Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

I hope you're over the worst and feeling better today Shad, and that someone stepped up to tend the chickens yesterday and save you hours out in the cold and wet.

 

[BDutch]

I hope you're over the worst and feeling better today Shad, and that someone stepped up to tend the chickens yesterday and save you hours out in the cold and wet.

I wondered why there was no post of Shad yesterday evening.

Whatever the problem is I hope you get better real soon Shad. And I am sure that he connected to someone who cares fore the chickens as long as needed.

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

One and a half hours today. It rained all day. Nobody was interested in being out. 4C with real feel at 0C. I've picked up some bug, running a temperature and feeling like crap. Not a good day.
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Hope you feel better very soon , bummer to get another bug so soon after getting over Covid!
Unfortunately I’m too far away to be of any help with the chickens, hope someone can help out at least temporarily

 

[Ladies-Eight]

But the best childhood ever! Think about how much life that kids today are missing out on, it is really sad. Most kids do not get much of a childhood these days. :-(

I used to love digging to see what I could find, I had a decent collection of old medicine bottles, in the dark blue and green glass, really thick glass. I was amazed that so many survived.

We were out of the house as soon as the sun was up and rarely back in until forced at dark. We ate fresh veg out of the garden or wild blackberries, raspberries or gooseberries.

We built forts with fallen branches and junk that people dumped in the woods.

I rescued so many injured birds, turtles, frogs, etc..

I never really outgrew it.. When my boys were little, I would go out and make mud pies with them. When we were in Phoenix, we had a hail storm, so we had ice and tons of mud, my ex came home to find me hosing the boys off on the back patio, they were down to their underoos, because we had mudball fight..lol. (mud in our ears, nose, hair, we were covered..lol) He was not best pleased, but too bad. When we went up to Sedona for the Christmas lights, there was snow in the mountains, so we stopped side of the road and made snow angels. They like video games, but prefer, to this day, to be out doing and working with their hands. I still, occasionally, stomp in a puddle to splash my husband..but he is a good sport.

It sounds like the childhood I had, only with different things that we did.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

I think there has been an overall intentional movement to dismantle the family unit. They want everyone focused on working and paying taxes and buying stuff to keep making money to empower government and their puppet masters. Progress is not always positive.

What I can say, is that if the parent that is present, is really dedicated to their children, it can minimize the damage and there are certain situations where being a single parent is the better choice between 2 evils.

I agree with you.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good afternoon one and all!

Temperature is in the 50s.

Have a great day!

 

[MrsNorthie]

Maybe it's not a related issue but governments who blame so strongly parents for not raising their children properly close their eyes on situations where thousand children die from poverty and war.

Governments like to interfere with the raising of children too. Indoctrination is the name of the game.

 

[MrsNorthie]

It sounds like the childhood I had, only with different things that we did.

Being outdoors and using our own imaginations for entertainment. I laugh when I hear some 20 something complaining how ignorant some oldie is because they don't use social media or have smart phones, because I am thinking to myself, those that grew up the way we did, will survive if it hits the fan, while most of these 'kids' will be in the fetal position sucking their thumbs. (and a lot of oldies can be pretty technically savvy too. ;-) )

 

[MrsNorthie]

@Shadrach You have had enough bad germs this year, so get better soon, and no more bugs!

 

[fuzzi]

So molasses and treacle is a byproduct in extracting the sugar and made with a kind of refinery. Is it made from sugarcane only or also from sugarbeet and ahorn?
Anyway, all these products are not available in the supermarket in the Netherlands. But google says it is used in the food industry to make products like soy sauce. Some reform shops seem to sell it because of the health claim. But its not even available in the webshops of the reform shops in my town.
People in the Netherlands that have a problem with constipation often eat high fiber bread and fruits like plums (dried plums welded before eating).
Of course we do have our own syrups. Like apple syrup and sugar syrup (very sweet). We say stroop. And our famous most yummy stroopwafels are made honey syrup. A few examples with stroop:
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Btw: Ini mini is fine.

I love stroopwafels, Aldi's sells them here, but apparently they're now adding corn/glucose syrup so I can't eat them anymore.