BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Back to the simple life discussion...
I lost my big paying Chemical Engineering job early 2013. I had 2 mortgages and had just signed a contract to buy my first flip. Yikes! Three houses and no job. Fun times.
I decided then and there that the big house was going to go and we were going to down size. We lived in the flips as we did them and finally landed the house we are in now. I LOVE my little house! I own it outright and the taxes, insurance and utilities are really low.
I never want to go back to full time work. I may have to, but I don't want to. I live on a fraction of what others think they need.
I've had too many people to count tell me that I need to flip as many houses as I can. Why, I asked. "So you can make lots of money!!" As if I was daft!
So many people don't understand that money is not the source of happiness.
In the infamous words of Sheryl Crow:
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got
(Now I have that song stuck in my head)

 

[igorsMistress]

Thank you for the congratulations all. The girl reminds me of me quite a bit...I wouldn't tie the knot with Igor for 6 years

 

[pennyJo1960]

@igorsMistress must be one great Son for her to say yes them wishing them years and years of happiness

 

[igorsMistress]

@igorsMistress must be one great Son for her to say yes them wishing them years and years of happiness

Thank you Penny! She's really good for him, he's straightened himself out quite a bit since they got together.

 

[CapricornFarm]

That is great , IM, I am waiting on my younger son to get married. They have a daughter already!

 

[Shadrach]

Good morning Cafe.
Coffee is made.
Congratulations on the forthcoming wedding IM.

 

[drumstick diva]

I didn't know we were poor either. I thought my parents were just cheapskates. My parents could barely afford one kid yet, they had 3.

My mother was competing with the woman who married her older brother. They never liked each other. My mom had 3 kids 2 girls and a son. My aunt(by marriage- I never liked her either) had 2 sons and a daughter. In each case my mother had hers first so we were older by a year or so to my aunt's brood.

 

[drumstick diva]

I always thought IF you lived with someone was better because if they were abusive you could just leave. I didn't realize they would/could stalk you and end up in an even worse situation.

My fault I seemed to have a knack for falling in love with bad guys. The last one admitted he didn't know how long he could keep up the good guy act. Not long. Dr. & blue pill couldn't cure his impotence but I Did, then he took off to try "it" with other women.

Wasn't the first time that happened to me. Maybe in my next life things will work out better.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning, Cafe.
One more day of hot and humid with a thunderstorm, then we get a little break in the heat. Back to the salt mines for me.
Everyone have a great day!

 

[Shadrach]

I've had what is commonly known as a complete result. Fat Bird seems to have decided that this broody business isn't all it's cracked up to be.
She spent all day yesterday locked in the house with me........Before anyone writes that should be enough for even the worst case of broodiness, I feel I should point out that last year it took 4 days.
Some might be thinking, yeah so what's the big deal how long it takes. The big deal is I have to shut the door. For the chickens here having a shut door at bucket boys house causes similar outrage and rebellious retribution to the Boston Tea Party........
The first line of action is to stand on the window sills outside looking forlorn and neglected. Next the spite kicks in and they go off and lay eggs in the most inaccessible places they can find.
If that doesn't work they go into a huddle under the sheep field hay rack and work out a plan so that when I go to make sure everyone is still living they split up and hide.
Locating chickens iin four acres of the type of land we have here can take hours. I've stood six inches away from a broody here before and not seen her.
Anyway, when I opened Tribe 1 up this morning Fat Bird came out a bit clucky and fluffy but made no attempts to occupy any of the nest site including the nest box in the tribes coop that has rather an attractive pile of eggs in it.
I've been thinking. I mentioned earlier that I'm not exactly overpaid here and I've been considering a buying an air ticket to the US and taking up a traveling career as the broody bogey man; gotta be worth a few dollars if a day spent with me can change a hens mind given the grief I read on the forums regarding the problem. You know, I think I might even pick up a few dollars from the guys wanting to see if it will work on the wife.