Asheville
28°
Livonia
34°
First, I am disappointed at the lack of sympathy and gift offers I received after that nasty injection in my knuckle, which is now swollen and bruised. But that is ok…I will suffer along and put up a blog (back of my hand across my forehead).
My niece, Olivia, is a chicken whisperer. All weekend she would go out and crow, and the rooster would answer back.It was funny, and noisy, and I finally got it on video.
They really pulled off a big surprise. They even ordered my favorite cake and picked it up before they met us at the restaurant. We were being ushered to our table when I heard my niece yell “Happy Birthday Aunt Kathie,” and then I saw her and my sister and brother-in-law. About five minutes later my brother and sister-in-law popped out from hiding at the bar. Amazing!!!
This is my sister Diane and me. She got the looks and the thin genes.
My brother Dave and sister-in-law Debbie
We fed the chickens constantly. Crowing takes a lot of energy out of them.
My niece, Olivia, pondered the VW bus and asked, “Aunt Kathie, do all houses in North Carolina have old trailers?” Hee hee.
Brando had a real hard time dividing his time between all the people. These photos are not great as they were taken with the phone, but they are worthwhile though.
This one is really bad, but you can still see the silly face on Brando.
He was not going to be kicked off his many beds, not even for company. This is my brother, Dave.
After they all left, Brando had to recover. Being a good host is very exhausting.
Now the weekend is over and we were hit with more snow. Snow day today, which means we go to school on Saturday.
The one hen is still sitting on her egg, but the other two are laying. Two eggs today in the middle of a snow storm!!! They got nice, warm oatmeal this morning.
my hat is off to the chicken whisperer! And, yeah, Brando does look quite happy with Olivia, although your brother does not look quite so enamored with Brando. Overall it looks like it was a really fun weekend.
you know, completely off the topic and stuff, someone asked me today what i would do in the event of a catastrophic event that sent society back to a more primitive stage. I thought it was fairly simple. I said, well, I’m heading for Kathie’s house.Actually i calculated that if i started walking today it would be done snowing by the time i arrived. AND you might just be finishing up all the snow days.
Well, for sure we would have fresh eggs. I can see you hiking to NC with all your poodles.
First of all, I LOVE the pics! Secondly, how cute is it that Olivia can crow like a rooster and poodlenoodle would crow back, LOVE IT!