It is. I hope everyone one is staying in the state!
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DH and I would love to move to the country, but he can't live more than 5 miles from the fire station. Heck, it's a mile from there to the edge of town, in most cases.We check things out, off and on, but everything is at least twice what we're paying for our current house. I know my in-laws would loan us the money to make both payments until our house sells, but I don't want to get in too deep. What's the point of having a place in the country if we have to work three jobs to pay for everything and we never get to do what we moved there to do?
Someone mentioned wanting to build a cement house. We've seen a couple go up around here, but they're still very new. Does anyone know how they hold up over the long run? In theory, they should weather pretty well. It should hold up MUCH better than the average basement, right? DH has been fascinated with the idea of building one ever since he saw the first one around here.
If we could move, we want lots more chickens and some quail. We'd love to raise a cow or two each year. And goats. DH wants goats. He grew up with a couple of goats and says they're lots of fun.
This cat is a special one. I rescued her from my neighbors roof after he killed the mother cat for having kittens up there. There were 3 of them but she is the only survivor. One of them disappeared at about a year and the other was killed by a neighborhood dog thanks to the drug addicts that threw the cat in the dogs pen. ANGRY!
Anyway the kittens were too young to eat and I had to hand feed them from day one. They would get so messy that they each got a bath in the kitchen sink every time they ate. This cat used to get in the shower with me. She has no fear of water. Anyway she isn't a normal cat at all. She's 13 years old and finally learned how to stomp her paws like a normal cat just a couple years ago. She doesn't meow at all. I think when they were tiny and screaming from starvation,once she was cared for, she just never had a reason to meow again. She just opens her mouth and no sound comes out. She sleeps on my pillow every night with her feet wrapped around my head. If I ask her for a kiss she will walk up to me and put her forehead on my face for a kiss. Sometimes she kisses back but that usually involves a little nip on the cheek. She loves every one and doesn't understand people who don't give her attention. She is grossly overweight. She was patterned just like a leopard. As time has gone on she has turned gray in the face and her markings have blended so she only looks leapardy on her legs now. But she is still beautiful to me. Loosing her would be like loosing one of my children.
Right now she is mad at me because I gave her her medicine and she was not happy about it. I just hope she gets well.
Trish-Yes, I think it would set that up on a small table or some sawhorses or something to save your back. It makes it SO much easier! It looks like it will work nicely.
I have 3 new babies this morning!Two wheaten ameraucanas and one MYSTERY CHICK! I am not sure what happened there. I am very careful about keeping my breeders penned and separated, and when I gather eggs I mark them as to where they came from... except the free range eggs that I sell for eating. I had one chick hatch in one compartment; a wheaten out of a wheaten egg. In the other compartment I had one wheaten out of a wheaten egg, and one totally yellow chick out of what I "thought" was a golden lakenvelder egg. It's not a golden lakenvelder chick. I don't always mark the lakenvelder eggs because they are quite a bit smaller than the jumbo eggs my leghorns lay. The only explaination I can think of is that one of the leghorns laid a much smaller egg than usual and I mistook it for a lakenvelder and put it in the incubator. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. It's a completely yellow chick, but that can change. Most likely the rooster would have been my black copper marans rooster, Fuzzy. He is such a good boy and takes such good care of his girls.
Marty--- exciting that you won the eggs! How did they say they packed them? What kind of feedback did they get on the delivery of their eggs and hatch rate?? I want to give it a go, but I'm nervous about wasting a lot of money on shipped eggs. Of course... it could work out fine, you never know!