The Front Porch Swing

[MistyMountain]

Welcome to the Porch!

We have a variety of chairs...rocking chairs, Adirondack, sling chairs, hay bales, buckets and even hammocks! Take your ease, help yourself to a chilly drink, a snack and tell us all about you...or sit quietly and listen to others. You are free to chat or not, as you wish!

Ah, hay bale or bucket is just fine for me. I'll share the latest and greatest with you all-- as of 7:30 this morning, I am broody again

. This is the second and LAST (mark those words) that I am going to play broody. I ordered ten chicks. I got 19 chicks. Anyone want a leghorn cockerel? The standing rule at my house is that if you come visit, you have to leave with a dozen eggs. I may amend that so that you leave with a dozen eggs AND a chick.

Welcome to the Front Porch! Would you like Sweet Tea or Unsweetened? All the goodies are over yonder by Miss Bee. Pull up a chair and sit and enjoy the beautiful day. We have all kinds of dogs running around the yard. The beautiful Percheron belongs to PerchieGirl.

Must warn you of one thing: When Miss Blooie tells a story (and she is good), do not be eating or drinking anything. We have all had to wipe our computer screens off several times.

Lisa

Sweet tea for me! And if you have a few sprigs of mint I will take some of that as well! And what a beautiful day it is! A little t-ball this evening, dinner out on the deck. No complaints here. I might have a dog follow me now and then. She's nice, but she might pee if you pet her! Perhaps PerchieGirl's Percheron could use a bit of company as well? My Valentine is more of a lawnmower these days, but he has some spunk left in him.

I love a good story, Miss Blooie!

Thank you for the warm welcome!

 

[lindz8504]

I may have to run out and get a better one of her coloration. The one I'm sending is over a week old.


Compare her wattles and comb development and the dark green in her tail, coming in now on her wings, to the known Red Sex Link behind her... same age. The color is decidedly green - it's really dark and metallic looking. I really need a better shot of that.


Side view of her wattles and comb. She is about 9 weeks old.


Charlie, our Red Sex Link cockerel. He's definitely all boy!



This is her on the far left, lifting her head to show off her attributes. I'm still not seeing "roo" in flashing lights, but she has me curious. Wouldn't be the first person to buy one breed and get another, would I? LOL

I'm seeing girl. Here are a couple of mine.. not sure ages though....

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

Hello folks! My name is Kathy and I live in Eastern Washington State. I retired from the University of Washington School of Medicine/Surgery with 24 yrs. service--moved here from Seattle 3 years ago, It's the high desert here with a very harsh climate, high winds, extreme heat, and bitter winters.

I've had chickens for 12 years, the 1st 9 just hatchery stock. I decided to get private breeder eggs here on BYC and have hatched hundreds of quality chicks in the past 3 years. My 1st love is the Barred Rocks--my first heritage breed Barred are in lockdown (only 4). I am so excited. My son is trying like heck to talk me into giving me 1--no way! Next year if all goes well.

I love BYC and the people that contribute. It's a wonderful community of like-minded folks--I have learned tons and tons!

 

[Blooie]

A big front porch welcome to Kathy and Double M! Glad you could join us up on the porch! You can take my bucket if you need a place to sit. My hmmhmm doesn't fit in it anymore. I wish it did....it used to! I think I have a bad case of the fluffies going here!

It's past time for me to do something about those winter fluffies! My 8 year old granddaughter Katie climbed up on my lap, rested her sweet head on my shoulder and said, "Oh, Gramma! Your fat is so soft."

That's it! I either need to lose a few pounds here or ban Katiebug from sitting on my lap ever again! Since I would miss her snuggles more than the extra weight, the weight has got to go. If I'd have been thinking I'd have had liposuction as long as the doc already had the holes punched for the gallbladder surgery!

I didn't think I looked that bad. I mean, once I lie down on the bed and get my jeans zipped up, then put on a shirt with lots of pattern or prints, stand in front of the mirror and inhale deeply, and only look at me from the front, I look pretty doggone good! I run into trouble when I assume my natural posture. stand sideways, and exhale. That's also when I have to dig the button of my jeans out of my belly button, where for some reason it seems to have lodged when the rest of me collapsed.

I've got 6-pack abs, but they're two liter bottles. I had to chase my swimming suit down yesterday so I could get into the hot tub. I found it cowering in the corner behind the recliner. It isn't convinced that it's the bromine in the tub making the seams split, I guess. And let's not even discuss the traitorous towel! Towels can laugh. Betcha didn't know that, did ya?

I have an exercise program going here with my XBox Kinnect. It's pretty strenuous doing three games of bowling, three games of table tennis, three rounds of boxing and a couple of trips down a white water canyon. But I do it once a week. It absolutely gets my heart racing! I'm winded, sweaty and I feel like I've been to a gym with a personal trainer! It usually takes me four cans of pop and a bag of tater chips just to get through a session.

So this is it. Tomorrow I go on a diet! I watched a girl at Walmart the other day buying Slim Fast. She was gorgeous! I have one thigh that weighs more than she does. So I stood there wondering if she once looked like me and Slim Fast helped her look so good, or if she just woke up that morning and thought she'd go to the store on the off chance that I'd be there and she could make me feel bad. I hung my head in shame. That's when I realized I couldn't see my feet.

Shoot! I'm taller laying down than I am standing up. So wish me luck. I am starting this at %*@ pounds. When it's all over I will be down to 130 pounds. Which leg that might be I'm not sure, but one of them will be down to 130!

 

[Beekissed]

Hello folks! My name is Kathy and I live in Eastern Washington State. I retired from the University of Washington School of Medicine/Surgery with 24 yrs. service--moved here from Seattle 3 years ago, It's the high desert here with a very harsh climate, high winds, extreme heat, and bitter winters.

I've had chickens for 12 years, the 1st 9 just hatchery stock. I decided to get private breeder eggs here on BYC and have hatched hundreds of quality chicks in the past 3 years. My 1st love is the Barred Rocks--my first heritage breed Barred are in lockdown (only 4). I am so excited. My son is trying like heck to talk me into giving me 1--no way! Next year if all goes well.

I love BYC and the people that contribute. It's a wonderful community of like-minded folks--I have learned tons and tons!

So glad you could make it!

We get into some strange discussions here but mostly just family, chickens, and fun. Give a shout out to another Rock lover!

I'm a White Rock fan....Fred calls us all Rock Heads.

 

[enola]

Blooie you can make me laugh even on a bad day.


Speaking of bad days. ....... Something has been killing my hens........ caught an adult male feral cat today. I got a .22 for birthday. It works REAL good.

 

[Beekissed]

A big front porch welcome to Kathy and Double M! Glad you could join us up on the porch! You can take my bucket if you need a place to sit. My hmmhmm doesn't fit in it anymore. I wish it did....it used to! I think I have a bad case of the fluffies going here!

It's past time for me to do something about those winter fluffies! My 8 year old granddaughter Katie climbed up on my lap, rested her sweet head on my shoulder and said, "Oh, Gramma! Your fat is so soft."

That's it! I either need to lose a few pounds here or ban Katiebug from sitting on my lap ever again! Since I would miss her snuggles more than the extra weight, the weight has got to go. If I'd have been thinking I'd have had liposuction as long as the doc already had the holes punched for the gallbladder surgery!

I didn't think I looked that bad. I mean, once I lie down on the bed and get my jeans zipped up, then put on a shirt with lots of pattern or prints, stand in front of the mirror and inhale deeply, and only look at me from the front, I look pretty doggone good! I run into trouble when I assume my natural posture. stand sideways, and exhale. That's also when I have to dig the button of my jeans out of my belly button, where for some reason it seems to have lodged when the rest of me collapsed.

I've got 6-pack abs, but they're two liter bottles. I had to chase my swimming suit down yesterday so I could get into the hot tub. I found it cowering in the corner behind the recliner. It isn't convinced that it's the bromine in the tub making the seams split, I guess. And let's not even discuss the traitorous towel! Towels can laugh. Betcha didn't know that, did ya?

I have an exercise program going here with my XBox Kinnect. It's pretty strenuous doing three games of bowling, three games of table tennis, three rounds of boxing and a couple of trips down a white water canyon. But I do it once a week. It absolutely gets my heart racing! I'm winded, sweaty and I feel like I've been to a gym with a personal trainer! It usually takes me four cans of pop and a bag of tater chips just to get through a session.

So this is it. Tomorrow I go on a diet! I watched a girl at Walmart the other day buying Slim Fast. She was gorgeous! I have one thigh that weighs more than she does. So I stood there wondering if she once looked like me and Slim Fast helped her look so good, or if she just woke up that morning and thought she'd go to the store on the off chance that I'd be there and she could make me feel bad. I hung my head in shame. That's when I realized I couldn't see my feet.

Shoot! I'm taller laying down than I am standing up. So wish me luck. I am starting this at %*@ pounds. When it's all over I will be down to 130 pounds. Which leg that might be I'm not sure, but one of them will be down to 130!

And she did it again! We don't even need visuals on these stories...the bathing suit cowering behind the recliner was just too much!

<wipes computer screen...once again...>

 

[Beekissed]

Blooie you can make me laugh even on a bad day.


Speaking of bad days. ....... Something has been killing my hens........ caught an adult male feral cat today. I got a .22 for birthday. It works REAL good.

My kinda lady!

 

[enola]

I have been called "dumber than a box of rocks" because of my chickens. Not the samething though I don't think........

 

[Beekissed]

I have been called "dumber than a box of rocks" because of my chickens. Not the samething though I don't think........

Nah...basically the same thing.....