up here in lalaland ~ Tennessee here we come!

[lalaland]

thats reassuring - I think I'ld be ready for the pigs by May 1, and it wouldn't be that cold by then here - maybe the 30's.

We're having a warm spell, it has been above zero all week.

 

[Blackbird]

Whoo! Another Minnesotan!

Your right; it has been awfully warm lately, hasn't it?

Are you getting the snow piled on today? Never ending as always.

I recently got an email from a relative in Texas. You've probably seen it, but seems to hold true for us Minnesotans


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Ole and Sven die in a snowmobiling accident, drunker than skunks, and go to Hell.

The Devil observes that they are really enjoying
themselves. He says to them 'Doesn't the heat and smoke bother you?

Ole replies, 'Vell, ya know, ve're from nordern
Minnesooota, da land of snow an ice, an ve're yust happy fer a chance ta varm up a little bit, ya know.'

The devil decides that these two aren't miserable
enough and turns up the heat even more.

When he returns to the room of the two guys from Minnesota, the devil finds them in light jackets and hats, grilling Walleye and drinking beer.

The devil is astonished and exclaims, 'Everyone down
here is in abject misery, and you two seem to be enjoyingyourselves?'
Sven replies, 'Vell, ya know, ve don't git too much
varm veather up dere at da Falls, so ve've yust got ta
haff a fish fry vhen da veather's dis nice.'

The devil is absolutely furious. He can hardly see
straight. Finally he comes up with the answer.
The two guys love the heat because they have been cold alltheir lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in Hell. The next morning, the temperature is 60 below zero, icicles are hanging everywhere, and people are shivering so bad that they are unable to wail, moan or gnash their teeth.

The devil smiles and heads for the room with Ole and Sven. He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, bomber hats, and mittens. They are jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men.

The devil is dumbfounded, 'I don't understand, when
I turn up the heat you're happy. Now its freezing cold
and you're still happy. What is wrong with you
two?'

They both look at the devil in surprise and say, 'Vell,
don't ya know, if hell iss froze over, dat must mean da Vikings von da Super Bowl'

 

[lalaland]

Blackbird, that really made me laugh - I'm going to pass that one on.

Right down the road from me is a "minimum maintenance" road named Blackbird - always thought I would love to have that for a street address. love the name.

Just back in from raking the chicken yard, trying to fool the buggers into thinking they really could go outside.

 

[Blackbird]

Yeah, it had me laughing when I first read it too.

I have Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and German blood (not to mention others), but typical Minnesotan, and I can find the stupid Ole and Sven jokes a bit funny at times - I have relatives who talk like they do in the jokes, same accents.

 

[lalaland]

arggghhh it is in the middle of the night and I am awake because of skunks. one minute I'm sleeping, the next I'm dreaming about skunks, and the next I'm up gagging......slamming the window shut because of the noxious smell.

I am sooooo tired and I can't sleep for gagging. Tried stepping out on the front porch but the smell is there too. Am whining big time. holy hannah, there must have been ten skunks that all went off at once.

Guess the skunks are out of hibernation. I've had it. I put up with almost nightly skunk smell explosions last spring - a couple of times skunks hit the electric wire around the chicken yard and of course, sprayed.

Electric isn't on because the electric wire is still under snow. so that isn't what happened. Why oh why!!!!

gonna get a trap. A big trap. gonna bait that sucker and gonna sit there with a gun. any gun. and my dg is gonna sit up all night with that gun til the deed is done.

oh geez I am miserable.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I can still smell the skunk SO got last week
I take pity on you!!

 

[Blackbird]

Bleh! I know how you feel! We had nine different skunks last year terrorizing us from under the chicken coop. I can't tell you how many times I've almost walked into one. Doesn't help when you have black and white cats!

Eventually we either shot or trapped them all, except one, whom we thing left. Not sure though. Nasty little

 

[kcsunshine]

And why is it, when you're driving around and someone says, "Shewwwww, I smell a skunk" - you always take a big breath?

 

[Dace]

Sorry about your sleepless night!

I gotta ask though....if it won't get up to the 30s till May how cold is it now and why the HECK is your window open? Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Can you trap the little buggers?

 

[lalaland]

morning. I did get to sleep around 4 am, woke up to a beautiful red fox (vixen) wandering through - watched her roll around in the dead grasses.

Dace, it is unusually warm right now with this warm spell- in the mid 40"s during the day, and down to the teens at night, except last night...it didn't get any colder than 30.

I keep the bedroom window open a crack because I love the smell of fresh air, and I like hearing animal/bird noises.

skunk smell gone around the house, pretty strong around the coop.

todays list: get the skunks!