Okies in the BYC The Original

[osukrazykate]

So I have been trying to put an avatar on here, but it keeps telling the size is too large. But my pics are not larger than the size they are saying of 15KB. They are all around 5KB and I have even resaved some of them to be smaller and they still don't work. I had problems trying to do this long time ago and gave up, but I would like to have one. Does anybody else have this sort of problem and what do you do to fix it.

 

[ShellnOkla]

I was called out to a house fire lastnight at 12am i helped fight that fire until 3;30 this morning, I remember how it felt when i was a kid and we lost everything we owned just got out with our pajamas on, this couple lastnight lost everything, they were at work when it happened, please keep them in your prayers...... Thank you and God Bless you all in this New Year!!!

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

Looks to be we wont be making it to Cement

We lost our last Narragenset Tom to Jackson. Came home from getting Hay and found him enjoying a turkey, sadly the turkey was still alive but nothing much left... I had to ax him while Jason went to the hospital... Jason went to scolding him and Jackson bit him on the hand pretty good at least from how it appears... wont know until he gets back... silly guy left without me taking him... Such a man

Our kids a distraught at the moment but I know with time they will come to realize that farm life is not all peachy keen, there is real heart ache and danger... You all have fun for those who are going.

Jeannie

 

[ShellnOkla]

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i am so sorry too hear of your loss, me and my kiddos moved from the big city life in tulsa too tiny town 3 yrs ago, we have too many animals too count lol but everyone has a name!! even the longhorns, and it is still hard when we lose ANYTHING, for my daughter who is 12, she cries over a hurt chicken, horse, cow, anything it doesnt matter, so i understand where u are coming from....

 

[osukrazykate]

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In the summer it isn't so bad, there are a lot of shade trees that help keep certain parts of the house cool. but our house is not a normal shape either, it is sort of a cross shaped house. My husband and my bedroom is the coldest facing the north and sticks out from the rest of the house. Then the living room arches out with windows taking up more than half of the walls facing the East. Then there are two sets of french type doors, one set leads to the dining room the other to our daughters room then a door into our bedroom and then another door to a porch. The dining room has the one set of french doors, then another door into our daughters bedroom, another door to the laundry room, another doorway into the kitchen, and a door to another porch, with one set of big windows. Our room has the one door from the living room, a door from our daughters room, two outside doors leading to two different porches, and three large sets of windows. Our daughters room has the french doors from the living room, the door to the dining room, door to our room, and another door to the back bedroom and a large set of windows that look out onto one of the porches. The back bedroom then has another door out to another porch and two sets of large windows. The kitchen has a door to another porch and two sets of large windows. The laundry room has the doorway from the kitchen and the door that comes from the dining room and another outside door to the same porch as the kitchen and two sets of smaller windows. So if you have lost count, that is 7 doors leading to the outside to many different porches and several large windows. We hardly have any wall space for any pictures or anything else to hang up on the walls, because this house seemed to be mostly built with windows and doors, and the space that was left it has bookcases. But another cool thing about this house is the fireplace. It opens up to the living room, our bedroom and our daughters bedroom. Have you ever heard of one fireplace with three openings. Unfortunately, my DH father placed gas stoves in two of the three openings and so we cannot use the fireplace. Supposedly it was very inefficient, I suppose with three openings it had a hard time heating and smoke or something or another. Maybe someday when I have some extra $ we can convert it back and make it somehow efficient because I think it is really cool. I think there used to be another fireplace in the kitchen too that was used for cooking, not for certain on that, but there does seem to be a flue on top of the house for one and it looks like when I pull the drawers out there might have been a chimney walled up before they put in the cabinetry. I would love to redo the kitchen and bring back that fireplace too and possibly add on to the kitchen over where the old cellar is, which is right outside the door to the laundry room. I will have to try and post some pics sometime so that maybe all of this description makes sense. The only other bad thing about this house is there is NO closet space, except for two very small closets in my daughters room. I suppose back in the day they didn't have women like my daughter and I who like clothes, LOL, or my husband for that matter, ROFL.

 

[osukrazykate]

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Oh no! I guess Jackson is your dog. What kind of dog?

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

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Oh no! I guess Jackson is your dog. What kind of dog?

He is our GP but he is still so puppy and will be for 2 years as he is only 7 months old now(but he is big)... Because its a bite wound on a human they had to send a report out and will be coming to get jackson to put him in the pound for evaluation... ARG ( I understand why ect ect) but still its one more thing !

Jeannie

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

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yea when I stress I clean... and at this moment after having two extra kids this past week(they flew out at 5am this morning) along with our own two I sure hope I can decompress and have a shiny sparkling clean house that would make martha stewart proud.. lol


Found Jackson ( He went into hiding under the coop house) and I told him "Turkeys are YOUR FRIENDS, But Momma's Food" Do you think he will get the message?
In all farmstead honesty it was our human error, I was under the assumption the turkeys had been put up prior to us leaving for the hay, thats what we do, I guess hubster told DD not to worry they will be fine... Yea ...... OK

Thats where our daughter is distraught....

Jeannie

 

[TheBarnSwallow]

Anybody else going that can get the message to Poultry and Bees that we wont be making it? I dont have signal on my cell phone at my home and we dont have long distance on our home phone... ... She was bringing some "gifts" to us there and I dont want her showing up there and we not be there and she is wondering what the heck...

Jeannie

 

[Teach97]

Jeannie - called Miss marybeth and she is informed!

Q- about them Japs...

miss Betsy - the check is sitting on the desk...apparently someone...me...thought that someone else was gonna get it in the mail but apparently they didn't know about it so apparently I am the idiot again...I should get used to it

It is stupid cold here...the bird net has frost all over it and the birds are irritated