G'morning, peeps! Guess who's back? I'll be on infrequently for the next three weeks, then I'll be gone for five. Can somebody catch me up on what's happening?
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Suzi18
Crossing the Road
Be still my heart........adorable
Hi Ruby! Nothing exciting going on with me.
I hope you have a fantastic summer. You deserve it.
You’ve worked very hard this school year.
Suzi18
Crossing the Road
Hi Ruby!
I think I'm with you on the broody front, Stacey. Guess who?
I was wondering a couple of days ago where you got to!
Update: I’m still stagger hatching.
I have 1 broody on eggs and 2 more flirting with being broody.
I sold sold my Delawares and I’m trying to sell my non-broody Buffs. I don’t want to work with those breeds long term, so I am off-loading them. I’m keeping the broody Buffs because I want to breed them with my Cochin for broody mixes.
We are working hard on our garden, which is looking pretty good.
The Milk Drinker will be 2 at the beginning of July. He is starting to talk and mimic what other people are saying.
I think that’s about it.
Life's too short to feel guilty about eating a donut. A whole box of donuts, maybe, but just one.. never.
I don’t have parents anymore, so I’ve been through this already.
I’ve been occupied the past few days working on a list for DH so that when he goes to visit his elderly dad in another state next month he can use the time there constructively.
His dad has ADVANCED Parkinson’s, and is quickly losing cognitive skills. There are questions to be asked and conversations to be had.
They are a family of procrastinators!
I am encouraging him to get together with his two siblings (same state) AND dad - so he can be a participant, to make a record of all their father’s end of life decisions before the time hits and the whole family is up in arms with grief (and ugly sibling squabbling and selfishness - omg #HISSISTER! ) and don’t know where to begin.
*all suggestions welcome in case there’s something I haven’t thought of.
You guys are the best
CHICKEN CHUMS ever.
So when my gma passed the biggest thing that bothered my dad was his sisters descended on my gma's house like vultures on roadkill. Taking stuff "b/c they bought it for her", going through her clothes, taking photos off the wall. So maybe designate a day when that will happen.
I made a point to scan in all of my gma's photos and albums into the computer and burned cds for everyone. There were a lot of photos that were really old that some people were arguing about. This way everyone got a copy of the pictures, but everyone got their own.
Make sure EVERYONE knows not to post on social media about his passing until EVERYONE has been notified. I get sooo pissed every time I find out that someone in my family has died on fb.
Likewise, have a calling tree of sorts to make sure that your husband is one of the first people contacted after he passes. My friend's mom's favorite aunt died and she was the LAST person they called to tell about it. They called her other daughter first. She was so upset.
As for the cremation, my dad, his sisters, and my gma made the arrangements and they were able to pay in installments before she died so her cremation was all paid off and it wasn't something they had to worry about.
Write up his obituary. If his dad doesn't want to be involved, fine, but make sure the siblings are all there and agree on the obit, make sure names are spelled correctly and everything they want is included. Much better than hastily writing one up the day after. Type it up, proofread and spell check it. They'll likely be emailing it to the funeral home who sends it to the newspaper. I mistakenly left out my aunt's last name, it was going to cost $100 to reprint it, but she said it was fine and she had wanted it left out but didn't want to say anything. I felt terrible, but she didn't seem to mind.
Make sure they know what's going to happen w/ his ashes and if they aren't going to be interned, who will keep them and what happens to them when that person passes or for some reason doesn't want to keep them anymore. If he wants them scattered or something special done, find out if it's possible. My other gma wanted her ashes scattered in the creek she played in as a child.. which is illegal. My other gma wanted them scattered over her husband's plot, which is also frowned upon. She had her own plot next to his, but they ended up digging a hole and placing the box of her ashes on top of her husband casket.
You'll likely need several copies of the death certificate as many utilities/ services/ banks/ etc won't talk to anyone who isn't 'on the account'. If he's still capable of giving consent, have him call and add someone as an authorized agent to close each of his accounts on his behalf when he passes. Sometimes you're not allowed to close out things until after the estate has been settled. My parents had to leave the house in my gma's name until after her estate cleared, including the utilities.
Get info on any life insurance policies he may have. Check http://missingmoney.com/ to make sure there isn't something sitting out there. My mom's dad has $$ sitting out there from an ins claim, but been ridiculous trying to get it paid out.
Gross. I don't envy you. It's supposed to be beautiful here this week.. which is nice b/c the humidity was about to kill me.It was 102 today and next week it will be 103
Your cages are awesome! Brilliant!
My child has these socks. She does wear them, but not in public.
They do have vegan chocolate chips. They taste like reg chips, just no milk. Carob chips are an acquired taste, but also vegan. Are you on pinterest? I have a bunch of dairy free stuff pinned b/c my child is allergic to milk. https://www.pinterest.com/apryl291981/dairy-free/ https://www.pinterest.com/apryl291981/healthy-food/ https://www.pinterest.com/apryl291981/low-acid-diet/ (there's some meat in the last 2 boards so you have to check)
For butter we use Earth Balance Soy free (red container). The sticks have a weird after taste, IMO. We also use cold pressed palm oil in place of shortening b/c my child has a soy allergy.
You can make pudding, just use almond milk (or whatever kind you like) and add a little at a time til you get the right consistency.
A lot or recipes you can just replace the bad stuff w/ things you can eat. Like get the pancake mix that you have to add eggs, milk, & oil and just use almond milk instead of cows milk. If you eat deli meats, know that often they soak deli turkey meats in milk (not sure why, allergist told us this).
ADORABLE!!!!! Congrats! How many total? How's mama doing?7 of 8 safely hatched! I left the last egg just in case but I think it’s an early quitter. Not bad for a first time broody. (Who kept getting pestered)
I did the same thing. I didn't check them every single day but I had to check that she wasn't stealing any eggs (b/c she did, several times) even after I removed the 3 undeveloped eggs. Yesterday I had to take her out for a minute b/c someone had pecked her comb and I needed to put blu kote on it and *someone* kept turning her head away from me.
At least one of my amberlink's is pecking at feathers again. Saturday night I let them out and when I was putting them back in Klaus was missing. Found her behind the run. Picked her up and her tail was all bloody. Cleaned her up and she seemed to be doing well when I checked her the next morning, but then I noticed that Nibbler had a bloody tail too. Both of them, it was their under tail area, above the vent. I cleaned up nibbler, there was a LOT more blood! The spot looked a little yellow, but I'm hoping the blu kote will help. I checked everyone else except Jackie b/c she's hard to catch, and cleaned the mud off their toe nails. Damon had a little spot of blood I also covered, then I let them all out. And then I see Abby trying to peck at one of the Survivors. I put her in Olive's pen and that's where she lives now. I checked them the Survivors last night and their tails were peck free so I left Ziva out. Hopefully it's just Abby that's the problem. Olive was ecstatic to be free again. My mom said my cousin was looking to get chickens for my aunt and I offered Abby and Ziva to her, but she said she just hatched 18 eggs. Also, my tiny human started crying when I told her we might need to get rid of them... so now Abby will just live in the pen until everyone is done molting.
Ash was still sitting on the nest on Saturday morning and procured 6 eggs. I moved her to a different box and let her keep 3, but later when I went back that evening the eggs were cold and she was off the nest and hasn't been sitting since so she was just testing it out, I guess. Loki's still on her eggs. We have a few more days to see if it hatches.
My kid's dance recital went well. I ended up working backstage which was different and kinda fun. (my legs STILL hurt, but I got in all my steps for the 3 days we worked w/ the studio) The insane thing was this time they decided to let people pick out their seats when they bought the tickets. Which was a great idea, but the seating chart they got from the school was wrong and had 2 rows that didn't exist! Which means we had ~35 seats that were sold that weren't actually there. One of the parents was ticked at the studio director and it totally wasn't her fault at all. Other than that, and a small issue w/ the camcorder where the first dance wasn't recorded, everything went well. Unfortunately I didn't get to see much of the my kids' dances, but the director is giving me a dvd for free for helping.
@apryl29 !
You made such good points here I am sending myself a link to this page so I don’t forget to talk to DH about it! Thank you!
You made such good points here I am sending myself a link to this page so I don’t forget to talk to DH about it! Thank you!
Speaking of donuts,
Saw this yesterday and screengrabbed it for the group :
Then I saw this on Craigslist and had to grab it too! :
That title was an EYE CATCHER wasn’t it?!?
The inside of the post said they’d lost 63 pounds but still loved baking.
Several kinds of cake. $2/slice.
Saw this yesterday and screengrabbed it for the group :
Then I saw this on Craigslist and had to grab it too! :
That title was an EYE CATCHER wasn’t it?!?
The inside of the post said they’d lost 63 pounds but still loved baking.
Several kinds of cake. $2/slice.
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