Michigan

[NovaAman]

I swear! I like my job... I really do. I do not like who I deliver for. Papers were not in from Allegan until 5 30 this morning, and guess what? They have to be delivered by 6... OH OH OH! AND NO, we do not get compensated for sitting in the darn parking lot for 2 hours waiting. And today is the other job day, and I don't get home till 8, find the cable turned off, even though I paid the bill, and I had to call and get that fixed, and thank goodness I kept the reciept to prove I paid it. And I have to go to work in 2 hours. Is it any freaking wonder I am sleep deprived? Nope.

Terri Deboer is calling for a hard freeze tonight. 20's in the outlying areas and upper 20's low 30's in the urban areas. WOOHOO! Nothing like this weather to mess stuff up. Hope ya'll don't have that burlap tucked away already. I am glad there are no shoots up here except for on the berries... I will cover those.

Guess I will try and catch a short siesta...

Glad your went to the doc Stacy.

Jendear... did you ever find the diaper snatcher?

 

[sarah92480]

I think I forgot to say

Pycnopsyche!!

 

[RBahmer]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....I smugged chicks into work for Robin to pick up....they're not happy about being in a box. Keep peeping....which makes it hard to hide them!

LOL Be there soon to get them Jen.

 

[RBahmer]

To all newcomers

 

[SillyChicken]

Newbies

Bianca, sorry to hear about your dad.

Raz, I wouldn't be able to tolerate someone like that!


I'm hoping to get some more game fish for my pond in May. We go through www.harriettahills.com . They have "fish days" where they will travel to certain destinations to make pick up easier. We got a bunch of channel cats from them last year. I want some bass and bluegills and minnows this year.


What a ho hum day..........

 

[b737drvr]

Love your new avatar Sarah!

 

[sarah92480]

Thanks!! I was browsing the google and found it. Such cute little babes!!

 

[ladyfeather]

Good morning all. Something about cloudy days makes the grass and the leaves have a deep, saturated green to them.

I am not at all eager to reach the point in our poultry journey where I have to put one down. I've been preparing myself for the conversation with my kids and glad they haven't gotten too attached to them yet. So far no one looks sick or weak and some are getting feathered enough I might put them in the coop in the next couple weeks.

M Sue- Sorry to hear of your loss.

Raz those are some great pictures and it is a bit more strange on how or where they roost. No one looks uncomfortable.

As for me its errand day and I've got a list a mile long to pick up at the store. /sigh I can't wait for the weather to get warm enough for the ducks to be outside because we cleaned their tub out last night at 10 and its all ready smelly/tore up. We've refilled their waterer about 6 times since yesterday too the little wasters. I can't complain too much because their tails are getting fluffy and they aren't running away screaming from us anymore.

 

[Opa]

I lost 2 more of the eggs my broody has been sitting on. I went out in the afternoon and I found 2 of them broken outside of her coop. It could have been a kid or my dog or maybe another chicken... No one has fessed up, so it's a mystery. Down to 8 now. Bright side to the broken eggs is that from the remains, I definitely know they were fertile..

As I sat drinking coffee with Granny this morning we started taking a stroll down memory lane. Funny the things that come to mind. How many of you ever lived in a house with a milk chute? The summer I was twelve and worked for a Twin Pines Dairy milk truck driver. Obviously this was before child labor laws. I started work at 330am and ran from the truck to the house with the customers order. Take the empty bottles from the chute or on the porch, grab the new order, leave the milk, butter, and eggs, and run back to the truck. As went to the next house I would sit on the step of the open door. Can you imagine that happening today?

Another memory. How many remember when milk was sold in plastic bags? Or margarine that was white and came with a capsule of yellow food coloring that you had to mix in yourself because it was illegal for margarine, at the time of sale, to be the same color as butter?

How many remember before milk was homogenized and the cream would float to the top so you would have to shake it well before drinking?

 

[b737drvr]

Just caled the post office...no chickens yet through there today. Then I called Townline. They said the chicks didn't leave the hatchery until yesterday afternoon. That gives me some comfort, so hopefully tomorrow, but that doesn't give me a ton of time before I have to go back to work for four days...hopefully DW and kiddos will be able to handle them!