Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Chicken Ladies]

Good Morning, having my cup before heading off to work...
Puddin Fluff, Your scientific approach to mesquites is way better and logical, the kids decided that mesquitotes didn't have brains and zombies need brains....

I love the rain, I really do... We just need some sunshine so I can clean the Run and Coop, it's one sloshy mess!!!!

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Good Morning, having my cup before heading off to work...
Puddin Fluff, Your scientific approach to mesquites is way better and logical, the kids decided that mesquitotes didn't have brains and zombies need brains....

I love the rain, I really do... We just need some sunshine so I can clean the Run and Coop, it's one sloshy mess!!!!

Don't work too hard.

I like the kids zombie logic too.

I thought of one more reason it wouldn't be spread by mosquitoes: Mosquitoes drink live blood, I don't think they feed on dead animals so they won't bite the zombies anyway.

 

[Peep_Show]

The hummingbirds arrived back in our neck of New Mexico this last week. LOVE getting buzzed in the yard. It's a very distinctive sound that heralds true Spring.

Hail yesterday and storms for tomorrow, but today is dewy and fresh. The screened doors are open to let the fresh air in and the morning sounds go well with my first cup. I can hear birds twittering, a quail calling, and an occasional rooster from down valley.

 

[ronott1]

i was going to comment on a few of the posts but by the time I had caught up with all of them my memory and cup of coffee were both empty.

push the multi button---and hope you remember what you wanted to say when you get to the post you push the quote button for....

 

[chickisoup]

The hummingbirds arrived back in our neck of New Mexico this last week. LOVE getting buzzed in the yard. It's a very distinctive sound that heralds true Spring.

Hail yesterday and storms for tomorrow, but today is dewy and fresh. The screened doors are open to let the fresh air in and the morning sounds go well with my first cup. I can hear birds twittering, a quail calling, and an occasional rooster from down valley.

Sounds so wonderful! I can just smell the clean air

 

[chickisoup]

Way below freezing the other night but starting to warm up again this morning and should get up near 50o F which is a huge improvement. Looks like we might have another week or so of spring again. Hope it holds this time, I have 150 or so onion sets that arrived in the mail the other day that need to get in the ground but I need for the ground to stay thawed out for a day or two first. We also need some rain. Supposed to have gotten some last night but the air was just too dry for it to hit the ground. Oh well, at least the sun is shining so it will be a good day to get a little work done outside.

I have a bully to try and deal with today. My top hen has decided to go from Queen Elizabeth to Ghengis Kuhn. Particularly targeting one of my year old BA's. She goes after the other girls, all except my little matriarch hen, Miss Noodle of course, mostly at treat time but she seems to go after after my BA Pepper for getting too close to the food, for walking too close to her or just for the heck of it. Poor miss Pepper doesn't have any feathers left on the top of her head and I had to spray her with Blu-kote last night to help her heal and to hide the bald spot. My bully has pulled feathers out of the top of the heads of a couple other girls too but not nearly as severely. I'm hoping the frost is out deep enough to let me drive a couple fence posts so I can put the "time out" pen back together for my tyrannt.
Her attacks have been escalating and I want to put a stop to them before they get worse. I don't want to resort to peepers, but I have them ready if I need to.

 

[Bunnylady]

Good Morning, having my cup before heading off to work...
Puddin Fluff, Your scientific approach to mesquites is way better and logical, the kids decided that mesquitotes didn't have brains and zombies need brains....

I'm sorry, I don't get the logic of that at all . . . . it seems to explain why zombies wouldn't bite mosquitoes, but then, I never thought they would.

BUT, if you want scientific and logical, how about . . . . the two things that attract mosquitoes to a potential host are body heat and CO2. (The traps that Vector Control put out use a small flame to produce both the warmth and the CO2 ) Since zombies aren't alive, they wouldn't be warm, nor would they be breathing and releasing CO2, so mosquitoes wouldn't be attracted to them in the first place.

And mentioning things without brains . . . .

Years ago, my husband and I had a little beagle mix that we swore had only 2 functioning brain cells. Sweet, sweet little dog, but such an idiot . . . but I digress. We had other dogs at the time, and of course, there were the usual dog holes dug in the yard - it was expected. (Hubby actually came up with a game - he'd point to a spot, and say, "Mouse, (insert dog's name here), mouse, dig, dig, dig, get the mouse!" and the dog would start digging like crazy in the spot he indicated. He planted a whole bunch of tomato plants that way, much to the entertainment of our neighbor) But we also noticed a lot of those nose-sized holes all over the yard, too. Eventually, we realized that the little holes only appeared at certain times of the year. One day, we caught Top, the bewilder beast, digging one of those holes, and saw her pull a grub out of the dirt and eat it. Revelation! Being in the lawn industry, we knew that there are only a couple of times per year when grubs are actively feeding on the grass roots; trying to treat for them at any other time is a waste of chemical. Top apparently could smell the grubs in the soil, and was digging them up; when they were deeper and inactive, she didn't dig.

There was a farm and garden center that we frequented, that had a reader board sign that often had advice on when to plant certain things. We thought that perhaps, we ought to let them know when our yard was getting dog-holed; we thought it would be awfully funny to see the sign read, "Top says it's time to treat for grubs now."

 

[chickisoup]

I'm sorry, I don't get the logic of that at all . . . . it seems to explain why zombies wouldn't bite mosquitoes, but then, I never thought they would.

There was a farm and garden center that we frequented, that had a reader board sign that often had advice on when to plant certain things. We thought that perhaps, we ought to let them know when our yard was getting dog-holed; we thought it would be awfully funny to see the sign read, "Top says it's time to treat for grubs now."

 

[Puddin Fluff]

There was a farm and garden center that we frequented, that had a reader board sign that often had advice on when to plant certain things. We thought that perhaps, we ought to let them know when our yard was getting dog-holed; we thought it would be awfully funny to see the sign read, "Top says it's time to treat for grubs now."

 

[Woodsdweller]

Don't work too hard.

I like the kids zombie logic too.

I thought of one more reason it wouldn't be spread by mosquitoes: Mosquitoes drink live blood, I don't think they feed on dead animals so they won't bite the zombies anyway.

But you are forgetting the newly bitten, haven't turned yet. Speculation has it that even a small bite will turn someone eventually.

So a mosquito puncturing a zombie gonna be, essentially has punctured a zombie.