Michigan

[Opa]

Welcome Scummycat. Where is Howell are you located? I'm just south of Grand River on Chilson. If you get a chance you should stop by.
God must have know what he was doing when he gave me all boys. I have three sons, but have helped raise 5 more. Piece of cake, they're all doing well as adults, I didn't kill one, didn't pull out my hair. However, I have 3 grand daughters and they are ten times more work than the 8 boys.
I once had a customer that had 3 teenage daughters, plus 3 female foreign exchange students, his wife, and 3 female cats. Poor guy was pitiful. Dave and I fixed him up a little leather bag with a bullet, a fish hook, a cigar, some sawdust, a beer bottle cap and a couple of other things best not mentioned. We thought he needed a male mojo bag just to counteract all of that intense femininity in his house. It might have helped him deal with his situation but his wife saw it and made him get rid of it. I guess we were just too late.

 

[wyliefarms]

We use ice cream pails for waterers. Easy for the kids to do. In the winter, the kids go out every 3 hours or so with a fresh warm bucket of water. The frozen ones come in and thaw out and they keep getting rotated.
We are home all day too so that makes this system work.

So in order to do this cheap watering system, we have to eat a lot of icecream to have enough buckets. The kids haven't complained yet about it

 

[chickinlickin]

Hi all -

I am wondering what it takes to get welcomed into the Michigan bunch....I'm an Ohioan...but NOT a buckeye. My Dad is from Monroe County....and owns a place up in Clare County..so my roots have always been up north. I fly a U of M flag during football season (which is just asking for trouble around here) and wear a "Go Blue" hat....and its so fun to follow this thread....although I can't keep up!

Opa said God must have known what he was doing because he had boys....well he must have been trying to teach me something about patience when he gave me 2 girls. And I've learned....as much as I can, I guess....and there was a time I could have used a male mojo bag...but they have grown up and are on their way with their own lives...one thing I'll pass on: When you have teenage daughters, you start to have a strong dislike for any boy over the age of 14!....I'm serious....it happens.....

Thanks to you all for entertaining me from time to time....

A wolverine wannbe

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Dean
~chickinlickin

 

[Opa]

chickenlickin, consider yourself welcomed, to the best of my knowledge the only requirement to post here is being able to hit the submit button at the bottom of the page. We can never have enough friends. So any time you have something you want to say, or if someone posts something you want to comment on please do so. I will look forward to reading your contributions. You probably go by my place anytime you go to Clare. You'd be welcome here as well.

 

[Scrummycat]

Hi Opa! I live on Richardson, which is close to Chilson!

We must drive by you all the time, as we take Coon Lake to Chilson towards Howell regularly. Are you near the red ice cream caboose? We used to go to the Indian restaurant at Chilson and GR a lot, until they closed.

 

[vicki2x2]

Hi Chickinlickin Dean! Welcome! Sounds like are practically a gander, that is close enough for us!!

I have 2 boys and 2 girls, the oldest two are now 20 (boy) and 18 (girl) and the youngest 2 are 9 (boy) and 5 (girl), we adopted the youngest two, so we have quite a spread. I must agree, there is a big difference in the genders. Some of it is simple personality, but a lot is gender. I love my girls to death, but for me, boys are easier, hands down!! Never understood in the adoption world why girls are preferred and requested at a much higher rate than boys. Answers are often that girls are easier, accepted my readily, and a bunch of other nonsense. Well, obviously those people who think that, haven't had both sexes before, because then they would know the truth!!

Of course I am teasing, it just depends on the parents personality too, and I am a tom boy myself, so there you go!

I do agree with Dean though, when you have a teen girl, you become very suspicious of all "hairy legs" as we call them!!

 

[chickinlickin]

Hi Vicki..

and thanks for the welcome. ...I feel like a gander!

And just so you know, those teenage boys eventually straighten up....my youngest is engaged to just a great guy...couldn't be happpier...

 

[miss_jayne]

hola to all the new folks!

so glad you are all here! the more the merrier! just awesome!

hey! chickenlickin! i know you!

just made three beautiful pear cakes to take to church but i really want to eat them all. oh my they look so good!

 

[chickinlickin]

Hi isa25! and "hey" right back at you Miss Jayne...

We are getting ready for a weddin at my house.....so lotsa foo-fooing right now......but normally notso much.

duckface - I can't keep up either....ya miss a day, ya miss a lot!

Thanks for the welcomes...

eta - Oh yeah, never had pear cake, but I love pears....is that recipe a secret?

 

[miss_jayne]

heck no it's not a secret recipe. there are no secret recipes at my place. i share 'em all. i'll post it on my site tomorrow most likely. with pics! they smell amazing.

we are so not foo foo at our house either. well, Elizabeth just did her hair for her school photo, but other than that, we are pretty laid back too!

well, wait, i just did my hair for church, does that count? i didn't want to scare anyone!

i was wearing boxer shorts, a t-shirt and a bandana all day while doing all my chores and baking so i thought i'd better step it up before trekking out!