Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

Morning .

 

[duluthralphie]

Good Morning.

Nice morning here today. Pleasant 22 degrees and sunny.
If these temps hold like this, we might just have a snow free fishing opener.

Think of the advantage we will have this year on opener. No snow to shovel. Drive right to your fishing hole. The beer won't get warm as you can drill a hole right next to the fishing hole for keeping it cool.

If you like hard drinks you won't have to stop and buy ice on the way up. You really will not need a cooler to keep the fish you catch cool, just lay them on the ice.

On many of the lakes you will be able to get through the ice without the extension on your augur.

Also I have it on good authority the Morels will be hitting peak on the 4th of July weekend so more people will be out hunting over the three day weekend.


God bless this global warming.

 

[Cebarmlds]

Good morning.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Did chores in my short sleeves. It’s so weird how I can do that in the spring. That temp in the fall requires a parka.

Broody pearl did not get up for morning treats. She is pancake ! Flat! I will need to get her her own watered down feed. If I dare risk another finger.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

DS and I graded road last night. It’s a bit soon but the mud and ruts this year are horrible. Thought I could displace some water. We also trenched and drained where it would puddle. It froze hard last night it’s like a highway out there.

 

[MNChickMom]

I just got back from a little evening cruise in the car. What a beautiful evening to meet MNChickMom and her hubby and two cute chicken enthusiasts. About the nicest family you’ll ever meet.

Ok you know how teenagers are sometimes solemn and don’t care about meeting people. These kids are not like that! They looked you in the eye. Excited about selling their precious eggs.
Oh man, they must have good parents or something.

Looks like we’ll be setting some BOs and Doms. So excited. Also getting some buff Cochin eggs from holms our famous weatherman/ cat salesman. I hear he does not have snowballs for sale for the eskimos though. Lol.

I am very humbled by your kind words.

As for the excitement in selling their eggs.....I think their might have been an ulterior motive on their behalf.....they know their Pro-life Mom would never toss a potentially fertilized egg. So it was either sell it our Mom would incubate it and they would have more chores.

We have had quite the rollercoaster of a week so far and it is only Thursday. Both of my maternal grandparents are in the hospital, one with complications from a surgery coupled with Pnemonia and the other had an Angiogram that resulted in 3 stents being placed and a possible TIA, and now a stomach ulcer. My mother should be given her own family room for as much time as she is spending in Hospital family rooms. My father is about 3 weeks out from his total knee replacement (plus MCL and ACL repair) so I have spent a few days with him. Most recently I spent Tuesday with him, I arrive to find him driving his 4 wheeler in their yard......DOH! Then we putz around the house and he says, "when we go out for lunch, you will need to grab a few things from the shop, we are stopping at the local Blacksmith Shop, but don't worry you won't get too dirty." (I was dressed in my Professional work clothes as I had an early work meeting.) Arrive at the Blacksmith Shop only to be greeted by, "So you are the poor sucker that has to drive your Dad around today......I'm guessing this was not in your plans." as he eyes up my dress boots and dress pants.

On a positive note I will be making another trip to Mills Fleet because I bought clothing for a cold morning Turkey hunt....now they want a few lighter weight pieces as well.

Hats off to my son and husband who did the chicken shuffle last night to accomodate 21 new hatchlings. Dominiques, Buff Orps, Buckeyes, one RIR, and a few Crested Cream Legbars. I have a larger demand for hatching eggs this year. So I think I am done hatching except Crested Cream Legbars.

Sure signs of Spring.....Last night of religion was last night, my zipper broke on my winter coat this morning(coat has 3 patches and needs about 10 more), so I threw it in the dumpster and did chores without a coat. I lived to tell about it so it must not have been tooo cold.

 

[jerryse]

Sunny here and should hit 50 + . Time to get out there .

 

[jermoatc]

Wanna hear my sad story?? I ordered 10 Bourbon Red turkey poults and 10 broad breasted bronze turkey poults from Strombergs. They arrived this morning and only 2 of the BRs and 5 of the BBBs survived shipping. I was sad to find out that the turkeys actually came from New Mexico and not Minnesota. I try to buy local things as much as possible. The birds were for my kids to show at the county fair this summer. They were unable to get me any replacement birds before June which will be way too late for the fair. Do any of y’all know if there is anybody in (preferably Southern) Minnesota that could sell me any BR or Narragansett turkey poults ....FAST???

 

[holm25]

There is a person in Brainerd with BRs..

 

[holm25]

Just received word that the eggs I shipped all made it to their destination without any cracks... It wasn’t a long journey but the PO had them for 3 days lol