The Front Porch Swing

[Blooie]

Well I just got confused.....I clicked the "home" button and was perusing some of the threads when I ran across a new post on "The Front Porch Swing". So I thought since notifications aren't always working maybe there was a new post I needed to check out. Clicked on it and it's an entirely different Porch Swing. How weird is that??

 

[Tomtommom]

Alternate reality! Ooooh weeee oooooh

 

[Blooie]

Alternate reality! Ooooh weeee oooooh

Feel like I should be humming the theme from "The Twilight Zone" but in order to do that I'd have to be old enough to remember that show, right? Right? RIGHT????

Edited: The other Front Porch was started by babymaker6

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

I just talked Dad into offering our foreman's wife one of the turkey breasts ... or one half of all the breast meat from the turkey. She said bring it over, so now it is gone!

It has no bones, and I trimmed it of all the excess fat and skin because neither Dad nor I really like the extra fat ... We weighed it on the way out the door: 11.5 lbs. That makes 23 lbs of breast meat on a 48 lb bird. Not too bad.

Our foreman & his wife live in Grandma's little house (where Dad grew up) with their daughter's family. There are a lot of mouths to feed over there.

Woot, woot!

 

[Beekissed]

Well I just got confused.....I clicked the "home" button and was perusing some of the threads when I ran across a new post on "The Front Porch Swing". So I thought since notifications aren't always working maybe there was a new post I needed to check out. Clicked on it and it's an entirely different Porch Swing. How weird is that??

Feel like I should be humming the theme from "The Twilight Zone" but in order to do that I'd have to be old enough to remember that show, right? Right? RIGHT????

Edited: The other Front Porch was started by babymaker6

Seriously? Do folks just not have any dignity anymore?

My ideas have been ripped off all over BYC but this one is the most blatant....folks are just amazing.... Weird is right.

 

[Beekissed]

You hang the deer by the neck, cape it down a little so you can fit a hammer head or a tennis ball under the cape, tie a rope to that knob and pull the skin off with the Jeep....slick as a whistle! I have pics if you want to see it......

After a couple of requests for pics, I will have to gag one of our dear members with pics of deer..and a young cow.......being skinned with a rope, hammer and a vehicle. Sorry, but inquiring minds wanted to see.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Ingenious!

 

[wyoDreamer]

As long as it is a fairly fresh kill, it works really easy and there ends up being a lot less hair on the carcass as an extra bonus..

 

[sarahsunshine]

After a couple of requests for pics, I will have to gag one of our dear members with pics of deer..and a young cow.......being skinned with a rope, hammer and a vehicle. Sorry, but inquiring minds wanted to see.

Thank you!!! there are a couple videos on Youtube, but the cow was great! Keep that camera on you - never know when people what people want photos of!

In other news, my renos are nothing near Bruce's... But I need to make some prep for our new addition:



We pick him up next week! We are picking out names this week! He's going to be our Chicken Dog! He's a Maremma and about 8 weeks old now. I'm pretty excited but nervous at the same time. I've never had a dog of any particular breed before!

Lastly, how does one entice the chickens to lay in the nest box rather than somewhere in their elatively large run that they fancy (under numerous 5' tall ferns). 2 days ago we got 5 eggs, yesterday 4, and today 2... from 6 chooks (Plymouth Barred Rock). Today the two eggs we found were in the nest box, but we searched the run for any others to no avail. Not putting it past them to only have laid 2 eggs, but it seems like a big drop. We have only had them since Sunday (Saturday? Friday?), and they have been through a bunch of work (hammering, fence building, no roosts, beautiful roosts... Nothing new for them today, but tomorrow I need to finish the door that separates the hen house into a 6x6 foot coop, and the feed/dog house. I didn't take any before photos, but there were two old camper windows that the previous owner's 3 sons had spent many a day throwing marbles at... and broken glass all over inside. Lots of cleaning and now she looks like this:



A good 18' of roosts (easily removed), room for another 6' of roosts, and 4 nest boxes (easily doubled), and about 4-5" of sawdust. I would be a happy chicken there! It smells so nice! And boy do they love their fermented feed!!! They follow me and flock all over me whenever I get near the coop! They don't seem worried by the dog (our ancient deaf, partly blind, pet heeler cross). If anything they flock to her too!

Now, won't DH be surprised when he gets home in 1.5 weeks? The kids are all excited and want to go check for eggs every 5 minutes...

What's the cheapest way to redo a roof? Currently there is a 25yo cedar shake roof that rains potato bugs on me when I swing a hammer! I can see through it in various places! It's mostly water proof because of the moss holding it together though!

 

[Oldmomma]

Its morning and I have a contact for tickets I need to contact. Im sadden over my kids leaving but as I said, we look at 18+ as adults in the west. I know what lies out there. Here they would never leave home without marriage and boys stay close to parents. My sil has 5 sons and 6 daughters only two have married of her sons. One moved to another city because he still supported the prior regime. It broke her heart.
God only gave me two sons which here not having sons is hard. I guess im thankful I was more of a tomboy and have many skills. I know many women lost husbands and sons and life became hard for them. But I have to have faith in God. Prayers to all, had a lot to do today but being friday it will be delayed to afternoon hours if they are open even.