Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[TurnerEGGZ]

Blue Laced Red Orpingtons, Mr. & Mrs. Purple Monster.

Very pretty birds! I think it's amazing what folks come up with for their projects! I'm not there yet, heck I wouldn't even know where to start! I'd have to do a lot more reading to do any project bird! Yours look gorgeous though. Is the project complete or are there still changes you are trying to achieve?

 

[TurnerEGGZ]

Nice to meet all of you, and those were very nice introductions. Thank you for the personalization here in this thread. I didn't even think about an introduction on here, I figured folks didn't want to read about who I am. But I think it was a great idea.

I'm a bit of a newbie at life it seems from your bios. I turned 33 this Feb and my DH and I have 4 kiddos. Oldest turned 8 in April and my youngest is 5 months. We are a military (Army) family and my husband and I are originally from CA and have been stationed in Fort Bliss, TX and Eglin AFB, FL and now here at fort Bragg, NC. I love it here on our little piece of land in Aberdeen. I've wanted to move out of CA as long as I could remember and live on a farm. growing up my dad was a hay hauler truck driver and he'd take us kids to on hauls to some horse ranches and other farms and I just loved everything about them. From the smell to the wide open pastures filled with animals! One thing my dad taught me was not to shy away from hard work... And now that I have my kids at a home that's ours and not a rental, I want them to have a responsibility and work at something they can be proud of and something that the whole family can utilize as well. I love it out here, but I miss my dad and at 89 I fear I won't make a trip back to CA before his time is up.

My Godparents had a ranch of Sunmaid Raisins and growing up we'd go out there to help with harvest. I loved it, 30 acres or grapes, orange trees and an old barn with a few tractors. I was in heaven every time we drove the 2 1/2 hours to get to the ranch. The ranch and my godmother are another reason I miss CA.

We started building our second coop yesterday! The first one we did was for the 9 white leghorns we got from TSC earlier this spring that our dogs got ahold of the 3rd day the chickens moved in to their coop. So now because of the bad memories I have from that coop and because I got an abundance of chicks this second time around, the first coop has been transformed to the doghouse! We are now going for a 12x16 hen house and I'm praying we get it so secure a tornado can't knock it over!

Well everyone, I'm sure you guessed it... that I'm a stay at home mom as much as I've yacked. Haha you give me an opportunity to talk to adults and I'll talk But I better get going on this coffee because we got work to do before our next thunderstorm here! Although working in it yesterday, trying to get everything put away when it hit, was pretty fun with the DH. We felt like kids again hahaha. Have a great day everyone and for those of you not wanting rain, I hope the sun shines for you and your chickens today!!

 

[Chicken Ladies]

I loved being a stay at home mom, I still enjoy watching my guys (26 k29) figure out life. It's some times difficult, to sit by and watch.

 

[chickisoup]

I LOVE your boots!!!! Can I ask where he snatched these up from?? I only have my ropers and they are great to work around here in, but rubber boots seem easier to wash off after being in with chickens!!! And I plan on being in with my chickens a lot!

AND.... Happy late birthday! My toddler turns 2 today!!

Hi Turner!
Thanks for the happy BD but you're not late, actually it's next week, my cool boots just arrived in the mail early. They came from a company called Sloggers. (sloggers.com) You can get some of their boots thru Amazon.com but I don't think they are offering the chicken ones on there yet. They just this past week started shipping the new chickie design. They are a great small American company and all their products are 100% American made

That's an important thing to me. You can check them out on their FB page. Good quality boot and super comfortable. They also come in a low top shoe type. Both come in the red and a bright yellow right now but they plan on offering more colors by the end of summer. The boots have nice wide tops to allow you to tuck in your pants or fit "pudgy" calves like mine.

Happy BD to your baby!!!

 

[TurnerEGGZ]

I loved being a stay at home mom, I still enjoy watching my guys (26 k29) figure out life. It's some times difficult, to sit by and watch.

I agree, I love it although it's tough at times only having kiddos to interest with weeks at a time lol. I had to work FT with my first child and with being stay at home with other 3 I am blessed to be able to do it now. I think I appreciate it that much more having been on both sides. I have friends though that love their kiddos but tell me they wouldn't be able to handle stay at home mom. I can understand it's not for everyone hahahha I know my DH wouldn't be able to do it!

I'm sure my family sometimes worries about me and military life, especially when he's deployed and I'm alone way out here... But I'll figure it out! I got my chickens to talk about it with to figure out my issues lol!!!

 

[TurnerEGGZ]

Hi Turner! Thanks for the happy BD but you're not late, actually it's next week, my cool boots just arrived in the mail early. They came from a company called Sloggers. (sloggers.com) You can get some of their boots thru Amazon.com but I don't think they are offering the chicken ones on there yet. They just this past week started shipping the new chickie design. They are a great small American company and all their products are 100% American made That's an important thing to me. You can check them out on their FB page. Good quality boot and super comfortable. They also come in a low top shoe type. Both come in the red and a bright yellow right now but they plan on offering more colors by the end of summer. The boots have nice wide tops to allow you to tuck in your pants or fit "pudgy" calves like mine. Happy BD to your baby!!!

Ok, next 10 min break I'm checking them out!!! Woo hoo!!! Love shopping online instead of driving to town lol

 

[Peep_Show]

TSC carries Sloggers, but not in the cute chicken print. You might check your local branch if you want to avoid shipping charges.

 

[perchie.girl]

@TurnerEGGZ
@Chicken Ladies
I couldn't be a stay at home mom.... sigh. Single parent and at 34 pretty much my last chance since "prince Charming" didn't exist for me. But I soo wanted to. I had family for day care thank goodness.. But I missed most of his firsts... First word, First step, First roll over... But he had mom and Grandma for stability... and they arm wrestled over who got to have him when.

When he was born I was an apprentice Tool designer for a start up company that was doing repair tooling for Jet engines. Before Computer aided drafting. I was calculating complex designs for holding fixtures for Electron beam weld chambers... and even designing the chambers... simply boxes to hold inert gas so regular air wouldn't contaminate the welds. My research then was limited to Big HONKIN Books so heavy you had to use two hands to get them to your table... and t very very brilliant Tool designers as my go to guys for questions... My boss. And my Dad.

By the time my son was ten I was a Senior level Mechanical Designer for a Telecommunications company called Qualcom. I was doing Manufacturing engineering, Solving problems the production line issues.. Ranging from desings for circuit cards people like me would place the mounting holes and the edge connector locations before the cards were layed out for circuits... Thee to five level designs... Now that is a ball of worms. to creating specialized holding fixtures for people to install components.

My sons dad was a circuit card designer... Hes somewhere... who knows. Hes never seen his son. knows about him though.

My son is 25 and struggling with life... Been in school a very long time now. Astronomy major Math minor in the beginning. But hes changing degrees and not sure what he wants to do... But his life is science so it will be one of those. Hes brilliant on many levels just not social... were working on that.

@Puddin Fluff thank you i love internet research It was my life for the last four years of my working career. my real specialty is digging up specifications for ISO 9001 certification and documentation. IF you want to sell or manufacture a product overseas you have to have your whole manufacturing process controlled and documented step by step once the first item is released at a REV A... Numerical revisons are for development and prototypes... and every time there is an Alphabetic revision that effects the whole product even if it is not seen. You have to document it for Auditing purposes... that inculdes failure reports and sometimes remediation is required.

My last job, at a bio-med company, adhered to a boat load of agencies. FDA, AMA, CSA (Canadas version of Underwriters laboratory), EPA, UL (Underwriters Laboratory), ROHS (the European Unions verson of the EPA), And ISO 9001 was the glue that connected them all.

I burned out....

I would very much rather just write and tend my chickens...

For what its worth I didnt get any degree till after I had my nervous break down. An Associates of Science degree in Drafting and design through ITT.... I could have taught all the classes except Physics and Economics... never used it though. it was a self validation exercise.

Through all that Grandma still considers me a failure. Because I didnt work at one job all my life preferably a government job. I am in her mind too much like my dad.

@chickensoup Goats those Desi goats are very interesting I watched several videos on them... Of course they were all India productions... so I couldn't understand what they were saying. But the faces and ears on those goats were sooo different from what we have seen around here. The closest comparison we have in the US would be Boar goats... The Roman nose specifically.

But the ears on some of those goats were a good foot long...

I really want to see one in person... they look to be pretty docile too.

deb

 

[3goodeggs]

Through all that Grandma still considers me a failure. Because I didnt work at one job all my life preferably a government job. I am in her mind too much like my dad.


deb

That's her failing not yours.

 

[Alaskan]

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