Michigan

[Shamrock4]

Yes, I'm sure I'm a kid.

I guess five years of not doing my grammar has really paid off. I am not a big texter so I didn't learn all of that nonsense either. I love reading so I learned all my grammar from that, I guess.

I don't know that it's not texting or just not being lazy. Textspeak was/is fine when you're working in a limited environment like a phone without a true keyboard. Carrying that over to a place when you're not is just lazy. That and the notion I hear so much of "this isn't an essay for school I'm being graded on so it doesn't matter" doesn't seem to apply to you either. The people who use that cop out seem to forget that the only way people have to get to know a person on the Internet is in the words they write.

I would imagine it's also, in large part, the reading. There is something to be said for learning new words in context rather than just learning them from a list. Not to mention being exposed to different styles of writing and how they impact the reader.
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[Hillbilly Hen]

Ahhh I am comfortable. I love this weather. Ok, maybe not the rain. Unless it's a day that I can nap during it, because rain is napping weather.

Good idea! I am going to take my dog [he is like a little heater] and go take a nap!

 

[SillyChicken]

I just got a free lunch and a piece of cake, and I get to eat it too!

Nigellas dropped off the chickies... they look so nice! They're being very good, quietly peeping and scratching in the box. Her kids are so cute too!!

 

[NovaAman]

I am listening to an audio book from Elizabeth Peters. WOW! All I can say is that the grammar in that book is out of this world, perfect speech. It is from her Amelia Peabody series. I had never listened to her books before, and picked one up on the off chance I might enjoy it. So I found the oldest one the library had in that series and started there. It is quite fascinating to listen to it being read. In a way, it kind of reminds me of texts written a few hundred years ago.

When I was kid, I did not appreciate Sense and Sensibility, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations... I just could not get past the writing. HA! Now I do have an appreciation for it because I can now actually read it and enjoy it for the books they are, and not because it was required reading material for Lit. Of course now I can read Chaucer and see beyond the oh so not very subtle innuendos.

 

[1muttsfan]

Congratulations Theron. Sounds like you have a good plan.

I have attended all my graduations, and enjoyed them all tremendously, as did my very supportive family. It was a wonderful occasion for a celebration.

 

[ChicwannaB]

Hi Mom2, I got him INTENDING for him to be a meat venture, as my husband and I will not be able to hunt for much longer due to physical conditions, but I've grown to love him so fast that now I know I would not be able to eat him. I know they can live 20 years and I'm good with that. He does come in the house for breakfast and gets to snuggle on the couch and/or bed for awhile, but eventually goes back outside. I don't have a prob with him being IN at 300# as I know the number of house dogs will eventually dwindle making it easier.
I'm checking around to find others in Michigan who raise the AGH as I'd love a breeding pair, I believe Daron or FARMERBOY, is raising them, so I'm trying to determine who's got what for pedigrees so I can get a sow and a boar from different lines. They are still on the critical list. I got mine from down around New Haven, near Anchor Bay Michigan.

 

[ChicwannaB]

Happy for you, I LOVE that sort of stuff.
Ever read James Russell Lowell? Excellent poet, look for one of his book in the library.
The vision of Sir Launfal is lengthy but oh so good and full of little subtle diamonds!!

 

[Elliemae 77]

No such luck.....set the trap the last two nights only to find a empty sprung trap in the morning......guess It's time to get the gun.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Bella had a calf yesterday!!! WOOT!!! e

It was sorta unexpected. I knew that she was getting very close, and got the shed all cleaned out for the calf's arrival and was going to pick up 4 bales of straw from a farmer at 7 pm. I had got started scraping the bedding out of the Chicken Mansion at 3 pm, but went in the house to get something when my youngest sister ran in the house yelling that Bella had a calf! I grabbed my shoes and ran out of the door saying ''Where is she?!'' My sister said in the far corner of the 6 acre pasture right next to the woods!

Warning- picture and cuteness overload!

Days before birthing-




Yesterday-






See how close they are to the woods?




The calf trying to nurse.


Got it! YUM!!


The boys checking the calf out.



The weather condition, it rained hard later, and I was wet trying to get the calf to the shed, and it took us an hour to get Bella in the shed.



The calf is a girl!! We named her Maybelle as she was born in the last day of May and the mother's name is Bella.

Bella is very protective of the calf, she had charged at some of my siblings and me! When she had charged at me for the 3rd time, I gave her a firm smack on her face, now she does not go after me now but at my other siblings. I milked her for the first time this morning!! Got 3 1/2 pounds of very yellow milk. Gave the milk to the dog and the pigs, they went crazy for it. I am sure that Maybelle had a few pounds of milk for breakfast, so I am not sure how much she is producing, but will know in a few days when I keep the calf locked up at night, so I can milk Bella. But will let the calf nurse the rest of the day.

Now I will have to go back and read 30 plus pages to catch up on you chatting guys.

 

[chicken grandma]

Farmerboy - it might be best for the calf to have the first few days of milk because it has the vitamins in it that the calf needs.
I am sure someone on here knows when the best time is to pull milk off for humans.

Congratulations Daron!!!