The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

I would sue for slander since the makers of the dictionary used assume you to be stupid enough to spell 'espionage' as 'ngestion'.

This sentence structure seems really weird, but I don't see anything wrong with it.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

What???

Wild cats are like the best pork you've ever had. Unlike a lot of game animals, age and gender don't mess up the texture or the flavor. I've had cougar, and it was exquisite.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Haven't tried lynx. Not bear either, but it's supposedly delicious. Just a tad expensive, if they ever sell it anywhere it goes for 200 euros per kilo.

Bear in the US is awful. A self respecting hound dog won't eat it. It is as bad as old billy goat.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

What? Only 2 unread posts during the night. Something must be wrong...

Scorpions I would not want. Venomous or poisonous things can be quite nasty, luckily we've only got the adders to worry about. One thing that can be nasty too, is when activists free minks from fur farms. Those things are hostile, kill everything. Luckily it seems that even our activists have grown half a brain and don't do that anymore. But 10-15 years ago it was pretty common to read about that kind of things in the papers.

My experience is that many activists are morons. My favorite was when they poured bleach into a tub of horse leeches in a laboratory and killed them. Apparently to them, horse leeches aren't animals because they aren't cute and fuzzy.

Another bunch turned loose the primates at the primate center in Oregon about thirty years ago. The result was a bunch of dead primates. Everyone was advised to stay indoors and be very careful if outdoors since large male fanged monkeys freaked out by unfamiliar surroundings can be deadly. The primates also didn't understand highway traffic.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I agree with SCG on liking Sundays although this weekend has been productive both days. Yesterday went to Topaz.


Not much is left there but they do have signs showing where things used to be


I did see a pair of hawks that "allowed" me to photograph them.



Today I went out early again and photographed the small homestead near our house in the morning light.


Then I changed up the lens and shot some of the wild sunflowers.

Just amazing photos. Is photography your job? If not, it should be.

Well, Alaska might be cold, dark and expensive...


BUT

we have NO
Snakes
Newts
Turtles
Alligators
Crocodiles
Toads

We do have one very lonely type of frog, only found in a few, warmer area, not all over.

And you get those oil subsidies.

Frogs! That I forgot. We've got some too. One lives by the hose under our kitchen window.

You've got bears and wolves though.

My place is overrun with toads at present. I'm always afraid I'm going to step on one or hit it with the mower. I like having them in the garden though and they're in some of the coops.

Doesn't matter if snakes have teeth, fangs or can gum you to death....I'm not getting near enough to one to find out.

I love having snakes here. That said, I'm always startled when I encounter one. Once I reached around the wall of the carriage house to turn the light on and one was coiled on top of the switch box. Another time I went to plug a cord in to an outlet box in front of the house that had a wooden box cover, when I raised the box there was a snake coiled there. I opened a valve box buried in the ground and a snake was coiled there. Usually there are one or more living under the front steps. I do jump in those situations but then I recover and move on. They can get into places no other predator can and they do an awesome job of eradicating mice. I've encountered hundreds of snakes in my lifetime and never been bitten. Not even close.

PEEP SHOW same with me. If I see a dark shoelace in the road- I do some fancy,foot work to avoid it. Takes awhile to calm the heart down too.

My dances should be on film. No, probably not.

No lions or tigers.

We do have coyotes, wolverines, weasels, stoats, foxes, and I think every raptor God ever created and they all love chicken!

Cougars aren't that far north?

I lived in Dallas as a kid and was trained to watch for the scorpions. They would even get in the house. Nasty sting.

We watch for brown recluse and black widows. The bad thing about the brown recluse is that they're in long undisturbed places like inside shoes.

Ugh. Scorpions. When I lived in NV we were warned of the little ones that just looked like string in the carpet; never saw them, though. What I did encounter was a humongous phosphorescent one on the front walkway as I ventured out (pre-coffee) to fetch the morning paper. A little more girth on the thing and I could've saddled it. ...

I had a book when I was young about venomous desert dwellers. It said the smaller the species of scorpion, the more potent the venom.

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Scorpions I would not want. Venomous or poisonous things can be quite nasty, luckily we've only got the adders to worry about. One thing that can be nasty too, is when activists free minks from fur farms. Those things are hostile, kill everything. Luckily it seems that even our activists have grown half a brain and don't do that anymore. But 10-15 years ago it was pretty common to read about that kind of things in the papers.

Don't remind me about how vicious mink are.
Humaniacs have brains?

Don't forget the mosquitoes and black flies!

Weird that the colder the climate, the more virulent the insects can be.

Black flies are more common up north, they don't bother us down here in the south that much. Mosquitoes can be a bit annoying too, but they were only bad for a few weeks this year. Right now we've got deer fly season though. Those things I truly hate. Little six legged spiderlike flying things, that are super quick and get in your hair and under your clothing and crawl around. They don't actually do anything, since they only feed on blood from deer and similar animals, but they are disgusting. Really difficult to kill too.

Horse flies can be pretty bad in MO. They're rare around here but outstate they're bad this time of year. They're huge and give a nasty bite as they suck your blood. They often bother me while canoeing. I sometimes have to jump in the water and stay submerged till they move on.

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Our carpenter starts tomorrow on the first of a series of coops for 200 layers. Each coop will hold 20-25 birds.

Have a great Monday. The sun just went down on ours.

Awesome complex.

You're always ahead of us, even in the time zone.

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You know that voice in your head that says, "Get up, get up, getup getup getupgetup!" when the alarm has gone off? I heard it all night long and dreamed about coyotes. As soon as it gets light outside, I'm going out to check the coops. I will go to work after that.

I was thinking that here in the south, a boy would have a rough time in school if his name was 'Adonis'. Then I realized that not too many kids would know who that was.......
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ETA
Speaking of too short a time, my weekend was too short, as usual. I had to work half a day Saturday and my boys had friends over for D&D all afternoon on Sunday. I did housework and cooked in between, oh, yeah and a huge argument with the spouse.

You know, Monday doesn't look too bad. Have a good one, everybody!

I hate alarm clocks. I still prefer a rooster crow to that.

I think, regardless of someone's name, kids will find a way to give them a hard time about it.

I sometimes relished returning to work to rest up.

... All I could do was lurk on BYC because I couldn't type any replies.

Must have been painful.

If you are inclined and are without a keyboard, there usually is an on screen keyboard that you can use with your mouse. More tedious, but at least you can still type!

Open Control Panel and search for keyboard.

Very helpful.
There's so much functionality hidden in this machine.

"Monday, Monday....Can't trust that day." It's the hardest day of the week, IMHO, to get back into the groove. so to speak. So I'll stick close to home today and mow the lawns as we're scheduled for T-showers this afternoon and rain tomorrow if the Weather Gods deign it. Been slacking on the lawn...it's about ready to bale.

Parts of the land that used to be chicken pasture are way past baling time. As for the rest of the lawn, didn't get it all cut when I got the mower going and it's on the fritz again.
I have to get back there and use a weed whip to clear paths.
By the time the chicks are big enough to clear it, winter kill will be here. Sigh.

Saw a blurb on the news that the Farmer's Almanac is predicting another winter of polar vortexes and nasty weather for y'all living east of the Rockies.

Wash your mouth out with soap.

Just in case, I'm designing a system to winterize the auto water system. NOT going through another winter like last.

Glad to be home. I was a little worried about my flock but they are all ok.

Did you make any special arrangements for them?

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Arrgghh! So you guys will understand my frustration more than most, I had ANOTHER of my "sexed" rare egg layers crow a few days ago :-\ so much for being an egg layer.....And it's a polish, so was pretty useless to begin with and now REALLY IS!

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I've had a lot of polish roosters. They taste just like chicken.

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We have been getting rooster sound complaints. Not in the way most people do though. Since we culled Topi a week and a half ago, there has been no more crowing. The neighbor told me yesterday, that other neighbors are complaining that it's too quiet. Looks like Eemeli (almost 20 weeks) better mature soon and start crowing to fill the void. He's not doing the dance, not trying to mate anyone, not sounding the treat sound, not crowing, not anything. Karin said she once saw him sound some pathetic attempt of an alarm when a seagull flew our our yard, but that's the only roosterlike behavior out of him so far. He's really clumsy too, and honestly, pretty boring. He's starting to grow a bit of a tail though, maybe he'll turn into a handsome boy. His sister is just as slow at developing, and is only now starting to get proper tail feathers.

Late bloomers.
enjoy the peace while it remains.
My lone adult rooster is fairly quiet. He was raised as the subordinate boy in a free range flock. I have him confined with his flock now cause I can't afford to lose my last rooster. I'm looking forward to having more so I can turn them loose again. He's looking forward to it too. I occasionally let them out late afternoon.


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I'm amazed at my Thai corn. About 4/5 of it was taken down by a storm just as it was tasseling. I pulled a couple ears from the downed corn expecting them to only have a few kernels. They were full. I don't know how the silk got fertilized so well.
When we'd have untimely storms when I was a kid, some of the ears would have just a few kernels.

The festival of nations was delicious. I can't remember all that I ate and could only hit about a ten of the 40 food booths. The vegetable samosas at the Bhutanese booth were great as was the paella from Spain. I had an obligatory Filipino pork kabob, a freshly opened coconut full of coconut water at the Thai booth. A bunch of fruit juices including the watermelon juice from the Mexican booth that I never miss. Fried plantains and more fruit smoothies from Haiti.
It was hot as hades.
It's already 97 here now at 1 PM and should hit 100. That's 38C for you Fahrenheit challenged.
Vehve, I've always embraced the metric system but Kelvin and Centigrade are tough for me. Weights and measures are simpler.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Last night was roasted green chile meatloaf with mashed potatoes, squash and a salad. No idea what to put on the table tonight, but there'll probably be applesauce!

Boy, does that sound yummy! Nice apples and pears too!

@Dragonfly216 Thank you

Yeah, that mating dance is a funny thing to watch.

We have been getting rooster sound complaints. Not in the way most people do though. Since we culled Topi a week and a half ago, there has been no more crowing. The neighbor told me yesterday, that other neighbors are complaining that it's too quiet. Looks like Eemeli (almost 20 weeks) better mature soon and start crowing to fill the void. He's not doing the dance, not trying to mate anyone, not sounding the treat sound, not crowing, not anything. Karin said she once saw him sound some pathetic attempt of an alarm when a seagull flew our our yard, but that's the only roosterlike behavior out of him so far. He's really clumsy too, and honestly, pretty boring. He's starting to grow a bit of a tail though, maybe he'll turn into a handsome boy. His sister is just as slow at developing, and is only now starting to get proper tail feathers.

That would be a really nice problem to have. My neighbor in California before we moved to Nevada made a ROYAL PITA of himself! Ugh! Made me very afraid of my roosters' crowing. Now though, with my closest neighbor, I try to keep my roosters on the other side of the barn from them.

I had a lot more quotes but alas, they aren't here.

One thing I remember for sure is vevhre's deer flies... as a kid, growing up in Canada, we had deer flies (I forgot about them) and these things DID bite! They were awful! Particularly if you were sweating or swimming... while swimming, they would land on your head and of course you couldn't feel them until they bit you! A very painful bite! You'd have to submerge to get away from them as they are very very fast and determined. They were fairly smart though and would wait for you to come up for breath and go after you again. Yikes!

I didn't realize that you could die from black fly bites. We didn't have quite that many I don't think. You wouldn't even know that you'd been bit until you reached up to scratch behind your ears and found scabs there or if the bite was fresh, blood on your fingers. Nasty little beasts!

 

[vehve]

Late bloomers.
enjoy the peace while it remains.
My lone adult rooster is fairly quiet. He was raised as the subordinate boy in a free range flock. I have him confined with his flock now cause I can't afford to lose my last rooster. I'm looking forward to having more so I can turn them loose again. He's looking forward to it too. I occasionally let them out late afternoon.


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I'm amazed at my Thai corn. About 4/5 of it was taken down by a storm just as it was tasseling. I pulled a couple ears from the downed corn expecting them to only have a few kernels. They were full. I don't know how the silk got fertilized so well.
When we'd have untimely storms when I was a kid, some of the ears would have just a few kernels.

The festival of nations was delicious. I can't remember all that I ate and could only hit about a ten of the 40 food booths. The vegetable samosas at the Bhutanese booth were great as was the paella from Spain. I had an obligatory Filipino pork kabob, a freshly opened coconut full of coconut water at the Thai booth. A bunch of fruit juices including the watermelon juice from the Mexican booth that I never miss. It was hot as hades.
It's already 97 here now at 1 PM and should hit 100. That's 38C for you Fahrenheit challenged.
Vehve, I've always embraced the metric system but Kelvin and Centigrade are tough for me. Weights and measures are simpler.

He grew his first 17 weeks as the sub roo, and is still the lowest in the pecking order along with his sister. Apparently this breeders Sussexes' are all late bloomers. It will be interesting to see how the pecking order changes when he goes through puberty.

Centigrade is based on water, water freezes at 0 and boils at 100. Those are pretty easy to remember. and -40 is the same on both scales. Kelvin again is the one that works with calculations, it uses the same scale as centigrade, but starts from absolute zero, meaning all temperatures are positive. 0 Kelvin is about -273.15 degrees Celsius. Temperature wise I think centigrade is a superior system, but when it comes to distances, if you have no need for calculating things, feet and inches (known as tum (thumb) in Swedish) are more intuitive. A foot is about the size of a adult man's foot, and a thumb is about the length of a adult man's thumb from the last joint to the end. The whole yards and miles stuff is less intuitive.

 

[bamadude]

Chickencanoe: i left my brahmas locked tight inside their coop. I have 10 chicks that are 1 month old. I had been brooding them in a large plastic tub on my screened in porch. I turned the tub on its side and left plenty of feed and water out. Its amazing how much bigger they got in the time i was gone

 

[vehve]

Lacy, those sound more like horse flies. We've got those too, and they do bite. They come in all kinds of sizes too, from about a centimeter to about an inch. (That comparison of measurements will have someone scratching their heads). Their numbers are more limited though.

 

[subhanalah]

Lacy, those sound more like horse flies. We've got those too, and they do bite. They come in all kinds of sizes too, from about a centimeter to about an inch. (That comparison of measurements will have someone scratching their heads). Their numbers are more limited though.

vicious things for sure.
Used to get me every late spring and late summer while walking to the bus stop! Ouch.

I was told that they carry a parasite that can kill you. This was told to me by my dad, so I didn't get any questions answered about it...but sure had the pee scared out of me...figuratively speaking.