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[hallerlake]

Okay, this may be wishful thinking, but only one of my 3 week old spitz has a tiny pink comb. Could I have lucked out twice?

 

[Ogress]

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OH come on!!! how cool is a talent show!!! I remember mine from 5th grade i sang Delta Dawn!!! lol!!!

scared the live bejeezes out of me!!!

Got bak from the talent show and I was in a really grumpy mood. Talent show was great, there was a lot of singing and dancing and many great piano players, one girl never had a lesson in her life, and she was awesome - truly gifted, unique and complicated piece. 3 Others played "Fur Elise" all played well, many sat backstage with their moms watching the practice over and over on the spare piano without actually pressing down the keys, but the self taught girl just walked out there and played. She told me she was nervous, but you never would have guessed it. I think the adults realised what a treat they were hearing because she got a standing ovation.

Ogress is mad becuase one of the boys had his act cut for times sake. He has a glass eye and pulls it out and acts like it is attacking and kills him I (He doesn't really pull his eye out - I guess he has a spare) - dorky, yes; but what a refreshing break from kids who were there to show off their dance lessons and singing lessons, and piano, violin, and harp. Besides that, he was my stage hand, and he helped move the piano between acts. The director alternated each piano player with a dance routine or gymnastic act, so it was constant push the piano onto the stage and back off again about 8 times, and there were matts too for the gymnasts, 4 that needed to be properly velcrod together in 1 minute, including removal of the piano. The boy and his friends handled most of that for the rehearsals but since he was cut, he nor his friends came and the ogress was doing it alone until finally another parent stepped forward to help. But that wasn't the worst. I had to park several blocks from the school and haul Olivia's harp that far. (Had I realised that a harp is a cumbersome instrument to haul, I would have insisted she play the flute). Just before my car we passed a house with a bunch of skin-heads hanging out and drinking in the yard, and they were calling out really rude and crude remars to DD and I. I so wanted to take that harp and smash them with it.

But I calmed down, stopped at my favorite Thai place for take-out and a friend who owns a gift shop in town was having dinner there, and told me my jewelry that I brought over just before Mother's day is selling very well and she has a check for me

Cool! Then I showed her the chick on the skateboard photos on my camera and she told me to make them into cards with some comments on them and sell them in her store! Got to think of some words to go with the pics.... If you are ever in North Bend, go to Selah Gifts - she has the coolest stuff in her store; something for everyone!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I want to talk about the Hamburgs as birds for a little; my daughter went in their run tonight to retrieve the egg, put a laying box where the egg was, clean out the waterer and re-fill it; the run is only 40" tall, and I am not so bendy. The whole time she was in there, the birds were about a foot from her eating from their feed pan: they weren't interested in being touched but they were also entirely unconcerned about her being there.

I had moments of thinking I was nuts for wanting Hamburgs; there's not even a permanent thread at the Breeds, Genetics and Showing section, and the brief discussions which have started and died were pretty much unanimous in finding them too flighty and frankly crazy to bother with. My three are not as tame as the Wyandottes but they are unbothered, now, by the dogs (Griz is a great chicken watcher, but does nothing at all about trying to agress on them or damage their pen)or the cattle; when I'm outside they talk to me the whole time. They do have a way to retreat from contact if they want (their run is 20 feet long) and they've got plenty of cover (the grass was about a foot tall when they moved in, and the stuff at the edge of the pen is closer to two feet now; I had trouble seeing Maggie yesterday morning until I realized she was straight down next to the fence, hiding in the tall grass.

They're also remarkably tidy birds; they don't throw grain out of their pan, and spend a lot of time tidying their feathers. When we put their waterer on a couple of bricks to get it out of the grass, they all three came over and inspected it, had a drink, and then discussed it for a while: very chatty birds.


I do believe I was not crazy to want them.

 

[Ogress]

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Two! Which means the younger cook should be able to find some nice small pastry as a ceremonial first-fruits treat, wouldn't you think? It is her sort of thing!

try this. http://awaytogarden.com/clafoutis-batter-universal-solvent-of-fruit-dessert

mmmmm - that looks sooooo good!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Nobody deserves it more.

 

[Ogress]

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Pictures! Coop and birds - they sound like great birds!

 

[Ogress]

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Nice work on the coops, broody! Are those the big shipping crates? Wow! They are huge! Are you going to make 3 roofs or one big one?

 

[hallerlake]

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Sounds like they were well socialized. I'm really glad that you're happy with your birds.

 

[Ogress]

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Great news CR!!

 

[hallerlake]

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OH come on!!! how cool is a talent show!!! I remember mine from 5th grade i sang Delta Dawn!!! lol!!!

scared the live bejeezes out of me!!!

Got bak from the talent show and I was in a really grumpy mood. Talent show was great, there was a lot of singing and dancing and many great piano players, one girl never had a lesson in her life, and she was awesome - truly gifted, unique and complicated piece. 3 Others played "Fur Elise" all played well, many sat backstage with their moms watching the practice over and over on the spare piano without actually pressing down the keys, but the self taught girl just walked out there and played. She told me she was nervous, but you never would have guessed it. I think the adults realised what a treat they were hearing because she got a standing ovation.

Ogress is mad becuase one of the boys had his act cut for times sake. He has a glass eye and pulls it out and acts like it is attacking and kills him I (He doesn't really pull his eye out - I guess he has a spare) - dorky, yes; but what a refreshing break from kids who were there to show off their dance lessons and singing lessons, and piano, violin, and harp. Besides that, he was my stage hand, and he helped move the piano between acts. The director alternated each piano player with a dance routine or gymnastic act, so it was constant push the piano onto the stage and back off again about 8 times, and there were matts too for the gymnasts, 4 that needed to be properly velcrod together in 1 minute, including removal of the piano. The boy and his friends handled most of that for the rehearsals but since he was cut, he nor his friends came and the ogress was doing it alone until finally another parent stepped forward to help. But that wasn't the worst. I had to park several blocks from the school and haul Olivia's harp that far. (Had I realised that a harp is a cumbersome instrument to haul, I would have insisted she play the flute). Just before my car we passed a house with a bunch of skin-heads hanging out and drinking in the yard, and they were calling out really rude and crude remars to DD and I. I so wanted to take that harp and smash them with it.

But I calmed down, stopped at my favorite Thai place for take-out and a friend who owns a gift shop in town was having dinner there, and told me my jewelry that I brought over just before Mother's day is selling very well and she has a check for me

Cool! Then I showed her the chick on the skateboard photos on my camera and she told me to make them into cards with some comments on them and sell them in her store! Got to think of some words to go with the pics.... If you are ever in North Bend, go to Selah Gifts - she has the coolest stuff in her store; something for everyone!

Sounds like your evening was more good than bad.