Michigan

[vjwilmoth]

I bet you'll try it just once Raz. bahaha!

I have a bulldog for crying out loud. What's one more "ugly" thing around the house.

 

[RaZ]

I bet you'll try it just once Raz. bahaha!
I have a bulldog for crying out loud. What's one more "ugly" thing around the house.

I already did. I got 2 of those mutant Uggos a few months ago.

 

[M.sue]

What a beautiful day it was, I hope everyone was outside for a bit. I spent the whole day working in my rock garden that my chickens where starting to destroy, transplanted a few perennials, moved the coops and helped my DH secure a fence on the garden for the sugar snaps to climb up. Then I let my chickens free range together for the first time with little ones. They did OK only few teeny weeny squabbles. What surprised me the most that my little Sebright Bantam was one of the testiest! She's smaller than the EE's and really was feisty with, she was actually chest bumping one or two of them! Probably because she is currently low man and felt a little threatened.

Bianica......I love the sky light in your coop....How cool is that!! I wish we would of thought of that when we were building ours. Next coop! lol

Nova.....I forgot to mention earlier, your coop looks great too! You have quite the setup there.

CG........ Your daughter is absolutely beautiful & they make a very cute couple! My story on my DH & I is Very Similar to Olive's story. We first met in Jr. High, dated all through high school & We will be married for 24 years come this October. There are times when I'd like to hang him out to dry but I'd never trade him in for the world!

Loved all the pics of the chicks and ducks!

My DD gave me an early Mother's Day gift......she surprised me with a beautiful pot planted with bright & cheery flowers that she & her father planted together and placed it in one of my old crocks.

So I'd like to share it with the women on here....moms, step moms, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, who ever has played a positive/important roll in someone's life and

WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TOMORROW!!

 

[Opa]

Just sitting here tonight doing a little reading and trying to allow my mind to relax. It's still thinking about all that was been done and still needs to be done with regard to Hope's stepfather. While you can logical explain why you have done everything as you have, it is still a little hard to total convince yourself. The right decision doesn't always leave you feeling good. I hope I am fortunate enough to have my mind and body both quit at the same time.

Uggos, bulldogs, I can see why some of you might find having ugly thing appealing, but I have no need of them. My house has mirrors.

 

[RaZ]

OOOooohhhh, Juise,

 

[vjwilmoth]

How sweet Sue. My oldest(11) baked me a cake from scratch. It was the heaviest cake ever but so very kind of him. Tasted great too!

I'll keep you too Opa! Lol

 

[taprock]

Long day! Enjoyed reading everyone's posts. Like the coop pictures, wishing mine was done. Love the ducks Raz and Shamrock? the runner duck.
Highlights of my day. My son kindly disposed of the baby starlings in my coop so I didn't have to. He even buried them for me. New clothes line is up but not yet usable. Chased guineas all over the place and still didn't find the one's egg stash. I have a partially broody Polish. She runs around part of the day and then parks herself in the nest box in the evenings. ??? I also have a broody Sizzle but no eggs to put under her at this point. Our first apple blossoms are coming out. I've been bitten up today. Not sure what. Could be the huge blackflies, or mites or the spider I found crawling up my leg. With all the tromping through the fields after the guineas who knows what was on me. Have any of you forced a chicken to molt? I have a couple more than a year old that have not. Their wing feathers look horrible.

 

[M.sue]

The light in their eyes is priceless when the kids think of things & do them on their own....It just melts my heart!

 

[chicken grandma]

Just sitting here tonight doing a little reading and trying to allow my mind to relax. It's still thinking about all that was been done and still needs to be done with regard to Hope's stepfather. While you can logical explain why you have done everything as you have, it is still a little hard to total convince yourself. The right decision doesn't always leave you feeling good.

Opa, I have been working with folks in healthcare settings for 35 years. Everywhere from a sanatorium for older folks to a drug and alcohol rehab for all ages. I have seen really good care from Michigan to Hawaii. The vast majority of folks who work in the healthcare field just love caring for others. The pay is o.k. but the family feeling that develops in those long term care settings is very precious and the workers and patients/clients become like family. I know you can find exceptions but honestly in all those years I have seen only a handful of cases where the staff made a mistake in providing care. I know there are exceptions.........but I have loved my work, loved the clients and developed great respect for the industry of health care/longterm care/ mental health care. I know you did the right thing to keep your father in law safe. He will develop loving relationships in his new setting and his life will be more meaningful now that he is in a community of people and not isolated. It just takes a little adjustment time to see it.

 

[Opa]

Chicken grandma, seems sort funny me calling you that with you being such a young thing but I digress. Thank you for you consoling post. I know that we have made the right decision. I'm sure there has been a sense of isolation since his driving privileges were revoked. Perhaps being is a community setting will allow a portion of him to return.