Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[irishrovr]

Thanks for yet another round of kind comments on my photos. Here's another one, not the best as I was just setting up and hand held this photo but was the only lightning bolt that went up and down. I tracked this storm cloud from midnight until 3am and the only other bolts it threw were all squiggly.

AWESOME photos!!

 

[delisha]

Loved the photos..thank you

 

[Bigfamily4me]

I always appreciate the photos even if I forget to post. thanks!

Tired. I have no time to post. I have to go do chores yet. But I went to Waunakee to pick up Tonto this morning. So the Lone Ranger has a side kick now. I'll worry about him less now. Especially since I moved the chocolates out of the room, he had absolute silence. Right now, Tonto won't shutup. So Ranger won't be bored... :-D

Later Peeps

 

[chikenscratch]

I haven;t heard from Amyable in a while. Has anyone spoke with her since she was talking about having contractions?

 

[RBerryChicks]

I decided to take today off and make it a four day weekend. We started the morning with a nice breakfast at Paoli Cafe, then a fun visit with Susan at Cluck the Chicken Store while picking up feed. Since it is too darned hot out I thought I'd check in while waiting for Kristip to stop by for cucumbers and dill. Always fun visiting with other chicken people.

BBP: WOW with this heat, please take care and stay hydrated.

chickenscratch: You are correct, the UW generally does offer tuition reimbursement. Not sure what, if any changes there have been to that policy in the last few years though.

JJ: Love the Coca Cola of old made with pure can sugar. The local Family Dollar store sells the Mexican bottled Coke. It's more expensive but we don't drink that much soda, so it's worth it.

Bf4m: I agree on the photos. Love to see them and very envious of all the great photographers. Not to mention everyone's set ups and gardens.

Well - I've been procrastinating . . . guess I'll go check on the chicks then change out my beetles. Stay cool everyone!

 

[Celtic Chick]

Just for you, Heather.

Hershey butt:

And one of her offspring, Nestle:

 

[Celtic Chick]

TO...Goop Party is sometime in Oct. we need to set a date. I figured gardens should be almost done, kids are settled in school and things should be settling before the holidays. We could do a weekday or weekend, makes no difference to me. We would have to start "cooking" by 10:30 and probably won't be done until 5:00 with luck. I usually do it over 2 days, we'll have to squeeze instead of drip. It's the simmering that takes the longest. I figured we could eat then you all go home.

CC... (and anyone else coming for Goop Party)... This is what we need....
*All dried*
1#-Plantian leaf
1/2# -each Comfrey root, St. John's wort, Calendula flower, Chickweed, Mullein, and Yarrow.
We also need olive oil. I have lots of bee's wax. This should make 12 to 15 , 2oz. jars. If anyone has jars, that wold be cool! Let me know what you can bring, so I can get what you can't.
Let's hope my kitchen is fixed by then!

Thank you so much for reposting the details for me. So sorry you had to do that.

Oct. works for me.
I have some dried plantain leaves already, but not sure how much. I can bring some yarrow too. What do you need, the flowers, the leaves or both? Did your seeds come up?
I have at least 2 jars I can bring. I'm sure I have more but I will have to look.
I can bring a salad or something along also.

 

[WIChookchick]

And now for something completely different...
Carol Lives!! I know I know.. I haven't even lurked.. they redid my work schedule AND we have no internet at home at the moment, I have been workign 6 days a week lately and still can't afford
to have internet at the house. I am at Denny's after eating my own weight in pancakes...
Have to wait for hubby to get off work in about 2.5 hours and counting.
Still have the horses- anyone want a shetland who does great at lead line or being led, but not so much with being ridden alone by a 7 yr old, no matter how much she swats him, kicks... or pleads for him to go?? he can come with a cute purple western saddle, a pink saddle pad, a red headstall with purpl/pink reins, a purple halter and lead
All for the bargain price of $100... ( I kid.. well not really.. you can "borrow" him for a really long time if you want though, just let me drag my niece to come by and say hi now and again)...
Still have the chickens, well most of them, the Jaerhons are gone, but have the rest.

Thank you so much for reposting the details for me. So sorry you had to do that.

Oct. works for me.
I have some dried plantain leaves already, but not sure how much. I can bring some yarrow too. What do you need, the flowers, the leaves or both? Did your seeds come up?
I have at least 2 jars I can bring. I'm sure I have more but I will have to look.
I can bring a salad or something along also.

I just got some yarrow, but I am willing to bring a bit for whoever needs it.

TO I saw this and thought of you, since it is close to where you are as well.
http://madison.craigslist.org/grd/4022060305.html

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Posted: 2013-08-23, 10:28PM CDT
Chocolate Palm or Golden Narrangansett turkeys - $25 (Lake Mills)

I ordered some turkeys from Porter's Rare Turkeys in Indiana, and only want to keep a few through the winter. Up for grabs is this Chocolate Palm hen and this Golden Narragansett hen. $25 per bird, fed certified organic, very healthy. I have more than that in these.

http://www.porterturkeys.com/chocolatepalm.htm
http://www.porterturkeys.com/goldennarragansett.htm




AND finally.... I took in a wonderful little black lop eared rabbit, he comes with a cage (not outside type), litter box/litter, hay rack, 3 water bottles, 1 ceramic food dish, 1 hopper type, pellets and his little super cute and friendly self. I loves to be petted and cuddled, he needs a place to run around (or time out of the cage), likes dogs, kids and even grown ups.
I have him in one of the chicken stalls so he can go in and out of his cage at his leisure. That is one of his biggest issues, he loves to be with people and to just be out for a bit, but mostly people had just petted him for a few minutes then plunked him back into his cage, he tends to get "fidgety" when you go to put him back, he has gotten TONS better with being able to go in and out when HE wants to.
SOoooooo Terri O.. does your DD's rabbit want some company??
OR would some one who has kids want him??
Free to a great home... he would have been released into a back yard or outside with no clue what he should do if I had not taken him in. But DH is mildly allergic to rabbits and more so to cats.

Please feel free to email
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Crazy kooky carol!

 

[Hurley]

Hey all, enjoying a nice big-drop rain shower with some lovely thunder currently. I think we're outside of the severe weather here from the looks of the radar, hope everyone else stays safe!

Was just going through my coops and have found I have a few extra chickens from this season that I need to rehome if anyone has a want of them - wanted to offer here first before I put them up on Craig's list.
I want to move up some chicks soon, so need to empty out some space.

All are hatched here or obtained form NPIP sources as hatching eggs.
All are tested Pullorum negative as of 8/11/2013 (though some aren't quite old enough, technically, they've all been tested).


Nice, fully feathered silkies: SPOKEN FOR
*1 very pretty cuckoo blue cockerel, non-bearded, red comb (cuckoo interferes with the dark comb/face), hatched April.
*1 blue cuckoo, bearded, unsure of the sex at this time, guessing cockerel, hatched May.
*1 very light blue, bearded, suspect pullet, smaller than the other one, but was a later hatch as well, hatched May.
*Also have an old pair of a blue cuckoo hen and splash cuckoo cockerel - the parents of these chicks - great birds, but getting older. 2 years old.

Big, point of lay Silver Sussex pullets: SPOKEN FOR
*2 pullets, very pretty, had originally hatched out with intent to work into my Iowa Blues, but have since changed my mind. Lovely gals, not yet laying but getting close.

Iowa Blues - birchens - from my old flock that were quite dark. I'm focusing now more on the silver penciled variety, so these are available: SPOKEN FOR
*1 cockerel, 3 or 4 pullets, the pullets available are lower in lacing than I am striving for, pretty dark, but great birds and awesome free rangers. Animated, plucky, a joy to watch.

Black bantam rocks: SPOKEN FOR
Supposedly from show stock, I got them in an egg exchange. Lovely birds, girls just reddening up in the comb currently.
*2 black cockerels
*2 or 3 pullets
(I think I'm keeping a trio/quad for myself)

1 Spanish Black Turkey: SPOKEN FOR
*I think it's a hen, I'm really not up on turkeys - she is a 4/26 hatch and the head/neck reddened up over the last month. Great bird, was going to raise my Thanksgiving turkey, but she's such a cool bird that I don't have the stomach for it. I can handle it if someone else eats her (or even better, wants her not to eat), but I won't be the one doing the eating. Somehow it's harder than with the chickens. She has let my 3 year old pick her up and carry her around since she was little, even when she was as big as him.

2 year old hens: SPOKEN FOR EXCEPT THE OE Hen
*2 Lavender bantam Ameraucana hens, one lays a lovely blue egg regularly and I've got some cooking now that are beautifully fertile, the other lays a more sporadic green egg. I don't know which is which.
*Blue cuckoo large bantam Olive Egger - lays a nice large Olive egg typically every other day this season, sometimes more often, and is the one of the rooster's favorite ladies.


Free to WI thread people, if you want them, otherwise I'll post them up on Craig's list next week.

Feel free to PM me here or email me at Hurleydoc at g mail dot com.

Just thought I'd check here first to see if anyone wants them.

 

[Hurley]

Whoops, spoke too soon...there's the hail, though currently it's little and sporadic, but yep. Hail.