CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Bruce]

Had a busy morning today, loading the eggs from 3 fridges and taking them to town, shopping @ WallyWorld, and eating out before returning to the "Animal Chores". This weather got my knee to complaining, and the running got me tired...so, I laid down for about an hour worth of Nap....just in time to put ducks up and evening check on goats. The wind outside was really chilly and it was a piercing cold blowing in the wind....it got up to 52 today and there was sunshine, but the wind was "Bone Cold" as Mom used to call it.
On the egg front, we got 9 "Dottie" eggs and 10 duck eggs...that leaves only 1 duck to get started and all hens will be laying. Joyce ordered some egg cartons today...

Happy Birthday Fred!!!! I just about missed it!

Ordered egg cartons? Those things are downright expensive!! Just hit up your friends that buy eggs at the store to save them rather than tossing them. Or what kind of place uses eggs but would likely get them in 12 or 18 cartons rather than flats? I'm sure they wouldn't mind giving them to you. You aren't selling your eggs with someone else's business info on the cartons as if the eggs came from them (and likely your girls' eggs are better quality anyway).

It was cold and misty here today too. We went to get horse feed and eat at one of our favorite cafes. When we walked outside, it was COLD!!

In relative terms of course.

 

[NH homesteader]

Yes... I assure you that Bruce and I were much colder! 25 and windy here!

 

[Hens and Roos]

I think we made to 18* here today...sunny but cold

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well, Bruce if we knew people that bought them I would ask them, or be giving them eggs too. There are some that are gathering them from family members, but it seems to be Higher on our "Priority List" than theirs....cause we have used all that we had, Mom left, and others that have given them to us already. So, tho they cost some we are ordering some to Trade. Really kinda "Switch Out" when a routine emerges and there are regulars. We've used empty ice cream buckets, plastic bowls, and anything that would hold some eggs, even had a box in the bunch delivered today.

 

[Mike CHS]

It was 43 and windy today and it was cold.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Cold here too - I think we barely made 60....brrrrrrr! Thank goodness it's gonna warm up for the weekend.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well when the "Joints" get chilled and Stiff the definition of "Cold" changes too...and especially when ya are used to the Heat that others "Wilt like Lettuce" in....anything below 40 is just Cold...and the WindChill just intensifies the difference. ....the older I get, the more I prefer Warm over Cold any day. That's why I'm a Southerner by Birth and Choice...
Thanks All for the well Wishes!
The food was Great and got to see a friend we haven't seen for a couple of months...they had taken a trip to visit family. It really is no big deal with us, just another day....but, the grandkids Love to let ya now they appreciate ya.

 

[NH homesteader]

Lol I'm just picking on you. Glad you had a good birthday!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Hey NH, we call it havin Fun with ya here...it comes from an old Andy Griffith show with "Andy and Barn"...

 

[CntryBoy777]

Well we have had all 4 seasons in our weather here today
...we started the day at 28°, was 40° at noon with bright, warm sunshine....56° at 1:30, then thick clouds moved in and started Sprinkling....back down to 45° now....one Crazy day.....
Didn't get much done today, other than tending to the Critters. I did watch Cheetos playing with a field rat in the field while the sun was out. He is one crazy cat, just as the rat would make it to the taller grass, he would catch it take back in the field and plop down and Watch it. When it would move away, he would move with it, until it would get close to the taller grass...then cycle again. I watched it about 5-6 cycles thru, and got tired of watching...sure glad he was having Fun. It reminded me of growing up and a little boy playing with his Trucks and cars outside...