garden

Fleta came by on her way to buy groceries and to visit the junk stores. She brought new potatoes, yellow squash and green beans. I worked up the beans and threw in some new potatoes and stewed a pan of squash.
the beans were on the table and Sammy sampled the potatoes. he said they were really good.I ate squash and green beans for dinner and enjoyed the fruits of Fleta's labors.

roosters

I see lots of roosters. I remember when I was a girl and we were hungry we would have been in that pen ringing the necks of the rooster to eat.I can see in my minds eye setting at a table with those roosters fried or stewed with dumplings.
We would have an old hen that hatched a few chicks and we watched them until we could imagine them fried then off with their heads. Clayton usual set a hen if one went broody and I remember once the hen was roosting on the back porch on something and Clayton was out there at dusk putting her chicks on the roost with the hen.

The Kelly Family - Amazing Grace (paddy crying)

Tyson

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) -- One worker exposed to chlorine gas at a Tyson Foods Inc. chicken processing plant in Arkansas remains in intensive care and 13 others are still hospitalized.

Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson said in an email to The Associated Press Wednesday that the number of hospitalized workers is down from about 50 on Tuesday.

Foxy

We have 4 small dogs, 2 are out side all the time and 2 are out side inside as they see fit to be.
This is foxy, she is 5 years old and a neurotic dog. She will not go out unless forced to do so usually I pick up her dog carrier and deposit her carrier and all on the porch. I have to stay out with her until she finishes her routine or she will have a complete melt down.
It is my opinion that the family who had her when she was a puppy must have really mistreated her what they did to her I don't venture a guess but it must have been a terrible crime to have stayed with her for 5 years.
When Foxy comes into the house she eats, drinks and then retires to her bed in the carrier some people who visit my daughter have been known to ask questions as to why is that dog always locked up in the coup? trying to find fault with our treatment of this dog. These people are members of the family who owned and abused this dog before we gave her a home.
I knew that they were making snide remarks about our dog care and last week I had had enough, the oldest son 14 or so ask the same question that we have heard before. why is that dog locked in the coup? Foxy prefers being in the coup I believe because she feels safe there.
I wasn't feeling well when he ask the question and I knew he was voicing some of the remarks his family had criticize us for behind our backs.
there sat his mother with this smog look on her face and I finally answered they question. I said foxy is there because she likes to be there and if you or your mother think you can do better with the dog you are welcome to her as a gift and I will throw in the coup free of charge as well.
They stammered no they didn't wish to take her and they soon left our house and have not came back which is fine because usually when they arrive at my door it is because they are looking for a free hand out of some sort.
Truth be told I wish we didn't have dogs at all because much of the care falls on my shoulder but we do and I do the best I can for mans best Friend but don't come around finding fault with my work or you may find your self out the door and down the road.

BIRDS

passanger pigeons

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Indian chief tells of flock of passenger pigeons observed in 1850.
When I shoot my rifle clear,
to pigeons in the skies,
I’ll bid farewell to pork and beans,
And live on good pot pies".



"About the middle of May, 1850, while in the fur trade, I was
camping on the head waters of the Manistee River in Michigan. One morning on leaving my wig-wam, I was startled by hearing a gurgling, rumbling sound, as though an army of horses laden with sleigh bells was advancing through the deep forests towards me.


As I listened more intently, I concluded that, instead of the
tramping of horses, it was distant thunder; and yet the morning was clear,
calm and beautiful. Nearer and nearer came the strange commingling of sleigh bells, mixed with the rumbling of an approaching storm. While I gazed in wonder and astonishment, I beheld moving toward me in an unbroken front millions of pigeons, the first I had seen that season. They passed like a cloud through the branches of the high trees, through the underbrush and over the ground, apparently overturning every leaf.


"Statue-like I stood, half-concealed by the cedar boughs. They
fluttered all about me, lighting on my head and shoulders; gently I caught
two in my hands and carefully concealed them under my blanket.


"I now began to realize they were mating, preparatory to nesting.
It was an event which I had long hoped to witness; so I sat down and
carefully watched their movements, amidst the greatest tumult. I tried to
understand their strange language, and why they all chatted in concert. In
the course of the day the great on moving mass passed by me, but the trees
were still filled with them sitting in pairs in convenient crotches of the
limbs, now and then gently fluttering their half-spread wings and uttering to their mates those strange bell-like wooing notes which I had mistaken for the ringing of bells in the distance.


" On the third day, this chattering ceased and all were busy
carrying sticks with which they were building in the same crotches of the
limbs they had occupied in pairs the day before. On the morning of the
fourth day their nests were finished and eggs laid. The hen birds occupied
the nests in the morning, while the male birds went out into the surrounding country to feed, returning about 10 o'clock, taking the nests, while the hens went out to feed, returning about 3 o'clock.


"Again, changing nests, the male birds went out the second time to
feed, returning at sundown. The same routine was pursued each day until the young ones were hatched and nearly half-grown, at which time all the parent birds left the brooding grounds about daylight. On the morning of the eleventh day after the eggs were laid, I found the nesting grounds strewn with egg shells, convincing me that the young were hatched. In 13 days more the parent birds left their young to shift for themselves, flying to the east about sixty miles, when they again nested. The female lays but one egg during the same nesting.


"Both sexes secrete in their crops milk or curd with which they
feed their young until they are fit to fly, when they stuff them with mast
and such other raw material as they themselves eat until their crops exceed
their bodies in size, giving them the appearance of two birds with one head.
Within two days after the stuffing they become a mass of fat- a 'squab'. At
this period, the parent bird drives them from the nests to take care of
themselves, while they fly off within a day or two, sometimes hundreds of
miles, and nest again.


"It has been well-established that these birds look after and take
care of all orphaned squabs whose parents have been killed or are missing.
These birds are long-lived, having been known to live 25 years, caged."

a man and his dog

While campaigning for president Franklin Roosevelt made charges against the republican party for abusing his dog. The dog was a Scotty named Fala....These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family don't resent attacks — but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I'd left him behind on an Aleutian island and had sent a destroyer back to find him — at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or 20 million dollars — his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since. I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself — such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable. But I think I have a right to resent, to object, to libelous statements about my dog!
After Roosevelt's death
Fala and Eleanor Roosevelt.Fala attended Roosevelt's funeral and went to live with the widowed Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill. Roosevelt often mentioned Fala in her newspaper column, "My Day."

It was Fala, my husband's little dog, who never really readjusted. Once, in 1945, when General Eisenhower came to lay a wreath on Franklin's grave, the gates of the regular driveway were opened and his automobile approached the house accompanied by the wailing of the sirens of a police escort. When Fala heard the sirens, his legs straightened out, his ears pricked up and I knew that he expected to see his master coming down the drive as he had come so many times. Later, when we were living in the cottage, Fala always lay near the dining-room door where he could watch both entrances just as he did when his master was there. Franklin would often decide suddenly to go somewhere and Fala had to watch both entrances in order to be ready to spring up and join the party on short notice. Fala accepted me after my husband's death, but I was just someone to put up with until the master should return

count the pullets

I count 19 for sure and the bright yellow/orange I am on the fence about. they show the pullet color but the combs are really red.

for Robert

look at the sky

This is a promise of a nice day.

the line up

in the news

Casey Anthony trial is on the TV every day. This woman in Florida is accused of killing her 2 year old child.
The defence argues... the child drown in the pool and the LOVING grandfather fished her out like trash, put duck tape over her mouth.. stuffed her in a trash bag and tossed her beside the highway just far enough from the home that the family wouldn't smell the stink! Sure we believe this one! Oh, yes tot mom had a party for a month before her mother called 911 because tot mom's daddy sexual molester her . do they think we are all crazy? you kill your child cause daddy was a bad fellow? Which he denies by the way.
Oh yes they refer to the mother as TOT mom, the little girl is called a tot often in the trial so Casey is tot mom.. I tell you the tot is a skeleton lets call the mom ... bone mom.
The republican runners for president is growing larger by the day... 2 MORMONS, the repbs think that will satisfy the religious right, one Texas cow boy, Perry maybe, unless Texas doesn't opt out of the union. one woman and one black man.The guy from Georgia that has been married 3 times... Newt Gingrich.
On the other hand the last repb candidate has declared Arizona's wild fires are being started by illegal aliens crossing the border. John McCain is the fellow that said that little jewel. The aliens are coming to burn our forest?? I thought they wanted a job.
New York has voted for same sex marriage this is the 6Th state to do so.
Actor Peter Falk, known to millions as the rumpled star of television crime drama "Columbo," has died, KTLA.com reports. The actor was 83.

He reportedly was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

That is all the news I can stand for today.

spotted chickens

I think these birds are pretty.

rain and chicks

Twelve bantam eggs in a gallon sized bucket. They are small but they are good for food.
I like to look at these chickens. They are about 3 months old I think. Sammy bought them at the Huntsville sale.
Rainy cool weather this morn. 66 degrees and suppose to not get above 88 degrees for a high.
July is just around the bend, summer will soon be past and cold weather will be on us again.
My tomatoes are getting the blight of some sort. I hope fleta's make tomatoes and escape the blight. Betty has a drought. Larry should fine a way to pipe water from the pond to irrigate her garden.

nada, nada, nada

Oprah's representatives moved quickly to quash rumors that the talk show queen is conducting an interview with O.J. Simpson in which he confesses to murder.

The rumor raced around the Internet after the Daily Mail picked up a National Enquirer report that Simpson will admit to killing his late wife Nicole in a jailhouse interview.

But representatives for Harpo, Oprah's company, flatly told the Hollywood Reporter, "that's not true."

However, it's no secret that Oprah has been pining to do exactly this kind of interview. During an appearance at a cable convention earlier this month, she said that her dream is to have Simpson confess to her.

"And I am going to make that happen people," she said. "I don't just want the interview. I want the interview

Holy Shit Hogs!

click here Helen

Here the OJ story , Helen click my title.

Hand feeding Hummingbirds - Ketchikan Alaska Tours

The Judds - "Guardian Angels"

blood money

I read this morning on the net that OJ has confessed from prison to Oprah that he killed his wife in self defence and That Goldman attacked him after arriving on the scene of the murder so he killed Goldman in self defence too. I don't know if he really confessed to Oprah or if this is just another story but if he did confess to the drama Queen of day time television he did for money, the confession I mean . I always said if he did kill his wife it was because of money.
You may ask why am I talking about this murder trial that we watched in our homes in 1995? The answer is blowin' in the wind from Orlando Florida every day on our computers and TV screens.
The Casey Anthony murder trial is on every day when I switch on the news morning noon and evening.
The image of the pretty young mother and child are ever where you look. The trial is televised just as OJ's was and I have been wondering where did Casey get the money to pay the lawyers and all the medical experts for the defence?
Yesterday I got the answer, she sold all the videos and photos she had of the the little murdered baby to NBC and that is the money she is using to defend her self against this charge.
Perhaps OJ did confess to the 1995 killings and Casey did sell her baby's pictures to the NBC but the money received is blood money paid by a media that feeds on the blood of innocents.

Dirty Jobs Chick Sexer part2

Rhode Island Reds

Sammy's standard chicks bought at the Huntsville sale are part Rhode Island red chickens. The RIR is a nice laying hen and prised for egg and meat production.
Developed in Rhode Island & Massachusetts, early flocks often had both single and rose combed individuals because of the influence of Malay blood. It was from the Malay that the Rhode Island Red got its deep color, strong constitution, and relatively hard feathers.[5]

The Rhode Island Red was originally bred in Adamsville, a village which is part of Little Compton, Rhode Island. One of the foundation sires of the breed was a black-breasted red Malay cock which was imported from England. This cock is on display at the Smithsonian Institution as the father of the Rhode Island Red breed.

In 1925, the Rhode Island Red Club of America donated funds for an elegant monument to the Rhode Island Red in Adamsville, near the baseball field and across the street from what used to be Abraham Manchester's restaurant. (The monument is now on the National Register of Historic Places.) A competing monument to the Rhode Island Red, claiming its creation not for the poultry fanciers, but for the farmers who grew them commercially in great numbers in Little Compton, was erected by the state in 1954 a mile or so (about two kilometers) south of Adamsville.

Rhode Island Reds and Sussex are also used for many modern hybrid breeds. Many modern hybrid hens have Rhode Island Red fathers, mainly due to the prolific egg laying characteristic of the Rhode Island Red

cucumbers

My cucumber patch or plant in a pot.
Cooler this morning but no rain so far and I don't think we will see any rain today.

creek near where I live

Family Outing Ends In Tragedy

June 18, 2011

A mother and daughter from Green Forest drowned late Friday afternoon in Yokum Creek, in northern Carroll County. A toddler boy was rescued and survived.

According to Carroll County Sheriff Bob Grudek, Leydy Yolanda Marin-Lopez, 30, and her daughter, 8 year old Veronica G. Lopez, both drowned after the child slipped off a ledge into deep water, and the mother tried to get to her and fell out of a raft and drowned. The incident occurred at an area called Devil's Backbone.

Sheriff Grudek went on to say another child, 3 year old Joshua Lopez, jumped in the water instinctively when he saw his mother go under, and himself sank to the bottom. He had been underwater, Grudek said, for about 40 minutes when someone performed CPR on the child after his body was pulled out. The child threw up alot of water and started breathing. He was air-lifted to St. John's in Springfield, where Sheriff Grudek said "miraculously" he was released on Saturday after appearing to have recovered fully.

Sadly, other members of the family witnessed the whole tragedy. Leydy Marin-Lopez's mother and sister were with the group and were helpless to assist.

Sheriff Grudek said none of the family knew how to swim and had no life jackets with them. The water in spots was at least 10 feet deep, Sheriff Grudek said.

chicks and rose

The peace rose with the blooms from the original rose bush

The volunteer shoot from the rose root of the peace rose bush.

My peace rose has put up a branch from the root stock and it is yellow. This is good because i really don't like the peace rose color.

The chicks are the chicks Sam's hen has hatched this spring minus 9 that are still in the brooder in the house.

Long ago and far away

I remembered something today that my family will find hard to believe. When I was a young girl I ran races for the joy of running and when I was about 10 years old I entered the 50 yard dash in the Carroll county fair at that time all the schools in Carroll county would enter their students in the athlete competition such as running, broad jumping and other athletic exercises.
I won first place and won the blue ribbon. I was the fastest runner in Carroll county. I know it is hard to believe now but it is true.

Mille Fleur d'uccle at Saynora Farms

out side

i made it out side and found 9 new chicks under a hen and we have them under the light in the brooder as soon as they get to eating and drinking well sam will move them out side in the calf hutch.
kelly came by and we discussed Betty having to dig potatoes . kelly advised her to dig a few hills early in the morning before it gets to hot . He said they didn't have to be all done in one day that is what he does or in the evening about sun down.

saturday

sammy has gone to feed, I am not well this morning about half sick to my stomach perhaps all the pills I haver been taking for my left leg has turned on me. I am taking Tylon today maybe that will help.
sammy watered the tomatoes and he said I had one as big as his fist. ripe tomatoes soon.
I have not went out there in 2 days it is just torture to walk my knee hurts very bad.
kelly said he had to come in to do some work and he would come by this morning.

North Carolina

state flower dogwood flower
state bird cardinal
North Carolina
In 1629, King Charles I of England "erected into a province," all the land from Albemarle Sound on the north to the St. John's River on the south, which he directed should be called Carolina. The word Carolina is from the word Carolus, the Latin form of Charles.

When Carolina was divided in 1710, the southern part was called South Carolina and the northern, or older settlement, North Carolina. From this came the nickname the “Old North State.” Historians have recorded that the principle products during the early history of North Carolina were "tar, pitch, and turpentine." It was during one of the fiercest battles of the War Between the States, so the story goes, that the column supporting the North Carolina troops was driven from the field. After the battle the North Carolinians, who had successfully fought it out alone, were greeted from the passing derelict regiment with the question: "Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" Quick as a flash came the answer: "No, not a bit, old Jeff's bought it all up." "Is that so; what is he going to do with it?" was asked. "He's going to put on you-un's heels to make you stick better in the next fight." Creecy relates that General Lee, upon hearing of the incident, said: "God bless the “Tar Heel” boys," and from that they took the name.

Travelers Insurance dog commercial (very funny)

Margie likes this and I do too. this is for Margie in Kansas.

new and old

Fleta came by after work and brought me new and old potatoes, she had purchased 10 pounds of potatoes and then her garden started producing potatoes so she brought me the store potatoes. no small feat when potatoes are going for 4 dollars a sack. The new potatoes will be cooked first I think.
I read that Larry Flynn offered Wiener a job and I think he had better take it! I have read and heard all the arguments about Wiener and his photos but to me he is just like the guy that stands on the street corner in a long coat with nothing under except skin and opening said coat to give people a shock. the Guy on the street would be sent to jail but the congressman was just sent home.
A few years ago I saw a flasher beside the road setting in a pick up with the door open showing his penis to who ever passed by and I felt only disgust for the guy and that is exactly how I feel about Wiener and I don't give a flying leap as to his political views.

tennessee

State flower purole iris
state bird Mocking bird.
Tennessee
Tennessee has had several nicknames, but the most popular is “The Volunteer State.” The nickname originated during the War of 1812, in which the volunteer soldiers from Tennessee, serving under Gen. Andrew Jackson, displayed marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans.

Other nicknames include the “Big Bend State,” which refers to the Indian name of the Tennessee River; “The River with the Big Bend”; and “Hog and Hominy State,” now obsolete but formerly applied because “the corn and pork products of Tennessee were in such great proportions between 1830 and 1840”; and “The Mother of Southwestern Statesmen,” because Tennessee furnished the United States three presidents and a number of other leaders who served with distinction in high government office.

Tennesseans sometimes are referred to as “Volunteers,”“Big Benders” and “Butternuts.” The first two are derived from the nickname of the state, while the tag of “Butternuts” was first applied to Tennessee soldiers during the War Between the States because of the tan color of their uniforms. Later, it sometimes was applied to people across the entire state

flies

We are over run with flies since it rained and I made two bate stations with fly crumbs. The flies are bad around the chicken pens. The problem is how to hang bait stations and the guineas not getting into the fly crumbs but I think I worked it out if not I guess goodbye guineas.

My neighbor said this morning it might rain this after noon, we will see.

George is cutting hay so it might rain on his parade.

guinea setting

We had hard wind and rain last night at the mid night hour
some of Sammy's chickens didn't have the good sense to go under their shelter and I was afraid
they might suffer ill effects from getting wet but all of them were fine this morning.

We have a guinea hen setting on eggs in the rose bushes. We will see if she can hatch out some keets. Every thing I read says they are not good mothers but since they are such a pain I am not anxious to get more guineas.

Newt's wealth

Newt Gingrich maybe in trouble , Newt Gingrich’s floundering presidential bid may have run into more problems.

ABC News reports that the former House Speaker’s tax-exempt charity paid $220,000 to one of his for-profit companies, Gingrich Communications, buying cases of books and DVDs produced by another one of his companies, Gingrich Productions.


The charity in question is Renewing American Leadership, an organization that Gingrich founded to promote faith, family, freedom, and free enterprise, according to the group’s spoke person.

The IRS will be taking a look into these charges and it is reported Newt's net worth is in the millions and part of that monies came from the tax exempt Charity.

OHIO

state bird cardinal
state flower Scarlet Carnation

Ohio, the “Buckeye State”, received its nickname because of the many buckeye trees that once covered its hills and plains.
But that's only partly the reason. We have to go back to the feverish presidential campaign of 1840 for the rest of it.
William Henry Harrison, a Virginia-born Ohioan and military hero, was a candidate for the White House, but his opponents commented that he was better suited to sit in a log cabin and drink hard cider.
Some of Harrison's leading supporters, who were experts in promotional know-how, decided to turn into a positive reference what was supposed to be a negative one.
They dubbed him "the log cabin candidate," and chose as his campaign emblem a log cabin made of buckeye timbers, with a long string of buckeyes decorating its walls. Furthermore, in parades, his backers walked with buckeye canes and rolled whisky barrels.
The campaign gimmicks were successful. "Old Tippecanoe," as Harrison was often called, beat President Martin Van Buren in the latter's bid for re-election, and thereafter the buckeye was closely associated with the state of Ohio.
The name itself is of native origin. Because the markings on the nut resembled the eye of a buck, the Indians called it "hetuck" or "buckeye."

14 th of june

Happy birthday , Betty jean.

Alabama

state flower.. camellia
state bird yellowhammer wood pecker
Alabama
Alabama has been known as the “Yellowhammer State” since the Civil War. The yellowhammer nickname was applied to the Confederate soldiers from Alabama when a company of young cavalry soldiers from Huntsville, under the command of Rev. D.C. Kelly, arrived at Hopkinsville, KY, where Gen. Forrest's troops were stationed. The officers and men of the Huntsville company wore fine, new uniforms, whereas the soldiers who had long been on the battlefields were dressed in faded, worn uniforms. On the sleeves, collars and coattails of the new calvary troop were bits of brilliant yellow cloth. As the company rode past Company A , Will Arnett cried out in greeting "Yellowhammer, Yellowhammer, flicker, flicker!" The greeting brought a roar of laughter from the men and from that moment the Huntsville soldiers were spoken of as the "yellowhammer company." The term quickly spread throughout the Confederate Army and all Alabama troops were referred to unofficially as the "Yellowhammers."

fowl.. 6 +26+!8 +30 =Sammy's young birds

Today is aunt Betty's birthday tomorrow is my sister's birthday. Happy birthday sister. are you feeling better since you have had time to recover from the surgery?
I think the think grandpa is making for Clayton is really nice.
Betty thought there were to many birds for me to take care of, true but SAM has to care for them I just enjoy looking at them and giving orders.

chickesn and Helen

Yes, Helen is going to get an Internet.
I don't have to care for sammy's chickens I can just look and enjoy them and then boss Sammy around and tell him what to do.

Helen

Helen has moved into her apartment but has NO internet.

chicks

Sammy brought home 28 chicks about 2 weeks old and when I went out to look them over I told him these were not bantams but regular sized chickens. He declared he knew that but I have my doubts about that any way he has some red looking chicks and some brown looking chicks and one or so yellow with black wing feathers.
He dumped them in the pen with his sale barn bantams and then had to get the neighbor boy to catch them because the older chicks were picking on them.
He has them in a wire cage on the porch with a water bed cover over them, when I went out to take photos his black and white pup was laying on top of the cage, no cats will brother the chicks that way.
At least he should have some pullets in this group since you can not see the sex as fast with standard chicks as you can with bantams.

this day

A chance of thunder storms today. We are dry even with all the rain we had in may.
Janet is on vacation for 2 weeks. Maybe every thing will settle down at work before she returns, I hope.
Sam has 6 chicks in the brooder in the house. He is going to the sale and is in the buying chicken mood so no telling what he will bring back.
Newt Gingrich's hire campaign HELP all quit but he says he is still going to run. I have heard of a politician firing his people but this is the first time I know of the HELP firing the boss. Seems his new wife wanted to campaign in the Greek Isles which they did but the hired HELP thought he should have been in a place where their vote counted.
The Donald said if the repub ran someone he didn't like he would run as a Independent.
The morman said something that the Rush Limbaugh didn't like about global warming and Rush said that is IT he can't get the repub nomination. The boss has spoken so Mitt Romney had just as well go home.
I have been listening to the Fox net work for my news. Shep Smith is the one I listen too. MSNBC has become the Yah, rah news media for the Democrats and I had to go to Fox to hear anything except commercials for the Democrats party.
It is beginning to look as if Obama maybe in trouble on election night. Bill Maher said 40% of the people found Obama unsuitable as a president. 40% said anyone besides that darky will do.
The Governor of Texas is still saying Texas has the right to with draw from the union but he has about decided to run for president just incase they don't with draw. Rick Perry is his name if you want to vote for him, if he loses he says he will take his state and go home.
I saw where some think Hillary Clinton wants to be the head of the world bank if the currant head retires. I didn't know we had a world bank shows how smart I am.
This is what I found...... Hillary denied wanting the job.
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

The southern lady cooking

This lady is living in ky. and she likes to cook.....she has been featured on the gooseberry patch blog. click on my title and read about Judy and her love of cooking.

The sun is shining and there's a warm breeze. You're swaying on the front porch swing, enjoying a glass of sweet tea topped off with a sprig of mint...if this sounds like your kind of afternoon, you'll love this week's Featured Friday blogger.

Hailing from the Bluegrass state of Kentucky, Judy is the voice behind this blog that captures the best of Southern hospitality and cooking. Her recipes are the kind you just know were passed down from Grandma's kitchen and will taste just like Grandma's too!

gathering lettuce

The pups have drug in some trash. it looks like a dirty diaper.
I gave the sale chicks some lettuce. it is getting bitter but they like it so the garden has a new purpose.
Janet has started her vacation and I am trying to get up the courage to go to town.
Sammy has 4 new chicks in the brooder in the bath room. I count 16 with the hen and the 4 in the house makes 20, there should be 10 pullets for laying this winter.

chicks and heat

The hen should have 18 chicks with her and she may have but I can't count all of them because she calls them under her every time she sees me at the door. The highest I have been able to count was 16.
Today is the day the home health nurse comes and brings me my supplies.
No rain forecast until Friday and then not much of a promise. saw where Chicago was having 95 degree weather but was going to have a 40 degree drop today. Their weather is influenced by the lakes I think.
Last summer my big hens were bothered by the heat but the bantams wont have that problem.

Wiener's wiener

Just in case you are interested Anthony wiener's wiener has been released on the net at least it is claimed to be his and I can see no way he can deny that it isn't his who would believe him?
stupid knows no Boundaries.

birds

I feel fairly well today, I was able to sleep 7 hours last night so that maybe the reason.
Fleta has spotted some cattle egrets on a neighbor's pond. I never would have thought they would be in our area. i read on the net that a breeding flock at Conway Arkansas had move out of the area perhaps that is where ours come in from.
fleta wants some mocking birds and we have lots here. I think the reason is the wild cherry trees that abounds in our area. I saw several mourning doves flying around yesterday in the early morning.I do love the doves.
We have many blue jays around our chicken pens and they are fond of stealing the dogs food. Sparrow are our constant companions on the hill.

Roman in the last days

Sex and our rulers
John Edwards
Anthone weiner
David Vitter & Larry Craig & Newt Gingrich
Bill Clinton
John Eric Ensign
Mark Foley
During the last days of the roman empire....Does the behavior of our leader forecast our decline as did the leaders in the Roman empire .

There seems to be barely a Roman emperor whose reign is not coloured in some way by his sexual appetites – which are often prodigious in the extreme. Commodus, for example, emperor from AD 180 to 192, is said to have a harem of 300 girls and the same number of boys and to put on great orgies. But for sheer shock value, none can compare with the Syrian, Elagabalus, emperor from 218 to 222, who believes himself to be a living god.
Nero: seduced by his mother
Nero's reported sexual activities range from being seduced by his mother Agrippina to forcing his unwanted attentions on
Augustus: public virtue, private vice?
The emperor Augustus, who ruled from 27 BC to AD 14, may have lamented the decline in standards in Roman family life and been keen to legislate on public morals, but his private life was a rather different matter. Although married from his mid-20s until his death to Livia Drusilla, whom Suetonius says he 'loved and esteemed ... to the end without a rival', he also had a string of lovers. He is even said have moved from Rome to Gaul in 16 BC because he wanted to live openly with his lover Terentia.
Tiberius: young boys and babies
Tiberius, who spends most of the later years of his reign as emperor – from AD 26 to 37 – on the island of Capri, is said to have a special penchant for his spintriae (groups of young boys), with whom he surrounds himself and indulges in all manner of promiscuous behaviour

Egret

The Cattle Egret is a stocky heron with a 88–96 cm (35–38 in) wingspan; it is 46–56 centimetres (18–22 in) long and weighs 270–512 grams (9.5–18.1 oz).[12] It has a relatively short thick neck, sturdy bill, and a hunched posture. The non-breeding adult has mainly white plumage, a yellow bill and greyish-yellow legs. During the breeding season, adults of the nominate western subspecies develop orange-buff plumes on the back, breast and crown, and the bill, legs and irises become bright red for a brief period prior to pairing.[13] The sexes are similar, but the male is marginally larger and has slightly longer breeding plumes than the female; juvenile birds lack coloured plumes and have a black bill.[12][14]

B. i. coromandus differs from the nominate subspecies in breeding plumage, when the buff colour on its head extends to the cheeks and throat, and the plumes are more golden in colour. This subspecies' bill and tarsus are longer on average than in B. i. ibis.[15] B. i. seychellarum is smaller and shorter-winged than the other forms. It has white cheeks and throat, like B. i. ibis, but the nuptial plumes are golden, as with B. i. coromandus.[9]

The positioning of the egret's eyes allows for binocular vision during feeding,[16] and physiological studies suggest that the species may be capable of crepuscular or nocturnal activity.[17] Adapted to foraging on land, they have lost the ability possessed by their wetland relatives to accurately correct for light refraction by water.[18]

This species gives a quiet, throaty "rick-rack" call at the breeding colony, but is otherwise largely silent.[19]

guineas and chicks

A pen of bantam chicks.
male guinea in fighting mood.
I only have 6 guineas left 3 male and 3 hens. The males are the pearl color and the females are the lavender colour. I hear the females on the nest every morning as I set and look over the poultry as they eat. The guineas have a nest under the big roses bushes and I hear the noise the hen makes as she lays. It sound as if she is in pain .The male stands just out side the bushes and guards her as she lays her egg.
I have read that when she starts to set the male will be on guard during the day time but he goes to roost when night falls and that is when the most danger to the setting hen comes calling.
We had 2 chicks this morning hatched. I had SAM set up the brooder again. I placed 18 chicks under the hen during a weeks time but I think she has enough and now I am collecting them again in the brooder when we get 5 or 6 I will try to slip them under one of the other setting hens and let her care for them.