Sunday 1 green (+ 1 green cannabilized)
Monday 6 brown , 2 green.

Friday 5 brown, 1 green (+ one green cannabilized)

Saturday 4 brown.

Renewed my CPR certification and motorcycle accident first response training today. Had fun with it... when I was practicing removing helmet I supported my victims cervical spine after setting aside helmet... as I lowered his head I told him "I'm slowly lowering your head I'm supporting you, not any more... and let his heas drop the last 1/2 inch. Big laugh from everybody. Obviously if I was doing this with truly injured person I'd not do such a thing.

Wednesday 4 brown, 1 green (+ one green cannabilized).

Thursday 1000,500,300 swim.

Egg count: 3 brown

5 brown, 1 green.

The ladies are busy making cackleberries, that's 17 eggs in 2 days!

Did the usual swimming set today.

8 brown, 1 green, + (1 brown, 1 green cannabilized). 11 eggs today!

Swam 1000,500,300, usual set.

Saturday: 5 brown, 2 green.
sunday: 2 brown + (1 brown and 1 green cannabilized).

Thursday count: 1 brown, 1 green. I gave them a pep talk, told them how sorely disappointed I was in their production. I also told them I knew it was hot, but that they had plenty of water and shade, and some nice squash from garden overproduction.

5 brown, one green today.

Swimming in a few minutes, same set. Didn't swim yesterday, was setting up camp at Laguna Seca, MotoGP race.

Didn't swim today, got caught up in other activities.

2 eggs cannabilized today, one brown one green.
Intact egg count:3 brown, 1 green

another 1800 yard swim today. The exercise may be having some effect on my weight, need more time to see. Definitely has given me better wind.

Egg count: 6 brown, 0 green

same swimming set today.

made ice cream by hand yesterday to help bring a member of my motorcycle club back from the Isle of Man where he has been in a coma since before the race. Raised $380 in about 2 hours.

Egg count:3 brown, 2 green

4 brown, 1 green today.

7 brown, 2 green eggs today.

I was supposed to head out this morning and ride to Hollister for the MBCOC all clubs motorcycle run. help do set up. Went to start my bike and it cranked twice, then lostr all electrical power. Positive wire had its terminal end corroded off. Spent the morning fixing that. Then on to Hollister, back.

Kind of tired. It was hot out there today.

Same 1800 yard set swimming today. 3 weeks to go from difficulty swimming 200 yards at a go to doing 1000, 500 and 300 yard set without much trouble.

I'm going to be in shape if I keep this up. so I think I will - at least 3x weekly do 1800 yards. I've noticed improvements in the little less than 4 weeks I've been doing it - the aforementioned endurance, plus my pulse rate at the end of a set was 146 the first time out, now it is 124. So 146 after 200 yards versus 124 after 1000 yards - my heart is working less after more strenuous exercise. Cardio and pulmonary systems are functioning much better. Measured breathing during freestyle has to be good in a yoga/spiritual sense as well - exhale through nose, inhale through mouth at a pretty constant pace.

This almost has to have an effect on my metabolic rate, which could lead to weight loss. If that happens other infirmities will be alleviated (left psoaz muscle causes back aches, restriction of motion of left leg).

4 brown, one green egg so far. Brown egg on top of the oystershell again... it had been canabilized.

well, picked up feed after heading to the swimming pool - swam 1000 yards, then 500 yards, then 300 yards - total of 1800 yards or a bit over a mile. First length of the final 300 yards was 25 yards of breast stroke hugging the pool bottom, ie on one breath. Rest was freestyle.

Picked up a sack of feed and another sack of scratch. The girls are productive today there were 4 more brown eggs - total of 7 brown and one green egg today.

3 brown, 1 green today.

Buying feed and scratch later in the day. Ducks seem to eat mostly scratch and vegetable kitchen waste.

There may be some curiousity about just what kind of hens, and how many of each I own.

2 Americauna
2 golden sex links
1 barred rock
1 leghorn
3 wyandotte lacewing
7 rhode island reds

14 total hens. 2 ducks that don't do anything but harass the chickens. I got into raising chickens with a former girlfriend. She wanted eggs for her children and I put up a chicken coop while she raised chicks. Originally there were rhode island reds, barred rocks and leghorns for a total of 12 hens. The next year more chicks were purchased, and one day I came home to find her telling me "I didn't get any more chickens"... I asked her what she was getting at and she told me she'd purchased 4 Muscovy ducks. At that point there were 19 chickens and 4 ducks, and there really wasn't enough space for them. over another 8 months 5 chickens succombed to predation leaving the 14 here currently.

My girlfriend moved a year ago. I offerred to build her a chicken coop at her new home, but she was very put out by my asking her to clear the building site prior to my carpentry. I don't understand this, free skilled labor is a boon that I'd think would be welcomed. Anyway she doesn't have space for fowl so I still have the chickens a year later. I like having some poultry and am fondest of the Rhode Island reds. If and when she ever does get space for poultry I'd like to keep about 6-10 rhode island reds. The two remaining ducks are also still here. I'd slaughter the ducks, but her son (I regard him as a step son) thinks of them as his pets and visits them occasionally.

So far 8 brown eggs, 2 green eggs today.

Well, 7 eggs so far today... one additional brown egg yesterday. Crazy chickens are finding a new place to hide the eggs - on top of sack of oyster shell calcium supplement.

Lost two eggs due to week shells - a couple of hens are not eating their oyster shell. Cracked eggs lead to a form of cannabilism as the hens like to eat eggs. Thankfully they crack as I'm harvesting them and I can get them out of the egg box and toss them into the yard. Egg remains in the laying area seems to lead to more advanced cannabilism - some of the older/more dominant hens will peck at eggs if they sense (smell?) egg remains. Had a problem with that last month that seems to have cleared up with fresh straw.

Egg production for 7/11 - 4 brown eggs, 0 green eggs (americauna hens lay green eggs, really).
More likely later in the day.

Picture of coop and eggs may be posted at any moment. Egg production numbers may be a regular feature... then again may not. There also is potential to have a chicken yard cam set up. And the video of a chicken crossing the road may yet be made as well.

Why?

You know, I have to wonder if Stephen Colbert might not find this blog... having to do with heuvos and all, and Stephen having the largest huevos of any fake news show.

Being a fan of his brand of over the top satire, I feel I should post a link to his fansite. Now I wonder if Stephen does a kibo-esque google of the blogosphere... Kibo having grep'd the news spool back in the days of usenet... seems like there should be a neologisim combining grep/google for vanity searches in the blogosphere. Kiboogle? Groogle? these seemed forced, but the bare verb google seems to lack a bit of the panache that I associate with Kibo.

I tried creating a blog yesterday - Mountain Eggs and did not make a post... Looks like it is in /dev/limbo, as blogger.com shows the page as unavailable, but I can't get to it to make a post today, instead I get a 404.

so this location Huevos de la Montana is being set up...

I intend on posting accounts of various adventures, fictional and factual... some political rants, some humorous material both historical and current.

Eggs are nutritious and tasty. Being as I own chickens and live in a small california mountain community it seemd like a reasonable name. Plus it has multiple senses - easter eggs in a computer sense, huevos in a spanish slang sense...


Now for a joke.

An attractive woman walks into a bar, sees a good looking male bartender.
Says to him, "I'd like a double entendre"

So he gave it to her.