Such a beautiful, peaceful little garden!
Illinois...
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I wish I had your yard. Your daughter did awesome with the pics!
Thanks.... but a big part of the photo magic is that the pretty pine trees & manicured lawn is our neighbor's yard.
The rusty fence & frequently broken gate on which the hen stands is what's ours. LOL The hen was also placed there for the photo. The only fence she choose to fly over is the one that surrounds our garden.
Thanks.... but a big part of the photo magic is that the pretty pine trees & manicured lawn is our neighbor's yard.
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More proof of your DD's magic with chickens
If I put one on a fence...it would be gone before I could turn around to take a picture!
Hey guys thank you for all of the thoughts and prayers.
They have decided to treat Grandpa and he is awake and doing okay. He's not out of the woods yet and continued prayers would be appreciated, it's going to be a long road to recovery(the sore may never heal but it is likely to take up to a year) and we now have to find yet another place for him to go. This will be the third. Will no one look after my Grandpa like he deserves? This man who farmed and worked three jobs early on to support his family, who retired from GM, who served in the army. This man that raised four children with his childhood Sweetheart and bought a farm that had been vacant for more than a decade and rebuilt it from the ground up with his own two hands. That man is still in the little boy that remains. Somewheres. Sometimes we see him. More often than we would expect to in the late stage of the disease he's in.
There has been a lot of family drama and again selling the farm was mentioned by my aunt. I won't say what I would like to about that. She knows it is DH2B'S and my dream to get it to preserve my Grandpa's legacy. The dream that was his has become ours.
This disease is horrible but people are so wrong. Many feel that my Grandpa as he is now is a curse. He is not a curse he's a blessing, he always has been and he continues to be. It's not easy it's never been easy from the first struggles he had to remember the simplest of things to the kind eyes staring at you with recognition and wondering who you are. We have been blessed. Grandpa still knows us probably at least half the time.
Grandpa has taught us the wonder and innocence of children. He reminds us to stop and pick flowers when you see them and the beauty in the most simple of things.
He's shown me true courage in the face of this horrible disease. Though inside I know there were times he was quaking with fear. This is his worst nightmare come true. Some would say my Grandpa is gone or that he has lost his dignity. We have done our best to preserve it and often I see it. He loves to watch the sunset and to watch people. He has gotten to the point where sometimes he sees things that aren't there or perhaps they're from some long ago memory and that's okay. We clumsily do our best to go along with it and hear the stories he has to tell. Even in these stories there is wisdom. Some would say he's a raving old man and yes sometimes they make no sense at all to us. To him they are real and I feel sure that they are often bits of memory that he is seeing and remembering.
He is worse than when I cared for him but of course we knew that this stage would come. We are blessed to have had him more than twice what they originally thought and that he still is mobile and can speak and recognize us.
Whatever time he has left we won't take it for granted. We know how very blessed we are. He is such a blessing and I continually pray for one more lesson from him.
More later guys. Thank you again for all of your thoughts and prayers.
@Faraday40 sorry I haven't called it's been busy I will try to Thursday or Friday.
They have decided to treat Grandpa and he is awake and doing okay. He's not out of the woods yet and continued prayers would be appreciated, it's going to be a long road to recovery(the sore may never heal but it is likely to take up to a year) and we now have to find yet another place for him to go. This will be the third. Will no one look after my Grandpa like he deserves? This man who farmed and worked three jobs early on to support his family, who retired from GM, who served in the army. This man that raised four children with his childhood Sweetheart and bought a farm that had been vacant for more than a decade and rebuilt it from the ground up with his own two hands. That man is still in the little boy that remains. Somewheres. Sometimes we see him. More often than we would expect to in the late stage of the disease he's in.
There has been a lot of family drama and again selling the farm was mentioned by my aunt. I won't say what I would like to about that. She knows it is DH2B'S and my dream to get it to preserve my Grandpa's legacy. The dream that was his has become ours.
This disease is horrible but people are so wrong. Many feel that my Grandpa as he is now is a curse. He is not a curse he's a blessing, he always has been and he continues to be. It's not easy it's never been easy from the first struggles he had to remember the simplest of things to the kind eyes staring at you with recognition and wondering who you are. We have been blessed. Grandpa still knows us probably at least half the time.
Grandpa has taught us the wonder and innocence of children. He reminds us to stop and pick flowers when you see them and the beauty in the most simple of things.
He's shown me true courage in the face of this horrible disease. Though inside I know there were times he was quaking with fear. This is his worst nightmare come true. Some would say my Grandpa is gone or that he has lost his dignity. We have done our best to preserve it and often I see it. He loves to watch the sunset and to watch people. He has gotten to the point where sometimes he sees things that aren't there or perhaps they're from some long ago memory and that's okay. We clumsily do our best to go along with it and hear the stories he has to tell. Even in these stories there is wisdom. Some would say he's a raving old man and yes sometimes they make no sense at all to us. To him they are real and I feel sure that they are often bits of memory that he is seeing and remembering.
He is worse than when I cared for him but of course we knew that this stage would come. We are blessed to have had him more than twice what they originally thought and that he still is mobile and can speak and recognize us.
Whatever time he has left we won't take it for granted. We know how very blessed we are. He is such a blessing and I continually pray for one more lesson from him.
More later guys. Thank you again for all of your thoughts and prayers.
@Faraday40 sorry I haven't called it's been busy I will try to Thursday or Friday.
Cherish every moment there is with Grandpa. 
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Sending hugs for your Grandfather and You.
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I have a bantam broody that's been sitting on eggs for almost 2 weeks and my legbar joined her in the nesting box 2 days ago. I was thinking of trying to slip the 3 chicks I got from Junibutt under the bantam and move remaining eggs to the legbar. Anyone have advice or since @Faraday40 has done this, any advice? Yay or Nay
Update: Tried to slip a chick under the broody bantam tonite, and it was a no go. She pecked at her 4 times and I pulled her. Oh well, I guess they will be with me for a bit more.
Update: Tried to slip a chick under the broody bantam tonite, and it was a no go. She pecked at her 4 times and I pulled her. Oh well, I guess they will be with me for a bit more.
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I'm so glad you have a little more time to spend with your grandpa & that he can still remember you.
......which reminds me of the joke you made the last time we talked. I'm still laughing!
I'm so glad you have a little more time to spend with your grandpa & that he can still remember you.
......which reminds me of the joke you made the last time we talked. I'm still laughing!
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