My Oldest Is Home From College For The Weekend And Asked Me To Watch This

[NorthernHomestead]

The video is clean/work-safe but with somewhat dark humor. Not going to lie - I laughed quite a bit. The image is a painting from 1850 titled Brother May I Have Some Oats and it's been turned into a meme over the past few years.

 

[Debbie292d]

An interesting story. It fringes politically, but it isn't, or is it?

 

[NorthernHomestead]

An interesting story. It fringes politically, but it isn't, or is it?

Good grief I hope not. 100% not my intent for posting. I'm so burned out emotionally from politics that I entirely removed myself from social media almost a decade ago. My husband still has an account if I want to look for things on marketplace. I keep FB messenger on my phone to talk to my family.

Honestly, after working ten years as a public service provider and cancel my student loan debt I hope to be close to retirement from my community and have a near-total level of self sufficiency from my homestead. I've lived in my town for almost 18 years and I find that I don't like my irl community. I don't feel comfortable here. :-/

 

[NorthernHomestead]

There may be a handful of like-minded people here, but I don't feel comfortable taking chances on people. I'm just too old for that.

It was a needle in a haystack situation that I found my "born-and-raised" spouse here. Political divide has estranged him from a lot of his family members.

 

[Debbie292d]

Good grief I hope not. 100% not my intent for posting. I'm so burned out emotionally from politics that I entirely removed myself from social media almost a decade ago. My husband still has an account if I want to look for things on marketplace. I keep FB messenger on my phone to talk to my family.

Honestly, after working ten years as a public service provider and cancel my student loan debt I hope to be close to retirement from my community and have a near-total level of self sufficiency from my homestead. I've lived in my town for almost 18 years and I find that I don't like my irl community. I don't feel comfortable here. :-/

That's got to be rough not liking the people in your community. We live in the country, so more peaceful. Luckily, two of the closest farms near to us are on the same page with many things so it makes life simpler. Best of luck with your retirement.
We both recently did the same. It's nice just raising chickens now and going camping now and then.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

That's got to be rough not liking the people in your community. We live in the country, so more peaceful. Luckily, two of the closest farms near to us are on the same page with many things so it makes life simpler. Best of luck with your retirement.
We both recently did the same. It's nice just raising chickens now and going camping now and then.

I go to work, I go home. I spend time talking to family. My youngest has a year before college. I spend time with my husband. I do it all over the next day. I'm in the country. Don't let the "NY" part of my location fool you. So many people here that have multi-generational family beliefs aligned to dark deep south mentality. I never claimed to agree with it, so I find myself waiting longer in lines, having lost medical records... I shrugged it off at first. Now I'm sure it's intentional. And I just:

Gardening, small homesteading, forums like this.. it helps.

I lost 6 chickens to backroad commuters this year. DH complained on his FB wall. A neighbor piped up to say, "That's why I keep mine in the coop 24/7!" as if it was our fault. I live in the middle of nowhere. I was certain it was a neighbor hitting the chickens. We set up trail cams on the road and DH made a post about it for the "safety of our neighbors". We haven't lost another on the road since.

 

[Debbie292d]

I go to work, I go home. I spend time talking to family. My youngest has a year before college. I spend time with my husband. I do it all over the next day. I'm in the country. Don't let the "NY" part of my location fool you. So many people here that have multi-generational family beliefs aligned to dark deep south mentality. I never claimed to agree with it, so I find myself waiting longer in lines, having lost medical records... I shrugged it off at first. Now I'm sure it's intentional. And I just:

Gardening, small homesteading, forums like this.. it helps.

I lost 6 chickens to backroad commuters this year. DH complained on his FB wall. A neighbor piped up to say, "That's why I keep mine in the coop 24/7!" as if it was our fault. I live in the middle of nowhere. I was certain it was a neighbor hitting the chickens. We set up trail cams on the road and DH made a post about it for the "safety of our neighbors". We haven't lost another on the road since.

Facebook is a cesspool. BYC is so refreshing. Had anyone replied to you like that here, they'd have gotten their hand slapped.

I only go to my Facebook poultry groups when selling chicks or peeking in on family too, but then I'm off there. I see how cruel and ignorant people are to people just trying to do the best thing for their chickens, and it sickens me. I post a link where I can to BYC and try encourage folks needing help to come here to ask for it.

To that one that leaves his/her chickens locked in a coop 24/7, I can imagine they are a sad lot of chickens with frequent illnesses. I often imagine what the life of a person like that must be, and it's sad.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

I feel bad for one of my four new ones right now. We brought four hens home (they look about 4 months old) at night thinking that overnight would be long enough for them to know where to roost at night. We were wrong. Three of the four are still sleeping outside. I caught one and put her in a large dog cage in the coop for a few days. I feel awful for her, but I want to go a week before letting her out so she has a better idea where home is at night before the door closes. I'm hoping to catch the other three and do the same.