Kristen’s Chickens and Farming Ventures

[Kris5902]

Ok, you got me in: , my favorites: Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov. Yes, I loved the Star Trek series, except for the last two. I think they were poorly written. So what is the countdown to FIL's visit to Cuba?

4 days and counting! Fingers crossed he doesn’t stash the plans...

 

[Kris5902]

While this does feel a little AA-ish, here we go.

My name is Bob and I love SciFi and have played D & D for entire weekends before.

I have attended 1 Star Trek convention where I saw Denise Crosby and the woman that played Savik in the 3rd movie.

While I have not played D & D in over 30 years, I still have all of my original books (I understand they can be quite valuable now) and my 30th level elven wizard, Mezloberranican. (I played a lot in my youth)

I cut my teeth growing up reading Azimov, Herbert, Heinlein, Lovecraft, and McCaffrey starting around age 9. I loved the magazines filled with short stories and used to use my allowance to buy them.

I am currently reading the Sevenfold Sword series by Jonathan Moeller in my spare time.

Right now I am excited to see if they can finally do justice to Dune with the new movie this December.

Wow, I feel lighter now having admitted it all.

Yep! Like attracts like, it’s official... we are all Nerds here as well as chicken addicts!
(That includes you @Wee Farmer Sarah i just have a really hard time with the quotes on this new update!)

 

[Kris5902]

Good Morning Bob!
I hope you have a beautiful day.

Good morning Kris

 

[rjohns39]

Good Morning Bob!
I hope you have a beautiful day.

I'm starting my summer garden today. Dragging out the grow lights, etc.

 

[BlueBaby]

Ouch! Poor thing... my Barnvelders laid medium sized eggs their first year, one on the large end of medium and one on the small end of medium. I don’t recall either laying any double yolkers, and they were about 2-4 eggs a week at peak laying. Waiting to see how their first adult year will go, as neither is laying regularly yet.

I have 3 of those girl's, but one of the is a smaller size than the other two. I'll probably sell the smaller one.

I’d Been wondering what was happening with his thread, but half afraid to check in and need to do a ton of catchup reading... I do hope he has moved his flock, or at least genetics and is still running chickens. It was one of my primary inspirations for my meat program (seeing as I can’t afford to ship in chicks constantly, or work with a true full heritage meat breed, there’s somewhatimited supply of good genetics for those in my area and they are pricy!)

Well, he had said that he was going to sell off his flock and sell his property and live in his van until he found a new place. I hope he's doing ok.

 

[BlueBaby]

Ack!!! Trekkies (or is Trekkers the more PC term? ) D&D nerds, and card players... however did we all end up on the same threads I wonder? And of course we are all clearly Chicken Addicts as well. Ok how many people here have done a big sci-fi con??? Fess up DH and I bonded over our mutual nerdiness at work discussing DragonCon and here we are over 10 years later...

I was raised on Star Wars, Star Trek, and classic sci-fi/fantasy novels. How many 10-12 year olds read Herbert, Hubbard, Heinlein, Asimov, Lovecraft, and McCaffrey for a start. My very first book I read all on my own was David Eddings at 9-10 years old. I blame my mother 100%

Lately I've been watching Babylon 5 and the Star Gate one's on tv. Before, it was Farscape. I had even named a blue hen Zhanne after that one.

 

[Ribh]

I got more into the deeper Fantasy like Guy Gavriel Kay a little later, in my pre and early teens. Patricia McKillip has a beautiful style and I started reading her in my late teens. Now I must add leGuin, Nix, Garner, and Cooper to my reading list. “Hunny, I think we need a bigger library...”

Cooper is definitely a children's author but Nix & some of Garner's work are cross generational & I can't believe you missed Le Guin. She's something of a phenomena.

 

[Kris5902]

Cooper is definitely a children's author but Nix & some of Garner's work are cross generational & I can't believe you missed Le Guin. She's something of a phenomena.

Could be a timing thing, or availability thing. From the looks of it her writing would’ve been something I would snap up, had I been exposed to it at all. Strange I’ll have to ask my mother how we missed it...

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning Kris

 

[BY Bob]

Lately I've been watching Babylon 5 and the Star Gate one's on tv. Before, it was Farscape. I had even named a blue hen Zhanne after that one.

I loved Farscape. I have the entire series on DVD. I need to pull those out.