Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[kathyinmo]

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Now that is just sick, Ladyhawk, sick, sick, sick! A DELAWARE???? How could you????

 

[Mahonri]

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And you have not had heart failure yet!

Angina yes, heart failure...not yet!

 

[SteveH]

I've been thinking about it , and decided to log back on to tell why I asked everyone to drive carefully at Christmas , even though the story is not a pleasant one .

Last year , those of us without other obligations gathered at my mother's for a family traditional , Christmas Eve , chilie supper . My brother arrived late but it was kind of expected as he had worked that day . He sat not eating for awhile , and my mother finally asked him if he was OK . He broke down as he told us that he had gone to the banking center just off an intersection of the highway there in town to deposit his payroll check . The light turned yellow as he apprached and he slowed to a stop ; a car coming from the opposite direction , though much farther away , sped up in a vain attempt to beat the light . That other car , from out of state , and what looked like three generations of family plus Christmas presents , came into the intersection at high speed and struck the car now entering from the side street . It was spinning end for end as it came past my brother's car , with an elderly woman hanging out from the waist up from a broken rear side window . It missed hitting him , by a miracle , but his hood and windshield were splattered by her blood . I asked him if she had survived , and that's when he broke down completely , and when he could finally talk , he said he didn't really know . He had a vague recollection of sitting frozen there in that intersection , being questioned by rescue workers and police , but not clear about what took place after seeing that poor woman swinging from the other car .

If one person reads this , and thinks to drive more safely getting to any Christmas event they need to travel to , I figure it was worth my discomfort in telling it , and other's discomfort at reading it .

 

[Mahonri]

Thanks Steve.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Hmmm... is it customary to send your ex something for Christmas? Did I miss the Miss Manners article on this one?

I just finished alimony payments in October, I'm still not feeling quite charitable towards him.

But I could send him something I cooked. Although it would probably have some nice medicated chocolate in it. Not the phenergan suppository type, mind you. Something more along the lines of Ex-Lax.

 

[bargain]

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It bears reminding all of us to drive carefully at all times....Our speeding and even slightly reckless driving can maim and kill....My Mother was so harmed by a DUI accident .....many surgeries later, but her mind and body never fully recovered. She is now a saint in Heaven and restored. I miss her and wish her last 14 years had been less hurtful for her...

 

[pinkchick]

Hi Friends!!!!

I don't post here that often but wanted you all to know that I lurk here and have fun catching up on everyone's hatch progress. I can just see next years thread.....it's going to be HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!

Many continued happy and healthy hatching thoughts coming to all!!!!

May you all have very Happy and SAFE holidays!

 

[dsqard]

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How in the world did you wind up paying alimony? When I went through my divorce my ex was asking for "spousal maintenance" (AZ's term for alimony). He didn't get it and any time I told him he wasn't going to get any ALIMONY he would correct me and say it was spousal maintenance. I guess his male "ego" just couldn't accept the word alimony.

I am right there with you on the exlax cookies though! I would send them if I thought that he would eat them but I think his second wife probably would eat them all before he got home from work!

 

[dsqard]

OK we are off to bust our butts skiing. I have never skied before. This ought to be interesting.

 

[halo]

Just tossed 2 from the incubator, 2 marans. So Im not sure what Im down to, but thats not too bad. I think the rest are good to go.

One of our wonderful clients at work sent us Honeybaked Hams for Christmas. I love that guy! Now I know what Ill be fixing on Christmas day. mmm mmm mmm.

Im about ready to hunker down for the next few days. Plenty of food in the fridge, food the puppies (they like ham!), feed and hay for the horses, barrels full of chicken feed and scratch. So fortunately I dont have to hit the road, I can just stay home and enjoy that. And wait for the Big Hatch.