Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValerieJ]

Buy them a trampoline

You're always so helpful.

 

[RoyalChick]

Isn’t funny how they both did that the same day! And on Mother’s Day... naughty little girls!
And thank you... too bad they’re turning green.. Ima try and scrub em and see if that helps... and I was gonna add everyone else but decided to just leave those as they are the first flock... I think it would become too much as I keep adding

I hope you don't mind me stealing your idea with the name boards @WhoDatChick ? My original plan was to do name panels and I got some salvaged kitchen cabinet doors which I was going to paint - but that was before I salvaged so many windows that now I don't have enough wall space without window to use the panels and need something narrower - those boards you have would be perfect! And I have a stack of salvaged cedar that will be just the thing!

 

[featherhead007]

You're always so helpful.

I do try!

 

[Ali James]

The problem is that what I do has a direct impact on patients in hospitals. With COVID right now I can't walk away. If I can get all of this done it will save lives. Every problem I fix saves lives. Of course every day I don't fix something because I'm overloaded has the opposite effect.

That was the only thing that kept me from packing it in on Thursday. Mrs BY Bob reminded me.

Hope you are feeling more positive now Bob; sounds like Mrs BYBob is a wise lady.

I am currently on p986 of 1114 - I am catching up with you all! Just read about poor Elphie

 

[Ali James]

Yep. He was doing some low level flying in smoke. They were about to ground the planes when he went down. There are anomalies in the coroners report that make me think he had a stroke or a heart attack in the air as no way would he not have been trying to fly that plane to the very end ~ & he wasn't. We'll never know. There wasn't even enough of him left to bury. It's a long time ago now but we saw in the recent fires smoke does awful things even for experienced pilots.

Who did your dad fly for?

Ribh, I am so sorry to hear this; having a funeral and a burial place are such significant rites for so many. It must have been really traumatic for you and your family.

 

[Ali James]

What the Wind Could not do, the Sun did!

Despite the violence of the wind on Thursday and Friday, it could not knock the hens over. The sun on Saturday however....

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Which reminded me of this....

The North Wind & the Sun
The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger. While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a Traveler passed along the road wrapped in a cloak.

"Let us agree," said the Sun, "that he is the stronger who can strip that Traveler of his cloak."

"Very well," growled the North Wind, and at once sent a cold, howling blast against the Traveler.

With the first gust of wind the ends of the cloak whipped about the Traveler's body. But he immediately wrapped it closely around him, and the harder the Wind blew, the tighter he held it to him. The North Wind tore angrily at the cloak, but all his efforts were in vain.

Then the Sun began to shine. At first his beams were gentle, and in the pleasant warmth after the bitter cold of the North Wind, the Traveler unfastened his cloak and let it hang loosely from his shoulders. The Sun's rays grew warmer and warmer. The man took off his cap and mopped his brow. At last he became so heated that he pulled off his cloak, and, to escape the blazing sunshine, threw himself down in the welcome shade of a tree by the roadside.

Love this Bob.

I still have the book of Aesops's Fables my mum read to me 30 odd years ago and remember this one well. I'm going to peruse it for a chicken tale to share with you all...

 

[Ribh]

Ribh, I am so sorry to hear this; having a funeral and a burial place are such significant rites for so many. It must have been really traumatic for you and your family.

Thanks, Ali. Certainly hard for my mum. I wasn't particularly close & he his family lived so far away we hardly ever saw them so it's just one of those things. I'm not sentimental but it was very hard for his wife & son. His wife worked the radios so she was there when it happened.

 

[Ali James]

Thanks, Bob. I'm a fantasy reader so no judgement here.

I love fantasy too @Ribh - what are some of your favourites? I've read a fair bit of Tolkein, also really enjoyed Pullman's 'His Dark Materials', The Chronicles of King Ro;en's Kin bu Rowena Cory Daniells and have recently been getting into Anne McCaffrey's The Dragon Riders of Pern series.
My all time favourite fantasy writer is fellow Brit, Joe Abercrombie who write gritty, grimdark fantasy, full of morally ambiguous flawed characters.

 

[Ribh]

I love fantasy too @Ribh - what are some of your favourites? I've read a fair bit of Tolkein, also really enjoyed Pullman's 'His Dark Materials', The Chronicles of King Ro;en's Kin bu Rowena Cory Daniells and have recently been getting into Anne McCaffrey's The Dragon Riders of Pern series.
My all time favourite fantasy writer is fellow Brit, Joe Abercrombie who write gritty, grimdark fantasy, full of morally ambiguous flawed characters.

I particularly like Guy Gavriel Kay & Garth Nix but Eddings, Cooper, McKillip, Dean, Garner...Mccaffery is an old favourite, Abercrombie Idon't know but I will be looking him up now.

 

[WhoDatChick]

I hope you don't mind me stealing your idea with the name boards @WhoDatChick ? My original plan was to do name panels and I got some salvaged kitchen cabinet doors which I was going to paint - but that was before I salvaged so many windows that now I don't have enough wall space without window to use the panels and need something narrower - those boards you have would be perfect! And I have a stack of salvaged cedar that will be just the thing!

I think that’s great! And I used big paint sticks and cut off the curvy end piece... and permanent marker .... I’m not too crafty!