Today's funny :0)

*Now that I'm older here's what I've discovered:*


1. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.


2. My wild oats are mostly enjoyed with prunes and all-bran.


3. I finally got my head together, and now my body is falling apart.


4. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.


5. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.


6. If all is not lost, then where the heck is it ?


7. It was a whole lot easier to get older, than to get wiser.


8. Some days, you're the top dog; some days you're the hydrant.


9. I wish the buck really did stop here; I sure could use a few of them.


10. Kids in the back seat cause accidents.


11. Accidents in the back seat cause kids.


12. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.


13. The world only beats a path to your door when you're in the bathroom.


14. If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees.


15. When I'm finally holding all the right cards, everyone wants to play chess.


16. It's not hard to meet expenses . . . They're everywhere.


17. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.


18. These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter . . .
I go somewhere to get something, and then wonder what I'm "here after".


19. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.


20. HAVE I SENT THIS MESSAGE TO YOU BEFORE.................

Decisions, decisions, decisions

I give up!

Can't stop Little Nina from sitting on everything.

I've placed a rock, a brick and an ice pack in her nesting box. She sits on it even if her butt freezes.

                                                       


                                                                  
O.K. - she wins!

I'll wait until I get a dozen eggs ahead and then she can sit until she hatches a bunch of chicks.

I kind of look forward to new cute, fuzzy babies. I'm not looking forward to all the work. And the poop.

Hubby is NOT happy.

I don't think the Evil One will be happy either......

Gonna be busy...

I have a lot of laundry to do today...And yes, I use a clothesline and still iron our clothes, sheets & pillow cases!!

                                                             
  

THE BASIC RULES FOR CLOTHESLINES:

(If you don't even know what clotheslines are, better skip this.) 

1. You had to hang the socks by the toes... NOT the top.
2. You hung pants by the BOTTOM/cuffs... NOT the waistbands.
3. You had to WASH the clothesline(s) before hanging any clothes - 
Walk the entire length of each line with a damp cloth around the lines.
4. You had to hang the clothes in a certain order, and always hang "whites" with "whites,"  and hang them first.
5. You NEVER hung a shirt by the shoulders - always by the tail! 
What would the neighbors think?
6. Never wash clothes on a Sunday!
 7. Hang the sheets and towels on the OUTSIDE lines so you could 
Hide your "unmentionables" in the middle (perverts & busybodies, y'know!)
 8. It didn't matter if it was sub-zero weather... Clothes would "freeze-dry."
 9. ALWAYS gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes! 
Pins left on the lines were "tacky"!                                                                      
10. If you were   efficient, you would line the clothes up so that each item did not need two clothes pins, but shared one of the clothes pins with the next washed item.
11. Clothes off of the line before dinner time, neatly folded in the clothes basket, and ready to be ironed.
12. IRONED??!! Well, that's a whole OTHER  subject!                                 
                                 

                                                       

Nina - The robber!

It's Nina!

That little hen is rolling Lucy's and Ethel's  eggs into her nest and if I didn't see her do it, I wouldn't have believed it!
 
                                                           

Poor Nina wants to be a Mom soooo bad!

I take the eggs out, clean the nest boxes and put Nina outside with the rest so she can eat.

Should I let her hatch some eggs?  If I do, that means more chicks, more work and more poop.

Dunno - going to have to think about this...      





                                         

Sneaky Chickenmom

Oscar, Ethel and Lucy get treats placed in the run to keep them busy.

I tip-toe up to the coop and close the ramp door, lift up the nest box lid and see the two eggs where they should be.

Nina has left her nest and is in the corner. Guess she wants to walk around a bit. She starts squawking, so I close the lid, but prop it up with a little stick so I can still see inside. (and she can't see me).

Now picture this: an old lady, sipping coffee, sitting on the ground and peering into the nest boxes of a chicken coop.......

 Hubby is shaking his head. Again.

                                                            

Think someone 'needs to get a life' ??????

For all you guys that post chicks every Monday

Sorry. Just couldn't resist.....




                                                 

     

                   
                                       















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Sherlock Holmes

Hubby was NOT playing a trick on me with the eggs. He said he didn't touch them.

That means something really strange is going on in that coop!

The next morning I let them out only after I hear Lucy and Ethel cackle. I know (because I took a peek- just to be doubly sure) there are now two eggs in their shared nest box.

 Oscar, Ethel and Lucy eat and play their silly rodeo games.  Not a peep out of Nina and she still won't come out to eat.

Now I have to figure out what is happening to those darn eggs. Why are are they moved?  Could a snake be getting in the coop?


                                                       

Shades of Basil Rathbone......