The Front Porch Swing

[Triple Willow]

Check out these porches! This is just what we need! lol

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Check out these porches! This is just what we need! lol

Lol! Sounds great!

 

[perchie.girl]

I have a story to share later this evening if I remember.

I have to go up to the house today Good news As you may know I had predators either moutnain lion or Coyotes take out my goats last week. Domino Diego and Rikki. My neighbor found and buried Domino for me. The other two were no where to be found. Domino was my Pygmy.... Diego and Rikki were Nigerian Dwarfs. After some discussion we figured it was a mountain lion and that the coyotes took an opportunity with Domino.

Yesterday My neighbor Tom was taking one of his walks in the desert with his dogs.... While he was walking he spotted a red goat up in the rocks. He thought it might be my littlest Diego. It started following him and the dogs.... and followed him all the way home.

Hopefully Tom was able to get the grain out and coax Diego home and get him secured in a pen. Today I hope to get the Chiciken coop straightened up for Goat housing. The chicken coop is Coyote and mountain lion proof. All we have to do is get water going in there.

So I am going up with a new garden hose and a bag of rice hulls for a comfy bed.

deb

 

[LindaB220]

Check out these porches! This is just what we need! lol

Wow, talk about your morning coffee!!!

 

[LindaB220]

I have a story to share later this evening if I remember.

I have to go up to the house today Good news As you may know I had predators either moutnain lion or Coyotes take out my goats last week. Domino Diego and Rikki. My neighbor found and buried Domino for me. The other two were no where to be found. Domino was my Pygmy.... Diego and Rikki were Nigerian Dwarfs. After some discussion we figured it was a mountain lion and that the coyotes took an opportunity with Domino.

Yesterday My neighbor Tom was taking one of his walks in the desert with his dogs.... While he was walking he spotted a red goat up in the rocks. He thought it might be my littlest Diego. It started following him and the dogs.... and followed him all the way home.

Hopefully Tom was able to get the grain out and coax Diego home and get him secured in a pen. Today I hope to get the Chiciken coop straightened up for Goat housing. The chicken coop is Coyote and mountain lion proof. All we have to do is get water going in there.

So I am going up with a new garden hose and a bag of rice hulls for a comfy bed.

deb

Yea, deb. Wonderful news. Keep us informed.

 

[RachaelS]

I have a story to share later this evening if I remember.

I have to go up to the house today Good news As you may know I had predators either moutnain lion or Coyotes take out my goats last week. Domino Diego and Rikki. My neighbor found and buried Domino for me. The other two were no where to be found. Domino was my Pygmy.... Diego and Rikki were Nigerian Dwarfs. After some discussion we figured it was a mountain lion and that the coyotes took an opportunity with Domino.

Yesterday My neighbor Tom was taking one of his walks in the desert with his dogs.... While he was walking he spotted a red goat up in the rocks. He thought it might be my littlest Diego. It started following him and the dogs.... and followed him all the way home.

Hopefully Tom was able to get the grain out and coax Diego home and get him secured in a pen. Today I hope to get the Chiciken coop straightened up for Goat housing. The chicken coop is Coyote and mountain lion proof. All we have to do is get water going in there.

So I am going up with a new garden hose and a bag of rice hulls for a comfy bed.

deb

Wow, that is GREAT news

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Yea, deb. Wonderful news. Keep us informed.

x2

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Tom turkey wrestled into parts so we can fit it in the oven. I so wish the second oven was working!

Time to rub these bits with spices and get them cooking. :-D I want lunch NOW! Food, food everywhere, but not a bite to eat.

 

[TexasLisa]

Good morning everyone. I haven't been on for a couple weeks and part of it was because I was dreading something and couldn't bring myself to say much about what has been going on.

No one is dead, I am moderately healthy, the flock is fine, I'm getting about six darn eggs a day now (and I don't know what the heck to do with them all). I guess I'm just still reeling.

In a week's time, I'll be leaving my hometown and moving to Austin. My boss decided after I started working for him that he was moving away to better support his family (the dude has 9 kids). About a week ago and a half ago, he asked me if I had other job plans once they left and I said I wasn't sure. I'd have to look because graphic design jobs aren't necessarily easy to find around here when you have a bunch of unregistered artists making cash and not paying taxes on the jobs they do.

Well, he said that he wanted to hire me in Austin. He said I could stay with his family for a couple months and see how I liked it and I could get the print shop started for him while e's off working construction. If it's successful, I can start earning more money than I make right now. If I don't like it, I can just call my sister and she said she'd drive up and bring me back home.

At first, hearing it from him, I was about to say no. I have my entire family here, I'll miss them, I can't leave them here. Then I thought of my chickens and thought, Oh no, I spend about ten hours a week on my chickens, not including feeding and watering. How will they be able to deal with them if as soon as they get home, they just pass out on the couch?! I work forty hours a week too and I still spend about 20 hours outside playing head rooster and cleaning up and watering and socializing the chicks so they don't become evil hens in the future. My Mom doesn't know nest eggs from real eggs! Nest eggs are wooden! What the heck is gonna happen to the flock once I'm gone?!

But then I talked to Mama. She's got quite a head on her shoulders and as a teacher, her common sense comes by the bucketful.

She said that if I was excited about going (I was), then I could go and she'd finally have the incentive to not fall asleep as soon as she got home from work. She'd work with the flock, keep 'em clean and fed. And she wouldn't sell them off (which I was worried about because we have a lot of chickens).

A lot of my plans for this year are gone. I wanted to have my garden, raise meat rabbits, hatch 3 dozen Muscovy ducklings, start engraving EE eggs. So much I had wanted to do this year is based on me living here.

However, I HAVE wanted to move to Austin. I do need a decent paying job and not having to pay rent would be awesome (I don't pay rent now, but still!). Also, I need friends. Like, actual friends who I can't meet up with for coffee and can talk to about current events and art and heck, I'd love to start dating! I was flirted with this week and you know what I did?

I freakin' ignored it and started talking about how I only use hi-resolution photos in my work. That, my friends, is flirting from a girl so out of touch with males that she has never dated. Whoop-dee-freaking-doo!

I'll likely be visiting the front porch as often as I can for the familiarity and comfort. I'm from a fairly small town and I love my home. But meeting new people and seeing a new place might be just what I need. Of course, I'm kinda limited because my boss does have a large family and they are super religious. Nothing wrong with that, but creature comforts like watching ghost shows with my Mom will be gone. Or singing my music or painting abstract art, or questioning things. That's gonna be hard. Mom taught us how to think, so we question loads of stuff. It's in my nature to question ideologies (respectfully) but I won't be able to do it there for fear of influencing his children in a way he or his wife won't like.

I guess I'm just a little sad and I didn't want to share that sadness with anyone for awhile. I've been spending lots of time with the birds. I don't want them to forget about me.

Laura, I am so excited for you! I hope everything works out for you. You will be in my prayers!

I have a story to share later this evening if I remember.

I have to go up to the house today Good news As you may know I had predators either moutnain lion or Coyotes take out my goats last week. Domino Diego and Rikki. My neighbor found and buried Domino for me. The other two were no where to be found. Domino was my Pygmy.... Diego and Rikki were Nigerian Dwarfs. After some discussion we figured it was a mountain lion and that the coyotes took an opportunity with Domino.

Yesterday My neighbor Tom was taking one of his walks in the desert with his dogs.... While he was walking he spotted a red goat up in the rocks. He thought it might be my littlest Diego. It started following him and the dogs.... and followed him all the way home.

Hopefully Tom was able to get the grain out and coax Diego home and get him secured in a pen. Today I hope to get the Chiciken coop straightened up for Goat housing. The chicken coop is Coyote and mountain lion proof. All we have to do is get water going in there.

So I am going up with a new garden hose and a bag of rice hulls for a comfy bed.

deb

Deb, please keep us posted! I am happy for you!

Lisa

 

[rrrmamma]

What great news. Maybe Rikki will show up too. Sounds like you have some work ahead of you.