Thanks! That's an oldie. I do remember not long after the pic was snapped he crowed so hard he fell right in.
I had to sit with him wrapped in a towel till he dried off and warmed up.
We were just trying to grind up some corn yesterday.
For the past month I've been taking the kernels off the cob and smashing them on the
sidewalk with a rock. The chickens wait until I move further down the walk (the noise scares them so I do some then move along) then race in behind me and...
I know how you feel.....
I remember going to the grocery store & just chucking stuff into the cart. Now that I know what happens to the food I have to be really careful.
Can't wait for the day when I don't have to go to the grocery at all!
I'm thinking about buying one of these oil presses:
http://www.bountifulgardens.org/prodinfo.asp?number=SOI-9418
Does anyone already have one of these and does it work well?
It used to amaze me that people I knew would cut the food budget first thing when money got tight.
I mean, food is your FUEL. All the critters get good food as well.
Everything else is yard sales, auctions, thrift stores, trade & scrounging.
There are some things I won't buy...
I didn't know you could eat guinea pigs. What I mean is - I thought the were on the list of "things you only eat if you're starving' like cats & racoons. What do they taste like?
Here's a few.....I tried to pick some w/ an ss theme only to find I have WAY too many pictures of chickens.
Bill the rooster
repairing the log cabin
1965 JD 1010
My storage trick is - when you run out of floor space, there is always the ceiling.
This pic is my 'drying herbs & making flower arrangements' room aka back porch. I buy old arrangements and boxes of silk flowers at auctions and quickly ran out of room to store them. I strung up some fishing...
Would love the recipe for the bagels if you can part with it........
I always thought bagels took all day to make, don't you have to boil them first or something?
I could live without all that stuff except books and seed catalogs. I really love snuggling on the couch on a crappy winter day with my pile of seed catalogs, planning out my garden for the spring. It's just not the same shopping for seeds online.
Have got a shotgun, but it's not really useful for anything other than loading it w/ light ammo to scare the deer out of the orchard.
Anything that gets after my chickens - a handgun is more useful as you can shoot the pred and not the chickens.
Edited to add : Still prefer a shovel for snakes...