Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Bigfamily4me]

:-D

 

[cuties]

Terri, I fan not beleive they still do not have feathers!! Good call bringing them in. Must be cold! You will need to nit some sweaters for winter ;-)

Bigz, best wishes to your daughter.

Hope all is well frenchie!

 

[babylady4]

Home sweet home! I swear, that was one of the LONGEST trips home from IL. I think we need to limit our stops....... first we had to get water, then we went to the mushroom place, then we had to fill up the van, then we had to stop for a bathroom break, then we had to stop at Cabela's...... We left Great America a little after 5 and pulled in the driveway at 10:10.

The drive home from my cousin's house usually takes about 2 3/4 hours, I figure leaving from Gurnee would add another 1/2 hour to the trip...... but making it home in 5 hours???

Thankfully we are home safe, the car is unpacked, all the food is put away, dogs are back home, and everyone has had a shower to get the funk off from all that sweating. The dogs were so silly when I picked them up too. They acted like we had been gone for a week instead of one night! They are exhausted from all of their dancing around! The cats are glad to see us too, Grover is camped out by my feet right now...

Frenchie, I hope you are ok..... Sclark, you too!


All the pics looked beautiful! Loved the chooks and the flowers!

Taking the family tubing tomorrow...... a nice relaxing way to end our time off.

 

[199787]

Nice pics!!

Awe, nice pics. Looks like a couple hens in the pictures of the Langshans. They will pass up the buckeyes, never fear. They just start out slower but keep growing for a long time.

 

[Cindlady]

Hi All!
I hoped to respond to more but...

Hope everyone hurting feels better!

Great pics to those who posted!

BigZ... hope your girl stays safe!

Well, Young Son got me up with moaning he was real sick. He spent most of the night throwing up. He curled up on my bed with his head in my lap on the verge of tears (he's 24). We spent the afternoon at the walk in clinic. They ran tests, and did an ultrasound. His gallbladder looked clear but everything else indicated that was the issue.

This has been going on, on and off for over a year. He's going to have a consultation with a surgeon tomorrow. I say yank it out!

Sink drain is still messed up. It backed up through the dishwasher and ran out all over the floor. Wouldn't be so bad if weren't for that d@mn carpeting in the kitchen! Thought about just ripping it out but there's "glue" underneath. It's not holding the carpet down, but is kinda gummy.

Can't do dishes in the bathroom because that's way too busy so I got to drag them to the utility room and try to do them there and haul them back to the kitchen. Doable I guess. (Yes, dishwasher has been broke for months)

Then when we were gone the wood guy came and dumped a full cord of wood right in the path where the guy living in our yard (which is working well so far) has to drive to get back to his RV. So his Blazer and work trailer is blocking DH's car. At least it's dry, maybe he can go on the lawn around him.

I also lost a nice rooster. That black one I wasn't sure what it was. Not sure what happen.

So, that was my fun day! Now that I have a "Frenchie" size post.... wonder where she is? Maybe they kept her.

Night all!

 

[Bigfamily4me]

Cind... Sorry about your son

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

 

[Bigfamily4me]

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!

 

[delisha]

Cind... Sorry about your son

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

x2

Frenchy..I am worried..check in as soon as you can. i don't have your number to call.

Does anyone have her number?

 

[unkadan]

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!

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

 

[Sclark73]

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.