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[estpr13]

Hey where is everyone? Seems like youall had a busy night. Took me forever to catch up with all the posts.

Vickie2133 try using a space before and after your smilies. They will work then.

Mojo. please post a pic of your newly hatched donkey when she delivers. I'm getting sentemental in my old age and like to go aaauhhh.

I lived in Austin Tx for about a year and a half and have been stationed at Holloman in NM for a couple of months. I visited Juaras mexico back in 1978. It wasn't too bad but we hired a guy to watch the stationwagon and the old guy pulled out a hidden sawed off double barrell shotgun and sat on the hood of the car while the six of us young guys went to the local shopping market.

ShelleyeD I like the pictures of the mandrian ducks. Hope your trip to the PO goes well.

I planted a bunch of bulbs yesterday and today I plan on setting a bunch of onion bulbs. All indoors as the ground has about an inch of snow on it here in Lexington. But only on the grass, and windshields.

I really want spring to be here.

 

[ChknLvnFam]

I'd check out the ball joints, your type of truck is notorious for wearing them out. It'll definitely catch your attention too when something is wrong. I'm turning into a Ford expert and I don't even have mine finished yet! The Oldsmobile guys are really going to love this.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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thanks, I suspect it has something to do with the front axle system, and ball joints would certainly be part of it. I had the ball joints go out on a car once, and it shimmied the whole way down the road. I'll definately have that checked, too. I have to call the station this morning to see if they can get it looked at today or if I ought to wait to take it in on Monday.

 

[ChknLvnFam]

Hold the tire on the top and give it a good shake. If it has alot of slop in it, there's your problem. You might be money ahead to have the whole front suspension rebuilt. Usually if one thing's going bad, the rest are soon to follow.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I'll definately post pics of the baby.

Yeah, we got a snow day here - the kid stayed home from school. It's all melting out there, now, though. I am tired of cold - I want me some summer!!

I was eyeballing the bulbs at Lowes the other day, almost bought me some, but Hubby was along - he doesn't let me shop as much as I'd liek to shop

I was also eyeballing a lilac bush (I told him he has to buy me one of those this spring) and some fruit trees.
We ended up buying grass seed and fertilizer.

Oh well, I'll get my lilac bush soon, at least - he promised (I love lilac bushes).

On our farm (when I was growing up as a kid) we had a whole line of the OLD lilac bushes out front of the place along the road - these things must have towered a good 15-20 feet in the air, and were so thick you couldn't see through them. They also had trumpet vine growing through them, so they'd get the orange trumpet flowers on them in the summer when the lilacs didn't bloom so well after it got hot. I used to play in them when I was a kid - I had mazes in there and I could hide and no one could find me

The tallest bush I saw at Lowes got to be about 6 foot tall - hardly the old style giants from my memory, but it'll do.

The house we lived in was a Civil War era build, so no telling how old those lilac bushes were.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I'll try that, thanks

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Oh, btw, Jon has sunday off work, so I'm free all day. I plan to get anythign I need in town on Saturday so I don't have any running Sunday except to meet you in town to bring ya out here.

I'll probably have hubby's car rather than my truck, it's an aqua blue Grand Am,

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Guru -- not quite, just an addict like all the rest.

I'm not even nearly as addicted as BlueDog420 - you should see his place

now that is addiction.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Hmmm, been pondering this morning....

Maybe it's just me, but I love mutt dogs - they are usually more easy-going, fewer health problems, and just plain interesting to look at.

I also adore my mutt chickens - so why does everyone insist on purebred chickens?

I mean, if a cross breed is better for egg production and/or meat, why not have mutts?

I'm not trying to convince anyone that mutts are better, just curious as to WHY the mutts are so maligned. What reasons do people have to want the purebreds to the exclusion of mutts (usually).

I can understand wanting to know what parent birds went into making the mutts - so you have some idea of what the chicks will turn out like (big or small, fluffy or hard feathered, brown egg layer, white egg layer, colored egg layer, etc...)

I guess I'm just flabbergasted (always wanted to use that word

) by the amount of money folks will spend on a purebred chick or egg.
If it's for showing purposes, then yeah, I understand it - but for backyard birds? for eggs, or meat?

It simply boggles the mind how much money is spent on some of these breeds of birds.

Maybe I'm just simple folks (or simple minded

) but I just don't get it.

anyone have an answer?

eta - and what if someone "created" a new breed through a "project"? is it still a mutt? maybe I ought to call my babies "delahmas" - and say it's all a "Project". ::: snicker ::::

eta reference... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=145243
other than the abominable spelling errors, what is so horrid about this ebay auction? She is starting bids at .99 cents - not 50 bucks!!

eta - the starting bid was less than current bid.
meri

 

[ChknLvnFam]

Maybe it's just easier to say "RIR" when someone asks what breed it is. I could see someone carrying on like some Euro snob and saying" My birds come from the ancient lineage of Easter Egger which begot the generation of White Silky which in turn begot the family of Polish of Werkenshire. In the spring of 1843, a jungle fowl, which was rumoured to be a pullet in the same coup of the royal family sired offspring with the princess Tyson Chicken. He was promptly beheaded when the proof of the affair was discovered with the long feathers in a rather robust bird apparently quite obvious in the 5 week old chicks.(Picture this being said with the most snooty British accent you could imagine).