Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Our community here mostly runs on volunteers, the Fire Department, Ambulance, and our yearly fundraiser lamb BBQ are all volunteer based. (We also donate not to have our fire department do a calendar! We love them…dearly, but no one wants to see Them topless!) We had about 20 kids in the school here 6-11, including the SEEC teenagers (Saturna ecological education Centre) kids who travel from Vancouver Island and other parts of the province to attend in a boarding like outdoor school program. Millie the goat was also enrolled in the early 2000’s. It’s sad, very sad, to lose such a close knit community feeling. All the gulf islands had similar population booms, but most of those already had 1000+ residents and infrastructure like medical facilities, and more than just one store and gas station! One of the big reasons for moving here was (aside from chickens and farming) that amazing community. Knowing every single resident in your “town” by name. I used to work in a store with more employees than we had residents here when we moved… 360 Full time residents, and our median age was over 60!

The Big C and the 100 or so new residents have somewhat changed a great culture… I’m hoping we can recover it. Our rec Center committee has always been an elitist, racist, lost cause though. They even pointed hidden cameras into the bathrooms and locked the doors open to find out who was using the showers for too long and not cleaning up after themselves… Tax pics tomorrow, I promise! Monday night at the latest… We worked on the house all day!

Speaking of the house… we got in three windows. Our hired help was awesome, suitably impressed with the chooks, and gave the Goats many good scritches! DH and I finished off some Nailing and further securing the wrap so nothing “escapes” in the winds. And I went from crying and trying to fix things to feeling positive and like we can do this by the end of the day! Bonus, he may also purchase some of our second floor for a tiny home project… so that would be awesome!

That sounds like a great ending to a day that did not start off so great. I'm very glad. Here's hoping you have many more good days. Sleep well tonight.

 

[fuentemoon]

Some sunny fluffies

 

[BY Bob]

Some sunny fluffies
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I just love that waffle bum!

 

[Ponypoor]

Some sunny fluffies
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I almost went into stitch at the sight of the green grass oh and the happy chickies checking for who knows what in that green grass .

 

[Ponypoor]

So, the feral store turkeys are gone, not to thanksgiving, though. The ‘Vid made people crazy here, and a big sign of that was our population rose over 30%, so many new people (and I swear we NEED an entrance exam) our population is now 420 something “residents”
Going to need to add more Tax to cover this one for sure!!!

Spoiler: New Village Idiots rant

.There’s a person on the other side of the island with a “lovely little mink” denning and raising young in her yard, that thinks the invasive native owl damaging “Eastern Barred Owl” is wonderful for controlling rodents, and brought her pet rabbits and is upset her neighbours have outdoor cats that “menace them”… yes Facebook IS Awful… anyone know Fluevog shoes? The son and his trophy wife now live here…yay! When everyone had frozen pipes and there was a three day power outage in the cold snap/declared provincial emergency our rec Center refused to allow access for a soup kitchen/showers/phone charging claiming Covid restrictions and they don’t want to allow the unvaccinated access. This happens every winter power outage, the virus was just the newest excuse to keep our emergency building clean and available for the bridge club and pickleballers. Someone got loud online about it rev Center called the police who visited him, agreed the building should be open, asked him to not upset the racist older folks of the committee with his language online. He shared his mean post and the trophy wife actually posted “well if an individual isn’t able to care for their own needs and has the police called on the we probably do t want them on this island anyway” ummm Mr Hammuda’s family has been here for three generations… and the police agreed the rec Center was wrong and he wanted the building open for his 90 year old grandfather but hey the arrived in 2021
Trophy wife knows more about island life than us low-brow dirty residents so…

Anyhow the young Tom used to see his reflection in the store door or a shiny bumper and get excited… sometimes they would get near people. This was scary. And annoyed people because they would sometimes slow traffic or parking in the stores lot. So the store had the turkeys “relocated” to a property at the far end of the island and securely contained, until they were killed by (go figure) a mink. Legal for the same reasons Arduinna is, they are feral, not wildlife so no more store turkeys and I can’t wait for all the new owners to return to the city or at least get off the community Facebook forums.View attachment 2990691

You know it's really hard to win an argument with a smart Person; but it's darn impossible to win one with a stupid person .

Which is why I have horses, chickens and a cat rather than deal with too many people...

And anyone who know statistics know what the Pareto principle is (or the 80 / 20 principal)... Simply stated 80 percent of a problem is cause by 20 percent of your people. This is generally used in HR for understanding ones employment personnel. But it also falls true for all of life in general. For instance my 4 horses, my one mare is a dingbat (yes that is 25 percent but close enough).

And it seems that 20 percent is always the squeaky wheel! While the 80 percent of us are nose to the grindstone working, too busy to be out sqwaking !

I see this on my chicken gang, out of my 14 strong there are about 3 who are trouble makers granted they are my young roosters hahaha but still they count in my gang.

Tax for whining (hey at least it's not about weather ha!).

Everyone is snug in bed :

 

[Kris5902]

You know it's really hard to win an argument with a smart Person; but it's darn impossible to win one with a stupid person .

Which is why I have horses, chickens and a cat rather than deal with too many people...

And anyone who know statistics know what the Pareto principle is (or the 80 / 20 principal)... Simply stated 80 percent of a problem is cause by 20 percent of your people. This is generally used in HR for understanding ones employment personnel. But it also falls true for all of life in general. For instance my 4 horses, my one mare is a dingbat (yes that is 25 percent but close enough).

And it seems that 20 percent is always the squeaky wheel! While the 80 percent of us are nose to the grindstone working, too busy to be out sqwaking !

I see this on my chicken gang, out of my 14 strong there are about 3 who are trouble makers granted they are my young roosters hahaha but still they count in my gang.

Tax for whining (hey at least it's not about weather ha!).

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It’s ALWAYS the young roosters!!! that does work out about right in the numbers… 10 problem cockerels , 1 aggressive Rooster, and a good 7 “troublemaking” hens here

 

[Kris5902]

I just love that waffle bum!

Thank you… I was trying to figure out what to call that! It had me in stitches!

 

[Ponypoor]

It’s ALWAYS the young roosters!!! that does work out about right in the numbers… 10 problem cockerels , 1 aggressive Rooster, and a good 7 “troublemaking” hens here

Hahahaha see? Numbers don't lie, the math always works out ask @bigmathteach

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Wow - stunning! And they are just wild in your backyard? Are they a flock bird or do you just get one at a time.
Oh, and I have to ask as it is Australia. Can they kill you?

I think they come in pairs. There are certainly two that visit together.

Can they kill you? You be the judge...

 

[Marie2020]

I hope Jaffar feels the same!

I'm sure he does. If not I'll come there and have a one to one buk buk with him