Arizona Chickens

[Mama Hen Chris]

So sorry to hear of the tragedies.


Congrats Petra. When is the due date?

Loving this weather as well as my girls.

I am finally getting around to complete my mural. This is how I left it.




"Apples" or no "apples"?


Here is is for now. Still have some more work to do.

 

[Arizonachicken]

So sorry to hear of the tragedies. 


Congrats Petra. When is the due date?

Loving this weather as well as my girls. 

I am finally getting around to complete my mural. This is how I left it.




"Apples" or no "apples"?


Here is is for now. Still have some more work to do.

Thanks, Chris! Due date is April 25th.

I vote for apples. You are so talented!

 

[Bobby Basham]

Demosthine,

I agree that we are under appreciated and under paid. We haven't had a raise in over five years, and retirement benefit is based on the average of your salary for the last three or five years of employment.

As far as retirement goes, there is an option of returning to the office working 19hr/wk without affecting your pension. That would really help financially, but I would still be connected to work, still stressing even though it would be on a part-time basis. Then again, I don't think that I could come back and do a part of my old job, it has to be something completely different from my original job description, and there are some areas where extra help is truly needed, so maybe they will let me come back. That depends on who the "favorites and suck-ups" are.

I do get an extra $700/month for playing organ/piano at my church, so that's a big help. I had thought about giving up that income, too, since I've been doing that for about 44 years, but I would really be strapped for money. Then again, I went to my doctor today and was trying to figure out the chronic fatique issue that has been going on for years (it is from the medications, and I'm stuck with them for now). Being retired with more free time and maybe a few 5-hr energy drinks would give me more energy and motivation to handle that church job. There's no way that I could live on $1,400/month when I have a $1,000/month house payment.

Working at D.O.C. is not a walk through the park. I live out by I-10/Craycroft/Wilmot (TTT Truck Stop) and the State and Federal prisons are right down the road, walking distance, from me. Between your wife's D.O.C. experience and the thousands of police reports I've read, we could have a howling good time. I can't believe what folks are doing nowadays.

Thank you so much for the dinner invite. If I can get the nerve to stray more than 15 miles from my home (LOL, a true hermit), I will entertain your invite. Maybe I could bring a few peanut butter banana and tuna fish sandwiches or some pigs feet and brussel sprouts...LOL!

Please be carefull on that Magna. I have never seen such a disregard of people who WON'T use a turn signal...how unpredictable and dangerous. Who knows, things could change down the road and I may end up getting another motorcycle, maybe another Harley.

Anyhoo, I do like the outdoors, and wouldn't mind working somewhere like Lowes, ACE Hardware, or even consider working at an Animal Shelter/Clinic of some sort. Being hired as part time, they don't have to pay benefits and get free parking. My current job takes $50/month for parking. We've been trying to fight that for years, to no avail.

Oh, this is a Chicken thread...Have any of you talked to or hugged your gals and guys today? I heard that they can really be gabby when you come home from work and really wanna tell you about their day. It may be more entertaining than yours. --BB

Bobby Basham
Tucson, Arizona

 

[pastrymama]

AZChicken-I am good. They are all yours!!!! I am contemplating going back to my all time favorite breed, The Delaware. I lost a silver appleyard duck the other day when we got back from Vegas.

She was a pretty girl.

Mama Hen-apples galore!!!!!!!!!

 

[Arizonachicken]

So sorry about your duck, Pastry! I'll post pics of the chickies when they're all feathered out...you're gonna want one!

 

[Demosthine]

So sorry to hear of the tragedies.


Congrats Petra. When is the due date?

Loving this weather as well as my girls.

I am finally getting around to complete my mural. This is how I left it.
"Apples" or no "apples"?

Here is is for now. Still have some more work to do.

Wow, Chris, you are doing such an amazing job. Definitely go with the apples. I can't wait to see it completely done! Keep it up.

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Petra, how exciting for you and the family. Maybe Olivia might get a sister.

Sorry to hear about your duck Pastry. My Delaware passed away in January. She had such the personality. May have to get more.
Bridget was my very first gal to lay an egg.




We got APPLES!

 

[Mahonri]

Wow Petra! You go girl! Reminds me of my wife a few years ago.... but glad we stopped at SEVEN.

 

[itsredcandy]

Thanks so much for you folks not flaming me. I meant no harm, and have been rather calloused after being in the legal profession for all these years, seeing nothing but the bad. The comment about asswhipping doesn't solve everything, but my mom never said, "Just wait until your Father gets home." She laid us to rest before he got home. He would come home, finding us in different corners sniveling, and would say, "what's wrong with them?". She would say, "I had to lite 'em up because the did/didn't do(....)."

We actually got many good kids in our church, working on their Masters and PHD's, earning scholarships galore. All kids aren't bad, and I apologize for coming off that way.

Anyhoo, no pets here yet, but I think chickens (and other pets) are very therapeutic, and I need take a chill-pill and get some. It may bring down my stress levels and being grumpy. Working with the legal stuff all day, I come home only to watch Judge Judy, Peoples' Court, Judge Joe Brown, and other legal stuff. I can't let the job go, and that's not healthy.

I'd rather sit out in the backyard, sipping my favorite beverage, and enjoy the antics and entertainment of my (future) feathered friends. How do your chickens affect you after a long day of work? I like the fact that many of your girls will peck at your feet, wanting to be held and loved on, eating treats out of your hand, falling asleep while you stroke their wattles. That is just the neatest thing.

Of course, I could make time for them, being single, and don't have to deal with spouse and kids, getting the meals on the table asap etc. I can deal with a baloney sandwich and some red koolaid, watching the kooky cluckers, and call it a day. --BB

Bobby Basham
Tucson, Arizona

Bobby, you crack me up. Yes, chickens are very therapeutic. Some days they are the only thing that doesn't annoy me. My 9 year old daughter is very stressful as she has some developmental issues that aren't obvious other than to stress us out. I've been working on trying to get answers since she was born but no one can tell me 100% what's wrong with her and how to deal with it. I am a perfectionist and I can't make her perfect. That is hard for me. The chickens bring me so much peace in my not so peaceful world.

 

[itsredcandy]

My Blue Copper Olive Egger (my only olive egger) FINALLY laid her first EGG! She and the egg are gorgeous and after 9 and a half months I'm happy.

Egg-citing! You know the drill Mahonri. Can't wait to see pictures.