Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[kathyinmo]

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We are also easily entertained and amused at our age.

 

[kathyinmo]

Kathy -

You missed your calling as a wildlife videographer

I would need a nicer camera for that. My cheapy thing does not do the best job. AND, I need an expensive video editor to make my cuts, ya know.

I just bought "Cyberlink Power Director," and I am still playing with it....... tryin' to figure it all out. For now, YouTube uploading and editing will just have to do.

 

[ChestnutRidge]

I'm only 30. Most days I still mentally feel like I'm 12 and I'm waiting for my mom to come home and ask me why I'm wearing my pajamas at 6 PM and have a boy in the house.
Physically years of intense gymnastics have left my body creaking and cracking.
It all evens out I guess.

I turn 30 next month. But, same as you, I'm creakin' anytime is is cold or rainy. People look at me like I'm nuts on the days when I take the elevator up one floor.

Fencing as a teenager was tough on my knees, which is actually why I had to quit. I generally do feel good, though. Didn't want to sound too negative, just bad knees.

I am August 22, 1953. Wedding anniversary is August 28, 1971. We married right out of high school. 41 years this year. We wanted to get married in June, but Father forbid marriage before I turned 18.

That is so sweet!

My parents were high school sweethearts, too.

Here they are! Fred and Wilma taking a dip in the lake.....

I love Fred and Wilma. They are completely adorable in that video, and my husband has had to endure many assertions that we will one day have emus....

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I am off to pick up my turtle sandbox/ chicken dust bath today!

Awesome! Too bad it's going to rain the next week. You might be able to swing it though with your covered run.

Several of you have mentioned gymnastics and the toll on your bodies. My two oldest grandchildren are in gymnastics now. If you had it to do over, would you have given up the gymnastics?

Gymnastics was one of the best things I ever did with my life. Fortunately and unfortunately I didn't have much of a childhood due to it, but I don't regret it. I was at the gym in the morning before school and at the gym after school until nearly bedtime. Weekends we drove either to meets or to a gym a few hours away to train with a better coach that had an Olympian. No time really for friends, never watched TV (and never picked up the habit later thankfully). I trained very hard and got very hurt sometimes, and lost a lot of cartilage. But I wouldn't have traded it for the world. I had to quit because once I hit high school I just couldn't keep up with the schoolwork anymore. It was either drop out of school and get a tutor and try to go to the Olympics or drop out of gymnastics with the reality that despite the fact that I was the right age, I just wouldn't be good enough. My parents, both schoolteachers, opted for the latter. They also didn't like the fact that I was constantly "dieting" despite being skinny, so I could stay small to do the tricks. So there's always positives and negatives with everything but the experience was exhilarating. If they're happy, that's what's important.

I've always thought that most of us that spend any amount of time on here can't be 20ish or 30ish......I know I wouldn't have had time for it then........but then again, with Iphones and Smartphones (are they the same thing?

), maybe they can be on here while they are sitting at one on their kids' ballet/baseball/whatever practices and that wasn't even a remote possbility when I was 20/30 and the kids were all home.

Or we could be blissfully childless

 

[Wisher1000]

I posted this in the Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch thread but wanted to tell anyone here who may remember my issues.

Well, I figured out what happened with my Easter Hatch (or more accurately, Easter Didn't Hatch.) I saw a thermo/hygrometer on sale at Pet Supplies Plus and decided to buy it. I put it into my bator with the other two thermometers which were both registering the same temp and have been together throughout the last hatch. The new one immediately started climbing and stopped at 105! I made a quick run to Wally World and picked up another one and it agreed (well, was real close) to the new one.

I fried my last batch and may have already killed another one! What are the chances of two thermometers, one digital and one mercury both being off by 5 degrees? I am going to adjust the temp, leave them in and hope for the best. I will not be as disappointed if these don't hatch, I am just thrilled that I now think I know what went wrong. Besides, I have 20 eggs under a broody and her temp is spot on!

 

[1muttsfan]

Wisher, if you have not checked your thermometers against a calibrated one, they may be wrong too.

 

[mothrhen]

Sunnydawn That's okay, I prefer laughing to crying anyday. The cataracts were just a surprise. I had been seeing the eye doctor every 3 mos. or so while he was checking the pressure in my eyes. At some point he must have noticed cataracts in both eyes but, never mentioned it before. Duh!!
As they say, age is just a number. Forty was very upsetting to me because you weren't supposed to have babies past that age. Fifty was a breeze, I don't remember turning 60.. I'll be 65 in July and my thoughts are kinda troubled about being a stone's throw from 70. But I think if(when) I get to that point it won't feel any different. Maybe because I ride the senior bus and I'm one of the youngest. Many are late 80's, 90's and we've had a few 100 yrs.or older. Their grown children are older than I. Puts things into a different perspective. I'm much younger (immature) on the inside. It's just that looking in the mirror some grayhaired, fat, frump looks back at me. Haven't a clue who that is. Probably time to buy a new mirror.

Yes, of course, it's the mirror. Somehow I've gotten my mothers mirror!

 

[NotAFarm]

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Me, too.......I bet they sent them to us because they didn't like what they saw in them.....what a rotten trick!!

Or we could be blissfully childless

I have one that is with you (33) and another that that claims she won't be having any (23). I'm all for people making that decision for themselves!

Wisher, if you have not checked your thermometers against a calibrated one, they may be wrong too.

Yes, What 1muttsfan said!

 

[dsqard]

Kathy that video of the emu chicks playing in the water was absolutely precious. You must be enjoying them so much.

Thank you so much for sharing them with those of us who do not have a place to have emus of our own. Even my DH had a chuckle or two at their antics. I did have to assure him that I am NOT getting emus. (Well at least not unless we get more property and higher fences

)

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Ok, I'm not certain we're ever going to get a winner for the last contest, and since so many of you asked for the hatch results spreadsheet, here she is.

Enjoy.