Tribute to @memphis and her Lapper turkeys

[R2elk]

Mar. 28, 2019 @memphis wrote

Aurora...you could pay your DS per tail!! He may trap other predators too! He could research best baits for certain animals.

R2elk...they are rats! Maybe the Barred owls I've been hearing will eat their share!!

Just got home. Beautiful sunny day. Girls enjoying dust baths. They don't bother to come & greet me whilst bathing. Best I get is a few mumbles. Guess they have their priorities!

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[R2elk]

Mar. 29, 2019 @memphis wrote

SFGWife...nice to hear from you! And back with turkey porn at that! LOL!

R2elk...you cracked me up! Your poor tom!

Aurora...so Mister is on nanny duty?

Molpet....hope your tom makes it through the night. My girls usually put themselves to bed if I'm late. If they don't make it to the coop, they end up on my back porch rail. If they ended up in a tree I'd be to freaked to sleep.

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[R2elk]

Mar. 29, 2019 @memphis wrote

No way I'm telling my girls about your turkey trampoline Ralphie! They'd want one. The beauty of turkeys....they do things just for fun. Daisy flies around just for fun.

Hmmm..wonder if I can get Daisy & Annie jobs with a petting zoo! LOL!

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[R2elk]

Mar. 29, 2019 @memphis wrote

Hope you get better fast Aurora. What a bummer.
Ralphie....I've been in shorts for a few weeks. But a cold front is blowing in tomorrow night and its dipping into the high 30's for a few mornings. The never ending winter!!!

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[R2elk]

Mar. 30, 2019 @memphis wrote

Ketojenn....beautiful eggs!

Ralphie, how sweet! Judy has taken up lapper training! Today I was grateful for a cozy lapper. Temperatures dropping like a rock and windy. Did spend time sitting with the girls. Daisy had to hop in my lap. I keep my hands warm under her wings. A lapper is just the thing in brisk weather!! Then the rain came. Needless to say they didn't get a walk this evening.

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[R2elk]

Mar. 31, 2019 @memphis wrote

Hopefully Sweat Pea will be a good momma! Are you feeling better?

Soggy but sunny here. Girls are out slogging through the muck.

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[R2elk]

Apr. 1, 2019 @memphis wrote

They look great Aurora!! The variations in color is interesting! They are all so pretty. Seems you have several with lapper potential! But your birds always seem to be sweeties. Are you hatching any tri mottled this year?

Never got out of the 40's today. Frost warning the last two nights. It will be 80 by this weekend. This is getting ridiculous! I was gifted a few baby lady ferns, had to bring them inside. They are barely up and quite tender. They were propagated in a greenhouse. The coonhound could not understand the ferns on the kitchen counter. He's so odd sometimes.

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[R2elk]

Apr. 2, 2019 @memphis wrote

Didn't know hens would bury eggs. Interesting. Maybe that's what my slackers are doing.

Feedman, heading too Ste. Genevieve this weekend. Supposed to be warm! Hope your flooding goes down quickly. I know there are several roads closed in Ste. Genevieve county. Mostly along the river. Tis the season, I guess.

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[R2elk]

Apr. 2, 2019 @memphis wrote

Speaking of slackers....while out grazing yesterday one of my neighbors stopped & wanted to take a picture holding Daisy. Told me he was going turkey hunting this weekend & never gets one and its sort of a joke. So this year he is going to send the pic of him & Daisy to his friends.

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[R2elk]

Apr. 2, 2019 @memphis wrote

R2elk....heard a quote by Guy Clark that made me think of you..."The only two things money can't buy are true love and home grown tomatoes "!

My girls are to lazy to bury anything. But they will pick up one leaf & set it on top of their egg.

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