Surviving Minnesota!

[lvie]

Good Morning Chickeners. Reading is caught up. Speaking of barn cats I kind of have a funny little story to tell. Went to a neighbors (if they are withing 10 to 12 miles they are a neighbor) on Saturday night for a get-together. She has two outdoor cats - strictly kept for mousing but very friendly. Her garage is set up very nicely for get togethers and yet there is a pet door for the cats to use when the garage door is closed. The misquitos were crashing the party and so the garage doors were closed to lock them out. One cat that had been in and out keeping track of the goings on came in with a chippy in her mouth to offer as a dish to share. The person having the party was panicky and told me to get it out of there. I, being the youngest in the group. Ha, I laughed! She is bringing you a present and you are not happy? I was praising the cat and she dropped the chippy and it was still alive! Hilarious! She caught it again and took it outside. Very friendly cats and very productive. I could use one also but that busy highway always gets those kitties here. I would even build a little cat house for two of them if they would stay away from the highway.

Fell last night and I am kind of incapacitated for today. Its the back. I am very uncomfortable moving around. So, hopefully, I will be able to sit at the PC and enter QuickBooks today. Lots to do on the 'puter.'

DH was working in Aitkin this past weekend. On Saturday he took down 60 trees to gain access to the property and in preparation for a driveway. He has ordered the culvert and the neighbor gave him reference to a retiree that does the grading work. Yea!

 

[duluthralphie]

Cripes, they're is a skunk in the yard! It came around the henhouse as I was walking up to the henhouse. I was only 10 feet from it. Don't know what to do now... (I ran away) i shut on the outside light, hoping to scare it off...

You did that wrong!


To tame a skunk you need to pet their tail. It works every time.....

 

[jerryse]

Well actually I am back .
Holm let the cat out of the bag . I was sure Ralphie would try that taming trick . Not sure if I would of told him later or just snickered privately .

 

[I Love Layers]

Good morning everyone! I should get my Cochins on Thursday or Friday.
My grandparents from South Dakota are up, my dad and my grandpa might work on my Cochins breeding pens. Currently they haven't started cause my dad and I have different opinions on what to do

 

[duluthralphie]

Well actually I am back .
Holm let the cat out of the bag . I was sure Ralphie would try that taming trick . Not sure if I would of told him later or just snickered privately .



Ralphie would have never tried that technique, I grew up on a farm, I knew immediately what you were doing. I have never went on a snipe hunt either..


The last time I fell for something like that I was about 12-14. We had eaten Maple Nut Ice cream, and I asked my Dad where Maple nuts came from. He told us from a Maple tree""

My Brother and I both said we had never seen them. He said, "they grow on the very top of the trees. Just take a gunny sack and climb the tree an pick them."


Trusting our Father we did just that. When we came back hours later with no nuts and told him we could not find one, He just started laughing.

We only had one maple tree here at that time. It was in what is now the Sherburne Wildlife refuge. They cut that old tree down after they stole it from us, it did was not growing in a place they wanted a Maple. They claimed it was not "native". I really have no idea how it got there is it was not native. I remember that tree being huge when I was a kid. Oh well, no sense whining over stolen land.....

Jerry, your technique reminded me of my Dad, thanks!

 

[duluthralphie]

MNChickMom, Grats on the top rated post of the day yesterday!

 

[MNChickMom]

MNChickMom, Grats on the top rated post of the day yesterday!

Thanks I didn't know such a honor existed. Thank you to everyone on the thread for making it happen.

 

[jerryse]

Ralphie My uncle Clyde in MO . tried to fool me as a kid . We were visiting I was 7-8 . I was gathering eggs and a hen was on the nest trying to lay . I took the eggs to the house and told Clyde about the hen . He said go put your hand under her rear and tap her tail 3 times and she will lay a egg in your hand . So I did and she did lay that egg in my hand . I ran back all excited to show him . I think he was more surprised than I was .

 

[Bogtown Chick]

We used to take kids staying at our Fishing Resort on Snipe Hunts at night. Oh Gosh that was fun....we'd giggle until our bellies hurt. Great times growing up.

Cluckies: ewwww! I think I'd rather run into a bear down at the coop than a skunk. They are sooo bad.... It is always unnerving going down there at night to shut them up. If we've been gone all day and into the evening. Often I hear the deer snapping twigs and bounding through the woods at night...but not always sure about that. I always bring Sadie Mae with. She gives a warning bark before we cross the lawn. Very Territorial she is. And a Fraidy Cat. We got back from the Twins game at about 9:30-10:00 and of course it was pretty dark out. I do turn on the deck lights and that helps light up the yard a bit. Then I have the motion sensor light on the coop...but that doesn't turn on until I get down there.

But I usually whistle the "The Colonel Bogey March" as I walk down too...and Sadie with her warning bark is helping. I noted this morning she popped behind the coop in the woods to go potty. Marking territory. Critters beware.

 

[jerryse]

BC do you remember the huge amount of leopard frogs that used to be around back in the 70's ? Might be you are not old enough . Anyway on a rainy night the roads would be alive with jumping frogs . Then the red leg disease nearly wiped out all the frogs . We even had lots of striped garter snakes at the lake . Frogs gone and the snakes that ate them also .