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

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I'd rather be getting a new washing machine too, ours is a troublemaker. Wash your first load in my honor.

Ireland in September sounds wonderful, I like September, it's my birthday month.

 

[speckledhen]

September is one of my favorite months, not too hot, not yet freezing, no stressful holidays (calm before the storm that lasts until Jan 2), just quiet with kids back in school, leaves turning beautiful colors. It suits you in a way, a good solid, beautiful month.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

September is one of my favorite months, not too hot, not yet freezing, no stressful holidays (calm before the storm that lasts until Jan 2), just quiet with kids back in school, leaves turning beautiful colors. It suits you in a way, a good solid, beautiful month.

I am September, hear my wind blow, and maybe my leaves start changing. Let's hope it a wonderfully cool month, with overcast skies, and enough nip in the air to need a coat, and to enjoy a cup of coffee outside. Some years September is too dang warm yet.

 

[speckledhen]

I am September, hear my wind blow, and maybe my leaves start changing. Let's hope it a wonderfully cool month, with overcast skies, and enough nip in the air to need a coat, and to enjoy a cup of coffee outside. Some years September is too dang warm yet.

I think the last part of September is the better part. You're right about some of them, especially the first half, being still rather warm. Our leaves are already falling a tiny bit, a colorful maple leaf here and there on the ground and the low-to-the-ground shrubby things are downright red.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

My birthday is on the 30th, so the end is the best. I have noticed a few dropping and color changing leaves too, along with a few of my roosters molting, especially the old men.

All in all it's been an average year here for temperatures, and above average for rain, so can't complain too much, but I will be happy when any days over 70 degrees are over with.

I miss eating soup for supper. I make a mean potato soup, chock full of vegetables and love.

 

[speckledhen]

My birthday is on the 30th, so the end is the best. I have noticed a few dropping and color changing leaves too, along with a few of my roosters molting, especially the old men.

All in all it's been an average year here for temperatures, and above average for rain, so can't complain too much, but I will be happy when any days over 70 degrees are over with.

I miss eating soup for supper. I make a mean potato soup, chock full of vegetables and love.

Yes, potato soup! I put shredded cheese on top of mine. I love it. We have some we canned at the beginning of the year. I can't eat it when it's hot out. I'll have to put a note about your birthday. I used to remember everyone's, but I have lived with my husband too darn long-he remembers no dates or names anymore. Must be old timer's disease.

ETA: I'm going to bed soon, got up really early and I'm beat. I'll do a report on Thea in the a..m.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I unfortunately have a love affair with cheese, so cheese on everything please. Thankfully I live in Wisconsin, we won't be running out of cheese here anytime soon.

I can't remember anything either, and my husband never could remember anything ever.

I am turning the big 5-0 this year, though my body is like 8-0. I think I'm having a midlife crisis too, though I think I passed the midlife part already a few years, and joint replacements ago.

Where has it all gone?

 

[getaclue]

Congratulations on the chicks, and the new washer!

 

[speckledhen]

I unfortunately have a love affair with cheese, so cheese on everything please. Thankfully I live in Wisconsin, we won't be running out of cheese here anytime soon.

I can't remember anything either, and my husband never could remember anything ever.

I am turning the big 5-0 this year, though my body is like 8-0. I think I'm having a midlife crisis too, though I think I passed the midlife part already a few years, and joint replacements ago.

Where has it all gone?

You're just a baby! I wish I was only turning 50. I don't feel the age I am, certainly. I told my doctor, a very cool lady I'm glad to be a patient of, that as I see family members and friends dropping around me, my own age and even younger, I feel that we have nothing to complain about, that we are golden! My main issue is my hypothyroidism, which is under control numbers-wise (though that still affects other things, even if the numbers say I'm good). Most of the terrible health issues our family and friends have are what I call self-inflicted, for the most part. I don't want to do anything that causes my body to say, "HEY! STOP THAT! We're trying to work here!".

Growing a garden to get fresh, non-monkeyed-with food, raising chickens, getting all that fresh air and sunshine because we live away from the cities and up at this elevation help. I have to do a LOT of walking and up and down steps, back and forth to the barn, all day, every day. And I lift hand weights to keep arms, shoulders and upper back strong to lift those 50# feed bags. So, I think I'm generally in good health. At least, as long as I have my thyroid controlled, there is nothing major wrong. And the collagen I take in my coffee every day has done wonders for my ankle I broke, got me off the daily NSAID med the surgeon put me on when it was swelling and painful so much a year after the surgery (the joint has a bone spur and arthritis in there now, oh joy). I couldn't pick up those feed sacks when I was in my 20's or 30's, I bet.

Congratulations on the chicks, and the new washer!

Here is the washer. My hubs was a little leery of the electronic everything and no agitator, but they're all like that, even if there is a dial to spin, it's really electronic anyway.It has a 4.5 star rating from about 1800 reviews so I think there's a chance it will be a good one.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Whirlpool-..._clickID=566e9d66-0d9d-4253-b563-8b76408ce313

 

[getaclue]

Looks nice.