CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[CntryBoy777]

I even have to wait to dry and cool down to even take a warm shower during the heat....I don't like cold showers, well the joints don't....but, certainly don't want to get out sweating either. I enjoy it in the winter tho....I will empty a hot water tank and come out with red skin....

 

[Latestarter]

I actually climbed into my jacuzzi yesterday afternoon for my lower body (joint pain) and though I was sweating upper body, those jets and the hot water did wonders. Felt great after I climbed out and dried/cooled off.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

We have the heat turned OFF and the water is still 100 degrees!

 

[CntryBoy777]

This afternoon before the storm came thru, Joyce cut one of the melons and cut it off the rind and put into tupperware/rubbermaid bowls, put in the fridge....and gave the rinds to the chickens and ducks.....I think they are southern chickens and ducks, because they devoured it....
This evening when I went to shut them up they were squawking at me....when Joyce dropped the rind pcs over the fence a few had turned over and they couldn't get to it all, so I flipped them over and they attacked them..... ....both of them will eat everything but the green part of the rind....they will leave it paper-thin. The storm that came thru lasted about an hour and we got .7" out of it.....so, my plans of cutting some grass got "Rained On".....

 

[Mike CHS]

We have cut way back on feed since they have been getting so much out of the garden. They love the melon rinds and cantaloupe. Peppers not so much.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That is what I am hoping for when I get these birds turned out here shortly and also to spread their mess out some too....especially the ducks. I'm just hoping the goats will leave them alone....

 

[goatgurl]

the only time I have trouble between the goats and the chickens and ducks is when the goats are eating and the birds want to share and the goats don't. then you might see a little head flinging or feather pulling but never to the point of injury but the fowl get the point.
my chickens and ducks love the watermelon and cantaloupe rinds too. you could dry the outside shell and use it for parchment they clean it so well. the ducks do make a lot less when they free range and I like it that way.

 

[Bruce]

But Bruce that isn't necessarily true....don't ya hail from So Cali?....

Yeah and I would eat half an icebox melon no problem, maybe even the whole thing. But DW and the girls were born in Vermont. Other that her stint at Dartmouth ALL the way over in NH (on the west border, 60 miles from her home), DW has never lived outside Vermont. DD1 the same, DD2 except for her 4 years at college (just finished). She has lived the farthest, 1,100 miles in Beloit and I won't bother to calculate how far it is to Japan where she spent a semester 2 years ago.

I did a quick look and it might be a Gulf Fritillary caterpillar but I haven't seen any before either.

AKA Passion Butterfly.

 

[Pastor Dave]

We have melon patch farms and veggie stands with a lot of folks enjoying water melon. Yah, we're North, but a lot of folks still say we talk like Southerners. I think I base a lot of that on Indiana opening up to settle in 1816 with a big part of settlers coming in from TN. On my Dad's side, they all knew each other in TN counties before moving to IN. Families settled close and young folks married from familiar families, etc.

 

[CntryBoy777]

There was a time in my life that I thought about moving around Jasper and Shoals, In.... @Pastor Dave ....I drove a truck for a company located there in Shoals....really nice area, but things just never opened up in that direction for me.
@Bruce I wasn't sure ya would know it if ya saw it, or just haven't seen it there....but, just in case, this is a Pokeberry plant....the goats will scrap the skin of the stalk and eat it and their horns will be a deep pink.... ....most of the berries on this one are still green, but if expanded ya can see a few ripe ones. Here is what caught my attention the other evening.... .....it is on his rear leg just above the hoof.
I got a bunch of grass cut today, but a little bit more tomorrow hopefully......