Granny's gone and done it again

[twisted-acres-farm]

well according to the "rucuss' the dogs are making Miss Vicki is on her way over.

I doubt if I will get back here again tonight. SOOOOOOOOOOO

I wish you all a wonderful evening, sweet dreams, fuzzies and prayers.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

well according to the "rucuss' the dogs are making Miss Vicki is on her way over.

I doubt if I will get back here again tonight. SOOOOOOOOOOO

I wish you all a wonderful evening, sweet dreams, fuzzies and prayers.

Gnight Twist

 

[h2oratt]

NOT enough notice, no one to cover here, can't afford it, and honestly I could care less about most of them.

Moved to Devils Lake when I was a junior so not really enough time to make "life long friends"

I have the same problem. Moved in my junior year. I was put it in a preppy school. Not one person spoke to me the first day. It was awful.

 

[h2oratt]

Do you help count it. We have two people counting. My hubby used to be a counter. Then they both go to the bank together to deposit it.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Mmm.. I ate 2 cheesy scrambled eggs. That didnt hurt my stomach. It went down good. Im feeling pretty relaxed for a change. I hope everyone has a good night

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Sweater was the name of my late partridge silkie rooster. He was indeed a “broody rooster”

A friend got him for me after I lost 75 birds to foxes in one week. My friend knew I loved Silkies and he said I needed some life after all that death.

Sweater had originally been a house chicken. He was actually potty trained. His second night with me he slept on my pillow. I had taken the loss of the chickens very hard so Sweater quickly became very special and close to me.
A remember the day I woke up to him crowing right next to me, that’s still the best morning I have ever had.

I kept trying to put Sweater out with the other chickens but he would just go to our back deck and sit by the slider till I let him in.

Then I got 45 chicks, Sweater immediately started acting like their mother.

Every night when I went in the coop he would be there with 45 chicks under and around him. He was very protective of the chicks and only let one other chicken near them (Flower my late white silkie).

Then he started becoming attached to my silkie hen, he would sit right next to her while she laid an egg and sit on her nest if she left it.

But he was not any less attached to me. Anytime I went out in the yard he would come running, all 45 chicks following him across the yard. He would sit on my feet until I picked him up, then he would ride around on my shoulder.

When I was finally starting to get over the loss of the birds from the fox attack.. we had another one.

I still don’t know what happened, somehow a fox got into our coop.

That morning I went out and felt my blood chill. I could see feathers spotting the yard. When I went to the chicken coop and found the door ajar I felt like I had been punched in the gut.

there were feathers and blood everywhere. And in Sweater’s corner there was one only chick left. I remember collapsing in complete shock and anger. And my mom and dad coming out and trying to comfort me. We did a sweep of the property for survivors, nothing.

Sweater’s feathers were all through the woods along with a trail of blood. It was evident that he went down fighting for the chicks till the end.

I Incubated the two eggs I had from Flower that were fathered by Sweater one of the chicks came out looking just like Sweater and acting nothing like him, but he died four days after hatching.

The other one looked just like Flower but acted the same as Sweater. I lost her a few months ago in a fox attack that happened in the middle of the day.

I haven’t had the heart to get Silkies since.

Sweater will always hold a very special place in my heart, one that can never be filled again. There’s not a day that goes by without me missing him and wishing I had done something different the night of the attack.

Thank you for sharing. You've really touched me.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Looks like I got here just in time to miss everybody. I think I popped in on page 58. I'll go back and catch up. It's been a long, busy day!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I'm quite effulgent today, thank you. Hopefully you don't hurt yourself helping Tom. The new shower should be a big help.

You got me, Pert! I had to look up "effulgent."

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I did too.

Me three! (Graduated at 17) - Barely 17, at that! Had turned 17 in April, graduated in May! Not sure it was an advantage. Wanted to move out of parents' hoouse, get on with life, but you're not legal to do much. Like rent an apartment, sign contracts of any kind, buy a car, etc. Hard to get a job, competing with 18-yo peers, etc.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

and how is that done with no electric to run the computer ??
NOTHING in the phone books.

I always keep the most recent bill around... phone number is there.