The Old Folks Home

[Pensmaster]

Somehow I think that's not step 1. 


I didn't learn my lesson and I'm having a watermelon for lunch. But, I do have 3 toilets in my house and only 2 occupants. 

I'm just now coming back from a catholic mass in polish. The church was beautiful. It was originally a french parish, and all the writing on the wall (religious graffiti?) was in french. It gave me something beautiful to look at while I wondered what was going on. 

Agree several steps missing. Picking up materials trip to PO and the there's all the chicken stuff in between

Watermelon is on the menu for lunch here. Along with chicken. Celery with nut butter and squash

 

[superchemicalgirl]

We have some fiddleheads that someone picked and left for us that BF is going to make with dinner. I'm skeptical of the whole "go out in the woods and pick weeds to eat" movement so I'm not sure I'm going to partake.

 

[Pensmaster]

Yea we have miners lettuce here in the spring. And while it's delicious, much better than any lettuce, we also have deer here and like bears they poop and pee in the woods as well. Soooo....
There's also several different varieties of mushrooms that my nephew who searches for them says are good I won't be eating them either.

 

[1kluckychik]

Looks really good. What type of eggs do you ship

I have cream legbars, isbars, isabelle leghorns, that are laying now

 

[drumstick diva]

Chicken Canoe - great to see you and your "cockerel rooster." Gotta love reporters they always mess things up

I still LOVE that animated story you posted quite some time ago. The son doesn't visit his mom and instead sends her a little robot. I have watched it many times and I always cry. Just the sweetest/ saddest thing.

 

[Pensmaster]

I have cream legbars, isbars, isabelle leghorns, that are laying now

I have some CCL Started out good laying. Slacked off now. Also one hen lays a very rough thin shelled egg. They do have oyster shells available

 

[chickadoodles]

We are going to have Hamburger steaks with onion gravy, fried squash and a salad with lettuce from the garden.
Tomorrow I have got to cook a pot of turnips my grow bag is so full they are laying over I guess I will make some black eyed peas and corn bread and some pork chops.

 

[drumstick diva]

Peter re: thin shelled eggs, you can post at "chicken behaviors and egg laying, and see if they can offer up some advice.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Yea we have miners lettuce here in the spring. And while it's delicious, much better than any lettuce, we also have deer here and like bears they poop and pee in the woods as well. Soooo....
There's also several different varieties of mushrooms that my nephew who searches for them says are good I won't be eating them either.

Some of the weedy things here can kill you, and not from parasites.

I just spent an hour with the goats - they hadn't really seen me the last 2 weeks. Pip, who is a lover, after she browsed the woods for about 15 minutes came over to me, pushed my legs open and put her head and neck around mine. It was really sweet.


Had she not just eaten poison ivy.


She then wanted me to get the brush, so I did and spent about 20 minutes while she stood dead still and just brushed her. She's never been that good, before. While she enjoys being brushed, it's kind of a game of "chase" sometimes where she likes to wander around while I brush her. Even BF came out and mentioned how much she was enjoying it and how good she was being.

Caramel? Yeah, that's the "don't touch me" goat. She spent the whole hour trying to eat the few ornamental plants I actually have.

 

[1kluckychik]

I have some CCL Started out good laying. Slacked off now. Also one hen lays a very rough thin shelled egg. They do have oyster shells available

I have a hen that laid an egg a day from last July- November. She has laid 1 egg this year. Puzzling