Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[mxmarg]

EL, phooo! How are the kids today?

MLH, I'm bummed we didn't spend more time together at the bash! Well there's always next year?!

Oh wait! YES, WHENEVER you are planning to come out to Abendroth's and you have the time, you simply must pm me so we can get together for coffee and chicken...s over at my house! Spittin' distance away I tell you! We're in each other's backyard! Would love that so much

Crudball BBP! Hope hubs is ok! And what a gorg Iris!!!

Kristi- how were those in-laws you had for dinner?

Moving along to cousins tonight?

Oh Vicki, so sorry to hear....

I'll bet it's a heart shaped hole. Prayers to you and your friend and her lovies.
I hope Tiki's advice is the magic bullet for your vent gleet girl. I'm such a newb, I have no advice for anyone! Except maybe don't let your dog do laps around the chicken tractor 'cuz those birdbrains can get way stupid in a hurry.

What a great pic you have there Dr Purl. I so enjoyed chatting and making a "love connection" about knitting and couponing!

BigZio's loverly wife too about knitting! Were those scarves she made ever gorgeous!!!! Such a flipping pleasure to meet everyone!

Dr. Purl, so glad you came in your newbie-ness

We're going to have to pm about couponing. 'Cuz the Milwaukee Journal went up to $3 a Sunday paper and am wondering if just the inserts would be any less???????? We'll chat!

Tiki, so funny about the Americauna digging on the trampoline aspect on the chain link!!!! ha ha ha! I love how silly our feathered friends are! And that flower too! Magnificent! All my iris' are going nutso now too!

BigFam, my daughter said she was disappointed to miss the water balloon fight and I said "I'm not, those kids were really whipping them at each other!" Woulda sucked for her and Raim's daughter to have been there!!! Super glad the bigger kids had so much fun with it! Hilarious to look over from the firepit and see the mayhem unfolding!

DrH, you were not the first person who I threw for a huge loop when I wasn't burnette! Sorry people, natural blonde over here! Ya can't even tell I have eyebrows or eyelashes unless I glop makeup on there

Jim however just had to say he could tell I was a blonde based on my posts

Maybe I'll make my own face my avatar, cuz it was so nice to instantly recognize those who do!

And I agree Carol, you simply MUST share your on-the-way-to-the-chicken-bash story!!!!

I'll stop hogging the board now. Twizzler is so talented in making all her replies and everything one post! The real reason I said all of this is because I miss FT...

 

[Tomski]

Back from the Bash in one piece...

Was GREAT getting to meet everyone and can't wait for the next one!

For the record: I WON THE BEER CRATE! LOL

 

[Bigfamily4me]

Back from the Bash in one piece...

Was GREAT getting to meet everyone and can't wait for the next one!

For the record:  I WON THE BEER CRATE!  LOL

Spoiled brat! I let you keep it you know. I also prevented anyone else from getting a box of 500 sample tubes of kids crest toothpaste...

 

[WIChookchick]

Not sure what happened.. I was retelling to my friend who blogged about it.... some of the events are out of sequence, and inaccurate .. but its FUNNY...


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Yes, It’s another adventures in Carol Land post!
No unlike most of mine in the past I wasn’t there for most of it. Due to communications issues I missed out on a 6 hour car ride involving a purse, and picking up some more chickens. But I can pass over some of the remembered highlights from what Carol regaled me with and a short little trip that we made together however.
As was typical Dan picked me up from home since I was involved in the game (I’m the ships engineer in a Traveler game. Gee funny that eh?) and Dan and I arrived at the normal time where we were informed that Mike was gonna be a bit late since Carol had the car (and was picking up chickens) and he couldn’t get the van to start and was gonna get a jump start from the pickup truck. Right off the bat I knew this was gonna be interesting once they arrived.
Well later on Carol called Dan and asked him to pick up Mike from home since despite his best efforts he couldn’t get the van started and it had a new battery taboot. So Dan took off to pick up Mike and the rest of us decided to chill out and relax. I fired up an ancient laptop that I have (courtesy of Mike and Carol) that ran Windows 2000. No major problem. I used it to fire up something that even ran older software and played some old DOS games (Master of Magic in this case) and chatted away.
Later on Irish’s phone rings again. He listens for a few seconds and says something and then announces “She’s chasing chickens in a convenience store parking lot.” I smiled a knowing smile. Yep, gonna be interesting to hear about this.
Time passed and eventually Dan arrived with Mike and later on Carol did as well. After a few minutes of Carol being there she let everyone know that she needed to take off for the house and then back to drop off a dog and then come back and wondered if I wanted to come along. I said “Sure! No problem!” and figured that way I could find out what went on earlier about the chickens so we headed out to the car where I saw a absolutely beautiful dog in the back seat. According to Carol his name is “Demon” (though that will change) and is an Australian Shepard breed. All I saw was those eyes of his. Very pale blue (I think maybe gray). Those eyes just pierced through you with a very friendly look and I could have gotten lost in them very easily. I was familiar with Lexi and CeeCee (Mike and Carol’s two other dogs) but this one was one I hadn’t met.
So had Mike and Carol gotten another dog? Well yes and no.
You see the dog’s owner was Stan. I mentioned him and his wife’s home in a much earlier post.
http://desonbowenford.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/adventures-in-carol-land-part-2/
Ya see Stan has a problem. Yes he’s a veteran, yes he’s been in the military a number of years but there is one thing that causes him to duck. An angry spouse. So here is how he does it. It seems that his wife deals with animal things much better if they were simply accomplished while she wasn’t there. For example he has 3 horses. All three of them simply appeared at the home in the barn while she was on vacation. So for the time being Mike and Carol are taking care of the dog until she goes on vacation and the dog will simply materialize at the home while she’s gone. Just like the horses did. Hey, I ain’t gonna argue if it works out that way for both of them. This seems to be of one of those situation where both sides are ok with it then fine. Those eyes should get her I’m sure. They almost got me. But wait it get’s stranger from here.
During our trip to the house Carol informed me about roughly what went on earlier today.
Seems she got a call from a friend of her’s who had a problem. Her friend had left her purse at home. A long ways away. About 3 hours driving distance away. Could Carol head over to her friend’s place, pick up the purse and drive over to drop it off? Oh and in the meantime there were some chickens she was sure that Carol was gonna want to look at the general vicinity at the same time.
Well armed with some hand written instructions Carol took off to drop off the purse and look at the chickens. She tried to call me to see if I wanted to go along with her on this trip but unfortunately she couldn’t get through. No one answered and thus I was oblivious to this escapade.
Here are some of the highlights from what Carol informed me and my poor tortured memory can remember.
Got the purse. Drove about 3 hours to drop off the purse. Looked at the chickens. I’m not sure but I believe she did indeed take Demon with her as well. Gotta get some pics of that dog I swear.
The return trip is when the fun really started.
Carol stopped at a convenience store to gas up, stretch the legs, maybe take the dog for quick walk, and water the chickens. But not in that order. (chuckle) She decided to water the chickens (all 4 of them) before gassing up. Got got a hold of some water, and opened the box to pour the water into a bowl for them. Well, turned out that at least one of the chickens decided to be an escape artist and 2 others decided to follow suit. One didn’t succeed in escaping though. So you have 3 chickens running loose in a parking lot and Carol trying to catch all 3 of them and one still in the box. 2 of them were caught in relatively short order. The 3rd one was gonna be a pain. It was a Leghorn (yes the Foghorn type maybe he had the same attitude I dunno).
I can picture the chase scene now.
(Ch) “I say, I say, I am NOT going back in that box Missy no matter how hard you chase me!”
Gets chased under a truck.
(Ch) “I say, there is no way that gas can is gonna help corral me little Missy! I’ll just run around it!”
Truck pulls out revealing him exposed.
(Ch) “Yikes I say! I’d better getta movin along here! You almost got me Missy! and I dare say watch that language of your Missy unless you like to eat soap!!”
Truck with a fishing boat pulls in and Carol borrows a fishing net from the owner who undoubtedly watched her attempts with some amusement but he was very patient in watching her efforts.
His watching was rewarded.
(CH) “uh oh! She’s got a net now and she looks very determined! I’m gonna make a break for this nearby Golf Course! Look a creek! With tall grass! That’ll slow her down!”
Carol pursues the leghorn into the creek. By the way did you know that Chickens in full speed can charge right across a creek and into the tall grass without getting wet? Not so Carol. Entering the tall grass and recovering some of her sense of humor she mutters something like “Crikey! We got a bird in the bush here!” (in a Crocodile hunter voice). She sees the creek and figures that she’s gonna have to cross it but it’s too far to jump all the way so a leap halfway is called for into the water. It can’t be all that deep right? By the way did I mention that she was wearing shorts and sandals at the time? No? Well after tearing her shorts in the tall grass (she showed me the tear on the way to the house) and jumping in she discovered the water depth was not only over knee high but lower of the shorts high with a mighty splash. About mid calf or so. After coming over on the other side where the Chicken was I figured she was pretty steamed at this point.
(CH) “What! She ain’t stopping! Now what do I do? I say, I say lookeee over there…. brambles!! That should I say, I say, poke a hole in her enthusiasm!”
Well, it didn’t stop her. Carol showed me the scrapes on her left arm as she was telling me about this. One in particular caught my eye it ran from her elbow all the way down to the underside of her hand of her left hand. There were other ones as well.
Now I ‘ll admit if it was me there wouldn’t have been a survivor of a chicken after that. I would have borrowed a shotgun from someone and figured on a chicken dinner that evening. But that’s me.
Well the rest of the trip back was uneventful after returning the fishing net to the no doubt amused fisherman who would have regaled his fishing buddies with the tale of the woman who borrowed it to catch a wayward chicken.
ok, you got that?
Good there’s more.
Remember how I mentioned about Carol telling me about these things on our trip to the house? Well it’s gets better. Two more things so bear with me. By the way I hope you’ve been enjoying this please let me know in comments ok?
So we end up arriving at the house and Carol unloads Demon. Next she decides to try to jump start the van in case something had gone wrong with Mike’s attempts. There the van was sitting in front of the pickup truck, nose pointing to nose. No problems. So carol fires up her pickup truck (with a very loud exhaust system) and tells me to hit the accelerator if I think the engine is gonna die to keep it running. I climb into the truck cab and wait. She proceeds to connect the jumper cables and climbs into the Van. I see a few lights go on in the van so I know it’s getting juice.
“GLARGE IT!” I hear. (loud muffler system on the truck). Figuring that she wanted me to step on it I did so for a few seconds and watch her attempt to crank it over.
“KLL DT!!” I hear and back off. Unfortunately the van didn’t start so there’s something wrong big time with it. Carol has Hate/Hate relationship with this van and this wasn’t helping. So giving up on that we needed to put the dogs into the house and head back.
That’s when I had to drag a plushie white bear with a leash attached to it along the ground meanwhile in aloud voice saying “C’mon Demon! Good boy! Time to go nighty night!” several times.
What a minute! Deson you had to what? Drag a what along the ground? and saying what?
Well it’s like this. The landlords of the house don’t want Demon in the house after finding out that Demon was a Farm dog and never had been left overnight in a house. ok, in a way I can understand the landlord’s worries. Mainly because the prior residents (Before Mike and Carol moved in) had a pair of Pit Bulls and the dogs had literally torn the house apart chewing up insulation, and siding. This wasn’t a Pit Bull. I hate to say it but there are times when Pit Bulls earn their reputation and the prior renters had let them run wild. I don’t blame the Pit Bulls themselves so much as I blame the dog’s owners.
That said the idea was for me to drag this white plushie bear to this one small shed acting like it was demon being put to bed for the evening. Apparently sound carries rather well out in the country at times and I was to make a production of it. Now I’ll admit I messed it up by returning with the plushie bear much to Carol’s dismay after I did this. I was supposed to leave it out at the shed and I didn’t know WHY I was told to do this entire escapade. After Carol corrected me (thank you Carol for your patience) she then dragged the “Pseudo Dog” out to the shed and we headed back to the gaming group.

 

[bigzio]

OH MY GOSH....the third Bash was bigger and better than before and a very special thanks to all of you! I can't even begin to thank all the special cheeseheads for making this event so much fun.

Friday night by the fire with the guitar music and vocals provided by the cheesheads band Tomski and Dave ( drpurls other half) taking turns, was reason to stay by the fire awhile longer, and to be hopefully growing in band numbers next year, is in itself worth attending next year....that was a ton of fun!

We are the best group, and you guys all showed that it's a fact. I hope some lasting memories were made of good times, for everyone.

Thank-you again for the free will offering that covered all the costs, plus a donation and deposit to secure a three day event for next year...I'll know more about those details tomorrow and post the numbers after I know for sure.

The white elephant was a hoot, and I'm glad you were able to secure the coveted Leine's Antique box Tomski.. Thanks for the excitement it brought Doc. Your gift was awesome too Tomski, for a yooper you are alright and welcome again and again. Jim was able to pass the polar bear for a gift that he couldn't let go of the rest of the night...kinda priceless, eh Jim....folks that didn't or couldn't make the bash missed a ton of fun! Our white elephant gift of ceramic chicks is already displayed on our chicken shelf in the kitchen....

I caught the water balloon fight....it was intense for sure....guess who the adult was that was playing with revenge? I won't mention any names....right bigfam.

Thanks for the donation to the raffle MLH and the good ideas your DH offered for next year's bash....after all he has to return with the white elephant, if I remember right?

The fire pit burnned for three beautiful days.....friends, food, and chicken talk all around....who could ask for more? We aren't weird...we are special!

Hope everyone had a safe trip home....we truly are blessed, aren't we!

bigz

 

[Bigfamily4me]

Next year is water gun fights... Lots of water guns! Quicker to load, and the battle can last a lot longer! I envision running after children down a trail though the woods... Ummm I mean the KIDS could run after each other is the woods and squirt each other...

We might need a ref and I think BIGZ is the man for the job... Any adults who want to find their inner child for a squirt gun fight....? Princess CC is out because she's partially robotic. She wouldn't find the humor in being squirted in the face, but I sure would think it was funny to squirt her in the face!

 

[Bigfamily4me]

Ok... I forgot to say there was a partridge silkie hatched when we got home last might. We had a white silkie hatch this morning and a BBS hatch about 5 min ago! It has a STRANGE skull. It must be that vaulted skull I hear about. I think it looks horrible when they're born, but it could really make it show worthy I guess?

Ok... Opinions on the vaulted skull on a silkie? What problems do I need to watch out for?

 

[babylady4]

Unfortunately when we arrived home, the last call to hatch was DOA.

BUT, both mammas and remaining babies are doing well! Spoke with FordMommie today... she is really sorry she could not make it! Hard to get someplace without wheels!

So for everyone who missed the show stealers..... (Check out the nails MXM!)



And here is TO's gosling, all settled in with the surrogate mamma and pappa...



And the siblings the BF picked up today at the local animal auction...



They have all been adopted without issue from mom and pop.

BigFam you really missed out! I think BigZ, SO cleaned me out of soap! Well she and TO anyway....

Sorry you could not stay longer and that we never really had a chance to visit! You totally missed out on the whole girls wine drinking party in the bunkhouse Saturday night, AND the GF chocolate cake! I was even going to put a big candle on it for your birthday!

I do believe we will camp next year.... take the whole weekend off and just have a good time visiting. Glad to see some of you guys managed to get my DH to TALK. It is a struggle sometimes but once you get him going on a subject he knows something about look out!!!! All my kids had a blast!!!

Just an FYI for everyone, next year same place but the first weekend in June so that we do not have to deal with kids in school..... besides, the weather is always cold around my birthday! Usually rainy too!

The photo shoot for today was cancelled. My photographer had his water pump go out so he spent the whole day fixing it. No biggie though, I think it was WAY too WINDY to get decent photos anyway.


I wish we could meet up more than once a year..... it is just not enough to see everyone so briefly!

 

[tiki244]

He thinks I am taking a picture of him. They do kinda look alike don't they? I will have enough to exchange a root ball this fall.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

Ooh! I will take pictures as mine bloom, there's sure to be one you want to trade for.