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janiedoe said:
Good morning, Bob 🦋 have a great Sunday!

Good morning, Mark 🦋 have a fabulous Sunday!

Good morning, Sour 🦋 I'm glad you are feeling better.

Good morning, Debby 🐢 I love turtles!

Good morning, Blooie 🦋 how are those chickies doing? Are the about ready to lay?
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Good morning, everyone! No, they’re a ways off yet…the oldest, the Brahmas, are 11 weeks old and they are slow to lay anyway. Then the next group we ordered from MPC are 10, and the last are 9. So I’m in no hurry to put in next boxes yet.

Turtles are my favorite critters, besides my hummers, of course. I love them because they know they’ll never get anywhere if they don’t stick their necks out!
N F C said:
There's nothing wrong with baby steps Blooie!

Weird about not seeing any hummers yet this year. Wonder what's going on with them?

Getting settled, talk about baby steps :rolleyes: Sometimes I miss WY too, especially my little brick house.
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Everyone up here is commenting on the absence of them this year. There must still be an abundance of wildflowers keeping them up in the mountains.
sourland said:
I generally serve as their 'guide' as I know where plants are flowering at any given time. They count all varieties - generally 20+ per visit. These folks are passionate about butterflies and impart a lot of knowledge about them to me.
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Evan started acting as a guide for kids’ groups at the Sertoma Butterfly House in Sioux Falls when he was only 7 years old! He used to be terrified of them when he was littler, so he could reassure other scared kids because he’d been there. Nobody wants a scared kid flinging a rare tropical butterfly to the ground if it got too close, and Evan just had a way of preventing that. He was awesome. And he could identify even obscure types of butterflies at a glance. He used to check guests for hitchhiking butterflies before they left the facility and help his gramma unwrap and place incoming shipments of eggs and chrysalis. But is favorite job was feeding everything….button quail, turtles, and of course filling the little ceramic feeders with chopped fruits for the butterflies. His other grandparents were long-time volunteer guides there, so he always went with them when they were scheduled. Before long he had his identifying t-shirt and his badge. His last year there was when he was 14 and Gramma Jan and Grampa Paul decided to hang up their badges.
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That's such a neat story Blooie. I loved it. I've only been to a butterfly place once and it was amazing. The kids and grandkids loved it. I've only got three hummers so far this year, hoping for more. Two girls and one boy. The new girl is really skittish, but the older boy and girl will hover in front of me and chat.
 
rjohns39 said:
That's such a neat story Blooie. I loved it. I've only been to a butterfly place once and it was amazing. The kids and grandkids loved it. I've only got three hummers so far this year, hoping for more. Two girls and one boy. The new girl is really skittish, but the older boy and girl will hover in front of me and chat.
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I’m jealous!!! Please remind them during your chats to send their relatives and friends here. Tell them to just follow I-90 and turn right at the Big Horn Mountains. ;)
 
DigMyChicks said:
Rarely do I read a book again. If I do, it’s because I forgot I read it.
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Not to worry, as you get older you'll forget more books! (There is a bright side to memory loss!)
DigMyChicks said:
This is her spare bedroom…no bed 🤣 All these shelves are full. She has several shelves in her living room too.
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I love it. I had a reading room at our last house. There just isn't room here. I'm resigned to online books now.
Blooie said:
I’m jealous!!! Please remind them during your chats to send their relatives and friends here. Tell them to just follow I-90 and turn right at the Big Horn Mountains. ;)
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Sending you a hummer.
We have a lot of these green hummingbirds and a few red and blacks that I haven't got a picture of so far.
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