I’ve been cranking away at the second pair of Combo Sox. I’m very pleased!
The chicks are bigger every day. They chatter to each other softly whenever they are awake, all day, all night. It’s a quiet noise, easily ignored. But it sinks into the consciousness. Yesterday on my way to the grocery store, I swear I could still hear it.
Isn’t this a generous dollop of baby chick?
Martha is the largest, and Dolly is the smallest. I decided to weigh them both. Martha (78 grams) is unimpressed.
Dolly is outraged. OUTRAGED. She shrieks a piercing mega-peep whenever she is removed from the box. I think she would be less vocal if she weren’t alone, but I don’t have enough hands to hold two chicks at once, while making sure not to drop them, and closing the lid on the brood box so that the cats don’t leap in.
Here she is, mid-shriek (60 grams).
“IT’S NOT POLITE TO ASK A CHICK HOW MUCH SHE WEIGHS.”
I was telling my husband about your chicks last night, and he said that Harriet is the perfect name for a chicken. I agree.
Hahahah! They are too cute.
What was your earlier chick emergency?
I am soooo lovin’ the chickcam! They are waaay too cute for words. And the personalities are only just starting to, um, fluff out? heheh
guess I shouldn’t egg you on, eh? ok, I’ll just shut the flock up…
I WAS going to tell you how cute the first pics was … and then I got to the second one !
snort ! snuffle! guffaw!
just as well I wasn’t holding a coffee or it’d be another dead keyboard for sure :]
the sock is cute too – but I actually meant the chicken-on-scales pics so that’d be pics 3 and 4 … my brain just zeroed in on those and forgot all that had gone before
Great looking sock! Isn’t it a bit too cheerful for Goth?? LOL More a lumberjack look maybe?
The chix are looking good, too. I meant to tell you my grandmother, born in 1898, was Ethel Gertrude, and your choice of Ethel tickled me. Gert, Gertie, or Gertrude would be an appropriate chick name if you need another.
And speaking of grams, how do you like your scale? What make/model is it? My most precise scale weighs in 2-gram increments, and I’m yearning for tenth- or hundredth-grams. For fiber, dontchaknow, not ugsdray.
Love your little baby dinosaurs!!! They are very very cute.
in love w. both soxxorz and teh chicks. whee!!
I don’t blame Dolly – not only weighing her put putting it up on the INTERNETS? Fiend.