My leukemia's back.

[LittleLakePhil]

Hey Suzie .....here's one of my grandson MASON ......he looks just like my son Jeremy......spitting image.....everyone says so......(he's adopted)......kind of erie.....but it's true.

 

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Hi all!

Been absent for a few days due to eyesight problems and breathing difficulties...all my own fault!

I found mites in the new coop...so I stripped everything out and treated ceiling, walls, nesting boxes, perches and the floor with liquid permethrin...dusted all the chickens with powdered permethrin...all new bedding was treated too. Following day my eyelids were hugely swollen and it was hard to breathe...I looked as if I had had a few rounds in a boxing ring... it dawned upon me that it MAY have been the permethrin...I had no mask nor eye protection while treating for the mites...my compromised immune system could not cope...I could hardly put one foot in front of the other...it has taken until yesterday for the swelling and breathing problems to disappear...lesson learned! I need to re treat the coop later this week...just to make sure that no hatching mites can survive...I will be wearing appropriate protection!

Rachel I am so pleased to hear that you now know what was affecting big boy's health..so happy for you all that his health will return to normal very soon!

Sour...I read with horror your remarks about leaving BYC...So happy that you were venting and that you are staying ! I too get incredibly annoyed and upset when other BYC members are nasty and rude...I have helped a lot of users by pm's...I am often up until the early hours helping somebody that has been made to feel inadequate by other posters...surely this is not what we are about as BYC members...I have a list of people that I avoid...they are abrasive and think they know everything...!

Phil...it is 100;4 here this afternoon...the heatwave continues...we have had the odd thunderstorm but the land needs more water...I reckon the fish in the millpond and river are almost cooked by now...luckily all of the animals here have found shady places to keep cool..

Love to you all....

Hi Suzie!

Glad to hear you're going to be careful the next time you treat the coop...that reaction sounds miserable. Please be careful, we don't need anyone down like that. Hope you get some relief from the heat wave soon.

Hey Suzie .....here's one of my grandson MASON ......he looks just like my son Jeremy......spitting image.....everyone says so......(he's adopted)......kind of erie.....but it's true.

What a good looking boy Phil! Thanks for sharing his photo (and wow, look at that fish!).

 

[hbhoffman]

HI! Okay, anyone else blink and have the summer vanish?!? Panic has somewhat set in as my 2 oldest need to sign up for their college classes and pay by Sun.night- We missed the scholarship deadline for one which means we are going to have to pay the $1,200 for her 2 classes and my Dh filed a tax extension (

) so no PELL grant for the other!

Thankfully (??) I am off without pay as we are in between sessions and can run around getting paperwork done. Next year someone please call me mid August and tell me summer is almost over! I was having fun until last night! Both my quilts got a third place in their category at our fair which I am grateful for as there were 280 quilts submitted! Boy, did we have major thunderstorm/ lightening storms every night for 5 nights straight after a day of 98 degrees or higher. Actually shut down the fair early one night at 10. It was a wonderful week of fair fun! And my eggs got a third and first places but how those judges missed seeing the nearly hatched chick in one of my welsummer eggs is beyond me! Still recovering from cracking that one open and the several other semi developed and black, rotten ones open to use them for baking!

At least one of those roosters is doing his job! Just not sure if he is a bielefelder or cream legbar. The Orpington rooster is not crowing either. They seem to take a long time to mature. So I suspect it is the other one I posted about earlier. Just wished I had known that the broody OE hen had been sitting THAT long on those 10 eggs! It's too far for me to go up daily to check on them. And we have gone from 18+ to 10 over the summer. Wouldn't mind a few chicks to have over the winter to grow out even if they are crosses. If I am going to lose that many and not be able to do much about it, I am not going to put out the $$ for quality breeds.

Any result with the McD managers? OSHA might be a good place to start or an Op Ed in the paper? Or the owner or even corporate??
Phil, He looks so proud! Thank you for giving him that happy memory!
Wish I could adopt those Ohio kids! Wow! And that 7 y/o is a creative thinker! He should be given more opportunities to have a micro-business.

So glad I am not the only one ready to leave reality for a few days, weeks, months...um... years?! Here's to hoping for one last hurrah before school and my "normal" life starts back again.

 

[Outpost JWB]

So good to hear from you HB! Hollywood is in a sick pen with one of my 11 speckled sussex. They both had some sort of eye infection and their eyes swelled up. Since they are not at the point of laying yet, I went ahead and gave them an antibiotic. Hollywood is doing a lot better, the SS isn't showing much improvement. I gave them Duramycin so maybe she needs something stronger.

I would love to see pics of those quilts! Congrats. Quilting is something I would love to learn how to do someday.

Going to work early today. Go in early, get out early! One of my bosses has been driving me nuts.....micromanager. To put it mildly. If I go in an hour early, that is one less hour I have to deal with him! Don't get me wrong, I love and thank God for my job.

You all have a great day!

 

[donrae]

Good deal at the fair! I'd love to quilt, it's so pretty. But I've decided precision work is not my thing any longer, so I'll look to other outlest. I love looking at other folks' work, though. So pretty.

I don't know, I'm just tired. Seems like so much is a fight right now. I told the McD's manager as long as my kid isn't having to use the grill cleaner and not getting crap for it, I guess I'm fine. I'm not much of a crusader and other folks will just have to look out for themselves.

But this is also the kid who "accidently" charged $80 to by debit card on a gaming site. 'Oh, I thought it was charging my card, so sorry.". Oh, yeah, your card that has no money on it cause you didn't work for 2 weeks? I'm not an idiot. He's going to pay the money back, of course, but I'm thinking something else needs to be done. Just not sure what.

The house thing is ovewhelming. Our place is apparently only worth about 90K--we'd hoped for a bit more than that. My health and work and Honey's work and school and mortages and animals and finances are all intertwined and very confusing and I'm just itired of trying to deal with it. But I hate feeling like inertia just takes over and nothing happens. I wish God would send me a signed, detailed letter of what He wants me to do for say the next 10 years. That would sure help.

I was just out of town for a few days, my mom had surgery on her hand. Came through great, but spending time with her especially under a stressful situation is showing her memory issues. We'll probably make it through this winter with her at home, but after that I'm not sure how long things will work out.

I was gone two nights. No one did any dishes. I"m not even disapointed any more.

Maybe Honey and I just need to take vacation next week, the two of us. I can't seem to get anyone interested in doing anything.

And...since I feel like I vent a lot here and folks probably read it and think my life is crappy and I'm depressed or something, I try to put something good in also.

Brahma Momma has chicks hatching

I saw two at least, I'll move her tomorrow and get a count. Baby chicks rock. They make up for dirty dishes.

 

[hbhoffman]

Sorry, know how you feel! I had 10 days at the fair. Dd and I Didn't eat at home much, dirty dishes sat there waiting for someone to take out the clean ones I had done! It was 2.5 weeks to unload and reload as I refused to do them. Well, thanks to my oldest dd my middle one is registered for classes and my middle dd and I stayed up until 3 and now she also is registered for classes. I also let her know she is going to need to learn to ride the public metro system this year. Mom is not interested in spending 4 hours a day, 500 miles a week, transporting older teens to their college classes and work this semester. I can post a couple of quilt photos if you all want to see them?
JWB, still laughing that Hollywood is a she! Hope she heals quickly! Should have sent you the other one! This one:

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Good deal at the fair! I'd love to quilt, it's so pretty. But I've decided precision work is not my thing any longer, so I'll look to other outlest. I love looking at other folks' work, though. So pretty. 

I don't know, I'm just tired. Seems like so much is a fight right now. I told the McD's manager as long as my kid isn't having to use the grill cleaner and not getting crap for it, I guess I'm fine. I'm not much of a crusader and other folks will just have to look out for themselves. 

But this is also the kid who "accidently" charged $80 to by debit card on a gaming site. 'Oh, I thought it was charging my card, so sorry.". Oh, yeah, your card that has no money on it cause you didn't work for 2 weeks? I'm not an idiot. He's going to pay the money back, of course, but I'm thinking something else needs to be done. Just not sure what. 

The house thing is ovewhelming. Our place is apparently only worth about 90K--we'd hoped for a bit more than that. My health and work and Honey's work and school and mortages and animals and finances are all intertwined and very confusing and I'm just itired of trying to deal with it. But I hate feeling like inertia just takes over and nothing happens. I wish God would send me a signed, detailed letter of what He wants me to do for say the next 10 years. That would sure help. 

I was just out of town for a few days, my mom had surgery on her hand. Came through great, but spending time with her especially under a stressful situation is showing her memory issues. We'll probably make it through this winter with her at home, but after that I'm not sure how long things will work out. 

I was gone two nights. No one did any dishes. I"m not even disapointed any more. 

Maybe Honey and I just need to take vacation next week, the two of us. I can't seem to get anyone interested in doing anything. 

And...since I feel like I vent a lot here and folks probably read it and think my life is crappy and I'm depressed or something, I try to put something good in also. 

Brahma Momma has chicks hatching   I saw two at least, I'll move her tomorrow and get a count. Baby chicks rock. They make up for dirty dishes. 

We all have people on our lives that disappoint us from time to time....we are all human.
And some of us deal with depression far more than others.....it's just life.
Feel free to vent Racheal....that's what we are here for.

Then there are days when you take a little boy fishing....and wonder what all the other crap was about anyways.

 

[Outpost JWB]

Good morning all. Today started out good, but my nerves got the best of me. Headed to work and got sick. Only been there 2 months and had to call out. Hoping management doesn't get mad at me.

I understand 100% Rachel. Life has its way of kicking us around sometimes. I am going to try to get some housework (much needed) done today and try to make it a productive day at home. You all have a good day!

 

[Suzie]

Hey Suzie .....here's one of my grandson MASON ......he looks just like my son Jeremy......spitting image.....everyone says so......(he's adopted)......kind of erie.....but it's true.

Wow..he looks so proud...wonderful photo!

 

[Suzie]

I had another mishap...

Got stung by a bee Wednesday afternoon...vomited, lost my vision, blinding headache, spasms, difficult to breathe and then semi concious...got rushed to a Doctor...anaphylactic shock...adrenalin injection...then the surgery room filled up with firefighters ( normal here in France in case of emergency as they are trained for emergency situations with health ), as if that was not enough...four Doctors arrived from Vichy (some 40 minute drive away)...heart monitor attached, legs in the air...vein with the canula closed down...off in ambulance to Hospital in Vichy, siren blaring...more medication pumped into me through another canula...lovely rash all over my body...

I came home at my insistence near to midnight...my Husband arrived and I really wanted to get home, hot alcohol compress on my arm, I now have an adrenaline epipen and anti histamine tablets for the next six days...my left arm is huge still but at least I am alive....

I owe my life to all of those wonderful people who were there for me...

I resolve never to keep bees here...

I am resting up as I feel as though I have been run over by a steamroller...