Minnesota!

[Bogtown Chick]

Rhett's you're definitely in wolf country up there and I'm willing to bet it is the same one. We had one around here that was gutsy with multiple sightings before we had the lottery season for them. Most wolves are skiddish but there are some that are pretty blazen like that.

 

[Cluckies]

I tried to catch up on posts this morning then left for most of the day unexpectedly and come home to some 50 new posts!!
I just got caught up. Now I need to go back and find the ones I wanted to comment on.
Guess what we did today...............bought 50lb bags of apples (good ones too!) for $11 bucks a bag!!! The feed store gets left overs from the Bayfield Apple fest.
I will be processing apples for the next week for sure. Apple sauce, butter and pie filling. I am so excited! (Is that weird?)
Oh, by the way I did forward my latest pictures to the DNR without any return contact from him. I believe I now have "The Shot" needed to bring in the Feds to trap. (I hope

)
I got a friendly phone call today too. A neighbor of mine but maybe a mile away was going to go out and do her nightly chores last night when she noticed a wolf pacing back and forth in front of her barn. Thank goodness her animals were locked up!! Could it be the same one I got on my game camera? Who knows. But that makes me think twice about going out to feed Norman in the dark. Hers was about dusk and we go out at about 8pm LONG after dusk. From here on out it is me or DH, no kids, and we go out packing!

wow! yes, I would not let the kids out there alone! scary!

 

[Rhetts]

Since it's the middle of the night and I'm awake I thought a Minnesota BYC ice breaker is in order. Putting a person behind the avatar?
Below are ten questions. Responses are optional, laughing at ourselves and each other mandatory.
(And Aussie needs something to make her smile!)

1. If I could binge on Netflix for an entire day I'd watch this show: Calling the Midwife
2. One place in the world from which I want to send a postcard: Ireland
3. You could chase me to Russia with this food: Liver and Banquet Pot pies any flavor
4. The daily chore which I dread: Not a chore really but I get nervous talking on the phone
5. Fastest I've ever driven a motorized vehicle: 120
6. Tried my first alcoholic beverage at this age and thought adults were nuts to drink it: 5 years old
7. First person I ever had a crush on, can be real or celebrity: The cute boy on the playground who chased me in Elementary School
8. Favorite chicken breed: Hmmmm to choose only one lovely above the others I can't say for sure but I find the EEs so unique
9. Do I have enough chickens? Obviously we all know the answer to this one
10. One question we want to ask others here but are afraid of being laughed at: Any Newbie questions that seem so obvious to the veterans

 

[Minniechickmama]

I am coming down with a cold/sore throat.

I am going to share with you my homopathetic (that is not a spelling error, I coined that word) cure.

I would suggest all of you make this and take it now, If I am getting a sore throat you could too.

It is made of three common ingredients everyone has in their home.

2 parts hot water, very hot.
2 part Yukon Jack Peppermint schnapps
1 part Hot Cinnamon liqueur

Drink liberal amounts until the sore throat is over.

Or until you stop caring that it is sore or pass out, whichever comes first.

 

[duluthralphie]

ok, just popping in because I had a hard time finding that rooster tonight. got home after dark, anxious as hell.
not in the coop. not under the coop. not bedded down in the sunporch for the chickens.
not in the first pine tree.
not in the second pine tree
not in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth pine tree.
still not in the coop, had to double check
not anywhere near the fenceline.
not in the garden.
not in the raspberry patch.
not in the bushes up by the house.
FOUND HIM! up on the roof of the coop. dragged the ladder out and climbed up and that sweetheart just watched me ( I had lanterns out by now).

best birthday present is that rooster safe in the coop. there had to be some kind of kerfuffle in the coop because there were some things knocked over and hens were definitely not in their normal roosting part.

I will be home before dark for the next 7 days, so we (the rooster, the girls, and most of all ME) won't have to go through that again.

And...I think I saw northern lights past the treeline so am bundling up and driving a mile to the open fields to see.

My fault, I should have mentioned both Creamers and Creamettes like to sit on the roof of a coop. They like to be high above you and watch you plead and cajole them for a while before they get down. My normal way of handling this is to throw something at them while using my best French, eventually they come down or I leave them out for an owl to eat.

 

[MinnesotaNice]

@Cluckies, your winter post is awesome! Thanks for putting the time and effort into it.

 

[scandiafowl]

uuuuuuggggggghhhh what a crazy week.  ready to hit the farmers market tomorrow and get the heck out of town!  last camping trip of the year down in the bluffs near rochester.  should be really pretty with most of the trees just starting to turn color.  

Have fun!

 

[scandiafowl]

Now I'm having nightmares...

 

[scandiafowl]

...

1. If I could binge on Netflix for an entire day I'd watch this showe Great Escape
2. One place in the world from which I want to send a postcard:top of the world
3. You could chase me to Russia with this food:liver
4. The daily chore which I dread:all inside house work
5. Fastest I've ever driven a motorized vehicle:180+
6. Tried my first alcoholic beverage at this age and thought adults were nuts to drink it:unfortunately I liked the taste
7. First person I ever had a crush on, can be real or celebrity:Traci Jones
8. Favorite chicken breed:rir
9. Do I have enough chickens?can you ever have enough
10. One question we want to ask others here but are afraid of being laughed at:hahahahaha[/quote

Who is Traci Jones?

 

[scandiafowl]

well, yes, that (lack of finding wild birds with the avian flu) does kind of raise more questions, doesn't it?  But it, meaning the flu, had to come from somewhere.  

Could you email the article to me?