What did you do in the garden today?

[chicken opey]

Is it just my rooster or do they all have an issue with shoes? Chip, the rooster, doesn’t give me any grief usually but the shoe thing can get him wigged out for some odd reason. Now, I know when I go out to get the eggs in shorts I stun him, after-all seeing a giant pair of pasty white chicken legs coming in your direction is certainly scary….but the shoe thingNot getting the chicken stress out over a change in the shoes.

My rooster has an issue w me but I never considered it might be my flip flops . It’s so bad I’ve told him he’s coming for dinner soon. My dh has started beating me to letting them out in morning (supposed to be my job). Since he has on overalls and boots he doesn’t care. I can even bring them treats (watermelon) and he acts like he wants to get at me but the electric fence is in way. He usually takes it out on one of the hens close by.
Maybe if I changed shoes…

 

[Smokerbill]

I added some height to the Blue Lake pole bean trellis. I strung nylon cord from the top of the steel fence trellis up to the ropes that run around the top of my raised bed deer fence. The vines will be able to grow along the horizontal ropes if they get that long.

I took my camera out there to take some pics but it didn't work. I forgot to insert the dang memory card. I'll get pics later.

ETA: Inserted the memory card...

 

[Nym]

I pulled some winter weeds for the chooks before the mower man arrives and deems them unsightly hahaa.
Then I found the knot guy. edit: it appears he doesn't allow playback outside of yt, sorry.

 

[Nym]

My rooster has an issue w me but I never considered it might be my flip flops . It’s so bad I’ve told him he’s coming for dinner soon. My dh has started beating me to letting them out in morning (supposed to be my job). Since he has on overalls and boots he doesn’t care. I can even bring them treats (watermelon) and he acts like he wants to get at me but the electric fence is in way. He usually takes it out on one of the hens close by.
Maybe if I changed shoes…

Take care breeding from such a bird. genetics and all that. There are plenty of threads about dangerous roosters.

 

[Smokerbill]

When the time came and my siblings and I were splitting up our parents' possessions I ended up with this. It's a watermelon plugging knife that I'm pretty sure is hand forged.

My dad's father was a farmer (as was Mom's) and he developed a variety of watermelon that the restaurants in Kansas City loved and bought from him. The uniform diameter end to end allowed them to serve nice looking slices, all pretty much the same size.

It was a cross between Charleston Gray and Crimson Sweet melons. Charleston Grays have a uniform diameter end to end and are light green. Crimson Sweets are more rounded and are striped.

His variety was shaped like a Charleston Gray, but had stripes like the Crimson Sweets. I have an old picture somewhere showing a truck full of his watermelons, I'm guessing from the late 1920s or early 30s.

Here's the plugging knife, which is probably 80 years old more or less. They pulled out the knife and sampled a few melons before they bought the load. Stuck it in the watermelon, rotated it then pulled out the plug.

 

[Nym]

When the time came and my sibling and I were splitting up our parents' possessions I ended up with this. It's a watermelon plugging knife that I'm pretty sure is hand forged.

My dad's father was a farmer (as was Mom's) and he developed a variety of watermelon that the restaurants in Kansas City loved and bought from him. The uniform diameter end to end allowed them to serve nice looking slices, all pretty much the same size.

It was a cross between Charleston Gray and Crimson Sweet melons. Charleston Grays have a uniform diameter end to end and are light green. Crimson Sweets are more rounded and are striped.

His strain was shaped like a Charleston Gray, but had stripes like the Crimson Sweets. I have an old picture somewhere showing a truck full of his watermelons, I'm guessing from the late 1920s or early 30s.

Here's the plugging knife, which is probably 80 years old more or less. They pulled out the knife and sampled a few melons before they bought the load. Stuck it in the watermelon, rotated it then pulled out the plug.

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A beautiful keepsake and working history.

 

[Smokerbill]

A beautiful keepsake and working history.

Yep. I think I'm genetically predisposed to have a need to grow stuff. Small scale commercial farming and gardening were a part of my life from the beginning. My mom's father let me start working in the fields when I was 4, 5, 6 years old. Hoeing, pulling weeds, picking radishes and tying them into bundles with one of the rubber bands I pulled off my wrist. I was paid a penny a bunch for the radishes, as were all the other workers.

Putting a kid to work in the fields would be considered child abuse these days, but it's not if the kid is a willing participant like I was. Wouldn't trade that time for anything.

 

[Rick589]

My rooster has an issue w me but I never considered it might be my flip flops . It’s so bad I’ve told him he’s coming for dinner soon. My dh has started beating me to letting them out in morning (supposed to be my job). Since he has on overalls and boots he doesn’t care. I can even bring them treats (watermelon) and he acts like he wants to get at me but the electric fence is in way. He usually takes it out on one of the hens close by.
Maybe if I changed shoes…

Seems to be a thing, might be worth a try

 

[Sally PB]

I just finished an hour of dead cane-ing the blackberries.

What do you do with the dead canes?

I'd heard that they can harbor pests over the winter, so I burned them in the burn barrel.

 

[cj2024]

Is it just my rooster or do they all have an issue with shoes? Chip, the rooster, doesn’t give me any grief usually but the shoe thing can get him wigged out for some odd reason. Now, I know when I go out to get the eggs in shorts I stun him, after-all seeing a giant pair of pasty white chicken legs coming in your direction is certainly scary….but the shoe thingNot getting the chicken stress out over a change in the shoes.

We call those man eaters in my neighborhood and never breed them. Their male offspring will usually inherit that same attack trait. I live in a place where there were weekly chicken fight gatherings on the weekends, but it became extinct when the government made it illegal. My local hardware store use to sell chicken knives when it was legal way back then.