The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[speckledhen]

This might have been a better photo of the #2 pair, head-on.

 

[speckledhen]

And more from my son:
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WhoooHooooo! Down 9.2lbs this weigh in! Brings grand total to a 54 lb loss since November!!!!

He's really going gangbusters on this journey of his. Hope nothing throws him off-track.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

This might have been a better photo of the #2 pair, head-on. View attachment 1667635

You look good in both actually. I hate shopping for glasses because I have a problem looking at myself in the mirror. About 5 pairs is all I can take before I run.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Me too. I took one of my daughters with me to get glasses and let her decide which to get. I did like them okay, but I'm so out of what is the current look that I'd have no idea unless I had someone to advise.

 

[getaclue]

I like both of them. #1 would go better for everyday use, and as your go-to glasses, while #2 would be good for when you dress up more, or special occasions. I agree with having to try on new frames. I hate it. It's worse than having to get a new phone, and that's no picnic either.

 

[speckledhen]

I like both of them. #1 would go better for everyday use, and as your go-to glasses, while #2 would be good for when you dress up more, or special occasions. I agree with having to try on new frames. I hate it. It's worse than having to get a new phone, and that's no picnic either.

Thanks, Cheryl, that's what I was thinking about the frames myself.
As for having to try on new frames, the only thing I hate about it is that when I don't have my glasses on, I have to get right up to the mirror to see, then put my actual glasses back on to peruse the frames on the show wall, then back off to try on the empty ones, etc. It's a trial. And what I hate to have to go get is SHOES! I hate, hate, hate buying shoes because so few fit right and I don't like spending more than $25 on a pair. I found some Dr. Scholls tennis shoes at Walmart that fit, finally, in this godawful peach and blue color but they fit so they're mine now. I don't like white or black tennis shoes, but peach? Really? There were so many other colors that I'd rather have had, but only these came in a wide width, which I have to have across my toe box. I own less than 10 pairs of shoes and two of those are hiking boots, one is a pair of cowboy boots I won at a store opening. I have no dress shoes, no heels, no dress clothes, not that I want any of that stuff. I'd have to go to a funeral in jeans.

 

[speckledhen]

Game cam shot from night before last, only the 2nd time I've caught one of these on camera, though I hear them all the time and have seen their scat and tracks. This is just left of the chainlink gate that is behind the barn that leads into the pasture lot.

 

[speckledhen]

And the Georgie Report: Yesterday, she stood on Tom's shoes and pecked at his pants to be picked up. That's the old Georgie! She's eating and drinking like normal and bossing whoever needs to be bossed. And she did make it to 10 years old, spunky old gal!

 

[1muttsfan]

 

[speckledhen]

Georgie seems 100% back to normal now. She's pushing her weight around like a general.

Some folks keep asking for Brahma chicks and eggs and I am close to saying I just don't sell them. I have the 4H person who drives here from SC to get my extras. She's been such an advocate for Brahmas and particularly, this variety, so until and unless I see something concerning, she will continue to be my #1 customer.

However, in another case, the man down the road from me, a man I generally like, has contacted me to see if I had bantams for sale. Of course, I don't-mine are really old and don't lay much. But, he has some hatchery Brahmas in and among the menagerie of birds that includes chickens, turkeys and guineas he allows to run loose on the road we live off of so I can see him asking me about them. I do not approve of his housing, if you can even call it that, so no way I would sell eggs or chicks or birds to him. We have a different idea of proper management. A dog kennel with no house, no tarp, nothing to shield birds from predators or weather is not appropriate, period. And though he has a couple of mutt dogs that may keep some away, he's had losses. I've seen the piles of feathers as I drive by. I'm getting really picky about who I allow to have my birds anymore. If you have disease on your place, forget it! If you have losses upon losses with predators, sorry, can't help you with new stock. I can't in good conscience send birds down the road to die or suffer in the weather. God knows, he probably only feeds them all corn.
This has been a not great season for me and someone on a group (not BYC) was really nasty this morning and I had to report them so I am already in a mood to take off heads. I have a thick skin myself, but when someone says something hurtful to a group of people who are already in an emotional situation, that is just, well, it's going to really bring out my claws. I'm getting to be Zero Tolerance Zelda here, on so many levels, LOL. And it's so darn cold in my quilt room, I can't finish a stupid lap quilt to save my life. GAH!