Happy New Year...

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year and has kept to all of those resolutions made as you toasted in the New Year! I purposely didn't make any resolutions this year, at least I didn't make any "known", which plays in my favor...because no one will know if I break one! Ha!

And most importantly, thanks to all of you who have not "unsubscribed" to my blog, which is much appreciated! I plan to "blog with cause" this year...perhaps less blogs, but with more substance...well maybe...

I do look forward to getting back into the routine of perusing the blogs of others, mostly those that follow mine, so I have a lot of catching up to do as well as finding some new ones to follow!

For the most part, not much to report from Windee Acres...Chicken's are doing well...we did lose one about two months ago. We have concluded she was ill in some way or another. She had stopped laying (which is unusual at such a young age) and now I look back and recall some occasional problems with eggs, the laying of eggs while roosting (hence building the egg trampoline) and the memorable "nerf egg". In addition, I "think" she was also the one that habitually tried to get out of the coop, succeeding on three occasions, the last leading to her demise unfortunately. So, we are down to five pullets and Russell Crow, who pesters the girls with every chance he gets, including "crowing" at 3am this morning...Wake up!!! Oh, and I'm happy to say, I have actually sold eggs...I'm selling them for $1.50 a dozen to co-workers. My incentive is simply to recover my investment in feed, so we'll see how that goes in 2011.

The weather is and continues to be cold, wet, windy, gloomy, foggy...hmmmm....sorry I've depleted my weather adjective quota for today...but you get it!

And then the dogs...ahhhhh yes, our crew of misfits...our "kids"...the mischeivious four-leggers...which are so near and dear to our hearts...

 Nitschke with "his" infamous orange ball...

I want the orange ball!!!

Nitschke...I WANT THE BALL!!!

Does it hurt when I bite your neck...LIKE THIS!!!

Does it hurt YET???

Back-up has ARRIVED!!! Let's tag team Nitschke!!!

I'm not giving up my orange ball!!!

Intimidation look from mama Molly...submissive look from Nitschke...

Look Molly...I still have "my" orange ball...

How can politician's circumvent the "no call" list...???

Well, according to "me"...unsolicited political campaigning via telephone is no different than an unsolicited call from somebody trying to sell you "something"!!! In Wisconsin, we can sign up to be on the "no call" list...but apparently, politician's are exempt from following the law...Oh well, am I surprised??? Hell no...!!!

But, everytime we get one of these annoying calls, I cannot help but recall one of the funniest prank calls I have heard, thanks to Tom Mabe, a somewhat regular comedian on the Bob and Tom syndicated radio show which we listen to from time to time...

I hope you enjoy his humor...maybe my sense of humor is warped, but how funny would it be if some right wing (okay...left wing too) conservative called somebody up and got involved in this kind of phone conversation...I hope some day I will have the wit to pull something like this off on a telemarketer...

Keeping up the latest tradition...

which is posting about once a week...

Had a productive day in the garden Sunday, we pulled out most of the remaining vegetation, including about a half-dozen "huge" sunflower stalks, for which I had to dig out with my shovel!!! We'll think twice about where we plant them next year...Only have a few piles to toss in the compost and the weeds will get tossed into my "infamous" burn pile that WILL get burned this year!!!

Jan took some awesome pics of some Bluebirds last week...I'll be uploading some even better shots of them to some of the photo sites to see if they will earn her a prize or something!!!

Can't wait for the end to Day Light Savings Time, even though it will mean getting up even earlier to take advantage of some extra light...Right now, I am lucky to get an hour after work by the time I get home...but hey, at least I have an hour of sunlight to enjoy, so looking at it that way, I'm lucky!!!

Swooping in for a fat tadpole dinner...

Well, they're not on a telegraph line Elton, but will the bird bath suffice???

Hey...listen to me...when the two legger tells us to lay down, I'm going to sit....heheheheee...

50 degrees outside and Nitschke boy still finds it refreshing to play in his pool...

Garden clean-up day...sunflowers still standing tall and mighty. in the background...

Who needs night vision goggles...I eat carrot's...

Do you see the size of that root system...???

Sunflowers down along with the fence line...we're gettin' er done!!!

Until next week or perhaps sooner...Peace my friend...R Dean