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Brad- I wastalking to my dad, He said Brad Blinn (spelling?) lives over by you and his daughter worked at CPS this past summer.

 

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Drove through Kokomo today and saw a lot of the damage. Tons of blue ttarps on houses from the roofs had been damaged or blown off. A lot of business signs that blew away. Pieces of tin bent around trees. Many trees fallen down and debris everywhere. I even saw a couple of older looking buildings had collapsed. And a piece of a camper in a field.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Drove through Kokomo today and saw a lot of the damage. Tons of blue ttarps on houses from the roofs had been damaged or blown off. A lot of business signs that blew away. Pieces of tin bent around trees. Many trees fallen down and debris everywhere. I even saw a couple of older looking buildings had collapsed. And a piece of a camper in a field.

So sad, I hope they get those roofs and other immediate needs taken care of soon. Can you imagine not only the heat loss but all of the other issues like flooding inside? And the tarp in the wind noise just adds to the problems.
Having not had the best contractors for our remodeling job, I feel for those in need of a contractor and no time to research out the best one.

 

[toodlesmom]

Wow! FINALLY caught up! This is one chatty thread! I like it that way, though. It feels like a caring community. CORRECTION: It IS a caring community!

JCNY2000 - So very sorry to read about your calves. I just don't understand treating folks unfairly like that, let alone how cruelly those poor babies were treated. They deserve to be cared for and loved for as long as they live. I hope your remaining two pull through OK. They must think they have come to a heaven to live with the way you care for them.

Elly Mae et al - Thank you for the noodle-making lessons. I learned a lot about cooking from my Grammas, but not noodles. My mom, on the other hand, was a TERRIBLE cook who felt that everything had to be burnt black, or it was not done. A lot of the foods I detested as a child turned out to be favorites when I tasted them properly cooked as an adult.

M2H - I am enjoying your plans for educating Nene. The little piano is perfect. Can't wait for her first Youtube recital! Will there be a bunny duet?

Old Salt - I laughed my way through your description of your storm encounters, both recent and as a youth. You should think about writing your stories down for your heirs to enjoy. My gramma wrote down stories from her childhood that we all love to read.

Chicken Farmers of Indianapolis - I am surprised at how many of us are from Indy, and especially Irvington! We should have a meet-up some evening for pizza and a chicken chat. There is an Eastside Chickens on Facebook that is open to all Indy chicken owners that deals with more local themes. It isn't quite as interesting as BYC, but what is?

I have enjoyed seeing the pictures of everyone's roosters, hens, chicks, cows, and alpacas. The cute-o-meter was on tilt.

We have had tears here again. Our kitty, Smidgen, died last evening. She had been playing, and snuggling, and purring earlier; a perfectly happy and healthy-appearing kitty. When I came to bed, she was curled up on my pillow as usual, but dead. She was only about nine years old, with no illnesses. She was our first rescue, and came to us as a shy little flea-bitten Persian kitten. She loved to play fetch. This has been a very bad year for cats at our house, as she is the fourth we've lost.

 

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So sad, I hope they get those roofs and other immediate needs taken care of soon. Can you imagine not only the heat loss but all of the other issues like flooding inside? And the tarp in the wind noise just adds to the problems.
Having not had the best contractors for our remodeling job, I feel for those in need of a contractor and no time to research out the best one.

It is sad. It looked like a lot of the debris had been gathered into piles and the roofs covered with tarp other than that most of it looked untouched. Who knows how long it will be before everything is fixed, but with winter creeping up hopefully they get it fixed soon.

 

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I got some picture of my white rock pullet. I will try and get some better ones they don't do her justice. It was difficult to get pictures, because long story short, my cockerel has decided he likes her and kept standing in front of her when I was trying to get pictures







And that is him in my way. If you look behind him you can see her tail and chest

 

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Wow! FINALLY caught up! This is one chatty thread! I like it that way, though. It feels like a caring community. CORRECTION: It IS a caring community!

JCNY2000 - So very sorry to read about your calves. I just don't understand treating folks unfairly like that, let alone how cruelly those poor babies were treated. They deserve to be cared for and loved for as long as they live. I hope your remaining two pull through OK. They must think they have come to a heaven to live with the way you care for them.

Elly Mae et al - Thank you for the noodle-making lessons. I learned a lot about cooking from my Grammas, but not noodles. My mom, on the other hand, was a TERRIBLE cook who felt that everything had to be burnt black, or it was not done. A lot of the foods I detested as a child turned out to be favorites when I tasted them properly cooked as an adult.

M2H - I am enjoying your plans for educating Rene. The little piano is perfect. Can't wait for her first Youtube recital! Will there be a bunny duet?

Old Salt - I laughed my way through your description of your storm encounters, both recent and as a youth. You should think about writing your stories down for your heirs to enjoy. My gramma wrote down stories from her childhood that we all love to read.

Chicken Farmers of Indianapolis - I am surprised at how many of us are from Indy, and especially Irvington! We should have a meet-up some evening for pizza and a chicken chat. There is an Eastside Chickens on Facebook that is open to all Indy chicken owners that deals with more local themes. It isn't quite as interesting as BYC, but what is?

I have enjoyed seeing the pictures of everyone's roosters, hens, chicks, cows, and alpacas. The cute-o-meter was on tilt.

We have had tears here again. Our kitty, Smidgen, died last evening. She had been playing, and snuggling, and purring earlier; a perfectly happy and healthy-appearing kitty. When I came to bed, she was curled up on my pillow as usual, but dead. She was only about nine years old, with no illnesses. She was our first rescue, and came to us as a shy little flea-bitten Persian kitten. She loved to play fetch. This has been a very bad year for cats at our house, as she is the fourth we've lost.

Sorry to hear about your kitty.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

We have had tears here again. Our kitty, Smidgen, died last evening. She had been playing, and snuggling, and purring earlier; a perfectly happy and healthy-appearing kitty. When I came to bed, she was curled up on my pillow as usual, but dead. She was only about nine years old, with no illnesses. She was our first rescue, and came to us as a shy little flea-bitten Persian kitten. She loved to play fetch. This has been a very bad year for cats at our house, as she is the fourth we've lost.

So sorry to hear about the passing of your cat. At least it sounds like it was a peaceful in its sleep thing.

On a happy note, I picked up a small rescue cat to be a second barn cat. It is small for 6 months old. But he included a micro chip and was free to a good barn. We are keeping him in our attached garage at nights for now so the owl does not get him, but during the day he is in our house until after the holiday festivities and such. I want to make sure he does not run away and th shelter recommeded keeping him in for at least a week but that puts us at Thanksgiving. I don't have time on Thanksgiving day to be fooling around with helping a cat transition outside.

Rope lighting is going up in our coop above the roosting bars. I'm not real positive about putting it up in the front half of the coop as the nesting boxes are up there. But it would be nice to have a light at the nesting boxes if we needed to do a late gathering of eggs after being gone all day.

 

[toodlesmom]

SallyinIndiana - Glad to hear you adopted a rescue kitty! There are far too many cats and dogs out there in need of rescue. Our local pound now has chickens that have been turned in as well!

 

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Here is an egg I got the other day from one of my "mixed heritage" chickens.

It is smaller than a ping pong ball. I was surprised there was a yoke. Usually when I get ones that small there isn't.