New edtions to the menagerie

Last week she was sitting on 12 eggs 

Eleven  Hatched  3 didn't make it

  

Today we have eight chicks

  

Four black,   two blond and 2 with skunk stripes.

UPDATE":  We no longer have any chickens.  They began disappearing, one or two at a time.  We're not sure what got them, but they are all gone.

The daffodil patch and more

The daffodils are finally blooming, actually they have been for several days.

 The hosta is sprouting

So are the lily of the valley

and the lily

We have huge bull frogs in the pond this year.

Latest Craft project

My Latest Craft Project

(in case you can't tell from these pictures it is a bracelet) 

Johnny Verbeck or the little dutchman sausage machine.

I don’t remember how it came up, but some of us were standing around talking about something the other day and I remembered the song Johnny Verbeck

No one else had ever heard it, so I went  on an internet hunt.  I found several versions.:

http://ingeb.org/songs/johnnyve.html

http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/johnnyverbeck.html

http://www.siskiyous.edu/class/engl12/folksong/john.html

http://barrygoldberg.net/sillysongs/sausages.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/ar/michellrene/scrapbook.html

http://kristinhall.org/songbook/Silly/DunderbecksMachine.pdf

This is how I remember it

There was a jolly Dutchman,
His name was Johnny Verbeck.
He made the finest sausages
And sauerkraut and speck.
He made the finest sausages
The and sauerkraut ever seen,
Then one day he invented
A sausage meat machine.

Chorus:

Oh, Mr. Johnny Verbeck
How could you be so mean.
I told you you'd be sorry for
Inventing that machine.
Now all the neighbors' cats and dogs
Will never more be seen.
They'll all be ground to sausages
In Johnny Verbecks' machine.                       

 One day a boy came walking,
A walking in the store

He ordered up some sausages
And piled them on the floor.
The boy began to whistle,
He whistled up a tune.
And all the little sausages
They danced around the room .

Chorus:

One day the darn thing busted

The darn thing wouldn't go.
So Johnny Verbeck, he climbed inside
To see what made it so.
His wife, she had a nightmare
And walking in her sleep,
She gave the crank a heck of a yank
And Johnny Verbeck was meat.

Chorus

And so was he.

Spring Flowers?

It is still cold, but the sun looks beautiful.  The pussy willows don't seem to mind. 

  Someone once told me that you could take the straw off the strawberries  when the forsythia bloom.  Well it is not even close. 

 

This is what they looked like March 24, 2012

 There is still some ice on the pond but it is starting to melt.