It's been many years since 911, but finally I don't connect USAF shows with 911 anymore, like I did for the first few years -- the same sounds as after 911 happened.
Even still, they're loud, but they're reassuring. Thanks military personnel, for keeping us safe!
Onomatopoeias & Songs as Pet Nicknames (yes, I'm weird)
I've always loved onomatopoeias, even though I didn't know there was a word for them until recently. I've nicknamed quite a few pets with onomatopoeias: Poppy, my slug-eating cat that would always come running whenever she saw me pick up a garden tool, learned her nickname: "pop pop pop", with me smacking my lips open and closed to make the sound.
Of course I was tickled pink to find a fun onomatopoeia search engine hyuk hyuk hyuk ^_^
Sometimes I couldn't come up with a sound-nickname, so I'd use a rhyme or part of a song, like using the skip-rope song for Teddy Bear (who'd kidnap other cat's babies, so every time I heard a baby kitty crying, I knew I had to take the kidnapped baby back to it's mother to nurse, then Teddy Bear would kidnap it back until next feed time).
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around,Instead of an onomatopoeia nickname for our current young cat named RB (short for Rocket-Butt), I came up with an onomatopoeia for his favorite game: Kerpow, which sounds like a mouth explosion -- I kick my foot up about two foot high in front of him while making the Kerpow sound. He'll jump high in the air to try to catch my foot, then he'll run up and down the hall full speed (Rocket Butt haha). Then I'll "kerpow" him again, over and over, until he's worn out.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, you're a clown!
(DH contributed the last line LOL)
I am working on a song-nickname for RB, and I think he's starting to respond to it; it's based on the song Lover Boy, from Dirty Dancing (starting at 57 sec):
aRBie...kitty aRBie...kitty aRBie...something something something
meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow
(imitating the twangs from the musical instrument)
I'm going to put this song into DH's head, so hopefully he'll help me with the something something something part. If I just ask him, DH won't play LOL, but if I sing the song to RB in front of DH, then complain how I can't come up with anything for the something something something part, DH will come up with a funny filler eventually ^_^
Watering the new chickens?
It seems that the former neighbors setup a backup plan for the chickens, because we(DH) were taking so long. But our across-the-street neighbors were watching out for us, and offered to help wheel the small pens into our yard for me. But he didn't know how to catch chickens either, so I told him DH had just woken up from his after-work nap, so I'd bring him back with me (knowing that if our across-the-street neighbor was waiting on DH, DH might actually go next door LOL). So I return home and tell DH:
'Honey, honey, the other guys going to get my chickens if we don't move them today and none of us there know how to catch them!'
It worked, and DH caught the white chicken penned with Nasty Duck. Turns out the white chicken is a white rooster, whose new name is Pedro Tamale.
DH said the rest of the chickens in the large pen would be too difficult to capture until night time. DH and I went there as soon as it was dark, and my oh my did those chickens ever raise a ruckus - I can now proudly say that I've held a chicken, woot!
I'll still feed Nasty Duck next door, I don't want it "free ranging" in the backyard with the occasional dog visits, and after seeing how nasty it is when penned, don't want it caged here either. If the "plan B" neighbors don't take it in a week or so, I'll visit my around the corner neighbors with the mini-ranch to see if they'll take it.
DH had bought me some kind of waterering system that has a round metal pan with holes in it, that screws onto a large mason jar. Too bad neither of us can figure it out LOL. DH said he remembers his grandma using that kind, but it's been so long he can't remember her trick to prevent all the water from spilling out the mason jar when flipped over. I tried searching YouTube, but apparently all the cool chicken coops have Chicken Nipples now days ^_^
ETA: Haha, apparently it has been a LONG TIME since DH helped his grandma with her chickens, for the chicken "waterer" is actually a chicken "feeder" - no wonder why the water kept spilling out ROFL
'Honey, honey, the other guys going to get my chickens if we don't move them today and none of us there know how to catch them!'
It worked, and DH caught the white chicken penned with Nasty Duck. Turns out the white chicken is a white rooster, whose new name is Pedro Tamale.
DH said the rest of the chickens in the large pen would be too difficult to capture until night time. DH and I went there as soon as it was dark, and my oh my did those chickens ever raise a ruckus - I can now proudly say that I've held a chicken, woot!
I'll still feed Nasty Duck next door, I don't want it "free ranging" in the backyard with the occasional dog visits, and after seeing how nasty it is when penned, don't want it caged here either. If the "plan B" neighbors don't take it in a week or so, I'll visit my around the corner neighbors with the mini-ranch to see if they'll take it.
DH had bought me some kind of waterering system that has a round metal pan with holes in it, that screws onto a large mason jar. Too bad neither of us can figure it out LOL. DH said he remembers his grandma using that kind, but it's been so long he can't remember her trick to prevent all the water from spilling out the mason jar when flipped over. I tried searching YouTube, but apparently all the cool chicken coops have Chicken Nipples now days ^_^
ETA: Haha, apparently it has been a LONG TIME since DH helped his grandma with her chickens, for the chicken "waterer" is actually a chicken "feeder" - no wonder why the water kept spilling out ROFL
Delousing the new chickens and rabbits
All known neighbor rabbits are in cages suspended from our boatshed rafters, yay! Hubby said he wasn't sure how he'd bring over the chickens, so now that the neighbor's yard has an extra cage, how about he remove the duck from the cage it shares with one chicken, putting the duck into the spare cage, then move that lone chicken over here. Once that chicken is moved into our "new" pen (bought from other neighbors), then he'd have a spare, empty cage to move the other chickens from the larger neighbor pen.
I think I heard that bird mites can get into rabbit ears from a Chicken Whisperer podcast, so I'll be keeping the chickens and rabbits separated until I get the neighbor chickens free of whatever crawlies they probably have. Bird Mite Infestation Tips & Strategies also has some helpful hints from their Bird Mites Forum. Wow I have so much to learn ^_^
I think I heard that bird mites can get into rabbit ears from a Chicken Whisperer podcast, so I'll be keeping the chickens and rabbits separated until I get the neighbor chickens free of whatever crawlies they probably have. Bird Mite Infestation Tips & Strategies also has some helpful hints from their Bird Mites Forum. Wow I have so much to learn ^_^
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