enough all ready!

I don't live in South Carolina so really its not my business but this governor has something wrong with him , drunk? drugs? or is he insane? he said today...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford declared his Argentine mistress his soul mate Tuesday but said he is committed to reconciling with his wife in hopes of saving his family and what is left of his political career.
What woman would let him come home with this kind of talk? She should divorce his ass and send him to his mistress with a red bow.
He says he chased after 6 other women but didn't have sex with them.
Everyone thought Bill Clinton was so bad when he said I didn't have sex with this women. I could say Bill wasn't crazy. He knew talking about soul mates wouldn't work.

finally

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Republican Norm Coleman has conceded to Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota's contested Senate race, ending a nearly eight-month recount and court fight.

Al Franken is the winner.

summer squash

The garden has turned into a weed patch because I was not able to work it but I have a squash and some squash bug eggs.

The garden has turned into a zinnia garden and that is great. We may not have things turn out as we wish but we need to look for the volunteer flowers as we walk this life and if some of the things we get are weeds then so be it.

I hear thunder in the northwest.

volunteer things.

These zinnias came up volunteer from last year and I was glad to see them because I didn't plant any annuals this year.

I have been scouring the kitchen stove, it was a mess, my son and daughter both cook but no one ever cleans the stove and it gets really terribly dirty. Truth be told we need a new one because this one has seen better days.

There is going to be a lot of black berries this year. I wish I could pick some. I have been debating trying to ride the lawn more down to the patch when they get ripe or maybe I can get sam to drive me there in his pick up.

I really hate not being able to do what I wish to do .

6 weeks old

cool morning, 63 degrees.

mayor of Berryville in jail

It past time we demand that the Marijuana laws in this country be appealed. drunk driving can not be excused but the marijuana laws are strictly to bring money into to city and state and something needs to be done about this. Perhaps the salary of the mayor comes from this source.
How many lives have been destroyed because of this crusade against marijuana?

Ginger Shiras of the Harrison Daily Times reports that Tim McKinney, the mayor of Berryville, will spend 39 days in the county jail on a previous suspended sentence from an earlier DWI/marijuana infraction. But under a plea bargain on a second set of similar charges, it appears he will get to hang onto his mayoral post.
From Shiras' report:

His sentence will start Friday. District Judge Marianne McBeth ordered McKinney this morning to serve the jail time she suspended last year in a drunk-driving and marijuana-possession case.

She said the suspended jail time was normal in such cases, and revoking the suspension and making him do jail time also was normal when such a plea agreement was violated.

She said public officials had a duty not to breach the trust of the people who elected them, but she had tried to make sure the sentence didn’t treat him “any more punitively or more favorably” than other defendants.

McKinney was stopped for speeding between Eureka Springs and Berryville on March 23 of last year and was charged with misdemeanor drunk driving and possession of a small amount of marijuana.

His Carroll County sentence of nine days in jail for drunk driving and 30 days for marijuana possession was suspended, but the plea agreement said he would serve the jail time if he re-offended within a year.

He was arrested March 18 of this year on Interstate 540 between Springdale and Fayetteville on marijuana and drunk-driving charges. Though he was found with less than a gram of marijuana, a second marijuana offense is a felony.

But his lawyer, Beth Storey of Fayetteville, told Judge McBeth Tuesday that a plea agreement will be presented Friday in Washington County in which McKinney will plead guilty to that misdemeanor drunk-driving charge and enter drug court under Judge Mary Ann Gunn to deal with the marijuana offense.

McKinney and his lawyer drove away from court Tuesday morning before they could be asked, but it appeared that nothing in either of the two cases this week will keep him from continuing to serve as mayor.

McKinney, 56, has served as Berryville’s mayor since 1991.

bluejays

We have blue jays in the yard and yesterday I was on the porch when one flew down and raided Sammy's dry dog food in the yard. He ate his fill and then flew away.

fun

Since my son Sammy has been staying with me we have watched a lot of thinks on TV that I never would watch....Pimp my truck...really a silly show...wrestling...stupid show... tonight we watched a show about truckers in Alaska driving to the oil Fields... interesting... !

It was hot here and we were watching these trucks driving on ice roads.. I said Sammy take that fan and set in in front of the TV! He said why? I told him we could get some of the cool air from the Ice roads!LOL

treat on a hot day

water and feed

I went out to feed and water the chicks. I think I like the white rocks best of all the pullets.

I will be able to move the young birds to the big pen in about a month. Sammy said we would build a temporary fence from the coop to the pen and have a chicken drive. We might have a lot of escapes if we are not careful.

All the neighborhood animals are coming by my yard and getting a drink of water from the buckets and tubs I keep filled with water. People amaze me . they don't seem to realize how important water is to their animals in this heat.

bee balm and day lilies

74 degrees here at 6 in the morning. It is suppose to cool off by Sunday but usually if its this hot in June watch out for July and august.

No news except Micheal Jackson death.

roses

Two years past I placed several cutting of this pink rose in the ground and today I have a rose blooming from that venture.
Janet called me from work seems some woman living at Harrison had heard I keep chickens and she had a baby chicken 3 days old, she wondered if I wanted it? short answer NO!
Our weather is hot but My air condition is working.
I turned on the water and filled all the containers in my yard that I keep for holding water. There is nothing more satisfying than turning on the water and watering the tomatoes and other plants at the start of a hot day.
Many years I lived where we had to haul our water and I know how to appreciate a water supply at your finger tips.

AMOR,amor and goodbye!

Mark Sanford Governor of South Carolina says no thanks to the stimulus bill while south Carolina the second-worst unemployment rate in the country. Before Congress passed the stimulus bill, the governor said we wont take the money except on my terms.

Who needs stimulus money while crying in Argentina! but the governor may regret losing the unemployment money.

Sanford has frequent flyer miles on the tax payers dime. Everyone thought Sanford had his eye on the white house but no one knew it was in Argentina not DC.

In his news conference Sanford said he was...."I'm a bottom-line kind of guy,'' he said "I'll lay it all out, and we'll let the chips fall where they may. Then he said... God's laws were designed to protect people from themselves... The biggest self of self is indeed self. He said he had wanted something more "exotic'' than an Appalachian hike.

I have enjoyed this little exotic love affair but now it is time to get back to live as we know it.

sinners are democrates

With all the GOP leaders having affairs fox news has a method of covering it up, just call them Democrats! See the (D) after Sanfords name! he is a (R)!

roosters

There has been no crowing on the hill for awhile since Kelly took my rooster to the sale but there are two of his sons waiting to take up the morning crow soon on the hill.

little rain and cooling wind

Fleta had a lot of rain and we only got a small shower but the cool wind went by and cooled us some. Sammy said trees were blown over at Denver. I saw leaves from my walnut tree blown off the tree.
Janet called and said Green Forest was getting lots of rain. It has really been hot here for 3 days so the cool air was good.

Humor

'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust…'He would have continued but at that moment the very obedient daughter who was actually listening leaned over and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

5 weeks old today

what I saw on a 3 mile walk

rose wild
sticky blooms


Birds

Water

Cackle Hatchery

The workers are sexing the birds.

I buy my chicks by mail order from Cackle hatchery in Lebanon Mo. I found a article on the net from the Rural Missouri magazine about cackle hatchery.

“People want to know how their food is raised and if it’s been given any growth hormones,” says Jeff. “If they grow their own, they know exactly how it’s been cared for.”
Mondays and Wednesdays are the busiest days since those are hatch days. Despite averaging 110,000 new peepers per week, the Smiths can still predict the hour when the birds will arrive. That’s not easy when, for example, chickens take 21 days to hatch, ducks take 28 and geese take 30.
After the peeping tufts of fluff are removed from hatching trays, they’re sorted by breed, counted and separated by chicken sexers who sort cockerels (males) from pullets (females). Employees then work through the night, filling orders to ensure the chicks are ready to go to the post office at the crack of dawn. While the chicks are packed according to the weather they’ll endure, there’s no need to worry about food and water, at least not for a few days., “Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” But there’s one Missouri business that’s been doing just that for 72 years.
“We take it one step further by trying to count our chickens before the eggs have been laid,” says Nancy Smith, who, together with her husband, Clifton, owns Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon.
As the third-largest supplier of chicks to individuals, feed stores and hobby farms, Cackle Hatchery has a lot of chicks to count.
Cackle Hatchery offers 160 varieties of chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, guineas, peafowl and game birds to customers. While the majority of the business is mail order, customers can come to the small retail store in Lebanon to buy hatchlings.
Current chicken breeds offered in Cackle’s catalog include buff orpingtons, black australorps, silver-laced wyandottes, light brahmas, welsummers and cochins. Those interested in colored eggs might choose the araucana, also known as the “Easter egg” chicken, which usually lays pale green, pink or blue eggs.

Health insurance

I have been watching the health care debate going on at this time and I believe the single payer is the only way to go any thing less and the people will be offered up on the holy alter of special interest and sacrificed to big money people.

I am a little tired of reading how the insurance companies are dirty and the hospitals and doctors have the interest of the people at heart.

The insurance companies are at fault true but the doctors and especially the hospitals are greedy. Do you know any poor doctors? They are all fat rich cats feeding off the life blood of the people.

When all the dust settles and a plan is in place I am advising my family to join the single payer insurance of the government that is the only way we can have control of our fate.

Several of my family work and have Tyson insurance and every year it pays less and cost more. Come on Obama look after our interest or you can kiss your job away come 2012.

Blogging is fun!

I have been commenting on one of the new blogs I have found and one of his readers has called me a right winger, national Enquire reader, redneck! I never read the Enquirer, I maybe a red neck if that mean from the south but as for right winger, I am so far left that most Democrats wont claim me! Actual I think red neck means someone who works in the sun and I don't work at all and avoid the sun like the plague.

I enjoy being deceitful when I can and people who know me realize I am misleading them but I think I was able to pull the wool over that reader eyes. Needless to say I enjoyed her comment. I laughed out loud.

On ward to more blogging! I will see who Else I can lead down the primrose path.

Confession is good for the soul?

Seem Senator John Ensign from Nevada confessed to his affair because the husband of his ex-Mistress had asks for money for Ensign and his wife's sins. It isn't clear weather The Senator has paid in the past in some form since he sought jobs for the wronged husband thro' his cronies.

The husband had contacted Fox news about the affair and they sat on the story. I would like to say if it had been a Democrat they would have reported it soon enough but perhaps not since I remember when Edwards was running for president many news agents had information about his escapades and it wasn't reported until the National Enquirer got hold of the story so perhaps I am wrong. Of course they said the Edwards story was only rumours and the Ensign story was supported by a letter from the wronged husband.

No matter why Fox sat on the story we now know why the Senator came clean about the affair. It wasn't from a guilty conscious but from a fear of who was going to spill the beans.

conversation with a Kelly

My son worked in production at Tyson food for 30 years in maintenance. he has went to work in the Tyson hatchery and I had a conversation with him today about the hatchery. It's not often I find a subject that my children know more about than I do.

Today he knew more than I did. I found it interesting to learn how the hatchery does their operation.

1. the incubator is a large room and the whole room is an incubator.

2. the eggs are placed in plastic trays at the farm and when they arrive the trays are loaded onto metal racks in the room. He said they were 5 rows of metal tracks in each room.

3. the tracks move back and forth all the time keeping the trays of eggs moving.

4. They have 5 rooms for incubating the eggs.

5. I ask how many eggs each room contain? He didn't know.

6. They have a 99% hatch rate which is very good. The hens are artificial inseminated which explains the 99% hatch rate.

7. Everything is automated in the hatchery.

8.on day 19 the eggs are moved to the hatch room where they are kept in place.

9. as they are moved to the hatch room each chick is vaccinated for chick disease inside the shell.

10. on the 3rd day in the hatch room the chicks hatch and they are placed on a belt by automation and as they start the trip down the belt the shell go one way and the chick go another.

11. The chicks are boxed by automation again and then loaded on trucks for their trip to the farm. 21 days from egg to hatch, no human contact during the 21 days.

12. I had other question that he didn't know the answer so he will have questions tomorrow. They probably will think Kelly is really studying the operation!

Michelle Obama

I really like Michelle Obama being in the white house. Why is that is it because she is intelligent, is it because she is growing a garden, is it because she wears great clothes or possible because she met the Queen and put her arm around the royal person? no I like her because the biggest part of her is somewhere between her waist and knees.

I have always had large hips or big butt to be blunt and I hated to see Mrs. George Bush or Hillary Clinton with their slim profile but Michelle can bring up the rear with the best of us.

Helen's blue eggs

Just because eggs are blue doesn't mean they were laid by a bluebird. Bluebirds are cavity nesters, and VERY rarely lay their eggs outside of a cavity. (When desperate, they may use a ledge.)
Some people who report finding bluebird eggs in odd locations (in a potted plant for example) are really seeing eggs of another species, like the American Robin nest, eggs, and nestlings in these photos.
House Finches lay eggs that are bluish-green, and sometimes use a nestbox. Starlings also lay blue eggs, but they are bigger than bluebird eggs. About 4-5% of bluebirds actually lay white eggs. Also thrashers lay blue eggs.

Arizonia birds...

The most common bird to lay blue eggs is the American Robin. However, there are other birds native to Arizona that lay blue/bluish eggs. A few of these are the Crissal Thrasher (blue-green egg), Western Bluebird (Pale Blue egg), Mountain Bluebird (pale blue), Townsend's Solitaire (Pale blue to whitish), Hermit Thrush (pale blue to bluish green), Red-winged Blackbird (Pale blue-green), Scott's Oriole (pale bluish white), Western Tanager (pale blue or bluish green). there are others.

one month

The chicks are a month old tomorrow. You can see the 4 kinds I have in this photo. Australop, white rock and the two kinds of sex links. They are feasting on radish tops.

Araucana chickens

The araucana chicken has no tail that is not only no tail feathers but has no tail. They lay blue eggs.

When the Araucana was first introduced to breeders worldwide, in the mid-20th century, it was

quickly realized that the genetics that produced tufts also caused chick mortality. As it turns out, two copies of the gene causes nearly 100% mortality shortly before hatching. One copy causes about 20% mortality. The tufted gene is dominant however. Because no living araucana possesses two copies of the tufted gene, breeding any two tufted birds leads to half of the resulting brood being tufted with one copy of the gene, a quarter being clean faced with no copy of the gene, and a quarter of the brood dead in the shell having received two copies of the gene.
In the decades to follow, most breeders took one of two tactics - either to preserve the old style of bird, or to breed out the tufts while increasing productivity.
In 1976, the first standards for the breed were accepted by the APA, conforming to the traditional style. This was followed, in 1984, by a second standard for the "improved" variety.
The gene for blue eggs is dominant, so the term "Easter Egger" is used to describe birds of mixed breeding that produce such eggs. Unfortunately, these mixed breeds are often incorrectly labeled as Araucanas or Ameraucanas, and marketed to backyard poultry hobbyists who are not aware of the difference

margaretandhelen

Helen, dear, I sent an email to that talented Susan Boyle telling her that I thought she had the voice of an angel and that I wanted her to sing at my funeral. Her response said she was free next Thursday. comment on margaretandhelen

http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/

sister told me to read this blog. it is funny even the comments are funny.

Turkin rooster

I like most chicken breeds but this one is not one I want. some think they are mixed with a turkey but no this is a breed of chicken. they have no feathers on the neck

The breed probably originated in Hungary, but the Germans perfected the type. One reason for their development is that with less feathers, they are much easier to pluck than the average table fowl. A Naked Neck has less than half the number of feathers possessed by other breeds of their size. They are good layers of brown eggs, quite hardy in cold weather, and due to their light feathering also take heat better than most breeds. They are quite popular in South Africa, where they are known under the name "Kaalnek."
The naked neck gene is dominant, so any first generation crosses with this fowl will show the naked neck, although often with a larger patch of feathers on the neck.

what is this?

My brother has this thing stuffed do you know what it is?

Welsummer chickens

HistoryThe Welsummer is named after the village of Welsum in Holland although the breed was originally developed in the area along the river Ysel to the north of Deventer, Holland at about the same time as the Barnevelders (1900-1913). The Dutch bred it from the partridge Cochin, partridge Wyandotte and partridge Leghorn, the Barnevelder and Rhode Island Red. It was first imported into this country in 1928 for its large brown egg. The Welsummer is a large, upright, active bird with a broad back, full breast and large full tail. They head has a single comb, medium wattles, almond shaped ear lobes and a strong, short beak. They have yellow legs which fade to pale yellow in summer and reddish bay eyes.
BehaviourWelsummers lay lovely large eggs and the dark brown pigment can actually be rubbed off as it is added at the end of the egg laying sequence. They do go broody but not usually until late Spring but are not particularly good mothers. Chicks are strong and are easily sexed as females have much darker head and back markings than males. They lay fewer eggs during the winter. They are friendly, easily handled birds which love to free range and forage for food but can also be kept in runs quite happily. They are productive for 3 years of their 9 year lifespan

wood chips

I went out and put wood chips in the brooder, they are damp but don't hold water like the dirt.

Did you ever see any chickens as colorful as the sex linked birds?

soaked

The brooder is so wet I am worried about the chicks they are standing on wet ground. More rain in the forecast.

on this day

1935 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1937 Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
1937 U. S. House of Representatives passes the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
1938 Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins the first Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnw become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1940 German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1940 Spanish invade Tangier international zone.
1940 The Nazis open the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Also: German troops enter Paris during World War II.
1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation,German troops march into Paris, meeting practically no resistance as French and allied forces retreat.
1941 Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1941 Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians, the June deportation, began.
1942 Anne Frank begins to keep a diary.
Betty Jean born!

sammy's tv

Sammy has bought a large flat screen TV and I tell you the new electronic stuff is a pain. It has to be programed and it's hit or miss. I hate all this new stuff. The one we had worked just fine!

birthdays

Powell, Betty Lou b: 13 Jun 1923 in Carroll Co., Arkansas d: 8 Dec 1990 in Rackerby, California

Betty Jean has a birthday tomorrow.

BBQ pit

18 days old

The chicks were ready for breakfast this morning and all was well in the brooder. I am going to have a lot of colors in these birds.

United States planned to cut their analog signals Friday, are you ready?

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama. If I was this child I would keep the note for my grandchildren and take the absent mark.

Palin says David Letterman should apologise for his remarks about her daughter,He had better remember Don Imus and keep his mouth shut about the whole affair, Palin will be calling for his job next.

O’REILLY: Number one, if the penguin’s gay, leave the penguin alone. God made the penguin that way and I agree — I mean, I’m not one of these guys who thinks you should be converting anybody to anything. If you’re that way, and you’re not hurting anybody, I think you and I agree, we’re libertarians. So who cares? … If they’re happy, they’re happy. That’s my philosophy. Bill O'Reilly thinks its OK so I suppose its OK if the penguin is gay.

Late night

I have not been a fan of late night shows since the day gone by of Jack Parr and Johnny Carson,now those two were funny.
the knocked up joke wasn't funny to me either.

All the late night host have a hard task trying to make people laugh who are half asleep about as difficult as trying to keep your name on the news from the state of Alaska

Actual I think Palin is glad to get in the news even if it is a bad joke about her daughter.

hollyhocks

The holly hocks are blooming. I lost no chicks last night.

We did get rain again last night.My tomato plants have finally started growing.

harvest of hate and shame

last week it was the doctor in Kansas today this...

WASHINGTON - An elderly gunman exchanged fire with security guards inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday. One security guard and the gunman were taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.

This hate talk was whipped up during the election by Sarah Palin, Bill O'Relly, Rush Limbaugh and other hate spewer out on the air waves.

I have heard of late such people as Newt Gingrich calling Obama a socialist and such hate talk. The results of this talk is what we are viewing today. Come on people you must know that your hate speech is the cause of these terrible deeds.

I know we have freedom of speech but we need to have some common sense.

dead chick

I went out and one of the white rock chicks was dead this morning. One of the red sex links was down on it side but still alive so I put it under the light and it survived. I found another piece of tin and will go out and cover the only wire that isn't covered with tin tonight of course I still have 25 chicks which is plenty. Thunder storms are in the forecast for tonight. I was lucky that no rain had been until now with them in the coop out side.

up at 4 O'clock

We had a hard rain last night. I woke and it was coming down in buckets. I hope the hatchery chicks had enough gumption to go under the roof to the light.
Today is pay day and I have to make a trip to town. I have not been feeling well and I dread the day.
I am anxious for day light so I can see how the chicks did in the down pour.

Lest he forget,here comes Cindy

George W bush got away from Washington DC but Cindy Sheehan wont let him forget her son's death. Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan is protesting again - this time near former President George W. Bush's Dallas home.Sheehan led a brief protest of around 50 people Monday afternoon near the house. The former president and his wife moved into the four-bedroom home in a wealthy Dallas neighborhood in February.

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin has been riding around in New York waving at the crowds with her teen age daughter and her husband. I don't know who was caring for the babies.

I think Sarah Palin is the best person to use for advertising birth control. She had a handicap son and her daughter has a child and is unmarried. abstinence is not the answer Sarah and you know that. Your life proves the fact.

Palin does not believe in sex education in the schools but she was running the government and apparently didn't have time to teach her daughter about birth control.

3 weeks old today

The chicks are 3 weeks old today and this has been an unusual year so far I have not lost a chick yet. The chicks I hatched under the bantam are all living also that makes me 35 chicks.

A bad hair day.

Falling down the rabbit hole

In my opinion there is nothing worse than old men who has lost their sexual powers and go chasing after the the young sleek good looking person trying to kindle the fire of youth or buying some pill either prescribed by a Doctor or trotted on the air waves that promises to restore youthful sexual vigor of course some old women also suffer from this aliment also.
I think that this proves this is true....
Celebrity blogs and social networking Web sites were abuzz with news of the death of Carradine _ best known for the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu." The circumstances under which he died have led to speculation that the 72-year-old actor may have been engaged in a dangerous form of sex play known as auto-erotic asphyxiation.
There are times when I believe that of all creatures created by God the human species is the dumbest creation of all times.
I have decided their time would be better spent by taking up pollicting or preaching, come to think of it some have done that very thing!

New blog, Snowbrush

http://snowbrush.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-pet-my-blogging-peeves-and-even-think.html
I have found a new blog to read. This fellow has post going back to 2005 and I have been reading his old posts. he has a lot to say and says it well If you want something to read you might go read some of his blog.
He has an opinion on just about everything and sounds forth with a loud shout sometime . I found I don't agree with him some of the time and that is why I enjoyed reading his blog today.
He says he has so many readers he can't read all of their blogs, I don't have that problem!
so go by and leave him a comment so he will have more blogs to read that he doesn't have time for.LOL
He is anti-church but goes to a lot of churches sometime 2 or 3 times a week so I think he is searching even if he says he isn't. He said he hates Baptist! that is my church leanings and sometimes I feel the same way except for me Hate is too strong of a word. He says his in-laws are Baptist so maybe he just hates his in-laws!
He posted about Obama being a Charismatic person and how that might be a bad thing. I agree with him on this. If our President is Charismatic enough and we are willing to follow him blindly we might follow him to hell before we realize where we are going.

wild sheep

Carmen lives on the side of a mountain in New Mexico and has rescued grey hounds and tame wild mustangs now I have found she has wild sheep on her land how great is that.

http://black-horse-design.blogspot.com/

2 roosters

These are 2 of the 5 chicks my little bantam hatched out. They are 3 weeks older than the hatchery chicks and I am able to begin to see the sex of these 5. If I am correct I have 3 pullets and 2 roosters. the other chicks she is brooding are still to young to call. She has 9 chicks.
If we had raised these 2 on the farm when I was young we would be eyeing them with a hungry eye.
I think if I am able I will butchery some of these chicks this fall since I have so many. I might even butcher my 6 older hens when the young pullets start laying nothing taste better than a good fat hen.

Judge Sotomayor

They are shouting that Judge Sotomayor is racist and I find it interesting that the people who are yelling the loudest are white face males.. I find more and more the racist bigots in our country are falling back on the argument that anyone who is different than themselves are racist.
The truth be told, Judge Sotomayor is female and of a minority race so she is unfit, in their opinion, to join the good old boys club in the highest court in our land . I think they can yell till the cows come home but we are going to have a new female on the bench. I will say it is about time!

What did she say?? Judge Sonia Sotomayor's 2001 address to the 'Raising the Bar' symposium at the UC Berkeley School of Law
However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
In our private conversations, Judge Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.
Now Judge Cedarbaum expresses concern with any analysis of women and presumably again people of color on the bench, which begins and presumably ends with the conclusion that women or minorities are different from men generally. She sees danger in presuming that judging should be gender or anything else based. She rightly points out that the perception of the differences between men and women is what led to many paternalistic laws and to the denial to women of the right to vote because we were described then "as not capable of reasoning or thinking logically" but instead of "acting intuitively." I am quoting adjectives that were bandied around famously during the suffragettes' movement.

red sex linked chicks

I have two type of red sex links chicks. I think the one with white wings is a golden comet and the other is a cinnamon queen.

chickens and dear relatives

It got down to 49 degrees last night but the hatchery chicks did just fine in their new home. The hen took her chicks to the back of the brooder and all 26 of the hatchery chicks went under the light for warmth. I was afraid they they wouldn't be warm enough but all was well.
I had a nice visit with my sisters yesterday and with our cousin Winnie Jo. We laughed and told tall tales and Winnie Jo cried some but the visit was worth the tears I think. I fine it amazing that our cousin is such a good person. Her parents only had one child and I am sure she was able to have what every her hearts desire while growing up and some times people like that seems not fit into our life style, bare foot hillbillies that, is but Winnie couldn't be more like us than if she had grown up in our house hold of course Winnie does wear shoes!
Winnie brought me a nice gift. My aunt Winnie took up painting and Winnie Jo brought me a picture Aunt Winnie painted of Grandpa Powell's home place. Precious memories!
I pulled radishes for the sisters yesterday. I said the price was a dollar each but they refused to pay.
One day a friend was here and I brought some eggs in and put them on the table.( She eats eggs from the store the white ones). She said those are nasty I wouldn't eat them they came from a chicken.

in the big brooder

The chicks had got so large they were crowded in the tote brooder so I had to do something before they started picking on each other which they do if they don't have enough room. I turned them into the large brooder with the other chicks and I was afraid the larger chicks would attack them so I turned the plastic tote over an made a escape hidy place for the hatchery chicks.

The hen was not bothering them and the bigger chicks seemed to except the hatchery chicks so they are where they will stay until they are large enough to go into the big pen .

The allotment lady put plants and such in her quail pen to occupy the chicks and I think that is a good Idea. I don't have live plants to go in the pen but I can cut some of the large weed and place them in the pen which I will do for a few days to give them something to do besides pick at each other.

It is 57 degrees this morning, summer may never come to the Ozarks this year.

hanging on