Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Home Safely
For everyone who is wondering. Phyllis made it home safely last night but she is looking tough this morning. It must have been a wild night!

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Greetings all! Happy 123123!

It's a rather lazy NYE. We're headed to my husband's cousin's house tonight and I'm making baked beans. My beans take nearly 4 hours and are, frankly, delicious, if I do say so myself! Nothing healthful about them for sure! I've been good as gold and trying to lose weight, but tonight I'm not counting calories.

All the retirement talk...I was supposed to in 2024. Not gonna happen. We could make ends meet, but not comfortably given the cost of insurance and meds. But, working, we can literally pay off our car in March and our house in about 2 years after that if we throw every extra dollar at it. Our mortgage isn't that big and with me working we have quite a bit of disposable income. So there you go...28 years of payments, or 2? Kind of a depressing no-brainer. I like my job most of the time but I am tired.

On the chicken front, the determination is made. Tres is outta here. I've contacted the fella who took Manny and he'll see if his friend still wants him. I went out and tossed yummy scraps in the run today and Tres actively ran Meanie away from the food and back into the coop. When I went into the coop and put a few meal worms out for her, he came and ate all those himself! There was no nice roo tuc-tuc-tucing for his girls. He just ran her off and gobbled it down. Even with me running him out, he came back twice and took the opportunity to chase her all over before catching her for mating, with her trying to get away every second.

Yeah...he's not a nice roo. If they don't want him I may send him to freezer camp.

Probably rehoming would be the best for Tres, who doesn't know any better it seems, if he can learn from an older dominant Roo there, or be kept in line. Freezer camp will be too bad, but understandable.
Two cents on what to pay off - if your mortgage is fixed at a low rate you might be better off throwing every last cent into retirement savings that return more than the mortgage is costing you, but car loans are usually stupid high rates. It's good to have a satisfying job at least, but do take care of yourself

 

[Ponypoor]

Home Safely
For everyone who is wondering. Phyllis made it home safely last night but she is looking tough this morning. It must have been a wild night!

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Hey Phyllis glad you got to go wild! Is Aurora put out that you had a New Years blow out?

 

[Ponypoor]

Just look at that Betty!

I am surprised she doesn’t have a ton of spots seeing as how her mum and Mr P are spotty, meanwhile Bert is getting quite spotty.

 

[Ponypoor]

Happy New Year, from the crew

View attachment 3716464Tuff is watching for it.

View attachment 3716465Pippa is calling it in.

View attachment 3716466A RARE pose from Nimbus (Blanche told her to)

View attachment 3716468Cumulo also

View attachment 3716469Blanche: THIS is how you pose, pullets. LEARN from your elders on this!

Cumulo has a lovely topknot going on there, who gave her that?

Would you call Blanche a splash? She is a lovely hen (you know I love spots right? And stripes and wattles and combs and dapples ).

 

[featherhead007]

Home Safely
For everyone who is wondering. Phyllis made it home safely last night but she is looking tough this morning. It must have been a wild night!

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Hi PHYLLIS. YOU DON’T MIND IF I’M A LITTLE LOUD DO YOU? I’m thinking that maybe you might have a headache this morning?

 

[BY Bob]

Hey Phyllis glad you got to go wild! Is Aurora put out that you had a New Years blow out?

Aurora simply doesn't understand the whole idea of partying all night. Phyllis will be staying out of everyone's way today.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Mugs Monday:

 

[Sally PB]

but car loans are usually stupid high rates.

As are credit cards.

Just tossing this out in general... Getting out of debt saves you a ton of money! I have relatives who are buried in debt, who should know better. They will not listen when I make suggestions. I'm to the point where I don't know what to say to them anymore when they fret about how they will pay their bills. I don't have several (hundred) thousand dollars I can bail them out with. Nor can we give them $10-20K to get them through to their next crisis.

That is not me being callous, that is me not adopting their stress as my own.

 

[Sally PB]

Tax and mug for Monday.
Pippy, when she woke up from her nap on my lap.