Doesn't putting it in a tin make it louder?Thank goodness, hopefully you'll sleep better now. Phones are a real alarm system, I've started putting mine in a tin, I don't know if it works but I'll try anything.
I only came in to see if you are ok . But it looks like there are plenty of people in here for you.
As for me I'll be putting my phone back in the tin soon.
That's so sweet! I'm so happy for you Bob.Spring has Sprung
Spring has truly arrived here. I was out in short sleeves today! Of course, it probably snowed at @RoyalChick place today, NJ is a strange place.
We decided to have lunch outside. Sydney decided that my sandwich looked too good to wait for scraps. She channeled her inner Daisy, the greatest hen ever, and onto the table she jumped. Check out my little raptor poised to strike at my sandwich.
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One of the things I have been struggling to achieve with Sydney was to be allowed to touch her. I can touch everyone else except Aurora. So instead of shooing her off of the table I decided to try and hold her at bay with the back of my hand. To do so would require me to touch her. If she did not like it she could leave.
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Well she was more than willing to key me touch her as you can see. If fact at times it became a little desperate but I managed to eat my sandwich although I did share it with her. She eventually jumped down on her own.
The real test came later in the evening. Sydney popped up next to me on the patio furniture.
I had no food for her.
Slowly I resched out the back of my hand.
She looked me in the eye.
I brushed her chest.
She kept staring me in the eyes.
I brushed her side.
No reaction.
I did not push my luck. It feels like we may have a breakthrough. I will attempt reinforce tomorrow but it is very exciting! It almost cost me a sandwich bit it was worth it.
By the way, Hattie is way more polite when begging food.
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That's why we are here. So we can babble at each other!Awwww..., Bob!!! What a breakthrough!!! I love this.
We’re actually having a cold March for California. Not a chance of a tee-shirt. We had frost three days THIS WEEK, when we normally only get 5-10 per YEAR.
However, I did cut the grass, which is more of a pasture. At this point there might be more clover than grass. Here are Flo and Ester enjoying it, with DH in the background (he’s about to take an eBike ride to the market
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In other news, poor, sweet Dorothy appears to have another softie in the works:
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She did get a calcium tablet. Too late for forming a shell on this one, but it might help her push it out. She also just got a drizzle of nutridrench in baby bird formula for an energy boost.
Finally, Little Mill’s abdomen was HUGE this morning, but I just checked it and it’s vastly reduced. Somehow her body absorbed or expelled the fluid? I’m grateful and will keep watching.
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What else? Buttercup laid another fart/fairy egg today. Ester is warming back up to me, so perhaps might come back into lay, and Bridge spent some time in the nest box today.
Thanks for letting us share our chicken lives on your thread, Bob. I don’t know where else I could babble and my family gets tired of it.
Ditto!
I'll have to think of a way to block these frequencies.Doesn't putting it in a tin make it louder?
I know mine would make the tin rattle.
It really is coming along nicely.
Nice analogy ACM!You've been under a lot of stress lately Alex. No wonder you are having tummy troubles and not sleeping well.
Try not to be too hard on yourself. Your tribe, neighbour's tribe and the cats need you now.
You have to put your oxygen mask on first.
That is so Hattie though. It works for her too. She gets her share.That's so sweet! I'm so happy for you Bob.
Hattie being a stealth chicken in the last photo just cracks me up.
How does one celebrate the day?
I was reading about Newton Persian recipes yesterday and feel like there are some really yummy traditions. I have my eye on a sort of herb frittata. I forgot the name.
