Good Morning! <=2017

WaupoosCowgirl · Post by **WaupoosCowgirl** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:58 am

All of this talk of guns and racoons reminds me of one of my first years here on the farm. There was a very sickly racoon up in one of the trees in our dooryard in the middle of the afternoon. My father-in-law told my husband he would have to shoot it, so dear hubby went and got the gun from the cabinet and I was watching from the porch.....this is where it gets kind of comical...hubby hands Father-in-law the gun and ammo and Father-in-law says "I can't shoot it, my eyesight isn't what it used to be" and well hubby says "well I can't load the gun, you never showed me how" so Father-in-law loads the gun and hubby raises the gun to take aim and Father-in-law yells wait!...he goes and gets the loader tractor parks it under the tree with the bucket up and then tells hubby to take the shot...racoon falls from tree, lands in bucket of loader and is promptly driven to the fence bottom and dumped, father-in-law returns and resumes drinking his beer at which point he says "well now see I don't have to wash my hands to finish my drink"....farming it's a real family affair.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:00 pm

FRIGGIN SMART MAN!

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 1:04 pm

LOL aahh... Wisdom. I find "city" folk are against hunting. Then a coyote kills their poodle, a fisher kills their cat, and a raccoon tears a hole in their siding and moves into their attic. A groundhog eats their garden, a rabbit their prized petunias, and they hit a deer with their car. And the bear that goes after their garbage. Only when it happens to them do they see the benefit of hunting or predator/animal control.

Jaye · Post by **Jaye** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 3:47 pm

Good post, baronrenfrew. I am an ex-citiot. I am not a hunter myself, but totally "get" the benefit of hunting for predator control.

Post by **WLLady** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:19 am

Good morning everyone! well, today....is martin and my anniversary. and i already completely blew it. got up and the darned cat had dumped the cat food all over the bathroom floor upstairs, and walking into that in the dark in bare feet with a bad back did it. OMG. straight to the painkillers....farm sitting so my chores, then drive over and do their chores and wow, bad mood right off the bat. stupid four footed $*&%^@! gah! so i'm trying to get my lunch together and get the warm water for the chicks, check on 'bator temps, pack for work and the LAST thing on my mind is "happy" ANYTHING. sigh. Sorry Martin. oh, and to top it all off, had to get up at 130am and save the crockpot that was cooking away-it decided to boil over and make a god-awful mess everywhere. fun thing to do at 130am. which is when the cat got kicked out the door, because she was trying to EAT the stuff on the counter, and she knows better...so fired the cat out the door...which is probably why she dumped her food this morning. cause and effect.
I WANT TO START MONDAY OVER AGAIN! MAYBE STARTING WITH FRIDAY NIGHT!

beautiful weekend really. lots of rain yesterday, but we did get the

cleaned up, and fixed my electric fence that had decided to short out on the west side (critters in the connectors in january...who'd have thought).... horses didn't even notice the fence was down. they were too busy with "head in hay syndrome". tapped 5 trees, enough for me, and the sap was running yesterday...and sweet too. hopefully it's an okay year...can't say i've tapped this early most years, but the weather is right. and these trees are close to the house, atv trip, and just off the edge of the field, so easy to get to. that's a definite bonus. just have to get my collection container together and on the atv, and see what i get

also set turkeys to the incubator late last night....14 or so. i have a horrible time hatching them....so fingers crossed. i'm not going to up the humidity at all with the hatch since that's when i usually drown them all. so. not this time. okay, i've only tried to hatch turkeys twice before....first time power outage, second time they all drowned fully formed...so. hopefully better luck this time. farm sitting too-coon in their barn last night, so the 22 goes there tonight.....they're everywhere right now!

hope everyone has a wonderful monday!

ross · Post by **ross** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:24 am

Happy Anniversary guys ... Share this with you im sure you know already .

Post by **Killerbunny** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:31 am

Ross that's lovely!
Happy Anniversary Kathy and Martin. AT least you did give me a morning chuckle, sorry.

Post by **WLLady** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:39 am

I'm laughing now...and we did actually say happy anniversary to each other this morning....okay, another morning chuckle...neither of us are very good at remember things. Martin is WAY WAY better than i am at remember anything important. so we chose to get married on 01-02-03 (feb 1) so we could remember the date....LOL. how bad/sad is that?! ;-P

Ross, that is SOOOO true! And one has to work at marriage. it's not easy, but it's definitely worth doing! ah, a raft dinner.....one of us would end up in the drink just because it's there-but this year, the lakes are still open, could be possible! we wouldn't have to fight the cat off for a raft dinner, she definitely doesn't like water. LOL.

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:33 am

Good morning and Happy Anniversary.
Kathy it sounds like you have your plate full already

Beautiful sunny day here, all the barn windows open and the temperature inside is 10C
I would like to keep this el Nino, way better then Polar vortex anytime.
While I was considering Ameraucana breeding pens, the 14 pullets & hens have separated in to two camps, the 4 senior hens will not come down from the roost as long as Blackie JR is anywhere around, while the Jr hens and pullets are shamelessly throwing themselves at him. Not really the division of hens I was looking for, so much for my plans.

baronrenfrew · Post by **baronrenfrew** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:01 pm

Happy anniversary Kathy! So were you married on the beach in Jamaica, or was it in a chapel in Vegas, or did pappy hold the shotgun while you got hitched? LMAO i''m not that much of a redneck but the thought makes me laugh.
Carla is purging stuff we no longer need... came across of box of notes we passed in highschool. Most were "inappropriate" jokes I have since forgotten ... ah to be a teenager again.
We got married Nov 30 1996, my brother cooked 50 lbs of roast beef, his buddy helped serving for free beer. My sister in law had a collection of cd's and a big stereo. The hall is owned by the guy that owns the feed store so we paid $50.
Decorations gathered from around the farm: vines and pine boughs and other beautiful weeds (we didn't know what ragweed was till that day).
All in we spent less than $2000. No debt, no stress, and a good time had by all. So what's your story?