framing fowl -daily living

[TanksHill]

Reminds me of a house we looked a when we went to Mo last year. I had been drooling over it on line for almost a whole year prior. Amish built, 100 acres, barns, gardens. The add even described the place as "perfect for the SS lifestyle".

Well we figured out why. The road going in went from asphalt to dirt to being washed out. We literally for a few hundred yards drove through the bottom of a washed out creek in my Uncles Buick. I felt so bad I kept telling him he could turn around. He said "I couldn't if I wanted to".

But when we got to the end of that road it opened up to the most beautiful green valley. Cows, goats, barns and two of the largest Great Pyrenees. The house half way up the hillside.

It was nice, but I'd say SS because half of the year you can't get out.

Whats the saying? You need to kiss lots of frogs before you find your prince.

Just keep swimming, I mean looking.

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[savingdogs]

Well at least you enjoyed the trip and it gave you a lot of food for thought. I would not want to live by the type of neighbors who fight cocks.

We had a similar experience before we bought our nice house we had before this one. While this one isn't great, we love the neighborhood.

But this other one was really a lovely lot, although the house was a fixer upper. But RIGHT next door was a really run down trailer park, and I don't mean one of those ones where the little old people keep gardens and such, I'm talking where meth is probably being cooked and unkempt children and dogs were playing in the dirt. I'm truly not a snob, I live in a glorified trailer at the moment, but I'm not trashy. I won't live next to it. I had enough of living next to "bad" people in Los Angeles.

We loved the property, but I told Hubby, "I'm not raising my sons next to THAT." Who would their friends have been? We bought a city tract home instead.

Location, location, location, like my realtor friend says.

 

[framing fowl]

Whew... off to go to sleep hopefully soon. Worked until 9pm at the gallery last night for an opening so I didn't get my 3 hour nap that I usually get between the gallery and hospitality house. Then as it usually happens, just when you go to work tired, it's the busiest... Had incoming guests at midnight, 1 am and 2:30 am. No farmers market for me this morning between work and home, and definitely no chicken swap that I was entertaining.

Hope everyone has beautiful weather this fine Saturday!

 

[framing fowl]

Today's weather from my Handbook of Weather Folklore:

If it rains on May first,
ox gains and the pig loses. -French (means more pasture grass than acorns)

When it rains the premier day of May,
the cows lose half of their milk. -French

If it rains on the Sunday before mess,
It will rain all the week, more or less. -Fifeshire

A wet May,
A fruitful year. -Basque

Happy May Day! Be sure to bring someone flowers!

 

[Farmfresh]

I gave my sis a little planter full of flowers yesterday ... does that count?

She spent a good deal of her afternoon helping me to hand weed Creeping Charlie from my front lawn, so I had to reward her.

 

[framing fowl]

Sure that counts! She's still enjoying them today right!

What's creeping Charlie? It sounds menacing .

 

[Farmfresh]

This is my foe, Creeping Charlie! It is also called ground ivy and "Gill-over-the-Ground". It is a member of the mint family and was originally used to make "Gill Tea" which was supposed to help eliminate lead and other heavy metals from the body.

It has LOTS of medical uses, can be used as a substitute for rennet in cheese making, and a substitute for hops in brewing. BUT .. I do not need a whole yard full of it! It is also nearly impossible to eradicate without toxic poison. It reproduces by stolen runners (like a strawberry), seed, and if you cut it (like with a mower) it roots everywhere a cut end touches the ground.

 

[framing fowl]

Oh my! I have that all along my back fence and throughout my yard too... I just ignore it .

 

[Farmfresh]

There comes a time when ignoring it is no longer an option.

It is either take it to task make it suffer or it will be coming in to watch TV next!!

 

[gettinaclue]

ooooooooooooo!!!! You can use in the place of stinging nettles to make your own rennet!

Gotta find me some!!!!!!!