Michigan

[Opa]

A few days ago I finally got around to install the toekick on the kitchen cabinets that I install several years ago and today I finished that Hoosier cabinet. My oldest called tonight and when I mentioned that I had completed the cabinet he asked "you're not dying of cancer or something are you"? When I ask why he asked that he said it just seemed strange that I had completed two long put off projects in the same week.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Hi everyone!

I am feeling much better- not all the way, but much better than I was. Thank you all for the PM's and sharing your experiences with me, advice- all of it. I went to the doctor- and what she said was, "Most probably it is shingles, but without the nasty classic rash, she cant say for sure."
I have a few blisters here and there, but no nasty outbreak...so, because she didn't see the classic sign, she refused to give me any meds for it. Oh, I got lidocaine patches to numb the nerves that hurt so much whenever AIR touches me. But I didn't fill the 'script. Mainly because the thought of the patch touching me was something I couldn't handle. The sensation is now only between my shoulder blades in a four by four inch area, and on my right side, about the same size. Thank YOU! It WAS completely my right side and the right side of my back.

I have Muscovy eggs being delivered tomorrow!! I am very excited. I am splitting the eggs with sevenchickens- so you all get to hear us fuss for the next 36 days. I will start:
I bought a new hygrometer/thermometer today and compared it to the New( two hatches ago) thermometer that I have been using. They are three-four degrees off. Now which one is telling me the truth?

OH! I have a milestone to share with you all. Its no secret that my weiner dog is a murderer. She, with my pit have killed many chickens. She will kill any chicken she can get ahold of. Well, I came walking up the drive today, and at the same moment I heard a chicken freaking out- so I yelled, and my pit bull came slinking up the deck, trying to get in the back door without being seen. The wiener wasn't outside, thank goodness. The same, loud hen that I have said I am taking to my brother in laws farm, but haven't yet, was out in the dogs' part of the yard. She flies over the eight foot fence- don't know how she does it. She must use her pine tree to do it.Well, she was unharmed. He had plenty of time to kill her if he wanted to. When I told my husband of the "close call"- he shocked me. he said, "that ^%# chicken has been out with the dogs all day. Summer (the wiener dog) was in the house". Shocked, I asked him how he could leave her out with them, and not put her away...knowing she would probably be killed. He said he came home for lunch, and that &%% bird flew out. he didn't have time to try and get her back in-all my chickens think he is the Antichrist- and if he would have opened the gate to the hen yard, the rest would have run out. He said he wasn't putting the dogs in the house, so he just figured she would either go in the garage up high, or fly back in- or learn that she had made a mistake. Well, I would have been very angry with him if she had been killed, but she wasn't. That means my pit knows better. He just gets caught with feathers in his mouth when the wiener has done the killing. At least he was trainable. I can't say as much for the hen. To summarize, she spent the afternoon in the yard with the Golden retriever, the beagle, and the Pit. And lived to tell about it- and probably do it again.

 

[zephyrcreek]

Abbey - Just wait it out unless you are prepared to take them in the house for the bath and then dry time. My Dels are a muddy mess today. They seem to love playing in the mud as much as the ducks. The funny thing is the Black Javas tend to stay away from all that yucky mud. Hmmmm, go figure.

M2M - Glad that your hen survived. I cannot imagine what I would do to my dog if he touched one of my birds. Off with his head comes to mind.

ShelleyB - Love the pics.

Opa- I'd really like to come visit and see all these projects of yours. Of coarse I'd get too many ideas and drive my poor hubby insane.

Well, he should have known better when he married me.

 

[Opa]

Quote:
I'd be glad to have you visit. The coffee is always on.

 

[Opa]

Where's everyone at? Ya'll forget to windup your rooster?

 

[Mom 2em All]

overslept this morning, Opa.
I stayed up way past my bedtime last night and am paying for it this morning.
I am still exhausted.
I have today off work. I guess that means its going to rain. I have housework to get done anyhow.

What are your plans for the day?

 

[Opa]

I'm thinking about building a chicken ark for a trio of bantams. The 5x6' run will be under the A-framed coop and if I like how it comes out I will probably build a couple of more. A also need to spend some time in the office doing my taxes.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Well,,, some of you CHickenstockers need to consider wanting one of these black Giants that I will be bringing with me. I have three of one sex, and one of the other.
I cant remember which sex gets their tail/other feathers first but there are three of them. One without a tail or many feathers yet. I am looking to keep one pullet.

So, Sam, while you are building arks anyhow.....

 

[Opa]

I won't be shaking hands with anyone at Chickenstock. Nope, I'm going to keep my hands firmly rooted in my pockets. I figure that if I can do that I can lessen the possibility of picking up a chick and I'm sure you know from experience that picking up a chick is dangerous.

 

[Mom 2em All]

I think I will just ask you to hold them for me....while I go get something to drink...yep, thats it....something to drink


down the road.....

Seriously, I used to have a wonderful cockatiel. The petstore handed me this little bundle of feathers and then the clerk disappeared! Well, perfect sales technique because by the time the guy returned, I was hooked. lol