Kentucky people

[Mojo Chick'n]

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HUGE HUGE HUGE improvement.

I do not like winter, I hate having cold wet feet all the time, and here it's not bad at all. Average winter daytime temps are around 30 - 40 (and we don't get the nasty negative windchills, here, either.) it does get pretty windy in winter, but it's not like Michigan or Ohio where the wind makes it feel like you just camped out in Nannook the Eskimo's backyard. We do get really cold (maybe down in the teens) for a couple weeks in January or so, but then it goes back up to around 30-ish. I don't think it's gone down to 0 degrees even once in the last two winters I've been here. Coldest it got, I think, was when the tornado came through the first winter - and it dropped 20 degrees in an hour. (came down to about 7 degrees - but it felt colder, cause our power was out

)

Just grab some muck boots for outside and you'll like it here.

After Michigan, 30 degree average temps feels like a heatwave in the winter

meri

 

[spydertoys]

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As a former Wisconsinite, I can tell you that Kentucky is tops in my book!! Beautiful sunrises and sunsets..some of the nicest folks I've ever met anywhere.

And just a tip:

Bring your snow shovel..it works great under the perch poles!!

Seriously..I use mine!!

 

[cthrash1]

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If you want to be in the country but within a short drive to stock up(

) There are several small towns between Somerset and Lexington or Richmond depending on which way you go and it is all country both ways. Last Winter I spotted a great deal on some acreage and a foreclosed house in Mount Vernon, KY. A very centrally located area to get to lg business, stock ups, and lake...
Down south of us there used to be 50 acres on top of a mountain with a log house ran by solar energy/generator only, and supplied its own water for like 95,000... The catch was that the driveway was rough cut about a mile long so you needed a truck or SUV to get up to it. Don't know if it's still for sale or not. It was between Wayne county and McCreary county.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I use my snow shovel to clean coops, also - works great.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

BTW - shelley overslept

so I'm picking her up at Day & Day at about 2 o'clock - so as soon as Cindy shows up, we can come on over.

now I get to try to clean up alittle (hubby and sam are gonna clean up out back with the wood and such - not sure if he wants me to help with that, too, or what - btu thsi house ceratinly needs cleaning.)

But, I'm making a blackberry cobbler for dessert tonight - no idea what's for dinner, but I know what's for dessert

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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yeah, we musta been posting at the same time. I was gonna ask if ya minded if I hit Walmart, too, on the way home (or savealot).

I need to get some pop and paper towels, etc... nothing major, just a few things.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

I didn't completely oversleep, I did get up long enough to snooze my alarm. Then around 9 am, when Cris was coming into the bedroom cause grampa was yelling at him (over him going through every cabinet I guess), I was like "You're supposed to be at school!", then proceeded to ask my 4-year old what happened

like he would know

So a new alarm clock is also on my list of things to get, cause it is still 'on', it just never went off again.

 

[Uncle T's Bantam's]

PHONES IN CHURCH ?????

A man in Topeka, Kansas decided to write a book about churches around the country. He started by flying to San Francisco and started working east from there.
Going to a very large church, he began taking photographs and making notes. He spotted a golden telephone on the vestibule wall and was intrigued with a sign, which read "Calls: $10,000 a minute.." Seeking out the pastor he asked about the phone and the sign. The pastor answered that this golden phone is, in fact, a direct line to heaven and if he pays the price he can talk directly to GOD. The man thanked the pastor and continued on his way.
As he continued to visit churches in Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and many cities and towns all around the United States, he found more phones, with the same sign, and the same answer from each pastor.
Finally, he arrived in Kentucky, upon entering a church in the beautiful Bluegrass region of Kentucky, behold - he saw the usual golden telephone. But THIS time, the sign read "Calls: 35 cents". Fascinated, he asked to talk to the pastor, "Reverend, I have been in cities all across the country and in each church I have found this golden telephone and have been told it is a direct line to Heaven and that I could talk to GOD, but in the other churches the cost was $10,000 a minute.. Your sign reads only 35 cents a call. Why?"
The pastor, smiling broadly, replied, "Son, you're in Kentucky now ... You're in God's Country. It's a local call."
American by Birth - Kentuckian by the Grace of God. And why Kentuckians do go barefoot: When you're in Kentucky you're on Holy Ground!


Aint this the truth

 

[estpr13]

Uncle T's Bantam's :

PHONES IN CHURCH ?????

why Kentuckians do go barefoot: When you're in Kentucky you're on Holy Ground!

Aint this the truth

Jest watch whar ya step, as thar be chicken droppins about!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Ok, I'm back - I must have left BYC loaded when I left earlier today - sorry if anyone was wondering about me

I got two beautiful cochin hens from Spydertoyz - a blue and a "what the heck?" Hubby likes the blue girl

the "what the heck?" looks like a cross between blue and red - almost like a platinum metal with a tinge of rust in places. I'll get pics tomorrow. Poor girls were a bit unerved tonight. Since it was late when I got back, I left them in their cage on the grass until I got done feeding calves, then put everyone in the coop and put them in, too.

They had a lot of chickens come check them out, and the geese (of course

) . I have the two runs open to each other, so the chickens can go from coop to coop through the runs outside - everyone wanted to sleep in one coop tonight (there isn't enough room in there

) so I put the girls in the more empty side (had only 5 other chickens in there). I figured it'd be easier transition for them than to be thrown into a 8x8 coop with 40 chickens trying to get onto one 6 foot long perch

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Those buff bantam rocks insist on sleeping outside in the duck pen - that'll change once I get the brooder coop cleaned out - they're going in there with the cochins. They are so small, I figure they are probably overwhelmed also by the 40 chickens piling on one perch attempt. The baby cochins were huddled outside by the door to the coop, poor babies

I put them into the more empty coop, too.

I was tempted to get the roo that looked like the "what the heck?" hen, he was gorgeous, but I already have one roo - figure I better stick with one for now.

meri