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porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 06, 2009
01:25 AM Post #7246599
| Catscan came through; my (Demi) Divine Socks were at the post office this morning. They are lovely! I am so impressed! Beautiful colors, soft and warm - my first ever hand knitted socks. What ever can I do to reciprocate? I can't make flan. My cooking resembles a chemistry experiment - complete with the occasional explosion. I don't think flan ships well either. I guess I will just have to be eternally grateful. My own Divine Socks! I am speechless... Thanks, Catscan. 
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 06, 2009
10:46 AM Post #7247249
| Oh, the socks are indeed divine! Surely you can return the favor, even if just by NOT sending her the flan...
And whatever happened to {{{the HAT for Moxie}}}? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 06, 2009
11:13 AM Post #7247323
| Moxie has been in possession of her Horrible Hat for quite some time, g_g...how else to explain her sudden disappearance from the Forum?
Porkpal--you are so welcome...I hope they fit...you deserve nothing less for your heroic, selfless and marathon sulk.
Now, where are the other vict...err...recipients?
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 06, 2009
11:44 AM Post #7247414
| And here I never knew that Moxie had finally been gifted! All of her worst fears and the memory of those strange whispers finally did coalesce into The Hat. How did she take it, poor dear? |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 06, 2009
11:47 AM Post #7247431
| Shocked into silence? Stunned to seclusion? Appalled to the point of absence? Moxon where are you? We want to see the unique creation in use. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 06, 2009
02:18 PM Post #7247820
| Porkpal - your divine socks are possibly exceeding divine. They may even be Super-Divine. A thrilling moment indeed, to receive them in the mail!
Yes, I have the hat. In fact, it is 2 hats, which are to be worn together, for full hideous effect. You will all be stunned. Things have been a little squirrelly in Iowa lately but I must get Kelly to take a photo of me as promised. I really will do it and I shall post the result on this very thread. You will not be disappointed... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 06, 2009
02:33 PM Post #7247851
| I await the photo with bated breath...(with a soupçon of garlic along with the bate...) |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 06, 2009
03:00 PM Post #7247922
| "Shame"---it's a beautiful thing... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 06, 2009
03:40 PM Post #7248002
| True confession to Catscan.
I have worn the smaller of the 2 hats on 3 occasions now. In public. It is growing on me. :-) |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 06, 2009
03:44 PM Post #7248019
| Lichen-like...:0) |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 06, 2009
06:29 PM Post #7248447
| lol |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 06, 2009
09:08 PM Post #7248977
| Lichen-like, but nicer, in a warm and fuzzy sort of way, which is clearly absent in lichen. Perhaps more like moss, then? |
greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
November 06, 2009
09:10 PM Post #7248985
| very pretty socks. :) |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 06, 2009
09:50 PM Post #7249098
| Thank you, greykyttyn! Porkpal did an excellent job of sulking...Wren, too. And there are socks waiting for Wren to contact me...
Shall I lichen it to moss, then, Moxen? |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 06, 2009
10:09 PM Post #7249153
| i am here worse for ware but here. had surgery on shoulder last week. it is a pain to type one finger.
love the socks.
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MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
12:34 AM Post #7249465
| OHHHH HOW Divine!!!!! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
12:41 AM Post #7249479
| MissJestr--you, too, are entitled to a pair of the demi-divine...it is like Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ--only they are socks, not ruby slippers, and you just have to contact the Wizard of Odd (me)...now that would just leave Dahlianut...the last of the Red Hot Sulkers... |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
12:49 AM Post #7249505
| Catscan, I would be truly honored to own such a divine pair... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
12:53 AM Post #7249511
| Just D-mail, Your Jestrness, and we can arrange their transfer...
Then my DH can stop asking who all the socks are for...(Well, he really doesn't ask "For whom are all the socks?") |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
12:54 AM Post #7249515
| Oh OH my feet are so happy doing the happy dance... They will be warm this winter... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
12:56 AM Post #7249519
| :0) |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
01:00 AM Post #7249525
| Catscan.
That's Moxon. Not Moxen. Like Sox-on. Not Sox-en. Nobody puts their socks en every morning. They put them ON dear Catscan. Do pay attention.
However, your "lichen it to moss" comment makes up for your egregious spelling faux-pas.
But hail, did you notice, one of the persons injured in the Fort Hood incident was named Moxon, and indeed, they are from Lodi. That said, it is Lodi, Wisconsin, but still, I find this to be quite kismetical.
Agree you not? |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
01:04 AM Post #7249535
| Oh Miss Moxon... I await pictures of your hats?? I know I need glasses, but I dont think I missed them..I have not had all my grapey milk yet... |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 07, 2009
01:08 AM Post #7249542
| The hat, the hat, we want to see the hat! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
01:19 AM Post #7249565
| {{{{Did you notice how she was unable to resist correcting my spelling? I drew her out with my subtle lures...}}}}
Yes, Your Grand Wordiness...where is the HAT? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
02:09 AM Post #7249617
| Lodi...Moxon...Lodi...Moxon...Lodi...Nope--don't seen it...Now Wisconsin...Moxon...yep that's it. Definite karmic synergy there...
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melvatoo
Denton, TX
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
03:33 AM Post #7249664
| I have been told, that I can sulk with the best of them...
I can't have any chickens (in the city of Denton)...so, can I have some socks?
I was kidding...lol!
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
08:29 AM Post #7249809
| I do wonder where all this sulking occurred, and was it an equal-opportunity sulkfest or is there a geographical or orthographical delineation for such? I know that *I* was never invited to sulk. I do detect an orthographic thread weaving its way through all of this knitting...
And WHERE ARE THE PICTURES???? |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
09:36 AM Post #7249934
| The barnyard fairy has been sighted in action, in her magical hats that serve also as an excellent cloaking device. Yes, the pictures have arrived...
She was seen this very morning doing the barnyard dance in Iowa.
Behold.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
09:38 AM Post #7249935
| Of course, she was in her classic chartreuse and pink fairy outfit, with the equally classic cape that we have all come to expect. 
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
09:39 AM Post #7249936
| No slouch this fairy...she knows how to get her groove on... 
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
09:39 AM Post #7249938
| Truly, she is a dancing fool. 
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
09:42 AM Post #7249945
| And now for something completely different, the Lichen Hat. Which I really rather like. By itself. It's funny, I almost feel like there is some kind of connection between the barn fairy and I, but I can't think what it would be. 
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Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
11:10 AM Post #7250176
| Oh the Humiliation! The Shame!
You see, I did show some restraint and eschewed the curly, twisty thing on the top...but my work here is done and I leave the field of battle with the righteous glow of the supremely victorious.
And it has been documented!
Lichen hat--good...HH, not so much...hee, hee, hee...
Now where is that Dahlianut? |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
11:16 AM Post #7250196
| Yes...restraint...in a very tangential sort of way, you showed restraint...
The barnyard fairy has sent a message through me. She wants to know what size of needle you used for the hats, since they do seem to have a lovely "fast knit" sort of appearance to them, with the stitches being quite large. The BF likes fast. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
11:30 AM Post #7250225
| You may tell the BF, my BFF, that the instructions...which were included, in a viral-sort-of-way...suggest size 11 needles with bulky wool. BUT I, despite a sad tendency to knit loosely, found size 13 necessary to get gauge. The damage may be easily accomplished in a single evening.
An exegesis on the origin of the Dispensation of the Socks may be found in a thread entitled "Divine Sock" or something to that effect. ZZ was the original author...
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
11:41 AM Post #7250255
| O how wonderful! The hat is fabulous and the fairy is the perfect foil for it. You're right, I do rather lich that lichen hat.
Off to cut up a deer. But thanks for the entertainment. The dance was lovely, too. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
11:45 AM Post #7250275
| Ooooooooh MY!!! So much beauty in the world and I go about missing it!! Truly I am in awe... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
11:52 AM Post #7250297
| grow, you're back!
I was rather worried about you...what with g_g wandering around inexplicably dismembering large mammals... |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
11:58 AM Post #7250311
| Ahh...but she has them to dismember...
Alas, alack, I have been in rather a foul mood...utterly different from the fowl one which preceded it. So while socky, yarny goodness lures me in...fowly goodness...well...I have been lurking a bit. And missing you all a great deal. It is possible I have been the inadvertent perpetrator of a sustained sulk against fowl. Hopefully I will mature and get past this unacceptable behavior... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
12:10 PM Post #7250350
| grow--you mustn't let the turkeys get you down...that is what we are here for...
Hark! My indoor roosters are attempting mutual capon-ing. But it's okay because we are building them a basement bunker today where they can kill each other more discreetly...or maybe even be separated into their own little cockdoms...crumbles for nothing and their chicks for free...
What happened to put you in a foul-fowl mood?
And g_g CLAIMS to have a deer...but whose deer is it really? I think we need a fuller explanation... |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
12:28 PM Post #7250390
| 5 months of chicken poo on the back door step and 6 batches of chicks eaten or killed...
I'll try to get myself under control and be back today...gotta run now... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
12:55 PM Post #7250453
| Maybe g_g's deer is just an extremely large chicken without feathers. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
01:01 PM Post #7250470
| G_g's deer is in an only partial state of dismemberment and aye, 'tis a true deer, felled by DH with his trusty bow on Election Eve. It elected to spend the winter in our freezer, it did. Howsomeever, DS showed up early for his promised lunch this morning and, chatty soul, has made it difficult for us to concentrate on which muscle mass goes with what, so we are calling a temporary halt in the proceedings and getting on with his bespoke meal. Said deer does not have feathers but it has an unconscionable amount of hair. Our dainty labradoodle was also caught stealing off with a front leg... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
01:11 PM Post #7250506
| Of course! Labradoodles are well known for their leg-stealing proclivities.
I once knew one that removed two of the three legs on a parlour grand.
Naughty puppy!
But it is hard to fight instinctive behaviour. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
01:13 PM Post #7250510
| One wonders how they breed for de-legging parlour grands...not why...but how... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
01:32 PM Post #7250549
| It is classic selective breeding, grow They let the young dogs loose in a room of parlour grands--those that go straight for the legs and begin gnawing are used in the breeding program.
I believe the original program was started by the then East Germans and has been advanced by North Korea as part of its campaign against bourjois Western values.
But how did g_g get her hands on one? I believe their dissemination is strictly controlled.
I also think it is under the control of the "kill the chicken gene" promoter sequence...but Moxon (derivation--"Son of Moggie" a diminutive of "Margret", a rare non-patrolinear surname--so I AM paying attention) probably knows more about that... |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
01:40 PM Post #7250562
| Oh how I HAVE missed you...lol! (I love it when you get all scientifical...) |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
01:48 PM Post #7250576
| I only do it when I know Moxon is not listening--cause she harshes my buzz by knowing more about everything than I do.
Unrestrained by her massive intelligence, I am free to roam the field of scientific inaccuracy and pluck the fruits and flowers of misunderstanding and misrepresentation. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
02:22 PM Post #7250654
| Bourjois? BourJOIS? What the...
I do beleive, my dear Catscan, that you have done it again, just to pull me out of my silence.
Bourgeois. Being a member of the Bourgeoisie.
Son of Moggie? Really? I did not know...but that would make a good name for a lamb. Moggie. Yes. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
02:43 PM Post #7250700
| I was SO waiting for that!!! |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
02:44 PM Post #7250702
| Beleive away, Moxy!! It'll do you good!! *snort*...heh... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
03:01 PM Post #7250741
| So that's why our upright has only two legs! Here I thought 'twas the style. But look: could anything this angelic steal legs, either deer or piano?
Grownut, what fowl event has put you in so foul a mood? Didst say that chicks were eaten or killt? Who was the foul perpetrator, dost know? And why chicken droppings festooning thy back portal?
And anyway, it's patrilineal, dear Catsy!
Must go; the deer, silent though she be, calleth.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
03:10 PM Post #7250766
| 'Tis dreadful! Poor Catsy has been besieged on all sides for her spelling faux-pas.
(I knew, Grownut, that you would be waiting for me on the Bourgeois matter)
Angelic indeed, G_G, your four-footed companion is at once intoxicatingly cute and yet beneath there lies an air of mischief, methinks.
Let us wait for Catsy, anon, and she may show us the visage of her own four-footed creature. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
03:46 PM Post #7250817
| Did you know that I got the "bourjois" spelling from spell check? It corrected my original spelling...so I just looked it up. It is the name of a famous Parisian cosmetic firm "synonymous with beauty", founded in 1863...still going strong and now, I suspect, a viral product placement...
The "patrolinear" was indeed simply my own mistake... although taken from the same source as the information. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
03:52 PM Post #7250835
| You leapt on her for bourgeois before couldst I gather mineself to make the jump, Moxie! And Grownut hath murdered "believe," although mercy should be shone, whatsoever the quality, in light of her recent bereavements, which must have strained her mightily.
Mischief? Sayeth thou mischief? 'Tis her middle name. Although fittingly cometh she when called, and trustingly curleth up in laps, thus inspiring much affection on the part of her two-footed companions.
The deer sleepeth in the downstairs refrigerator, aging as she drowses. She is but a shadow of her former self...and, to give fealty to our own true forum, her bones now make wondrous snacks for my fowl two-footed friends. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
03:54 PM Post #7250839
| O Catscan, trust not spellcheck! Nor shouldst thou trust thy GPS; mine lies to me all the time! |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 07, 2009
03:54 PM Post #7250842
| lol cute dog
hi grow
waving to everyone |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
04:23 PM Post #7250917
| Wave gently, Wren--we don't want you to hurt your shoulder... |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 07, 2009
04:30 PM Post #7250938
| waving left handed-typing that way all so-spell check is waving a white flag you should see the strange spelling chooses it has been giving me lol |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
04:40 PM Post #7250987
| Do not turn from me now, Gentle Friends...for though my spelling is grievous, my misfortune is great.
I just went to check my virginal Dutch Bantam Pullets who were sweetly brooding their maiden eggs. Since I had five of them who had never known a cockerel and were all brooding gamely, I thought to use their maternal urges to hatch some Serama...
No sooner had the Antipodean, semi-psycho, postal person (another storey) roughly cast the last box of shipped Serama eggs on the porch, than I went out back to discover that one of the Dutch Bantams is now sheltering a chick...meaning that some, now caged or sold, young cockerel has scaled the Wisteria tower and deflowered possibly all of them...and I cannot remove their eggs and replace them with the Serama...
All but one of my incubators was sold for Brinsea dreams...which I have not yet realised. That one is running with RIR to replace my predated layers...
I am undone! |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
04:47 PM Post #7251007
| Truly -how I could have managed this long without you all- the mind, she boggles...
(think of you so often wren -my winter projects box glares at me daily for being remiss in that as well...)
g_g -those sillies had taken to hanging out all day long on the porch and on the patio furniture. And you know the front end never know what the back end is doing. The chicks -a skunk and then roosters. The dogs got rid of the skunk in time for two batches to mature. When they were looking just old enough to be pullety...the roos mounted them to death, usually while I was grocery shopping. The dog would try to stop the rooster, the poor things would have a heart attack, and the dog would be found when we got home staring sadly at the carcass -unmarked but for some spur marks under the wings. Horrible. They are now penned up. With a small but sufficient side run. So I can have plants and landscaping and patio furniture. I had to fight w/ DH to do it too. But there is such a thing as too much poo and too close.
Catsy -I did wonder whatever possessed you...
Claire -heh...well...love you too, Hunney.
Porkpal -I don't merely participate, I abscond! Sorry!! Loverly feetses!! |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
04:50 PM Post #7251012
| WooOOOps...
(if it makes you feel any better -I have a doe {boer} who will get pregnant by anything! Separation is no obstacle! It is just luck that she has yet to get pregnant by our gelding. Everything else she has managed.) |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 07, 2009
04:50 PM Post #7251015
| All is not lost, dear friend Catscan. Thou hast options. Verily, I say unto you, taketh thine flashlight (because one such as yourself shouldst not be sans flashlight) and venture into the lands of your serfs. Casteth thine light upon each egg, and thus shall be shown to you the way. Perchance they are fertile, perchance not. It is up to you and your light to show the truth of the matter.
How many storeys, exactly, does your postal person have? Is he/she a ten-storey person, or just a 2-storey person? Do tell(eth) us.
Behold, you can remove the non-fertile eggs, upon which your hens rest their feathery undersides, and replace any that do not appear fertile with said serama eggs, such that thine hens shall all be brooding properly. And, whence you have found the fertile eggs, placeth them under a single hen, or under as many hens as thou mayest require, such that the serama eggs, which shalt have a different date of hatchingeth, might have a full and proper incubation.
May your Brinsea Dreams be soon realized and come into their fruition. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
05:10 PM Post #7251053
| Pray tell, what is this Brinsea Dream I hear word of? And how sad thy story is, Catsy, but mayhap Moxie hath given thee the key (and the flashlight) to good fortune anon.
Grownut my friend, I have never heard of death by untoward mounting in the hen kingdom! That rooster would be stew by now at our house. My fowl are all penned up, too, else I would have no garden! One frequent escape artist met the end of DH's shotgun after she ensonced herself on the other side of the chicken yard, out of reach of rescue, once too often. We have little patience with troublemakers here on the farm! |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
05:35 PM Post #7251109
| Basically the rooster is too big, the hen too young, the shock too great. Once it happened, I think, that the rooster attacked the offspring of a less dominant roo. I have one in the freezer and one yet to catch. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 07, 2009
06:15 PM Post #7251221
| Sniff, snivel...men are beasts...
Sniff--You are all ,of course, right...It is just that it has been such a hard day...what with the incubation fiasco, my spelling failures and DH taking off without making the dungeon coop...and I am such a NICE person, I never cull, I stopped DH from throttling the multi-storied postal woman, I swept the driveway, put drops in my aged dog's eyes and I said that my beloved's idea of raising tilapia and catfish in 55 gallon drums was genius--even though I was the one who first heard it on NPR...I am such a Saint...and yet life is soooo hard...
But I do feel better. And I had been intending to check the eggs for chickiness before adding the others...but I hadn't considered that I might add up the fertile eggs under one pullet...although I cannot say that they all started brooding simultaneously so their may be a hatching gap...
Still only one chick--and she is sitting on both hers and her flighty sister's eggs so there is the potential for at least ten more...
Must go buy a tiny, bantam-sized flashlight for the great Revealing...
Thank you all... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
06:26 PM Post #7251248
| Grownut, it does NOT sound like a fine time was had by all at your house. I hope the rooster is delicious. Catscan, men are ... men. How dare he not appreciate what a gem he has! We will all storm the tower and take him captive until he yields and admits how lucky he is!
Goose cooking, deer aging, dog prancing outside with her master.
I'm tired! |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 07, 2009
07:04 PM Post #7251339
| Poor Catsy...Shall I send you a snootful of my home-brewed Kahlua?
Tired?? No doubt!! But, g_g, prithee, tell me, do, how does one cook a goose so as to make it EDIBLE?? |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 07, 2009
07:34 PM Post #7251404
| Grownut, aye, there's the question! This one was originally cooked on our Big Green Egg, and it was good but still chewy. Methinks braising for barnyard critters is really the answer. Tomorrow I'm going to do a young-ish cockerel in a covered clay pot with olive oil, rosemary and Greek olives, with potato chunks cooked with a soupçon of chicken fat and also said rosemary, and roasted asparagus drizzled with olive oil and garlic. We had that a few weeks ago and 'twas ambrosial; this time the kids will get the benefit, too.
Off to the symphony. Ah, rural life... |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 08, 2009
12:54 AM Post #7252169
| Gg how many of us can come to dinner tomorrow? |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 08, 2009
07:51 AM Post #7252525
| Well, it's a very small chicken! But I'd make a big cassoulet if you, grownut, catscan and moxon were in town! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 08, 2009
11:32 AM Post #7252902
| I was stunned when I read your recipe/menue g_g.
I didn't comment because drooling on a laptop keyboard blows out the hard drive... |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 08, 2009
11:59 AM Post #7252952
| Glory, glory...I should've skimmmmmmmmmmed... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 08, 2009
12:30 PM Post #7253030
| That's the problem with built-in keyboards! Can't read recipes whilst using them.
Don't you guys cook? I'm sure I'd feel the same way about your menus, no? I really like to cook, but desserts aren't a forte. Just as well, methinks!
I'm cooking down the leftover goose for rillettes as I type.
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grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 08, 2009
01:38 PM Post #7253225
| Love cooking...and hearing others' recipes!! |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 08, 2009
01:54 PM Post #7253283
| Me too! Especially if they use fresh garden produce or are some interesting ethnicity or nationality, especially and including French. What do you all cook? C'mon, divulge! |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 08, 2009
02:01 PM Post #7253298
| Korean, Japanese, Downhome, and Kelly...lol. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 08, 2009
02:16 PM Post #7253329
| Thai, Indian, Italian, and French, occasionally. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 08, 2009
02:29 PM Post #7253363
| We do lots of Italian because my husband's family cooked it; they were a couple of generations removed from Southern Italy but that's where their roots were. I don't do Thai or Indian because I never really tried, but we like the food. Otherwise I cook Middle Eastern and French. Our daughter is Korean and I've tried boolgoki; we also often have kimchee in the house. But after she got here she started finding a lot of Korean foods too hot for her taste!
I'm also always looking for ways to cook free-range poultry!
What cuisines are Kelly and Down Home, pray tell? |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 08, 2009
02:45 PM Post #7253389
| Oh the pictures of the hat are simply DIVINE!! oh The colors so vibrant and bold... in both the hat and the outfit... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 08, 2009
02:55 PM Post #7253413
| Don't you find that the accompanying dance is none too shabby either, MissJestr? |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 08, 2009
03:26 PM Post #7253486
| Kelly and I don't like to eat the same foods (I mean my Kelly, not Grownut Kelly). He only likes meat and potatoes or corn at each meal. He will also eat mushrooms. He won't eat any other vegetables besides potatoes, corn & mushrooms. He will eat tomato if it is pureed in a pasta sauce or lasagna or whatnot, but if there are chunks of tomato, he shoves them to the side.
I eat nearly anything but I am spice intolerant. I also hate cilantro and cumin. Other than that, I eat whatever is in front of me. Oh, except lamb.
So anyway, Kelly eats cheerios for breakfast, which I hate, and I eat Greek yogurt and honey for breakfast most days, which he hates. Then we have our own lunches at work, and sometimes of course I am at school after work, so by the time I get home, I usually am too tired to cook and I eat pasta or a salad. Kelly makes his own meals.
All this is to say that I rarely cook, because I don't have time since I went back to school and got a farm, in addition to working full time. I bake a lot for the holidays. I hope to cook again after school is finished, and when I do, it's lots of Mediterranean, Northern Italian, French and a bit of Asian food styles (but not spicy). |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 08, 2009
04:03 PM Post #7253581
| I do Indian occasionally. Love the spices, but alas -I am the only food adventurer in the household. Down Home -well. Ferinstance: Bread pudding w/ home canned peaches and brandied raisins and milk poured over for breakfast. Or creamy bacon potato soup. Or stewed venison. Or ever-changing beef stew. Kelly? Hmmm: Curried lamb cacciatore with homemade noodles. Or five mushroom-n-white wine sauce spaghetti. Or Chinese Five-Vegetable plus alpha spaghetti. Or a tasty mish-mash of the available cuisines and spices which I can never manage to repeat.
I really should have complimented hat and dance ages ago! As well as apologizing to Claire for the superfluity of Kellys... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 08, 2009
04:06 PM Post #7253588
| Interesting! We always sat down to breakfast together, even when our kids were small, and it was always something cooked, like eggs or waffles or toasted bagels and gefilte fish (well, the fish weren't cooked, at least not by me!) Currently we vary between English muffins with cheese, ham and an apple slice; whole wheat croissants with yogurt (Stonyfield has this great chocolate yogurt that makes the croissants taste like pain au chocolat!); eggs over easy or scrambled; and hot cereal when it's getting chilly, cold cereal in the summer. My DH will eat anything - even things I won't, like eels and sweetbreads - so he's easy to cook for. He does NOT cook himself, though, except occasionally he'll make pasta fagioli. I like two-mealers; eat it once and then see it again a few days later. It gives me an incentive to cook something fussier or more involved. I've made cassoulets that have lasted forever and finally got shoved into the freezer to be eaten a month or two later when all memories of white beans, garlic and goose have faded. And we both love lamb; we used to raise sheep just to have a good supply of it.
Kelly, that creamy bacon and potato soup sounds delicious; so does the bread pudding for breakfast and the mushroom white wine sauce over pasta. Got recipes? We have a surfeit of red wine here since DH makes his own, so I have to buy white wine in little plastic bottles - yuk! But we don't normally drink white and it goes off so quickly once it's opened that it's hard to keep it in as a staple.
But then, of course, I'm retired and have a lot more time to cook than I used to. And a couple of trips to France recently really inspired me. Even when I was working and raising kids, though, I liked to putter in the kitchen. When I was in college I used to make big pots of things like beef stew, fish chowder, and stuffed cabbages and eat them for days. But it's hard if you can't come to an agreement over what should constitute dinner, I'm sure. What will you do when you're finished with school and you and Kelly try to have meals together again? Or won't you even attempt it?
This message was edited Nov 8, 2009 3:10 PM |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 08, 2009
06:45 PM Post #7254092
| If I don't get back with recipes by Tues, d-mail me. I'd love to trade... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 09, 2009
01:21 PM Post #7256304
| G-G, even before school we didn't eat the same meals most of the time, so it won't make a difference. We will eat together (i.e. at the same time) more often because my schedule will be less silly, but we will make and eat our own meals. Sometimes we share a portion of the meal, for example, I might eat some of the meat he has prepared, or if I do some sauteed veggies, I do the mushrooms separately and he takes some, and then I combine the rest of the mushrooms with my other veggies after he takes his portion.
We both like potatoes, but I like to have a variety of veggies, with potatoes as just part of the selection, so we often make enough potatoes (or corn) for both of us, but I still make more veggies.
He does eat ANY kind of fish or seafood, so that helps too. Personally I don't care for clams or oysters, so he eats those himself, but we often eat salmon or scallops or other fish together, and then make our own sides. I also use the slow cooker a lot for meats, so then we both take portions of that but he usually douses his with bbq sauce or what he calls gravy (and I call goop) and I usually have mine with a chutney or other condiment on the side.
It's a good thing we don't have kids because they'd surely try to behave more like him (i.e. picky eaters) than me because they'd see him doing it every day! As it is, our "kids" just eat hay and grain! LOL!
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 09, 2009
05:10 PM Post #7257039
| The variety of arrangements that people evolve within relationships never ceases to amaze me! If you had kids it would indeed be interesting to see how you'd cope. I suspect that meals would become more homogenized, with both of you yielding a bit so that you could make just one supper work for all of you!
Picky eaters are indeed a bane and the creation of same is definitely to be avoided! |
LoreenH
Portland, OR
(Zone 8b)
November 09, 2009
05:14 PM Post #7257047
| Thank goodness my husband is NOT a picky eater, he will eat anything; ok, almost anything...he won't even try a bite of a peanut butter, banana & brown sugar sandwich...silly man. :-) |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 09, 2009
05:57 PM Post #7257167
| that sounds good-i also like peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwich. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 09, 2009
06:11 PM Post #7257210
| And raisins!! |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 09, 2009
06:18 PM Post #7257230
| yes |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 09, 2009
07:22 PM Post #7257464
| DIVINE SOCKIES AND FUNGII HATS!!!!! How everso exciting! I have been halluciflying around trying to find the Great Punkin and return to much knittification and purlyness. I have not even contemplated a pokey needle what with harvesting seeds and recovering from bulbbutt. I just luv the matching slippers in your dancing ensemble dear Claire  {{{Cousin Nut}}} I hope things aren't too fractcious. Off to the wild bird store. I'm on a mission to find dehydrated bugs. Back soon. |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 09, 2009
07:30 PM Post #7257503
| nut dear-if you can not find them, let me know I have a couple of web site where you had find the live ones. my wild birds are spoil the will not eat the dehydrated ones. lol |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 09, 2009
07:33 PM Post #7257516
| Good luck with your bug search. I could dehydrate some ladybugs for you, perchance. We have quite a hatch of them here. But I suspect that if birds liked them they wouldn't be so plentiful, now would they?
Yes, the fungus hat was most impressive. Surely as splendiferous as I had anticipated, the effect being greatly augmented by the joyous capering of the recipient in the aforesaid photos.
Did you find your bugs? |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 09, 2009
08:01 PM Post #7257640
| G_G - sometimes I feed him pureed cauliflower and onion in soups or stews, or even lasagna. He does not notice. I am very sneaky. :-)
Thank you all for your lovely comments on my joyous capering. It does a body good. In fact, I need to do a great deal more joyous capering to improve this body!!
I could also send a wealth of ladybugs but the Canadian customs are unlikely to be amused. Drat.
Dahlianut - how is your skunk flock? |
greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
November 09, 2009
08:29 PM Post #7257782
| i know its a little off subject.. but since this was a sock thread..
I started my first pair of socks tonight! (4 knitting needles are slightly dangerous)
I also have lots of lady bugs.. I tried feeding them to the chickens.. they refuse.. the cats won't kill them & the dog just barks at them. I'd gladly vacuum them up in my clear canister & bag them for mailing to anyone with some type of animal that would eat the dumb things. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 09, 2009
08:41 PM Post #7257828
| i agree, the chickens have a definite lack of interest in the ladybugs.
Very exciting about your first socks. Keep us updated! I am still trying to finish my first sock but have put it on hiatus until I finish some Christmas projects. Sigh.
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 09, 2009
09:08 PM Post #7257943
| Chickens are smart. Ladybugs are beneficial insects so shouldn't be eaten. Dear Claire Peppy and Peppermint moved away at the end of the summer. I was sad but DH was happy. We were travelling and the cat sitter didn't fill the bird baths so I think they left because there was no source of water. Flockless again sigh. I did not find dehydrated bugs which I wanted to make my own suet but I did find an Insect Suet which has crickets in it. We don't have crickets so this will be tres fine dining for the chickadees and nut hatches Apparently you can't just buy dehydrated bugs by themselves. Worms yes; insects no. New project next summer: dehydrate bugs. Quandry: how to catch a ton of bugs for dehydration purposes? |
greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
November 09, 2009
09:22 PM Post #7257989
| I could be very wrong but i could have sworn they had them at the local pet store when i was buying fish. I'll check & let you know in a couple days. If they got them do you want me to mail some to you? |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 09, 2009
09:27 PM Post #7258010
| REALLY? I never thought about fish food. I'm going to check that out! Thanks greykyttn. If we don't have them here I will take you up on that offer. I'll dmail you. |
greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
November 09, 2009
09:35 PM Post #7258036
| ok.. not sure they were fish food.. i was just buying fish for my fountain in the front yard. The bugs were in that area also. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 09, 2009
10:13 PM Post #7258168
| Dahlianut, these were the nasty Asian ladybugs who are yellowish in colour and actually prey upon the proper ladybugs and which also bite. They are nasty. Chickens should gorge upon them in a festive and gluttonous manner. |
greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
November 09, 2009
10:23 PM Post #7258200
| CMoxon i totally agree.. those yellowish ones & those orangish ones are mean & nasty. |
LoreenH
Portland, OR
(Zone 8b)
November 09, 2009
10:58 PM Post #7258370
| So that's where all my ladybugs went this year, they went visiting...lol. I hardly saw any here this spring & summer.
I'm hoping to have a pair of socks finished by the end of the year made from the divine yarn I got from Claire. It's really nice!
Dahlianut, here's a couple of websites to check out.
http://www.flukerfarms.com/freezedriedinsects.aspx
http://www.duncraft.com/Mealworms-Pure-Insect-Foods-C53.aspx |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 09, 2009
11:14 PM Post #7258439
| Psst! Dahlianut--you are suppose to contact me...really...they are waiting...
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 10, 2009
08:48 AM Post #7259324
| Claire, to return however briefly to the family-feeding discussion, I often sneak veggies into dishes whilst preparing them for my picky granddaughter. I agree, it's amazing what you can hide in a good spaghetti sauce - or stew or soup! And by the way, the aforementioned cockerel, all two and a half pounds of it, didn't go far enough to satisfy DS on Sunday night, apparently; he was reaching for other people's chicken bones in a pathetic display of incipient starvation. I pulled out the goose rillettes I had just made and gave him some on a slice of homemade bread, which finally seemed to do stay his stomach.
DS, DIL and GD confessed recently that the name they apply to the meals prepared in my kitchen from home-grown produce and critters is "Backyardickens." As in "What's for dinner at Greenmom's, tonight - backyardickens again?"
{{I didn't really want any socks or hats, anyway}} |
greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
November 10, 2009
12:02 PM Post #7259912
| u all keep talking about hiding veggies from children, grandchildren.. significant others... Try having the tables turned & needing to hide veggies from your own mother when you cook. That's an interesting one. "no mom, i did not put butternut squash in the soup, I swear its just a sweet potato chunks. no mom, no cauliflower either.." The blender works wonders to puree stuff then add it back in with chunks of potatoes so she doesn't know what she's getting. :) This coming from a child that was extreemly picky when it came to eating. Turns out with the correct spices i like most veggies.
I may get brave & try a peanut butter & banana sandwich one day.. but idk how you'd ever put the brown sugar on it & not have a mess! (sorry a little behind in reading as usual) |
LoreenH
Portland, OR
(Zone 8b)
November 10, 2009
12:18 PM Post #7259962
| I've recommended cauliflower 'mashed potatoes' to several people for their kids. Put cooked cauliflower in a food processor, add milk or half & half, butter, season to taste. I can't stand cauliflower but love it this way.
A PB & banana sandwich with brown sugar is messy to eat. I hold the plate up so I don't get any sugar on my, um, shelf. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 10, 2009
12:35 PM Post #7260009
| My DM used to eat peanut butter and onion sandwiches...peanut butter and sweet pickles sandwiches...peanut butter and bacon sandwiches... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 10, 2009
12:37 PM Post #7260017
| PB & bacon...oooh, that sounds like a delightful experiment, must try that... |
greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
November 10, 2009
01:02 PM Post #7260092
| ok.. i guess i'm just a decent all american kid.. just give me either pb & j or pb & syrup or honey. o.. but i do like fluff on my peanut butter sandwiches. Pb & bacon is good tho.. my aunt use to eat toast with peanut butter on it for breakfast & sometimes a lil peanut butter would get on the bacon. :) maybe its just bc i'm not fond of ripe bananas. I like mine still half green.
I have fed mom the mashed mock cauliflower potatoes. Those she'll eat. o & we add a little ranch dressing & sour cream to them when the kids are hear. :) very good. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 10, 2009
03:22 PM Post #7260504
| I was introduced to PB and bacon sandwiches many years ago and I loved them. Sometimes I'll substitute salami for the bacon, since I don't often have spare strips of same lying around the house! And I've never made them just for that sandwich. |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 10, 2009
03:32 PM Post #7260522
| Catscan if your mother ate those sandwiches while pregnant, it would explain a lot. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 10, 2009
04:20 PM Post #7260649
| Porkpal...too funny...OMG laughing myself silly here...poor Catscan, she is so besieged here... |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 10, 2009
04:22 PM Post #7260655
| mmmmmm PB & B mmmmmmmm |
ZZsBabiez
Lodi, CA
(Zone 9b)
November 11, 2009
07:40 PM Post #7265048
| I read every post.. this is the best thread ever! The divine socks live! I laughed so loud sitting here in the truck with my laptop on the steering wheel.. I'm at a truckstop in NM and will be leaving soon.. getting some stares for all the laughing!
Catscan, no babiez yet.. I wonder if you could replace her (daughter of Biff) eggs with serama eggs?
I liked PB on saltine crackers with raisins when I was a kid.. :)
I wish I could just have a fresh egg breakfast... You can't imagine how much I miss fresh eggs!!!!!!!!!!!
{{{{hugz to all}}}} |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 11, 2009
08:46 PM Post #7265317
| Hi ZZ!
I can't bring myself to replace eggs that are about to hatch with new eggs...even if they are mongrel eggs. One of my Dutch Bantams just hatched two eggs (out of 10) and then abandoned the babies. One was killed and the other is in a box in the bedroom...it is an adorable mongrel bantam...clearly part Silkie and part Nankin. I am its Mommy--boy is this exhausting... |
ZZsBabiez
Lodi, CA
(Zone 9b)
November 11, 2009
09:21 PM Post #7265417
| Oh no! Poor thing! You and the baby!
Go to my house and get an incubator! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 11, 2009
09:45 PM Post #7265476
| Thank you, ZZ! I'll do it!
Warn Cody...I'll be by tomorrow...
Errr, confession...I seem to have had a slight Ebay relapse...just a small one...I'm back on the`wagon now...but I really will need a hatcher...the last (small) batch of eggs came today... |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 11, 2009
11:00 PM Post #7265709
| sounds like me an Amazon-i really need to stay off that site. lol
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ZZsBabiez
Lodi, CA
(Zone 9b)
November 12, 2009
11:34 AM Post #7266882
| the hatcher is there too.,.. works great!! I am not guilty of enabling.. Just supportive right? |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 12, 2009
11:40 AM Post #7266905
| Hi ZZs I think it is very important to enable so that everyone can share in the fabby deals. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
12:39 PM Post #7267079
| I think this is a conspiracy to overpopulate the world with chickens. ZZ and Catscan are capable of these things.
Sorry about the lost baby chick Catscan - hope the one indoors is doing well. Pudding is doing well and sends love and wing flaps.
I have 2 babies who have no feathers except on their wings, and those are all frizzle feathers. I am quite concerned that these 2 are frizzle-frizzle matings and are not going to get feathers. They look like they could be wrapped in cellophane and sold as cornish hens or something. They are totally fluffless and featherless except on their wings. I worry. |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 12, 2009
12:50 PM Post #7267112
| That is very sad about the frizzle-frizzle babies :( |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
01:18 PM Post #7267198
| You will have to knit them sweaters and keep them in the house, Moxon...they will love it, lounge around and watch TV, empty the refrigerator and talk back...Nature's vengence for your refusal to produce humanoid heirs.
I really expected the Dutch Bantam to be a better mother...the Nankins were great. But the Dutch, who is a really lovely silver, just hatched 'em and left them...
Say hi to Pudding...any sign of shoulder feathers?
The house chick is doing great--but it wants to be held all night. I woke up at 3:32 AM with my arm hanging over the bed and my hand in the chick box with the chick underneath it. I may be channeling a broody, 'cause I don't remember doing it. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
01:49 PM Post #7267311
| You guys are beyond belief with your succoring of tiny henlets. Mine are cosily ensconced in the henhouse, thankyouverymuch, which is where they are going to stay.
Could we have photos of the frizzle-frizzles? They sound most astonishing. Kind of like the leafless peas that someone dreamed up... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
02:04 PM Post #7267351
| No Catsy, YOU will have to knit them sweaters. :-)
As a great aunt, this is clearly your duty. Of course, the hens will not have a say in the colours you use.
It is adorable that you are even cuddling a chick in your sleep. Do try to prevent it from getting into the bed because you could squash it inadvertently. Fortunately I didn't have that problem with dear Marshmallow.
Pudding always had shoulder feathers - the photo Pudding sent was of a sibling without them. And since that picture, said sibling has lost more fluff and is more nekkid.
Yes, I will take a photo of the potential frizzle frizzles. I hope they are not but they really stand out in the group. Poor things. I feel awful about it.
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
02:19 PM Post #7267406
| I'm sure the frizzle-frizzles won't mind in the least if you're careful not to give them a complex about it. On the other hand if you are perpetually gazing upon them and saying, "Ah, POOR frizzle-frizzles, I do feel awful about it!" they are sure to grow up to become most unbalanced. You may even be unleashing mass murderers upon the world. So go carefully and be discreet! |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 12, 2009
02:23 PM Post #7267425
| Good point greenhouse_gal. The world isn't ready for unbalanced frizzle-frizzles. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
02:31 PM Post #7267462
| Moxon...do apologise to Pudding for me (I first wrote "Puddling"--but I caught it--See, I do improve...).
There was nothing for it but to bring the chick in, g_g...there was no one who would succor it in the hen-pen. In fact, I believe either its mother or aunties had done in its sibling. Nature is cruel...I do not cast aspersions on the Barnyard Fairy, who is doubtlessly doing her best.
"bring the chick in"/"bring in the chick"...they seem to have slightly different connotations...
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 12, 2009
02:36 PM Post #7267475
| "Puddling" is a good name for a duck. QUACK! |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 12, 2009
04:23 PM Post #7267880
| Dancing for joy---they came.
Thank you my divine socks are so warm(59 degrees here today)
Thank you they are PERFECT !!!!!!
(sorry the picture is not perfect-hard to hold camera)
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 12, 2009
04:30 PM Post #7267901
| Very prettiful! |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 12, 2009
04:37 PM Post #7267911
| my feet are very happy and warm-hate cold feet.
Cat Thank you again I owe you one.
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
05:26 PM Post #7268043
| They look perfectly luvverly, wren! Now your feet can be happy! |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
06:21 PM Post #7268145
| Wren! Your socks are faaabulous! But why are you standing in snow in your sock feet? |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
06:37 PM Post #7268184
| OK, so you asked to see the frizzle-frizzles. I do not believe they are unbalanced, but they may be leading me on. Here they are from the top in the current chick home.
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
06:38 PM Post #7268189
| Potential frizzle-frizzle 1. 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
06:39 PM Post #7268197
| Potential frizzle-frizzle 2, next to a "normal" frizzle from same hatch.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
06:40 PM Post #7268198
| Potential frizzle-frizzle 2, next to a "normal" frizzle from same hatch.
(oops forgot pic above)
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
06:41 PM Post #7268204
| FF 1 belly, also nekkid, unlike normal chicks.
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
06:43 PM Post #7268210
| Another pic showing them with some hatch-mates. Definitely something going on. They came out of the egg just as fluffy as the others. 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 12, 2009
06:59 PM Post #7268244
| silly we do not have snow down here in warm (?) Florida, that is the demon child's mat, as it takes up most of my bedroom floor and the floor is dark gray, the socks show up much better when I stood on it. LOL |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
07:13 PM Post #7268287
| Tee hee hee...I figured it was something like that, but it does look like snow! |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 12, 2009
07:14 PM Post #7268290
| Looks like you are resting your feets on a sheeps wren |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
07:20 PM Post #7268309
| Moxon: I believe you have hybrid elf/fowl chickens...
Glad you like your sockies, Wren...it is tricky trying to estimate size remotely.
Now, in the future--everyone should remember that those now receiving demi-divine foot gloves received them as a consequence of a prolonged, glorious and flan-fueled Sulk.
I have been very impressed by their group diligence in not letting go of individual resentments. They supported and encouraged each other in bitterness and ill will to the very end...Perhaps a nice silk-screened T-shirt proclaming their participation in the GREAT STOCKING SULK OF 2009 is in order?
Only grownut, whose sulkiness surpassed that of every other contestant, has not received her just rewards...and "Why?"
Because the naughty, refractory creature does not wear socks...such rebelliousness and recalcitrance .
She is an inspiration to all!
This message was edited Nov 12, 2009 7:21 PM |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 12, 2009
07:21 PM Post #7268314
| a faux (?) sheep, learned that you do not keep sheep around a herding doggie. LOL
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wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 12, 2009
07:22 PM Post #7268320
| LOL!!!!! |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 12, 2009
07:23 PM Post #7268326
| I believe that divine sockies would become ensnarled on Cousin Nut's rock and prevent the quick and sometimes necessary dash under same said rock, right Cousin Nut? |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
07:25 PM Post #7268330
| O!my!gosh! Never could I have imagined such nakedness and scaly hidedness as is shown by these poor frizzle-frizzle candidates. I admit, I have called them poor. They will have to be blanketed and cosseted so as not to be attacked mercilessly by their more fortunate and befeathered brethren (or is it cistern...Well?)
When was the Great Stocking Sulk of 2009, pray tell? Was it cotemporaneous with {{{the Great Hat Surprise for Moxon}}}? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
07:43 PM Post #7268392
| The commencement of the Great Sulk was just prior to the inception of the Diadem Horrendus.
I believe it may have pre-dated your involvement, g_g, by just a few weeks...do you remember the first Battle of the Flan? |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
08:05 PM Post #7268484
| No, I recall it not. Your mentioning of it didst pique my curiosity, though. Canst thou related the doubtless heroic tale?
Missed by a whisker! Alas, 'tis too often my fate! |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
10:23 PM Post #7268908
| Elf chicken hybrids? Pray tell, where did the elf part come from? |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
10:25 PM Post #7268912
| As for the heroic tale...
"Twas brillig and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe,
all mimsy were the borogroves,
and the mome wraths outgrabe..."
Wait a minute, that's the wrong tale... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
10:37 PM Post #7268931
| But heroic, nonetheless.
"One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back."
|
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
10:38 PM Post #7268933
| Calloo callay!!! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
10:44 PM Post #7268952
| O frabjous day! |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
10:52 PM Post #7268965
| Did I see a lurking ZZ post...Oh so wonderful to hear from the traveling ZZ
Claire I so loved your dance, more pictures please..
Hiding veggies in cooking... LOL thank goodness that I only cook for me and BIlly, and he is a veggie kid, straight out of the garden he ate the squash, never was able to get pictures of our first garden crop, he ate it all before it got to the house. He is not a big meat eater, but loves his eggs..
Dried bugs...HUMMMM no comment, dont like bugs of any kind.
On my way home from being in Phoenix arizona for a few days of class, will be home in 4 hours, just stopped for some supper... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
10:52 PM Post #7268967
| Oh, pardon me, I do believe I was chortling. Out loud... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
10:54 PM Post #7268971
| But you did is so beamishly! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
10:57 PM Post #7268978
| I NEVER eat bugs...knowingly. At least since the salty, fried meal worms...
Hi MissJestr! |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
10:59 PM Post #7268988
| MissJ - I was at Zumba last night (Latin dance exercise class). I danced a lot there, but no cameras...
Thank you Catscan. I've been practicing my beamishness.
Then we went to Applebees because Kelly is a veteran and they were doing free meals for veterans. I think I rendered the dancing calorie loss pointless as a result.
Grownut: Would you wear socks like these? They are barely there, really...and definitely non-confining...
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
11:00 PM Post #7268990
| EWWWW I have heard of chocolate covered bugs, but that is NOT happening in my life...
Hi Catscan... Hope all is well
Claire, I was hoping to get more pictures of you doing the dance. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
11:04 PM Post #7269001
| I only let Kelly take a few pictures you see. It's a highly secret Dance of the Barnyard Fairy. I can't let too much detail out. It could result in barnyard pandemonium... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
11:08 PM Post #7269008
| Twas brillig and the slithey flan did gyre and gymbal in the wabe
All mimsey were the borogroves
And the momewraths outgrabe with their little spoons
Okay, guys, that's my version but it's still not the HEROIC version. Let's have it!
Claire, those sox are truly impressive. I do hope it's warm where you are, though; it makes me cold just to see them, lovely though they are... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
11:13 PM Post #7269019
| They aren't on me. They are in a pattern book. It was...an "idea" moment...
And to be clear, the flan shouldst never be slithey... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 12, 2009
11:16 PM Post #7269026
| I was thinking of Arthur Rackham's elves:
http://www.klingarts.com/pp/rackham/rackham_05.html |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
11:19 PM Post #7269035
| Oh quite! I was thinking of the Lord of the Rings sort and being unable to see the connection. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 12, 2009
11:35 PM Post #7269062
| To be sure, the flan shouldst be translucent if not opaque, yet never clear! And mine is ALWAYS slithey...
I am most relieved to know that those sox are not fit fleetingly on thy foot; it didst give me the shivers only to look upon them. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 12, 2009
11:41 PM Post #7269076
| You see, G_G, it went a bit like this.
The Divine Barnyard Fairy (hereinafter DBF) noted that she had a surfeit of eggs. Thus didst she quest forth, and find recipes, for little egg custards, and also for a creme brulee pie, which became known near and far as "flan" because most people didn't do the bruleed sugar part. (forgive me, I forget how to do the accented e on my keyboard). And thus, the DBF didst share her custard and flan recipes, and there was rejoicing in the streets...Bacchanalia really. A complete abandonment of decorum. And then, it was determined by a DBF Cohort (namely Catscan) that the flan recipe could be toyed with, by substitutions, such as cocoa for the flour (which formed the magic crust during baking) and the addition of honey and nutmeg and such. Thereupon, there was much anguish and gnashing of teeth, because some members of the clan didst not have such surfeit of eggs. Indeed, some were forced to buy their eggs from the GROCERY store! Horrors!! And their eggs produced a pale and wanting flan. And such began a sulk fest, the likes of which had never been seen, between the flanners and the non-flanners. It was dreadful and debilitating. And thus was the Bacchanalia reduced. And the sulk fest became prolonged, such that supports had to be sent in to relieve the sulkers, who had cold feet on account of being sulky.
Catscan, what am I forgetting? |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
12:05 AM Post #7269139
| Oh, well I did not mention the part whereupon the Benevolent and Gracious Divine Sock Goddess didst take pity upon the poor flanless masses, and decided to rectify the situation... |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 13, 2009
12:15 AM Post #7269156
| I think that is the gist of it, and well stated. - But back to the chicks: they were hatched with normal chick fuzz and only assumed their current nudity when the adult feathers (or lack thereof) started coming in? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
12:23 AM Post #7269178
| The socks dear Moxon..the socks...
For, it was during the days of the First Great Flan War, that a soon to be wandering poultry woman spied some...unusual...socks being made. Which were in the magical colours of the Barnyard Fairy. Now this was meant to be a secret...as are all Divine Mysteries...but the STBWPW did not keep the secret..indeed she posted in a thread...the aforementioned "Divine Sock Thread" (which see). Soon there was a clamouring in the land, and a Pilgrimage of the Sock began--with local populaces thronging the various Postal Way Stations of the Socks...
When the Divine Sock finally reached its destination in the Naval of North America, Iowa, it was revealed to all. And some, not being satisfied with the great, errrr..great fortune...of the High Priestess of the Barnyard, Channeler of the The BF...or Moxon, as she is commonly known, began to murmur and foment additional rebellion. Not only were they dissatisfied with store bought eggs, but they also required socks...though not being worthy of the finally twined Divine Foot Garment, the most they could aspire to were Demi-Divine socks. And a secret cabal was joined by five stalwart malcontents, who vowed to sulk, sustained by whatever flan they could procure, until they too possessed socks...not Divine Socks, but Demi-Divine socks...and the hour of their fulfillment has come. Soon all will be rewarded.
Now let us quote the great High Priest of Dispair, Nick Cave:
"Be mindful of the prayers you send
Pray hard but pray with care
For the tears that you are crying now
Are just your answered prayers"
Any questions?
|
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
12:26 AM Post #7269189
| Am I wrong to suspect Munchhausen by Proxy?
Has anyone searched for tweezers... |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 13, 2009
12:30 AM Post #7269195
| AHH, the inspiration for the colo(u)rs is revealed! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
12:55 AM Post #7269224
| Well...we did leave out the Era of the Aura... |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 13, 2009
01:01 AM Post #7269233
| Oh, yes...another source of color selection. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
07:36 AM Post #7269544
| My most humble obeisances in thankfulness for the telling of this wondrous tale, O Catsy and Moxie and Pal {{somehow Porky didn't strike quite the right note...}}. All that remains, dear friends, is the receipt for said crême brulée, since I too have upon occasion gnashed my teeth due to a dearth of refrigerator space when said device was crammed to the gills with hen fruit. Couldst reprise said receipt along with the variations thereof, or else refer the earnest seeker after truth to the proper thread?
How kind of the assembled group to succor and appease the sulking ones. I might have been tempted to send them off to bed without flan! |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
08:20 AM Post #7269598
| LOL!!!!!!!!
MY feeties tell me to send a bid thank you and are yelling at me to lean how to crochet sockies for them so they can stay warm every day.
|
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
09:05 AM Post #7269687
| Oh the divine flan recipe gave us substance while we were sulking for the divine socks...What a great time had by all. I will be creating a few flans for thanksgiving the night before, that is my contribution for the celebration... Billy was the one who put the chocolate in the bottom of the pan, he did it while my back was turned, and it did ah a divine touch to the crust... I drank all the Mexican Kahlua or I would have tried that in the recipe... I still might if the Kahlua Fairy seem it should be a good idea.. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
10:42 AM Post #7269990
| Dear Wren,
Please have your feet see the following...
Thank you,
DBF
YARN
MODA DEA Sassy Stripes, 1.76oz/50g balls, each approx. 135yd/147m (acrylic)
3 balls #6946 Crush (For all sizes; for foot larger than women’s size 9 shoe, you may need additional yarn)
(or choose your own yarn!!)
CROCHET HOOK
Sizes D/3 (3.25 mm) and E/4 (3.5mm) crochet hooks or any size to obtain correct gauge
NOTIONS
3 stitch markers
Yarn needle
Sizes
91⁄2"/24 cm foot to cuff
7 (73⁄4, 83⁄4, 91⁄2, 101⁄4)"/18 (19.5, 22, 24, 26) cm leg circumference and foot circumference
Note: All measurements are for sock folded flat and not stretched.
gauge/tension
19 1⁄2 hdc and 14 1⁄2 rounds = 4"/10 cm using size E/4 (3.5mm) crochet hook
Remember to check gauge for best results!
abbreviations
ch : chain(s)
dec : decrease(ing)
hdc : half double crochet
lp(s) : loop(s)
rem : remaining
sc : single crochet
sl st : slip stitch
st(s) : stitch(es)
* : Repeat directions following * as many times as indicated
long single crochet (Lsc) : Insert hook in indicated st in indicated row below, yarn over, draw up a long lp up to level of working row, yo and draw through both lps on hook.
sc 2 stitches together (sc2tog) : Insert hook into next st, yo, draw up a lp] twice, yo and draw through all 3 lps on hook.
instructions
How to make a gauge swatch
With E/4 (3.5mm) hook, ch 22.
Row 1 Hdc in 3rd ch from hook and each ch across to end - 20 hdc.
Row 2 Ch 2, turn, hdc in each st across. Repeat last row 13 more times, for a total of 15 rows. Fasten off. Resulting gauge swatch should measure approx 4"/10cm square. If necessary, adjust hook size to obtain correct gauge.
Notes
1 When using self-patterning yarn, be sure to begin each sock with the same color sequence.
2 Rounds are worked in continuous spirals. Unless otherwise instructed; do not join rounds, do not turn and do not ch 1 at beginning of round. Use stitch marker to track rounds.
SOCK (make 2)
cuff
With D/3 (3.25mm) hook, ch 11.
Row 1 Working in back hump of chain, sl st in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch to end - 10 sl st.
Row 2 Turn, ch 1, working in back lps only, sl st in each sl st across. Repeat Row 2 until piece measures 6 1⁄2 (7, 7 1⁄4, 8 1⁄4, 9)"/16.5 (18, 18.5, 21, 23)cm. Do not fasten off.
Leg
note leg rounds are worked in continuous spirals. Unless otherwise instructed; do not join rounds, do not turn and do not ch 1 at beginning of round. Use stitch marker to track rounds.
Round 1 Pivot cuff to work along long edge; work 34 (38, 42, 46, 40) sc evenly spaced along edge; join with sl st in first sc to form a circle - 34 (38, 42, 46, 50) sc. Change to E/4 (3.5mm) hook.
Round 2 Hdc in same st as join, place marker to mark beginning of rounds, hdc in each sc around; do not join - 34 (38, 42, 46, 50) hdc.
Round 3 Hdc in each hdc around; do not join - 34 (38, 42, 46, 50) hdc. Repeat Round 3, moving round marker up with each round, until piece measures 6 1⁄2"/16.5cm from beginning (including cuff). Flatten piece so that seam of cuff is at side edge. Work hdc in each st to a side edge, making sure that seam will end at inside of leg when sock is finished. Do not fasten off.
Heel
Row 1 (wrong side) Turn, ch 1, sc in next 17 (19, 21, 23, 25) sts; leave remaining sts unworked (for top of foot) - 17 (19, 21, 23, 25) sc.
Row 2 (right side) Turn, ch 1, sc in first 2 sc, Lsc in next sc 2 rows below, *sc in next sc, Lsc in next sc 2 rows below; repeat from * to last 2 sts, sc in last 2 sts - 17 (19, 21, 23, 25) sts.
Row 3 Turn, ch 1, sc in each sc across.
Row 4 Turn, ch 1, sc in first 2 sc, Lsc in next Lsc 2 rows below working into the V of the st, *sc in next sc, Lsc in next Lsc 2 rows below working into the V of the st, repeat from * to last 2 sts, sc in last 2 sts.
Repeat Rows 3 and 4 until heel measures 2 3/4”/7cm. End by working a wrong side row. Do not fasten off.
Heel turn
Row 1 (dec row - right side) Turn, ch 1, sc in first st, sc2tog twice, sc in each st to last 5 sts, sc2tog twice, sc in last st - 13 (15, 17, 19, 21) sts.
Row 2 (dec row) Turn, ch 1, sc in first st, sc2tog, sc in next 3 (4, 5, 5, 6) sts, sc2tog 1 (1, 1, 2, 2) times, sc in each st to last 3 sts, sc2tog, sc in last st - 10 (12, 14, 15, 17) sts.
Row 3 (dec row) Turn, ch 1, sc in first st, sc2tog, sc in next 0 (0, 3, 4, 4) sts, sc2tog 0 (0, 1, 1, 2) times, sc in each st to last 3 sts, sc2tog, sc in last st - 8 (10, 11, 12, 13) sts.
Row 4 (dec row) Turn, ch 1, sc in first 3 (4, 4, 5, 5) sts, sc2tog 1 (1, 2, 1, 2) times, sc in last 3 (4, 3, 5, 4) sts
- 7 (9, 9, 11, 11) sts.
Row 5 Turn, do not ch 1, sc in each st across - 7 (9, 9, 11, 11) sts. Do not fasten off.
Gusset
Note: Gusset rounds are worked in continuous spirals. Unless otherwise instructed; do not join rounds and do not ch 1 at beginning of round. Use stitch marker to track rounds.
Round 1 (right side) Pivot work to work along side of heel flap, work 15 (15, 17, 17, 18) sc evenly spaced along left side edge of heel flap, hdc in first hdc of top foot, place marker in hdc just made (first gusset marker), hdc in each of rem 16 (18, 20, 22, 24) top foot sts, place marker in hdc just made (second gusset marker), work 15 (15, 17, 17, 18) sc evenly spaced along right side edge of heel flap, hdc in 7 (9, 9, 11, 11) heel sts, place marker to mark beginning of rounds - 54 (58, 64, 68, 72) sts.
Round 2 (decrease round) Hdc in each st to 2 sts before first gusset marker, sc2tog, hdc in next hdc replacing marker, hdc across to second gusset marker, hdc in next hdc replacing marker, sc2tog, hdc in rem heel sts - 52 (56, 62, 66, 70) sts. Repeat Round 2, decreasing 2 sts and moving all markers up on each round, until 34 (38, 42, 46, 50) sts rem. Remove gusset markers. Do not fasten off.
Foot
Round 1 Hdc in each hdc around - 34 (38, 42, 46, 50) hdc. Repeat Round 1 until foot measures 2"/5cm from longest toe, measured from back of heel. Remove round marker. Do not fasten off.
Shape toe
Fold sock, making sure that heel is centered to back. Place markers at each side edge. Move markers after each round to keep at side edges of sock.
Round 1 (dec round) Sc in each st to 2 sts prior to first side marker, sc2tog, sc in each st to 2 sts prior to next side marker, sc2tog, sc in next st (partial round to set up toe).
Round 2 Sc in each st to 2 sts prior to first side marker, sc2tog, sc in next st, sc2tog, sc in each st to 2 sts prior to next side marker, sc2tog, sc in next st, sc2tog - 28 (32, 36, 40, 44) sc. Repeat Round 2, laying sock flat and moving
markers with each round to keep markers at the side edges of the foot, until 16 (16, 16, 20, 20) sts remain. Fasten off. Repeat for second sock.
FINISHING
Sew toe closed. Sew closed seam at cuff opening. Weave in ends.
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
10:46 AM Post #7270004
| Or try these...
http://www.crochetandknitting.com/socks.htm
|
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
11:19 AM Post #7270087
| DBF thanks you I added them to my patterns---3 more weeks before I am allowed to use the right arm fully. |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 13, 2009
11:50 AM Post #7270147
| A truly tomic recap of the drama of the devine and semi-devine sockies! The Era of the Aura was a momentous occassion too. Many flockless and flanless, and flocked and flanned were discovered to be silvery sparkley peoples who laugh like tinkling, shimmering silvery bells. Methinks these are important dotes to note. Also what praytell is a gusset? Sounds hazardous. No wonder Cousin Grownut declines to wear sockies! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
12:30 PM Post #7270269
| Gussets are the Marianas Trench of Sock making...the deepest and most profound experience that sock construction provides.
Still, I do not believe that socks can be crocheted...of course I don't believe in crochet on principle--since I can't do it.
And for the same reason--I don't believe in quadratic equations. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
12:59 PM Post #7270365
| Absolutely not. Similarly, I do not believe in any form of calculus, especially multi-variable calculus. |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
01:04 PM Post #7270388
| well i can not knit but can crochet--i guess when my shoulder and arm get all healed up i will have to return the favor (?) and crochet you a pair of socks. LOL |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 13, 2009
01:09 PM Post #7270406
| In that case, Catscan, I'll bet you were good at geometry.
Moxon; an impressive set of instructions! Quite enough to put me off crocheting for life.
Ah, the guilt. We selfishly sulked in solidarity, fueled by flan, coveting the divine sock, and our sock-envy was rewarded! Repent! It is not too late to admit the error of our ways. Can we be forgiven our acquisitiveness? (Just don't make me relinquish the Divine Socks.)
Edited to add that I see Wren shares my sense of guilt and debt, whatever can I do to atone?
This message was edited Nov 13, 2009 11:11 AM |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
02:27 PM Post #7270600
| you have not seen my crocheting yet!!!! More like a way to make everyone laugh. LOL |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
02:50 PM Post #7270686
| Why yes, I was quite good at Geometry and the sweetly titled, Pre-Calculus.
Those make sense.
Confession: I do now sleep with the orphan chick, on occasion...I feel guilty about it, because, as Moxon so rightly pointed out, it would be easy to overlay the tiny thing...but it peeps so pitiously at 3:00 AM, that, to save it from the wrath of DH, I have taken it to my matronly breast--right under my sweatshirt near my collar bone. It goes quiet immediately and sleeps the sleep of the innocent. I am thinking of getting a reptile heat rock and covering it with toweling, a la Harlow and the rhesus monkeys, to see if that will satisfy its need for warmth and contact while still in the box.
Now, is anyone video taping Moxon and the featherless chicks?...I still have grave suspicions...
This message was edited Nov 13, 2009 3:01 PM |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
03:13 PM Post #7270758
| Awww...that is just about the most adorable thing I have ever heard. How sweet. But I think it needs a little knitted sweater, don't you? Apparently some people use mop heads (clean, new ones) hanging low in a chick enclosure to simulate a mother hen, and the chicks go under the mop head to sleep. You could try same.
The featherless checks are well, but continue to be featherless. There is no evidence of tweezers, I assure you. I have considered wandering the barnyard picking up the molted feathers of their brethren and gluing them on, but I doubt this would be entirely effective. |
LoreenH
Portland, OR
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
04:05 PM Post #7270922
| I've heard featherdusters are great mother substitutes for chicks and ducklings too. I've read, for ducklings anyway, that if you only have one to put a mirror in with it and it will think it has a friend; I don't know if that works for chicks as well. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
04:41 PM Post #7271035
| Catscan, I think that you should definitely try Loreen's method, and I think that you should tuck an egg into the same spot by your collarbone and incubate it thusly, thereby giving your lonely baby a friend. |
LoreenH
Portland, OR
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
05:11 PM Post #7271106
| Back to socks...have any of you sock knitters ever heard of the 'hat heel' techinque? I think I will try it when I make my next pair; I still need to finish my first pair...I have one done and the second one started.
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEfall09/PATThatheel.php |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
06:05 PM Post #7271264
| Oh yes, oh yes! Catscan and I discussed it over on Ravelry. I want to try it also! |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 13, 2009
06:10 PM Post #7271278
| I see it has the hazardous gusset too. |
LoreenH
Portland, OR
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
06:36 PM Post #7271346
| I keep forgetting about Ravelry, I need to put up a reminder note. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
09:33 PM Post #7271937
| OH Catscan I could so hug you about now if my arms could reach... I am the proud owner of the Most Divine socks (and in my opinion a sunny smile to make things all better )in the most wonderful sunny yellow and green..Pictures will be posted tomorrow, The camera battery is charging...
Back to the reason I needed a smile part.
Billy and I were feeding the chickens and ducks and then were going to the post box. I heard my Gracie horse scream, and knew something was wrong. I came out of the bird area to see my beloved Mustang Chyanne running full steam towards the road, and traffic coming both ways. Mind you I am on the other side of the arena from her, and even if I was wonder woman, would not reach her before she got to the road. This Big Yellow truck came down the road, honked his horn and scared her back before she could get to the road. Then she came down the drive, where people were behind her shutting the fence and yelling. I turned to make sure Billy jumped in the back of the truck as she flew by giving a little kick out as she passed.
I ran to get the halter, stumbling over rocks and praying she would not hit the desert on the other side and be lost.
I cornered her up in the boarding stable area where she decieded to get into it with an appy of all things.
As I approached her, I wished I had a rope so I could rope her, but knew that one swing would send her running.
I finally made my move and caught her around her neck, where she promptly stepped on my foot. I haltered her and as I rounded the corner, there was my Cowboy safe in the truck telling me Good gob cowgirl.
She is in a temp pen for the night, I have to mend fences tomorrow after Billys Final Jr Rodeo..
So as I limped down to the store, and was telling them she was up for the night, Miss Connie told me I had a package. BEHOLD the wonderful soft package I held in my hands with the divine name of Catscan...
OH OH OH... My sore feet were forgotten as I opened them right there on the spot. I showed everyone in the store my new Divine Socks, I allowed them to feel the softness of the yarn, and feel the love that radiated from them...
I am now home, stripped of my boots and my feet are happily encased in my divine socks (and my hand on a beer for the pain) ... I have happy feet.
Thank you so much Catscan, they are truly a WORK OF ART... |
ZZsBabiez
Lodi, CA
(Zone 9b)
November 13, 2009
09:44 PM Post #7271964
| First off.. I have to catch my breath from laughing.. this is the bestest thread ever!
Then I have to mention the awesome sunset coming into Kingman last night MsJestr!!! It was amazing! I was sending a wave to you and Billy...
I long for Flan... divine socks... fresh eggs...OH FRESH EGGS!!!!
Catscan, that was the sweetest thing to cuddle that chick! I agree with Claire, you need no incubator for those Serama eggs.. Just stuff um under your sweater.. LOL
PS... I'm in Calif.. getting ready to head to North Carolina... it's so hard to be this close to home.. :\ |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
09:57 PM Post #7271995
| ZZ waving to you!!!! |
ZZsBabiez
Lodi, CA
(Zone 9b)
November 13, 2009
10:09 PM Post #7272036
| Waving back Wren!!! :)
MsJ.. that was beautiful. I'm sure it gave Catsy as much of a warm fuzzy as I got from it! I love it when things are
"divinely measured" (as my mommy called it) hummmm fittin ain't it? :) |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:17 PM Post #7272055
| Alas, alas, and what an ass
(abyssinian) I have been!!
To have missed such revels and carouses...
I am pondering ponderous thoughts of Lewis Carroll
and his frabjuous flanning days, calay!
Into brillig Flan I slivey dove...
What gyred an' gimbled in succulent waves
all mimsy were its borogroves,
and yet mine own wraths outgrabe...
One, two! One, two! And through and through
My vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
I left it gone, and with full tum
I came galumphing back!
Those sock-ettes so daintily modeled-
I fear I would not even do those justice.
Of knitted fineries -I do scarves and chapeaux.
And yet, recalcitrant, rock crawling twit that I have been
I hesitate to confess even that much
For fear that Great Mother Hen, Catscan
might yet take pity on me
And me not worthy...
The Kahlua Fairy indeed lurks. I have it on good authority.
Also. I was recently convinced that there is indeed
a guardian angel of all "ditzes and numbnuts"
(forgive me please, I'm quoting...)
I look, I lurk, I love and enjoy you all
And fleetly fleeing fly...
|
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:20 PM Post #7272064
| Ohhh and now MsJ's got 'em too.
warm an' fuzzy all over, I am...
LOVE this thread. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
10:24 PM Post #7272077
| Then my guardian angel of all "ditzes and numbnuts" (forgive me please, I'm quoting too...) Must have been watching out for me..
ZZ I enjoyed the sunset from Wickiup Off 93 last night on my way home, I actually pulled over and spent time watching it.. It was most awesome...
TADA...
Oh and those bags in the background are from my road trip, yep I ate at olive garden two times and took the left overs back to my hotel room 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
|
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:27 PM Post #7272083
| Wow. Perfectly and lovingly tailored to each personality. Beautimous. I think if ever i could find -1 needles I might be able to knit something of that nature...nice!! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
10:29 PM Post #7272089
| Ah, grow! The Muse is back!
But do they fit, MissJestr? It is so difficult to figure size...we did, ZZ and I, try to trick you all into revealing your footy dimensions...but it is difficult... |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:29 PM Post #7272094
| I, a muse? |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
10:32 PM Post #7272102
| Oh Catscan, they fit like the royal slipper... I so do feel like Cinderella... |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
10:33 PM Post #7272105
| LOL should have known ZZ was in there... I really cant wait to meet her in person... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
10:35 PM Post #7272116
| Grownut - excellent poetic license - you are on a roll!! But I didn't ask you if you would do the sockettes justice, I just asked if you would actually wear them?!
MissJ - DIVINE socks! Oh that Catscan is a marvel I tell you, just a marvel!! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
10:36 PM Post #7272117
| Well, yes, grow...or perhaps as the Poet, you have been hieing off after your muse...they can be capricious..in fact I believe that is a character trait of the true Muse.
Mine has been missing for decades...
This message was edited Nov 13, 2009 10:37 PM |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:36 PM Post #7272120
| That's the ONE thing that almost makes up for her not being around...her getting (sorry, unintended) around. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:37 PM Post #7272123
| True, Catscan. I REALLY need to clean out my closets...
I DO rather like to hie after things, when I can
This message was edited Nov 13, 2009 8:38 PM |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
10:39 PM Post #7272130
| I don't have closets...I have reliquaries. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
10:41 PM Post #7272139
| Grow...WOULD YOU WEAR THEM? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
10:43 PM Post #7272145
| I strongly suspect Musey ancestry in grow--she is so hard to pin down. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
10:48 PM Post #7272163
| Mmmm...musey ancestry...dating back to Musey I and Musey II, the great Muse Dynasty and all |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:50 PM Post #7272170
| Sorry, Claire...your post didn't show up or I missed it. I might wear them twice a year, at best. I will occasionally wear really sheer sockage that still allows the slip on shoes to slip. Those toasties I would only wear around the house when feeling so sick forlorn as to need a nose muffler as well. So -wear as in the habitual sense of the present tense -No. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:53 PM Post #7272180
| Oh yes, did i not tell you I am the 23rd incarnation of the Spirit Amusée? |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
10:59 PM Post #7272200
| Reliquaries...hmmm...perhaps if I cleaned and upgrade I, too, could have reliquaries...
It cannot be said afterall that I lack relics. Reliquated ones even, umm...I mean relicated...
This message was edited Nov 13, 2009 9:02 PM |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
11:05 PM Post #7272221
| So, let me get this straight. It snows, like 18 inches worth...and you go out to shovel snow, in your boots, with NO socks? Really??? |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 13, 2009
11:07 PM Post #7272227
| Thin ones... yup. It very seldom snows that much, I wear the boots seldom, shovel never. I wear heavy socks perhaps 5-10 days out of the year...max. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
11:18 PM Post #7272243
| The thought of putting on boots sans socks makes my toes curl! Yuck, so cold and rubbery art they! Grownut, thou art a sturdy soul and hast a sturdy sole to boot.
It is 52° outside and 65 inside and I am wearing warm socks, shoes, plus the usual panoply of sweaters, turtlenecks and jeans. My chickens see me each morning scarved, jacketed and booted and albeit they don't have x-ray eyes, besocked as well.
DH hasn't bothered with a fire in the woodstove these last few days and I miss it sorely! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
11:20 PM Post #7272246
| Have you seen what is in a reliquary? It is all in the presentation...
Are we speaking of the Old Kingdom or Middle Kingdom Musey Dynasties?
And lo, the Spirit Amusee was loosed upon the land, and the residents threw off their shoes and danced barefoot in the snow.
|
ZZsBabiez
Lodi, CA
(Zone 9b)
November 13, 2009
11:23 PM Post #7272249
| I WANT SOCKS
I WANT SOCKS |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
11:23 PM Post #7272252
| Snow??? What is snow??
|
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
11:24 PM Post #7272255
| Fie upon you; 'tis l'Esprit Amusé! Consistency, consistency!
Did not the residents at least have socks on? Eeeeeew!
I want socks, too!!!!
This message was edited Nov 13, 2009 10:25 PM |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
11:24 PM Post #7272257
| Well now, am I wrong, or was Musey I part of the Old Kingdom, succeeded by those imposters Musette I and Mus Musculus I, only to have the empire regained by Musey II in the MIddle Kingdom Dynasty?
Yes, it is 62 in this house, and I am sporting socks and a sweater, but always pyjamas after 6 pm. Unless I have guests, which is rarely. I don't wear socks, as a rule, from May to October, but then...oh yes, they come out in force... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
11:26 PM Post #7272258
| But socks require insight into the wearer...like where the wearer will be...and what the wearer wants to wear...and when the wearer will be available to wear them.
All these things must be taken into consideration. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
11:28 PM Post #7272259
| a) In Iowa
b) Socks
c) October through May
Any more questions?
Oh wait, I already have socks...dang... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
11:28 PM Post #7272260
| No, my maw taught me that when you're downstairs you're dressed; hard to shake once it's thoroughly drilled into you. No pajamas beyond the bedroom and bathroom here. GD thinks I'm strange... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
11:30 PM Post #7272264
| I've have descended into the dark realm of wearing pretty much the same thing whether I am awake or asleep.
|
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 13, 2009
11:33 PM Post #7272269
| When I was a kid, my parents would dance in the living room (waltz of course, or occasionally tango) in the evening in their pajamas (or pyjamas, if you are Canadian or British). I learned well. :-) |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 13, 2009
11:36 PM Post #7272275
| I ware socks all year around even when it is 100 degrees outside. My poor feet are always cold except right now when I put my nice pair of divine socks on for beddie by.
With that good night everyone.
|
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
11:44 PM Post #7272282
| Ah, that would explain the BF's capering proclivity.
And I believe that you are right about the dynastic succession of the Musey, with Mus Musculus II eliminated through the introduction of tainted Asiago at his coronation banquet.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," she said darkly...
|
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
11:44 PM Post #7272284
| Catsy, you must look interesting at the office, then, no?
I have merely descended into the dark realm of wearing jeans all the time (when I'm downstairs...) Even to meetings. A new commissioner comes in suits and heels; oh well, whatever floats her boat. I mean, the jeans are clean, but they are unabashedly jeans. I can make decisions just as well wearing those. I don't remember the last time I wore a dress; oh, yes I do! I wore a jumper to a friend's son's wedding! On Hallowe'en!
Good night, Wren! Good night, moon. Good night, cow jumping over the moon. Good night Catscan, good night Moxanne, good night ZZBabies, good night Grownutsies... good night, all! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
11:45 PM Post #7272286
| 'Night Wren. 'Night g_g.
Office? |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
11:47 PM Post #7272288
| Place where they employ you gainfully or not so gainfully; generic term for place of business? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
11:51 PM Post #7272290
| No, no, no...I do not do offices...I vacillate between the greenhouses and a bolt hole. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 13, 2009
11:54 PM Post #7272301
| Offices never see your shining face? I thought that group photo was in an office-like edifice, no? I guess jeans are de rigeur for greenhouses, although perchance a mite dressy for bolt holes. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 13, 2009
11:58 PM Post #7272307
| I favour lab coats---it is very difficult to be pinned down sartorially whilst in a lab coat.
And that was a "forced" corporate photo--designed to flatter the Dark Lords of the Kingdom Conglomerate. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 14, 2009
12:11 AM Post #7272330
| Oh my. Blithely did I let the youngling have her computer time and all this happens! I wear socks with boots, Ladies. I wear boots between two and ten times a year. Just to clarify. And I did so want to have an utterly complexicated title without any dreary consistencies to worry about...
G'nite all!! |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 14, 2009
08:09 AM Post #7272877
| E'en in a lab coat, the nether regions and footgear speak volumes, albeit silently. No such luck, Catsy. I'm sure your fellow lab rats have typed you to a fare-thee-well.
Grownut, what is uncomplexicated about your moniker? And have you ever noticed anyone here worrying about dreary consistencies? Or dreary anythings?
Greenhouse_Gal, just in from pulling off her boots after bringing the chickens their morning cheer. |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 14, 2009
11:07 AM Post #7273176
| Enter Cousin Nut with parley profound! Those are truly sunny sockies MissJestr and very ept to arrive at the perfect time. ZZs you are on a grand flutterabout methinks. Off to the mountains to look for Druids today. I believe they are direct descendents of the Museys although mostly I hope they have dragons. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 14, 2009
11:21 AM Post #7273213
| Moxanne? Moxanne? When did I become Moxanne?
Oh Dahlianut, I would so love to come galumphing about with you to look for Druids. Sometimes I think I might be one. Do keep careful notes and be prepared to regale us with your adventures.
Lab coats are the cure for all manner of evils. I was required to wear one in a past life, well, actually a past part of this life, but still, it seems like a past life. I was disenchanted with its lack of splendour, whereupon I removed the pocket and hand embroidered, Oh-So-Carefully, a little teal coloured "Polo" horse, copying exactly one that I had on a shirt at home. This caused many comments over the next weeks along the lines of "Where did you buy a Polo lab coat?" and "I didn't know Polo made lab coats" etc, etc. It was a good ploy. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 14, 2009
11:50 AM Post #7273278
| Fellow lab rats?
I do not work in a lab anymore. I can be seen, on faint and misty morns, gliding spectrally about the station in my shin length size 40 lab coat.
Unlike grownut, I do wear shoes, but mine are in the near exact likeness of baked potatoes--nothing much can be gleaned from that.
Brilliant move with the lab coat, Mox...Mox...Mox... Uh, what comes next?
Such a simple name and so many ways to corrupt it...
Have you figured out your Druidic name? Maybe that will be easier for us to spell? |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 14, 2009
12:07 PM Post #7273319
| You became Moxanne because I needed it to rhyme with Catscan, silly, for my Goodnight Moon couplet or triplet or whatever it was.
Most impressive that you could actually embroider your very own little Polo emblem on your lab coat, and verily lucky art thou that the copyright police didn't descend upon you and haul you off to court. I know Disney, weirdly enough, is very jealous of its logos, so I'd assume something even less cuddly would be worse.
I suspect in some ancient former life I was a Wise Woman, but probably not a Druid. All that woad bodes ill, methinks. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 14, 2009
12:18 PM Post #7273346
| My druid name is Gwennden Erwfair. (Erwfair is pronounced "air-ew-vi-er" sort of run together a little bit) It is the name of our ancestral home in Wales. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 14, 2009
12:18 PM Post #7273347
| Mooooooooxaaannne -You don't have to put on your lab coat!!
(the Police, wasn't it?) |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 14, 2009
12:22 PM Post #7273353
| Walt was a little bit of a weinerbrain methinks. Not only did he kill Bambi's mother but I discoverd that one should pay royalties when singing a tuber digging song based on 'Hi Ho Hi Ho'. I find these things disgruntling so I have taken him off my Christmas card list. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 14, 2009
12:32 PM Post #7273379
| {{we nuts, we sticks together for a reason!!}} |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 14, 2009
12:34 PM Post #7273383
| Dahlianut, methinks 'twas Felix Salter who killed Bambi's mother. And whoever tried to assess royalties for a parody on "Hi Ho"? Anyhow, parodies are usually protected in intellectual property regulations. Surely you could have claimed a derivative work of art?
After what Walt did to Winnie-ther-Pooh, he went off my Christmas card list permanently! |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 14, 2009
12:35 PM Post #7273385
| {{as in nutbrittle and nutbutter? Most sticky stuff, that!}} |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 14, 2009
12:56 PM Post #7273431
| {{as in dahlianut and grownut...but perhaps we are stickier than we know...;p}} |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 14, 2009
01:04 PM Post #7273451
| Yep---The Police--the mind boggles with the possibilities...
Mo-o-ox-anne! A Druidic Reggae.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQYI_TL8VQ |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 14, 2009
01:41 PM Post #7273538
| Or maybe a defective work of art? mi mi mi
♫ Hi Ho Hi Ho it's tuber diggin' I go... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 14, 2009
01:43 PM Post #7273543
| La! Dahlianut...you are fearless! Just stick it to the MAN! |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 14, 2009
09:47 PM Post #7274915
| I sheared two of my ram lambs today, in preparation for putting them together with "the girls" for whom they have been chosen this year. Shearing them lends them a rather pathetic and sorrowful appearance. I hope they will still do their job...
{{{who got sheared today???}}}
[[we did! we did!!]]
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 14, 2009
10:01 PM Post #7274951
| They look like "well-loved" Steiff toys. |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 14, 2009
10:16 PM Post #7275002
| Methinks I don't espy sorrowful goatlings, but merely curlaceously curbed goatlings. I have returned from the mountains where I had hoped to bond with Druids and maybe dragons. Alas I got distracted by ducks. They were everywhere. QUACK! There was a time (which some may recall) when I almost became a duck so coursely I became enameled with them and what with quacking and examining interesting bugs in the reeds in the river I was muchly swayed. I did see a runeish scribing on a funky weird stone thing though but it was in Francais besides Druid so probably a ruse to discombobulate false Druid seekers. Tis apparent that I must consult with MissJestr about horse blinders for peoples so I am not distracted by ducks in the future. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 14, 2009
10:20 PM Post #7275016
| Dahlianut dearest...they are sheeplings...not goatlings...
It's OK, I know you were distracted by ducks. |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 14, 2009
10:27 PM Post #7275039
| CRAPPOLA foiled by the sheepling/goatling morf again. Why o why can't they look different? I think they do it on purpose just to befuddle me :( Ahem... (starting over) Luvly looking curlaceously curbed sheeplings dear Clarie. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 14, 2009
10:39 PM Post #7275069
| Well thank you dear Dahlianut! They are not very pleased with me, in fact, one of them urinated in large quantity down my leg as I was shearing him, but they are quite settled now. They really do look different from goats. You must come visit and learn the nuances. :-) |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 14, 2009
10:49 PM Post #7275094
| I so believe in over the rainbow . 'Kansas' was a typo. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 14, 2009
11:43 PM Post #7275234
| Moxanne, isn't it the wrong time to be shearing? Or are you just crutching them - but I thought that was the females only. We always sheared in the spring. How rude of that ram to sprinkle you like that, though!
Dahlianut, I am udderly amazed that you were even able to find your way back down those mountings. And do tell, please, what particular affinity you have for ducks?
I tried to talk my DH into getting ducks this next spring, today, but he unfortunately reminded me that unlike geese, ducks require housing, and he didn't think they'd share well with the chickens. Since this past summer was The Summer of the Hen Palace and it was totally consumed with the situation and modification of said edifice, I suspect he is decidedly uninterested in doing a reprise for duck habitation. |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 15, 2009
12:26 AM Post #7275349
| I keep hoping someone would like my ducks. They don't seem to be acquiring enough duckly survival skills (like swimming and flying) to go live at the vet's pond. They get along ok with the chickens but are housed separately at night. Also I'm afraid they are all males: no quacking, no eggs, and they talk to me in hisses...? I've never had Muscoveys before so I really don't know what to expect. Greenhouse, they are accustomed to very humble digs, a palacial abode would be unnecessary.
As for the shorn ramlets I think they look trim and athletic, perhaps the ewes will too. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 15, 2009
12:42 AM Post #7275386
| G_G - unlike the vast majority of sheep, Icelandics are sheared twice a year, in fall and spring. So are many angora goats. That's why I only did the two Icelandics and not the others. :-) I didn't do the Icelandic females this fall because they didn't put on as much wool this summer as I would have expected, so they will have extra long coats in the spring, but better shearing.
Porkpal...gee...didn't somebody (yeah, me) tell you that the ducks would not want to fly away...
Our chickens and ducks are housed together. Ducks make more poo though, and it's messier, so that means the coop needs to be cleaned more often. Fortunately, I have Kelly for that. If they are Muscovies, then they do not quack much like other breeds of duck. The difference between the male and female muscovy is the amount of red on their faces. The males have a lot more red and usually have a sort of pobble of red at the base of their beak, whereas the females do not. Do yours all have that lump at the beak base? There are some good pictures here showing the face characteristics between the sexes.
http://www.avianweb.com/muscovyduck.html
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porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 15, 2009
01:30 AM Post #7275464
| Mine are still young so they don't have as much red ornamentation of the face as the ducks in the article, but they all have the same amount, and none of them "coos" so I still think they may all be male. Oh, yeah, and they don't like roosting either. I have put them on the roosts in their borrowed coop and they teeter and ungracefully topple off. I think they are the duds of duckdom - doubtless why their mother abandoned them in the first place. They do have lovely sleek and shiny feathers and are quite attractive - from a distance. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 15, 2009
08:14 AM Post #7275744
| We did not have much luck with Muscovys; they took wing and began to visit the river and then came back to nibble on my garden. It did NOT make them popular around here. DH once sliced his hand open attempting to corral an errant duck; it was scooting down the bank and started for the river. He made a leap for it and landed in the mud, hand first, and encountered some glass. The duck, of course, simply swam off. He still doesn't know what he was thinking he was going to accomplish by jumping after a creature that both flies and swims. When we took him to the emergency room he did NOT admit to the actual circumstances of his wounding, although the ER doctor was curious because of the amount of mud in it...
Aha, Moxon, thanks for the lesson on Icelandic sheep. We both have very old sweaters made from Icelandic wool; they are beautiful.
Porkpal, palatial or not, it would still require the Building of an Edifice, which would then need to be made Safe from Predators. DH has no stomach for any more poultry structures. We had a duck house when we lived in Washington State, and we still got a raccoon that clawed our poor duckies' webbed feet through the wire floor. We have coons around here, too. |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 15, 2009
10:51 AM Post #7276013
| Oh well, I tried... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 15, 2009
11:06 AM Post #7276066
| I would be willing but alas, DH is not! The plucking is also an issue, although we actually have one of those chicken-plucking drums. We have found that it doesn't work as well on turkeys or geese as it does on chickens, although it's still a huge time saver. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 15, 2009
02:33 PM Post #7276579
| This is most interesting. Our Pekin and Swedish ducks go into the coop with our chickens, but the Muscovies just plain refuse. They stay out all night and have never been troubled. We do have raccoons and I've seen what they can do with a chicken, but never has a Muscovy disappeared or even been injured. We have about 8 and they wander all day and night, outside, uncooped. I thought, from this experience, that Muscovy ducks didn't sleep like chickens (i.e. become practically comatose and unable to sort out what is going on). I thought they maintained a much closer eye on things, and I wondered even if a male Muscovy would be a bit much for a raccoon trying for an easy meal. So, while our more "tender" ducks have an edifice, our Muscovies do not. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 15, 2009
03:36 PM Post #7276737
| Yes, I recall that muscovies were hardier, but we don't like them as much as the other types of ducks. Interesting that nothing bothers them at your place! I'm not sure they were hassled at ours, either. |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
November 15, 2009
06:54 PM Post #7277280
| It says they are supposed to roost in trees, have either of you observed roosting? Mine aren't clever enough to avoid predators so they get cooped at night, however they are now so big that it is wall-to-wall ducks in their little borrowed (from the youngest chicks) coop. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 15, 2009
06:57 PM Post #7277293
| Seems to me that I remember seeing my Muscovies roost in trees. They flew fairly well, as I mentioned!
The funniest critter roosting that I ever saw, though, was a turkey. A wild one wandered down to our lawn once and was chased by our dog. It flew up and over the small river, and landed high in a tree on the other side. What an ungainly bird to take to the air. It just looked so improbable! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 15, 2009
07:05 PM Post #7277320
| We used to have our pine woods fill up with wild turkeys when we lived in Upstate NY.
When I moved to CA, I was driving down a busy street and saw all these big, awkward birds flapping up in some redwood trees planted along the street.
I thought: "Wow! Turkeys!"
Nope--Vultures. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
November 15, 2009
07:08 PM Post #7277330
| Them's Pacific Redheaded Turkeys...In-dijnus... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
November 15, 2009
07:42 PM Post #7277423
| Ah yes...there is actually a prestigious housing development in the East Bay (across the Bay from San Francisco)--named "Black Hawk" for the dark majestic birds that ride the thermals in the surrounding hills--problem is, the Black Hawk is in-dijunus to Mexico--it doesn't come this far north.
Yep--Vultures. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
November 15, 2009
07:46 PM Post #7277437
| None of our Muscovies have ever roosted in a tree. In fact, I've never seen any of them even try to get into a tree, or on any other structure on our property. They do fly, occasionally, although the males invariably have ridiculously clutzy landings in which they nearly do somersaults, and they seem way too heavy to fly very elegantly. The females fly better. They fly to the soybean field next door, and fly back. They don't roost on anything, even though they have a multitude of trees, fences, buildings, goat huts, etc that they could roost on if they wanted to. They huddle together on the ground, winter and summer. They tend to hang out either close to the barn (but not inside it). Sometimes they have little hissy fits, in which they all thrust their necks out repeatedly and make little hissy noises. I have been known to try to emulate them, unsuccessfully.
Of course none of our chickens have ever tried to roost in a tree either. Maybe I have height-phobic birds. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 16, 2009
11:42 PM Post #7281241
| Ok I am a little slow in chiming in It has been a long weekend. Billy placed 3rd in Roping and 3rd in Mutton Busting, Won 16 bucks. Since it was the finals, he also placed 5th all around for the year. He got a Hat, T shirt, and a new rope. It has been a fun year for him, and we will do it again next year.
Sunday I took him and his brother and sister to the Polar Express in Williams Az...It was frigged cold, but they all had new jammies and new jackets.
It turned real cold here the last two days, and in addition to my carhart coverhalls, my feet were warm and toasty in my socks.
Notice the word WAS. You see we had gotten back from town with a load of hay, I sent BIlly in after chores and told him to get his pj's on. This is what I saw when I came in after unloading... 
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MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
November 16, 2009
11:47 PM Post #7281262
| Here is the gang from Yesterday 
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greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
November 16, 2009
11:48 PM Post #7281265
| awww.. he's adorable. The socks are great.. i love the colors. |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 17, 2009
06:41 AM Post #7281759
| LOL
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greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
November 17, 2009
08:32 AM Post #7281918
| What a cute bunch, MissJestr, and how adorable of Billy! Congratulations to him on such a great season, too! The Demi Divine Socks continue to spread their warmth and cheer ... |
LoreenH
Portland, OR
(Zone 8b)
November 17, 2009
01:03 PM Post #7282791
| Congrats to Billy! He sure is a cutey. I love 'his' socks...lol. |
ellesgh
Humansville, MO
November 17, 2009
01:47 PM Post #7282919
| hi
i love thought sock and hat
please put down how to make them
so i can make some for my lady in the home elle |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 19, 2009
12:31 PM Post #7289757
| I have started crocheting my first sock. I will say this that first round almost did me in-a very strange stitch. Working on the second rounds at the rate I am going I may be finished the first sock sometime next year. LOL
Will take pictures when it get bigger. I also now know why socks are usually multi colored. Much easier to figure out where you are.
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
November 19, 2009
12:38 PM Post #7289780
| Wren you GO GIRL! I haven't started my crochetty sockie yet. If it's too confusing I might just make one and hop alot more. |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
November 19, 2009
12:55 PM Post #7289833
| Well once I did the cuff stitch ten zillion times I get it down pat and was ok. But it is a little strange and the sock yarn that I sound is close to the crochet thread than yarn and sense my vision is not great was hard to see.
working on the 3rd round now. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 03, 2009
12:41 AM Post #7330579
| Just popping in to say My toes are warm and comfy with the temps dipping down to 30's at night... I sleep in my divine footwear. I bought Billy a pair of hunting socks, and he wears them when I put mine on... They go half up his legs, but he thinks they are cool... |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
December 03, 2009
01:06 AM Post #7330609
| It's Divine Sock weather here too. I think my feet are the warmest part when they're in their special socks. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 03, 2009
01:17 AM Post #7330627
| I am so glad that the socks are working...Now did you know that you can use the AC adapter on your computer as a bed warmer?
I am sure it is a really stupid thing to do...but so green that I am willing to make the sacrifice. That's right--I am sitting in bed with the AC adapter in my lap under the covers...who needs central heating? |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
December 03, 2009
01:20 AM Post #7330636
| Learn something new every day! |
greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
December 03, 2009
01:46 AM Post #7330678
| ouch! my AC adapter will actually burn u if you touch it for too long.. |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 03, 2009
01:50 AM Post #7330682
| Not mine--it just gets very warm...lovely. |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
December 03, 2009
07:12 AM Post #7330862
| I ware my socks at night too-they have been wonderful as they do not put pressure on my bad ankle. Get a bad case of tendinitis in it again.
Still working on learning to crochet socks-had to start over with a different yarn as the one I started with had to much dark areas and I could not see the stitches in the dark areas. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 03, 2009
09:43 AM Post #7331085
| I looooooove my divine socks. I wear them often in the evening after getting home from work, once I change into my pajamas, which is so often the case by about 7 pm, and then I have warm tootsies all evening. Yay!
The AC adapter point is interesting. Perhaps it would make a good chicken warmer too. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 03, 2009
11:44 PM Post #7333546
| LOL I am thinking that we are a crafty bunch here if we are looking into using the Adapter for a heater, I am thinking my laptop gives off enough heat to keep my knees warm
Good Idea Catscan |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 03, 2009
11:46 PM Post #7333549
| I ment to add,
Catscan you should be proud, people all around the US are wearing lovely Divine socks and are so thankful of your talents, I know I am one that could just huggggggg you for my warm and toasty toes..My Feet personally say a big thanks to you when they get encased in the warm and fuzzy yarn... . |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 03, 2009
11:49 PM Post #7333552
| You are so welcome...I hate cold feet.
Oh, yes MissJestr! The laptop is nice and cozy-making too. I wonder if you got in a nice big cardboard box and hung a 100 watt light bulb in there, if it would keep you warm?
Grownut can use a rock cause she lives in a warmer climate.
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
12:09 AM Post #7333608
| Yesterday I was looking at a 250 watt ceramic bulb for chicken coop heat - no glass, no bulb filaments - it's not for light, just for heat. I might invest in one.
I have it on good authority that Fran has organized an official sulk over the matter of scarves. I can do scarves, but not in a hurry, being a slow knitter, and midst exams...apparently she has sucked MissJ and greykyttyn into her sulking team. We may have a mutiny here...not sure if Grow is in or not...she might not wear scarves, you know her sock aversion and all... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 04, 2009
12:23 AM Post #7333638
| I was looking at the ceramic bulbs too--they sell them for reptiles at the local pet store. But they are pricey--like $30 for the bulb itself and more for the holder/receptacle. The advantage would be that the chicks would have natural light cycles--which is suppose to be very good for them, especially the pullets.
Never, ever use "black light bulbs"...I semi blinded some chicks with them. Although there are apparently some that are safer...I just would never risk it again. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
12:31 AM Post #7333654
| I was thinking of it for my brooder box (which see), which is in the barn, but it doesn't have any light in the daytime, being a box sort of thing, so I would use both a light and the ceramic thingy, but the light could be a low wattage one.
I can't believe, Catsy, that you had no comment on the recommencement of sulking...
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
12:33 AM Post #7333659
| The top has little liftable lids for water and food entry. 
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Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 04, 2009
02:18 AM Post #7333885
| I am not, by nature, particularly sulky.
Scarves are a serious commitment...have you started them yet, Moxie? I don't think law school exams exempt you from coaxing your fellow DGer's from their sulky excesses. Although, I suspect they have by now lost the instructions to the Golden Flan, and so will soon weaken...they might settle for mufflers. |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
December 04, 2009
07:00 AM Post #7334001
| What is a scarf and why would you need one-for that matter what is snow??? LOL |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
December 04, 2009
08:15 AM Post #7334063
| Wren, you would need a scarf even in semi-tropical Florida as a fashion statement, à la française, so you needn't get uppity on us! I have a whole wardrobe of them and will definitely participate in any scarf sulks which happen to be occurring on this illustrious forum. E'en now, seated at my trusty iMac (which is on a desktop, not my lap) I have a scarf wrapped around my neck whilst waiting for the woodstove to make a dent in the chilly morning temperatures. A lovely fuzzy scarf makes chicken-tending chores in frosty weather a breeze...
Where is the Scarf Sulk and how may I join, O Fran? |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
December 04, 2009
08:54 AM Post #7334135
| As my fashion sense never shown up, I can not make a statement with it. I hate to dress up.
My feet are always cold so that is the only part of my that might be in fashion. LOL |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
09:35 AM Post #7334246
| The scarf sulk appears to be occurring on Facebook. I am not sure if Fran has seen this thread.
I think that the exams are a reasonable excuse because otherwise the dreadful stress might cause me to drop too many stitches. I should think that keyhole scarves might do the trick. But now Fran says she doesn't have socks either. There is a multitude of sulkitude occurring.
(now nobody said they liked my brooder box...) |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 04, 2009
09:50 AM Post #7334294
| Oh I never will loose the recipe for Flan... It is taped to my fridge...It is a great addition to my recipie box as well, someday someone will stumble on the box and scratch their heads cause the offical title it Divine Moxon Flan |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
10:26 AM Post #7334394
| ROTFL...Divine Moxon Flan...that is too funny, I am laughing til my sides hurt! You crack me up Roseane - I need that in this study time!!
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porkpal
Richmond, TX
December 04, 2009
10:55 AM Post #7334491
| Look out Wren! It is snowing here - almost unheard of - Divine Socks hard at work.
Moxon the brooder is a definite upgrade over my Rubbermaid crates, but I need more pictuers I can't really visualize it in its entirety.( The expression on the chicks' faces is great.)
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batflower
Kingston, ON
(Zone 5b)
December 04, 2009
10:59 AM Post #7334509
| Its snowing here too, but the only thing weird about that is that its the first snow this year and its a good month late! LOL, you guys crack me up! |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
December 04, 2009
11:11 AM Post #7334541
| I used to live in the north - I MOVED. It isn't supposed to snow on me any more. |
batflower
Kingston, ON
(Zone 5b)
December 04, 2009
12:18 PM Post #7334722
| I'm totally with you on that one Porkpal...one day I will live somewhere with no snow, no cold winter winds, no chickens wintering in the kitchen cuz the coops are too cold, no need for scarves and divine socks... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 04, 2009
12:34 PM Post #7334763
| porkpal--who told you it didn't get cold in Texas? It freezes in Texas, they have catastrophic ice storms in Texas...The Blue Northers come down and drop the temps by 30 degrees in an hour...and they don't build for it. Some of the coldest winters in my life were in Texas...come to think of it, some of the coldest summers were too...Everything was airconditoned. |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
December 04, 2009
01:00 PM Post #7334855
| Yes, that's why we lucky ones have Divine Socks!
The air conditioning here is ridiculous. It is often colder inside in the summer than outside in the winter! |
Gwendalou
Langley, WA
(Zone 7b)
December 04, 2009
01:14 PM Post #7334890
| The socks are nice! I love the colors. The hats are nice too.
I can't believe how big this thread about socks is!!! |
wren107
Jacksonville, FL
(Zone 8b)
December 04, 2009
01:23 PM Post #7334914
| Well I will be honest it does get cold here, but it rarely stays cold long. It is not unheard of it being freezing in the morning and back up in the upper 70's in the afternoon. Last year was the coldest winter we have had in a long time. And it has only snowed enough for us to see it twice in my almost 60 years-well there was also one great freeze, lots of wrecks as no one down here knows how to drive on ice.
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 04, 2009
02:59 PM Post #7335166
| Well HERE you all are! I lost you in the HUGE blizzard happenin! My divine sockies finally arrived after the customdudes admired them for awhile. I'M SO EXCITED my pics so far are all blurry! |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
09:24 PM Post #7336268
| Dahlianut...where are your blurry pics???
Now there is a scarf sulk and Fran and Batflower and Grey are all in... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 04, 2009
09:31 PM Post #7336297
| But with what do they plan to sustain themselves?...the hens are on strike. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
09:34 PM Post #7336309
| I know, I haven't had an egg in about 3 weeks. Miserable.
Perhaps they will resort to dry bread and mustard. |
batflower
Kingston, ON
(Zone 5b)
December 04, 2009
09:40 PM Post #7336334
| my hen strike is finally over. 5 eggs yesterday and 3 today. for 9 hens that's not so bad |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
09:41 PM Post #7336337
| NO WAY! i am so jealous... |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
December 04, 2009
09:45 PM Post #7336355
| Alrightythen...grow chiming in, rock reverb...I could probably scarf for yarn...scarfing...well, yes...entirely possible... |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 04, 2009
10:33 PM Post #7336534
| Divine sockie with my striped red satin jammies. Tres chic. 
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 04, 2009
10:34 PM Post #7336536
| Crazy ole cat admiring the divine sockies. 
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dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 04, 2009
10:38 PM Post #7336554
| Dancing on my tippy toes in the divine sockies. Note the divine stripeyness of the combo with my jammies and the perfecto fit on the dahiafoot. 
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greykyttyn
Joplin, MO
(Zone 6b)
December 04, 2009
11:17 PM Post #7336686
| My hens are NOT on strike! I have eggs. its so very cold here... its only 14 degrees.. i'm freezing. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
December 04, 2009
11:22 PM Post #7336704
| Dahlia, the divine sock looketh even warmer than the pussycat, were that possible. I am glad you deigned to reveal them here, since those of us lacking in membership in the sacred society of FB wouldst otherwise miss them in truth.
'Tis 42 here but the wind doth howl...
And my new hens doth gift me with tiny egglets. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
11:25 PM Post #7336715
| Oh DAHLIANUT!!! You are indeed progressing beyond the ordinary divine and traversing the line into the sublime divine. The stripey socks and jammies are a match made in some otherworldly dimension. I am awestruck...(and highly envious of said jammies).
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batflower
Kingston, ON
(Zone 5b)
December 04, 2009
11:32 PM Post #7336731
| very nice Dahlianut, my feet are jealous of how perfectly divine and warm yours look in those photos... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
11:37 PM Post #7336746
| G_G, Dahlia isn't on FB, at least, not that she's revealed to us...
My hens do taunt me with their lack of egglets. In fact, twas just yesterday that I found myself at a dreadful impasse, shouldst I purchase "store bought" egglets? Oh the shame...
Tis -9 celsius here, and I don't do Fahrenheit so I don't know what that is, but it's so cold that the wind doth cause a shudder throughout mine very soul.
(I have looked it up, forsooth, it is 15 F) |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 04, 2009
11:38 PM Post #7336753
| Dear Claire those are my special jammies to be worn for the Gardener's Tribute to the Olympics dance. I MUST find some stripey slipon bottoms for the divine sockies to snowproof them so I can wear them outside! |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 04, 2009
11:43 PM Post #7336773
| Although tis cold and whistley in this blizzard, it is making beautious curlaceous drifts and is very sparkling with the holiday lights twinkling through the window. My goal for the morrow is to have a snowball fight |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 04, 2009
11:43 PM Post #7336776
| A new dance!!! But my dear Dahlianut, you must teach it to us all at once.
We are ready and prepared to learn the Gardener's Tribute to the Olympics Dance.
Do demo... |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 04, 2009
11:55 PM Post #7336812
| I am still choreographanizing it but so far it includes:
Opening Ceremonies - parade around the herb bed on a borrowed horse. Might have to be parade at a ranch cuz my horsey friends insist that the space is very small for a horse bummer :(
Curling - delivering a bucket of bonemeal (rock) leaning on the the leaf rake broom
Hockey - slapshotting clay chunks with the spade
Bobsledding in the trusty barrow (my fav ) I only have a 3 man team cuz the crazy ole cat got kicked off the team for jumping out of the barrow before the finish line which is so NOT allowed.
Downhill skiing - with dahlia stakes for poles and 2 gallon containers for ski boots
Figureskating - featuring a death spiral (tricky with my buddy ladder as a my parter)
Luge - on my collapsed garden trolley
Ok go ahead everyone practise and then we'll all do it together
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CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 05, 2009
12:00 AM Post #7336824
| OMG she's lost her freakin' mind...
Whoops, did I say that with my out-loud voice? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
12:06 AM Post #7336838
| No snow--am I disqualified? |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 05, 2009
12:10 AM Post #7336848
| Noper dear Catscan. We just got snowful here so I've been practising on a slippy plastic tarp. Works like a charm |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 05, 2009
12:10 AM Post #7336849
| No, no Catsy. Here's the Cali version:
Opening Ceremonies - parade around the cactus/succulent bed on a borrowed donkey (armadillo, goat, sheep, or other animal may be substituted)
Curling - delivering a bucket of bonemeal (rock) leaning on the the swimming pool net.
Hockey - slapshotting chicken poops with the spade
Bobsledding in the trusty barrow (my fav :-)) Chickens optional. Can be done on grass.
Downhill skiing - with dahlia stakes for poles and 2 gallon containers for ski boots, again, perfectly acceptable on grass. Roller skates optional replacement for 2 gallon containers.
Figureskating - featuring a death spiral (or a chicken lift)
Luge - on collapsed garden trolley or pool chair... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
12:23 AM Post #7336877
| Sadly, the Canadian has once again mistaken Northern Ca, hereafter known as NoCal, for Southern Ca, SoCal. Not only NoCal..but Central Valley NoCal--with the economic and cultural status of a third world country (not my observation--it was released by a federal government committee) and all the geographic variation of...um Nebraska?
No pools (we are in a drought), no grass (the bermuda has gone brown from the cold)...so Hockey it is..I told DH chicken poop would prove amusing!
Against whom will I be playing? |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 05, 2009
12:25 AM Post #7336880
| Tres fabby! There you go. I think a 'field' goal for the chicken poop slapshots is also definitely in order for the CA Olympics to avoid poop spots on buildings/fences. |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 05, 2009
12:28 AM Post #7336884
| Ahhhhh very good point dear Catscan. Of course we all will compete against The Lawners. It is always Gardeners vs. Lawners in the Gardening Olympics. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
12:35 AM Post #7336897
| dahlianut Congrats on the world of Divine Demi Socks, are they not the best in the world?
I will gladly loan the horse we have a few to spare... Alas I have no goats or lamas to offer |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
12:39 AM Post #7336909
| Lawners! I despise them! Bring them on...all of them...I am ready with my chicken poop bespangled garden. Only the potted shallots and Brugmansias in the front are unbesmirched. Lawners! The whimps! It will be a rout. They will faint at the mere sight of the playing field. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
12:49 AM Post #7336938
| I want to be a Gardner... I dont want to be speckled with Chicken POOP |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 05, 2009
12:56 AM Post #7336958
| Well what a koinkidink that you should offer MissJestr cuz we are driving right by your front door in 12 more sleeps Dmail coming your way tomorrow with details. ps I am actually best at petting horses rather than actually riding them (blush). Catscan the Lawners are indeed wooses. Also I'm sure alot will be disqualified for failing the drug tests for over chemical fertilization. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
07:44 AM Post #7337318
| I trot innocently off to bed and get up to find that you all have gone well and truly bonkers in my absence! At least it has brought mirth into my drab morning, made worse by darkness and rain. My chickens, alas, await...
All I have to contribute to the Olympics is an eager labradoodle, too small for riding, howsomeever, and a gaggle of geese and chickens. Ah, but we have a river! Would a boat help? |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
December 05, 2009
10:18 AM Post #7337582
| A boat! A boat! {{Dahl's this sounds better than the Great Chicken Drive!!}} |
ByndeweedBeth
scio, oregon, OR
(Zone 8a)
December 05, 2009
11:15 AM Post #7337748
| Who is making those wonderful "lichen" hats and where can I buy one? I have always wanted a knit hat that didn't make my head look small, LOL
Someone is really talented! |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
11:50 AM Post #7337867
| LOL check over here please and come join the cause...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1060705/ |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 05, 2009
12:49 PM Post #7338077
| Dahlianut, howcome you are visiting AZ and not IA. I feel put out.
A boat would be lovely. Can my ducks join in the festivities? They are very good at dancing.
The Lichen hat was made by our very own Catscan, fabby knitter that she is...although I do have the pattern now...perhaps you have colour preferences, BB? |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
12:52 PM Post #7338097
| Will you be coming down I40?? oh how wonderful to meet for a cup of coffee... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 05, 2009
12:57 PM Post #7338109
| {{{stomping foot in jealous rage...}}} |
dahlianut
Calgary, AB
(Zone 3a)
December 05, 2009
02:39 PM Post #7338446
| Yes Miss Jestr coming in on I40. We are flying into Vegas cuz its almost free (and why is it always almost free to fly to Las Vegas BTW?) Now dear Claire we have discussed my desire to visit Mount IA before and as you will recall we determined that it was all about the pesterly state of NEB stubbornly lodged between the great state of CO and Mount IA that was causing the problem. Anyhoooo back to the Olympics! Cousin Nut methinks this twill be better than the Great Chicken Drive! I am everso excited about your boat GHgal We DEFINITELY need a boat for the Skeleton event. QUACK! Ducks YES! and llamas and goatlings and sheeplings and hopefully Pork Chop is better. |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
December 05, 2009
03:05 PM Post #7338534
| We need duck flying races - perhaps a little competition would encourage my Muscoveys to learn how. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
03:24 PM Post #7338604
| DOING the Divine Sock Dance...
Oh and runnung for cover, Cmoxon has cupcakes... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
09:14 PM Post #7339923
| What kind of boat would you like, my dears? We have a choice of kayaks, canoes, motor boats or sailboats. Personally I think that kayaks or sailboats would give the event more panache, but that's just me; I don't insist. All are at your disposal - er, mayhap I should say pleasure instead?
I see no one wants a labradoodle, though? She comes with the motor boat but not the other crafts. Oh, and lest I forget - she loves cupcakes but can't have chocolate, of course. Red would be lovely.
This message was edited Dec 5, 2009 8:15 PM |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
December 05, 2009
09:29 PM Post #7339980
| Sailboat. |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
09:40 PM Post #7340021
| It's a deal... Let the Olympics begin!
(Ta-DAHHHH!) |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
December 05, 2009
09:42 PM Post #7340029
| If it were all poultry it could be the Poulympics... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
09:56 PM Post #7340073
| Sadly, I cannot participate due to a life-time ban for excessive poppy seed candy consumption during 2007 Poultry Marathon in Ankara,Turkey.
Perhaps you forgot? |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
09:58 PM Post #7340080
| But you CAN participate in the Caprineovine-and what's duck?-ineolympics, can you not?
Forgot to ask - which sailboat? Choice of GP14 and Sunfish, both 14 feet. Sorry nothing larger. I don't think a llama or a sheep would fit well but you could stick a whole bunch of ducks on one.
This message was edited Dec 5, 2009 8:59 PM |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
December 05, 2009
10:03 PM Post #7340107
| Sunfish, please...that's what we kids got to sail... |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
10:09 PM Post #7340128
| I think I am still allowed in the goat trials--but I am definitely banned from the anasine events.
They are very strict and their definition of Poultry is broad. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
December 05, 2009
10:11 PM Post #7340132
| chicken... |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
10:25 PM Post #7340172
| Okay, what in heaven's name is anasine? Unrelated to asinine, I presume?
I tried to learn to sail that Sunfish but I'm too much of a wuss. I mean, I did it, but then never went out again. I don't like tippy things! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
10:34 PM Post #7340215
| "Anas"--Latin for duck.
Anserine--goose-like
Aquiline--eagle-like
Asinine--donkey-like
Porcine--pig-like
Pavonine (my personal favourite)--peacock-like |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
10:34 PM Post #7340216
| LOLOLOL... wait I am laughing too hard to post |
greenhouse_gal
Port Elizabeth, NJ
(Zone 7a)
December 05, 2009
10:42 PM Post #7340244
| I knew porcine, pavonine, ovine, bovine and caprine, but not the others. Aquiline is interesting; truly a hooked nose, then, isn't it? Aren't words cool? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
10:53 PM Post #7340270
| For some reason I can never remember "frog-like" although I know it starts with "ra". So here is a list I just found. Everyone can print it out, stick it on the fridge, commit it to memory, practice using it in a sentence, and annoy their friends and family.
anserine = goose
aquiline = eagle
asinine = donkey
bovine = cow
canine = dog
caprine = goat
corvine = crow
equine = horse
feline = cat
glirine = rodent
hircine = goat
leonine = lion
leporine = rabbit
lupine = wolf
murine = mouse
ovine = sheep
piscine = fish
porcine = pig
ranine = frog
serpentine = snake
ursine = bear
vespine = wasp
vulpine = fox |
ByndeweedBeth
scio, oregon, OR
(Zone 8a)
December 05, 2009
10:56 PM Post #7340278
| This is kind of a nice hat, but I like the horrible hat better :) 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
|
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
10:58 PM Post #7340281
| That IS a nice hat...is it knit or crochet? |
ByndeweedBeth
scio, oregon, OR
(Zone 8a)
December 05, 2009
10:58 PM Post #7340282
| ...and then there is this one :( 
Click the image for an enlarged view.
|
ByndeweedBeth
scio, oregon, OR
(Zone 8a)
December 05, 2009
10:59 PM Post #7340283
| I think the first one is crocheted, the second one...who knows LOL |
ByndeweedBeth
scio, oregon, OR
(Zone 8a)
December 05, 2009
10:59 PM Post #7340285
| One could call the second one a "tumor" hat! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
11:01 PM Post #7340289
| The second one is definitely knitted.
Oh Dear--it looks like something someone designed after a bad time cramming for a Chemistry Exam. |
batflower
Kingston, ON
(Zone 5b)
December 05, 2009
11:03 PM Post #7340294
| catscan, nice word list! thanks for the Latin lesson! but, why are there 2 goats??? |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 05, 2009
11:18 PM Post #7340330
| Well--both are derived from Latin words meaning goat--but while the former, caprine, seems more a technical definition of any animal related to sheep but having straight horns and a beard (goat, huh?), the latter (hircine) seems more tightly linked to the ummmm...how to put this...ummmm...smell. So that while it would be rude to call your DH caprine...it would be very rude to call him hircine as well.
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batflower
Kingston, ON
(Zone 5b)
December 05, 2009
11:20 PM Post #7340335
| lol! |
ByndeweedBeth
scio, oregon, OR
(Zone 8a)
December 05, 2009
11:23 PM Post #7340349
| Hircine, I wonder if hirsuit was a latin linked word to that. Hairy and smelly? |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 06, 2009
12:39 AM Post #7340534
| Still cackling LOLOLOL Thanks for the lesson Catscan, I have so many new words I can call people and they would not know they were being insulted... |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 06, 2009
12:46 AM Post #7340551
| Ooooh! I want the murine olympics! I love mice!
I didn't know about pavonine. Very elegant sounding.
the second hat is disturbing. |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 06, 2009
12:53 AM Post #7340568
| Cmoxon, Please feel free to come to my place and get your friend the mouse that does not want to leave... Our cat does not want to chase it, I am afraid of mouse traps that might get the dogs or worse, BIlly.
Dont want to use posion, again if the mouse died, can my cat or dog get sick. I dont mind them living outside, but I am Drawing the line inside..
So Please have the murine olympics here at my place and take home all participants as my gift.. |
CMoxon
Urbandale, IA
(Zone 5a)
December 06, 2009
01:00 AM Post #7340577
| oh MissJ, I use the live traps. They are so easy. You just put some peanut butter in them and the mice go in. Then I give the mice a stern talking to, and I drive about 5 miles and release them. Nobody gets hurt. They are easy and clean and you don't have to touch the mice and there is no poison. Or spring trap thing. No problem for dog, cat, child, etc. I got mine at Home Depot. |
grownut
Clarkson, KY
December 06, 2009
01:12 AM Post #7340594
| I need some too. They've moved in for winter...and are NOT welcome!! |
Catscan
Lodi
United States
December 06, 2009
01:27 AM Post #7340608
| But do remember to check the traps... |
MissJestr
Kingman, AZ
(Zone 7a)
December 06, 2009
02:16 AM Post #7340679
| Home depot has become my favorite store... I will be going there tomorrow. |
