***OKIES in the BYC III *** - Page 3658

We live in the middle of town and yet there are days when we can't even get a cell signal. I bemoan that I have a miniature computer that I can search the internet on but I can't make a phone call from some days. Lol.

Didn't get the garden bed done before it got too dark to work. We ended up going out and someone had messed with our duck pen so we had to spend time fixing that before we could start on what we wanted to do. I'm ready to set up a hidden camera at the back of our property. Every morning this week we have gone out and opened the fence across our new driveway and have had to clean out all kinds of twisted metal, pieces of metal hangers that have been sharpened to points, metal can lids that have been bent in two, chunks of broken bricks with pointed edges, etc and now someone knocked over part of our duck pen. I'm pretty sure it's our neighbors but proving it will be a challenge. Why can't they just leave us alone????

Tomorrow will be spent in Stillwater moving our son into his dorm room and checking up on my mom. Hopefully she's getting around better. She had surgery on her foot a couple of weeks ago so walking has been off limits. It's not fun to keep her still.

Lynn, I hope you get your surgery soon and start feeling better. Being chronically ill is no fun, I know, but my asthma and chronic lung infections are nothing compared to having physical pain and not being able to even go outside. Gardening and caring for my birds is what keeps me sane in the midst of a lot of very unfun and unfair things in life. At least for the moment your wife and kids can help you out. That's a blessing.

Snapped a couple of pics of my turkeys this week so I thought I'd share. (I really hope I haven't already posted any of these ... I really can't remember)

This is one of our toms. He was so funny the day I took this and wouldn't leave the camera alone.

Here's four of them hogging the treats bowl. We always feed them treats in a green plastic bowl and they've figured out the color. As soon as they see us with one of the bowls they charge at us and then try to grab the bowl out of our hands. Today they got apples, yellow squash, and oatmeal. They wouldn't eat the yellow squash though but the chickens did. They ended up taking the bowl of oatmeal away from my daughter and throwing it all over her then trying to peck it off of her. She was not happy but managed to stand up and knock off all the oatmeal.

Went to the sale it was nice to see a few BYC'ers Not many birds and not a lot of other stuff really, I am probably not going to be returning to that sale it gets really old and annoying to hear grown adults being scolded every other item that comes to the table by someone yelling out "You're not lookin'! " while children are not being supervised and allowed to pull feathers out of roosters tails that are waiting to be sold, just seems kinda backwards to me, But then it's always like that there, When my rabbits hit the sale table the auctioneer (not the actual person doing the auctioneering) made a huge fuss about the rabbits water bowl being spilled and getting the rabbits feet and bellies wet by holding the offending bowl up and proclaiming "This is exactly why" and proceeded to slam my cage around knocking my stainless steel pan on to the concrete,  The cage of 20 birds was proclaimed to be "All roosters!" 3 times before bidding started while it was mostly roosters there were some pullets but that was my fault for not separating them into more cages, I could have said something then but was kinda stunned and just watched in disbelief mostly, Anyway, I was ready to leave so went to check out, I made $61 dollars and was given a check after 7pm on a Saturday night so I asked where I might be able to cash it and was snapped at with "At any bank" At that point my restraint was starting to slip and I didn't want that to happen I was just wanting to be gone so didn't debate the fact that most banks aren't open that late on a Saturday I just kept my mouth shut and left, I will miss the social aspect of going to this sale but there are other sales and I look forward to seeing people I know there, 

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Originally Posted by Elwood Lightfoot 

I'm sure with my luck I'll see him on the yard at work,

 

Had an interesting morning apparently someone stole an ipad from a person a few miles away from here and the built in tracking system indicated it was in the east end of my trailer house. So I needed to get to the pharmacy before it closed at noon and the deputy says if I leave he was gonna have to call the detective out and get a search warrant, I am not the best housekeeper and that was the only thing I had to hide but he agreed to let me leave if I didn't have the ipad on me and he searched my truck to make sure it wasn't in it, When I got back he had more deputies there and I let them look around in my house and they were satisfied with that I guess, I had tried to explain that it was unlikely it being in my house since the reason I don't own a cell phone is you can't get a signal in my house and a tracking signal in an electronic device would be about as useful, I think he thought I was lying about not getting a signal maybe but it sure made for an interesting day so far, Now I have to play catch up and try to get ready for the sale tonight 

 

 

 With this trailer a cell will ring in the master bedroom but to answer it one has to go to the livingroom. And don't worry about catching you on the throne, won't even ring there. My new stereo will only pick up KRXO which is ok because that is the one I normally listen to, they have a repeater station about 4 mile N of us.

 

 Bill is there any way for Matt to open a new BYC account from the inside? I mean his ISP is blocked here now being banned and all but do they allow social sites from behind the walls? He has been inside before so I am sure he knows an angle or two.

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Les, they can't have access to the internet. They have friends and family put up profiles and stuff for them trying to get people to write to them but they don't have any direct access. 

(Thank God I might add).

They don't normally have access to the internet but they aren't supposed to have cell phones either and they confiscate them quite often so while he shouldn't be able to if someone really wants something and can pay for it they can get about anything and that's kinda scary but true, I guess it was over a year ago some inmate out at OSR had a FB acct and was posting on it from his cell (meaning phone and living quarters) I think it was a news station that first saw it or reported it then he was busted with the contraband, I think he would be what's called both in and out of prison a "Crash Test Dummy" LOL

If any one has any extra bird's to sale bring thim by the swap meet on north east 23rd an i will buy thim or help you sale thim ..

 A friend of mine went to the local John Deere dealer and got a belt for his mower. Well he kinda put the cart before the horse and after looking at the mower we decided to scrap it instead so he took the belt back.

 They informed him that purchases over five dollars would be refunded by check so he said no big deal cut the check. Oh we'll mail it to you was the response, two weeks later he got the check.

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Originally Posted by Elwood Lightfoot 

Went to the sale it was nice to see a few BYC'ers Not many birds and not a lot of other stuff really, I am probably not going to be returning to that sale it gets really old and annoying to hear grown adults being scolded every other item that comes to the table by someone yelling out "You're not lookin'! " while children are not being supervised and allowed to pull feathers out of roosters tails that are waiting to be sold, just seems kinda backwards to me, But then it's always like that there, When my rabbits hit the sale table the auctioneer (not the actual person doing the auctioneering) made a huge fuss about the rabbits water bowl being spilled and getting the rabbits feet and bellies wet by holding the offending bowl up and proclaiming "This is exactly why" and proceeded to slam my cage around knocking my stainless steel pan on to the concrete,  The cage of 20 birds was proclaimed to be "All roosters!" 3 times before bidding started while it was mostly roosters there were some pullets but that was my fault for not separating them into more cages, I could have said something then but was kinda stunned and just watched in disbelief mostly, Anyway, I was ready to leave so went to check out, I made $61 dollars and was given a check after 7pm on a Saturday night so I asked where I might be able to cash it and was snapped at with "At any bank" At that point my restraint was starting to slip and I didn't want that to happen I was just wanting to be gone so didn't debate the fact that most banks aren't open that late on a Saturday I just kept my mouth shut and left, I will miss the social aspect of going to this sale but there are other sales and I look forward to seeing people I know there, 

 Bill until that gavel drops those critters are yours and if you don't like the way they are being treated you have every right to speak up.

 I've seen more then one ring man get told about that very aspect

 One night at Jones a fella had the misfortune to poke one of Teva's horses with a sorting stick. Was a good thing he was young and could run fast. His stick is still behind the seat of her truck. Nothing irritates her more then the critters being mis-handled, well except for unsupervised children.

 I see a lot of half grown kids in the back at places like Jones, parents don't realize that all it would take would be one well placed hoof to end it all for them. I've seen them unload full trailers of cattle and just run them into the alleyway to sort them. At least Damon checks the alley before doing that, many don't.

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Originally Posted by jcatblum 

So glad y'all have taken advantage of zennioptical! We love their glasses. Think we have purchased 20 pr. My eye doctor doesn't like us shopping there. My aunt has worked at the same eye dr for 15 yrs & they approved the glasses. Think my eye doctor just wants us to purchase our glasses in his office.

Doctors offices buy their glasses from someone who wholesales and then they make a profit off those.  We always take our rescriptions to someone else and don't pay the high prices at the eye doctor's office.

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Evening all, I enjoyed the evening at a party for my sister and BIL, they celebrated their 30th Anniversary today, we had some wonderful food and visited with a lot of old friends and family not seen in a while, with my back hurting so much lately I have not been out much to the chicken yard, I love this weather, now maybe I can stand the heat long enough to got out and see them, I do miss taking care of my birds myself, my wife and kids do a wonderful job but I always find stuff I want done differently, I would not have them if not for my wife and kids and I am thankful for that, I am very envious of those here that can get out and work gardens and have greenhouses and such, this was my dream for retirement before my back and legs went and I had two heat exhaustion attacks, I have worked and read and experimented and tried all kinds of things throughout my life in preparation for retiring and having a self sufficient farm and greenhouses set up to have income to support us. I am so ready for my back to be operated on and maybe get back to my life, I never gave much thought to what would happen if my health went down because I have been healthy and strong all my life, I guess God has to smack you down once in a while to get your attention so he can get you in line for his plan for you!!  IMO!!! Hope you enjoy this weather, we still need rain severely!!!  Have a good night, Lynn

 

 

 Yes it's quite a jolt to not be able to do things you normally do.  While I was down Teva was working, taking care of the critters, the place and me. There is no way that I could ever begin to repay her for all she did for me. And my granddaughter Alexis spent as much time with me as she could. She made sure that there was always something cold to drink and snacks within reach. At meal time she brought my plate to me and then brought hers back so she could eat with me. She was my eyes for the birds too telling me about all of them after she helped take care of them.

 

 After my surgery I was getting around pretty good and one day I didn't know Alexis was there and came out of the bathroom with no shirt on. She saw the scar on my back and to this day swears that I had a broken back. Now I'm not allowed to pick up anything heavy without her help.

 

 If Teva would have seen me hand off my walker to a friend and crawl up into the cab of a semi she would have shot me right on the spot. LOL  Shesh all I was doing was backing a trailer into a tight spot, not like I was hauling a load or anything. 

Lynn and Les...you are both wonderful mentors for the rest of us.  Your health issues have not kept you from encouraging and informing the rest of us and it is very much appreciated.  Family means everything when we are down.  My two back surgeries were in 89 and 90 and I wore a back brace for 13 months.  Best thing I ever did was have those surgeries....and following doctor instructions. 

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Originally Posted by erinszoo 

Didn't get the garden bed done before it got too dark to work. We ended up going out and someone had messed with our duck pen so we had to spend time fixing that before we could start on what we wanted to do. I'm ready to set up a hidden camera at the back of our property. Every morning this week we have gone out and opened the fence across our new driveway and have had to clean out all kinds of twisted metal, pieces of metal hangers that have been sharpened to points, metal can lids that have been bent in two, chunks of broken bricks with pointed edges, etc and now someone knocked over part of our duck pen. I'm pretty sure it's our neighbors but proving it will be a challenge. Why can't they just leave us alone????

 

This is one of our toms. He was so funny the day I took this and wouldn't leave the camera alone.

 

You can start keeping ancecdotal records on what you are experiencing....the written notes on damages, etc.

 Keep each days collection in a zip bag with the date and time collected written on it with a marker.  Setting up a camera is still a really good idea...the video with speak volumes!

Love the snood! 

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 Hey baby.... wanna see my snood?