Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Bigfamily4me]

thanks a lot, 1st cuppa spit over the monitor, spilled on the keyboard, and my eyes are watering from laughing so hard

Yeah... It's gonna be like Pig Pen in the Peanuts when I get up here. But it isn't a dirt cloud following me...

 

[unkadan]

Yeah... It's gonna be like Pig Pen in the Peanuts when I get up here. But it isn't a dirt cloud following me...

could be worse,,at least it's summer and you have the windows open

 

[vickiw]

Cind... Sorry about your son

And why is there a man living on your lawn??

X2!!!!!

 

[delisha]

lol..Heather you are so darn funny

 

[delisha]

IScark,

Please get better and make some phone calls..

As far as your chick, I have no idea.

It is cute..that is all I can tell you.

 

[irishrovr]

It's that moment when you realize your bed is dry but smells like pee. You know you didn't do it, know who did do it, and know you're too tired to do anything about it right now. So you will just lay in bed smelling pee fumes planning to fix it... Later. Good Morning All!

EW!!

 

[irishrovr]

I was up at 2 and woke again about a half hour ago in complete misery! I was told not to take anymore ibuphrophen yesterday when I called the doctors office but I broke down and took some a bit ago. I can't take this pain and swelling. Without the ibu my whole throat swells shut and it feels like strep throat times 100! I've finally got it someone to stop burning but have been up bawling most of the night. When it swells, not even the morphine takes away the pain. If anyone asks me about this surgery I will tell them to try anything to not have it done. I'm not even a week in and they said it will be at least another week before it starts tapering down. Also the swelling in my feet hasn't gotten any better and I've been elevating them as much as possible. I really don't think it's protein deficiency that is causing this, it just doesn't seem to make any sense.

French-hope your doctor stuff went ok, been thinking about you and anyone else having medical problems. I know how mentally draining it can be.


Well son 14 got his essay all typed and ready to mail today for the Pullet Suprise Youth Contest. They didn't get ahold of me until late yesterday afternoon. I sure hope others find it as humorous as the people that we've told. This is his story, let me know what you all think.

“Jose/Maria” by Tyler Jay Hill​

July 2011 my mom bought a Bantam breeding pair. Maria, a black Cochin Hen and Pedro, a black Silkie Cochin cross rooster. On Earth day every year Bruce School has a petting zoo, this is where I go to school. I am in the FFA so the school asks us to bring in animals for the little kids to see. I asked mom if I could bring Jose and Maria for the petting zoo because no one else was bringing chicken. She said that I could but I had to be careful to not lose them. Pedro was very funny looking because his comb was really big and nearly covered his eyes; he also had a fuzzy head. Maria looked like a regular black Cochin Bantam hen and was very soft. Everyone loved them because they were friendly and Maria could always be held and petted. After the petting zoo was over my mom came and picked us up. When we got home to let them out of their cage, Maria started acting weird dancing around. Within a few days Maria started crowing like a rooster and would do a rooster dance for my mom and my sister. Everyone thought it was funny and we renamed her Jose.
We took Jose to the petting zoo at the Mt. Scenario College last year during “Leaf It To Rusk”. He really seemed to like being held and given a lot of attention. It didn’t take long for everyone to notice him there as the friendly rooster. Mom would tell everyone the story of how he became Jose but not many people believed her. We had about 20 kids huddled around him waiting for their turn to hold the friendly rooster. None of the kids parents could understand why they chose to hold him over the bunnies and other animals there.
Mom decided this spring to buy Jose some hens but he didn’t even like them. He would still only dance for mom and my sister and he would bring them food. He rides on moms shoulder when she cleans the chicken coop and sometimes when we are just outside. This spring my mom bought 12 Buff Orpingtons and sister bought 14 barnyard chicks that were in the old pen. My sister brought Jose in with the chicks to see what he would do. He automatically started talking to the chicks and called them over to eat. We left him in with the chicks for the day and went out to check on him with a flashlight that night. You could see little heads peeking out from under his wings so we decided he could stay and raise the babies. He is on his third batch of chicks this year. Mom says “He’ll stay around even if he doesn’t breed because a rooster like him is worth a million bucks”. Everyone that comes over or hears his story wants him to come raise their baby chicks.

What a sweet story! I hope he wins!!

 

[irishrovr]

Sclark. I sure hope you get to feeling much better soon! It sounds like you're having a miserable time of it - hope the doctors get it sorted out quickly!!

 

[bigzio]

Good Morning To All....thanks for the kind words and prayers sent my daughters way. It's Angie my oldest daughter, that is the forester on the reservation. Here is a link with the description of a GIS specialist....http://www.wisegeek.org/what-does-a-gis-specialist-do.htm
Nice pics Terri, thanks for sharing them.
Hope everyone is feeling better soon. Sucks being sick for sure.

later...bigz

 

[jvls1942]

these are the guinea keets and 9 Delaware chicks ,, their first night out of the brooder pen. they took to the roost quite naturally ..





this is the latest hatch of keets in the TV.. they will be going out to the brooder pen today.

I had two calls about keets this morning.. if they show up, I will still have plenty left ..

over 30 in the guinea pen, and over 24 in the TV .. difficult to count when they are moving about..