The Front Porch Swing

[Beekissed]

no honey no. if your going to boost something make it worth your while. safes do the safes.

In yer pockets....

 

[LindaB220]

Welcome to the porch!!

Kansas, checkin' in!!!

I love this pic....very much all about old farms and brings back memories of my granny's farm where all the barns and buildings were that silvered, weathered old wood, as well as all the fenceposts.

Pull up a chair and sit a spell....listen to Blooie's stories but don't have a drink in your mouth. We've been cleaning up the spewed sweet tea but the floor still seems a little tacky from it all...starting to attract sweet ants!




Here ya go, Blooie......

Bee, funniest thing I've seen in a while. Too cute.

 

[LindaB220]

so am i, slept in til 10:30, it sure is quite here with the kids being at there dads.

Bliss!!! The utter stillness of being totally alone.

 

[Beekissed]

Hey, Bruce!

Sitting here listening to Damian Kyle preach and watching my chickens waaaayyyyyyy up on the hill behind the coop, scratching up leaves like dervishes and 5 deer following behind them, feeding on something...I'm wondering if the deer are taking advantage of the scratched up leaves to find acorns, tender shoots of growing things and young grass. This isn't the first time I've seen them feeding together and deer often can be seen feeding with wild turkeys in much this same way...it's kind of neat that the chickens fit so neatly into the natural world of the forest and meadow.

The other day we had dumped out some rotten apples..a whole plastic tote full...into the garden and the chickens have been systematically feeding on them...and so have the deer. And these apples are mushy, brown, juicy and fully fermented and everyone wants them. Goes to show what the animals think about how chickens shouldn't eat rotten, spoiled foods.

This is foraging, scavenging, and free ranging at its finest, when everything is an opportunity for food....and it's interesting to note that there is still FF in the trough in the coop, untouched and unwanted in the choice for natural food vs. grain based food.

The funny thing is my dog lies at the base of the hill...chewing on an old deer hide and bones, while the deer pass along behind him like he is friend, and he doesn't see them as prey at all.

 

[bruceh]

i just watched that cat heard video. even i smiled. now back in my day cat heard was left to the boys.i tell you the men. the real rough necks. humm we we all heard the skunk. that's right the skunk. we were real men. nothing like gathering up our best seasoned men and horses and riden all day to drive in the skunk. i tell you now that was about hardest stinkiest job. but boy we got it done. it was job. lonely out on the range.for days on end. we ad to wait for the perfect time to git them skunk. but we got um. then after the dust settled and the wild skunk were brought in. the work really begun. each skunk had to be graded and branded according to quality. the culls were then butchered and and made stew of. that was our bonus. ya had to be careful handling them skunk. one mes up and them darn thing would spray all over ya. let me tell ya nothing like good ole skunk stew with green peppers, carrots and potatoes. seasoned just right with a good brown gravy. none of that new york city bottle stuff either. man i tell ya served that skunk stew blob it over a heap of noddles. now that was a meal boy. and a good one at that. the fancy computer kids today. der missing some fine fixings i tell ya. umm umm. i have a hankering for a good ole bowl of skunk now.

bee if you don't mind . ya think you could find me a mess of good skunk. i fix ya all some. you leave them cats to them chineese food joints. me im an american skunk man

 

[Searsmom]

I always pm Nifty when I have a problem. I swear he can fix ANYTHING!

I did that. He had me post it and no fix.

 

[Beekissed]

i just watched that cat heard video. even i smiled. now back in my day cat heard was left to the boys.i tell you the men. the real rough necks. humm we we all heard the skunk. that's right the skunk. we were real men. nothing like gathering up our best seasoned men and horses and riden all day to drive in the skunk. i tell you now that was about hardest stinkiest job. but boy we got it done. it was job. lonely out on the range.for days on end. we ad to wait for the perfect time to git them skunk. but we got um. then after the dust settled and the wild skunk were brought in. the work really begun. each skunk had to be graded and branded according to quality. the culls were then butchered and and made stew of. that was our bonus. ya had to be careful handling them skunk. one mes up and them darn thing would spray all over ya. let me tell ya nothing like good ole skunk stew with green peppers, carrots and potatoes. seasoned just right with a good brown gravy. none of that new york city bottle stuff either. man i tell ya served that skunk stew blob it over a heap of noddles. now that was a meal boy. and a good one at that. the fancy computer kids today. der missing some fine fixings i tell ya. umm umm. i have a hankering for a good bowl now.

bee if you don't mind . ya think you could find me a mess of good skunk. i fix ya all some. you leave them cats to them chineese food joints. me im an american skunk man

My dream job!!!!

 

[Searsmom]

Sometimes I just don't answer the door, especially if it's not someone I know...and even sometimes when it is!

I did that to my dad once when I was sick and didn't feel like dealing with anyone. He got the landlord all worked up about how something might be wrong and had him unlock the door.

I was angry, dad was angry and landlord just kind of faded off into the background. Never happened again.

 

[Beekissed]

I did that to my dad once when I was sick and didn't feel like dealing with anyone. He got the landlord all worked up about how something might be wrong and had him unlock the door.

I was angry, dad was angry and landlord just kind of faded off into the background. Never happened again.

I don't mind family...they've seen me and my house at its worst and they don't care.

 

[lindz8504]

Good morning afternoon everyone!

I lost a chick this morning.... It was the one that the others kept pecking. It was away from the others when I went down to check on them this morning. Everyone was huddled up under the light, except that little one. I brought it up to the house and was warming it back up, but it never really came back around. Everyone else is doing well, though. We did lower the light a little bit, because it is supposed to get colder and possibly snow this evening into tomorrow. They seem to be doing ok, they go eat and scratch around, then when they get cold, they go huddle under the light. Anyway, they should be ok and this will toughen them up I guess!