~ Retired and Starting My Future In The Foothills ~

[SethsArk]

We live nearby in Shingle Springs and that looks like our "Flowering Quince". Ours doesn't do much but flower beautifully in the spring. But our birds love it too!

I'm obviously new to posting on this site, can you point me to a good thread for other foothillers?

 

[gryeyes]

We live nearby in Shingle Springs and that looks like our "Flowering Quince". Ours doesn't do much but flower beautifully in the spring. But our birds love it too!

I'm obviously new to posting on this site, can you point me to a good thread for other foothillers?

Oh, WOW!

And I'm honored your first post to BYC is right here! Thanks for the info on the Flowering Quince. LOVE your beagle avatar!!

If you go to the "Social" forums, there are a couple of threads for "us." And the second one could use some more traffic.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/496481/calif-n-central-valley-foothills

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/497690/sierra-mountains-gold-country-foothills

 

[gryeyes]

I've been having a great, restful weekend. I also get Monday off! Yay! Got some photos to share, starting with one of the wild turkey which found itself locked in the secure, back parking lot of our Warehouse (where I work most of the day on Fridays). Err, not in the parking lot, inside the Warehouse. I saw this turkey on a smoke break; it got back over the fence and THROUGH the concertina wire at the top before I had to go back inside.



Friday night when I got home, I discovered the bistro table and chairs just there, as if by magic. Had to wait until Saturday to take a picture of them and how well they fit on the deck. I also set up the solar fountain.

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Oh, speaking of Warehouse critters, here are some photos of my Warehouse rescue kitty, Lizbeth.

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Yes, that's a NYD Hatch chick sneaking into the house from the new deck. She's the first of the baby chickens to venture up there. Please enjoy the following few pictures of her exploring.

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Then the Buckeye girls, led by Queenie, had to check out the deck. (Now that there isn't that guy with the scary air hose keeping them off it.)

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So Carl had to check out where the girls were going. He found it good enough to crow about.

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Bernard, aka: That Very Big Chicken.

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One of the two Escapee Bunnies, I've been calling her Dusky. The other is Blaze (not pictured here).

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I simply could not resist sharing this following photo.

 

[Carols Clucks]

I love the bird bath!


(I think I almost bought that one a couple of weeks ago while flipping TV channels....)

 

[Kansaseq]

Great photos, Linda, thanks for sharing them with us! What a nice way to unwind after work (and get ideas for fixing up my own house this spring).

 

[harbisgirl]

I'm so glad to have found this thread My husband and I recently moved to Placerville, in the Pleasant Valley area. We moved in on Halloween weekend. We absolutely LOVE this area. We have a 5 acre lot and i'm going to be making a chicken coop out of an existing shed. I can't wait to get started! We work in the valley still, so weekends are really the only time we have to work on projects...but I tell ya, it would probably be going alot faster if it weren't for all of these fabulous wineries around!

 

[redhen]

Love the pics!!
But ya gotta catch those buns,..it drivng me bonkers!
And that torti cat(Lizbeth?) is soooo beautiful!

 

[Mattemma]

Great bunch of recent pics.Life is good.Your place is coming along so well.So many content critters.

 

[Casey3043]

I don't think the fugitive bunnies could adjust to life in the Big House again. Life on the outside is too good. No guards, no bed checks. They've been on the run too long, dodging the law and enjoying their freedom.

They are the cutest things! I love those little short ears and furry noses!

 

[gryeyes]

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That porch/deck is lovely! You really have an eye for pulling things together in a unified and asthetically pleasing end product. Beautiful job!

I wanted to get back to this compliment with a rebuttal. I WISH I could claim the credit for it. I told John "the people on the Backyard Chicken forum" were raving about his work and I was going to have to admit it wasn't MY design but his. He demurred, saying, "I just built it. You told me what you wanted, a deck this large, with it half covered with something like the top of the grape holder."

Riiiight. Sure, we discussed things along the way; he asked questions, but I didn't draw up any plans, sketch out any design, or tell him what to do.

In other news, I stopped at my favorite feed store on the way home (Wednesday, the day before chicks are delivered each week) to pick up feed, Timothy hay for the rabbits, and some Sav-A-Chick just in case I need it. Good stuff to have around. There were two Golden and one Silver Sebright chicks left - straight run - and absolutely NO pullet chicks at all. In one bin were two ducklings: a fawn runner and a Cayuga (both straight run). I SO wanted to buy all five babies.

A little girl was oohing and aaahing over the ducklings. Her dad was wavering... At the counter, I mentioned I loved Cayugas. The manager agreed with me; we both love how their black feathers look in the sun. I told her I also adored how mine were Ninja Stealth Ducks and I had four drakes and four hens. Gonna have to do something about that ratio. She mentioned she "could" special order sexed ducklings, but it would cost another $1.40 apiece. "From Metzer Farms?" I asked. Yup.
She is going to order four girl Cayuga ducklings for me.

"I know Amy has your number, but I should put it on this order sheet...." Yah, Amy has my number all right.

And I got sucked into buying a bag of Timothy hay with rose petals in it. Nobody pointed it out to me, I just saw it next to the bags o' plain Timothy hay. Goddess, but I'm easy.