Fuzzy's Farm

[BackyardFarmMom]

Looking at the pictures of my hand... I realize how much my hands look like my mothers when she was my age... minus the nails (I get those from my great grandma)
Now she has broken her fingers and has arthritis from cutting hair for years and years.
Tip your hair dressers well... hands don't last forever.

 

[RBahmer]

I love to hear my roosters crow. Anytime day or night so I must be weird like you Nova lol

Well, I took a job. Such a hard one too lol. I am watching over a 96 year old woman 5 nights a week while she sleeps. Lets see, I get to sleep in a Condo every night, watch a big screen HD TV with cable, have my own room, own bathroom, can do whatever I want as long as I am there. I have a monitor in my bedroom to see her bed, an alarm on her bed if she gets up, and check on her every so often. AND get paid to do it lol. I told my DIL that I feel like I am stealing their money lol. Oh well, money to play with now ( more chickens lol).

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Can't stay today, just got out of work, going to guy check on my little turd. Then i gotta be back here to meet dad and go get the car, drive back and hope i don't get in trouble because i don't have any plates/ insurance yet, tomorrow i will get to do that.

Then i gotta go to bed, get up and do it all again......... Plus an oil change! Then i get to get my hands dirty and mess with the car if the weather holds, i am one of those funny girls who like tinkering with cars anyway. There are about 7 things non-engine that will cause that, i did my research. Spark plugs will tell me a lot, depending on what color soot is there, which plugs have it, etc. There are other things i can do also, then if i still can't find it i will save for the shop. I figure if it's not too bad, i will just get a lot of oil changes, and they will learn me by name, lol.

Still cheaper than the truck!!! *I think*. Auto insurance is a killer, i am on high risk due to not being insured for 3 years............ i guess i was expected to be on someone else's policy for a while? OK, but no job??! Well. So i have dutifully made all the calls, (yes, i am trying your guy too, Nova) and it looks like i'm going to be expecting over 100 a month for a loooooong time! Bummer. Everything else on this car is solid, and right now the truck needs a lot of work and i can't turn on the heater or i risk burning up a weak belt, sooooo. Clear choice! Also, i blew through $35 of gas in 2 days, only drove perhaps 20-25 miles ???????

 

[fuzzybutt love]

LOL. gravy job!!! Good deal.

There are days i would give up my porcelain hens, little hormonal turds! Maurice is quite the ham though.
I guess because the girls beat him up, he is always lonely and wants to be held. Not saying i wouldn't ever give him up, if need be, but it would be hard! I am glad that the porcelains aren't as wild as the hatchery millie roos. They are usually the first to treats, first to come inside and roost! Stay close at all times.

Millie roos, Poor little things, so wild and stubborn.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

WARNING! RANT!





I am convinced holidays make life more stressful! Mom promised that we were gonna have an enjoyable Christmas outing together with the whole family, and that she would not let anyone or anything interfere with the outing. And then, what does she do?! She decides it's time to schedule a haircut! Now we aren't going anywhere, and to make things even worse, my dip-stick, dink-head, idiot brother spills coffee all over my nice drawing! And he didn't just ruin one drawing! No, he ruined two drawings!

Furthermore, I am convinced that my parents like my siblings better than me! Why? Because if I'm late to feed the dogs, they will chew me out like I've committed a crime! I mean, they will not just drop it! And I was, what, an hour late to feed them? Meanwhile, it's been two freaking days since my dipstick brother gave the dogs water, and it has mud, leaves, and algae in it! And my mom and dad see this and they're like "Geeze, Tim!" and drop it! The dogs have gone for two days without water and they do not care!

But if I am an hour late to feed the dogs, I've committed an unimaginable crime! Why do my parents hate me so?! I mean, mom is, like, worse than dad. His reaction is mellow, but it still hurts. Mom is the one that will sit and cuss at me and threaten me. Like, packing my sh*t for me and kicking my a** out the front door, or me b*tching about everything. Or how about me being a lazy a** who does nothing to contribute makes her life f*cking miserable!

Gosh, what the heck did I do wrong there? I must've screwed up big-time. She's still cussing about how she has a f*cking b*tch for a daughter.

What the heck went wrong there?! I swear, my whole freaking family hates me, except for dad. The only person who has a mellow reaction to my mistakes and still appreciates me for who I am. Mom never does that.

And ya know what! I know why me and my mom don't get along! Because mom tries so hard and spends all of her time with me trying to turn me into a clean freak, and a person who likes clean and all that! No offense to all you clean and tidy people out there, but I will never ever be a clean freak like she is! She is just wasting her time and ruining our relationship with her stupid attempts to make me who she wants me to be!

*Rant Over*

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

CFL... This is not meant to be mean... just very honest from my own experiences.

All I can say is suck it up and MAKE SURE THE STINKIN DOGS HAVE WATER WEATHER IT IS YOUR JOB OR NOT!! Dogs are living creatures too, and they deserve to be taken care of because they cannot do it themselves! I feel awful when my dogs have licked their water bowl clean! I wouldn't drink dirty water!
My mom would have made me eat dinner an hour late or given me the dirty water to drink with my dinner to make her point! (She wouldn't make me drink it... but she would sure get it through my head)

I hated my mom for 18 years... My dad told me when I was 6 I told him I hated her and it didn't change until I was living on my own, paying bills, working, living with a guy...
Life is rough and trust me... right now you have it good.

I raised my 3 siblings, took care of dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, guinea pigs, rabbits...
Are you the oldest? I am. My mom was the hardest on me... and I am the only one to graduate high school (so far) I have a house and a family. I thank her for that, now.

If you can't handle siblings and dogs... don't have children young! It doesn't get any easier.

I have little simpathy for you at this time. I feel you have yet to master empathy. At your age, I am not sure that I did either.

Again I will say kill her with kindness... It will make your life easier, and if she truely is a person that cannot be pleased, there is nothing you can do except get through til you are 18 and can get your own place and see really how cruel the world can be.
If you are an hour late for work... you get to find a new job!

These are life lessons your mom is teaching you...

I always loved my dad more. Now I see that he was little to no help to my mom at all.
I thought she was the reason my dad broke all his promises... nope it was him.

Again not trying to make you upset but trying to relate to you from an older perspective...

 

[teeville5]

I love to hear my roosters crow. Anytime day or night so I must be weird like you Nova lol

I agree except for the at night part because then I think something is wrong out there.

In the height of the season at work. Today wasn't as bad as they were saying it was going to be, but by the looks of the majorly tall skids that were rolling in as I was finishing up, tomorrow is going to be a big H-E-double hockey sticks. On the plus side of today, I scored a tin of cookies from one of the apartment offices I delivered to.

Oh, and when I came home and checked my fb, I found out my usually behind the scenes of the school plays daughter has gotten an acting part for the math teacher (oh, the irony! math was never her friend) for the upcoming production. Looking forward to that. She is such a ham at times. LOL

 

[teeville5]

Hi Gigi

Hope you're feeling better.

 

[Gigiintheforest]

A DVM in Oklahoma is working on perfecting crow volume reduction surgery. two to three hundred $. Too much for me today.

Good old Oklahoma! We do have one of the best vet schools around but boy - it is expensive!

Rusty, BYFM, Gigi! HI TO YOU ALL TOO THIS MORNING!

Actually... Haven't seen Gigi for a few days...That or I am lost on what days are what...

Hi Nova~and Hi Everyone! I've not been on for awhile. It was finals week last week and had tons of grading and then graduation and then entering final grades. I hate grading. My DH (also a prof) said he would not have retired except he was sick of grading - 42 years of grading was enough - LOL! Then on top of that we got our nigerian dwarf babies (goats) so had to get the barn ready and construct a holding pen until they get acclimated to the 4 older goats. I'll post pics in a sec. And THEN Christmas final shopping. Luckily, I don't do the mall unless I have to. Everything is Amazon or Ebay or online sites. It is so handy to have it shipped directly. I do need to do a couple of last minute stuff but that's pretty minimal - yay!

But missed you guys a lot. Took me forever to catch up on posts - LOL!

One of my favorite cookie recipes This recipe came out of my great- grand mothers box

Anise cookies
3 eggs
1 cup sugar 2 cups sifted flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 tbs. anise seed

Beat eggs until very light. Add sugar slowly, beating well. Continue beating on slow speed for several minutes,stirring down several times.
Sift flour with baking powder, then add Anise seed. Add to egg mixture. Beat at low speed for 5 minutes. Drop about one inch apart on baking sheets that have been greased and lightly floured. Let stand overnight to dry out.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Yield 5 dozen.

I usually double the recipe and if not enough cookie sheets I put on tinfoil than take up any spare space I can find to let stand. I let the batter drop from a teaspoon for about a two inch drop. They will bake up to a nice white crust on top, with a golden cake like bottom.

Yum! Going to try these...

I love to hear my roosters crow. Anytime day or night so I must be weird like you Nova lol
Well, I took a job. Such a hard one too lol. I am watching over a 96 year old woman 5 nights a week while she sleeps. Lets see, I get to sleep in a Condo every night, watch a big screen HD TV with cable, have my own room, own bathroom, can do whatever I want as long as I am there. I have a monitor in my bedroom to see her bed, an alarm on her bed if she gets up, and check on her every so often. AND get paid to do it lol. I told my DIL that I feel like I am stealing their money lol. Oh well, money to play with now ( more chickens lol).

And I bet the family is really appreciative. It's so hard to find someone good to watch over an older person. I imagine they think they are lucky to have you.

CFL... This is not meant to be mean... just very honest from my own experiences.

All I can say is suck it up and MAKE SURE THE STINKIN DOGS HAVE WATER WEATHER IT IS YOUR JOB OR NOT!! Dogs are living creatures too, and they deserve to be taken care of because they cannot do it themselves! I feel awful when my dogs have licked their water bowl clean! I wouldn't drink dirty water!
My mom would have made me eat dinner an hour late or given me the dirty water to drink with my dinner to make her point! (She wouldn't make me drink it... but she would sure get it through my head)

I hated my mom for 18 years... My dad told me when I was 6 I told him I hated her and it didn't change until I was living on my own, paying bills, working, living with a guy...
Life is rough and trust me... right now you have it good.

I raised my 3 siblings, took care of dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, guinea pigs, rabbits...
Are you the oldest? I am. My mom was the hardest on me... and I am the only one to graduate high school (so far) I have a house and a family. I thank her for that, now.

If you can't handle siblings and dogs... don't have children young! It doesn't get any easier.

I have little simpathy for you at this time. I feel you have yet to master empathy. At your age, I am not sure that I did either.

Again I will say kill her with kindness... It will make your life easier, and if she truely is a person that cannot be pleased, there is nothing you can do except get through til you are 18 and can get your own place and see really how cruel the world can be.
If you are an hour late for work... you get to find a new job!

These are life lessons your mom is teaching you...

I always loved my dad more. Now I see that he was little to no help to my mom at all.
I thought she was the reason my dad broke all his promises... nope it was him.

Again not trying to make you upset but trying to relate to you from an older perspective...

SO SO AGREE WITH THIS!!! Good advice, BYFM. I would say the exact same thing.

Congratulations on the car, Fuzzy. I hope you get it fixed like you want it.

My Lt Brahma is molting - the first of the girls to do so. She's only lost her neck feathers but poor baby, why in the middle of the winter?

Boy, there are some beautiful chickens you all have. Makes me want more in the spring...

 

[Gigiintheforest]

Hi Gigi

Hope you're feeling better.

Thanks, Tee. I'm all well and so is DH. Boy, it was a bad stretch but we're back to normal - yay!