CALIFORNIA The Whole State thread

[cherylcohen]

Sometimes I think we try to do too much, too many different things, & evrything gets short changed. Plus we feel bad about it. I know I have a bad problem about wanting to "DO it all" & yet can't manage it. Don't beat yourself up Kim........... I am working on trying to learn to just do what I can no matter what that may be. Without all the help I get i wouldn't get much done at all. Today is Ceres garden club meeting & we are building birdhouses from the kits I cut. My husband came to my rescue & cut & drilled the metal rooftops for me. I hope it goes smoothly. The last time I did this for another group the little ladies had such a blast.They were all sooooooooooo pround of what they did!!!!!

Agreed, and my word for the New Year is SIMPLIFY. I've been for years now building, rebuilding, hatching others eggs, growing out too many etc etc. I'm working hard to now simplify my interests. We'll see how it goes, but I've got to do it. Larry is getting a bit fed up with how much time I devote to my babies. I've got a real good plan for what I'm breeding and how I'm going to improve all the breeds. However I still have a CRAZY amount of chicks and juveniles. I'm even getting rid of some layers. I feel like renting a winnebago for Stockton...has anyone ever done that?

 

[capayvalleychick]

Hey, for those of you going to the Stockton show, I would like to say hello, if I see you there. Put your pic here

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/20934/putting-faces-with-names-submit-your-mug-here

so I can recognize you. I saw Dawn already did. Karen, I need to pay you for the earrings but have no idea what you look like.

Kim

 

[sewandgrow]

Cheryl,
I have seen many big RVs at the show. I just betcha some of them are rented or borrowed. Denny Lotsapaints, Paso Robles) was talking about her's but we rented a room for Saturday night instead so we can stay for the banquet after being there all day & then we will drive back on Sunday. I am getting excited alread.
I set up the retrofit for my humidity module & my husband, Raymond, is messing with it for me so I can go back up my birdhouse kits & get ready to go.

 

[ChicksterJo]

Speaking of RVs...we are going to look at a travel trailer or 5th wheel (25 ft long) this weekend. The lady wants $2,000 for it. From the pictures the inside looks good. Now if it is in decent shape (she said she's the 2nd owner and she has been living in it full time) how much should I actually offer for it? It may be worth $2000 to her but maybe a lot less to me...

 

[wolftracks]

WOW we were going to buy an RV and use it to travel a bit, but mostly because we were always the last ones packed to leave when we camped at Pow Wow. LOL Bill was talking to an older couple there that said their's cost more than their new house. Not exactly in our price range, but we had been working with a salesman in Turlock to buy the one he fell in love with. He had his bike trailor all picked out for it. I never went back and ebd told the guy Bill died. Might do that sometime, might not.

I still hurt from the little bit I did the other day. Rain on it's way and I don't have things done. Story of my life lately. I need to get some 2x4's here soon so I can getthe hoop house up. Just think that's going to help so much with being able to find my yard. I have to do do things simpler and I think having that up will just be a big help during rainy season and during the summer. Right now I have a rooster crowing at the back door. I can't catch him unless he comes inside and I'm trying to prevent that, but he sure does want to come in. It's cold out there and he thinks he needs to be a house chicken. Second biggest roo out there and he's a wuss.

I got out of the house last night and had fun with my youngest daughter and son and Makayla and we kidnapped my 2nd oldest grand daughter and took her to Texas Roadhouse for her 18th birthday. Thing is it started a little drama, but oh well. My oldest grand daughter turned 19 on the 3rd. Last year she had a huge party with a room at the only real hotel here in Modesto. So food, a DJ and hours of partying. I called her on her birthday and was going to take her with me if I ever get out to visit Bill and take her to dinner in Fairfield. Well she called me for a ride and I told her where we were. She says "oh ok" and that was it. Then she sends her sister a text telling her she didn't get her birthday from grandma and thanks alot. So, she'll either have to get over it or I have one less gift for Christmas or a birthday top buy from now on. Heck I went to kidnap her last weekend and she never showed up at home, so ya snooze ya lose. Still we had a good time. Lots of containers full of food in the frig, cause there's always so much left and the waiter brought Monica ice cream and sang Happy Birthday and man is this huy in the wrong business! He can really sing. So if I ever get to go again, I'm requesting him.

So my night went pretty good, but driving back??? Yeah, gotta see the machanic again.Depending on what's going on, I may be parking that thing and looking for a really cheap little car that's good on gas. Nothing new, just new to me. So I hope I'm still making the show, although I've been kind of iffy since yesterday anyway.

I swear I have no life!

 

[gussie398]

?Hey! I live in the Pasadena area. Anyone else live there? And, has anyone been to Wes's Pets and Feed in El Monte?
Gussie398

 

[OCpeep]

I'm kinda close in OC. Let me know what you think of Wes's. I'd be willing to travel some if it's a good place.

 

[birdmaniac3000]

if anyone is interested i have serama pairs or trios for sale $25 each bird

 

[wolftracks]

I could kick myself right now. I stopped at JS West yesterday for Gamebird grower and they had a ton of Modern Games from the Holister show. I was going to take Makayla back before they closed and didn't get there till noon today. All the pullets and hens were gone

I did it again

So she does have another birchen cockerel. They hadn't been trimmed yet, but I know where I can have that done. I think they need to be about a year old? Is that right? I need to get a couple of hens at the show for her. Anyway they have lots of cockerels there if anyone is interested. We bought a birchen, but they allso nave red browns that are gorgeous! Wish I had had the $40 for a pair of OEGBs. I have a hen and no roo and they are so pretty.

I still have FBCMxEE chicks if someone wants some. Might be 4 out there. They all look like pullets. I have Olive Eggs in the bators and I also have quail and more Marans that will be hatching starting the 29? I think. Lots of Bev Davis FBCMs and some blue and blue coppers. I have Sunny on the list for FBCMs, so depending how many hatch

I may have some for sale soon.

OK I've been trying and trying to get Silkied AMs from Alicefelldown for a long time. I was trying to get a ride for a trio up here and then with getting birds stolen and killed, I was a little nervous about it till I had things finished here. Sooooo, I have eggs coming from her last birds. The same one's I wanted to buy and had entended too. This will work, cause I will be able to keep them in brooders and they'll have a safe place to go when they grow out.

 

[wolftracks]

Just set 12 Blue Marans and 5 Olive Eggers.

Let all these eggs I have going hatch!