Surviving Minnesota!

[Cebarmlds]

Just because I am seein ga surgeon does not mean I will let him chop me up... Getting a new knee is not something I ever wanted in life. I was hoping to leave with all my original equipment intact.

That could still happen

 

[duluthralphie]

Not trying to feed it to them

Monday I went and harvested some catnip to dry for the cats winter fun, Tuesday night I thought I heard coyotes so I opened a bedroom window to listen and heard what sounded like a large cat YEOWLING.
My cats come inside at night, that is why they are still living, 10 and 15 years old... So yesterday I was out near the catnip patch and saw what I had not harvested( a lot) was mostly eaten. So was it deer, bear,
raccoon, bob cat, lynx, mountain lion. ?

I bet your right.

Do raccoons eat catnip?

I would assume any cat would. Bobcats have a hair raising scream. Mountain Lions have a really loud scream that makes my dogs quake. Also it made me sleep next to my shotgun. There was only a screen between me and it (at the cabin in the Greater metropolitan Togo area).

 

[duluthralphie]

That could still happen

I hope so, as long as it is not too soon. I am just a kid yet.

 

[jerryse]

Indeed! Half day at work then this afternoon I'm having gravel delivered for the approach to my new garage, processing a fridge full of venison quarters (summer sausage yummy) and maybe having a friend over for some trap shooting

Need to paint the inside of my new coop tonight too

Ja summer sausage .

 

[holm25]

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=dmIxZWZNTGlEUmsxdzYzMEE5S3hIOS1LUmhnVzB3

Here are the Cochins.

 

[KlopKlop]

I bet your right.

Do raccoons eat catnip?

I would assume any cat would.   Bobcats have a hair raising scream.   Mountain Lions have a really loud scream that makes my dogs quake. Also it made me sleep next to my shotgun.   There was only a screen between me and it   (at the cabin in the Greater metropolitan Togo area).

Last night shortly after we went to bed there was a loud thump against the side of the house that woke us up. Sounded like someone smashed the door. My hand instinctively went to the gun I keep tucked near the bed and the window shade went up. Turns out one of the cats was locked in battle with this other feral cat we have been seeing around lately. They had smashed into the screen door. Soon they were yowling and that sent the dogs into hysteria. Took a good while to calm everyone down and back to bed

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Gorgeous gorgeous birds holm. Heidi does love her nice cochins.

 

[jerryse]

You had me worried on the ducks. I was speechless.

As far as your pedigree goes,,,,,Well,,,,,,It's a good thing you had a great grandmother. I am thinking your Great Grandfather could make you a Pollock. Judy claims to have some "German" mixed with her lessor Scandinavian blood. However, 40 years ago her Grandpa and I were talking and he was talking about his heritage. He said his family came from the part of Germany that is now known as Poland.

He was a reasonable and smart man, he admitted he was actually a Pollack. Judy seems to think she can hide her Pollock side by claiming to be Norwegian/German. When we all know she is really Lessor Scandinavian/ Pollock..

I am thinking you are trying to hide you Polish side Jerry! Think about it, practicing swan dives off your roof is the kind of thing we would associate to Pollock's or FInlanders......

You know about the area then . No one has admitted to Polish . The DNA ancestry test came back with hits in Germany , Sweden , Swiss , Denmark , Netherlands and France . Alas my German grandmother came from Hesse Darmstadt . So Hessian near France . Seems border crossing is a human trait .

 

[ejb3810]

Holm, you do realize that Cochins are not so much a chicken as just a ball of feathers? Does this strain require AI to reproduce? That to me is not right, and I would never have a variety of birds which required it.

Ralphie, some years ago there was a God awful noise/scream in the middle of the night when we were staying at the cabin on Prairie Lake. I have not heard the sound before or again. I suspected a Cougar as my FIL sighted one there but then again it may simply have been an angry Sasquatch?

 

[duluthralphie]

You know about the area then . No one has admitted to Polish . The DNA ancestry test came back with hits in Germany , Sweden , Swiss , Denmark , Netherlands and France . Alas my German grandmother came from Hesse Darmstadt . So Hessian near France . Seems border crossing is a human trait .

That it is. Even I crossed borders and went to Mille Lacs county to find my wife. A serious step backwards for someone from Orrock...