The chicken looks good Minnie. I just think it is wrong of them to have the swap tomorrow when I need at least another weeks time.
EJB I did not know for sure, but was taking an educated guess on the CM's being barred. I have so much to learn on these birds and so little time to learn it. I would like to go to the fair and see Holm do his thing and the other birds too, but I am a crowdophobe. Judy has been pushing to go she is off for a couple weeks so who knows.
Ivie those things sound great. I remember when I was a kid, which was WAY long ago, eating those things. Stella Skoog use to make all those things. They lived across the river and up in the land the Feds stole to make the refuge out of. She was about 75 then and cooked and baked all that Scandinavian foodstuff. I have searched my entire life to find lefsa as good as hers was. I have never found it. ( I would guess with a name like Stella Skoog, and recalling her accent she was pure Norwegian.)
I lost a tree branch last night, A huge one. I got so lucky. It just missed my Van, my old Lawn mower/tractor and the deck. It also just missed my layer coop.
I actually looked for marks on the van and did not see any. I guess I need to move a tree now.
My old white dog is in her last year I think. She is throwing up several times a day. We can not find anything soft enough for her to eat and keep down. We are cooking her rice in chicken broth but even that comes back up. I am so going to miss her and am so worried. We have decided to not take her to a Vet. She is 11 years old and that is the oldest Lab we have ever had. It just does not make sense to spend thousands of dollars on her when the inevitable is so close at hand for her. She is the first dog we can actually call ours. The dogs before her were "Kid Picked" and not ours. All the dogs before her even thought of themselves as the kids best friend. I still think of her as my pup even as she ages.
Besides the tree, I have canning on the table for today, I am going to make some chunk pickles out of the large cukes, I have not decided if I want to dill or sweet pickle them. I also have some peppers to deal with. I have no idea what I will do with them. The hot ones I will pickle in vinegar, the "other ones" Judy likes stuffed. I cannot even stand the smell of a baking stuffed pepper. I am wondering if I can freezer them until they are hard then vacuum pack them so she can stuff them during the winter. Do peppers need to be blanched before freezing?
Jerry, I think it is funny the people on the EE thread telling you how Ameraucanas were developed and what breeds went into them. I especially like the people that insist EE were created from Ameraucanas.
MNchick I hope your "shingle chicken killing" party goes well tomorrow. Are you going to shingle even in the rain, if it rains?
On the chicken front, I need to find another Show Rooster in my Mob of boys, Andy is still perfect but his crest as became so small or his hackles so full that it is almost non-existent. The proposed SOPs say no crest is a disqualifying defect. also his comb has gotten so large it no longer makes him look balanced and his waddles are getting "wrinkles". I still plan to use him for breeding. If I use only well endowed hens it should balance itself. (fingers crossed) I will try to get some pictures one of these days. Also the huge comb is no longer as smooth as I like it to be. I am going to enter him in the BYC comb contest this fall, if they have one.
Oh Ivie: All that down home talk with Grandma in the picture. I remember stayovers with my Grandparents in the rolling bluff country of Southeastern MN. Big Scanda-hoovian settlements there. Grandma and Grandpa would have us for late summer week visit. She had a tub of rainwater for watering her plants that she would sacrifice for our baths. My hair was never softer than that bath. I remember the sounds of crickets in the cracks of their sidewalk and in the crabgrass and the glow of a setting sun. I remember a climbing clematis, bleeding heart all around her house. She would also do her laundry outside. Grandpa would roll the Washer out of the garage. It was the tub with a ringer/roller set up. We watched her amazed. She'd make us supper. And then Grandpa would keep the A & W in the basement and bring up a couple bottles and Make Rootbeer floats. Mmmm delicious. We'd watch Lawrence Welk and the Dolly Parton Shows. Then off to bed.
Oh Gee...I hope I said my Ameraucana statement well enough, Jerry.I'm a fan of the breed! I love them.And I know they are not EE's. LOL.
Ralphie...I will not throw the jars out....just their contents. I'm too 'skin flint' to throw away jars.
