Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

I haven't dared go to Tara's thread, I'm about 500 posts behind. Maybe I should dive back in at some point. But it's just so much to read.

The dogs really like it, they're still learning a bit, but it's getting better all the time. I want to try hooking both of them up to a sled at some point.

 

[Amberjem]

Me in the front without a dog, my sister's boyfriend behind me with Kiusa, and Vaiva is pulling Karin, who's filming.

ohh doggy doing the work I like it!!!!!!!!!

 

[Amberjem]

@CanuckBock should visit here

I was looking into getting a wheeled cart to hook my dog up to @vehve ... at one point I was carless for a bit and couldnt afford to fix it and I had to take local bus.well from where the bus dropped me off to my house was a huge trek and doing it with grocerys was near impossible......... so I wanted to load it onto a small dog cart and have my dog move the whole thing was faster then him doing it one bag at a time

 

[Amberjem]

I haven't dared go to Tara's thread, I'm about 500 posts behind. Maybe I should dive back in at some point. But it's just so much to read.

The dogs really like it, they're still learning a bit, but it's getting better all the time. I want to try hooking both of them up to a sled at some point.

I had a malmute I use to haress around my waste and go hiking with lol he was great for assisting up the hills..not nearly as good going down

 

[perchie.girl]

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funny thing is I thrive on being alone... I was a single parent at age 34. Bought a house when I was six months along. The neigbors daughter came and chatted me up... she had a toddler. And she asked me "do you live here alone?" I siad yes. then she said dont you get lonely? I said um no... being alone is much different than being lonely. Matter of fact the most Lonely I have ever been was in a room full of people.

When i am at the house I have very few bills. Only power and phone... if the phone works. At the time I was using Dialup. Back in 2003. My son opted to not move with me and to stay with Grandma... It was a good arrangement... I am a horrible house keeper and sometimes get behind on bills. Grandma would teach him responsiblity. I came to town once a week to visit. He was fourteen at the time. and was spending alot of overnights at grandmas any way.

So the house went in escrow in 2003 45 days...

I was paying full on cash for the place AS-IS. But it was a Church that owned it and I believe they had to find accommodations for the twenty one women living there... (halfway house for women coming out of prison). they had had the property donated so they couldn't sell it for more than 99 thousand to keep from paying sales tax.

So the house has always been in rough shape. But I was coming from a hoarding home and was looking to turn my life around. I wouldnt put my furniture in it nor did I buy anthing more than a chair and a bed. I was happy to be out of the hoarding lifestyle I had before. One of the reasons my son bailed... I dont blame him.

Up there I did clutter a bit but kept it to the art studio and the green house room... I set myself boundaries. It worked. I lived there alone till around 2006 when I heard a friend was back in town and she had lost everything to pay medical bills. She was living on a Goat ranch in a fifth wheel with six cats. I convinced her to move in and be a roommate. she and I rode together... but I never socialized with her elsewhere... bad idea.

When she moved in I realized she too was a hoarder.... She also brought negative energy.... I still have to smudge the house to get rid of that completely.... White sage four points of the compass in each room... Some where I have the sage all ready... but its gone walk about.

Yeah I am one of those metaphysical peeples. Not rabid but have embraced what feels right.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

I haven't dared go to Tara's thread, I'm about 500 posts behind. Maybe I should dive back in at some point. But it's just so much to read.

The dogs really like it, they're still learning a bit, but it's getting better all the time. I want to try hooking both of them up to a sled at some point.

Oh just do it.... I think she would get a kick out of it. Shes been talking genetics lately....

deb

 

[Ravynscroft]

Deb, have you tried smudging with sweetgrass? And using rock salt candle holders? I am slightly allergic to sage, so prefer the sweetgrass, lots of it, lol... and the rock salt heated up sucks out tons of negatives and replaces with neutral...

 

[perchie.girl]

@CanuckBock should visit here

I was looking into getting a wheeled cart to hook my dog up to @vehve ... at one point I was carless for a bit and couldnt afford to fix it and I had to take local bus.well from where the bus dropped me off to my house was a huge trek and doing it with grocerys was near impossible......... so I wanted to load it onto a small dog cart and have my dog move the whole thing was faster then him doing it one bag at a time

Heck even having a travois to pull by you would make things much easier... They are easy to make.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

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I can feel when I pick up the eggs, that a few feel like maybe clears, but a couple still have a chick. I popped a small hole in one... chick is alive, looks good, but not ready to hatch (I know, I KNOW, but I couldn't help it

). I am not going to mess with any of the other ones.... Because seeing the one chick made me feel better, AND, I have one last lone Leghorn egg that has a pipped but nothing else chick. I made the hole a little bigger to see... and it looks fine (not sticky, not shrink wrapped, good position etc.) just doesn't look interested in hatching right away.

Anyway... I put them all into my "incubating incubator" Brinny with one wet paper towel, and am having kids clean up Sally. WOW! It always amazes me that chicks, so cute and adorable newly hatched goodness, can make such a revolting mess just by hatching.

As soon as it is clean, the late hatchers will go back into a nice and clean Sally, and be joined by the eggs that are supposed to hatch tomorrow, and Brinny gets to keep on cooking dry.

I had one lady had me MONEY

and pick up some chicks. She was just in time, the quail chicks are now old enough that they were about ready to start popping out of the brooder box.

Also, the brooder box was getting crowded. She took all 8 quail, and 12 Leghorns and dominique mixes. NICE!

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, have you tried smudging with sweetgrass? And using rock salt candle holders? I am slightly allergic to sage, so prefer the sweetgrass, lots of it, lol... and the rock salt heated up sucks out tons of negatives and replaces with neutral...

Ooo sounds nice. Um what is SweetGrass? It sounds vaguely familiar

We have wild white sage at higher elevations but my Native American friend says any sage will do as long as you thank the sage plant and bury some tobacco near the roots. I have eighteen acres of sage.... The desert sage isnt so white or fragrant.

Rock salt would big chunks like you use for icecream do?
deb