May 2009
M	T	W	T	F	S	S
« Apr		Jun »
	1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Guinea Wrangling!

Let’s pretend its Monday! I have a freebie for you as promised so let’s play pretend. BUT first, let me tell you about my sweet neighbor Kelly!

Dillon, Nathan and I had gone over to visit our Helen, she had a little something for the boys to do, dig some holes plants, some trees…that sort of thing. We were on our way back when we see Kelly driving a bit wild on her riding mower. Hmmm? We get closer to home and upon seeing us our Guinea brood dashes from the tall grass and across the road. Turns out Kelly was trying to mow the field between her house and ours and the Guineas heard the noise and ran over to search for bugs in her wake! Her dogs didn’t much like their tresspass and Kelly was worried some munching would happen. So she decided to heard our birds back to our border and hope they would stay.

What she didn’t know is our Guineas are technically “Mower Aggressive” They play chicken with the mower and by the time we showed up more mower chasing had happened than Guinea Wrangling.

Between my giggles I told her they are scared to death of brooms, rakes, bamboo poles, but they will chase the mower. They chased a wayward cement truck last week, I thought the driver was going to have a heart attack because they went right for the tires. Cement trucks don’t just stop when you want them to, they need a little lead time, so the driver was very happy to see that not even one psycho guinea hen lost their lives. Kelly agreed…”They were chasing me! I was afraid they would get got by the mower!”

See, try to do a good thing and this is how it goes down, save them from the dogs, they throw themselves at the mower!

Many Thanks, Kelly for thinking of our birdies and trying to shoo them back where they belong!

__________________________

WITH THE ALLIGATOR PURSE 04

FREE STUFF!

I am not sure this is the end of With The Alligator Purse or not. So let’s just say for now, we are nearing the end so there are no powerful surprises.

The rains this spring have been good to our lillies and the colors were magnificent! I have never seen them so pink or so large. To think I was going to return these bulbs! LOL! I got them in the mail with some banana trees and thought they had arrived by mistake so I boxed them up to return. Well little did I know, these mail order plant places don’t bother with returns, they just tell you to keep the stuff if its wrong. Turns out these bulbs were a free gift! Well, I still didn’t want them. I had heard the complaints of gardeners about lilies needing lots of added nutrition and my mulch is precious. I can never produce enough. I didn’t want silly flowers stealing all my precious mulch! LOL!

I planted the monsters after I tried to return them. They came up in all kinds of colors the first year even a dark dark purple. But over the years just the orange ones and a few dark red have survived. The yellows were the first to go…maybe they were whimps! I do give them a good amount of my mulch…SEE I told ya so! Mulch Horders! But they are so pretty and bloom for such a short time I guess its worth it.

If this is the first you’ve heard of this freebie series don’t forget to collect the rest of them…just keep scrolling down you will find them all! WHoo HOO!