This may come as a surprize to some....sometimes I even surprize myself, I try to be a good sport about it when it comes time to tending to the animals at the feedstore on our Sunday feeding day. Yes, i am deathly afraid of rats and snakes and cats and rabbits and guinia pigs and roosters and and and! But sometimes you do what you have to do!
Thank God I'm a country girl...well, at one time I was....doesn't mean I am now! So, a day ( ok an hour or so) at the feedstore, on a Sunday when we're closed, after-all they need feed and water too! On this particular day, I go in my favorite pajama's and slippers (usually I'm in socks or barefooted, but not doing this chore!
We also have Mazy-Grace gracing us with her presence today....so, we know we are in for a treat! talk about a treat...she thinks she has hit the treat jackpot....she think she is sneaky, but she really isn't! First it is a pig ear, and wonders as slyly and quickly as possible, then she greets "Wetto" with her shrill bark, and Wetto responds with "Hello' and a rockin wave. Ok, W
etto, I hear you, I know all your peanuts are gone, I'll get you some more! Then there is Aruba, a Citron cockatoo...don't trust this little guy, for he is known for biting people, he even has a sign on his cage that states "I bite" and you want me to get close to you?? no thanks!
Mazy is just running from place to place cage to cage and trading her treats in for new ones! something is intriquing her in the fish room, until the roosters "cock-a-doodle-do" caught her attention! Birds, birds and more birds....zebra finch, yellow cockateils, mustache parkakeet, button quails, doves, pigeons, baby chicks, hens, roosters and then there is the pure white fluffy rabbit right in the middle of these guys! Made absolutely no sense to me....but who am I !
Did I say Mazy has now snuck a pig ear, a bone, a plastic shoe and is continuing to see what she can sneek!
so, now that all the little birds are fed and watered, its out back to the roosters, the doves, the pigeons, and the baby chicks. EEEKKK....their feeders and waters are so gross.....but I wanted to get home, so I rolled up my sleeves and reached in there and got it done! Not something I want to do on a regular basis though! Now, its off to the way back where there are even more critters. This area is alittle more intriguing to me. There is an elevator type thing that I guess used to bring sacks of feed upstairs. This particular day made me visualize what 70 some years ago how things used to work....made me wonder if there was a fork lift or if everything done by hand. There were several areas of the store that I had never even seen before and to be honest there are still a few areas that I really don't want to see.....greg says its called mezzine. That's one place I wont ever be going....I know for a fact that the rats and mice live up there....One time Alexis and I saw them run up that elevator thing and we both screamed and we were done!
Then there's the egg room or where the egg room used to be. The turkeys, the baby animals that are too little be put out for sale are back in this area. Then there is the room that collapsed just recently. and the area where all the building goes on. Between Mike and Tony looks like a wood shop in this one area...they build dog houses, more and more chicken coops, pens, racks and anything eles they want!
So, I can say that I once was a country girl....still have just a little country in me!
Thank God I'm a country girl...well, at one time I was....doesn't mean I am now! So, a day ( ok an hour or so) at the feedstore, on a Sunday when we're closed, after-all they need feed and water too! On this particular day, I go in my favorite pajama's and slippers (usually I'm in socks or barefooted, but not doing this chore!
We also have Mazy-Grace gracing us with her presence today....so, we know we are in for a treat! talk about a treat...she thinks she has hit the treat jackpot....she think she is sneaky, but she really isn't! First it is a pig ear, and wonders as slyly and quickly as possible, then she greets "Wetto" with her shrill bark, and Wetto responds with "Hello' and a rockin wave. Ok, W
etto, I hear you, I know all your peanuts are gone, I'll get you some more! Then there is Aruba, a Citron cockatoo...don't trust this little guy, for he is known for biting people, he even has a sign on his cage that states "I bite" and you want me to get close to you?? no thanks!
Mazy is just running from place to place cage to cage and trading her treats in for new ones! something is intriquing her in the fish room, until the roosters "cock-a-doodle-do" caught her attention! Birds, birds and more birds....zebra finch, yellow cockateils, mustache parkakeet, button quails, doves, pigeons, baby chicks, hens, roosters and then there is the pure white fluffy rabbit right in the middle of these guys! Made absolutely no sense to me....but who am I !
Did I say Mazy has now snuck a pig ear, a bone, a plastic shoe and is continuing to see what she can sneek!
so, now that all the little birds are fed and watered, its out back to the roosters, the doves, the pigeons, and the baby chicks. EEEKKK....their feeders and waters are so gross.....but I wanted to get home, so I rolled up my sleeves and reached in there and got it done! Not something I want to do on a regular basis though! Now, its off to the way back where there are even more critters. This area is alittle more intriguing to me. There is an elevator type thing that I guess used to bring sacks of feed upstairs. This particular day made me visualize what 70 some years ago how things used to work....made me wonder if there was a fork lift or if everything done by hand. There were several areas of the store that I had never even seen before and to be honest there are still a few areas that I really don't want to see.....greg says its called mezzine. That's one place I wont ever be going....I know for a fact that the rats and mice live up there....One time Alexis and I saw them run up that elevator thing and we both screamed and we were done!
Then there's the egg room or where the egg room used to be. The turkeys, the baby animals that are too little be put out for sale are back in this area. Then there is the room that collapsed just recently. and the area where all the building goes on. Between Mike and Tony looks like a wood shop in this one area...they build dog houses, more and more chicken coops, pens, racks and anything eles they want!
So, I can say that I once was a country girl....still have just a little country in me!
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