OMGosh!!!! That is hilarious!! I can't even imagine anyone being serious about a mommy of two kids driving something like that! I call those kinds of cars ghetto cars--- because they are trying hard to show off for some reason.
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So my morning has been pretty much awful. Well.... I should say my night was. I woke up a little before 1am to my youngest daughter throwing up. In bed and on the floor. SO THANKFUL for hardwood flooring (whew!!!) and got her to the bathroom, she kept throwing up in the toilet and mean while, I cleaned up the floor and got the bedding put into the washer and put on clean bedding on her bed after making sure it was wiped down. I ALWAYS use those zippered plastic covers over our mattresses so they stay brand new, so I just had to wipe a bit of bleach on the plastic cover of her mattress before putting new bedding on. Anyway, then I put her in a bath, because it was gross. Got her out and dried her off and back to bed. Up 20 mins later, but she had made it to the bathroom and was throwing up again. This went on every 20 minutes -- running to the bathroom all night long. UGH. Her bedding stayed clean up until 7am this morning and I'll have to change it again. Sigh. She's laying down right now, but isn't feeling well, so I hope she makes it to the bathroom the next time. I'm guessing a yucky virus hit her. I'm not surprised, she's at the age where I have to force her to hand wash, and then she still puts things into her mouth. (She's 4 yrs) She is also in Preschool where her friends have had the same thing. So it was probably a no win situation. I just hope *I* don't come down with it! I can't afford to! I have my parents coming in on Saturday and I need to clean house like a mad woman this week!
A ghetto car - LOVE IT!!! I will have to remember that expression the next time I am trying to describe a car like that.
Sorry about your DD - hope she gets to feeling better soon.
I had such a crazy day yesterday. I am so glad my normal days aren't like that. to make a long story short I had a scammer from an ebay purchase claiming I sent her the wrong item. I literally spent 3 hours going over all my records and trying to figure out what happened. She was nasty and hateful and nothing I could do would make her happy. She wouldn't give the information I requested to verify what might have happened. I finally figured out from one statement she made that it is all a big scam to try to get her product for free. But it still caused me hours of work. As soon as the entire thing is resolved I will block her from being able to purchase from me in the future. Since you can no longer leave negative feedback for buyers I can't even warn other sellers of her tricks. It seems every year when I am selling my Christmas stuff I have one of these major scammers surface and I keep thinking I am going to stop dealing. But I always do it again. It is so hard to get business references with a major company. I just hate to let that go.
Wow - so sorry you had that issue. I was wondering if you'd mind PM'ing me the buyer's user name on
eBay so I can add her to my blocked list?
It is good you are getting your dad's house taken care of now. It is never a fun job but will have to be done sometime, and it will be a nice feeling knowing it is done, rather than having it still hanging over you.
HEchicken- There was an article right on the front of the BYC page about composting with chickens! It was very interesting, I was amazed at the composting company that uses chickens to produce their compost. I wonder if doing a compost pile in the chicken yard might not be a bad idea! I don't know if I would want it inside their shed but it did say you could do a covered area of a run to keep it going year round. I might have to do this. You know my Nana used to dump a whole bucket of "stuff" out to the birds every day and a lot of it was not stuff they would eat but the did eat somethings that surprised me. I may have to try this with my layers when we move. Let me know how your compost project goes too!
The initial batch I dumped in there disappeared within a day. It was only a coffee can full and I think most of it got scratched into the bedding, but that's fine since ultimately that's where it will be able to compost. I will have to check out that article - I almost never go to the home page.
HEChicken, where did you find your guttering you used? I really hate to have to go buy new guttering just for feeders if I don't have to. Surely some company that puts up guttering would have some or someone has something laying around.
As part of the purchase on our new house, we got a new roof. I talked to the roofer about getting some old pieces of guttering if he had to take any down but none needed replaced on our house. He said he would drop some in from another job but he must have forgotten about it because I never heard from him again. But that is an option, I would think, for getting guttering for cheap or free. In the end, I decided to put gutters on my coop so I went and bought what I needed at Menards. They come in 8 or 10' lengths, and my coop is 14' long so I had to cut some off. I used the piece that I had cut off, for the feeder. I still have a piece left over that I can use for another feeder down the road. At the time I made the purchase at Menards, they were on sale for $4 a length but they also had a rebate that made them FREE. I didn't know about the rebate until I got home and was entering the purchase into Quicken and I happened to notice it at the bottom of the receipt. I mailed in the paperwork they needed and a few weeks later got my rebate for the full purchase price of the gutters. I did go back to Menards and buy the brackets you use to attach the guttering and they made it super easy to attach to the wall of my coop, as I just screwed into the OSB, If you are attaching to chain link or hog panel or hardware cloth, you might find it easiest to cut lengths of wire that go around the gutter and through the wire of the run, then twist to secure. If you use heavier gauge wire and can get it tight enough (and enough of them), I can picture that working quite well.
Medawinks, so sorry to hear you were injured - glad to have you back. So sorry about the Marans chick.
Maidenwolf, the Hovabator has a pretty good reputation. I wasn't aware it is sold at Orschelns.
TSC and Atwoods carry only the LG.
That does look very painful. Do they have pain meds for chickens??
