The Front Porch Swing

[sarahsunshine]

I have hardly slept the past couple nights... I don't know if you have heard, but in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, there is a missing 5yo and his grandparents, disappeared for a week now. Mom took her son for a sleepover, dropped him off, and went to pick him up the next morning and everyone was gone. It looks like they e-registry.ca taken. It's a very odd case because the family in question is the most upstanding family with no issues. The most likely scenario is a robbery gone wrong.

Anyway, my heart goes out to the family.

On top of that, the little boy looks so much like my son in his photos that it is even harder. I had to stay upstairs in the kids room last night with the phone and Pepper spray to get any rest.

 

[Blooie]

Katie eating a couple of "Ida eggs" with toast and a glass of tomato juice - she's loving it!

 

[perchie.girl]

Katie eating a couple of "Ida eggs" with toast and a glass of tomato juice - she's loving it!

What a cutie pie.... Looks like the hair dresser did good.... often times when you first get it done its awesome but nature takes over and its a different look entirely....

deb

 

[ducksanddoxies]

We had a great but busy weekend. Went up to Little Rock for a few days for a mini vacay with my parents. Got to see my sister who lives in Central AR and meet her new boyfriend. I like him.

Thursday night we went out for Japanese Hibachi. So yummy. The boys enjoyed watching our chef cook and Nic was very brave and tried onion soup and eel, but he drew the line at smoked octopus.

After dinner we just went back to the hotel to swim and enjoy the hot tub. I really need to get me a hot tub.

Saturday we went to Historic Arkansas Museum and watched a Revolutionary War Re-Enactment and then walked the River Market area. They had a lot of free games and food trucks and vendors out for the fourth.

Later that night we went back to the River for Pops on the River.

Here is a picture of mom and her girls.

Saturday we shopped a little and took the boys to play mini golf, bumper boats, and go carts. And ended the day with yogurt!

 

[Blooie]

Looks like a lovely time! The grins on the kids' faces are priceless!

Got two eggs today - Ida laid her usual little brown grape. When I went in to clean the poop board this morning (or the "poop deck", as Katie calls it!) there was a perfect little blue egg waiting to be discovered! I have no idea which of the 5 Easter Eggers laid it during the night, but I suspect it was Mathilda since she's been acting like she was the closest to laying. I was so excited. Oh, I giggled....I almost danced a jig! I oohed and ahhed at it's beautiful color and perfection, even though it had poop and PDZ stuck to it. Then I broke it.

Yep, I did. I was trying to pick up between my thumb and forefinger so I wouldn't get too yucky and it squirted right out, hit the edge of the poop deck and then the coop floor, and that was that.

 

[LindaB220]

We had a great but busy weekend. Went up to Little Rock for a few days for a mini vacay with my parents. Got to see my sister who lives in Central AR and meet her new boyfriend. I like him.

Thursday night we went out for Japanese Hibachi. So yummy. The boys enjoyed watching our chef cook and Nic was very brave and tried onion soup and eel, but he drew the line at smoked octopus.



After dinner we just went back to the hotel to swim and enjoy the hot tub. I really need to get me a hot tub.

Saturday we went to Historic Arkansas Museum and watched a Revolutionary War Re-Enactment and then walked the River Market area. They had a lot of free games and food trucks and vendors out for the fourth.





Later that night we went back to the River for Pops on the River.




Here is a picture of mom and her girls.



Saturday we shopped a little and took the boys to play mini golf, bumper boats, and go carts. And ended the day with yogurt!

And a wonderful time was had by all. Great. If you went up to Little Rock you must be closer to me. 20 East of Shreveport

 

[ducksanddoxies]

LindaB22: we live in extreme south Arkansas. About 2 hours from Little Rock and about an hour and a half from Monroe.

 

[bruceha2000]

Looks like a lovely time! The grins on the kids' faces are priceless!

Got two eggs today - Ida laid her usual little brown grape. When I went in to clean the poop board this morning (or the "poop deck", as Katie calls it!) there was a perfect little blue egg waiting to be discovered! I have no idea which of the 5 Easter Eggers laid it during the night, but I suspect it was Mathilda since she's been acting like she was the closest to laying. I was so excited. Oh, I giggled....I almost danced a jig! I oohed and ahhed at it's beautiful color and perfection, even though it had poop and PDZ stuck to it. Then I broke it.

Yep, I did. I was trying to pick up between my thumb and forefinger so I wouldn't get too yucky and it squirted right out, hit the edge of the poop deck and then the coop floor, and that was that.

Doesn't that just toast your tail feathers?!? And your first dropped egg is the first from an EE!

I usually use a paper towel to pick up a dirty egg since I don't have a desire to get it all over my hands any more than you do.

I managed to crack one just yesterday. I'd taken the metal compost bin out to dump it, then went to the coop to get the 6 eggs I had in the wicker basket I use if there are more than two (1 per hand!) and/or I'm not going back up to the house right away. I didn't use the wicker basket since, what the heck, I already had an empty container with a handle in my hand, no need to take two things up the the house when one would have to be brought back eventually anyway. I didn't quite get a grip on one of them when I was weighing the eggs and it hit the bottom hard enough to put a 1 1/2" crack in the shell. Still usable, I put tape over the crack so it wouldn't separate and put it in the refrigerator but still, I HATE it when I am responsible for a cracked egg. It means I wasn't careful enough.

Bruce

 

[LindaB220]

Doesn't that just toast your tail feathers?!? And your first dropped egg is the first from an EE!

I usually use a paper towel to pick up a dirty egg since I don't have a desire to get it all over my hands any more than you do.

I managed to crack one just yesterday. I'd taken the metal compost bin out to dump it, then went to the coop to get the 6 eggs I had in the wicker basket I use if there are more than two (1 per hand!) and/or I'm not going back up to the house right away. I didn't use the wicker basket since, what the heck, I already had an empty container with a handle in my hand, no need to take two things up the the house when one would have to be brought back eventually anyway. I didn't quite get a grip on one of them when I was weighing the eggs and it hit the bottom hard enough to put a 1 1/2" crack in the shell. Still usable, I put tape over the crack so it wouldn't separate and put it in the refrigerator but still, I HATE it when I am responsible for a cracked egg. It means I wasn't careful enough.

Bruce

And what is so funny is that when I first got interested in chickens, I heard on and on about the amount of poop and I had second thoughts that maybe I didn't want to get into such a dirty hobby. 10 months later I probably have it in my hair.

 

[Blooie]

Doesn't that just toast your tail feathers?!? And your first dropped egg is the first from an EE!

I usually use a paper towel to pick up a dirty egg since I don't have a desire to get it all over my hands any more than you do.

I managed to crack one just yesterday. I'd taken the metal compost bin out to dump it, then went to the coop to get the 6 eggs I had in the wicker basket I use if there are more than two (1 per hand!) and/or I'm not going back up to the house right away. I didn't use the wicker basket since, what the heck, I already had an empty container with a handle in my hand, no need to take two things up the the house when one would have to be brought back eventually anyway. I didn't quite get a grip on one of them when I was weighing the eggs and it hit the bottom hard enough to put a 1 1/2" crack in the shell. Still usable, I put tape over the crack so it wouldn't separate and put it in the refrigerator but still, I HATE it when I am responsible for a cracked egg. It means I wasn't careful enough.

Bruce

If stuff like that can even happen to more experienced folks than I am then I don't feel quite so bad. Okay, that's a lie - I still feel just as bad. But you can bet your metal compost bin that I'll be sporting a paper towel or two in my back pocket like chicken tail feathers when I go out there from now on!