Re: Farm was attacked....

On Aug 20, 9:50 am, Grizzly <No...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl wrote:
On Aug 19, 11:14 pm, Grizzly <No...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl wrote:
On Aug 18, 5:28 pm, JC Dill <jcd...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:43:45 -0300, Dr Corinne B Leek
<cl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:23:50 -0700, Carl <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
By next weekend I hope to sit down with Eileen and relax with a glass
of wine.
Nah. Then it'll be something else that goes awry.
I'm sure the crisis-of-the-day series will all be resolved just before
Eileen gets back. She probably planned it this way. :-) (Just
kidding Ei!)
jc
Well a distinct pattern is coming through. When Eileen went to Costa
Rica in March, the first day she was gone the house sitter tells me
his wife is going into labor that evening and at 44 she is a high
risk. So I took care of everything. Later that week a major snow storm
hits and they can't make it. Again I took care of everything.
We go to Boston together. Nothing goes wrong. No storms, no
earthquakes, no nothing.....
Now she goes go Ireland without me and one thing goes wrong after
another. Now her car is overheating AGAIN.
-carl
Two things to check besides hose and radiator leaks are water pump and
thermostat.. I hope things are going well for you.. As for the earlier
incubator commentary, I kind of guessed you would make a good mother
hen.. We have a menagerie here with peafowl and Phoenix chicks and
several different varieties of ducks, geese and wild turkeys running
about underfoot to de-spook the horse herd..we incubate eggs on a
regular basis and play mother hen all the time. Eileen will appreciate
all the work you have been doing on her behalf in her absence rest assured..

The electric fan that was just replaced stopped working again. I
replaced the water pump last week.

Our last brood of chicks got an untimely visit from one of the dogs.
In cleaning out the barn I've made room for a area for a coop.

-carl

Sorry to hear that the dog got your chickies. We have trouble with
Raccoons getting them here. The last incident involved several mature
Phoenix being dismembered while they were caged inside of a chickenwire
coop and pulled apart piecemeal through the wire..All that was left of
the hens was the keelbone. I guess I'll have to nail hardware cloth
over the chikenwire on that coop if I want to keep that from happening
again. The rooster that was in with the hens was killed too but wasn't
pulled apart.. His 2 foot long tail now graces my aussie hat..I
incubated the eggs that those hens produced the week before that
happened and have replacement stock, but Ramses and the girls were more
pets than anything. The turkeys on the place are all wild stock that
wandered in and live in my woods. They have taken to hanging out with
the peafowl and guineas that free range on the premises and you can
approach them on foot and get within ten feet of them before they fly off.

One of the dogs is terrified of thunder, she'll try to squeeze into
some tight spot to hide. One of the neighbors was shooting off some
fireworks that night and the bathroom door wasn't fully closed. She
pushed her way in and had a surprise treat.

All I found was one little feather.

-carl

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