Official Squatch Watchers

[Parront]

But they only hold like 6 eggs!

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I like the "chicken math" art.

 

[Suzi18]

A male for Dylan would result in the cutest chicks known to man. Here are some Grey chicks for you to coo over:View attachment 1774109

So cute

 

[Suzi18]

Here's more babies to drool over. Mostly silkies.
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Oh my goodness. Cuteness overload

 

[rjohns39]

Morning folks

 

[21hens-incharge]

Morning Bob.

 

[staceyj]

Good morning folks!

I’m back from your neck of the woods @rjohns39!

Daughter is all graduated from UTK! Go Vols!

She’ll be coming here for a week or so then flying off to Cali to begin her new life!

She’s got a great job and a boyfriend who loves her waiting for her.
So happy, but man I’m going to miss that kid.
At least TN was only a day’s drive and a tank and a half of gas away. California... not so near.

 

[rjohns39]

Morning Bob.

Good morning folks!

I’m back from your neck of the woods @rjohns39!

Daughter is all graduated from UTK! Go Vols!

She’ll be coming here for a week or so then flying off to Cali to begin her new life!

She’s got a great job and a boyfriend who loves her waiting for her.
So happy, but man I’m going to miss that kid.
At least TN was only a day’s drive and a tank and a half of gas away. California... not so near.

Enjoy your time with her and air planes do travel both directions.

 

[staceyj]

Enjoy your time with her and air planes do travel both directions.

We did enjoy it. Knoxville is a fun city and her cohort friends and families were a great bunch.

“Hired” our other daughter to “pet sit” while we were gone.

They ran her ragged.
Cooper is a good boy in his crate but has never been in it as long as he was this past week while she was at work and such.

Apparently he got his days and nights reversed so for the first two nights she said she only got to sleep in ten minute increments.

Then on day three the chickens noticed that she’s forgotten to put the carabiner on the gate latch to their enclosed run and somehow busted out. When she came home that night she discovered this AND found that they’d had such a fun day being “free chickens” that they missed curfew on the closing of the automatic coop door and were all piled up together asleep on their little porch.

Thank God it wasn’t a night a predator came through the yard!

 

[apryl29]

Thanks for the updates everyone. I really appreciate it. I know I've been gone long enough for someone to get knocked up AND about to deliver! Mazel!!!

So, here's where I am at. I basically kidnapped my mother from Florida last year and she's been living here in KY since. She is in the beginning stages of dementia. I found her 6 new doctors here, and we've been going to them regularly. The PCP doctor here CORRECTLY diagnosed her with a thyroid issue, took her off a HUGE amount of meds she was on, and put her on something to correct her thyroid imbalance. Now she doesn't have upwards of 3 doctor appointments every week.

It's been hard, but she's learning what it's like to NOT be sick.

DH retired from the Army. He put in 22 years, 2 months and 12 days. With all of his medical issues, he is considered 290% disabled. This basically means he is considered *COMPLETELY AND PERMANENTLY* disabled, so he gets 100% disability pay.... and it will never be challenged. If something DID correct itself, there's enough still wrong with him that he would still be at 100%.

We are in the process of buying a new home. With my mom living with us, there's just not even enough room in this house. We had made plans to buy some property and then have a manufactured home built on site. Last month I was skimming through Zillow and found this house: PM ME FOR THE ADDRESS!!!!

Take a look. It's seriously AWESOME! I couldn't be more thrilled with it. Sits on over 8 acres. The basement is finished like a 2 bedroom apartment, which is where my mom will live. (Y'all can start sending housewarming gifts on the 17th of May!!!! )


Still homeschooling the boi. However, I also started doing more work from home jobs, and was hired by Amazon. We'll be carrying 2 mortgages for a while, until we sell our current house, plus I will absolutely want some housekeeping help once we move, since the new house it literally DOUBLE the size of this house.

Our beautiful free range roo, Fat B@st@rd, finally got got about a week or so ago. We've also had a few deaths along the way, but nothing lost to winter.



SKIP THIS NEXT PART IF YOU CHOOSE

Now, the reason I quit posting here is because I just felt like I couldn't any longer. I can't say depression hit me, but a huge amount of -I don't care- did. Being my moms caretaker, with her dementia onset plus her being blind AND basically being kicked out of her retirement community, I was bearing the brunt of a lot of feelings and I shut down. Days and weeks passed in a blur and I didn't know how to come back from it all.

I am still not doing well HOWEVER, I love you guys and I want to be a part of y'all, so I am here. If I ever stop posting again, feel free to bug the bejeezus outta me (AHEMCINDIAHEM). I am southern girl and it would be bad manners if I didn't reply.... and LAWD KNOWS I ain't got no bad manners!!!!

With all the love I can muster and a pickle!
~Deila

Looks like I missed you, but . Congrats on the new house & getting things squared away w/ your mom. I'm sure it helps you feel better knowing she's w/ you & she's being taken care of.

Sorry just saw this post. Yep, no ghosts. Nobody has died in this place.


HOWEVER...


Lemme tell you about the creepy friggen DOLLS they had in the 3rd bedroom/man cave. Apparently they had one child, a son, and he got married and his wife gave birth to twins, and they were preemies. SO the son, DIL and the 2 babies moved into the house. So there were 2 cribs in the 3rd bedroom/man cave still. Even after the son and DIL moved out with the twins. They kept the cribs up.

Apparently, grandma decided to put some freaky DOLLS into the cribs, and when we looked at the house, kiddo walked into the room, almost MILITARY TURNED AROUND, and then SWORE up and down he would never go into that room until his Nana (DHs mom) came and blessed the room.... cause yeah.... the dolls were creepy as fkuck. no joke. creeeeeeeepy

Luckily, Nana is Native American and is coming with a buncha schtuff to bless our home with. And I already bought a buncha lucky crap for the house as well.

AND KIKI is coming to cook!!! yayayayayayayaaaaaaaa!!!

I seriously thought you were going to say that the babies had died & they put the dolls in the crib in their memory. Still... creepy.

Lol! She's starting to lay again, maybe her hormones are screwing with her.
This was not what I expected out of Lulu, but it IS what I got.
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Maybe she was in a laying trance and was working hard to shove out that pebble.

I would like to also wish a belated Happy Mother's Day to all of us moms. I enjoy reading here, but am so far behind that I just thought I would say "HI". Good News from here, we are buying a house on 1/2 acre, hens OK, but no roosters. Lots of room for a garden and chicken yard!

Congrats on your house too! Do they have a limit on # of birds?

A male for Dylan would result in the cutest chicks known to man. Here are some Grey chicks for you to coo over:View attachment 1774109

Those fluffy little butts!

Chickens have it easy in the raising chicks department. Dad barely does anything after donating the sperm. I wonder if artificial insemination for chickens is do-able?

Ok, but how do they 'collect it'? Nevermind, I don't want to know.

Good morning folks!

I’m back from your neck of the woods @rjohns39!

Daughter is all graduated from UTK! Go Vols!

She’ll be coming here for a week or so then flying off to Cali to begin her new life!

She’s got a great job and a boyfriend who loves her waiting for her.
So happy, but man I’m going to miss that kid.
At least TN was only a day’s drive and a tank and a half of gas away. California... not so near.

Congrats! CA is far, but it's a nice place to visit. Which part of CA is she going to be living?

We did enjoy it. Knoxville is a fun city and her cohort friends and families were a great bunch.

“Hired” our other daughter to “pet sit” while we were gone.

They ran her ragged.
Cooper is a good boy in his crate but has never been in it as long as he was this past week while she was at work and such.

Apparently he got his days and nights reversed so for the first two nights she said she only got to sleep in ten minute increments.

Then on day three the chickens noticed that she’s forgotten to put the carabiner on the gate latch to their enclosed run and somehow busted out. When she came home that night she discovered this AND found that they’d had such a fun day being “free chickens” that they missed curfew on the closing of the automatic coop door and were all piled up together asleep on their little porch.

Thank God it wasn’t a night a predator came through the yard!

Wow.. talk about an adventure. So it sounds like her career as a pet sitter is over. If she wasn't so sleep deprived she probably would have latched it properly.. that's the story I'm going with at least.

 

[drumstick diva]

Morning everyone - notice it still is MORNING, had to get up early.