Ribh's D'Coopage

[CrazyChookChookLady]

So @BY Bob if you would kindly let me know what the winning lotto numbers are for our local Jackpot this week I’ll spit the cash with you 50/50!

If it works for you then I'm next!!!

 

[Ribh]

I am having a little trouble keeping up with everyone just now [@CrazyChookChookLady ~ the photos were wonderful. Thank you. ]We are @ the chaotic end of renovations & extended family arrives the day the sanders finish the upstairs flooring so stress levels are a little high round here. Not everything will be completely finished & there will be 2 toddlers in the house so...

Plus my Doctor keeps promising me he's done with cutting bits out ~ then finds something else that needs must get done ~ invariably somewhere that hurts like billy~oh! The last one was on my cheekbone right under my eye on the side I like to sleep on so I'm a cranky old woman just now!

Plus the chickens went visiting the neighbours yesterday because they had spent all day spreading mulch on new garden beds & needed extra help spreading it around!

Having spent 20 minutes rounding everyone up I nearly stepped on the one chirping @ my feet. I had missed Aoife in the general round up & she had come to see why I wasn't chasing her! As soon as she saw I'd seen her she squatted obligingly & waited to be carted off!

My workers, who pretty much promised to be available once the crabbing season ended are now netting & arrived wet & filthy on the incoming tide, used our shower, ate all the contents of the slow cooker & the stash of chocolate, draped their stinky wet weather gear over the fire guard & their boots on the hearth ~ don't you just love the smell of cooking rubber?! ~ & spliced their ropes on my brand new lounge before sloshing through the mangroves in the semi dark back to their boat, not to be seen again for the next 48 hours. *sigh*

it's not all doom & gloom. the sun still rises, the cats still purr & the chickens are laying. So here's this mornings sunrise...

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

I am having a little trouble keeping up with everyone just now [@CrazyChookChookLady ~ the photos were wonderful. Thank you. ]We are @ the chaotic end of renovations & extended family arrives the day the sanders finish the upstairs flooring so stress levels are a little high round here. Not everything will be completely finished & there will be 2 toddlers in the house so...

Plus my Doctor keeps promising me he's done with cutting bits out ~ then finds something else that needs must get done ~ invariably somewhere that hurts like billy~oh! The last one was on my cheekbone right under my eye on the side I like to sleep on so I'm a cranky old woman just now!

Plus the chickens went visiting the neighbours yesterday because they had spent all day spreading mulch on new garden beds & needed extra help spreading it around!

Having spent 20 minutes rounding everyone up I nearly stepped on the one chirping @ my feet. I had missed Aoife in the general round up & she had come to see why I wasn't chasing her! As soon as she saw I'd seen her she squatted obligingly & waited to be carted off!

My workers, who pretty much promised to be available once the crabbing season ended are now netting & arrived wet & filthy on the incoming tide, used our shower, ate all the contents of the slow cooker & the stash of chocolate, draped their stinky wet weather gear over the fire guard & their boots on the hearth ~ don't you just love the smell of cooking rubber?! ~ & spliced their ropes on my brand new lounge before sloshing through the mangroves in the semi dark back to their boat, not to be seen again for the next 48 hours. *sigh*

it's not all doom & gloom. the sun still rises, the cats still purr & the chickens are laying. So here's this mornings sunrise...

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My goodness you do have your hands full!! Enjoy a rest with a purring kitty to sooth you.

 

[Shadrach]

Speaking of which Sammy has been pink now (well fading into brownish last night) it is amazing how gory a white rooster with even a little bit of bleeding from his comb can look. I am trying to figure out separating Roostie more effectively without being able to use the fence and keep him in another field. He has about 10 lbs on Sammy, and I worry about my poor little guys lungs. He wheezes like a two pack a day smoker walking up a hill when he exerts himself. Worse after I stopped the bleeding and returned Sammy to his girls the two little upstarts he usually keeps under control decided to gang up on him. Roostie got put to bed early, the boys got stuck in solitary, and Sammy got to put all the ladies up on his own.

I’m was still trying to figure out how my fat little Meat bird Rooster got out... well yesterday, he went with the “I can knock this crate over, I outweigh it” technique; the day prior I actually watched him “fly” (running start, big jump, lots of flapping) over the 2’ high repurposed brooders pen wall! He was not “designed” for this, at all... but he managed it much to my amazement. Speaking of which the bones of the wing structure is actually slightly different in the heritage birds and layer breeds here than in the meat breeds. Some of the bones are longer and there is a slight difference in the joint structure of the wrist which makes separating the wing tip (soup bone) from the rest of the wing much harder. I’m wondering where Roostie falls on this spectrum with his low level capability of flight at a whopping 15+lbs of bird.

I wasn't aware of the differences in bone structure.

 

[Shadrach]

I am having a little trouble keeping up with everyone just now [@CrazyChookChookLady ~ the photos were wonderful. Thank you. ]We are @ the chaotic end of renovations & extended family arrives the day the sanders finish the upstairs flooring so stress levels are a little high round here. Not everything will be completely finished & there will be 2 toddlers in the house so...

Plus my Doctor keeps promising me he's done with cutting bits out ~ then finds something else that needs must get done ~ invariably somewhere that hurts like billy~oh! The last one was on my cheekbone right under my eye on the side I like to sleep on so I'm a cranky old woman just now!

Plus the chickens went visiting the neighbours yesterday because they had spent all day spreading mulch on new garden beds & needed extra help spreading it around!

Having spent 20 minutes rounding everyone up I nearly stepped on the one chirping @ my feet. I had missed Aoife in the general round up & she had come to see why I wasn't chasing her! As soon as she saw I'd seen her she squatted obligingly & waited to be carted off!

My workers, who pretty much promised to be available once the crabbing season ended are now netting & arrived wet & filthy on the incoming tide, used our shower, ate all the contents of the slow cooker & the stash of chocolate, draped their stinky wet weather gear over the fire guard & their boots on the hearth ~ don't you just love the smell of cooking rubber?! ~ & spliced their ropes on my brand new lounge before sloshing through the mangroves in the semi dark back to their boat, not to be seen again for the next 48 hours. *sigh*

it's not all doom & gloom. the sun still rises, the cats still purr & the chickens are laying. So here's this mornings sunrise...

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How long are the extended family staying for Ribh abd will any of them help out?

 

[Ribh]

How long are the extended family staying for Ribh abd will any of them help out?

They are staying indefinitely while they save for a deposit on their own place. The lad owns a block of land outright but the bank is being difficult about a loan for a house because it's on the island. My son will help ~ but then he's out fishing most of the time... We will work something out. The bonus is the house is pretty big so there's enough room we should all be able to have our own space. Our bedroom is big enough to have it's own study/sitting area & I'm pretty good with small kiddies. So long as someone besides me cooks...

 

[MaryJanet]

Awesome!!!

Me too! Spent yesterday making sausage mostly on my own. Crazy busy here lately and my cell service is sucking with all the rain and clouds! Check out the time stamps on these alerts this morning View attachment 2221998

and I finally found a place in the trailer that will let me upload the pic!

Hilarious timestamps!

 

[BY Bob]

I am having a little trouble keeping up with everyone just now [@CrazyChookChookLady ~ the photos were wonderful. Thank you. ]We are @ the chaotic end of renovations & extended family arrives the day the sanders finish the upstairs flooring so stress levels are a little high round here. Not everything will be completely finished & there will be 2 toddlers in the house so...

Plus my Doctor keeps promising me he's done with cutting bits out ~ then finds something else that needs must get done ~ invariably somewhere that hurts like billy~oh! The last one was on my cheekbone right under my eye on the side I like to sleep on so I'm a cranky old woman just now!

Plus the chickens went visiting the neighbours yesterday because they had spent all day spreading mulch on new garden beds & needed extra help spreading it around!

Having spent 20 minutes rounding everyone up I nearly stepped on the one chirping @ my feet. I had missed Aoife in the general round up & she had come to see why I wasn't chasing her! As soon as she saw I'd seen her she squatted obligingly & waited to be carted off!

My workers, who pretty much promised to be available once the crabbing season ended are now netting & arrived wet & filthy on the incoming tide, used our shower, ate all the contents of the slow cooker & the stash of chocolate, draped their stinky wet weather gear over the fire guard & their boots on the hearth ~ don't you just love the smell of cooking rubber?! ~ & spliced their ropes on my brand new lounge before sloshing through the mangroves in the semi dark back to their boat, not to be seen again for the next 48 hours. *sigh*

it's not all doom & gloom. the sun still rises, the cats still purr & the chickens are laying. So here's this mornings sunrise...

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This is like a @Kris5902 post. That's a lot to unpack. I can tell you've been swamped. I hope the neighbors weren't too upset. We're all of them out, even lavender? I've not had to do a chicken round up. I was wondering for every 3 you put back, how many jump back out? I do love how your escapees accept defeat so graciously. Aurora would never do that!

They are good girls. Try not to be too cross with them.

 

[Ribh]

This is like a @Kris5902 post. That's a lot to unpack. I can tell you've been swamped. I hope the neighbors weren't too upset. We're all of them out, even lavender? I've not had to do a chicken round up. I was wondering for every 3 you put back, how many jump back out? I do love how your escapees accept defeat so graciously. Aurora would never do that!

They are good girls. Try not to be too cross with them.

I had 5 out. Patricia, who is not one of my regulars but likes the occasional foray, Mhari [Araucana] 2 Campines & Hepzibah. Luckily for all of us my neighbours love my chickens. Mhari & Aoife both just hop straight back. I'd love to let them free range but it's just not possible.

Edit: I forgot both bantams were out as well. Wrold hates being handled & is lightening fast. Alpia doesn't mind being cuddled but hates the chase.

 

[Ribh]

@MaryJanet: This is a better idea of Lavender's torpedo eggs.
She lays a dirty egg too.
Beatha's is for comparison ~ & she's such a good girl she rarely dirties her eggs.

@BY Bob: The tables are refurbished wood. I got two ~ one for each end of the lounge. At least 2 people in this house mistook them for paintings when they arrived as flat packs but they are great general purpose tables I don't worry about damaging them the way I do my *nice* one. ​