Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[perchie.girl]

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Hes already seen a psychologist yesterday. Hes had anxiety attacks since sixth or seventh grade. It came to a head when he was a freshman in Highschool.

I too am no stranger to anxiety attacks... I tell people I didnt survive High School.... Mom had house wifes disease or agoraphobia.... She would panic so hard she wouldnt drive with any one but my dad because she knew she couldnt over power him.

Hes An Astronomy Major with a Math minor. This semester would have put him it three upper division classes of Physics Physical sciences and Astrophysics. Up till now hes been carrying a 3.7 average and is on the Deans list. His identity is all invovlved with school and hes afraid he is going to fail... Irrational I know. So far hes been going on Pell grants which have paid all his books and tuition with money left over.

We will get over this... All I can do is listen and encourage... The drives are working they are getting his focus away and out rather than in.

But I tell you hes lost ten pounds in the past two weeks... I am keeping a watch for other signs... Keeping him talking too.

deb

 

[ronott1]

Hes already seen a psychologist yesterday. Hes had anxiety attacks since sixth or seventh grade. It came to a head when he was a freshman in Highschool.

I too am no stranger to anxiety attacks... I tell people I didnt survive High School.... Mom had house wifes disease or agoraphobia.... She would panic so hard she wouldnt drive with any one but my dad because she knew she couldnt over power him.

Hes An Astronomy Major with a Math minor. This semester would have put him it three upper division classes of Physics Physical sciences and Astrophysics. Up till now hes been carrying a 3.7 average and is on the Deans list. His identity is all invovlved with school and hes afraid he is going to fail... Irrational I know. So far hes been going on Pell grants which have paid all his books and tuition with money left over.

We will get over this... All I can do is listen and encourage... The drives are working they are getting his focus away and out rather than in.

But I tell you hes lost ten pounds in the past two weeks... I am keeping a watch for other signs... Keeping him talking too.

deb

Anxiety is not as bad as some things. He should be able to cope with it--with lots of help of course.

Good job!

 

[Alaskan]

The prolapse hen had been improving, but today she was clearly worse, and since Saturday is by far the best day for butchering, I had the boys take care of her.


I had them pick one of our roosters from the cull pile to do at the same time.


I am starting to wonder if I should cull more of my old hens......I just can't decide what to do!

Of my old hens, I just found one bantam with egg on her face, literally. I have two standard sized hens with badly picked backs and one with a picked neck.

The two with badly picked backs are right now in a LARGE vegetable garden that is chock-a-block full of weeds...... it is now just the two of them (the prolapse hen was with them), and they are STILL picking out the growing in feathers! I put a large table into the vegetable garden, and walled it up for a coop. The table is 6x3 with the perch 6 foot. They are only locked up at night. There is no reason for them to be picking! Obviously, it is pure habit. (They are on the higher protein pullet grower)

I told the kids that I was going to fantasize that the prolapse hen was the only one feather eating....and watch them closely and then decide what to do.

I did have them wearing saddles, they pick under the saddle!

I suppose I should try those pinless peepers. IDK

 

[chickadoodles]

Alaskan I am sorry your hen got worse. As for the rest I am still to new to poultry raising to give advice either way. I would cull any egg eaters or give them away though.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Sorry to hear of the rough times for folks. Yeah on bloody babies.

I have been down the last two days wurh a stomach bug. Right now I am receiving some chicken therapy. Hopefully I am on the upswing.

 

[chickisoup]

GOOD MORNING!!!!
DH drove all the way to a small town to the east this morning for the Sunday paper and fresh bakery!!! I had TWO cheese pockets, can you tell?


Ok, soooooo, I know this doesn't seem to be the primary topic of choice on here lately, but can we talk coffee?
How many of you have noticed (those that still buy packaged and/or pre-ground coffee) that the packages have pretty much stayed the same size, at least to the outward appearance, but the contents have actually gotten, sneakily bit by bit considerably smaller over the past year or so?

I have a ceramic canister with a good seal that I keep my ground coffee in and in the past year or so it has went from;

not quite all the package will fit into the canister
to-
I can, with quite a bit of work get the whole package in the canister
to-
with a little cramming and jiggling the whole package will fit
to-
knock some of the air out, push down the lid and we're good
to-
pour right to the top, but it fits
to-
no problem

and finally-
why is there room left????

AND NOW;
did anyone catch the report that some of the lower priced brands were tested and found to contain increased differing percentages of ground up twigs etc. presumably to up the volume????

 

[ronott1]

The prolapse hen had been improving, but today she was clearly worse, and since Saturday is by far the best day for butchering, I had the boys take care of her.


I had them pick one of our roosters from the cull pile to do at the same time.


I am starting to wonder if I should cull more of my old hens......I just can't decide what to do!

Of my old hens, I just found one bantam with egg on her face, literally. I have two standard sized hens with badly picked backs and one with a picked neck.

The two with badly picked backs are right now in a LARGE vegetable garden that is chock-a-block full of weeds...... it is now just the two of them (the prolapse hen was with them), and they are STILL picking out the growing in feathers! I put a large table into the vegetable garden, and walled it up for a coop. The table is 6x3 with the perch 6 foot. They are only locked up at night. There is no reason for them to be picking! Obviously, it is pure habit. (They are on the higher protein pullet grower)

I told the kids that I was going to fantasize that the prolapse hen was the only one feather eating....and watch them closely and then decide what to do.

I did have them wearing saddles, they pick under the saddle!

I suppose I should try those pinless peepers. IDK

Feather eating is usually protein related. I bet it is hard to get good protein feed up there where your are.

Natures domain cat food has salmon meal, fish meal and sweet potatoes in it. It gives them a boost of animal protein.

For keeping the older hens, it is really a matter of self sufficiency vs. keeping pets. If they stop laying and you are feeding them then their spot in the flock would be better filled with a younger hen that is producing according to self sufficiency or production.

This does not matter if you are keeping pets.

 

[3goodeggs]

Perchie.girl ,

We had this awful thing in our neck of the woods called the FCAT. They started pushing the bright kids really hard really early. There were so many kids on anti anxiety meds in my son's elementary school... It was criminal.

The principal told me that even though the testing was developed to make sure no kid got left behind, the mechanism was made backwards. The schools with high grades got the money, the schools with low grades got cutbacks.
So to get the money, the best use of the schools' resources was to push the bright kids to make perfect scores and hope that the lower phased kids could be averaged up with the higher scores of others.
My son's fingers were bloody nubs from chewing on them, He wasn't sleeping, when he did he would cry out about some homework problem that made no sense to him. (second grade-binomial equations)

I finally decided that even though the school was pushing parents to the anti-anxiety drugs, I decided he needed less anxiety, and started homeschooling him.
They lost his high scores anyway. They should have helped a kid who needed it, that kid got left behind .

BUT MY POINT WAS- before I went off on my rant- the damage had been done. He needed to find coping mechanisms to help. He was seven, and I hated that the people I was supposed to TRUST did this to him.

Oils, primrose, flax, DEEP water fish oil ect. and some good vitamins really helped. Also, hypnosis. Tools to use to calm himself down before he unraveled.

He is a 4.0 kid too. The high school AP classes started to have a toll on him last year and I was seeing the freaking out start up again.- when we ran out of electrolyte mix. He drinks lots of waters with electrolytes in it. That seems to help him the most.

Driven kids are harder on themselves that normal kids.
There is something imperfect about their drive for perfection.
I wish they could relax and just blow off a day and play.

Hugs to you both, I hope he can relax and enjoy college.

 

[perchie.girl]

GOOD MORNING!!!!
DH drove all the way to a small town to the east this morning for the Sunday paper and fresh bakery!!! I had TWO cheese pockets, can you tell?


Ok, soooooo, I know this doesn't seem to be the primary topic of choice on here lately, but can we talk coffee?
How many of you have noticed (those that still buy packaged and/or pre-ground coffee) that the packages have pretty much stayed the same size, at least to the outward appearance, but the contents have actually gotten, sneakily bit by bit considerably smaller over the past year or so?

I have a ceramic canister with a good seal that I keep my ground coffee in and in the past year or so it has went from;

not quite all the package will fit into the canister
to-
I can, with quite a bit of work get the whole package in the canister
to-
with a little cramming and jiggling the whole package will fit
to-
knock some of the air out, push down the lid and we're good
to-
pour right to the top, but it fits
to-
no problem

and finally-
why is there room left????

AND NOW;
did anyone catch the report that some of the lower priced brands were tested and found to contain increased differing percentages of ground up twigs etc. presumably to up the volume????

If you take a look at the package they will have the content by weight. and A one pound coffee container these days does not contain a pound of coffee any more... Just like Yogurt cups. The big name brands like Yoplait.... for instance used to be eight ounces. They changed the amount to six and put a dimple in the bottom.... Urrg.

WRT content. The Feds have a huge list of things that can be packaged in our food. And it is pretty scary. Ranging from how many bug parts can be in Chocolate to how much hair can be used as part of the protien count.

Me... I rarely buy ground coffee. First because I buy espresso from a local shop. But secondly I prefer to grind it myself. Coffee sold by the pound... in bags. Ground yourself on demand makes it last longer....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Perchie.girl ,

We had this awful thing in our neck of the woods called the FCAT. They started pushing the bright kids really hard really early. There were so many kids on anti anxiety meds in my son's elementary school... It was criminal.

The principal told me that even though the testing was developed to make sure no kid got left behind, the mechanism was made backwards. The schools with high grades got the money, the schools with low grades got cutbacks.
So to get the money, the best use of the schools' resources was to push the bright kids to make perfect scores and hope that the lower phased kids could be averaged up with the higher scores of others.
My son's fingers were bloody nubs from chewing on them, He wasn't sleeping, when he did he would cry out about some homework problem that made no sense to him. (second grade-binomial equations)

I finally decided that even though the school was pushing parents to the anti-anxiety drugs, I decided he needed less anxiety, and started homeschooling him.
They lost his high scores anyway. They should have helped a kid who needed it, that kid got left behind .

BUT MY POINT WAS- before I went off on my rant- the damage had been done. He needed to find coping mechanisms to help. He was seven, and I hated that the people I was supposed to TRUST did this to him.

Oils, primrose, flax, DEEP water fish oil ect. and some good vitamins really helped. Also, hypnosis. Tools to use to calm himself down before he unraveled.

He is a 4.0 kid too. The high school AP classes started to have a toll on him last year and I was seeing the freaking out start up again.- when we ran out of electrolyte mix. He drinks lots of waters with electrolytes in it. That seems to help him the most.

Driven kids are harder on themselves that normal kids.
There is something imperfect about their drive for perfection.
I wish they could relax and just blow off a day and play.

Hugs to you both, I hope he can relax and enjoy college.

Thank you. Hes definately changing Majors. But hes taking a partial semester off. instead of 12 units hes taking 9. Which at this point keeps him still withing the original Major. Tomorrow is the deadline for the Ad Drop period. The Grant money only requred him to be full time and a minimum of a C. They allow for students to need a break so all is good hes not jeopardizing that.

For a kid who was math phobic when he started College he has come a very long way. I never pressured him over math. I just kept telling him he has the genes to do it... and that one day he would have an Aha moment and it would click into place.

People have criticized me for "Allowing" him to be an Astronomy major. The only thing I have to say to them is its his life and his choices. You spend a third of your life working. Why not work at something you can enjoy.

deb "who got her AS degree when she was 50"