Dixie Chicks

[vehve]

I like doing weird comparisons.

JWB, your roo looks a bit popsicly. I hope he thaws quickly.

 

[chickisoup]

Don't forget to set your chickens
an hour ahead this weekend!!!


(Alaskan-for you set all the boys 1 hour ahead)

 

[chickisoup]

@vehve
this is more insanity from us americans. We can't make up our minds what time it should be!

(BTW-never understood the snow day thingie either. Only time we had them as kids was when the snowplow got stuck. Even then school was still open, you were just excused if you rode the bus. we had -25 F this morning and they didn't even delay the start of school because all the buses started. They probably would have tho if the wind had been howling like it was yesterday)

 

[chickisoup]

I like doing weird comparisons.

JWB, your roo looks a bit popsicly. I hope he thaws quickly.

X2! Poor roo! Dumb roo! Good chicky owner for rescuing the silly roo.

 

[Beer can]

The problem with my area the 'foothills of the Catskill Mountains' is its mainly old farmland, twisty,windy, hilly backroads. We don't have a school in our town, the kids go the next town over, it takes big buses to pick all the critters up. They do have drop down chains system on our buses that help.

 

[Beer can]

I think the time change is stupid.

 

[vehve]

We do daylight savings too, although not at the same time as you. We switch the last Sunday of March and last Sunday of October.

 

[Peep_Show]

Some of you have heard this story already, but I will tell it anyways for the ones that haven't.

Hubby has heart issues, has had quadruple bypass surgery & can't be out in the heat. But last year he managed to plow up a good size plot of garden area for me.

My cousin & I set the date to plant the garden the day after Mother's Day. (Safe day from frost here in Ohio). Just a week before that day I had a mole removed from my face & sent in for biopsy. The day after Mother's day, my cousin came over & we planted all the plants I had started in the greenhouse, and all the seeds I had wanted to plant. We planted tomatoes, peppers, swiss chard, cabbage, watermelon, musk melons, green beans, (pole & bush type), potatoes, pumpkins, lettuce, kale, you name it, I think we planted it!

So less than a week after we planted it, dr called. Confirmed that the mole is basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer). Furthermore said they did not get it all & I would need to go in immediately to the Cincinnati skin cancer center for MOHS surgery. Whomever doesn't know what that is, its where they cut a hole to remove the cancer, they put it under a microscope & keep removing layers until it is all confirmed gone. Mine was massive. The size of a quarter or silver dollar.... Couldn't really tell because I was crying too hard. Right next to my nose. Then they had to cut the "hole" section out because the plastic surgeon could not sew a circle without massive scarring. So, she cut a V shape out of my face to create lines to sew together.

Needless to say, I was told the sun is not my friend at all. Basal cell is the most common of skin cancers. It is the most easily treated. It is the most likely to come back

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The garden-DH and I weeded and rotor tilled in the evening when the heat and sun were gone, but by July, it was overgrown with weeds. We let the chickens eat the whole garden. They were super happy. I felt good that at least the garden didn't go to waste. They ate like kings for a week

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The surgery healed fine and if you didn't know I had surgery, its not real noticeable. Here is a pic of post surgery and now. Sorry, it's graphic!



I am super blessed and I try to spread awareness about skin cancer. This year, we will have a garden. I will wear my big old bonnets and plenty of sunscreen and try to work before sunrise or after sunset.

Yeppers, skin cancer is not something to be taken lightly. Sister had a melanoma on her foot which required two surgeries to remove, sentinel node biopsies that were lymph node removals at her knee, groin and deep abdomen, a nasty serum drainage sucking machine attached to her ankle for a week and then not being able to be mobile (no foot use) for a couple months. That was excrutiating for a workaholic who also ran about 5 miles a day. All of that from a small black dot less than the size of a pencil eraser.

Your surgeon did excellent work, btw.

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Posted this on Tara's thread as well. Thoughts anyone?

Kind of reminds me of the old song, "Tennessee Bird Walk"
Anyone go for a poultry stroll?

Mine are too lazy and would rather be carried.

We do daylight savings too, although not at the same time as you. We switch the last Sunday of March and last Sunday of October.

The State Senate of New Mexico recently had a bill appear that was lobbying for Daylight Savings all year long. I believe it was voted down because nobody liked the prospect of their kids standing at a freezing cold bus stop in the dark.


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I don't do humidity as I'm very prone to heat rash. Sad, because I really enjoy the Islands, but can only last about a day and a half before it sets in and I love Savannah, GA (except in the summer)

 

[tntchix]

Ugh standardized testing today for online school. I don't wanna go all the way to Ann Arbor

and sit there for 3 hours while he gets all stressed out over which freaking bubble to fill in for these moronic tests that prove nothing except how to fill in a bubble on a form. I wish standardized testing would just disappear.

 

[Peep_Show]

Good morning, Everyone!