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[Alaskan]

SCG, if you are going to lock yourself out of the house, you do NOT do it with wet hair in the middle of winter


Icy roads are bad.

 

[bruceha2000]

I got......my neighbor arrested!

Background: The house across the street is a rental and the owner got pretty desperate and rented to some low-rider chop shop owners who have friends in high-end Escalades and Benzes visiting for five minutes at a time at all hours of the day and night. Get the picture? Yeah, the other neighbors -- a mix of elderly retirees, executive types and young families -- are desperately hoping there's no Breaking Bad type of manufacture going on in the shed out back. The homies are not friendly and definitely keep to themselves.

Were it me in your house, given "the background" that event wouldn't have happened. The police would have been alerted to the drug dealer long ago.

(Neither I, nor my parents, nor my grandparents when they were alive had or have a hidden key. just how common is that?)

We prefer deadbolts to "handle locks". You can not lock yourself out when you leave since you have to use a key to lock the door. Of course some inside can lock it while you are outside (and I hope that would be an accident!!).

We have failed in ONE place in this house. The outside door to the enclosed porch has a handle lock, all the other doors have lever handles without locks in them. One morning I went out to do morning chicken duties about 8, wife leaves for work about 6:45. We leave a window from the porch to the dining room open for the cats in the summer. I didn't realize that she had pushed the button on the door handle and I closed it behind me. Fortunately a back door was unlocked. Then there was the time my wife took DD1 out for driving practice while I was in the workshop in the barn, no unlocked doors. I now have a key in my workshop.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG, if you are going to lock yourself out of the house, you do NOT do it with wet hair in the middle of winter

Icy roads are bad.

I'm a disaster. That's how I roll.


I also released half the guineas today after 7 weeks of jail. They are not intelligent creatures. I opened the top to the guinea enclosure, hoping to be able to get there in time to close the top after half got out. One immediately flew out, but then proceeded to run around the guinea pen in Guinea Panic Mode (TM) trying to get back in while the others screamed in panic at its boldness.



Forty minutes later the situation was still exactly the same so I had to go into said enclosure and forcefully evict 3 more guineas.

Note: Guineas do not like to be touched.

After the eviction the guineas were bold enough to wander around a little bit... around the coop and they were interested in the great outdoors.





However, the interest in the great outdoors was diminished when the guineas felt the really cold nasty mud on their delicate little feets. For not intelligent creatures, they figured out quickly how to get back into the coop and to the dry shavings.

At this point I went back into the house and sewed for a few hours. My sewing room window overlooks the coop. I hadn't seen the guineas in a few hours.

I just went out to check on them. All four of the loose guineas were within 2 feet of the guinea enclosure and their other friends. This appears to be working out nicely. These guineas should remain out for another week, until I know they can safely return to the coop and know it's home. Then I'll release the rest of them.

Oh and I think they're really pretty, at least feather-wise. They do need a bag over their heads though.

 

[ronott1]

I'm a disaster. That's how I roll.


I also released half the guineas today after 7 weeks of jail. They are not intelligent creatures. I opened the top to the guinea enclosure, hoping to be able to get there in time to close the top after half got out. One immediately flew out, but then proceeded to run around the guinea pen in Guinea Panic Mode (TM) trying to get back in while the others screamed in panic at its boldness.



Forty minutes later the situation was still exactly the same so I had to go into said enclosure and forcefully evict 3 more guineas.

Note: Guineas do not like to be touched.

After the eviction the guineas were bold enough to wander around a little bit... around the coop and they were interested in the great outdoors.





However, the interest in the great outdoors was diminished when the guineas felt the really cold nasty mud on their delicate little feets. For not intelligent creatures, they figured out quickly how to get back into the coop and to the dry shavings.

At this point I went back into the house and sewed for a few hours. My sewing room window overlooks the coop. I hadn't seen the guineas in a few hours.

I just went out to check on them. All four of the loose guineas were within 2 feet of the guinea enclosure and their other friends. This appears to be working out nicely. These guineas should remain out for another week, until I know they can safely return to the coop and know it's home. Then I'll release the rest of them.

Oh and I think they're really pretty, at least feather-wise. They do need a bag over their heads though.

Great Guinea Story!

Did they brood in that pen? I have read that they will know it is home. Otherwise it is a crap shoot.

 

[perchie.girl]

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I am still laughing and grinning from ear to ear. I wish I had had the time to do what you are doing. But I definately will next time.

they do get pretty heads once they become sexually mature their first year. A sky blue tint to the white parts indicates sexual maturity. The Casque will grow quite a bit too.

I think turkey heads are pretty though.

deb

 

[Beer can]

Ever watch 'See Spot Run'? Kid locks the guy out in his underwear, he tries climbing the gutters, pulls away from the house on the second floor and he lands in a giant pile of dog crap just as the cops show up cause neighbors thought he was a burglar.
You'all just reminded me of that.

Cool guineas, same color I had. Just to forewarn you, they seem to like to play in the road, even when the road is 200 yards away.... :-(

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Great Guinea Story!

Did they brood in that pen? I have read that they will know it is home. Otherwise it is a crap shoot.

Unfortunately, no. They brooded in a similar looking pen in the basement. They've been in this pen 7 weeks now. The 4 loose ones with very minimal cajoling went into the coop today at dusk. There was guinea panic because they couldn't get in with their friends. At dark I picked them up (see above note about how much guineas like being touched) and placed them on the big girl roost.

I am still laughing and grinning from ear to ear. I wish I had had the time to do what you are doing. But I definately will next time.

they do get pretty heads once they become sexually mature their first year. A sky blue tint to the white parts indicates sexual maturity. The Casque will grow quite a bit too.

I think turkey heads are pretty though.

deb

I think girl turkeys are beautiful. I have one that I got from Dsqard that could win a beauty contest. She's got huge brown eyes and a lovely blue sheen to her only slightly hairy/warty face. She's really lovely. I feel bad for her, she's the one with the chronically bad bumble.

Cool guineas, same color I had. Just to forewarn you, they seem to like to play in the road, even when the road is 200 yards away.... :-(

I've got 2 blue, 3 purple and 4 jumbo pearl. The road is fairly far away, and there's only 2 houses after me. It's a dead end.

 

[drumstick diva]

I got locked out of the house a couple times, I had to crawl through a dog run on pea gravel, poo & pee pee to reach the in/out dog door. Fortunately for me I was stick thin at that age (no hips to speak of) and got thru the cocker sized doors. Dogs were very surprised to see me do that. So was I.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I would have paid money to watch that. Too bad we don't live closer...



Got my blue jay done.

 

[tjo804]

Beautiful!