Friday Night Steam

Take a look at a modern steam engine!

How many uses for it can you think of? Lawn mower? Trike? Washing machine?

Today's funny :0)

Woman returns to work after 30 years.....

Clouds

We were supposed to get heavy rain and thunderstorms yesterday - we didn't except about 1 a.m.


Most of afternoon was clear and warm. I even hung a load of wash out on the line.

But the clouds did roll in:

Just got a spritz of rain - most of the storm was south of us.


Then these showed up:

Will probably get a sprinkle or two before it ends.....

More of the same forecasted through Saturday.

Happy Birthday...

                                                                    .........  Charlie!!!!

Charlie - May 22, 2011

Charlie - now

Today's funny :0)

Don't think he'll make the soccer team....

Chicken facts & trivia

From: www.jonespoultry.com:

		A chicken can have 4-5 toes on each foot. A chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour. A chicken takes 21 days to hatch. A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long. A chicken's body temperature normally runs at 102-103 degrees F. A chicken’s heart beats 280-315 times a minute. A hen lives an average of 5-7 years but can live up to 20 years. The hen will lay eggs her entire life with production decreasing every year from year one. A rooster takes about 18-20 breaths a minute, a hen takes 30-35. A rooster will attack anything that he thinks will harm the hens. Alektrophobia- fear of chickens. Americans consume 8 BILLION chickens a year! An egg starts growing into a chick when it reaches a temperature of 86 degrees F. Chicken drumsticks have lower ratio of meat to bone and skin than other parts of a chicken. Chicken sperm can survive in a hen up to 32 days. Chickens can be cannibalistic. Debeaking- removing the end of beaks helps prevent cannibalism. Chickens come in an infinite variety of colors and patterns. Chickens lay different colors of eggs: white, brown, green, pink, and blue. Chickens were domesticated about 8000 years ago. Clutch- number of eggs laid in consecutive days. Eating makes a chicken get hot. Female chickens less than one year old are usually called pullets. Heat does not kill chickens, humidity does. Chickens function fine in higher temperatures, however humidity has been know to lower a chicken’s performance and render them dead. If a rooster is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying, and begin to crow. In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was believed to be an aphrodisiac. It takes a hen 24-26 hours to lay an egg. Laying hens average 245 eggs per year. Leading poultry states are Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina. McDonald’s in India does not serve beef—only chicken, mutton and fish. Molting- annual loss of feathers and growth of new ones. The USA is the leading chicken producer. The chicken was once a sacred animal symbolizing the sun. The greatest number of yolks in one chicken egg is nine. The largest chicken egg ever recorded was nearly 12 oz., measuring 12 1/4" around. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds. The record for laying the most eggs in one day is seven. The waste product by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt light bulb for five hours. There are four places in the US that have the word "chicken" in their name. Chicken Alaska, Chicken Bristle in both Illinois and Kentucky, and Chicken town Pennsylvania. There are more chickens in the world than any other domesticated bird. More than one chicken for every human on the face of the earth. There are some 200 varieties of chickens.

These are some petty interesting facts - glad I stopped over at his website!

How to make millions

This picture is what made it happen!

Ridiculously Wealthy People Behind It: Eric Nakagawa (aka Cheezburger) and Kari Unebasami (aka Tofu burger)

Estimated Profit: $2MM

The concept of creating ridiculous captions for absurd animal photos began with a photo of one very fat cat and ended with Eric and Kari becoming millionaires.

 Their original goal? To share the chubby tubby image pictured here (which jolted the pair into an alleged 73 minute laughing fit) with as many people who cared to see.  The domain name came from the caption they wrote for the feline, “I can has cheezburger?”

  A series of follow up photos about the fat cat obtaining a cheezburger followed, and soon fans began submitting their own creations.

The site now receives more than 35MM hits per month and 8,000 daily submissions.  In 2007, Tofu burger and Cheezburger sold the site for $2MM to now CEO, Ben Huh.

 Ben has created six sister sites, landed a book deal that was a New York Times Best Seller, and the company makes an estimated half a million from book sales alone.

Now why didn't I think of that???