The Front Porch Swing

[LeslieDJoyce]

Wow! That is so cool. How many chickens do you have? At least 36....

There are over 100 in the layer flock. A couple are broody at the moment. Some are roosters.

 

[TexasLisa]

Yes, learning about earrings, painted toenails, etc. glad to hear the chickens keep their cuddly nature when they're older. It's one reason i went with babies instead of point of lay birds...i wanted to socialize friendly chickens.
Lol, A dear friend of mine wears a chochlear implant and will sometimes catch my eye and make a subtle flicking motion near her implant to let me know when she'd rather tune someone out.

Yes, we with implants and hearing aids do have our way of tuning people out. When I first got married, if I was mad at my husband I would take my hearing aid out so I wouldn't have to listen to him. I was terrible. I figured out if I wanted to get along we had to communicate. I don't do that any more. Most people who meet me do not realize I have a severe hearing loss. I read lips pretty well.

Lisa

 

[Ms Jellybean]

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[lovingmyhens]

I only have so many brain cells... lol

You don't really need brain cells to read a romance novel!

 

[LindaB220]

Very nice!

I had BR and they laid all through the winter. Mine were also very personable. I should get some more......

Ooooh, good luck Lindz!

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Re. Romance Novels. I have read them and love them. They are addictive so I don't read them anymore. Here is my thought: Why can't they be written without the sex. There are some that have been written where it is alluded to but not gone into with great detail. It is just like movies. Ken and I were watching the film 'His Girl Friday' with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The dialogue in that was hilarious, fast, crazy, and witty. You had to really pay attention to what was being said and by whom. Movies today use language/curse words as a filler. That is my rant for today.

Lisa

Yes, some of the books are so indepth that I have to just skip a few pages.

I have a few shifter (werewolf) authors that are funny and terrific but so graphic that I just know it's coming and skip. Love the old witty romance movies. Can't beat Cary Grant. Classic.

 

[sarahsunshine]

Yes, we with implants and hearing aids do have our way of tuning people out. When I first got married, if I was mad at my husband I would take my hearing aid out so I wouldn't have to listen to him. I was terrible. I figured out if I wanted to get along we had to communicate. I don't do that any more. Most people who meet me do not realize I have a severe hearing loss. I read lips pretty well.

Lisa

My step son pulls that on me.. he's got sever hearing loss so he deliberately doesn't listen a whole bunch - turns his bad ear and uses the "Oh, I didn't hear you."

Funny thing is that when it's around Christmas time, or birthday, or something he's not supposed to hear, and you are turned away from him so he can't read lips, he can hear great from the back seat of the mini-van to the front, without his hearing aid on, and with the music on relatively loud...

Same thing about remembering things - if it's to do the dishes or clean up, or anything chore like, he never remembers... but if it's anything to do with junk food or going to do something HE wants, then he'll remember that you said "maybe" about 3 months ago... again

Funny, I rarely complain about my step son, but these last two days I've just let loose... Time to buckle up again. Maybe I'm just feeling that we're almost gone so I can actually relax? Fat chance, we have this last weekend with him, starting today because his mom's out of town.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

My step son pulls that on me.. he's got sever hearing loss so he deliberately doesn't listen a whole bunch - turns his bad ear and uses the "Oh, I didn't hear you."

Funny thing is that when it's around Christmas time, or birthday, or something he's not supposed to hear, and you are turned away from him so he can't read lips, he can hear great from the back seat of the mini-van to the front, without his hearing aid on, and with the music on relatively loud...   

Same thing about remembering things - if it's to do the dishes or clean up, or anything chore like, he never remembers... but if it's anything to do with junk food or going to do something HE wants, then he'll remember that you said "maybe" about 3 months ago... again 

Funny, I rarely complain about my step son, but these last two days I've just let loose... Time to buckle up again. Maybe I'm just feeling that we're almost gone so I can actually relax? Fat chance, we have this last weekend with him, starting today because his mom's out of town.

Good luck with your step sons visit this weekend. Hope it isn't too stressful. And I'm glad you "unbuckled". This is a safe place for that kind of thing because we're all carrying similar burdens and we can empathize with yours.

 

[sarahsunshine]

Good luck with your step sons visit this weekend. Hope it isn't too stressful. And I'm glad you "unbuckled". This is a safe place for that kind of thing because we're all carrying similar burdens and we can empathize with yours.

Thank you. I shouldn't be totally dreading it, but since we will be staying in a hotel (house packed up, washing the house inside and out for new people), I am sure he's going to be even more of a pill than usual...

"I want to go swimming. I want the $25 meal for dinner, I want 5 cokes but not to eat my veggies. I WANT. I WANT! Why don't you treat me the same as my brothers and sisters. It's not FAIR. My mom says you aren't FAIR to me." (Note, he will be 15 next week)

"Look, if you want me to treat you like your 4yo sister, or 3yo brother, go to bed at 7:30, no electronic games, no TV, no cell phone. and definitely no M rated games and movies like you play and watch all day at your Mom's ! Now, were you able to wipe your bum by yourself, or did you need help?"

... I shouldn't make things happen by predicting it...


OOops I said I was going to buckle up...

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Very healthy venting I'm sure! I find if I get it out of my system before the event I'm usually a much nicer person during the event. Most teenage boys are pills I think, but yours sounds particularly pilly. I think "masculinity" must be such a hard and phony game to play. I hear they get much better after twenty-five when they start getting comfortable in their skin again.

 

[enola]

I KNEW I SHOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN MIKE IN THE FEED STORE!

Oh, look honey! Ameraucanas! Don't they lay blue eggs? Look at that one's fat little face! She is such a pretty yellow!

........and we had to get her a friend. ........despite the fact thst there are chicks at home in the brooder.

So! Now Mike has chickens! > insert evil chuckle here <

Thank goodness he thought the silkies were ugly