Surviving Minnesota!

[MNChickMom]

Time to call upon the neighbor with coon hounds......This morning the yard around the coop was littered with coon scat and over the weekend hubby saw 5. With husband working out of town, it makes things a bit trickier...I'm only allowed and I'm only comfortable shooting my 20 gauge shot gun....might be a bit overkill. I will set out a few live traps and call upon the neighbor.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

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 .

I was born in 1970. So I was around. I was probably more of a frog catcher in 1979 through the mid 80's as that's when we sold the farm ('79) near Rochester and moved north to the woods/resort. I was a driver by 1986. I remember a warm rainy night driving into town and the highway covered in frogs. I remember feeling so bad as I drove over them. I love frogs. Every spring we get a chorus from our pot hole and I open the windows to let in the cool fresh sweet spring air and to hear the frogs.
Lots of Leopards yet here. But maybe you're right about disease and snakes. And I'm suspicious, my flock have alot on the run around here in the last 4 years, I do see them still along with alot of tree frogs. They love laying in my lawn at the edge of the lawn (close to cover and their water holes) and they are waiting for those little white Moths. Which also the chickens love.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Time to call upon the neighbor with coon hounds......This morning the yard around the coop was littered with coon scat and over the weekend hubby saw 5. With husband working out of town, it makes things a bit trickier...I'm only allowed and I'm only comfortable shooting my 20 gauge shot gun....might be a bit overkill. I will set out a few live traps and call upon the neighbor.

I think I saw some critter scat up near the house on our septic mound the other day too. But I also feed the chickens there (Northside of the house-shady and cool) and I'm sure the spillage from the feed bowls has them curious and licking up wasted feed. I'm okay with a little of that...as long as I don't see it down at my coop. It's a good time to recheck pop doors, windows, and overall security down at the coop though.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

This guy with his suction cup fingers was watching tv with us.


Or maybe on bug duty on my freshly washed windows.

Jerry I can't help feeling that the chloride on our back roads have harmed the frogs as well. Some deformities and such. Last year or so our township did quit doing chloride. It's expensive and it was cheaper to pay for loads of dirt and a more regular grader they told us. Also it will help with the rust factor on cars.

 

[lvie]

Hi Holms - nothing returned to me in my mailbox this morning. How did your mailbox look?

 

[Cebarmlds]

Hi Holms - nothing returned to me in my mailbox this morning. How did your mailbox look?

Ivie, just wondering if your receipt had a tracking number?

 

[duluthralphie]

I am home and chores are too. Judy came out and helped me "hold" roosters.

I think they will tame down, all except one. I actually had the best Dominique standing on my leg with just my hand lightly on his breast.

I hope to get pictures of him tomorrow. Now I am fretting his comb, more than before. Is it too big? Does it reach too far behind his skull? Is it too wide in the front? Is that hollow or not? Are the waddles too large?

Judy held the SS's they did pretty good, so now I can start obsessing on them and their looks. Will it ever end? Why do I worry about such worthless stuff?


Great Day Mushroom hunting, having Hen for supper tonight!

 

[lvie]

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Yeah . . . . about that receipt. I threw three stamps on it and threw it in the box. It was in a brown envelop with hardly any bulk. It does not have any value except to me, because I spend a whole half hour cutting them out and sewing them, and to the chicken to make her more comfortable. Maybe it is time for me to try again. Then put them in a small box and walk them into the postoffice and mail them. I'll worry about it tomorrow.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Yeah . . . . about that receipt. I threw three stamps on it and threw it in the box. It was in a brown envelop with hardly any bulk. It does not have any value except to me, because I spend a whole half hour cutting them out and sewing them, and to the chicken to make her more comfortable. Maybe it is time for me to try again. Then put them in a small box and walk them into the postoffice and mail them. I'll worry about it tomorrow.

LOL, yes we've all done that I'm sure. It could still get to Holms though.

 

[Cebarmlds]

I am home and chores are too. Judy came out and helped me "hold" roosters.

I think they will tame down, all except one. I actually had the best Dominique standing on my leg with just my hand lightly on his breast.

I hope to get pictures of him tomorrow. Now I am fretting his comb, more than before. Is it too big? Does it reach too far behind his skull? Is it too wide in the front? Is that hollow or not? Are the waddles too large?

Judy held the SS's they did pretty good, so now I can start obsessing on them and their looks. Will it ever end? Why do I worry about such worthless stuff?


Great Day Mushroom hunting, having Hen for supper tonight!

I'm happy to hear Judy is getting out, must be feeling better.

I thought the hen shrooms were orange and grew on oaks.