The Front Porch Swing

[Blooie]

Here I've been gone, making a run to Cody, expecting to get back and find a big slice of strawberry/rhubarb pie on a plate, vanilla ice cream oozing down the sides as it melts from the warmth of the pie...crust all brown and flaky, a little sugar shining on top. Oh, well, I guess string cheese is okay in a pinch!

 

[bruceha2000]

A lady always has the option of mentioning her weight and age - a gentleman, however, never repeats that information!

I hear NO-THING! I see NO-THING!

Anyone know how to tell if a bird is laying internally without culling it? My marans still hasn't laid since her first egg on March 30. I have caught her in the nest boxes but haven't gotten another egg. She was hatched in Sept last fall. I am hoping that she starts laying soon but I don't want to feed a non productive bird.

The first egg I got was from a Faverolles, she laid it by the frost free water spout at 18 weeks, 2.5 weeks before any of the other girls laid. I cut a hole to the nest box (didn't know she was ready!). She laid another egg 6 days later, then one 3 days after that. Then NO eggs for 3 weeks. I figure she just had to get the factory organized after the trial runs.

Maybe your Marans is doing likewise. I sure wouldn't cull a bird that young unless there were obvious health issues.

Anybody on the Front Porch feel like a slice of strawberry rhubarb pie?





Love the bits of a garden that provide without needing tending!

I've never understood the strawberry rhubarb thing. I like them SEPARATE! I make the rhubarb equivalent of applesauce, something my grandmother did. Takes a fair bit of sugar for sure.

Wish I could say the same about bits that don't need tending. Weeds, weeds, weeds all through the pitiful strawberry 'patch'. I needs a thorough ripping out and restart. The rhubarb, on the other hand, is indeed maintenance free. No grass can grow under those huge fronds.

"Um, Ken, that is the biggest chicken t**d you've ever seen."

I have NEVER seen a poop, not even HUGE broody poop that could be mistaken for an egg. Good thing he didn't decide to pick it up bare handed

Guess we'll give him a pass this time. I'm sure once he sees a real egg laid on the coop floor, he will be able to tell the difference. They don't get THAT dirty and covered with bedding.

Bruce

 

[Triple Willow]

I have never ate rhubarb. It always sounded funny and looked funny. LOL

 

[Blooie]

I hear NO-THING! I see NO-THING!

The first egg I got was from a Faverolles, she laid it by the frost free water spout at 18 weeks, 2.5 weeks before any of the other girls laid. I cut a hole to the nest box (didn't know she was ready!). She laid another egg 6 days later, then one 3 days after that. Then NO eggs for 3 weeks. I figure she just had to get the factory organized after the trial runs.

Maybe your Marans is doing likewise. I sure wouldn't cull a bird that young unless there were obvious health issues.



Wish I could say the same about bits that don't need tending. Weeds, weeds, weeds all through the pitiful strawberry 'patch'. I needs a thorough ripping out and restart. The rhubarb, on the other hand, is indeed maintenance free. No grass can grow under those huge fronds.


I have NEVER seen a poop, not even HUGE broody poop that could be mistaken for an egg. Good thing he didn't decide to pick it up bare handed

Guess we'll give him a pass this time. I'm sure once he sees a real egg laid on the coop floor, he will be able to tell the difference. They don't get THAT dirty and covered with bedding.

Bruce

I'm afraid I'm in the same boat you're floating in, Bruce. If I want strawberries I'm going to have to get off my lazy, um, hiney and get out there and make it happen. The weeds have totally taken over the pyramid - why we ever thought that was a good way to raise strawberries I don't know! The plants that are still there are struggling...kinda scrawny and they are spreading out into the yard. <sigh> Never done.

This poop was large, but he hasn't done any coop cleaning so he had no idea what size poopies are - to him it must have seemed ginormous after helping primarily with the brooder chores. That's why I said that was the biggest t**d he'd ever seen - he hasn't seen that many! I suppose to him when I said small first eggs, he put two and two together and got 7. LOL He's so funny - I couldn't ask for a better best friend! And truth be told, I've decided that even if I see the first egg, I'll let him "discover" it. Maybe that'll make up for my insensitivity. Of course, that's saying that the poor guy ever believes that what he's seeing is an actual egg!

Oh, don't get me started laughing again. He's finally speaking to me again!

One of my favorite springtime treats is the first stalk of rhubarb slathered in salt! I've had my first one already - but it's so tempting to go out and grab some more. I'll be good - probably don't need the extra salt, especially right now. But it's so yummy, all warm from the sun and tart and juicy! Okay, I'm going out for another one....

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Here I've been gone, making a run to Cody, expecting to get back and find a big slice of strawberry/rhubarb pie on a plate, vanilla ice cream oozing down the sides as it melts from the warmth of the pie...crust all brown and flaky, a little sugar shining on top.  Oh, well, I guess string cheese is okay in a pinch!

Since I'm actually a hopeless baker, never successfully made a pie in my life, I thought this was the perfect place to offer it! I can imagine the perfect pie and hoped you all would imagine it too. But if that won't work I'll just wash those strawberries and offer then in a bowl, ok?

 

[Blooie]

Since I'm actually a hopeless baker, never successfully made a pie in my life, I thought this was the perfect place to offer it! I can imagine the perfect pie and hoped you all would imagine it too. But if that won't work I'll just wash those strawberries and offer then in a bowl, ok?

Works for me....let me just finish this last piece of string cheese.......

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Since I'm actually a hopeless baker, never successfully made a pie in my life, I thought this was the perfect place to offer it! I can imagine the perfect pie and hoped you all would imagine it too. But if that won't work I'll just wash those strawberries and offer then in a bowl, ok?

I can't do pie because I can't do dough. So I bake crustless pies ... cut up a bunch of apples, sprinkle with cinnamon, bake. I don't even peel them. I do the same with all kinds of fruit.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: I too am a rhubarb purist... Mom used to make it till I was about sixteen. Dont know why she stopped.

I like it pureed with some bigger chunks in to identify it.

deb

 

[TexasLisa]

I love Rhubarb Pie. I mix my rhubarb with sugar and cinnamon. I like mine on the tart side. MMmmmmm

Lisa

 

[perchie.girl]

layze mans pie crust


Takes two if you need a top crust... OMG good.

you just pinch the seams to gether. for a top crust you could just cut them into strips and weave em together. But it fluffs up big time

deb