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  1. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This is why I limit my use of other social media platforms, refuse to watch the news and spend most of my non-work time watching chickens and turkeys, reading about chickens and turkeys or reading a good murder/suspense book. (real paper book.)
  2. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    That was a very interesting read. Still, for ‘We have gotten ten thousand dollars for laboratory equipment,’ means that we have obtained or acquired this particular sum of money.” I would have stated that 'We have received ten thousand dollars for laboratory equipment.' But leave it to us to...
  3. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    We have been talking about getting Guineas, but we are not sure that we can contain them enough to keep them from being a road hazard or pestering our neighbors.
  4. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    This is a great group!
  5. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I should not have looked at https://www.rarepoultrysociety.com/breed-gallery.html that @Perris shared. There are some seriously beautiful chickens! I really need more land and unlimited funds. ;-)
  6. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Not with wHat or wHere, in those cases the H is silent. With wHo, the H is the prominent sound, "Hoo", but I am a darned Yankee, born in Vermont, despite living all over the country. We always tell people, the Egg Thief is Old England and I am New England.
  7. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I used to get ridiculed for speaking properly, even by my own family, I was actually accused of being a snob (although sometimes more rude terms were used.) because I did not use contractions or slang most of my childhood and teen years, but it was just the way I spoke. I spent most of my...
  8. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    "gotten" just never sounded right to me and I grew up with it. I have been sitting here trying to say the word in my head and it just sounds wrong so I looked it up: The word "gotten" is actually a proper part of English, particularly in American English, though it can sound odd or informal...
  9. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I never knew that, I guess I am too old for modern American-English. 🤣
  10. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I have never had a pair of glasses that made much of difference.
  11. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    My mom drove herself to the doctor after her stroke a few months ago, instead of calling me to say she was having problems. I took the car away from her.
  12. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I am from Vermont, now transplanted in South Carolina, I never had snow tires and most of my life had rear-wheel drive vehicles and *touchwood, never wrecked. The first year we were down here, we had a snow, in the morning before I left for work, it was just a light slushy snow, on my way in...
  13. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I don't need/use eye drops, my vision is just getting worse. I spend 10+/- hours a day on a computer, with 3 screens for work, for the last 20 years. :-(
  14. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    "Be Back Later" as opposed to BRB "Be Right Back"?
  15. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    My eyes are too bad to do anything on the phone beyond call and text. Too many years staring at screens.
  16. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Fact! Even in the most awkward of situations.. "We have chickens!" LOL
  17. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    'Chat talk' just makes complicated language differences more complicated. I am the annoying person that spells everything out when texting...LOL and I am not nearly as fast as my 35 y/o son. *sigh
  18. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Over here, abbreviations are capitalized to indicate that it is an abbreviation, although in the world of on-line communications, all caps is used as shouting, so that isn't necessarily a good indicator anymore. Typically you would use the period/full stop, A.C.V. or S.N.A.F.U to be more...
  19. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    The coldest that I remember, from Vermont was -36, it was not pleasant, but it was survivable, the wind made uncomfortable. I like the cold, I just not that cold. :-)
  20. MrsNorthie

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I suddenly do not feel so bad about Spud..😉
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