The Front Porch Swing

[perchie.girl]

Wait a tic....parked in a handicap zone? You mean the folks that stole it parked there? You got the car back? I'm so lost....

Gosh I forget which thread I post on ..... sorry Here is the original post:

Originally Posted by perchie.girl On 2/20/14

Did some errands today... Went to a diesel truck place to price batteries.... Went to Pep boys to price batteries.... Went to Sushi for lunch.... When I came out Grandmas car was gone.... zip ... .nada....

No keys latched to may purse.... dont remember locking the car. Distracted about the stuff I still needed to do....

Grandma is surprisingly Ok with it..... Lost my manuscript and my walker.....

Police filed a report took my statement and info took grandmas info.... Mom came to the restaurant and picked me up. then Went through the whole thing again with grandmas insurance company.... Tripple A.
.....
deb "Good news Is I found a good deal on Batteries so will get a jumpstart tomorrow and take the truck in."

When I said I lost my manuscript I should have said lost the latest manuscript journal.... My journals are about 180 pages and I had it about a quarter full of handwritten content.

I parked the car in the handicapped spot at the Sushi restaurant... was in there for lunch when I came out it was gone. It was then I realized my keys were not fastened to my purse as usual.

Last of the paperwork was submitted today... but in San Diego the first place stolen cars go is across the border... Before they are reported or the information gets passed around to all the police agencies. From the parkinglot of the restaurant to the border crossing is approximately a 30 minute drive.... That time of day.

So.... Grandma is just happy it wasnt an accident.... Insurance may not cover as much as first thought so we may be buying another car soon as the dust settles.

Grandma CAN NOT get into my truck. and I just sold my PT Cruiser...

deb

 

[lindz8504]

I was going to say, regarding the gaps in your wall, that if you put that together with screws instead of nails you could remove the screws, one board at a time and close the gaps. That way you would only need to buy one or two more boards to fill up the spaces you created. But Bee, in all of her wisdom said it was good for ventilation. Instead of feed sacks though, and those are totally ok if that's the way you want to go, but maybe on just the inside where your birds perch, you could put more boards going the other direction and they would be protected from drafts.

So, the open area between your shelf systems/cubby nests you want to keep open so you can put a screen door and be able to walk through that area, correct? And the very top of those shelves is what, 6 feet? I would think, depending on what breed your birds are, that if you were to provide a way to get onto the top shelf for a nest that they would only have to jump up a little higher and they'd be on the top and then on the other side of that partition and into your feed storage area. You could make a door for that middle area on the feed storage side with some of the same type of wood that you used to cover your coop and it would look nice. That would only provide footing for them at 2 and 3 feet off the floor and hopefully they wouldn't attempt to scale over the top.

Yes that is correct.... We are going to block off the top of the shelves so that the chickens can't get up there. I think we are going to leave it the way we planned, and just add another lower set of nests below what we already had drawn in. The roosts will go along the back wall.

I love how we can bounce ideas off of each other, and end up helping ourselves work out issues we are dealing with too!

 

[lindz8504]

People drive me crazy! Deb, do you think you dropped the keys and they found them, or do you think you forgot them in the car?

 

[Lacy Blues]

Thats the nice part about sketching before building.... I am thinking of putting a ventilation stack on it sort of like an outhouse but just putting some 1" diameter holes on the outside surfaces should still maintain "privacy".... This new Poultry house will be well shaded and reletively cooler than the rest of the poultry areas.... I am intending on doing slatted walls like the pictures above... Only my slats will be vertical I had the opportunity to go into a box stall that was built like that OMg it was sooo cool inside.

Another option for my poultry house will be providing some evaporative cooling.

Oh and I am putting Poop Hammocks instead of poop boards. Dam I just remembered when I lost my manuscript I lost thge sketch book with it that I was doing cuddle spaces for those very cold windy days.....

I need to get to sketchin....


deb

I would like, very much, to see these drawings when you get them recreated. Winter here is windy and bitterly cold.

 

[perchie.girl]

People drive me crazy! Deb, do you think you dropped the keys and they found them, or do you think you forgot them in the car?

or left the car unlocked with the keys in the ignition.... It all doesnt matter. I was distracted and made grievous errors. The police even asked if I had any friends that might try to Punk me.... scuse me?

I just about sobbed when i told them I had no friends. I am 59 My last job let me go.... The friends I knew were there. I rarely socialize outside of work. The only "peeple" I have are My Son, My Mom, and My Grandma.

deb

 

[lindz8504]

or left the car unlocked with the keys in the ignition.... It all doesnt matter. I was distracted and made grievous errors. The police even asked if I had any friends that might try to Punk me.... scuse me?

I just about sobbed when i told them I had no friends. I am 59 My last job let me go.... The friends I knew were there. I rarely socialize outside of work. The only "peeple" I have are My Son, My Mom, and My Grandma.

deb

 

[Beekissed]

or left the car unlocked with the keys in the ignition.... It all doesnt matter. I was distracted and made grievous errors. The police even asked if I had any friends that might try to Punk me.... scuse me?

I just about sobbed when i told them I had no friends. I am 59 My last job let me go.... The friends I knew were there. I rarely socialize outside of work. The only "peeple" I have are My Son, My Mom, and My Grandma.

deb

You have us. And we two live very similar lives...no friends left to speak of, just a few sons who are still speaking to me~sometimes, and my mother. Don't even have the job any longer. You are not alone in your alone-ness, Deb.

We'd like to thrash whoever took your things.....

 

[lovingmyhens]

Have you ever tried Coffee Pot Roast?  The best ever!

2 medium onions, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 boneless beef chuck roast (3 1/2 - 4 lbs), quartered
1 c brewed coffee
1/4 c soy sauce
1/4 c cornstarch
6 T cold water

Place half of the onions in a 5 qt. crockpot/slow cooker.  Top with garlic and half of the beef.  Top with remaining onion and beef.  Combine coffee and soy sauce; pour over beef.  Cover and cook on low for 9-10 hours or until meat is tender  Combine cornstarch and water until smooth; stir into cooking juices.  cover and cook on high for 30 minutes or until gravy is thickened.

Lisa

That's my whole philosophy in life....you could get that breed of chicken, dog or horse, that is known for bad traits and then try to breed some good traits into it...or...you could just start with a good breed and relieve yourself of the stress of it all.  This life is stressful enough without adding "challenges" that really aren't necessary. 

Like dogs, for instance.  Some people just love to get stubborn, hyperactive and hard to train breeds and then whine about them for the rest of their lives.  It sounds like complete chaos to me and anathema to anything any sane person would want for their lives, but these folks seem to feed off the drama and the attention it gets.  And they will even express a wish for a dog that "behaves"...but they will not correct the issue by actually obtaining a breed that is easy going and easy to train. 

They always seem to gravitate towards dominant breeds when they are not dominant enough to control them...it's weird to me and I'll never understand a person intentionally adding stress to their lives and then creating more stress by complaining about the stress they've self-inflicted, but would now like everyone else to share day after day as they hear the litany of complaints and stories of high drama.

Same with the men they choose...and it's a lifelong habit of discontent and chaos and anyone nearby gets a good dose of the toxicity of the habit splattered upon them by sheer proximity to the mess.

Give me a normal chicken any old day and leave all the "changing of the breed" to someone who likes stress in their lives.    

So true!! . So true

 

[lindz8504]

You have us. And we two live very similar lives...no friends left to speak of, just a few sons who are still speaking to me~sometimes, and my mother. Don't even have the job any longer. You are not alone in your alone-ness, Deb.

We'd like to thrash whoever took your things.....

Yea... what she said!!!!! Well, sort of.... Not many real friends, stay at home mom, the people I talk to the most are all under 8 years old....

 

[Gldnrose]

Hi from Vermont! I'd love to pull up a seat on the porch if there's still room

I've got some hot cider with/without rum to warm us up with yet another "polar vortex" creeping in.
I am dreaming of warm sunny days......
I've been reading the posts, figured I'd jump ahead and ask to join and go back and read some more.
Hope to make some new friends and continue to learn from all of you.
Thanks