THE RANDOM RAMBLE

[orloffer]

It's called Taco Soup, easy recipe of cooked ground beef, whole corn, kidney beans, stewed tomatoes, taco sauce, chili powder, etc... Gonna top it with shredded cheddar when served!

That sounds delicious!

 

[TwoCrows]

That sounds delicious!

It was!

 

[chickenlittle21]

Random?....well, I see a squirrel outside. Also, the 47 insect eggs on my window haven't hatched yet.

Did the insect eggs hatch yet?

 

[orloffer]

Did the insect eggs hatch yet?

I never saw anything noticeable growing inside them, but something must have, because they did end up hatching. I wasn't present then, unfortunately, so I do not know what they were.

 

[drinkoj]

Got woken up by the Mrs. early today (she's the early riser) telling me I need to get up immediately because she needs me now. So I throw on some shorts, a T-shirt, and my muck boots and brave the 40 F (that's cold for my area right now). I'm asking what happened and all I could get was one of the laying pullets got out of the fence, so I'm thinking it got out of run fencing and was running around in the fenced in yard; you see where this is going.

Finally, the Mrs is able to get me to understand that while she was pulling some treats out of our nesting box storage bin, the chickens came to investigate. She was able to stop them from coming out of two nesting boxes, but the one the furthest from her... well, my dog decided to stand up to see what was in there. It was a chicken and he said "Hello!" with a deep "WOOF!". So the chicken went squawking flying into the air to land on top of her coop which is about 10 feet in the air. So the dog went bark bark, the wife is trying to get the chicken down, and the chicken decided to take flight again into the wood area covered in thorns on the backside of my fenced in backyard.

So here I am chasing a chicken through thorns, in shorts, in what I call cold damp weather. Caught her once and she slipped away, not giving me access to her legs, but finally she decided to dart into a large limb pile and sit down and was able to secure her. I handed her off to the wife on the other side of the fence and it wasn't going well. The Mrs. has never had to deal with a scared chicken before, so I had to teach her to grab it by the legs and hang it upside down to calm it down some.

Lesson of this story, chickens and dogs don't speak the same language, wife learned a life lesson about chickens, and cold mornings in shorts will wake you up pretty fast.

 

[chickenlittle21]

40 F (that's cold for my area right now)

Cold for my area right now would be 65- 70°F (but I'm in south Florida). Today the temperature was 81°F

 

[drumstick diva]

50.7F Tuesday 10:08 pm light rain but, it's starting to thunder so I expect a storm coming.