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[CATRAY44]

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My daughter Lauren had a pet hedgehog. They are great little pets! No ammonia in the urin and you can litter train them. Funny little things!

 

[Daycare Mom]

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Wonder how it'd taste.

Might go good with squirrel

Add the rabbits and I will start peeling the veggies...we'll have stew!

 

[Chickenpal]

Hi All
I finally got a chance to catch up on everything and you all have been so busy!

On the nice days I got our coop all cleaned out and the chickens are all happy happy.

They are all laying real well also. Now I am getting all colors and sizes.
For Bullet, I will give you some bantum eggs if you would like to get them in a couple of weeks. They are cute little ones and should all be fertile. Let me know.
Welcome to all the new ones. It is always so interesting to see all the new stuff on here.
Congratulations on quitting smoking. Mom 2

Happy birthday and anniversary to DCM:yiipchick:y

to all the new ones again, so I should catch everyone.
Zookeeper, could you let me know when the smelt are running? And the suckers? That is what we miss about living in the UP.
DCM that is such good news about the thyroid!!!

For the one that had the stray cat after their chickens. We caught one in a live trap. The sad part is that it killed one of my best hens before we knew about it.

Our yard was so full of brush and limbs. We have a lot of trees around us and they make such a mess. Gives me my exercize picking all the stuff up.
We have two dogs, one large one and a little one. The large one we taught to go out in the woods to her bathroom. Saves a lot of clean up. Sometimes she gets lazy, but mostly she goes out in the woods. We just tell her go to her bathroom.
The nice weather was so great. All of our birds were out and about and scratching all over.
We no longer have teenagers. But may be taking on our teenage Grand daughter. Her and her mom are constantly fighting. God willing, things will work out.

I was one of the people trying to find an incubator. Hope you are all doing just great. Myrna

 

[Grammi]

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You beat me, about 45 miles. Good nite all. Gail

What bridge are y'all talking about? Trolls? Dont confuse me, its early and easy to do. ( I am fifteen miles from a bridge- the Ambassador bridge)

I cannot get going today. Too tired and too sore. Falling when older really stinks because you lose your bounce. Bumbles bounce, I do not. I splat- and today, I feel the aches from that. Stupid tortoise. My get up n go has gotten up and went.

I think I need to make a raft for my chickens today. I havent even looked out the window yet, and I cant understand how I can be out of coffee. I think that is illegal.

Hope you all have a great day- I will report back with Doctor news later on.

We are talking about the Mackinaw Bridge. The reference of the Trolls was what let me know where she was. You know how Trolls live under a bridge, the UP call us Trolls as we live below the bridge. LOL. Gail

 

[Grammi]

Wow I am always late. Couldn't sleep tonight, so got on and checked the news. Answered about the bridge almost a day late. We had snow blowing coming from Pelston tonight. Our granddaughter (6 years old) did a pom pom routine during half time at the pelston game tonight. What fun. Well keep warm and dry. Goodnight, Gail

 

[Zookeeper9000]

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I would love to let ya know when the smelt and suckers are running but I haven't heard of anyone catching any for years. You use to be able to fill a truck bed when they ran but now according to everyone I know nothing. They are being caught in the bay or other animals are getting them first. But if I hear of them I will let ya all know.

Steve have you heard of any kind of smelting up here or the suckers?

 

[Mom 2em All]

Good Morning Chatty group!
I just spent twenty minutes reading where I left off yesterday!

I went to bed early- as in, 6:30!!!!!

I told y'all I was tired yesterday morning~ well, when Mom goes to bed at 6:30, the family first panics,and comes in four or five times- what are you doing, Mom?

- then has a party. Someone ate all the yogurt that was in the fridge- but left the cardboard that it comes in..someone didn't take out the trash, and the dogs had fun- and there are tons of dishes in the sink. And laundry all over the bathroom floor.

Its enough to make me go back to bed. But I can't, I have to go to work.

I feel very well rested. I needed it. The work-up of going into the doctors yesterday must have drained all my energy.

Took the girls to the eye doctor. My oldest WANTS glasses- i told her we would get her contacts, she is a cheerleader...NO MOM, we had the argument that should have went the other way. You know, her wanting contacts, me saying she is too young. However, I guess now its cool to wear glasses, because she wants them. The eye doctor, however, says she only needs glasses for reading. She was so upset! I give up trying to figure her out.

My youngest needs glasses- all the time. heh heh heh. She didn't want glasses. She asked for contacts. I told her no, she is too young. She went second and we sat there looking at the eye chart while my oldest had her eyes checked. When it was my youngest daughters turn- I told the dr.," can you change the eye chart? I bet she has it memorized by now." Sure enough, she read off the lowest line of letters perfect. THEN, the doctor changes the letters, and she couldn't read any of them.

I know my kid.

Miss Jayne- I showed my husband your pictures of the turkeys on the roof- he answered correctly. He said, "That would be cool. Can you imagine the neighbors having a heart attack?"

I told him, we could always deny that they were ours if someone asked. heh heh heh. If animal control showed up, I could say, "What turkeys?" They wouldn't think to look on the roof or in the tree, would they? Or I could bring out a little serama and say, "Does that look like a turkey to you? I told you our neighbors exaggerate."

 

[cristy17]

Good morning all! Coffee is brewing and the snow is falling. God, I WANT SPRING!!!
ChickenPal -- Hubby checks the creeks every spring for the smelt; last time we got enough for a meal was 5 - 6 years ago. We got almost a five gallon pail full after working all night long. I can tell you when the suckers run, though; we always smoke a couple of batches -- Yum!! Almost as good as squirrel stew!! Walleye fishing starts in April; hubby's got the boat all ready for whenever the ice is off the Bay. He's been laid off for the last 2 weeks with nothing better to do then get the boat ready. Have a good day everyone!!

 

[Opa]

The coffee sounds great but as much as I would like to sit and drink coffee with you I think I'll stay away until you have whipped those viruses. Hope got up saying she had dreamed about donuts. So now she is out on a cinnamon roll run. She should be back soon so I had better get the second pot of coffee brewing.

 

[Steve]

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We used to get them early in the spring in any quantity you wanted to clean. Five gallon pail could be got with one swoop of the dip net....But Michigan's Department of Natural Resources is to blame for the decline in smelt, and as far as I am concerned perch too. The DNR in its infinite wisdom decided to implant this black nasty bird called a comorant (sp) which consumes a vast amount of fish per day. The comorant has eaten more than the lakes can supply. The bird was introduced at least 20 years ago. When I lived in the U.P. we lived in a commercial fishing area (Garden Peninsula) and I still talk to some of my friends from there. They tell me the comorant population has declined substantially (maybe the DNR has wised up and thinned them down)and they are seeing perch fishing increase a bit. Hopefully along with that the smelt fish population will see a increase.


Good morning all.