Blackberry winter is here

We are now having more cool weather. It rained this weekend and its really pretty cool outside. This is what the old timers call Blackberry Winter. When the blackberries start to bloom there is nearly always some cool weather. I doubt if the weather really watches blackberry bushes to see when to produce cool weather, but it happens pretty much every year anyway. My wife and I have stayed inside most of the weekend. We got a lot of rest. I mowed the yard today but other than that I haven't done much. My wife has been playing an online game called Shaiya. She loves that game. I bought her some protection so she doesn't lose all of her won points every time her character dies. Our chickens are still eating their eggs. I intended to buy some golf balls to put in their nests to discourage them, but of course I forgot it. We are only getting a few eggs now. Unless we are standing right there when the egg is laid it will be eaten by the other chickens in a matter of seconds. We are pretty discouraged and disappointed because we have so much time and money invested in our chickens. They may end up being roasted or in soup or dumplings if they don't change their ways lol. Have a great week everyone!

How to stop chickens from eating eggs

Houston we have a problem. Our chickens are eating their own eggs. That somehow seems like cannibalism to me, but I know that chickens have no brains and will eat anything that tastes good. Not all are guilty but its hard to find the guilty ones. We seperated some of them today and so far we seem to have about 14 hens that do not eat eggs. I am going to buy some golf balls or something that resembles eggs and put those in their nests. That is supposed to help because when the chickens peck the golf balls they don't break of course. Soon they will get discouraged and stop trying; at least that is the theory. Another method is to empty an egg without breaking the shell and then fill it with something that tastes bad to chickens, like maybe mustard.

I have also been trying to think of a way to make some contraption for their nests that will let the eggs roll out of sight, but thats harder than it seems. First of all the eggs will probably break when they roll against each other; also chickens are notoriously dirty, even in their nests, so the eggs probably couldn't roll anyway. Perhaps the best way is to just make chicken and dumplings or roast chicken with the hens that eat eggs and start over...

It was a great weekend, working with my wife and relaxing together

My wife and I had a good weekend. We mowed the yard yesterday and then we hauled a big tank of water on our trailer and watered plants etc. We didn't work hard this weekend but we accomplished quite a bit. Today we walked to the beautiful place on our property that has huge rocks. We sat on one of the rocks for awhile and just relaxed and talked. Our dog was there with us and she had a good time too. That is a beautiful place. Its like a park. The rocks are huge. They have broken off of a small bluff and now there is rock walls and huge rocks laying on top of other huge rocks. There is a tree that has grown up right beside one of the big rocks. It is touching the rock in one place and the tree has grown a big bulge right where it touches the rock. The bulge looks like a dogs head and it appears that the dog is trying to eat the rock. You can see it in the picture above. My wife and I both enjoy nature and quiet peacefulness. We have an abundance of that here where we live. We live in the mountains with tall trees all around. We have our chickens and dog. We have a garden and a pond, a tractor, an ATV, etc to make our lives more enjoyable and productive. Of course we have internet and high def big screen tv, but we enjoy the outdoors more. I hope your weekend was as good as ours. Have a great week!

Our dreams are coming true, but there are always more dreams

Work, work, work. Its spring and in addition to my day job, my wife and I are also trying to build up the soil in our garden and a million other things besides. I am hauling a load of topsoil every day and tilling it into the garden. Its slow going but part of the garden is showing the rich dirt. Hopefully we will have lots of veggies to eat this summer and all of this hard work will pay off. We put some chicken litter in the dirt too and tilled it in. There is so much to do in the spring to get everything going. I need to mow the lawn but so far I haven't had time. Later we want to put in a big water storage tank. We have never had enough water in our well here. Country living is great but water is a necessity no matter where we live. We are gaining on our dreams, slowly but surely. We are trying to get all of our debts paid and then we want to have a baby. My wife and I were talking about our dreams just this afternoon and I told her that we will work on making our dreams come true, one at a time. If we got them all at once we would nave no dreams left and life would be meaningless. We want our dreams to come true one at a time and that will lead us to more dreams.....

Such beautiful weather and a bad sunburn

My wife and I have been working outside all day and I am sunburned! I wore a tank top shirt and today is the first sun I have seen this year on my shoulders and neck. I am sore but I think not as sore as I will be tomorrow. Anyway on the good side I got our new trailer wired for lights, and I got the garden plowed, plus I worked on a chipper/shredder that was given to us yesterday by my sister and bro in law. I never did get it to start. I think the coil or electronic ignition is bad. It was such a beautiful day here. We have been outside nearly all day. My wife cleaned the inside of our two trucks and cooked some meat outside on the open fire. We enjoyed it a lot. Hopefully this lovely weather will last for a long time. Now that the trailer lights are working so I can pull it safely I will use it to haul some good topsoil for our garden. My wife is eager to start planting. We bought a small peach tree yesterday so now hopefully she will have peaches as well as veggies.

Why are our personal blogs being attacked by Google?

Well, google has did it again. My page rank is gone and I don't have a clue why. Hopefully it will be back in a few days. I appreciate the fact that google is trying to get rid of spam, but they need to keep tabs on their crawlers and set some steadfast rules. My page rank goes up and down, over and over. My blogs get disabled and sometimes my whole account gets disabled. My wife and I have both lost blogs that we had many months of hard work in. We never got them back, even though we have tried over and over to get them restored. From what I have read online this is a problem that thousands of people are having. Where will it stop? Like I said I appreciate googles efforts in spam removal, but don't attack us honest people and don't take away our hard work for nothing. Google has cost my wife and I hundreds and probably thousands of dollars, most of it in work that we had already done but lost when our blogs were disabled. We sometimes write paid ads in our blogs, just as thousands of others do. I try to be careful to keep plenty of personal posts to keep up my page rank. Recently my wife and I started some blogs on another site. We are tired of google's careless antics, but guess what.... We still have no page rank on the other site. If the same blogs were here on Blogger, which is run by google, we would have a page rank long ago. Its just another way our internet dictator is trying to force us to bow down to them. I don't like it! I think that soon a lot of people will probably file lawsuits against google for discrimination and other charges. I will smile when they win. Maybe I will be one of them. I hope you are too. Maybe this post will get my blog disabled for good. If so I will see you on TypePad. This blog is already moved to that location, I just haven't activated it yet. I am waiting for google to disable it here again first heheheeee.. Have a great weekend!!!

A small personal loan will help us recover financially

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