Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[sparkles2307]

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Awww!

 

[mclevinson]

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Thanks for the tip! If I go running WITH my kids, I won't feel so out of shape! Most excellent idea! As soon as the temp drops to the low 90's.

Folks, this is why I hate Arizona summer. It just goes on. And on. And freakin' on. My summer clothes are all faded and tired looking. My hair is faded and tired looking. My attitude is faded and tired looking. It's too hot to wear anything even remotely appealing to me. I have winter clothes that are way older than my 19 YO SS. Fall decorating in the heat is a joke. By the time it cools down enough to enjoy the great outdoors it's practically bedtime and has been dark for 2 hours. If you get up early enough to enjoy it, you can't cause it's already time to get the kids ready for school. Pumpkins bought today may rot outside in the heat before Halloween.

I want some semblance of Fall. And I want it now.

Ummmmm. Maybe I'd better have another cookie.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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So much better than running

The heckling is so much more fun.

 

[jbowyer01]

Afternoon everyone. I had to go get my flu shot so I'm running a little late today. My day sucks so far. I think one of my marans has a respiratory infection so tonight the marans are getting hit with Tylon (sp). I cant win with the chickens and the only thing I can figure out is that they are stressed. I was walking out to the truck this morning and I saw a little black puffy tail doing a balancing act on my privacy fence. So I quietly picked up a rock and slipped into my backyard and sure enough that black fluffy tail was attached to a black and white fluffy cat that was trying to pounce at the fencing on the run, he was trying to get to my maran roo, who was yelling his head off. I clocked the cat with the rock and he ran off. I dont really care if you think I'm mean. I'm tired of dealing with everyone else's animals trying to get to my chickens. Understand that their animals have to come over privacy and picket fencing to get anywhere near the run. I had wondered why the chickens havent really been sunbathing in the run. I cant wait to move.

 

[AK Michelle]

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Me too!!! They can't figure out how to change the roos so they don't bother the hens. I say, FREEZER CAMP. Breaks my heart to see a hen with a raw back. That just sucks!

We have ONE hen who has to wear a saddle. But it's her, she loses feathers if you look at her cross eyed. She does NOT get to have her own eggs hatch, but she's just such an EXCELLENT broody and will raise chicks no matter what, we keep her - she's the one if we get random chicks for some odd reason without a broody, put them in a brooder, put her next to it overnight, by AM, she's pacing back and forth to be with "her" babies, open the brooder, she's in and sitting on chicks in seconds purring her fool head off. But yeah, she looks a horrible mess if she is without a saddle because the feathers just come off then she gets all scratched up on her back.

But since she's not passing her crappy genes on, I don't feel the need to send her to freezer camp. So she has to wear a saddle.

The others? There may be a few missing feathers from time to time, but nothing ever bad enough to need a saddle.

How do you get the saddles to stay on? I have a silkie who is always barebacked, she wore her saddle for a few days but then she shrugged out of it. Help!

 

[mclevinson]

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Oh most excellent.

On all counts.

 

[mclevinson]

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Clocking a cat with a rock isn't actually mean. Unless the rock is as big as, say, the cat. I expect my own cat to duck or suffer, but then he leaves chicks and chickens alone.

 

[Parson's Wife]

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What's your recipe and any secrets you'd be willing to share?

I LOVE peanut brittle. My DH ADORES it. My kids ADORE it.

I can NOT make a decent batch for love or money. It just always stays gooey and icky.

Help pretty, pretty, pretty please?

I'd be happy to! Will send you a pm with the recipe! You must let it boil longer....never ever stop stirring, and always use a wooden spoon.

 

[sparkles2307]

Friend's 6yo daughter was overheard singing "ring-round-the-rosie" the other day.

"Ashes, ashes..." was "Aw sh*t, aw sh*t, we all fall down."

So precious, just brings a tear to ur eye, don't it?

 

[jbowyer01]

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Clocking a cat with a rock isn't actually mean. Unless the rock is as big as, say, the cat. I expect my own cat to duck or suffer, but then he leaves chicks and chickens alone.

I always feel guilty when I do something like that but I'm so sick and tired of dealing with stupid neighbors. They have their little miniature pincher in a kennel outside with no cover and its the type of wire kennel that you would have sitting in your living room. The poor thing has just enough room to stand and turn around in it but he's in it twenty-four hours a day. Unless he escapes and chases everyone and everything. Dont suggest calling the dog catcher. Law enforcement is a joke where I'm at and besides the sheriff owns the house that the people are living in. I hate people.