cornbread. It has been awhile since I have had a "bad" day. Today I'm having a bad day and I feel exactly how I felt a year ago.

 

[SimpleJenn]

Good afternoon everyone.

Today is a rough day and one with mixed emotions.
It is dad's birthday but it is proving so hard to feel up to celebrating. Today also marks 1 year that Grandma passed away and it hit hard as soon as I woke up. I think about her all the time. So much has happened in the last year that she would have loved. She never got to see George. She wanted a polish before her mind finally slipped. She would love the silkies I have accumulated and already have pushed me to have the incubator up and running and full of their eggs. My yard is full of the "wild" greens that she so loved I do not know why but I have had the urge to pick a mess full. I'm also setting myself up for a fight with the chickens but I brought several of her planters home last weekend. They are ready to go and by Tuesday will be full of black seeded simpson lettuce and green onions. That was one of our favorite meals in the late spring early summer, "Kilt" or wilted Lettuce and onion salad with fresh piping hot cornbread. It has been awhile since I have had a "bad" day. Today I'm having a bad day and I feel exactly how I felt a year ago.

Bad days remind us we are human, that's what my mom told me when I was missing grampa a bit ago. Please be gentle with yourself and spend some time with those precious fluffy birds

 

[BY Bob]

I meant 50s not 60s. 53 right now with a breeze so feels chilly.

Weather tax
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It was 72°F here today. Beautiful and sunny. That's crazy it's so cold where you are. We are not that far apart.

 

[BY Bob]

Won't be Long Now

It's almost blossom time! They should open all the way this week!

 

[BY Bob]

Good afternoon everyone.

Today is a rough day and one with mixed emotions.
It is dad's birthday but it is proving so hard to feel up to celebrating. Today also marks 1 year that Grandma passed away and it hit hard as soon as I woke up. I think about her all the time. So much has happened in the last year that she would have loved. She never got to see George. She wanted a polish before her mind finally slipped. She would love the silkies I have accumulated and already have pushed me to have the incubator up and running and full of their eggs. My yard is full of the "wild" greens that she so loved I do not know why but I have had the urge to pick a mess full. I'm also setting myself up for a fight with the chickens but I brought several of her planters home last weekend. They are ready to go and by Tuesday will be full of black seeded simpson lettuce and green onions. That was one of our favorite meals in the late spring early summer, "Kilt" or wilted Lettuce and onion salad with fresh piping hot cornbread. It has been awhile since I have had a "bad" day. Today I'm having a bad day and I feel exactly how I felt a year ago.

 

[RoyalChick]

Our Dominique will jump into DH's lap on her own but not me. Yesterday again she didn't want anything to do w/my pets until I stroked her earflap & reached her uneven wattles to massage lightly. She's never stood still for pets from me till now the finicky old lady ~ must be aging, like me...
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Awwwww!