Michigan

[M.sue]

Now I really want spring!!

Me too!!!

As for age......I always say you are as old as you make yourself feel......like the saying Young At Heart.

Everyone have a great day!

 

[Mish]

It feels like spring at my house.

Thanks to raylastanford on the forum for providing Serama hatching eggs 3 weeks ago, I now have 6 little cuties. VERY tiny and friendly chicks. They don't all run around peeping thinking I'm trying to eat them when I put my hand in the brooder.

 

[Bianca67]

SOOOOO Cute!!!

 

[un-named543]

Opa, you are funny today. Where on earth do you get all the animated stuff?
More importantly, does this mean I have to stop the shipment of poison ivy to Raz's home?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

been having one of those weeks...... Almost to the point of going and getting another factory job, bad back and wrist be danged, just to get my independence back. I miss being able to wake up to a clean and quiet house, and being able to plan ahead.

 

[sarah92480]

I sincerely hope you ladies are done with quoting Raz's post about preferring rolling naked in poison ivy to having lilacs in his yard. The mental picture of an aging bald guy with welts and blisters as his only garb makes pondering life's enigmas nearly impossible.

Im pretty sure thats how break-dancing was created...someone watched enough older people trying to get up from a sitting position on the floor...and thought, "hey that would be a pretty cool dance to do..."

Hopefully this is the end of this

You guys are hilarious this morning!!

So here's a funny story, sort of. I thought it was funny anyway. We have (had?) at least one mouse in the house since it cooled off again. I set one of those plastic snap mouse traps under the dishwasher with peanut butter on it. Checked it the next day, no peanut butter, but not tripped. So we tried again, same thing. Went to TSC for some chicken stuff and got some of the old fashioned mouse traps, the wood ones w/the giant spring, which are scary and almost guaranteed to trip at the slightest touch. Put peanut butter on them. Within an hour last night, I checked again, they somehow ate it off w/out tripping it! Put more, they did it again in another hour!! So we're thinking we have the craftiest mouse/mice on earth here and it/they are laughing at us stupid humans. So we said, alright, that's it. Put a huge glob of peanut butter on both traps, put them back, and went to bed. About 630 I was laying in bed & heard them both trip. I ran out there to check, and the one trap was peanut butter-less, and tripped, and the other had finally caught the mouse! YAY! BF thinks theres another one, but we'll see...

 

[chicken grandma]

been having one of those weeks...... Almost to the point of going and getting another factory job, bad back and wrist be danged, just to get my independence back. I miss being able to wake up to a clean and quiet house, and being able to plan ahead.

Clean houses are overrated. On the other hand, people should treat each other nicely, cause that makes life worth living.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

sarah92480 So we're thinking we have the craftiest mouse/mice on earth here and it/they are laughing at us stupid humans.
I laugh, but it's true that some mice are super smart. I've been laughed at by at least 2 seperate mice, one who ate all my halloween candy, unwrapping it piece by piece very carefully, and putting the wrappers back in the bowl. I was convinced DH had done it, but later that week we followed a cocoa trail down the hall to a hole, where he couldn't fit the can in. In that same trailer, they also used to not only set off the traps before eating the goodies, but they actually TOOK the traps back into the wall with them! Sometimes we could retrieve them, somethimes not. I wonder how many of them are hidden in that wall anyway? I get this picture of a bunch of mice sitting around studying them, telling each other all about it.

 

[RaZ]

Im just glad nobody is trying to defend Magnolia trees. If you have to mow around either one Ill take lilacs because at least the lilacs smell good.

I'll stand up for the magnolia. I like 'em.

Lilacs! They were my wedding flowers. Our home we are trying to sell is surrounded by them. We have 6 different varieties. The bottom one, each individual flower is the size of a nickel. I was hoping RAZ would know about lilacs! I have to transplant them to our current home.

Transplanting them shouldn't be a problem other than digging the holes. They are hardy weeds shrubs and can take a lot of abuse.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Just went back out and found one of my favorite month old chicks dead. Have no idea why- she was the one that took forever to get her feathers in. No apparent wounds on her- she was still warm.