I fear the worst for poor Curly. Last night Coie
heard the coyotes going crazy and this morning there were vultures
circling down yonder past the tree line where we last saw our new noble
bird a'runnin'. Poor Curly. He was fun while he lasted.
On a lighter note, Rosie laid an egg. It is really tiny, but boy
oh boy did we all get excited (doesn't take much around here to get us
riled up). Tomorrow morning we're going to cook it and split it
between the eight of us.
And on a lamer note, I did something really dumb. I went to
Walmart's 'hair department' and let them highlight my hair. Words
cannot express it, so tomorrow I will post a picture. It is just too
ridiculous to keep to myself.
Almost lastly, I called the Cackle Hatchery
and the Estimated Chicken Arrival is April the 7th. Yipppeeeee.
You guys should come over and gawk at them with me. I betcha they
are gonna be soooooooo cute.
Lastly lastly, are any of you guys going to the FPEA convention at the end of May? If you live in, or around, Florida then you MUST come and hang out with me and Kate and Kris
We'll be out there to cover the event and to interview attendees,
speakers and vendors — plus Kris will be at a table handing out free
magazines and HSB T-shirts.
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on March 31st, 2006 at 7:36 pm
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Now that is a sad state of affairs indeed. 8 people and one little egg…maybe if you add A LOT of milk to it, you can get a decent enough of an omelette for your youngun’s. Do you think any of them will steal it (the egg, not the omelette) and try to hatch it under their pillow? Just wondering. And if you lose the egg, then don’t wait too long before you start searching pillows because rotten eggs are pretty stinky.
Any plans to attend any TX conventions???
on March 31st, 2006 at 7:40 pm
About your hair…
…without seeing pics and just using my imagination…it could be worse. You coulda had your hair highlighted at the Wal-mart SCHOOL of hair design or something.
When I was in the 7th grade, my grandma took me to the local beauty school in the large metropolis of San Angelo, TX (NOT San Antonio…but Angelo). In exchange for washing her windows, she paid for me and all my sisters to get perms. Yup…kinky, spirally perms…talk about your ultra-curly-headed-real-life-monster!!! I also got this huge, red chemical burn on the back of my neck. Thanks, G-ma. Anyhoo, I’m sure this is much worse than any possible highlighting hijinks you may have experienced. I could post pics if you want to have a bad hair contest.
Love,
Marshie
on March 31st, 2006 at 7:58 pm
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One of the reasons I’ve decided to let my hair grow out is because I never really have had long hair. I got perms (never highlighting) and they sorta kinda destroyed my hair. Well DH has commanded “NO MORE PERMS, THEY ARE AWFUL! So now that I have somewhat healthy hair I am goning to try to grow it out. I do remember one nightmare of a perm – it reminds me of Michael Jacksons earlier days — I washed that baby three times after I got it and it stood in real good. You’d think that would have been the last perm but nope — I got many moer. I have pictures too if your having some kind of a contest.. fsdjkfhakjfhasdkfjhasdfkj
Looking forward to meeting your chick bunch when I come over. Oh and Muley boy gets a new home Sunday. We found another foolish person who wants him.
on March 31st, 2006 at 8:12 pm
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Hey! I'll be at the FPEA convention along with a few of my friends. I'm excited at the thought of meeting you all IRL. Cool!
Edited by JenIG on Mar. 31, 2006 at 6:46 PM
on March 31st, 2006 at 8:14 pm
WHERE WHERE WHERE?????
Where in FL? Please don’t say someplace 6-8 hours away.
0:) Amber who is anxiously awaiting for you to respond:)
on March 31st, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I want a shirt
I want a shirt, I want a shirt!!! Come on Jen. Give it up. Don’t make me come over there! XL – and no I’m not joining the blubber bloggers! 😮 P
on March 31st, 2006 at 8:37 pm
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Yep, baby chickies are cute!! But baby ducks are cuter. 😉
~Ashley
on March 31st, 2006 at 9:02 pm
I'm not going, but…
I happen to know that somebody with the initials M.H. is scheduled to be there. Yes, she of the stubborn blog log-in. I can get in to it and she can’t, LOL. She is now stuck in ‘anonymous’ land like I was. And she’s getting a bit testy about it, too, I must say. Maybe if you give her a shirt (and me one too, as the broker of this deal) she’ll cheer up. 🙂 Having so recently suffered from this problem myself, I know how painful it is. I think she (and I) REALLY need some shirts. Really. We have been through so much, you know.
Jodi
on March 31st, 2006 at 9:35 pm
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Hey Jen, you edited my name off of my previous comment! Is that your way of saying you don’t want to see me at the convention? LOL I promise I’ll leave Bill at home!
on March 31st, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Nevermind:(
I found out where it is. We were planning on going to Miami, but I think DH would rather us save the money for our next trip to NC…….well, I look forward to MAYBE one day meating you all. *sigh*
0:) Amber who is trying not to sulk
PS~ I agree with Pink Flamingo, ducklings are MUCH cuter.
on March 31st, 2006 at 9:44 pm
Where else are you going?
Any other HS conventions? Near moi? MN, IL, IA, NE, MO, area
I'm going to get highlights when I lose 8 more pounds as a *reward*
~jen
ps – did you see what coie said to me? ask her! ask her! about the Jen club!
pps – and I don't deserve a shirt, I just WANT ONE BAD, more than a WalMart Highlight even!!!
Edited by Jammie on Mar. 31, 2006 at 7:46 PM
on March 31st, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Poor curly
Sorry to hear of his apparent demise. Enjoy your 1/8 of an egg. Maybe an omlette with lots of stuff in it would work ~ sort of like stone soup for eggs? I can’t wait to see your hair!!! Having had my own turn dark blue and gray after an attempt to self-highlight I really should have no morbid curiosity about yours…but I get so little entertainment and movies are now $9.50 in Michigan.
Blessings on you, your hair and your chickens,
Michele
on March 31st, 2006 at 10:27 pm
I can't wait
to see your new do tomorrow! Was WM really the only place around here you could find?
We ordered baby chicks a few years ago. Had to keep them inside for several weeks. That was fun- for about a week. Then they started to smell. Yuck. And, Marissa, I think, was allergic to them. We finally got them outside, but since we live in a wooded subdivision, we couldn’t let them run around. We have a little over an acre, but this is by no means a farm type subdivision. The neighbors would have had a coniption. We had them in this cage that could be moved around to different areas so they could eat fresh grass/bugs. It never worked out too well. You see, we live on a small mountain. You’ll get to experience that when you try to park at my house next week. So, I’ll have to wait for that day that I might live on some flat land and then we’ll try the chickens again.
Ashley posted that ducks are cuter. We duckling sat one afternoon. They are adorable, and even that little, you CAN’T keep them out of the water. They are funny.
So sorry about Curly.
Letitia
on March 31st, 2006 at 10:33 pm
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Sorry about the rooster. Glad you found out when the chicks will be delivered. One thing you don’t have to worry about.
on March 31st, 2006 at 11:10 pm
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enjoy your egg. too bad your rooster r-u-n-n-o-f-t. you could have had fried rooster with that egg.
on April 1st, 2006 at 5:51 am
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I bet ya’ll are full this morning! With that big breakfast I mean.
So are we going to have a chicken party? I don’t know though, the only food that you could really eat at a chicken party is of course chicken and that might cause mental anquish for some of those guys if we were all standing around looking at them while we munch on their 3 cousin twice removed.
~Annemarie
on April 1st, 2006 at 8:23 am
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Oh, so that’s what happened with my comment. I thought I had fixed that after my 14mo (who loves climbing onto my computer desk) found great delight in pressing the enter key over and over. Sorry, we are giving your blog lots of trouble lately, aren’t we?
OK, you’ve twisted my arm long enough, I’ll eat lunch with you at the convention. Sounds like fun. Anybody else want to join us? I can’t wait to get one of those t-shirts!
Well, I hope you enjoyed your 1/8th of an egg, and I can’t wait to see what happened to your hair! My mom got her hair cut at Walmart one time and was NOT happy.
Have a happy day!
Diane
on April 1st, 2006 at 8:32 am
Goat and Poultry Unit Study
I saw this link this morning and had to send it to you! They have unit studies on goats, chickens (actually all poultry) and all sorts of other interesting topics. But when I saw the goat study I thought if you dear!!
Blessings, http://www.learn-and-do.com/goat.htm
Michele
Edited by kindredspiritMom on Apr. 1, 2006 at 6:33 AM
on April 1st, 2006 at 8:40 am
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wow, thanks Michele! I checked out the link and you’re right, this sort of thing is right up my alley!
on April 1st, 2006 at 9:18 am
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I’m going to the convention, yeah! A couple of girlfriends and I just made our reservations at the Gaylord, what a GORGEOUS hotel! I can’t wait, just look for me, but I warn you, you’ll have to look down, I’m ultra short!
on April 1st, 2006 at 9:57 am
can't wait for the convention!
T-shirt? This is the first I’ve heard about handing out t-shirts …. it’s really nice to come over to your BLOG to read about what my job is going to entail while I’m sitting for hours at that table – LOL! I also want to help people get signed up with their own blog here on HSB, so I hope that some fellow HSBloggers from Florida will bring their non-blogging friends and we’ll get them signed up and blogging that weekend!
Kris
on April 1st, 2006 at 10:00 am
NOT ANONYMOUS
. . . and no, I still can’t access my blog. grrrllll. I’d fly JW out here to fix it but try and get HER on a plane LOL!
See ya in Orlando! DH & I are expecting you’uns to eat dinner with us’ns one night. We’d better plan for it – gets crazy there! Our favorite Orlando eatery is Bahama Breeze . . . mmmmm . . . gettin’ all worked up just thinkin’ about that thar caribean cookin’ . . . don’t think they have curry though. . . .
Maggie* who will be speaking in Peoria this coming weekend
on April 1st, 2006 at 10:54 am
Shirts? Shirts?
Here we are…Nancy, Kris & I … faithful laborers of TOS … I’m sure we have the blisters on our fingertips to prove it … and we don’t have an HSB shirt? What a rooster-killing-monstrosity…
on April 1st, 2006 at 1:37 pm
will be there
with bells on.. UGH… that exspression used to drive me crazy.
I can’t wait for it. Even though we live so close, some friends and myself are getting a room there for Friday night.. should be a blast!! Can’t wait!!
Looking forward to meeting you!
on April 1st, 2006 at 2:29 pm
Have fun in Florida!
I hear that convention is great. It is the same week-end as the NC convention, so I will be staying up here for that.
I want an HSB t-shirt! You need to have a contest, so I can win one. LOL
Have a blessed day! Tami
on April 2nd, 2006 at 8:31 am
Oh wow..
we are on the same time schedules here!! We moved the same week to our new found LAND and our chicks are to hatch April 5th and arrive the 6th or 7th!! We are so excited…and READY…!!!
So sorry about your Rooster, are you having free roaming chickens? We just built a nice pen outside our chicken house for ours… LOTS or preditors here!
I’m also checking out that unit study thing… we were VERY close to getting a goat but we “chickened” out at the last minute!! Maybe next year… goats and breading (to get the milk each year) is a HUGE responsibility!! The chickens and LARGE garden will be enough for me!
My sympathy on your hair— been there done that—got the t-shirt!!
mominpa (who still can’t access her blog!! 🙁 )
on April 2nd, 2006 at 8:37 pm
FPEA
I will be there with hubby. We get to spend an evening alone at the Gaylord!! I can’t wait to go and now I will have another reason to look forward to it. :-)\
June