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[chicharomirinda]

Oh I can't wait to see pics of the adorable costumes! The ones you made last year were so cute!

I got the mouse costume done. I will post pictures tonight. I forgot about making a wedge of cheese though so I'm thinking about what I have around the house to make that. Mice need cheese of course! The t-rex head is coming out awesome! it's very cool. I'll be painting it tonight and then making the teeth.

your lease to own option sounds interesting. good luck!

Do any of you want to visit me? Don`t worry I`m perfectly harmless....most of the time.

I might need to stop by and kidnap a polish

Yeah, Elizabeth! I totally cant wait. Youre the best costume maker!

Thanks for asking Sunny, They found another break in his knee, but they said that since he will be bedridden for a long time it should heal u on its own, phew! Also he got moved out of ICU and into a real room with a window and a TV so thats awesome, lol. I think they want to try and get him into physical therapy next week but I am not 100% certain. Hes in pain but he is responsive to it and to me thats a good sign I think its gonna be a long road from here, but i am just happy that I will still have my Dad to walk me down the aisle next year
LOL!

Glad he's on the mend an in a regular room. what a scary situation for you all. I hope he will recover quickly.

soooo....umm....i guess i am going to be attempting to buy this house

I have no idea what is going on around here anymore. With Mark's stepdad in bankruptcy and dying his mother wants to get as far away from his assets as possible and is willing to hand the house to us at no profit to her. Its got $30,000 left on in (four years or so). I really hope we qualify or else were totally out of luck. poop.

I hope it works out. It really is a very small loan in this day and age so I hope they will work with you.

I'm so ticked. Had a great day doing some stuff in one of the coops, got some time to sit and enjoy the chickens, got TWO blue/green eggs from one of the May hatch girls plus everyone seems to be done with their molt and laying again...I go in the house to make lasagna for some friends who's husband was coming home from the hospital and when my husband goes to feed one of my baby Marans has gone missing! This is the group that came sick and I lost 1/2 of them, now I've lost the little cockerel. Better then one of the girls but I wanted the roo. He was already very handsome.
Well, here's a pic of all the eggs....and my husband even found another one after I picked these up.

Here's a picture of one of my stunning EE Cockerels (he's for sale if anyone is interested).
I see the missing Marans in this picture, back by the trees, and in a sequence of 5 picture of this cockerel, I see just these two, no third one that's a pullet, yet I know it's the cockerel gone because the girls combs and wattles are nothing. So easy to tell what sex they are!
Pam

Hope your little marans shows up! gorgeous EE. Love the look of roosters and wish I could keep one.

I hope you find him! And the EE cockerel is indeed stunning!

Novice gardeners... in case you were wondering how to handle this frost...

If you pick the rest of your tomatoes today, most will continue to ripen in your warm house. Same thing with peppers. If you have a plant that's still loaded with green fruit, cut it off at the ground, then hang it upside down in a garage.

Things that can just be tossed into a freezer bag: tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, eggplant, onions. If you have time, slice them first... it's a lot easier slicing them before freezing than after they're thawed. And remove the seeds from the peppers.

Basil will not live past tonight. Pick it all and make pesto or something.

Winter squash doesn't necessarily have to be picked tonight because a light frost won't harm the fruit. But it will kill the plant, so there won't be any more growth past this. So you can go into the garden in the next couple of days and gather your squash. If you're not sure they're ripe, put them in your sunniest window and eat the ones that look ripest. Zucchini and summer squash all need to be picked tonight.

European crops will be fine. Carrots, broccoli can cauliflower, spinach and chard, beets... they can stay outside for a few more weeks. No rush.

I don't know how many of you still have gardens going, but I know I'm going out today and gathering all my tomatoes.

I have some green tomatoes and that's about it. my zucchini had a resurgence of blossoms but all the fruit is still very tiny. congrats on your new tortoise and I'm glad the silkie is doing so well. One of mine is going broody.

so I have 3 broody pullets. Silly girls, it's almost winter.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

congrats on your new tortoise and I'm glad the silkie is doing so well. One of mine is going broody.

so I have 3 broody pullets. Silly girls, it's almost winter.

Noodle broke her broodiness but isn't laying again yet. Jerk is solid on that nest, though.

My Italian breeds have stopped laying. It's been over a week since I've gotten one from either of them. Only the ducks are giving me white eggs right now. The others have slowed down. Mostly it's my New England breeds that are still going, and the naked neck. Hoping to put the light up this weekend and see if that makes a difference. I HATE working in cold, wet weather, though. I want to just snuggle up inside.

A friend gave me the idea to put the oven on self clean today, instead of turning on the heater. I might just do that! It's about time to clean the oven, anyway.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Oh and I almost forgot to post Hugo Chavez' picture!

 

[wolftracks]

A little something for Aubrey

 

[aubreynoramarie]

How much is it? I'll take three. Three whole kits, that is..

 

[sherylreno]

Do any of you want to visit me? Don`t worry I`m perfectly harmless....most of the time.

I think it's the other way around, are you sure you want to meet us?

I just checked out the weather report for the North Valleys this week! I think we better head into town and stock up on groceries! I don't think I'm gonna want to drive in this mess this week.

When I checked the weather all I could see was brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

soooo....umm....i guess i am going to be attempting to buy this house

I have no idea what is going on around here anymore. With Mark's stepdad in bankruptcy and dying his mother wants to get as far away from his assets as possible and is willing to hand the house to us at no profit to her. Its got $30,000 left on in (four years or so). I really hope we qualify or else were totally out of luck. poop.

Aubrey, please let me know the outcome in all of this. John and I do have excellent credit and I know for sure we can buy the house and do the lease to own on it. But it would be best for you and Mark to buy it. It will help your credit issues immensely.

Noodle broke her broodiness but isn't laying again yet. Jerk is solid on that nest, though.

My Italian breeds have stopped laying. It's been over a week since I've gotten one from either of them. Only the ducks are giving me white eggs right now. The others have slowed down. Mostly it's my New England breeds that are still going, and the naked neck. Hoping to put the light up this weekend and see if that makes a difference. I HATE working in cold, wet weather, though. I want to just snuggle up inside.

A friend gave me the idea to put the oven on self clean today, instead of turning on the heater. I might just do that! It's about time to clean the oven, anyway.

I wonder if ducks are like chickens and will lay all winter long their first year? Misty didn't start laying eggs until spring. It was her very first egg too.

Oh and I almost forgot to post Hugo Chavez' picture!

Oh my goodness, he's gorgeous! I wished I had a visit from him! lol

A little something for Aubrey

Kim, it's okay, just step away and don't look. We forgive you for stirring the pot of this one!

How much is it? I'll take three. Three while kits, that is..

Oh nooooo! First she was the crazy chicken lady and now she's becoming the crazy cat lady! What shall we do next!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Oh Sheryl you are an absolute doll. That is the sweetest thing anyone has ever offered. Just amazing, you're amazing. I'll keep y'all updated!

 

[wolftracks]

Now see I'd take the calico and the tortise shell. The rest are your's Aub.

I agree that buying outright is best, but I have other reasons. Bill and I used to invest years ago, so the RTOs CAN work, but never have for us personally.

First, 1989, I was buying a house in Berkeley, from the owner (would have thought I would learn a lesson. NOT!) Did a rent to own, but we were right at the point where I could finance or give up the property and he showed up with someone he sold the property too and who wanted $500 more per month to continue a contract. And yes it was legal even thought there was rent control in Berkeley. The house was damaged a lot during the earth quake and life went down hill for a long time afterwards and I had no one to even use as a reference when I moved. Back situation.

Before we moved to Modesto from Union City, we had a house built in a new area where my daughter had her's built. We were supposed to close on one of my daughters' birthdays, the 17th. One the 15th, laws changed and we no longer qualified. Maybe it was a good thing since NO CHICKENS there. So we came out and looked for a RTO. Bill found one. It was smallish, but it worked. Still no chickens, but a nice house. We moved in on Christmas Eve and then in March Bill handed over 14k for our down payment. I always took care of paperwork and deals when we were investing. I swear that man had no money sense at all. So he was going to show me he could work this one alone. OK......April 1st??? We get a knock on the door and told that the house had sold back to the bank at auction that morning. They wanted the house and didn't want to sell while we were there. We moved to the next house and then Bill's job almost came to a stop and he wasn't feeling well. We had another couple of shady landlords. The woman's brother lived next door and told us to watch our backs. Wish we had seen them coming. Somehow things went crazy and by the time we were finished fighting with them we owed them 4k. That hasn't been paid yet, so I know it's on my credit. So, since we were looking to buy, we put a down payment on a 3+ acre home and moved here while we were in escrow. His 100% disability from the VA had come through and we were going to be ahead for the first time in 4 years. Got his first check and he died. The day before I told him I'd be willing to look for a different house in a new area and he was all for it, so may have stopped on the house. It didn't take long for his upgrade to go through, and since my mom had just died and then my dad dying and us driving to Oklahoma, money was gone and he was going to contact the old landlords to make payments on what we suddenly owed. BTW, they put a new roof on THEIR house and slapped some ugly paint on the rental and there have been 5 more families they've sued. One of the neighbors told my grandson, they sue for the exact same things over and over and get away with it. OH and Bill had escrow in his name only. We were going to buy a rental in my name later, so my name wasn't on anything and that escrow money was never returned. Two of my daughters is still working on that for me.

I haven't seen or heard from our landlords here since about 4 weeks after we moved in. They came with some people to measure windows so they could replace these crap windows. They never came back. I don't have their number, but deposit rent in the husband's account every month. It's windy and cold out and I feel breezes coming through here right now. I hate winter! I don't like landlords and I mistrust most people when it comes to buying RTO. That said we bought several himes that way when investing and then resold them. Never lived in any of them and did simi flips on them.

If I still bartended I'd still have lots of resources. I could have built many houses over and over and it would have cost me materials and any fees, but we knew all kinds of people that offered to help. Bill, just couldn't be convensed, so it never happened. Dang it! Now I've gone through almost everything and nothing has changed. No house, no nothin. Man do I feel like a failure. I just can't move to areas I can come close to now affording. Some are in even worse areas, and some........If I can't handle 60 degrees, I have no business moving to. So credit went from AAA to are you kidding me lady? Not sure what to do next, but I'm still not giving up.

TMI huh? I got carried away. All this has been on my mind and I'm losing it, so you all get to share in my sloppy business. LOL

 

[chicharomirinda]

Noodle broke her broodiness but isn't laying again yet. Jerk is solid on that nest, though.

My Italian breeds have stopped laying. It's been over a week since I've gotten one from either of them. Only the ducks are giving me white eggs right now. The others have slowed down. Mostly it's my New England breeds that are still going, and the naked neck. Hoping to put the light up this weekend and see if that makes a difference. I HATE working in cold, wet weather, though. I want to just snuggle up inside.

A friend gave me the idea to put the oven on self clean today, instead of turning on the heater. I might just do that! It's about time to clean the oven, anyway.

good idea on the oven cleaning. mine is a mess. might have to do that this evening to warm things up.

Oh and I almost forgot to post Hugo Chavez' picture!

what a cutie! now that is much better than having a snake in the house. I could handle a tortoise.

A little something for Aubrey

sign me up, too. If I had my way I would have at least 3 cats right now but my husband is ornery about cats so I just have the one right now.

TMI huh? I got carried away. All this has been on my mind and I'm losing it, so you all get to share in my sloppy business. LOL

You have had a string of bad real estate deals...I hope you get something really awesome next time around.

 

[wolftracks]

I actually used to do really well with real estate. These days my brain is on hold. Maybe I'll figure it all out again and go back to it some day. Better be soon though at my age.




OK


A man is walking home late on Halloween night. It's dark, and the streetlights are out. Suddenly, he hears...

BUMP!

BUMP!

BUMP!

Behind him. He walks faster, but the sound keeps coming.


BUMP!

BUMP!

BUMP!

Worried he is being followed, he glances behind him and through the
darkness, and he can just see an upright coffin. No one seems to be holding the coffin; it's just bumping down the street behind him.

The man is scared. He's sure it's following him! In an effort to shake it off, her turns a corner. To his relief, the sound stops. He keeps walking but before a minute has passed, he hears the familiar sound behind him again:

BUMP!

BUMP!

BUMP!

He is terrified! He starts to run towards his home, but the faster he runs, the faster the coffin bounces along behind him!

Bumpity BUMP!

Bumpity BUMP!

Bumpity BUMP!

He pushes open his front gate, and runs up the path, fumbling for his keys. The coffin reaches the gate and effortlessly pushes it open. It's right behind him!!!

Finally his shaking hands manage to unlock his front door. He has no time to slam it behind him; the coffin is right on his heels! He rushes up the stairs, praying the coffin cannot climb after him.

BUMP!

BUMP!

BUMP!


The coffin pauses at the bottom of the stairs. The man breathes a sigh of relief but ...

clappity BUMP...

clappity BUMP...

clappity BUMP...

The coffin is now climbing the stairs behind him. He runs to the bathroom perhaps he can lock himself in there! His heart pounds and his lungs hurt with the exertion of running for his life! He has only just latched the bathroom door when ...

CRASH!!! The coffin breaks through the bathroom door!

What can he do? The coffin is nearly upon him! He reaches out for something heavy that he can throw at the coffin, and his hand comes to rest on a large bottle of cough syrup.

Desperately, he throws the cough syrup as hard as he can at the coffin and

..........

...........

(Wait for it)

...........

..........


Finally........ the coffin stops!!