Noodles Traveling Shirt

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My friend Penny gave me a shirt. But it’s not just any shirt. Secretly, this shirt is a salad! Noodles is doing a promotion where they are trying to see 10 degrees of separation for a t-shirt. If you bring in the tee, you get a free salad and then you are supposed to pass it on to a friend. It can be anyone, but they want you to promote it and talk about it. So, that’s what I’m doing I guess.


Me in shirt with the young chicks in the background

The salad was pretty good especially because it was free, but I don’t think I would have paid $7.50 for it which is the full price. I like Noodles. The food is good, healthy, has vegetables, the service is nice etc, but the price is what you would expect for a full service restaurant in Greeley not semi-fast food.The thing that kind of stunk was that I can give it to Britton, but he has to use it on another day. Seems a little silly…you should be able to eat with your friend that you pass it on to!

But I liked the idea of the promotion, sort of a traveling gnome/traveling pants thing thought up by the marketing department of Noodles and Co. If you want to see where our t-shirt ends up, you can go to Noodles’ web site (at this site you can also request a t-shirt of your own). Our shirt is number 128-9.


Just call him Super Kit-Tee

Britton’s a little too over-enthusiastic -lol

We had nearly everyone in the house wear the shirt (Schnoodle, Kitty, even a couple of chickens); since it will be traveling, it should have some stories to tell of its journey.


Putting a chicken into a tee is harder than you might think!

It would be fun to see where the shirt ends up. We are trying to decide who next to give it to. We’d like it to leave Greeley at least, but are open. Anyone want a free salad and be the temporary owner of a funky green huge t-shirt? Only catch is you have to pass it on (and try to get it to leave your small circle of usual friends and family).

At Noodles in Greeley


The Salad for the Shirt

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Sly Skunk Slinks into Chicken Coop

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Last night we heard a bit of a ruckus. Britton didn’t want to lock the chickens all the way into the little coop because they wake up at 5am (when the sun comes out) and want out into the yard -which means one of US has to wake up at 5am on a weekend to let them out. So we opened the windows at night and figured we’d hear anything if something tried to attack them. Well, we did! AND unlike the last time which coincidentally was almost a year ago to the day, we got a good look at the culprit. It was a skunk!


Skunks move in undulations but are not very fast so we got a couple good photos

You would think we could smell him coming, but we couldn’t! I always thought skunks stunk just in general, but they don’t! Although when Britton was trying to get him to leave the yard and he threw something at him, he did raise his tail -a warning that he was prepared to spray- which made Britton high tail it away from him! He did not want to be taking a bath in tomato juice! The skunk, unlike last year’s predator (who we think was a wild field cat) couldn’t scale the fence and was trapped in our yard.


You can see the skunk next to the AC in the garden with my freshly planted peppers (click pic to enlarge)

The chickens were all understandably freaked out, as skunks are natural chicken predators. Although, I have heard that they don’t usually go after the full-grown chickens and prefer eggs and chicks to a big ol’ hen that they can’t carry away or eat all the way. But, if they can get a hold of them, they will try to kill them and then just eat the head and blood which is what happened to some of my chickens when I was a kid.

So after all the commotion, the chickens were standing in the yard with their heads stretched high and eyes wide open near our back porch. The young ones were still safe in the greenhouse and we managed to wrangle all three of the older ones back into the coop and lock it shut.

At least they are all big, healthy chickens that make a fuss if anything tries to bother them. I think it would be a good fight if it was just one skunk against all of them. But I’d rather not find out!   And I’d rather that our backyard not get skunkified either! 🙂

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Poll: What should we do with the Rincon Property?

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Please take a second and vote in this poll! It will be interesting to see what you all think we should do. Britton and I have lots of discussions about this (like should this be a five year plan or two year), but we’d like you to weigh in on it as well. If there is another choice that you would recommend that isn’t found on this, you can either comment on the poll or in our blog comments! I have also created a new page about our place in Rincon, Puerto Rico if you need to remember what we are talking about. You can find it here (also on the side bar where it says “Our Place in Rincon Puerto Rico) . Thanks!

For this poll you can choose more than one answer since it is basically dealing with two different questions: 1) what should we do with the wooden house and 2) should we start a guesthouse business?


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Plentiful Peppers (and Other Things)

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An intern at work has a family farm in Evans and he brought in two huge tray-fulls of pepper starts. They all look really healthy and hardy. He told everyone to take as many as we wanted. I took about 30 plants! Britton and I planted them all around the garden area yesterday and in the front flower garden too. I’ve never had too good of luck with pepper plants, but my mom says to just put grass clippings around the base of them to keep the humidity high near them and they will do well. We’ll see! I love peppers, so I hope it works out!


The pepper starts in the garden


One close up


Here are the three not-so-baby pullets under the tree staying out of the rain. We’ve named them: Omeleto (Omelette 2), Barock (the Barred Rock), and Little Foot (the smaller version of Greenfoot).


Flowers are still blooming like mad

 

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