For the record, Loretta does not have me fooled. She is sitting at my feet worshiping me. She is still worried she will not see October 11th. She thinks sucking up she will skip camp day, even though I told her she would be around a long time.
Now because it seems to be some sort of fashion faux pas to wear black socks with y shorts and sandals, I have put on white socks today. Hopefully that will leave the critics speechless and preserve my sense of peace without worrying about what I am wearing.
Minne Are you from NY? or did your brother and Mother move there? So no popples in NY?
People, start posting in the mornings or late nights. I need something to read with my coffee.
Yes, I am from the Buffalo NY area. Left when I was 21 and joined the Navy, met hubby and landed here after we both left that chapter.
There must be POPLAR trees in NY since my family is familiar with them, but I don't remember. I didn't develop my fascination with trees and flowers and insects and birds until I 'settled down' and matured. I know, some never actually settle down, Ralphie
I was apparently getting tired when I was on last night. I had taken the 29 CRX in to process. Yes, I take them to get done for me. It would take me FOREVER to get them done here. It is relatively cheap to take them to Dennison ($2.25 per bird, $2.50 after I had them pull the livers too). They come back bagged and freezer ready. We decided to cut up a dozen of them and bag the parts separately for freezing, so it took a while. It is done though. I did end up selling 10 to friends who asked if I had any extras if they could get some. I defrosted the upright freezer a few days ago to fit the half pig in it, and discovered I still had plenty of whole chickens left, so I sacrificed the 10. They were a lot more consistent in size than I expected. I had quite a few more pullets than cockerels this time. The biggest was an ounce shy of 6#, I had 9 over 5, and the smallest was 4#3oz. That wasn't bad, but I know if I had gotten them from Texas or New Mexico, as I have the last couple of years through Stromberg's, they would have been bigger. That is okay though. With corn prices being down this year, therefore feed being down, I figured I put $1.96/lb into them, that includes processing, shavings, feed, cost of chicks. I charged $2.25/lb. Now to figure out the turkey prices.
and we have a huge wood stove in the house. Check out the Drolet Model# HT2000 that is what I have in my living room. LOVE IT!! and all the in laws were giving me heck when I picked this one over the brand they wanted. Turns out all they can do is give praise and several of them already are buying it. Hmmm must have done something right! Heats my whole house with no duct work about 2200 square feet on one level. It really heats like they say it does.
