What deed, thought, sight or what was said today that made you smile?

[alp]

Saw this in the papers and really love it.

Feast for the chickens

I so want this kind of life

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...s-casual-joggers-sneakers-day-son-Samuel.html

 

[alp]

This is quite hilarious

Car driver trying to overtake a traffic jam on the WRONG side of the berates van driver who is in his way in ugly road rage confrontation

• Car driver was filmed trying to drive up road the wrong way to skip queue of cars
• However a determined van driver blocked his path and demanded he go back
• The angry car driver then gets out his car and tries to open the van driver's door
• Eventually the angry motorist gets back into his car and is forced to drive back
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...torist-shouts-abuse-van-driver-right-way.html

 

[marlingardener]

Alp, having chicks and chickens isn't all beer and skittles! The chicks need temperature control, daily cleaning of their bin, and a diet of "starter feed." Their water needs to be cleaned twice daily, and the waterer needs to be shallow enough that they don't drown (chicks and chickens don't swim).
Then, after they get big enough to move to an outside coop (did I forget to mention that as chicks they need to be monitored and kept inside? You ought to smell our guest bedroom when we are raising chicks!) you need to keep them in a restricted area until they are large enough (17 weeks) to go to the outside coop, eat bugs, and scratch around in the dirt.
I love our hens, and wouldn't give them up for anything. Their eggs are so much better than grocery store eggs, and we get the entertainment of watching their shenanigans, too!
If you so want this kind of life, realize that it entails responsibilities, expenses, and a lot of omelettes in your diet!

 

[alp]

realize that it entails responsibilities, expenses, and a lot of omelettes in your diet!

We eat a lot of eggs and we just put them in our rice and cook them at the same time. Son calls this easy cooking. Indeed, we had an egg each and a slice of salmon for dinner.

Yes, I can visualise my spreadsheet! Ooops! Don't think I will feed them with dry mealworms either as I don't have Jennifer Garner's money! I would like to give a it a go, limiting probably to 5. My parents used to keep caged hens and I used to collect eggs. That was decades ago when nobody was worried about animal welfare.

Their eggs are so much better than grocery store eggs,

I have noticed some eggs branded under a certain name have no weight whatsoever and wondered if the supplier weighed their feed. These eggs are consistently very light! Something fishing is going on!

 

[marlingardener]

I also forgot to mention the sheer pleasure of giving healthy, deep orange yolked eggs to friends. I have two friends that get a dozen a week, and I do enjoy seeing the smiles and hearing their little cries of glee when I give them eggs.
If you get hens, Alp, make sure you get a docile breed and one that is adapted to your climate. We have Black Australorps who can stand our Texas heat. They lay big brown eggs, are docile, and aren't picky about what they eat (we do give them the best layer pellet feed and left-overs from dinner).
These are our young ladies, exploring the barn lot. As they get more mature, their combs grow and they grow, too! I weighed one of our ladies and she came in at 12 lbs.

 

[alp]

I also forgot to mention the sheer pleasure of giving healthy, deep orange yolked eggs to friends. I have two friends that get a dozen a week, and I do enjoy seeing the smiles and hearing their little cries of glee when I give them eggs.
If you get hens, Alp, make sure you get a docile breed and one that is adapted to your climate. We have Black Australorps who can stand our Texas heat. They lay big brown eggs, are docile, and aren't picky about what they eat (we do give them the best layer pellet feed and left-overs from dinner).
These are our young ladies, exploring the barn lot. As they get more mature, their combs grow and they grow, too! I weighed one of our ladies and she came in at 12 lbs.
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Shame I don't live next to you. Will pay for them. Thank you for the advice. Need to sell the house quickly. Saw house and land for £200K in the middle of nowhere, but soooo tempting!

Good looking hens, @marlingardener !

Saw this and chuckled

Im-PECK-able Yorkshire accent! Talking raven startles castle visitors by asking them 'You alright love? - with a distinctly Northern twang

• Lisa and Mark Brooks enjoying a day trip to Knaresborough Castle in Yorkshire
• Mrs Brooks, 43, took her phone out to capture the bizarre moment on camera
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tors-saying-alright-love-northern-accent.html

 

[Becky]

This made me smile today

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-en...with-yorkshire-accent-filmed-in-knaresborough

"Y'alright love?" "I'm alright"

 

[alp]

Hilarious moment politics professor's cat interrupts live TV interview by leaping on his HEAD

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...nterrupts-live-TV-interview-leaping-HEAD.html

 

[alp]

Chilli eating competition

@Leeski - you could have a little competition like this with your harvest! Amazing venue decoration!

 

[DirtMechanic]

 

[alp]

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To me, it's the other way round. When it snowed, my plants gave up their ghosts. Too hot, they parted way and exposed their desert grave.. I wish I could garden with optimism.

 

[DirtMechanic]

To me, it's the other way round. When it snowed, my plants gave up their ghosts. Too hot, they parted way and exposed their desert grave.. I wish I could garden with optimism.

Looks like we found Mother Nature.

 

[alp]

By the look of the handwriting, he's still a child at heart! Aww, bless him!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

That is so lovely, but on the down side I bet it has been worrying him for all these past years
I hope he has found peace now that his conscious is cleared

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Aah ,how thoughtful

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ds-14000-deodorants-passengers-amid-stifling/


How about London underground doing the same......bet we've all had to put up with a whiffy armpit under our nose as it's owner clings on to the handrails