Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[RollingAcres]

Quick funny - Teresa and I were in the check out line at TSC and she said shoulder hurt. I said it was probably from all the hoein' that we had been doing. She looked at the man standing behind me who was doing his best to not crack up. He said I'm sorry and I know it's garden season but that just hit me wrong and I couldn't suppress the laugh.

 

[Jennifer Hinkle]

We forgot to put the chickens up last night and lost two of them to something. Our tame Egg Delivery (ED) hen was not anywhere to be found but I did find a pile of her feathers. One of the Buff Orpingtons was missing her head and that's the second time that has happened.

We have 6 chickens, used to have 8. They refuse to go up at night. One morning we found just a wing in the yard with a few feathers. Not sure what happened to them. We let our chickens free range which cuts down on the ticks in the yard and anything else they can catch.

 

[Mike CHS]

That's hilarious! Did she turn three shades of red???

She didn't but the man did.

 

[Mike CHS]

Jennifer - ours have a pen that is a little over an acre but we close them up at night.

 

[Bruce]

I guess I am lucky, the birds always go in the coop by themselves at night, no sleeping out. But yeah I do have to remember to lock them up.

What sort of live trap do you have? I think the wire spacing on the Havahart I have is too close for a coon to reach in and pull the bait out. Which is fine by me because if it can reach through from the outside, it can reach OUT from the INSIDE! I prefer the angry animal be well contained.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have the Havahart traps. We set it again but we need to get some pictues on the game camera to get an idea of whatever it is coming out at whatever time. Once we do that I'll go out and wait on it at night.

 

[Mike CHS]

We went to the Amish auction to pick up a bunch of sweet corn but the corn was on tables that would be the last thing to sell. That would have meant a couple of hours getting to the corn so we left and went around to some of the Amish farms. The prices are usually better but they don't always have what you are looking for. We did find corn at one of the farms that we frequent regularly and got 10 dozen ears for $1.75 a dozen and picked this morning.

We have melons in our garden but they won't be ready for a couple of weeks so we also got some huge Jubilee Watermelons and monster cantaloupes for $1 each. I sometimes wonder why I have a garden for the prices they charge.

 

[Rammy]

It's hot enough outside I would have changed my mind anyway since I wouldn't have been able to put the shoulder on till the ribs were almost through cooking. I do Baby Backs pretty hot and fast rather than low and slow.

The smallest of the 3 racks are done and taste delicious and I filled up the space with skewered fresh tomatoes and pineapple.

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[Rammy]

Thats one of my favorite movies.

 

[Rammy]

We have the Havahart traps. We set it again but we need to get some pictues on the game camera to get an idea of whatever it is coming out at whatever time. Once we do that I'll go out and wait on it at night.

I used BBQ once. Caught a raccoon getting into my chicken feed. Made a nice hat.