The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

No I don't want to play with the bees. I just want them to have a warm home.

That is good for the bees and good for you too!

Next year you might have more to pollinate produce with

 

[Alaskan]

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....." and the chickens won't come out of the coop View attachment 1171690

So, how's your Saturday?

cute now shoveling pic.

Might still melt... hard to say.

There are hundreds of comments that come to mind concerning the puumpkin TP but most of them would get me banned.

exactly my thoughts!

Ok, for anyone who did not look close enough at my photo of the pumpkin TP to already figure it out, it's a spoof!

a spoof? Glad you said that, because I missed the spoof part. I was thinking that people were crazier than I had thought.

I told you all about my cat, that thinks she's a mother hen, and would pull the brooder box all over the house, so she could keep it with her, and keep watch over the chicks. I've always said I never thought she would hurt a chick. Well.....

The screens on our screen porch got torn up by the hurricane. Can't fix it until they put the new roof on. Yesterday evening, a small Meadowlark accidentally flew in, and wore itself out trying to find the way out. My cat saw it, and went charging to it. I was still at the sliders, watching, but not quick enough to get to her.....She got right up to that bird, and it cheeped. My cat stopped dead in her tracks, cocked her head, crept a little closer, and laid down. The cat began meowing loudly, calling me. I got to them, and the cat darted into the house. She knows chicks don't belong outside, so she was headed to the area where I keep the brooder. I shut the slider, opened the screen door, and shooshed the bird towards the door. When it got near the open screen door, it took off. In the meantime, the cat was waiting for me to put the chick in the brooder. She keeps giving me these "what the heck, mom?" looks, as she heads to the brooder box to double check.

amazing story!

Bread is baked and shopping finished. I am organizing coop pages now. I get 200 to 249 of them right now. I have finished 5 of them so far....We have over 600 this time

Wow! that is lots!

Nice to get them organized etc. because those pages are super useful. (achem, in other words, thanks for taking the time!!!)

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Ron and Cynthia.

Ron thanks for doing all you do and here for everyone.

 

[Peep_Show]

Today's hatch of Cuckoo Bluebars now in the brooder box. Very interesting and diverse coloration. I especially like the champagne one!

 

[pennyJo1960]

still hatching but is not really winter there or even fall
not fair

 

[chickadoodles]

It's going to be 38* by morning here.

 

[pennyJo1960]

about the same here getting up to 67 or so during the day here

 

[chickadoodles]

about the same here getting up to 67 or so during the day here

about the same here getting up to 67 or so during the day here

I think we will be about 65*

 

[CapricornFarm]

It was nice today, got up to 70! Made more progress on the coop, but i have been suffering from too much shoveling yesterday.
Here are today's coop photos.

 

[microchick]

I just want the carpenter bees to quit eating our house!

No, they really aren't eating it but our back porch overhang has an open ceiling. Next spring it is having fascia installed on it but the carpenter bees LOVE the pine 2x8 beams that make up the roof. That in itself isn't all that bad..bad enough but I can deal with them, mix some wood filler with a bit of seven liquid and spackle it into the holes. But last winter we discovered that eh local woodpeckers declared the old nests their personal all you can eat buffet. Again, not so bad except for the fact that they tore the begeebers out of the 2X8s in their quests for larvae.

This year I got up close and personal with the bees. I know they are wonderful pollinators and we need them. I adore honey bees. I thank each and every one of them that pollinates the blossoms on our fruit trees and berry arbor, but those carpenter bees have just ticked off the wrong red head. My husband thinks I'm demented, running back and forth swinging a broom at them. He stopped me this year, took the broom out of my hands and said 'here, use this instead' and gave me an electric bug zapper that looks like a badminton racket.

I'm sure by the end of the summer those bees hated my guts and if they could sting, I'd be refilling my Epi-pen over and over again.

Still, I want to hear how the bee houses work out. Heck I'm willing to build them a condo if they just.....leave......our.....house....ALONE!

Cynthia12. Good luck on the surgery. Good time of the year to do that and get it out of the way so you can spend winter recuperating.

It's 29 degrees here right now. Die bugs die!

I got some more work done on my chair upholstery project. Yes, I am taking pictures as I go. I told DH that I really wish I had taken some notes on how I had done the silly back on the chair cause I spent half the day trying to put the panels back together. Geesh, what 10 years can do to your memory.

@getaclue, I love your cat story. Amazing kitty. I read the post to my husband and he just laughed. Our diabetic cat is laying on the arm of the sofa and DH said "Cash says to tell that kitty she's silly for passing up an easy meal!" Yep, I can imagine any one of our cats saying that.And I can't imagine our cats being anything but killing machines when it comes to chicks.Although I did just see a picture on Pinterest of an adorable Delaware hen trying to cover two kittens and brood them during a thunderstorm.