That's NOT a CHICKEN!

Dan the Man and I were working on one of the brooders today in preparation of the 400 chicks that will be arriving on Friday.

We realized that as with all projects that we do, we didn't have all the material that we thought we needed and would have to make a trip into town for supplies.

I hate that... especially with the price of gas right now. Twenty miles to town also means an automatic hour of the day spent traveling to and from town. Plus the time that it takes to get what you went for.

No wonder we never get anything accomplished around here!

Anyway, as we were walking to the house to get ready to go to town, I was surveying the yard as I normally do, to see what the chickens (egg layers) were up to. The girls were up to their usual antics, digging in my flower beds, scratching all the mulch out of my flower beds, reeking havoc in my FLOWER BEDS... when all the sudden I spied three very large looking chickens!

Whoa, where did those chickens come from?

They certainly don't look like any of my hens!

Well, holy cannoli... those aren't chickens, them there birds are TURKEYS!!

I ran into the house to get my camera and then Dan the Man and I managed to chase the turkeys all the way around the house. Dan the Man was hoping we could corral them into the chicken yard, but they were smarter than that! The made a bee-line for the county road and headed south. Just as they made it up onto the county road a vehicle came down the road. The turkeys ran down the middle of the road in front of the truck for a little ways before they decided to make a break for the borrow pit. Wish I had my camera set on video for that, it was quite humorous!

The turkeys running past the chicken yard that
Dan the Man was hoping they would run into!

Later on, I happened to be talking on the phone with my neighbor who lives south of us and mentioned the turkeys to her. We hardly ever... well I should say, this is the first time we have EVER seen wild turkeys on our place. Cori, my neighbor said they were in her yard a couple hours after we spotted them here at our place. Cori lives about a mile south of us. She was just as surprised to see them as we were!

Such excitement here in the neighborhood! Did any of my other neighbors see them?

THE END... and no, I did not proof read this, so deal with the typos. Thank you and good night.

Who Is Responsible For This?

This is a video post. I have two videos for you to watch.

You can watch them in any order. If you are a cat person, you might enjoy watching mine first.

If you are a dog person, perhaps you might want to start off with viewing that one first.

Some of you may have already seen the dog video. It was circulating on Facebook. I thought it was extremely entertaining, and it is what gave me the idea to do my video.


Enjoy, and hope these help to brighten your day.



Warning, the first video contains pictures of some hideous green carpet that desperately need to be replaced!

Things that Amuse Me

Here is my cat Tatum, aka Taytee, aka Tator, aka Taytee-Cakes...

Don't know Taytee's story, will click here and here if you are curious.

Curiosity killed the cat, but it won't kill you if you click on the above links.

Anyway...

Back to Tay-tee, my main squeeze! He's my main squeeze because there is so MUCH of him to squeeze!

Tatee-Cakes likes to wear the Groucho Marx
glasses just like I do!




I was teaching him Native American sign language
the other day.
We were working on "HOW" like as
in a greeting...

Tatee thought he could use any of his feet.
I told him, it would probably look better
and be more accepting if he
would raise a front paw instead of the back.


THE END.

Wednesday Morning Inspiration: April 6, 2011

I haven't done a Wednesday Morning Inspiration in a long while. I have no excuse, except for being lazy and not being in the word as often as I should be.

I started this yesterday, Wednesday, but forgot about it, so I know it's Thursday and not Wednesday, but hey, this is my blog and I can do what I want, right?

Anyway, this is one of my current favorite songs. Love it. Please listen to it.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

¹⁴For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died;

¹⁵and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.

What are you relying on to enter heaven? Do you think that if you are generally a good person, then you will be allowed in? Do you think that your salvation has to do with the good works that you do while you are here on the earth?

If this is what you think, then you need to read God's word, the bible and realize that it is Christ's death, burial and resurrection that saves us from an eternity in hell. Christ has done the work, you just need to trust and believe in Christ.

Some Days It Must Just Be Too Hard

Some Days It Must Just Be Too Hard... to lay a regular sized egg.

Because every once in a while
I find one of these half-pint sized eggs in the coop.

See the little blue-green one?
It's a chicken egg,
not a robin egg.

So what am I suppose to do with that little egg?











I guess this is one idea?!


Are you smiling?

Hope so.

:)

Oh Say Can You See?

The flag at Perkins in Scottsbluff is magnificent! Truly breathtaking. I took these pictures on Saturday, April 2nd, after the Scottsbluff Winter Farmers Market. Perkins is right next to the Hampton Inn, where we have the winter market. The wind was blowing perfectly to hold the flag out in all its glory.

I was thinking this morning that I wanted to put the pictures of the flag on the blog, but wanted to know more about the flag itself. So of course I googled "how big is the perkins flag?" I only found a few results which only heightened my curiosity as to how big that flag is.

So I called the restaurant and asked for the manager, who was not in yet. They said to call back around 8 am so I am writing some of this now, while I am waiting for 8 am to roll around.

I hope they have the answers to my questions, because I would really like to know the following:

• How big is the flag?
• How much does a flag that size cost?
• How often do you replace it?
• How many people does it take to lower and raise the flag?

Look how big the flag is in comparison
with the vehicle in the parking lot.

I especially love it when the fly the flag at half mast.
That is really a sight to behold.
Flying at half mast, it appears that much larger.

Waiting, waiting, waiting until 8 am.

I just took a drink of my coffee and missed the majority of my mouth causing coffee to dribble on my beautiful mint green fluffy robe. Oh dear, I hope it doesn't stain!

Wow, this is going to be a long 20 minutes.

Oh, hey, look at this picture I have, speaking of big flags!

This is the home of Paul Christian in Mitchell, NE (my hometown).
The house is located right on Broadway which is also HWY 26,
the main road that goes through town.
I took this picture in 2009.
They put up this flag for every 4th of July.
I love it. I wonder what the story behind this flag is?

Okay so I just got done talking to Luke Hale, one of the assistant managers at Perkins and this is what he told me.

• How big is the flag? 25' x 30'
  
• How much does a flag that size cost? around $500
  
• How often do you replace it? maybe once a year
  
• How many people does it take to lower and raise the flag? two or three depending on how windy it is.
  

Luke told me that there is a seamstress in town that repairs the flag on a regular basis and that is why they don't have to replace it more often. Luke didn't know who she was. Anybody out there know who this Betsy Ross of Scottsbluff is? Can you imagine sewing that?

Well, now I know. I guess I can go on with my day now.

The End

You Call That an Egg??

Here is the winner of the ugly egg of the day contest.





Some hen should be ashamed of this creation.

This egg is not even symmetrical.





What happened ladies?

And what is with all the lines and creases?




How do such deformities happen?


Don't ask me...
I have no idea.