The Old Folks Home

[Wisher1000]

What can I say? We had fun............... still do........

Has anyone ever done any "spatchcocking"?

A way of cooking smaller fowl. You split the carcass so you can unfold it like butterfly style. A fellow BYCer said he thinks you cook it by braising. He said YellowHouseFarm on here was talking about it for cooking Ancona culls.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Ours is to the song that people do that line dance to, at parties, you know, the one where you hold the waist of the person in front of you and 1-2-3-4-5-Kick! What is that song, anyway?

First you swing your butt side to side while singing....
"Tee Tee in the POT - Tee" (Emphasis in the "Tee" where the kick would be)
"Tee Tee in the POT - Tee"
"Tee Tee in the POT - Tee"
"Tee Tee in the Pooooottttttttt - Tee" (everyone pointing into the bowl)

"Tinkle and a sprinkle and a shake, shake, shake!" (shimmy shoulders then hand motions like shaking a maraca)
"Tinkle and a sprinkle and a shake, shake, shake!" (it's a boys' potty dance)
"Tinkle and a sprinkle and a shake, shake, shake!"
"Tee Tee in the Pooooottttttttt - Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" (everyone pointing into the bowl on one knee)

I guess it loses something in print.

This is glorious. It didn't lose anything in print. And I shall have that song in my head the entire night and quite possibly sing and dance down the hall later.

 

[Arielle]

Catching up . . . .

I have 2 EE living with a black coppper--need more of those olive eggs. Soooooo lovely.

What is an Olive egger?
Olives actually run from light olive to that dark color. I cross brown eggers like RIR to get pale olive, and to get dark olive marans x Blue eggers. VERY dark olive requires breeding back to the marans again. I really love the color of eggs!! lol

Speaking of duck poop. I have been thinking of putting a kiddie pool, with a drain and hose, just uphill from my garden so that the duck water that comes out every two or three days can go into the garden. I clean the pool and water the garden every few days, why not do them at the same time? Does anyone else have this arrangement?

You are very clever-- now you have me thinking.

I just don't tell my hubby. I've decided to put a trio of serama in the sun room.So I told him I need a temp holding pen for the roos we are culling but really its for the seramas. It will take him weeks to realize that I switched birds on him. Once I name them he won't argue (he's a push over).

My DH too. Which also means I do the butchering for dinner.

Ok so this is not about chickens but I am at my witts end with my two year old! She is my only girl and REFUSES to potty train. We have tried EVERYTHING to get her to go. We have bribed, begged, tricked, you name it we have done it. I know I have some experienced Mommies/daddies here so PLEASE

HELP.

Relax. THis is not the end of the world. Boys don't run on the same clock as girls. I only know boys. Both my boys made the switch over at about 4 years old. Annoying the amt of $ spent on diapers. . . .but they didn't have many accidents once they "got it". Size of the bladder can make adifference. I didn't want to be changing sheets every night due to accidents so I was willing to wait until they could manage the night time too. ANd those fun little potties? Totally useless in my house!! At 4 they went for the big seat. HOnestly, I don't remember how I did it because all the "tricks" I used didn't work. Rewards and bribes.

THese days they like their privacy but somehow it is still ok to walk in on mom.

Quote: You bad.

Quote:

It is all about giving the kid the control.

 

[Arielle]

This may apply to some of you

OMG!!! yes!

^^^^that should be made into a sign!

Totally aagreee!

 

[Arielle]

Still catching up . . . .

http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelind...d#/video/4674cc94-7b51-79f5-40b1-0debfd08393e

For those of you that have chickens in the house, how about a couple of these in the house?

I kicked out the lamb after it hopped down the hall, jumped into my winged chair, on top of my printer, then leaped on to a sleeping me. DONE. Outside.

Quote: Perfect!!

 

[Arielle]

Love week long day at vacation bible school -- not caught up but too tired to read. Night all.

 

[ronott1]

I have really enjoyed the Old Folks home today!

You Guys are a riot!

 

[dsqard]

I have to completely agree with everyone who is saying let the child tell you when they are ready for the potty. The more fuss you make about it, the harder they will resist. I spaced my two out by three years hoping that the first would be out of diapers before the second was born. As my due date for DS came and went, my DD was still in diapers. In the two weeks after my due date, DD decided she was done with diapers. No muss, no fuss just done with them. Completely without stress.
I do have a funny story about after she was potty trained. At the time, I was still in the Army and our unit traveled often for a month at a time to support training exercises at different installations. I was gone off and on about five months during the year. This means that she would only see her dad using the bathroom. One day he was in the bathroom shaving and she came in to do her business. She walked over to the potty chair, pulled her pants down and tried going "like daddy does". It didn't work out so well.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

The rats were out last night, and again this morning. I flipped over a board last evening to come face to face with a rat. Yick.

After about 45 minutes of "cat and mouse" I finally got a safe shot off this morning at a big rat (I can get lots of good shots but the background isn't what I want to shoot), and I hit it with the .22 rat shot. It flipped over, I started to celebrate in my head, and a split second later the little jerk got up and ran off.

I'm beginning to think I should just get the 12 gauge out.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

One day he was in the bathroom shaving and she came in to do her business. She walked over to the potty chair, pulled her pants down and tried going "like daddy does". It didn't work out so well.

SHE NEEDED A SHEPEE!