Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BlindLemonChicken]

During winter when we weren’t sure if there was ice, I’d open the kitchen door and (gently) pitch the cat out with a bit of forward momentum. If she just skidded across the patio and disappeared over the edge, that confirmed it: black ice!

This is the best use for a cat I can think of—especially one that doesn’t mouse.

Overdue taxes: the Nature Boy supervising breakfast

 

[Mother of Chaos]

This has to be my favorite as well.

The “beyond all repair” bit sums up so many things.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

Can’t wait until my cataracts get bad enough! Those implantable lenses are tha bomb.

They really are! I've had them for 14 years plus and only recently needed glasses occasionally again.
They do however make your eyes extra shiny - hence the attempted eye peck.

 

[fluffycrow]

I never knew that you were actually Greek! Your English is so fluid and colloquial that I figured you were a British ex-pat! (They can’t all live in Provence or Tuscany…)

Thank you ( @fuzzi too!) , that is very kind of you to say .

My introduction to the English language came fairly early in life. The Greek language isn’t exactly widespread, not to mention the fact that a lot of people choose to move abroad to find better careers opportunities; it’s almost a need to know English, at one level or another

 

[fuzzi]

"Be Back Later" as opposed to BRB "Be Right Back"?

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

 

[fuzzi]

Ok, as a native English speaker, I'm asking WHAT IN GOD'S GREEN EARTH IS "TDLR"?! I don't think I've ever encountered it before.

I encountered it here on BYC.

 

[fuzzi]

We seem to have the opposite trend here. In 2021, we had what we called Snowmageddon. We had like a foot of snow, lost power constantly, and were frozen in place for a week. No one knows how to deal with that here. We used to go 10 or 12 years without even flakes.
Then last year, my first year with chickens, we had 2 snow events. I put straw in the run, wrapped the north side in plastic, and thought we were ready.
Snow still blew into the run. Is it mean to laugh at your chickens sliding coming down the ramp in the morning?
I had to take fresh water out every couple of hours. Craziness for southish Texas.

There was an underwater volcano eruption a couple years ago that appears to have altered weather patterns, temporarily. I read an article about it a couple months ago.

There was another volcanic eruption in the early 1800s that caused widespread famine due to failed crops.

Here's the 1816 event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

I owe tax, will pay it soon.

 

[fuzzi]

The fun thing about snow in the South is that people lose their minds, many convinced that they Must Get Out And Drive Somewhere.

There are the four necessities for life in snow (and ice) storms: milk, bread, disposable diapers (whether you have babies or not), and beer. So those who got through all their supplies the first night - mostly beer - are compelled to make a store run the next morning.

Drivers are mainly divided into three groups:

• People with 4 wheel drive or all wheel drive, especially with SUVs and big ole trucks, who are convinced that they can drive on snow-covered ice. They can’t. Oh, this group includes Yankees who moved South and of course, can drive in snow. Haha.
• People with 1967 Chevy Malibus and other beat-down vehicles featuring bald tires who know they can’t drive in snow, but don’t care (nothing to lose), but need that milk/ bread/ diaper/ beer thing. Yee-haw!
• Everybody else, who doesn’t want some idiot sliding sideways at them going 30 mph on a blind hill. So we just stay home in our unlit, unheated homes, because the power has gone out, of course, and wish that we’d laid in more milk, bread, diapers, and beer.

Truth!

And then there are the Good Old Boys who pull all the idiots out of the deep ditches on the side of the road using chains, tractors and/or farm trucks. They truly are Good, hearted.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Ok, as a native English speaker, I'm asking WHAT IN GOD'S GREEN EARTH IS "TDLR"?! I don't think I've ever encountered it before.

Maybe it’s “too dumb; let’s read!”

 

[Labsandchickens8]

Maybe it’s “too dumb; let’s read!”

Let's go with that one,church I think sadly has some basis in fact.