Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[ronott1]

Thanks, Ron! I'll check them out! =)





I posted a recipe on my thread Sunday (I think it was; that seems so long ago lol).
I'll start posting them on the baking and supper thread that Ron mentioned. (and I'll probably keep posting them on my own thread as well)

Yes!

Post them on all of those threads.

Maybe start a blog?

There is a blog site just for women. Mary (@The Sheriff ) has one.

http://www.theeggfarm.com/

Great Fun!

 

[vehve]

Deb, I'm still a student of media technology, not working at the moment. Worked for a cell phone manufacturer last year, but our team was was sourced to China and I've been concentrating on school again.

 

[TeaChick]

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

Culling is always hard, especially if it's a chicken you call "old" (b/c you've had her for a long time). I'm sorry.
It sounds like it might be best for the other two to go too. (I'm sorry)
I had to laugh about the bantam with egg on her face, literally.
IDK what pinless peepers are.
Is it possible that the feather pickers are bored too? It sounds like you've tried everything else; is there any way to change their habit? (Not that anyone necessarily has time to stand around and flick the wrist of their chickens every time they got to pick feathers....
Just

and I hope it gets better!!!

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.

Did you mean "broody" babies?
I hope you're feeling much better very soon!!! Chicken therapy helps me.

(and a little Pepto before bed)

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????

We use whole bean coffee in bags in the supermarket, but yes, I have noticed. Years ago, you used to get a pound of coffee; now it's down to 10 oz, a little over half that. Not to mention that the price has been going up too!!!!!
AND NOW...blech!!!

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.

I KWYM about the FCATs and the scores and the money and all that No Child Left Behind nonsense. My dad had to deal with all that with my half-brother and -sister. The problem is that the schools teach to pass the test, they don't teach the students so that they do well on the test, they just teach them the answers to the test and test-taking skills. Some kind of idiotic nonsense like that. Ugh!
Okay. Sorry.
I do hope that everyone's kids get better.

to the parents who have to deal with No Child Left Behind!!!

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

I forgot what WRT means.

The bugs don't bother me that much; I've lived in Fla all my life; I'm sure I've eaten more bugs by accident without knowing it just walking around the yard than I have in chocolate...
but hair as part of protein content???

I buy my coffee whole bean...in bags...but it's 10 oz, just like the other stuff. It's not a pound anymore. What brand do you buy that you're getting a pound of it???
DH is the one who's uptight about it being fresher longer and all that. I'd still be drinking International Foods coffees (Suise Mocha, Double Dutch Chocolate, etc.) if not for him.

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"

I agree with "allowing" children to make their own choices about their future. I think they need guidance and advice, but I listen to what they say, tell them what I think, and then let them make the decision themselves.

And I'm working on my degree in my mid 30s; I'm third year, so I'll have the degree I want in another 3 years or something.
I think each person should get whatever degree they think is best for them at whatever point in their life they choose. I had kids first; some ppl prefer to go to college and get their career established, others choose not to have kids at all or not to go to college at all. To each his (or her) own.

 

[TeaChick]

Here's two of my three babes and the third should be out by morning. The little yellow one has a naked neck like her daddy.


And hopefully my chicken palace/greenhouse will be done before the first snow... If not, they're moving into the garage

That sweet man in the picture is the one that puts up with me

They're super cute!!!
I too am thankful I found a sweet man to put up with me (and my chickens and all my other weird idiosyncracies).

Wow - lots of topics! Good luck to all - I am sending coffee flavored good vibes to all...

Thank you!!!

 

[perchie.girl]

Deb, I'm still a student of media technology, not working at the moment. Worked for a cell phone manufacturer last year, but our team was was sourced to China and I've been concentrating on school again.

thank you.... in San Diego technology is Running from here. This used to be an Aerospace dominated envoronment.... Then Aerospace moved to greener pastures (cold war ended) all the jobs here in that venue ended as well. Then Biomed was the big business. Then Telecommunications... But in its infinite wisdome California is driving all manufacturing businesses out. So now my son feels he has NO job prospects. As an Astronomy major he was hoping to get into the Space program.... in some venue... But the math this semester scared the crap out of him... Sigh.

I used to work for Qualcomm. I worked as a Mechanical designer for their Wireless business unit. Then My end was sourced out to Argentina and Taiwan... sigh. I been through so many revolving doors I stopped landing on my feet. I cant advise him because the work environment here... for me has ended.

I keep telling him his Degree will help him in ANY field he decides to persue... But he feels hes wasting his time.

deb

 

[TeaChick]

subscribe to them and then they appear in your subscriptions. As each thread gets a new post, it will move to the top of the subscription list.

You can find the list by going to your profile and looking at the top right of the screen. click on subscriptions.

I'm already subscribed to about three pages of threads (meaning that I have to click "see more" twice to see them all; well, I really just don't click more than twice). Anyway, I have to unsubscribe to threads so that I can see everything that I have going on.
I think all this really just means that I talk too much....even online.

I am curious what did you get your degree in? And what do you do for a living.... My son is being tormented by this. I am working double time to keep him going right now.

I keep telling him lots of people work in a field other than what their degree is... I didnt get my degree till I was fifty... so hes not believing me right now.

deb

For what it's worth to him, you're right; lots of ppl get degrees in one thing when they're immergant adults (20s), then end up either not being able to get a job/career in their chosen field, or they do and then go to another field later in life. Truth be told, in this economy and the way the world is going, any given person is going to outlive any degree earned/received (don't get me started on this one) right now unless they're like 80.

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
thanks.... Big Grins here... We are doing better he is doing much better.... i am just worn out. I Drank my coffee this morning in about twenty minutes. I usually drag it out through the day. I had them put some Creme De Mint in it... Oh Yummy.

deb

 

[TeaChick]

Yes!

Post them on all of those threads.

Maybe start a blog?

There is a blog site just for women. Mary (@The Sheriff ) has one.

http://www.theeggfarm.com/

Great Fun!

I'll think about that. I don't usually have the extra time for things like this (or crocheting blankets or painting the boys' bedroom or ... whatever other project has become the flavor of the month) for a long time, then by the time I have the extra time again, I'm on to something else.
No wonder my dad wouldn't buy me a piano when I was a kid. Hmph!

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: WRT=With Regard To....

He was reading books by Bakker By the time he was in sixth grade. Bakker is a Paleontologist. He tested out college level reading then. Typicall Sixth graders are 11 or 12 years old. But I didnt know we could have waited to start him in kindergarden. His birthday landed on October I could have waited because he was still ten in beginning the sixth grade. Because of his height people thought he was much older than he was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Bakker

At that time he was frustrated by the fact that the teachers were spending more time Disciplining the class than teaching. He wanted to learn and wasnt getting what he wanted in school. One time the teacher was teaching about the solar system and she got the planets wrong. He stopped her and told her so and how was supposed to be. He started getting bullied around that time too.... sigh.

I so couldnt afford to get him into a Montessori or private school. And I dont have the right personality to do homeschooling. Somewhere that being smart doesnt make you stand out.

I have always told him to do what he loved... If you love what you do you will make money at it... because you will do it well.

deb

 

[Dizzywitch]

Puddin Fluff - Sweet hubby does ok with the coffee. He likes it weaker than I do but he makes sure the pot is set up to run before he goes to bed. Love waking up to the smell of coffee at 430 in the morning!

As for naked necks, I had never seen or heard of one until last May. Igor was my first so when he just snuggled up in my arms, I was in love! No, they're not always the prettiest but Igor makes me laugh, especially when he runs on the deck with big chicken feet!

Chickadoodles - The only reason sweet hubby is building the coop for me is self preservation. I took over his shed when I brought the babies home and he knows if they don't have a proper coop by winter, I'm taking over his garage.

Deb - How awful to not be able to sleep! I feel for you. When hubby's done with the building, it should be 12x18 divided up into a 6x12 greenhouse, 6x12 chicken run, 6x6 chicken coop, and 6x6 storage for the lawn and garden stuff. The chickens will be able to have access to everything but the storage, and I'll be able to shut them out of the greenhouse when growing season starts.

Last cup of coffee is done so time to head home and check on baby #3. Please be hatched!