Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[dipper4464]

let me know if you wold like to sell the giants my ph number is 3132924563 or 3133885811 thanks ask for rich

 

[NovaAman]

If there are no ducks, he just may well try and mount the hens and think nothing of it. SO, get ducks to keep your drake happy. Your hens will be fine with out a roo.

 

[NovaAman]

Howdy dipper.

 

[vjwilmoth]

Hi,

My name is Chris and I'm just stopping by to say hello! I'm new to BYC and raising chickens. Wanted to get to know some others in MI that raise chickens. I have just 2 now, a White Leghorn and a Buff Orpington, as well as a Pekin drake... Just recently realized that we won't be getting any duck eggs Oh well, luckily he's cute and will earn his keep with his entertaining antics!

Hoping to add to the flock next spring. Nice to meet you all!

Hi Chris! Welcome!

It's time for me to start canning tomatoes too. I've got a windowsill FULL of 1 pounders. This one is 1 1/2 lbs. Good year for tomatoes! Gonna have to give some away too. My sister gave me a dozen seeds of Indigo Rose tomatoes and all twelve have turned into fully loaded bushes and you can't can or sauce them - fresh eating only. There's no way we can eat em all.

that's seriously huge tomato!!



M2M - I'm so sorry about the loss of your friend.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Caz

Fear of what, Nova? Fear that people won't accept you for who you are?  Fear that you are not what they expect you to be? Fear that your fine make-up and dresses have been replaced with muddy shoes and an un-tucked shirt?

If that is how people judge and value you then I think that you are better off without them. That's just my opinion.

You put on those over-alls and just be you YOU.  I'll like you anyway that you present yourself just as long as it is the REAL you and not some phony, pretentious, fake person with conditions of friendship that I can't meet.  Heck, I won't even hold it against you that you have kids.  

I don't have over-alls... YET. LOL

I wear over-alls all the time, but when going to work or going someplace, I don't wear them for I feel out of place and think that people will think less of me. But lately, for some reason I have taken on an attitude of ''Well, that is not my problem'' and ''Their loss'' on how what people may think of me and my deafness. Someday I may be brave enough to go out in pubic in my over-alls again.

This is an old picture of me in my over-alls.

I was in South Carolina with family visiting my older brothers at collage at '06.

I actually find that I am cooler wearing over-alls in hot weather than I wear pants, and its more comfortable than pants.

 

[Opa]

My best friend and I will have known each other for 50 years this fall. We met during my sophomore year of high school. Some how we have been smart enough to realize that a friendship takes work and is something you shouldn't take for granted. While we live over 50 miles from each other we still never let more than a week or two go by without one of us calling the other. We've hunted and fished all over, chased women together, watched our families grown, shared each others joys and sorrows. One reason I think the friendship has worked is that each of us believes the other is the "better" friend.

We worked together on the same fire department and for many years after we retired we made it a point to get together at least once a month. Often we would have no particular plan for the day we'd just let it happen. Once when coming back from an excursion to Bob's Guns in Hasting we decided we should stop and get some lunch. I offered him the choice of going to get a burger and beer at a topless establishment or to a restaurant in an old train station that had a large collection of old oil cans. When we returned home and Hope asked about our day I told her where we had eaten lunch. She thought it was hilarious that we have become so old that we chose oil cans over naked women.

The old adage "you have to be a friend to have a friend" is probably the secret to having that special someone in your life.

 

[RaZ]

I wear over-alls all the time, but when going to work or going someplace, I don't wear them for I feel out of place and think that people will think less of me. But lately, for some reason I have taken on an attitude of ''Well, that is not my problem'' and ''Their loss'' on how what people may think of me and my deafness. Someday I may be brave enough to go out in pubic in my over-alls again.
cooler wearing over-alls in hot weather than I wear pants, and its more comfortable than pants.

I met you last year at ChickenStock and I can't remember what you were wearing.
We met again this year and traded for milk and butter after talking on this forum and PMs. Again I cant say what your were wearing. I also say that I didn't make any note of your deafness.
What I can say is that you struck me with a sense of confidence in being who you are.

You have shared your triumphs and your sorrows. Most importantly, you have shared who you are. We are all richer for knowing you.
I think that I wear my bib-alls tomorrow.

 

[Opa]

It's a little cool this morning. So grab yourself a cup and let's sit a spell til the sun warms things up. Today looks like it is going to be a real good day.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Some how we have been smart enough to realize that a friendship takes work and is something you shouldn't take for granted.

She thought it was hilarious that we have become so old that we chose oil cans over naked women.

amen to that!

oil cans are less work than women, anyhow...

I met you last year at ChickenStock and I can't remember what you were wearing.

I cant remember what anyone was wearing...in fact, everyone could have been naked...and I wouldnt have noticed.

 

[jrsckn]

Waiting for my pot to brew, brrrrrr.

Raz, excellent post, I completely agree.

I gave up on friends a long time ago. Very few people are who they claim to be and I don't waste time on people like that. I do hope that one day I will find people who are like minded in my area but even then my life is so busy people rarely take the time to nurture a friendship like that. Not saying I don't have any friends lol but few are local and none are BFFs except DH. I was one of the first to have kids and staying out partying wasn't my idea of fun, then I got a good job, then I got into showing and weight pulling american pitbull terriers, then I went back to school and am still in school, now I have chickens; how many people can understand that