Sassy & Sweet Notes: Good for a Laugh!

Extreme Sheep LED Art

My friend Megan brought this little video to my attention... what a riot!

To view the video on YouTube, click here!

Thanks for the laughs, Megan! Alan wanted to know if I was going to require him to put LED lights on the goats. Haaa! No...but maybe the chickens! *grin*

March 19, 2009 in Good for a Laugh! | Permalink | Comments (25)

I can't even begin to tell you just how hard I've been laughing, for two days now! Yesterday evening, Tiny Tim started crowing. We've never heard him crow before, and it's likely that he's just now figuring out how.

The nights have been in the low 30s to high 20s, and that's just too cold for Tiny Tim to be out with the others, so we keep him in a small kennel in our utility room at night. I took this little video this morning, while we waited for it to warm up enough for him to go back outside with the rest of his chicken friends.

The little "hiccup" he does at the end of his crow is there every time! It's a stinkin' RIOT!!

Oh, and by the way, to make the entries about Tiny Tim easier to find, I've created a Tiny Tim the Frizzled Roo category - you'll find it over on the right side, in the categories section. Who knew such a crazy little chicken would have such a following! I'll get the other posts about Tiny Tim added to that category as well.

The video:

You should be able to view the video here on my blog, but if not here is a link to the video as posted on YouTube.

PS: Looks like it's time to toss Tiny Tim's coat in the wash! *grin*

December 06, 2008 in Good for a Laugh!, Home Movie, Life on the Farm, Poultry, Tiny Tim the Frizzled Roo | Permalink | Comments (73)

Santa! ...or is it?

Tonight I decided to make Tiny Tim a *new* coat! What do you think of it?! This one is a bit "fancy" for every day wear, I think... *grin*

I tried to get a photo of Tiny Tim in the coat, but it was late, and all he wanted to do was SLEEP! Honestly, Tiny Tim. A sleeping chicken isn't a very good model.

Learn more about Tiny Tim and why he needs a coat, and see him in VIDEO wearing his original brown coat!

November 26, 2008 in Good for a Laugh!, Life on the Farm, Non-Card Designs, Poultry, Tiny Tim the Frizzled Roo | Permalink | Comments (82)

Tiny Tim's New Coat

By request, here is Tiny Tim & his new coat!
(Mom and Dad, you've got to watch this!) *grin*

Sorry for the choppy quality ... I tried to get the video file smaller than 130mb, and I think YouTube reduces the quality even more!

The video is posted on YouTube.

November 21, 2008 in Good for a Laugh!, Home Movie, Life on the Farm, Poultry, Tiny Tim the Frizzled Roo | Permalink | Comments (66)

Project Poultry

Tonight the temps are dropping down into the low 30s, and it's supposed to get a bit cooler than that over the weekend. I had to move Tiny Tim's "sweater" up the priority list. When I was in town last weekend, I picked up a yard of brown fleece. Couldn't beat the price at less than $3/yard! Just right for chicken outerwear.

Learn more about Tiny Tim and his extra frizzle-frizzledness HERE and HERE.

I started by creating a little body form about the same size as Tiny Tim. I used one of the dog toys and a couple of sheets of tissue paper, and it worked like a charm! I was able to wrap the form and create a pattern before I cut into the fleece. Once I had what I thought might work for a pattern, I cut it out and hand stitched it together!

The original version was a bit longer, and the seam you can see was supposed to help the overcoat wrap around his body. But, it was just a bit too long, so I ended up having to shorten it a bit. The front of the coat is fastened with a single button so that the rest of the opening allows his little legs to move.

On the back there's a shoulder flap to cover up his nearly-bare wings. I needed to make some V-shaped slits over his shoulders so his wings could move freely. But to keep them warm, I added a shoulder flap that's even tack-stitched down at the center to help keep it in place if he gets too flap-happy.

Overall, I think it's a good design. (OMW, I am laughing so hard!!) He seems to like it so far. Every now and then he slips into "reverse" and tries to back out of it, but as soon as he bumps into something, he's back in forward motion. (*snort!*)

Let's just hope his chicken friends don't laugh at him! He's got enough problems as it is!

I laugh hysterically when I see these photos! And seeing him in action is even more hysterical! It might be time for a farm video! Eat your heart out, Tim Gunn!

November 20, 2008 in Good for a Laugh!, Life on the Farm, Poultry, Tiny Tim the Frizzled Roo | Permalink | Comments (74)

Cows like Paprika?

Every now and then I like to take a look at my blog stats. Tonight, I did just that and got a laugh! One of the things I can see on my stats are specific keywords people use when they come across my blog in their search results. I got a chuckle out of this AOL search someone did that pulls my blog up as #1 in the results: "Cows that like Paprika"

[Click on image to view larger.]

And remember the day I had someone find my blog by searching for: "Pictures of cows with huge udders"

Who knew I had so much "cow" info to share with the world!

November 12, 2008 in Good for a Laugh! | Permalink | Comments (9)

Ooooh, this makes me LAUGH!

One of the features of Typepad's blog hosting service is a small report on the keywords people have used with various search engines that have put my blog in their list of suggested sites.

For example, if you're on the Google search site and you enter "Anna Wight" as your search text, my blog will be one of the sites that Google suggests you visit. If you click on my blog link from the list of suggested sites for your search results, "Anna Wight" will show on my keyword report as a keyword used today to find my blog.

Most of the time, the keywords used to find my blog are things like Anna Wight, SweetMissDaisy, Whipper Snapper, chicken, etc.

I laughed and LAUGHED when I saw today's recent keyword searches...

May 22, 2008 in Good for a Laugh! | Permalink | Comments (29)

Just for FUN...

Earlier this week I was working on some penguin note cards (seen here). Alan had all kinds of suggestions for design ideas when he looked at my cards. Today he surprised me with a drawing he did in his engineering illustration program (AutoCAD). This drawing is one of the design ideas he had after seeing my note cards. I thought I'd share it here with you, since it's pretty stinkin' funny!

Alan drew the penguin by looking at the penguin in the My Favorite Things stamp set called Winter Blast, which I'd used on my cards. But the snowman and the concept is all his. Once I saw his drawing, I just had to see it in color! I pulled his illustration file into Photoshop, filled in the colors, and added the greeting. Hahaa!! This just cracks me UP!