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[VCfeathers]

Wow that Lav boy looks HUGE on your Hubby's arm! I realize that some of that is just perspective since he is much closer to the lens but still! He's so much bigger than I remember him being!

BTW I completely agree with you on the community thing. I was so used to banding together with friends and neighbors to get big jobs done when I was young. Spent a lot of time painting other people's houses, cleaning, gardening, and building stuff. Always made the work fly by and it was FUN! I learned a lot and made a lot of really good friends that way. Folks don't do that much anymore. I guess cause some folks would take advantage. Ask for help but never give it.

Course folks with bad backs and older folks helped out in simpler ways like doing the planning and design work. Measured and marked things to be cut, held the level while the guys/gals worked to be sure posts etc stayed true. Made sure food got ordered and delivered or oversaw the cooking of the meals, made coffee and iced tea, that sort of thing. No job was unimportant and everyone got to feel like a valuable contributor. We even had a big get together twice a year to process the animals. We all shared what animals and produce we had brought. It was a lovely time of life! I miss it a lot!

Hey Sunny,

He is twice the size of the little girl we got from you. He's almost as big as my leghorn girls already. I'm really greatful that he's decided to protect the chicks and not eat them lol. I was going to ask who you got them from? They are just such a pleasure to be around. I love our leghorns and they follow me all over and let me pick them up, but your chicks have such personallity.

As for community, you're a ways out there but anytime you need help or just want to take a road trip to a poultry or garden show, maybe get dinner. give me a call. I have my sons most of the time, but I'm always teaching them that friends are the familly you get to choose, and about the value and joy in helping others.

Likewise everyone is always welcome here. Keeping in mind that I haven't been here long and if I'm working I might ask for help. LOL! But I repay favors well, and I'm always happy to feed the help

 

[VCfeathers]

thanks for the photos! what kind of comb does the mystery chick have, single?

as far as I can tell its a single comb

 

[SunnyDawn]

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I got them from Candy (or Chickee on here). Her birds do have wonderful personalities!!! So sweet and so curious! I am getting five more of her birds once life settles down a bit. I'm afraid I am the bad back now and the best jobs for me are keeping folks fed and hydrated. OH I'm also a great baby sitter unless the older ones like to be carried everywhere. Then I am in trouble! LOL

Actually I am a great planner and I have a lot of DIY skills I've learned over the years. My management style is pretty macro though. If you don't ask me to explain something I assume you already know it and I will leave you on your own til you say otherwise or something explodes. hahaha Steve keeps saying I need to teach these skills to the younger folks but unless they really want to learn I don't have much interest in putting a lot of energy into it.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

You sound a bit like me. Professional chef and horse trainer, rv service tech, office manager, candle maker, mother, wife, mechanic, farmer, electrician, construction, plumber, I'm working on adding herbalist to the long list, and have chosen to only plant edible and medicinal flowers and herbs for my gardens. Most of them are pretty anyway.

I asked because I bought the old Tyson creek ranch up here in VC and everyone tells me how lovely it used to be or about how they got married here in the garden (which were destroyed by the last owners) I still have a lot to do around here, but I would love some murals around the place. Maybe we could meet sometime and talk about it?

as far as I can tell its a single comb

Sounds promising! PM me and we'll see where we can take it.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

I got them from Candy (or Chickee on here). Her birds do have wonderful personalities!!! So sweet and so curious!

I can second that! Of all the babies I have here, if any of them are especially well mannered, they're the ones I got from Candy. Sesame and Blue are the sweetest things ever.

<---- baby in my avatar is Sesame.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Oh, and speaking of helping each other out... Does anyone have any old laundry baskets, plastic tote containers, or milk crates that they want to get rid of or just lend out? I'm about to transplant 500 seedlings, and I usually put them into red Solo cups, then line them all up in laundry baskets. That way I just bring the basket in and out, until I need to take the plants out to repot or give away. I have over 200 more seedlings this year than last year, and a couple of people didn't return my baskets last year. Laundry baskets are great because they have handles, and the sun comes through the holes. I can trade for seedlings, once these are transplant size, or buy them from you at a decent price.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Oh, and speaking of helping each other out... Does anyone have any old laundry baskets, plastic tote containers, or milk crates that they want to get rid of or just lend out? I'm about to transplant 500 seedlings, and I usually put them into red Solo cups, then line them all up in laundry baskets. That way I just bring the basket in and out, until I need to take the plants out to repot or give away. I have over 200 more seedlings this year than last year, and a couple of people didn't return my baskets last year. Laundry baskets are great because they have handles, and the sun comes through the holes. I can trade for seedlings, once these are transplant size, or buy them from you at a decent price.

I have a couple of laundry baskets you can borrow for the season.

Remind me and I'll bring them by when I see you this weekend.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Speaking of needing stuff. I need about a dozen empty plastic milk jugs, gallon size to use as heat sinks in my coldframes. I will be painting them black then filling them with water so I need the caps with them. Anyone have any extras or can save a couple or a few for me?

 

[VCfeathers]

hey Missy,

I should have some plastic totes you can have.


Sunny I have a ton of empty milk jugs. My boys drink 3 gallons a week lol.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Thanks, Sunny and Mandy! I can start saving milk jugs, too. We have one that's almost empty now.