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

[seminolewind]

So basically, he stole mama's car. I hate encounters with low-lifes like that. A few miles down the road, there are a couple overgrown fields that back up to a wooded areas, along a creek. Every so often, a few homeless people will set up camps back in there. That's why we had to set up a camera closer to the road, that shows the mailbox.

They would walk to the store everyday, after the mail would run, and hit every mailbox along the way. Everyone around here was complaining about it. Dh was going somewhere one afternoon, and actually caught one of the females in our mailbox. When she saw him, she said she found it open, and was just closing it. He couldn't arrest her, because she didn't have anything from it, in her possession at the time. Same thing happened with the detective that lives down the way. When she saw him, she shut the mailbox, without taking anything, and gave the same story, that it was open, and she was just shutting it. Now, our camera catches everything happening at the mailbox, and is clear enough so anyone messing with it, can be easily identified in the recording.

BTW, we learned that in the event of a criminal activity, caught on our surveillance system, Law Enforcement has to come take the video clip off the recorder, for it to be able to be used as evidence for prosecution. If you simply give them a video clip, the other side will claim it's been tampered with, and have it thrown out as evidence.

I would love to set that mailbox door with one of those store plastic things they have to remove from what you buy-they spray purple ink!

 

[seminolewind]

3 years ago, when my daughter, and grands were still living on their grandmother's property, the grandmother kept complaining she was hearing voices outside at night. She's very old, and not always lucid, so everyone attributed it to her dementia.

She's got about 25 acres of land, with a duplex they converted into a single family home, in the center of the property. Right near the house, there is a large, block, enclosed, 3 bay garage, and workshop. On the other side of the property, away from the house, on the corner, near the road, was an old, large, barn looking, shed that had been used as a produce stand. The old produce stand was still in good shape, but had been emptied out, and was just sitting there. 2 of the garage bays were empty too. At the beginning of the driveway to the house, was the double wide my daughter, and grands were living in. The main house was a good bit deeper into the property, and she was at a point furthest away from the produce stand.

One of her grandsons would come over weekly, and mow the property, since he knew how to operate the big tractor, and equipment. A few weeks after she was complaining about the voices, he was out there mowing, and noticed that the produce stand door was ajar. He knew that was not right, so he went to investigate. People were living in the produce stand. No one was in it at the time, but their stuff was. He finished mowing, and came on up to the house, then went out to the garage, and began checking in the bays. People were living in the garage bays too. It's like a whole homeless community had taken up residence in all her outbuildings. Law enforcement was called. It was reported, and photographed, especially the drug paraphenalia. The whole family came over immediately, and went to work bagging up all the belongings, and setting them by the road to be collected by their owners, or the garbage men on garbage day. The produce stand was torn down, and the debris hauled away. The garage bays were secured, to keep anyone out.

That's freaking scary to think that so many homeless people, and some of them druggies, were living so close to her house, and everyone thinking she was delusional when she complained about hearing voices at night. It's even more scary knowing that, while not as close, my daughter, and grands were very nearby that situation.

OMG! How scary!. When we moved to Florida we moved into an area where the poor people retire, LOL. Single and double wides. The people were nice. It was just yucky tho, but we had to wait about 2 months to move in to our house. After having the police banging on the door several nights looking for somebody, we decided to take a gun class and bought guns. I still feel glad we did.

 

[seminolewind]

How awesome! I love those first eggs. My birds are beginning to lay more now, getting about a half dozen per day.


Same to you and everyone else here!

what are barred Hollands?

 

[seminolewind]

Haven't posted in a while. Sometimes life just gets in the way, LOL.
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!
Lately I have been working on the MUD! 15 yrs in Florida in sand, now my horse is living in a muddy paddock. I am working on fencing in a smaller area and ordering 20 yards of sand. This dirt here is amazing. It will suck your boots off! Really gross.

Finally got my kitchen done. It included living without a kitchen sink for almost a month.
I'm posting some before and after pics. The yellow is before.

 

[seminolewind]

Chickens are fine. However I now have 7 that insist on being picked up every day. Even if I put them down after 10 seconds! In the mean time those BR's peck my legs and I have tiny bruises all over my calves.

Anyone get snow yet?

 

[seminolewind]

I got my new credit card today. They overnighted it by FedEx. Great service! I'm surprised that they didn't catch that charge when it was made in November; usually, they do catch suspicious stuff, but they took it off my account and I have my new card a day later.
Wynette is dying. She has that smell they get, is dark purple, laying around surrounded by Druscilla, Gloria Jean and poor Atlas, who will have lost half his hens in the last few days when she goes. What is so weird is that she has been laying over the past three weeks, got several eggs from Wynette. Poor, sweet and gorgeous Wynette. She was especially attached to Tom, always wanted him to pick her up and sit with him on the hammock.

Here she is in Sept 2016 being intimidated by Hector the Terrible. I though she'd whoop up on him, but he even scared big Wynette at just a few months old.

Sorry about Wynette. It's sad when they get old. I still have Princess. She'll be 12 in February. Blind. She squawks when she hears me. I tap on her bowl when I feed her. I keep a heat lamp on her. I try to hold her for a nice nap a few times a week. Her nap, not mine!

 

[seminolewind]

I'm glad Alice is healed. I'm sorry Wynette passed. Me too, no one can say that chickens don't have emotions, or get attached. Mine always come running for me even tho I'm not bringing treats. BR's are a hoot personality wise, always insisting on following me and "helping" me!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

View attachment 1996239 Haven't posted in a while. Sometimes life just gets in the way, LOL.
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!
Lately I have been working on the MUD! 15 yrs in Florida in sand, now my horse is living in a muddy paddock. I am working on fencing in a smaller area and ordering 20 yards of sand. This dirt here is amazing. It will suck your boots off! Really gross.

Finally got my kitchen done. It included living without a kitchen sink for almost a month.
I'm posting some before and after pics. The yellow is before.
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The new cabinets look gorgeous. I would go crazy without my sink for that long. I think mine was out of commission for a few weeks too when we remodeled about 15 years ago.

 

[getaclue]

The new kitchen looks really nice. Yeah, I think living without a kitchen sink for that long, would be very inconvenient, to say the least.

 

[seminolewind]

The new cabinets look gorgeous. I would go crazy without my sink for that long. I think mine was out of commission for a few weeks too when we remodeled about 15 years ago.

Yea, took me a year to start the remodel because I knew it would be chaos. Dummy me I thought I could do Thanx dinner without a sink. So my DD said she would do it. However, my countertops and sink got installed the day before Thanxgiving! So I did dinner. How lucky I got them ! A month without a sink? I scoured one of the bathrooms and used the water from there, and carried it into the kitchen.