No, I didn’t watch the Superbowl yesterday (I finally went to see Avatar), but I did watch the commercials today 
I know that USA Today and others have their list of the best commercials – but only one of the most popular ads made my list. Here are my favorites:
The Clydesdale commercials always make me cry 
I thought this one was really clever…
And naturally… 
I think Pumpkin finally figured it out
The lighter egg is from Pumpkin. I’ve noticed that when the chickens are new to laying, the first few eggs are a lot lighter in color before they go to the nice rich brown color.
So the only two chickens that aren’t laying yet are Banana and Nugget. I’ve read that cochins take longer to mature, so I expect that they will probably start up in the spring.
I should now be getting two dozen eggs a week, which is a lot more than my family or I can reasonable go through. I would love to sell the extra, but I have no idea how to go about it. I’ve seen people sell them in stands in front of their house, but to me that doesn’t seem very practical for only a couple dozen eggs. The same goes for putting an ad in the Metro paper like I’ve seen. I’ll have to figure something out before I get buried in eggs 
Anyway, the Ladies have become One with winter and the cold and snow don’t seem to be a big deal to them anymore. They do like when I shovel the snow all the way down to the grass for them tho’… I guess cold, frozen grass and clover must still taste good…
For some reason, the Ladies seem to be fascinated with my shoes. They always have to see if they are good to eat or not – they seem to forget every time they see them 
When I bought my chickens, there was a required minimum order of 25 chicks so that they could be shipped safely. My sister and a friend of my brother-in-law went in on the order with me so that I wouldn’t end up with 25 chickens (thanks guys!) . The company also gave us a free “Mystery Chicken”, which my sister ended up keeping.
Mystery Chicken, (as he was so aptly named 
) , turned out to be a silver-spangled Hamburg rooster. Quite frankly, I find him to be a bit scary looking – I don’t care for his coloring and his eyes look like they are too big for his head. I don’t have a picture of the actual Mystery Chicken, but this is pretty much what he looks like:
Anyway, it turns out that he is a really nasty chicken. I’ve heard of that happening, but I’ve never seen it before. Neither my sister nor I can figure out why… all my chickens are very good natured (Pumpkin has a tendency to be a little bossy sometimes, but she’s not nasty) and the rest of my sister’s chickens are all nice, too. They were all brought up together and treated the same… 
But MC will literally attack you - He waits until he thinks you aren’t looking and he will charge you. My sister wants him gone… especially with two little kids at home. I agree with her.
If I’m not mistaken, the plan is that he going to end up as dinner one night once the weather gets better. I don’t eat meat, but I’m really curious to find out how much different a freshly slaughtered chicken tastes compared to what you buy in the grocery store. I’ll be sure to post a review from my sister and brother-in-law if the event actually takes place…
So today, I came across this article of a pheasant that seems to be terrorizing a town in England, which reminded me of MC. One lady in the story said:
‘Another day it came at me and I whacked it with my handbag. I carry an umbrella round with me now for protection because I don't want to be made a prisoner in my own home.’
It would be funny to get MC and the unpleasant pheasant together and see how much territory they could conquer together 
So I pulled out my crock pot this week and made the potato soup from one of my crock pot experiments. Best potato soup ever! 
And what could be make my potato soup even better? My potato soup in a bread bowl!
However… I am too lazy to make my own bread bowls.
I had a couple of Kaiser rolls leftover from the bag I got off the day-old rack at Tops and had an idea: What if I made a mini bread bowl from one of those?
It worked! But it was really small and didn’t hold much soup. I thought I would be OK with it because I don’t eat a lot to begin with, but this wasn’t enough of a meal even for me 
But… it was really good!
This would be a really nice idea for an appetizer, and I think I would serve it as such the next time I have company over for dinner.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
So the other day a friend of mine needed to kill some time and stopped in a Target store. Wandering around he found himself in the toy department and happened to see a Nerf gun. He decided to get one for a bit of fun.
The one he picked out was just like this, only in orange (they also come in red and green!).
Imagine his surprise when he reached the checkout counter and found out that he needed to show his driver’s license to buy the toy.
Ummm… who made up that law? Do they think that anyone would try to rob a bank with an orange, plastic toy that looks like the one pictured???? One that shoots Nerf (foam!) darts?
I would totally understand if the gun even slightly resembled anything real… I could see someone painting a plastic toy black and it might pass as real – but this? Even it was painted gun-metal black it stil wouldn’t even look close to real.
Yikes. What’s next?
