Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

[coloradogal]

I always cover my eggs in a thin layer of ghee (ghee is shelf stable). I know some people use mineral oil but I'm not a big fan of the stuff.

 

[coloradogal]

X100

 

[Beekissed]

I'm sorry, BK. Just had to go have a shower, fish some clean underwear and jeans out of the drier and then dig out some upholstery shampoo the for the couch. Didn't mean for it to take me so long. ummm, which one is bruce?....and where are his chickies?

You'll have to join my club, Missa.....P.I.S.S.I (People In Support of Stress-induced Incontinence).

 

[Celie]

I always cover my eggs in a thin layer of ghee (ghee is shelf stable). I know some people use mineral oil but I'm not a big fan of the stuff.

I have used food grade mineral oil but never heard of ghee, what is it? Where do you get it? Info would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Missa Chickabee]

You'll have to join my club, Missa.....P.I.S.S.I (People In Support of Stress-induced Incontinence).

NO NO NO. That's MY club, BK. I founded this club at an overnight cabin womens' retreat from our church. Ya see, good ol' Kathy Jo wanted to break the ice and make us all comfortable by distributing to each of us something to read: we each got to describe a type of Barbie Doll. When it got to me I was already demonstrating the kind of Barbie Doll I was destined to describe: "My Barbie Doll is "Menopause Barbie"....squeeze her and she'll sneeze and pee a little bit."
Eventually, I was able to read it to them.

 

[Kansas Prairie]

Maybe we could hire Brad Pitt to do a shirtless documentary on the safe practice of eating unwashed farm fresh eggs?

I'd watch it....

My couch is available, send Brad on over!

 

[Beekissed]

NO NO NO. That's MY club, BK. I founded this club at an overnight cabin womens' retreat from our church. Ya see, good ol' Kathy Jo wanted to break the ice and make us all comfortable by distributing to each of us something to read: we each got to describe a type of Barbie Doll. When it got to me I was already demonstrating the kind of Barbie Doll I was destined to describe: "My Barbie Doll is "Menopause Barbie"....squeeze her and she'll sneeze and pee a little bit."
Eventually, I was able to read it to them.

Love that kind of girl's night....sure wish they had those kind of church ladies where I come from!

 

[Missa Chickabee]

Love that kind of girl's night....sure wish they had those kind of church ladies where I come from!

Well, the ice got broken and then we prayed for each other the whole next day. A weekend to remember.

 

[Beekissed]

Sure wish I could go to church with folks like you, Missa....should be a place of joy, not a place that feels like a funeral.

 

[Missa Chickabee]

You know BK, it really is that kind of place. There is a lot of joy. And we're all just a bunch of nuthins that God loves. Not a doc or a lawyer amongst us. (nothin against them. God loves them, too) Farmers and families, singles and marrieds, widows and orphans, and a few gals who are mentally handicapped who are just amazing, too. The OT's would feel loved there. (I'm the closest thing to a foo-foo chicken person that they've (farmers) met and they laugh their heads off at me at our home bible study and give me the royal gears) Our pastor never went to seminary.....his school of hard knocks for preparation to be a pastor was high school, Vietnam and teaching math on the reservation. We number maybe 70 tops. Nobody dresses to be noticed but if they did it wouldn't matter. Most live rurally, some from town. We don't agree on everything. When our marriage went really sour they loved and counseled us back to Rock solid commitment.

Kathy Jo calls us the church of the holy misfits. The worship is led by a family that really worships (doesn't 'entertain'). You really can feel the Lord's presence, not always but often. The pulpit is open for anyone to share during the worship time and that is hardly ever abused. Once or twice the people just kept getting up and sharing what God had shown them or something that happened, etc and then the pastor said. "You all have preached my sermon and it's late. Let's just go down and get something to eat together"

Joy is there in adversity,too. Last year my pastor had a heat stroke, prostate cancer, a car accident in which someone was fatally injured, sold his city house and built a new one in the country and went to Israel for two weeks with his wife. He made it and came out the other side.

But it's the people all just caring for each other. I think the forum is good and many good relationships are formed online, but we really do need people we can see in the skin that we know love us, warts and all, and with whom we can be real. A lot of folks are going thorugh major hardships right now. It does get hard and BYC and my wonderful 'escape' many times.

I hate dead "religion" with a passion and struggle with "religious" types of people....but I love the Lord, His Word and His people. Worlds apart. Good warm churches that teach the real Truth are hard to find. I should know. But when I lived in Canada and was single, I was blessed to find a few families who just began to meet at a home. We sang together and studied and prayed together. It was amazing.

But........I diverse from chickens...but maybe not so far from them. (You have reminded me that we are really blessed) "I've told my husband numerous times: God has respect for chickens! They're in the Bible!" (So. He always forgets and so I tell him again) "Jesus looked back toward Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives and said, weeping: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem....how I have longed to gather you as a mother hen would gather her chicks under her............" Jesus likes chickens.