Off topic, Hey Cynthia do you remember "Ruth" and the long tale/thread of when she bought that antebellum house that was literally burried in vines?? I read that so many times.
Was that Ruth or MissPrissy? Gosh I do remember Ruth and Angie (MissPrissy). Those were fun stories! I remember one whole wall was needing to be torn down, right? The newbies don't know what they are missing. I don't even go to Family or Random at all. Personally, many of those posts bother the heck out of me and I'd rather talk about chickens. There is a lot of stuff on here that is much, much too personal. BYC has lost the vibe it used to have to a large degree, I hate to say. I also stay out of emergencies unless someone tags me because people just refuse to listen to voices of experience all telling them the same things. Got too frustrating. And I really do not like games so that section is out for me, though on occasion a game is played and my name mentioned, something like who are you most scared of on BYC, LOL. Then, invariably, someone will ask if that person is still active. Yeah, but I hang out in cozier places!
We can all hang out here with Atlas, though my old man won't always be around. Poor thing outlived five hens and he's left with Dru who can't even really live with him, she's so crippled. I actually have only four truly elderly birds left now: June at 14, Dru at 11, Mina at 10 and Atlas at 8 1/2. I consider Atlas elderly for a large fowl rooster, yeah.
Then, we jump down to Atlas's daughters, Zara and Athena, who are about four months older than Hector and Jill at 6 1/2. Hector, Jill, Bash and his hens are turning 6 years old in a couple of weeks, then Hector's daugher, Maddie, and Bash's daughter, Cora, are 5 years old. After that, the Dirty Dozen Plus One turned a year old at the beginning of last month.