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[NanaKat]

Boys are hauling hay again today...so lunch is.....all from our flock and garden!!
Hickory Bacon Roast Pheasant along with Fried Chicken Livers and Gizzards,
Mashed potatoes with gravy, Garden Sugar Snap Peas,
Sliced Cantaloupe and Sugar Fried Green Apples

Prepped the pheasant by stuffing it with celery, Vidalia Onion and 1/2 stick of butter. Sprinkled on some poultry seasoning, then covered the bird with Hickory Smoked bacon. The bird is sitting on chopped onions and celery too.
Lightly cover with foil and roast at 300 degrees 25 minutes per pound of bird.
About 20 minutes before it is finished, remove the foil and the bacon. Increase the oven temp to 400 and crisp up the skin.
I always finish the bacon in a skillet and put it on the table too...never goes beggin"

 

[Matt in Okla]

Boys are hauling hay again today...so lunch is.....all from our flock and garden!! Hickory Bacon Roast Pheasant along with Fried Chicken Livers and Gizzards, Mashed potatoes with gravy, Garden Sugar Snap Peas, Sliced Cantaloupe and Sugar Fried Green Apples Prepped the pheasant by stuffing it with celery, Vidalia Onion and 1/2 stick of butter. Sprinkled on some poultry seasoning, then covered the bird with Hickory Smoked bacon. The bird is sitting on chopped onions and celery too. Lightly cover with foil and roast at 300 degrees 25 minutes per pound of bird. About 20 minutes before it is finished, remove the foil and the bacon. Increase the oven temp to 400 and crisp up the skin. I always finish the bacon in a skillet and put it on the table too...never goes beggin" [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR]

What time are we expected

Ohhhhh Weeee That's awesome all I ever got hauling hay was a burger at best

 

[NanaKat]

All that is left is the carcass that I boiled in water to make broth for the dogs' dinner tonight.
Yes, I like to keep those men happy and they love to eat.

Roger and his brother work hard at everything they do. They are back at hauling hay now...moved 40 bale this morning on the hay trailer and still have over 60 to get in. The trailer is a side dump hauler that will hold up to 10 bale at a time. These bales are 5.5 x 5 so the trailer will only hold 8. Their afternoon will be a long one.

i have my kitchen clean and am going to work on the cattle and farm accounts some today. My New Year's goal was to keep up each month so I don't have to rush to get the taxes done at the end of the year. I'm two months behind. Seems like the outside and my chickens keep calling me.....

 

[Kassaundra]

Does anyone know the reprecussions of spending FEMA grant monies on something other then it was granted for, if the amount is only a couple of thousand? We can't report anything yet, we need to wait for an easy divorce.

 

[Adorkable]

@Jeansrie thank you so much... I love my babies. They are so friendly and beautiful! Here are a few pictures of some of them.

This is probably my favorite. I think it's a pullet. She won't let me take a picture of anyone other than her when they're all together.



I'm pretty sure this one is a girl, and she's beautiful! The wind got her crest in the second pic lol




This is the light blue one... I think it's a girl & it's starting to get her blue ears




Almost positive these last 2 are cockerels

 

[jrjoplin]

Does anyone know the reprecussions of spending FEMA grant monies on something other then it was granted for, if the amount is only a couple of thousand?  We can't report anything yet, we need to wait for an easy divorce.

As always the usual disclaimers apply but...

To my knowledge FEMA has no way of tracking grant money once it's distributed. Who's to say you didn't spend it on emergency housing if/when you were displaced or to replaced damaged household goods. FEMA's site states they only have grand approval and grant guidance with no mention of grant accountability.

My personal opinion is that they have bigger issues to deal with than the tracking of a few thousand dollars in emergency relief to an individual. We only lost 16' feet of a fence that I had already signed a contract to replace. Our neighbors across the way lost their outbuildings including their turkey run to the May tornado.

 

[Kassaundra]

As always the usual disclaimers apply but...

To my knowledge FEMA has no way of tracking grant money once it's distributed. Who's to say you didn't spend it on emergency housing if/when you were displaced or to replaced damaged household goods. FEMA's site states they only have grand approval and grant guidance with no mention of grant accountability.

My personal opinion is that they have bigger issues to deal with than the tracking of a few thousand dollars in emergency relief to an individual. We only lost 16' feet of a fence that I had already signed a contract to replace. Our neighbors across the way lost their outbuildings including their turkey run to the May tornado.

I know in the grand scheme of things it is a tiny amount, but it was what my FIL was counting on to fix his roof, and that is exactly what it was granted for, they were not displaced and had no associated expenses, she left him and took the money from the account w/o telling him they even had received it.(w/I a week of getting the money) Then she was informed she had taken FEMA money but still refused to return it, then went and put a down payment on a new car. If FEMA won't go after her, maybe the threat will work, if not guess it would be small claims court. (oh and she wasn't w/o a vehicle, she took the truck and is living w/ her daughter who has 2 vehicles.)

 

[jrjoplin]

I know in the grand scheme of things it is a tiny amount, but it was what my FIL was counting on to fix his roof, and that is exactly what it was granted for, they were not displaced and had no associated expenses, she left him and took the money from the account w/o telling him they even had received it.(w/I a week of getting the money)  Then she was informed she had taken FEMA money but still refused to return it, then went and put a down payment on a new car.  If FEMA won't go after her, maybe the threat will work, if not guess it would be small claims court.  (oh and she wasn't w/o a vehicle, she took the truck and is living w/ her daughter who has 2 vehicles.)

I was going off the assumption that this was money that needed to not be accounted for until after finalization. In your situation I'd see if she could be persuaded by the threat of fraud. You may even contact FEMA to see if perhaps it's more than a bluff. Anyone who cleans out the bank accounts and runs gets what they deserve (IMO).

 

[NanaKat]

Excitement this morning already!
Roger goes out around 6 am every morning for his walk to the four gates and back. When he does, he stops to open each of the coops to let the birds out.
He heard comotion of a chicken fight in the big Wyandottte pen that is enclosed.
The hens were fighting off an owl to keep it from getting their chicks!!!
PaPa got the gun and stopped the problem. The owl had killed an 8 week old Buckeye chick that was in that same pen.



This is how he got in...I guess I'm a slow learner...time to cover that 5 x 7 inch opening with chicken wire.


Sunrise this morning...the sun was red..doesn't show up well in the photo.



I have my heart stress test and ultrasound this morning so I got all the pens squared away already.
Everybody have a good day!

 

[margaret8]

thank you- chickens stole my focus on pet portraits, so poultry kind of became my specialty, a peek at the latest for the Guinea Fowl Conference- no usually we see alt of turtles, and haven't seen any out here- really odd had Ansel(named him after a photography that did amazing black and white photography) out to get photos, can get him relaxed, he WANTS his pic taken