UNTETHERED -- GUINEA FOWL A' GO GO

With Bonnie's encouragement, I have started moving around, intent on getting some of this weight off. My stationary bicycle became too boring, so we sprung for a high priced bike at a yard sale last week and for $8.00 I have become untethered. I have not ridden a bicycle since I was about ten years old and it was a shaky venture at first. Little by little it is coming back to me and the workout feels great. Now I need to name this bargain bike. Suggestions please and I will work out a prize for the winning name.


I have a plan as we take another run at raising Guinea Fowl again. We purchased 20 keets at the poultry swap meet last week. Some are 3 weeks old and the rest are six weeks old. We're not trusting them to any mother other than ME. Starting Wednesday we will let one or two of the older keets out of the cage. We know they will stay close to the others and we know they are too big already for the bigger Guinea female to kill. Little by little we will turn one or two more out until they are comfortable in the hen house.

Why would I try this again? Because I believe if I can build a large enough herd of Guinea Fowl, we can trust them to serve as guard patrol and keep predators away. Then I can add some laying hens to our chicken flock.

Tomorrow our California boys come for a visit. Needless to say, I shall be busy for the next seven or eight days. When I return, I will update you on the bike name, the Guinea Fowl progress, the bridge progress and wonderful tales of the visit from Ian and his buddy Kenneth. Meanwhile, let me suggest a movie for you to watch. If you haven't seen TAKING CHANCE with Kevin Bacon, you must. Let me warn you, it is a "two sock" movie.

Well, there is a second contest. The first is to name the bike. The second is to see who can remember what the phrase "two sock" movie means to me.