The Old Folks Home

[drumstick diva]

Sweet Dreams penny.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Cyn, I'm so glad she is moving closer. She definitely needs you as an advocate.

More snow here, overnight. Not a lot, but enough to cover the ice patches back up and create a course worthy of a slapstick comedy routine. No bananas needed.

I am almost hopeful for spring. I allowed myself to look through a seed catalog last night, with hopes and dreams.

Anyone grow asparagus? Not sure I want to give up real estate for it but I'm intrigued about growing it.

 

[microchick]

Yeah @superchemicalgirl i have a small bed and love the stuff. It's near my run so i can detour on my way out, snap off a stalk and munch on it. It takes about 2 years or more before it ramps up production.

Cynthia, so happy for your sis. She will feel so much better with the dialysis.

We had two big hawks hanging around our pasture yesterday. Just when I am set to let the old girls out. Sigh. Guess when I do I'm going to have to guard them.

I also have my first broody of the season. The little twirp is sitting on an empty nest right now screeching at the world.

I was hoping they would hold off until we got the diesel tank dragged out and my broody and chick room built. May have to drag out the broody buster again.

 

[Bunnylady]

*sigh* I guess I just don't drive fast enough for some folks. Does that mean I'm getting old?

Doing about 40 mph down a twisty, built-up section of a road with a school, a gated community, blind corners and a speed limit of 45, I look in my mirror and could just about tell you the eye color of the driver in the full-sized pickup behind me. Now, I know he wasn't trying to read my bumper sticker, 'cause I don't have one. When the road straightened out, I moved up to 45, but this clown was still a lot closer than I liked. We drive less than a quarter of a mile down the road, and I see a car ahead of me slowing for a right turn, with at least one car behind it, so I get off the gas, knowing that we won't be doing 45 again for quite a while, especially since there is a US Postal Service jeep putting mail in the mailboxes a short distance ahead of them, and he already has at least two vehicles behind him. A short distance ahead of all that is an SUV coming the other way on this 2-lane road. I'm driving a small (rental) sedan, so I know the dude in the truck should be able to see what I'm seeing over the top of my vehicle (or is it really too much to expect people to look past the bumper of the car they are following too closely?) The guy in the truck had backed off a bit, but as I brake for the line-up behind the USPS jeep, the truck (and his utility trailer load of baled pine straw) goes whizzing past me on the left. Double yellow line; there is a road coming up on the left, but the short turn lane for it doesn't start for at least another couple hundred feet. No way is the road 3 vehicles wide at this point; the oncoming SUV had to run partly on the shoulder to avoid hitting the truck (fortunately, all of the mail boxes are on our side of the road). As the truck makes the turn into the road on the left, a vehicle peels out of the lineup ahead of me and follows him . . . a large, black SUV with SHERIFF on the side of it.

Dontcha just love instant karma?!

 

[bruceha2000]

I see SO many idiots on the road and never any police to have a chat with them. And you are not alone in thinking you SHOULD be able to drive at safe speeds without people tailgating and getting aggressive. Yeah, pass me on a blind curve at 50 MPH (because I am 'only' doing the speed limit of 50), that is real brilliant.

One of my neighbors is a chef (as in professionally trained.) I gave her a dozen Marans and Marans-cross Olive-Egger eggs recently and she wrote:

"I would like to buy a dozen from you and I want to compare them back to back with store eggs. I have another friend who gives me chicken eggs occasionally and hers don’t have the flavor yours have."

Looks like there's going to be an Egg-Off!


(If I'm lucky, I can barter for her sinful pastries...)

I bet your birds get out more and have a more varied diet. Now when she says "store bought" does she mean the cheap egg factory product (no comparison at all) or the "organic" "free range" product?

I sell to a couple of friends I used to work with. Apparently even when they buy the expensive grocery store eggs during the winter when my girls are on strike, they don't compare to what my girls lay. I suspect that no matter how "free range" and "organic" they are raised, if a place can supply hundreds of dozens of eggs daily to grocery stores, their birds do not live the life of luxury that mine do. My girls are organic only when they forage, I don't pay 2X for organic chicken feed.

Thanks for the tip, but I drink loads of water every day all day.

But you work all day too! Probably need way more than a sedentary person would

Anyone grow asparagus? Not sure I want to give up real estate for it but I'm intrigued about growing it.

We have a small patch that was here when we bought the place. It isn't real productive, likely because the people we bought from didn't seem to bother doing things the right way on much of anything. But the entire space is only about 2.5' wide and 5' long. I should really make a much bigger bed, prep it properly and get some more corms. Asparagus is a favorite with 3 of the 4 people in the house.

 

[getaclue]

Asparagus has always intrigued me too. I have an area I could dedicate to a continual asparagus patch. The problem is, asparagus hates Florida. It's too warm here for it. I'll just have to settle on putting in a few citrus trees instead.

 

[bobbi-j]

Anyone grow asparagus? Not sure I want to give up real estate for it but I'm intrigued about growing it.

We planted some last spring. If the snow ever goes away, I'll let you know if it turns out.

a large, black SUV with SHERIFF on the side of it.

Dontcha just love instant karma?!

I love it! One time I saw a motorcycle weaving in and out of traffic on the interstate (I'm in MN - this is not legal here) and being a general nuisance. About a mile up the road, he was pullied over with flashing lights behind him. Guess he cut off the wrong car!

 

[microchick]

And they say there is never a cop around when you need one. Justice was well served, @Bunnylady.

RE: the Asparagus. When I planted mine I kept having to go out and put dirt around the stalks as they sprouted an inch at a time. I gave up doing it after about '3' inches of dirt being added. I let mine go unattended for a couple of years when I was having so much trouble with my back. It still diligently pops up through the grass every year. Guess I should cut it some slack and clean it out when it comes up. Until then, hey, anybody's guess where it will appear.

My broody changed her mind. Thank God. Not until the broody/chick room gets built!

 

[Peep_Show]

There are plenty of d**ks on the road. (BYCers, that's NOT ducks.) That's a great instant karma story and good to hear that one had a positive outcome.

Going up the winding grade from Bakersfield to Tehachapi, there was a gal in a large SUV behind me that was, I guess, practicing her road rage game. I was going a teensy bit over the speed limit, but I guess it wasn't quick enough for her. We get up onto the mesa and she whizzes past me off into the distance at breakneck speed. I stop for gas and then a short while later down the road I see her SUV's rolled aftermath up-ended off the side of the road.
Nope, she wasn't driving home or getting anywhere on time.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Hm... I keep reading that you have to keep it weeded and I'm going to be honest here, I don't weed. Ever.

I have weeds about 5 feet tall in the fall. Occasionally BF's mom comes over and weeds because she just can't stand it anymore.

It bothers me only a little and definitely not enough to weed.