I live with my Mom and Dad and their weimaraner "Spencer". My Dad has multi infarct dementia

We all come from Vermont and we grew up during the 60's and 70's. One of our favorite things is cooking and so we try and stay sane by writing about cooking. I have an old cookbook from Rutland VT called "Out of Vermont Kitchens that we are going to try and cook from and see what the food tastes like.

The cookbook has some prepared foods in some of the recipes. But we will try and adapt them perhaps to modern cusine.

We also try other recipes but will dive into our Vermont roots as often as we can.

Marion Ballou Smith
The daughter of Orris and Margaret (Mageen) Ballou, Marion Ballou Smith grew up in Rutland, Vermont, graduated from Mount Holyoke College (1914), and taught botany and mathematics. In 1927 she married Esme A.C. Smith, a businessman in Rutland. Active in local business and civic affairs, Smith was the co-compiler, with Alice Chaffee Bowker and Ruth Sutton, of a fund-raising cookbook entitled Out of Vermont Kitchens, published in 1939, to benefit the Trinity Mission of Trinity Church in Rutland, and the Women's Service League of St. Paul's Church in Burlington, Vermont.

2.12.2010

My Rooster

He is a mixed breed rooster. He has some easter-egger in him from his little sideburns and he has barred rock and Rhode Island Red and probably some Delaware. He's all things to all hens.

He has to fertilize 13 hens every day and sometimes at the end of the day he's the first one in the roost. He's had it.

We are learning alot about chickens this winter. We have one that has gone broody as they say and won't get off her nest. She's very sweet though and I shove her off and put her on the floor of the roost. She eats and poops and then gets right back on the nest.

I've been reading thru forums and what I have to do is isolate her from the nests for a few days to get her mind off of the nest. I guess I'll put her in Erika's catbox for a few days in our washroom. If that doesn't work, the next tac is to put her in a pen alone with the rooster for a few days... and he'll get her mind off nesting for awhile.

My Mom doesn't think either idea will work. But I will have to go ahead and try it or she'll be on that nest the rest of the winter.
Posted by Kimberly at 7:24 PM

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