The truth

Joe Biden is in trouble again this is what he said.....On the Today Show this morning, the vice president was asked what he would tell a family member who was considering air travel to Mexico this week. The advice he is giving family members is the same advice the administration is giving to all Americans: that they should avoid unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico. If they are sick, they should avoid airplanes and other confined public spaces, such as subways. This is the advice the vice president has given family members who are traveling by commercial airline this week. As the president said just last night, every American should take the same steps you would take to prevent any other flu: Keep your hands washed; cover your mouth when you cough; stay home from work if you're sick and keep your children home from school if they're sick.”

Host Matt Lauer had asked the vice president: “This is by no means a ‘gotcha’ type of question. … But if a member of your family came to you … and said, ‘Look, I want to go on a commercial airliner to Mexico, and back within the next week,’ would you think it’s a good idea?” Biden made it unmistakably clear he would not want his family to make any trips on planes or subways.These sorts of comments are what the Obama administration fears from Biden, who after more than three decades in Washington is known for making gaffes.
Anyone knows if there is a problem with some Illinois you would avoid subways and airplanes so why are they saying this was a Biden gaffe, the way I see this is Joe tells the truth and our government cannot abide anyone who tells the plain truth.
I am sure he hadn't finished his statement before the air lines were on the phone screaming "WE WILL LOSE MONEY!"never mind people will die we are big business and we are top dogs.

Did you notice Janet Napolitano head of homeland security didn't want to close the border with Mexico, course not that would hurt Big business!

Never mind pig flu, the government makes me sick. The thing is we never hear the truth until someone like Biden lets it slip.

for Austin

Austin

I can believe you think these are not mine , Helen

hatched

My hen hatched. I sat 6 eggs and 5 hatched. she did pretty good since the other hens had laid in the nest and she had 15 eggs.

nurseing home job

One winter I found myself in need of a job and since jobs were scarce I took a job in a nursing home for the aged as a cook. I reasoned I would be able to do this job with too much contact with the poor old people. I was wrong.
The head cook was always cutting corners in the food budget, for instance she told me to mix sweet potatoes with iris potato flake because sweet potatoes were costly. I knew about food values and I realized the sweet potatoes were on the menu to give the people vitamin A.
This made me very angry but since I was a lowly cook I didn't dare complain. One day the nursing home director came by for a chat and ask me how I liked my job. I told her I was learning a lot from the head cook. I said did you know you can add Irish potato flakes to sweat potatoes and it's much cheaper. The woman stood and looked at me for a moment and then explained that the sweet potato was a source of vitamin A and that was the reason it was on the menu. Oh, I said I didn't realize that. Soon I was told no more Irish potato flakes in the sweet potatoes. In case you don't realize it I am very mean and underhanded.
The patients that were hard to handle were restrained in a chair which is against the law now and probably was then.
There was Hershel, a man who wore overall and a tee shirt, nothing under the overalls. Then there was Wilma a woman who liked sex. Wilma would stroll by and give Hershel the come here look and Hershel would start wiggling and soon there would go Hershel after Wilma dressed in his birthday suit. They learned if Hershel was let loose free to roam Wilma and Hershel spent a lot of time in Wilma's room and everyone didn't have to see Hershel stark necked.
This worked until Hershel's wife found out about Hershel's new play mate. She raised a fuss and Hershel went back into the chair tied. Probably his wife put him in the home because Hershel was very active and she didn't like his attention but I could never understand why she objected to Wilma because she did like his actions.
I stays with this job until spring and left as soon as I could find other work. The treatment of the old people in this country in nursing homes is a national disgrace. I know that families many times can not cope with many of the inflections of our older family members but I hope I die before I reach that stage.
Some people were able to adjust to this life and usual it was women who had work in the public as adults and were still mental sound.

patches

In case you don't know me and my children are all big another word to use is FAT, I patch my children's cloths. My daughter is always busting out of her jeans in the seat or a seam gives away. I patch their cloths with a zig zag stitch and they wear them. They don't seem to mind as long as their skin isn't showing.

My grandmother Powell did darning with a needle and thread. The stitches were small and even and would last for ever. I have seen her darn socks.

I am not so expert in my stitches. I hand sew a patch in and then take it to the sewing machine and zigzag all over. these patches will last longer than the garment.

Many of the cloths we buy will give way in a seam and this can be repaired with a few stitches on the inside of the seam.

Patches on your shirt sleeve.Patches on your tie.
Patches on your pockets And pockets full of rye.
So, many slips of paper.So, many scraps of cloth.
So, many parts of something,Like mothballs and a moth.
Does it matter truly,If the coat is new or old,
Or if it's brown, or black or white,Or crimson, tarnished gold?

By Linda A. Copp

swine flu

we didn't have enough worries in our life now we are told the pig flu is coming and we are going to all die.

I am tired of all the big scares being thrown in our face every day.

The chicken flu or pig flu, global warming financial ruin is coming our way. I am sick of hearing about this scare talk.

water

Water is such a precious element and we give little thought to it until we turn the faucet and nothing comes out of the spout. I got up at 5:15 and went to make coffee and had no water.
They restored our supply at 8:15. I had a 2 liter bottle of water and a large supply out side in a container so I can water the chickens with out turning on the out side water supply. I use some of that water to flush the toilet.The water was muddy when it came on so I watered all my tomato plants to help flush the line.
My neighborhood who is all most deaf saw me and said you have water and we don't I kept yelling yes you do! finally he turned on his out side faucet and said Oh now we have water.
I called Fleta and George answered the phone I ask him do you have water? he said yes I just flushed the toilet. I said that doesn't mean you have water it means reservoir on the toilet had water so he went and turned on a faucet and assured me they had water so I knew the main line was working.
Have you ever thought about what you would do if there was some kind of major failure in our water supply? Do not assume you would buy bottled water because that will not last long if ever one is buying bottled water.

soap making

my grandmother Powell made soap from old fat and the leaving in the smoke house after the winter was over. The leaving was usually old meat rinds. My mother was a town girl and I never saw her make soap before detergents came into our house mother used a large bar of soap. This bar had the letters P&G and I suppose that stood for proctor and gamble.
I have made lye soap since I have had a home of my own but I think I am the only one in my family who has.
I used lye and grease but you can make lye from the ashes from a wood fire. You take a container and fill this with wood ash and then make a hole in the bottom. You have to put this container on a stand letting the hole in the bottom extend over the edge. You pour water over the ash and let it drip thro' the ash catching the water in a pan below. when all the water has dripped thro' pour the same water back over your ash pot the more times your pour the ash water the stronger the lye water. This lye water can be used instead of the lye from the store. I don't know if they still sell lye. I haven't seen it in the stores in years.

At first the earliest settlers simply brought a plentiful supply of soap along with them. The Talbot, a ship chartered by the Massachusetts Bay Company to carry persons and supplies from England to its colonies at Naumbeak now known as Salem and Boston, listed among its cargo 2 firkins of soap. A firkin is an old measurement which was a wooden, hooped barrel of about nine gallon capacity. John Winthrop, who was to become the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when writing to his wife in 1630 from Boston included soap in a list of necessities to be brought on her crossing to the New world.
After the colonists were settled and had been able to survive the first years of hardships, they found it more advantageous to make soap themselves using the copious amount of wood ashes, a natural result of their homesteading activities. With also a plentiful supply of animal fat from the butchering of the animals they used for food, the colonists had on hand all the ingredients for soap making. They did not have to rely on waiting for soap to be shipped from England and waste their goods or few pieces of currency in trade for soap.
Soap with some work and luck could be made for free. Soap making was performed as a yearly or semiannual event on the homesteads of the early settlers. As the butchering of animals took place in the fall, soap was made at that time on many homesteads and farms to utilize the large supply of tallow and lard that resulted. On the homes or farms where butchering was not done, soap was generally made in the spring using the ashes from the winter fires and the waste cooking grease, that had accumulated throughout the year.

spring

I just knew spring was late this year I went back into my archives and found that my bridal wreath was in full bloom on the 25 day of April. Today is the 24th and my bush is blooming so I guess I was wrong.

torture

anyone with a brain knows what torture is and you can denied that it is tortue until the cows come home but everyone knows the prisoners were subjected to tortue.

torture

–noun
1.
the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
2.
a method of inflicting such pain.
3.
Often, tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone.
4.
extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.
5.
a cause of severe pain or anguish.

Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has urged the CIA to release memos which he says show harsh interrogation techniques such as water-boarding work.

Alberto Gonzales approved harsh techniques.Connie rice approved harsh techniques.
Bush Memos Suggest Abuse Isn’t Torture If a Doctor Is There.
This week, the Pentagon declassified a 2003 memo in which a Justice Department lawyer essentially told the U.S. military that it could subject suspected terrorists to harsh treatment as long as it didn't cause "death, organ failure or permanent damage." If that bloodless phraseology seems familiar, it's because this memo from then-Deputy Assistant Atty. Gen. John C. Yoo echoed an earlier document he drafted for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that came to be known as the "torture memo." The daughter of the vice president, Liz Cheney said the word torture was never used in the memos.

uh-o

A funny for your day...
GET OUT OF THE CAR!(This is supposedly a true account recorded in the Police Log of Sarasota, Florida.)An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle.She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the top of her lungs, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!”The four men didn’t wait for a second threat. They got out and ran like mad.The lady, somewhat shaken, then proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver’s seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition.She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee and two 12 –packs of beer in the front seat.A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down.She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the Police station to report her mistake. The Sergeant to whom she told the story couldn’t stop laughing.He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a carjacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, carrying a large handgun.No charges were filed.

guineas are singing

The guineas have gone to the flat land. They are down at Rundalls and I suppose the Rundalls are calling me names. I wish they would come back up the hill but maybe they wont. When I go out at day break I can hear them singing their song.

It is suppose to warm up today. I hope it does.

I got a letter from the hatchery and they said my chicks would arrive May 20th. This is a good date to try to raise baby chicks.

I have one hen on 14 eggs and I don't know when they will hatch or even if they will. I set her on 6 eggs and the hens have laid more in her nest so if they hatch she will have a long time waiting for all the eggs to hatch.

5 guinaes eggs

I have 5 guineas eggs to put under a hen if one would go broody. I heard the guineas last evening about 5 pm but no sighting. they were two lots down from me.
I checked my peonies bushes and 3 have buds. It is cool here this morning, 49 degrees.

Gone

They have broke for freedom, you wont see them again. I felt sorry for them trying to lay their eggs in that pen so I have turned them lose and they are in the weeds and briers. May they live a long and happy life.

tomato

I put out my tomato plants this morning. Sammy bought me the top soil and I have 6 old tires filled and planted 3 early girls and 3 big boys. Sammy wants to grow cantaloupes in the 3 tires that are left. He can fill them. My brother sent me 5 old tires to go with the 4 I had.
I am able to grow all the tomatoes we will eat in the tires.

The only thing left to plant for me is my cucumber. I didn't think I would be able to grow a garden this year but with Sammy's help we are growing vegetables again.

wilkinson book

I found this great site of civil war days in North Carolina. he tells you many interesting things.
this is one of his stories. click on the title of this post for good reading.
My maternal great grandmother once saw a group of yankee soldiers heading for her home.
She knew they would take anything edible, and she had a smokehouse full of meat, so she dashed in the smokehouse and stoked up the fire and threw several strings of red pepper on the fire and came out and locked the door. The soldiers ordered her to open the smoke house door. She fumbled with the lock as long as she could so the red pepper would get a good start at burning. She also warned them that the smoke house would be full of smoke. When she got the lock opened, some of them rushed in, intent on taking all her meat. Instead, they came stumbling out, coughing and temporarily blinded. “What-cha got in there, woman?” “I’m sorry, sir, but skippers were getting in my meat and I had to poison them”. That was during the civil war. That was the first incident I have heard of poison gas warfare used in the civil war. They did not bother her meat.

5 eggs

I am in the egg business, I found another guinae nest in the pen behind a rock. I have 5 eggs now.

mushroom hunting

morel mushroom

another russian , poison

coral mushroom

death angel they killed Cesar with this one

Russian mushroom

when my children were all young and growing, food was in short supply sometimes especially meat that was when I looked for food growing in the wild. The coral and morel mushrooms are very good to eat. Dip them in water or milk and roll in flour and fry until golden brown.

poison mushrooms are in the woods also so be ware. I always think if it really pretty, bright colored, red or purple or snow white leave it alone. The Russian mushroom is very pretty but will poison you.

There is nothing prettier than a death angel in the woods it is snow white and deadly. they poisoned Cesar with this one. Have you ever seen mushrooms growing in you yard in a ring ?they are white and very attractive, leave them be, they will kill thee!

guinaes

I am in the guineas business. I have one egg in my pen now if I have a male Guinea I am set to go.

I planted onion set this after noon. I used to make a bed and crawl around and put every set in the ground one at a time. no more, I went out in the plowed dirt and raked the dirt to the side and poured the onion in the bed and then covered them with the dirt I had raked out. when I harvest the green onions I can thin out the onions that are too close. When you get old you have to figure out a way to do things the easy way.

garden

Sammy borrowed Tony's garden tiller yesterday and plowed up a spot for a spring garden. He planted the radishes and lettuce . later I will plant some cucumbers on the end and the garden is down unless I plant some onion sets.

winter onions

Top-Setting Multiplying Onions. Also known as Egyptian onions, tree onions, top onions and walking onions, these perennials set small bulblets on top of tall stems. The bulblets measure only 1/2 to 1 inch in length and look like miniature purple-red onions. They often are used for pickling and in vinaigrettes or soups, and they will last several months in storage. To propagate them, simply remove some of the bulblets and plant them where you want new onions to grow.

My winter onions are still growing . I got a start last year from my son, his died out but mine have survived. I think he planted his in the garden and then plowed them up. I need to get some sets this year for Fleta.

Urban chickens

If you live in a urban setting you can have chickens if you have a back yard. click on the title of this post to see plans for chicken coops in Urban areas.

Stimulus bill

I will get 250 dollars from Social security from the stimulus bill in May according to what I just read on the net. They said we would get a notice this month giving us the good news.
not all the news is good brothers George and Clayton are out in the cold unless Clayton was drawing SS in January and I don't think he was.

So Social Security recipients should receive a notice in April and the actual $250 payment in May. You must have been eligible to receive benefits for November and December 2008 or January 2009. In other words if you became eligible after January 2009 to receive SS benefits, you will not receive the payment. The funds will be delivered the same way you currently receive benefits (direct deposit or paper check).

field-negro

I read the blog "Field-negro " every day, I found his blog when Obama was running for president and wanted to know what the African Americans were saying about Obama.

This fellow comments on current events on the news and some times about Issues that effect the Negros in this country. Here is a quote on his blog from Malcolm X.

That house negro loved his master. But that field negro, remember, they were in the majority, and they hated their master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try to put it out, that field negro prayed for a wind. For a breeze. When the master got sick, the field negro prayed that he die'd. If someone come to the field negro and said 'Let's separate, let's run.' He didn't say 'Where we going?' he said 'Any place is better than here'. We got field negros in America today. I'm a field negro. The masses are the field negros. When they see this mans house on fire, we don't hear these little negros talkin bout 'Our Government is in trouble. They say thee Government is in trouble.' Imagine a negro, "Our Government".~~Malcolm X~~

field negro
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Raised in the house, but field certified. Jamaica is the land of my birth, but I consider myself a citizen of the world. I currently practice law in the city of brotherly love.

Click on the title of this post and read what the field-negro has to say. You will be glad you did.
He is for Obama in the white house but if Obama's crown starts to tarnish I bet the field-negro will tell us about that too!

bloggers and the bridge that is no longer passable

After I got my computer it wasn't long before I discovered blogging. at first it was blogger on AOL and I found this interesting to read about the lives of people from different walks of life. I read one from a woman who lived in Conn. and who like to take photos of the country side. another was a woman named Donna who lived in Mo. on a farm, she blogs now on blog spot and I read her blog about every day. There was a woman in Ga. who loves chickens and I still visit her often.

I decided I would like to try blogging after google offered the blog spot for free. People had to pay on AOL. I was sure my sisters would think I was crazy when they found out what I was doing but soon they were on blog spot also along with several other family members not the least of these is cousin Winnie who has a heart of gold.

soon I was reading about a woman in Georgia who called her self "dot" and her daughter blogged along with her. I still read these two blogs. During the resent political campaign I picked up on blogs about politics and enjoyed reading Betty from Harrison Ar.commenting on the pres identical race for awhile sister in Arizona was mixed up and thought she was our sister Betty until one day Helen decided this woman was too out spoken for our Betty. sisters read the blogs I read.

I read a blog titled contrary goddess for a year or so when she blogged about living on a farm in Tenn. now she blogs about horses and working at a horse stable so she is not visited by me as much. The gal on the New Mexico mountains writes about her horses and living a life with her cat and grey hounds. I still read her blog.Velvet lives in Louisiana and she held my interest but she doesn't blog as much as she did once upon a time. I suspect she has found a new love.

There is Mike in California who works at computers and says he is ready to give up ant time but he doesn't. Abe Lincoln has photos of wild birds some of the best I have every seen and last but not least of my Male blogger, yes this does seem more like a woman thing, the guy from Georgia who calls himself "PEPPER" who political view point is south of mine or maybe its north of mine. I enjoy reading what he has to say. He will spit in your eye.

There are newer blogger that I read, newer to me that is, Linda out west , Judy in Ky. and others some say they are over the hill and some say they under the hill. some of my bloggers have gone crazy, my opinion, and deleted their blogs and then returned to it.

Annie in Little rock was one of my favorites but she just quit cold turkey.

I told sister once reading blogs was like peeking in someones window at night and seeing how they lived and some times it like the bridge in this photo that got washed away while I wasn't watching and can't be traveled any longer.

To finish this , I like reading blogs of people who I will never meet but I get a glimpse of their lives. Tomorrow I will put you on to the blog "Field nigger" bet you can hardly wait.

gunieas

Rained all day yesterday. no guineas eggs yet. I want them to start laying before turning them out. I might set some eggs if the bantams are in the mood when the guineas start laying.

for Billy

A TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT . A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00). He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin. It's mid-winter; and of course all of the lakes are frozen. These two guys go out on the ice with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR. They decide they want to make a natural looking open water area for the ducks to focus on, something for the decoys to float on. Now making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce. So, out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short 40 second-fuse. Now our two Rocket Scientists, afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along with the Navigator), decide on the following course of action: they light the 40 second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust, they throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible. Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, and the DOG..??? Let's talk about the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING; especially things thrown by the owner. You guessed it: the dog takes off across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40-second fuse, just as it hits the ice. The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their necks swelling to resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at the dog to stop. The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming. One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, then continues on. Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, UNDER the brand new Navigator. The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dog's rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master. Then " "" "" "" "" " BOOOOOOOOOOOOM "" "" "" "" "" ! ! ! ! The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots standing there with "I can't believe this just happened" looks on their faces. The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments. The dog is okay. . doing fine. And you thought Rednecks only lived in the South........

Amanda

Amanda, light of my life.
Helen's granddaughter is the prettiest child in the family.

he has risen

Matt 28:1 After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. . . . 28:6 He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. 28:7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has been raised from the dead, and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.' This is my message for you." 28:8 So they left the tomb quickly with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
Luke 24:1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they [the women who had come with him from Galilee] came to the tomb, . . . 24:3 but when they went in, they did not find the body. 24:4 While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. 24:5 The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. 24:6 Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 24:7 that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again." 24:8 Then they remembered his words, 24:9 and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. 24:10 Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.

Norton and easter egger hen

Yesterday I tried to install my antivirus and couldn't . Sister came up after work and zip it went right in for her. I couldn't see that she did anything different than I did. I think Norton is like the rest of us they are afraid of sister.

This hen is a Easter egger and lays eggs that have blue to shades of green. I would like to have some of these chickens. These chickens have beards and I have read that chicken mites flourish in the beards. I wouldn't like that.

We are suppose to have sun shine today, yesterday was dark and cool.

chicken facts

In general, the color of a chicken's earlobes indicate the color of eggs it will lay, with white ear lobes indicating white egg layers and red ear lobes indicating brown egg layers. Of course, as with all rules, there are a few exceptions. The red-lobed Crevecouer, Dorking, Lamona, Redcap and Sumatra actually lay white eggs and the Aracana and Ameraucana lay blue-green shelled eggs.

No bird has more than four toes except chickens of the Dorking, Faverolle, Houden, Sultan, and Non-bearded Silkie Bantams, all of which have five toes. In these breeds the extra toe arises above the base of the hallux and projects upward, never touching the ground. In the Silkie, the extra toes often lie nearly in the same plane as the hallux. Some birds have only three toes, while the ostrich has two toes.

Some breeds and individual birds are more aggressive than others. Game birds, with their close-fitting (hard-feathered) plumage, long legs and sharp spurs have been used for the sport of cockfighting for thousands of years.

Hens will lay the same number of eggs whether there is a rooster in the flock or not. Roosters serve no practical purpose unless you are going to hatch eggs. Realistically, though, you are going to get roosters whether you want them or not, even if you order only female chicks. The hatcheries only guarantee 90% sexing accuracy, and you can pretty much count on having unwanted male chicks in every order.

White Leghorns are the mainstay of the U.S. egg industry. They are hardy, mature quickly, and lay enormous numbers of white eggs, but they are panicky. This makes them annoying to work with, as you end up doing everything in slow motion to avoid panicking the flock. This is less of a nuisance on free range, where they have room to run around squawking. In confinement you will literally have them bouncing off the walls.

Some chickens lay blue or green eggs. Most of these birds are descended from a South American chicken, the Araucana, with various admixtures of other breeds. The Ameraucana is a recognized show breed. Most hatcheries sell something else, “Easter Egg chickens.” These don't meet the show standard and you will probably find that not all of the hens lay blue or green eggs

When in doubt, buy a utility strain of Barred Rocks. For generations, Barred Rocks were the most popular farm bird in the U.S., combining a calm disposition, attractive coloration, high production of brown eggs, and good meat qualities. (If you aren't in the U.S., the old-time production breed of your area might work better: Black Australorps if you are in Australia, Buff Orpingtons in Britain, etc.) If you don't want Barred Rocks, other birds with similar characteristics are Rock of other colors (White Rocks, Buff Rocks, etc.), Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons, and the hybrids called Black Sex-Links. Barred Rock roosters have a reputation for viciousness, though.

Don't crowd the nests. If you're using ordinary compartmentalized nest boxes, provide one nest for every four hens

A hen can lay a egg every 24 to 26 hours.

big wind

We had a storm go over last evening. The electricity went out and I am sure some people were about blew away by the time Janet got home the electricity was back on and all was well here on the hill.

Sister wanted to know what kind of chicks I ordered, I have been studying the hatcheries for several years and this is what I have learned. The hatchery sells chicks to people on demand and some people order pullets like this, 2 Rhode island reds, 2 red sex links, 2 of another breed and so on and so forth. the hatchery has to set more than 2 eggs of any breed to get 2 pullets. I think they set at least 10 eggs of each breed to get the 2 pullets. the other pullets are extra and they sell them at a reduced rate so I ordered 25 assorted heavy brown egg layer and I will get at least 3 breeds. I did this so I would get my chicks this spring and not have to wait until fall since I should have place a order in January if I wanted them in May.

My chicks will be from the 9 heavy brown eggs breeds that is the most in demand probably but I could get some rare breeds also. We will see what I get. Hens are selling for 10 dollars each and people have gone chicken crazy.

again

I am doing it again, I have talked to my self until I am blue in the face but I have gave up. I am ordering baby chicks again. I just can't help my self.

3002

This is the 3002 post I have made on this blog. That is a lot of blab,blab!
It has been a nice warm spring day in the ozarks.

first

my daughter said she had heard Michele Obama was pregnant. She didn't say where she heard this and it is possible she dreamed it but I got to thinking had any wife of a president had a child while her husband was in office? I did a google search and came up empty but JFK wife Jackie had a child before he took office, Patricia who died.

It would be a first if Michele was to deliver a child while Barack was in office.

new life

Last summer I took 6 rose cutting from a neighbors pink rose bush and stuck them in the ground. Two of the cutting have put out roots and have started showing life.

it is cool this morning30 degrees at 6:30.

President in Turkey

I was watching my TV today and the president of the united states Barack Obama was in Turkey about to speak. He was on this platform and the people fired a cannon behind him. He jumped like he was shot. I have seen people startled before but I never saw anyone jump like he did. I believe he must live in fear all the time. I don't think all the power and money in the world is worth living in that kind of fear.

Violet wood flower

The Violet

Down in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew; Its stalk was bent, it hung its headAs if to hide from view. And yet it was a lovely flower, Its colour bright and fair; It might have graced a rosy bower, Instead of hiding there.

6 eggs yesterday. it is a cool 33 degrees at 7:30.

cutting grass

I got the lawn mower in and cleared the grass around the rose bushes. I have peony bushes growing behind the rose bushes. I didn't plan well when I planted the bushes. I think the peony bushes are going to bloom this year and I will have to walk down there to see them.

I got nary a egg yesterday that hasn't happen in years. I was wondering if I had a visit by a snake. That word "nary" was used here in the Ozarks when I was young but I haven't heard it in years.

more wood chips

Sammy spread wood chips up against the trailer yesterday. He has the tires pulled back to plant tomatoes in soon. My winter onions are doing great as you can see.

and away we go!

LONDON (AFP) — Michelle Obama dared touch Britain's Queen Elizabeth II,It was reported that the queen was very gracious about Mrs. Obama's touch. The way I see it the queen had no choice if she had reacted in the negative the newspapers in this country would have called her a racist. We are not subjects of Britain and have had our freedom since 1776 and Mrs. Obama's people gained their freedom in 1865.
I think entirely to much is made of the kissy, touchy thing when our president goes aboard. At least they shook his hand, the last time president Bush went over seas they refused to shake his hand.

April morn

This is a frosty April morning and the sun is shining on my window sill. The feeding of the fowl is past and I am thinking about breakfast.

I have been reading about the cigarette tax and how people are dismayed. I told you the Democrats were big on sin taxes. Get ready there will be more such taxes. I think if a fellow wanted to make some money he could take up growing tobacco.

april 2 and soaps

I went to feed and the air was laden with rain drops. The guineas are calling loud and The soap opera "Guiding Light" is switching off after a 72-year run that predates television. I listened to the soaps on the radio when I was a girl. Does anyone Else remember "MA PERKINS"?
Grandma Powell listened to the shows on her TV the last 20 years of her life and she would talk to them. I have not listened to the soaps since I was young but my children watch them.
They called them soaps because they usually advertised some brand of soap. Ma Perkins advertised Oxydol .

cool morning

Foxy and me went to feed and it is cool this morning but the wind has finally laid. yesterday was awful because the wind blew hard all day.

Sammy got the riding lawn mower going and mowed the yard. We thought it was broke but he managed to fix it. I hate lawn mowers.

I have 13 hens not 6 . I have 6 big hens and 7 bantams. 5 of the bantams are setting. I only got 4 eggs yesterday .

I have been enjoying the books I picked up at the library Monday. Murder and mayhem.