Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

I am feeling a bit more optimistic about Minnie because of this.

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I really hope I did the spoiler correctly. I suspect only @MaryJanet will really understand my joy!

That looks excellent!

 

[BY Bob]

I don’t think I will ever finish my drainage project with all the help I am getting.
At the top of the picture you can see the end of the pipe that I want to connect to.
And down the picture you can see my trenching shovel with Diana being helpful. Guiding the shovel maybe.

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I managed about 3’ of ditch that way with no injuries to Diana. Then she carefully filled in the ditch I had dug and went for a rest on my chair.


I honestly think I will have to lock them in if I am to finish before the ground freezes.
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With help like that.......... well what are you going to do?

 

[BY Bob]

The idea of staying on it means more light at the end of the day (time wise). It also means getting up in the dark. Currently we spend 5 months of the year NOT on it and 7 on it. May as well stay on it then (is the general philosophy I think). Different states have different rationale for why. Currently Arizona is the only state that doesn't have a time change. the other states have to get some kind of congressional/capitol hill approval to implement staying on daylight savings. if I understood what I read correctly, no state has to have approval to stay OFF daylight savings. Not sure how I feel: leave for work in the dark or come home from work in the dark.

I vote for leave in the dark arrive home in daylight.

 

[BY Bob]

Big scare for me today. I came back from town, and I couldn’t find my Arizona. All the rest came running to greet me. I looked everywhere for her, and sat outside a while. I heard a noise in a tree, and it seems she is a tree climber. She was up ten to twelve feet in that tree. I bribed her down with a can of corn

Wow. That's high up!

 

[BY Bob]

I've lost track of which pictures I've compressed and posted.
I think the easiest thing to do is chuck up the batch I've got in the compressed folder and start again. My apologies if you've seen them before.
Henry with the grey bunch. I think that's Cloud, Fax, Fret, Carbon and Copy
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Just behind those houses is the main road that connects the City Of Bristol to the docks at the point where the river severn opens out into the sea.
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That's Cloud at the front; not sure about the other two. Similie and Copy have similar looking rear ends atm.
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Cloud again.
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Carbon.
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Volt and...
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Lima and her bestie Similie.
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Some idiots finger.
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Wonderful photos.

 

[micstrachan]

A Little Something for MJ

A treat for when she wakes up Monday morning.

Total adorableness!

 

[BY Bob]

I gave them a choice today , too, and they mostly stayed in. They do love their home, but I think maybe something has visited them.

That's a little frightening.

 

[BY Bob]

Excited about chicken poop, y'all are definitely my people

That is is in a nut shell.

 

[BY Bob]

My chooks have eaten too many grapes . My vines are dropping the fruit in fall. Lots of grapes on the ground. The poops show it too!

Mine went through that phase as well.

 

[BY Bob]

Well, for outside work that's true! ("A man, his work is with the sun, a woman's work is never done")

Tax. Neighbor's farm. I think this hen didn't get back to the coop before closing, now she's locked out until they open up. Why they haven't opened yet for the day I don't know, they seem to be gone. But she has a friend!
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Good balance work, stayed on and settled down again while the goat got up!
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Goat wrangler. Get a long little goatie.