Hawkeye-I LOVE the greenhouses made from doors. How unique and creative! Sounds like you had a great little mini vacation.
..........................AND>>>>>DH and I found a place where we want to move. We both fell in love with it. However, I am not sure the deal will go through. The seller may back out. Time will tell, but it is going to be a very busy time for us getting our place ready to sell, and all the other things we will need to do. I will be going back to work tonight for the first time since my knee surgery, so I hope that goes well.
Due to the move I will be selling down on some of my birds. I haven't decided which ones will be available, but I will post it once I know. Some are already spoken for, so I need to see just what I want to keep and what will have to go. I am really excited and hope the deal works out.
I was telling my DH about the greenhouse made out of doors and windows and he was having a cow, since we don't know if we'll be here. I hope this new house works out for you!! So exciting that you found a house down there near your sister! You'll be closer to everyone else, too. Nice!! I get down that way a couple times a year, not as much as I should. I sure hope it all falls into place and it works out smoothly for you.
I, too, am suprised he allowed his pic to be taken. We know a great Amish family. Sam butchers my chickens and his wife sells the best pies I have ever tasted! They are the sweetest couple I have ever met. I didn't know that they didn't allow English in their homes. We have been in Sams several times. They have a little outhouse/shed building out by the road that they keep a cell phone in that they share with one of the farms across the street. So when you call and leave a message they will call you back. Where was this place you went Hawkeye?
Okay, I don't remember the name of the road, but as soon as you take the Yoder exit, you drive down that main highway that runs right by the restaurant and the meat company, and then you turn left onto a street that takes you west thru town-- the road you turn left on is right where the Yoder school is. Then surprisingly, there is a neat "down town" area on that road, they have a community covered picnic area and a little shopping in there. Continue on past that, then you hop back on the highway that cuts thru at a Y and then they are out of town just a tiny bit from there on the south side of the road. I could probably look it up and tell you streets if you are wanting to contact them.
Or better yet, I could ask my MIL and have her give me the name/phone number. It might be one of those things where you leave a message and then they post it on the board and the family will call you back. The family did say that they have a community phone-- sort of like the party lines back in the day where anyone can get on and hear other conversations.
Our official move was yesterday so we are now in our new place. Well, sort of. The movers screwed up and ran out of their own trucks so our crew had to go and rent a Penske truck. It was about half the size (so they say) of their trucks and they couldn't fit everything in. We were only asking them to move the big stuff as we're quite capable of moving smaller items, so we were a little annoyed to have the truck full and some of the big stuff still not on it. The actual crew was terrific - the screw up was with management, who sent them to rent a truck not large enough to fit our stuff in (and that is AFTER they came out to see what we were moving and give us a quote, so they knew exactly which items needed to go on the truck. Grrrrr.)
The other hiccup was that the basement in the new house was 3/4 finished.
Drinking coffee on the wide front porch this morning, listening to the sounds of nothing but birds singing and my roosters crowing - no city noises, no traffic - DH turned to me and said "I love it here". That was all I needed to hear.
YAY!! Glad you are mostly moved in! I'd be ticked about the movers. I hope they plan to get everything all sorted out for you. That is part of why we'd hire movers-- so we don't have to take anything up or down the stairs! Sheesh. So I take it that your bedroom is going to be in the basement? Is this a viewout basement? I just don't think I could live in the basement unless it were like mine. Which is really less of a basement and more of a half covered lower floor. It worries me in tornado warnings, because I'm pretty sure our basement is not exactly ideal to be hiding in, but it's better than sitting around on the top floor. On the other hand, the other 99% of the time, we enjoy a second level that has as much natural light as the main floor. We have two bedrooms downstairs (where my oldest son sleeps) and our game room, and our family room. It's the perfect setup. I would love to have that nice wide front porch! We have a typical porch for a modern home, it's about 6X10. Enough to put a bench out there, but that's about it. This is why we've worked so hard on our backyard to make up for the lack of neat spaces built into the home.
I hope this isn't a running theme beginning to trend with us! We found out that instead of Boeing shutting down late next year, they are giving their manages bonuses up to $40K to close their programs up early. My dad's program is shutting down in two months now! He was going to get his layoff now, but fortunately, he has found another job and I'm praying it does not fall thru. Now I need MY dh to get another job. Sigh. My parents will (hopefully) be moving to Seattle now. I'm digging in -- praying we don't have to go anywhere. But I'm more worried now since the company is making this big push to shut it down ASAP and we'll be out of a job in as short as 5-6 months instead of the full year they were talking about. Everyone is going to be fighting over jobs.
Oh did I tell you all that I got a strange Welsummer chick from the two that hatched? I can't remember who I told & who I didn't. My friend sent me some eggs to incubate & only 2 ended up making it to hatch out of 6 that she sent, she only has one hen. Anyway, one of them is white instead of the usual Welsummer colors. You can barely see the caramel colored stripes on it's back. I posted the pic of them on the Welsummer thread & some of them say it's a DQ & shouldn't be bred of course, but I didn't want it for breeding anyway, just laying. I can tell the other one is a pullet by it's coloring, but who knows what this one is. I'm going to let it feather out & see what it looks like, it should be interesting.
That is really interesting! You should post a pic here! I want to see!! I'm not involved in Welsummer's, but I find that fascinating! I wonder what happened-- what genetic ground color do Welsummer have? Are they silver based or something? Perhaps that chick has an incredible amount leakage coming thru, which is giving it that color?
HI everyone! I am in Hillsboro but frequent Wichita. I am looking for another Faverolle hen, and possibly a home for a Faverolle cockrel. This is my first year of ever having chickens. I look forward to chatting.
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WELCOME to the Kansas Thread!! I dont' have any faverolle either, but I bet someone on here does. Oh and we have a Kansas swap-- that might be a better place to check out! Post your "wanted" here:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/275183675880038/
