Stella's Social Club

[The Sheriff]

Cynthia, those are beautiful shots!

 

[The Sheriff]

Fire here too close for comfort. It is supposed to be contained now but smoke is horrible. I am going in to lay down with my oxygen on.

 

[The Sheriff]

Oh for god's sake...

So, I took her egg away and now she is sitting on a walnut.

So, every night I am going to have to remember to check and put her back in the coop if she is on a broody road trip or walnut farming.

 

[drumstick diva]

How long does she have to sit on walnuts till they are ripe?

 

[1muttsfan]

Silly bird.

 

[The Sheriff]

How long does she have to sit on walnuts till they are ripe?

As long as it takes.....:/

 

[The Sheriff]

Silly bird.

Ya think?

 

[The Sheriff]

Goldie is no longer broody! Yay! Bigtime. Sure is quiet around here. Maybe it's the heat. We are finally under 100 degrees today so I made soup! LOL, the recipe is on my blog Diva.



Tomorrow I am going to clean the coop. I am embarrassed and pleased to say that this will be only the third time we have cleaned the coop since we moved the girls in almost a year ago! Watertight roof and good ventilation equal a clean and sanitary coop! I really don't even have to clean it now, I just feel like I should because I have always had to before. I can't hardly believe I used to have five coops, now I only have five chickens!

 

[1muttsfan]

Hard to make drastic changes, but sounds like yours paid off.

Any news of the shop?

 

[The Sheriff]

Shop is sort of limping along. Hard to figure out how to let people know we are there. The good news is we are meeting our expenses monthly. The bad news is our neighbor, the only other "retail" type business in the building is moving out in two weeks. We know that will mean we don't have the draw of them anymore and the other businesses don't bring in our type of customer. Auburn is not particularly business friendly either. We have looked into moving, but many of the landlords don't want to lease space to retailers, they want title companies and bail bondsmen. So if something better comes up we might break our lease or just finish out the year, give it our best shot and close entirely if it isn't profitable by then. The hardest part for me right now is that two doors down is a cell phone company that caters to people who can't get a ceel phone contract. They guy who runs it steps out several times a day and puts a note on the door that says he will be back in 15 minutes which is more like an hour. The people who need to pay their bill or get their service restored loiter in front of our store smoking and spitting all over until he gets back. I have some very disgusting video to share with our landlord when we do give our notice. Plus we don't have water so I end up cleaning in front of my shop with water from a little paper cup. People won't walk through all that spew to get in our door.

So we will just press on. I still love painting and won't give that up. This is my latest piece, a 1920's Art Deco vanity.I had to spend $130 to replace the missing mirror and it took me four hours to polish the hardware but I love how it came out. I painted it Renfrew Blue.