Minnesota!

[Rhetts]

I will be schooling through the summer also. Finding our groove after the move didn't happen like I thought it would. I have to figure out something because I will be starting my 5 year old this fall to the school schedule. Love it though. Looking forward to all school activities being done soon so I can just be home and focus on things around here that get pushed aside with our busy schedule. No lazy dayz of summer here, being busy at home is what I love. Nothing better for me.
What a nice sunny day here on the Range!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

A story for my MN peeps....

Good Morning All:

I got chewed out this morning by DH. I could feel a frustrated vibration through the telephone line this AM at work. He did not cuss (I might need to take his temperature). He kept his voice calm. But I could tell that I was to be the outlet of some venting.

DH for his job manages a bank branch. He dresses in white shirts, ties, pressed pants, dress socks and banker shoes. He looks pretty darn good every morning if I may toot that horn. Okay so we have that visual down.

Well about a half hour before he leaves I run the kids to the school bus and sometimes in the process the chicken mafia is hanging out waiting for the garage door to open as the scratch is kept in the one corner on my side. Sometimes they are meandering around in the garage and I do not take the time to shoo them out--it's always a mad dash.

This morning I get a call. "I know you don't know this but the carpet at the bank just got shampooed last night."

"Oh that's great--"

"Yes. It is. Do you know who was on his hands and knees scrubbing some 'mud' that came off of my shoes?"

"You."



"Yes.... (vibrations felt)...except I lied and told the tellers it was 'mud'. IT WAS CHICKEN **explitive**. Do you know how gross and embarrassing that is? Please keep the chickens out of the garage!"

"Yes Dear...Sorry."

 

[duluthralphie]

Bogtown, What's the deal? Are the people in the bank a little too good for a lil chicken poop on their shoes?

Maybe they should be humbled more?

What is wrong with hubby? Anyone know if you track something onto a clean carpet in a public area you do two things.

1) scream loudly and make a scene about what you stepped in and what kind of slob drug it into the building.

2) deny you had it at all costs, looking around to find the mousiest person there and accuse them on the hopes they will not deny it or better yet admit it could have been them.


Basically it is treated the same way as a fart in church.



I got back from TSC fuzzy butt free, they only had 3 tanks of birds not much selection.

I forgot the bird seed to try and placate the evil zombie ghost chickadee, but I stopped at Menards on the way out of town and got some. I hope he does not attack again.

I was looking for a 3/8 inch fine thread tap, I could not find one in all of Elk River, I did not feel like driving to Rogers. I am putting chicken drinking cups on 30 gallon barrels in hopes of not having to water so often.

When I was feeding the Zombie ghost Chickadee, I left the end gate on my van up, When I came back to get my back of stuff I found the white rock with questionable morals in the back of the van. She can be so stubborn, she wanted to eat the fallen bits of Mickey D's on the floor boards instead of leave. I had to throw her out!


I am missing a guinea, I had 9 yesterday morning and had 8 last night, I suppose that means one went broody on the eggs they have been hiding from me, Dang.

 

[ejb3810]

Bogtown, two things come to mind. Your DH is not a Ranger, as a true male from Da Range would not be put off by such an occurrence. He works in a bank and if it is true of anywhere it is surely true at a bank. S___ happens.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Bogtown, What's the deal? Are the people in the bank a little too good for a lil chicken poop on their shoes?

Maybe they should be humbled more?

What is wrong with hubby? Anyone know if you track something onto a clean carpet in a public area you do two things.

1) scream loudly and make a scene about what you stepped in and what kind of slob drug it into the building.

2) deny you had it at all costs, looking around to find the mousiest person there and accuse them on the hopes they will not deny it or better yet admit it could have been them.


Basically it is treated the same way as a fart in church.






I got back from TSC fuzzy butt free, they only had 3 tanks of birds not much selection.

I forgot the bird seed to try and placate the evil zombie ghost chickadee, but I stopped at Menards on the way out of town and got some. I hope he does not attack again.

I was looking for a 3/8 inch fine thread tap, I could not find one in all of Elk River, I did not feel like driving to Rogers. I am putting chicken drinking cups on 30 gallon barrels in hopes of not having to water so often.

When I was feeding the Zombie ghost Chickadee, I left the end gate on my van up, When I came back to get my back of stuff I found the white rock with questionable morals in the back of the van. She can be so stubborn, she wanted to eat the fallen bits of Mickey D's on the floor boards instead of leave. I had to throw her out!


I am missing a guinea, I had 9 yesterday morning and had 8 last night, I suppose that means one went broody on the eggs they have been hiding from me, Dang.

Fart in church.... "The one that smelt it dealt it!"

My husband is too good for chicken S--- Monday through Friday 7:45 to 5:00. And basically when a coop needs to be cleaned. "That's your hobby. That's your job." Although he secretly likes the chickens and will promptly put in his unwanted 2 cents when it comes to a cull of an extra rooster or what have you. He's a complete pain in my backside.

Good for you on being "strong" at the TSC fluffy butt bins. They are adorable.

Chickadee must be pretty tyrannical. Next you'll be stopping at the butcher shop for ribeyes with extra fat on them.

I have a beautiful Buff Easter Egger who has questionable morals in my flock...although I did see her out-run Rog yesterday. Maybe she's going to church lately or something.... She's in henopause and completely worthless, but she preens her day away and struts her stuff in front of Roger to torment him...I'm thinking. She thinks she's the bees knees.

Her Black and White sister (brooder mate), also an EE. Is our flock "Groom" . I'm serious about this. She takes care of the bits and stuck things/stuff on heads and necks, butts that cannot by reached by a almost fully rotating chicken neck. They come to her, Roger and the other hens and put their heads down in front of her and lick clean fermented feed or some feather casing...etc. etc. No other bird grooms others like she does. They have her designated. She is also in henopause.

What do you do?!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Bogtown, two things come to mind. Your DH is not a Ranger, as a true male from Da Range would not be put off by such an occurrence. He works in a bank and if it is true of anywhere it is surely true at a bank. S___ happens.

Nope. We're not rangers. But we've partied with enough of them to know they are a league of their own.
True about the bank stuff. He's got more war stories. He had a doozy last week and I don't envy him that job. uff-dah.

A little hands & knees S--- job never hurt anybody. He's already humble enough, I'm sure he thinks. hahaha. The wife is keepin' it real for him...that's for sure.

 

[holm25]

Our BBW is getting a red tinge in his feathers!!

 

[duluthralphie]

A red sex link BBW they are so rare!



BTW I am now told on another thread my turkeys are "rusty Slates". I have never heard that name before, But what the heck, I really don't care if they are yellow bellied sap suckers, as long as they are cool and friendly.. ( I would shake in my boots if I found out they had chickadee in them though)

Anyone of you ever hear of a "rusty slate'?





Edited to add this:

A guinea fowl attempted to stop a moving truck superman style today. I just picked his limp body off the road. Idiot!

 

[Bogtown Chick]

7 for 7 (the ones that lay any how). Woohoo! One was cracked on the coop floor and yolk eaten though. I wish I had a little video camera to see what happened.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Ralphie, if you wan the truth about our turkeys, I fear you will have to leave BYC to do so. Interweb experts are a dime a dozen, but on here they can be a penney for 20. I think 'rusty slate' is something someone pulled out of there butt.