The Front Porch Swing

[RoseMarie1]

Okay, okay. Here's the thing. Went to town to pick up a bag of pine shavings. My little ladies are 2 1/2 weeks old and thriving! So cute! I have Easter Eggers, Golden Laced Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons and Red Stars. Ken parked the van and told me to run on ahead in and get what I needed. Um, they had chicks. Yup, two brooders full of adorable, sweet, 1 week old chicks. I'm telling you, they were so fluffy and just - just - new looking! Well, I went straight up to that counter and said, "I need big bag of pine shavings, please." He rang it up, told me to pull around back to get it loaded, and believe it or not I left!!! Yes, I did! Oh, I was so proud of me! I resisted, and I did it with class and dignity!

I went out to the car and told Ken we needed to pull around for pick up. And then I said, "Oh, honey, they had two brooders full of new chicks!"

"What kind were they?" Uh oh.

"Well, he had Speckeled Sussex, Cuckoo Marans, Black Copper Marans, and Welsummers." I sat silent as he digested this bit of information. Have I ever mentioned that Ken has a very fast digestive system? "Huh," he said. "I've never seen any of those." Next thing I knew he was unbuckling his seat belt. <gulp>

I was panic stricken! No, NO!! It couldn't be!! Ken wanted to look at more chickens! You'd better believe I hit that door before he did! By the time he reached the feed store door I had 2 Black Copper Marans and 2 Speckeled Sussex in a box. And when he actually came into the store I gave him my best, "Honey, you always have such goooood ideas!" smile and pulled out my credit card.

Somebody help me...................

LOL oh noooo....... so funny. Yep Tractor supply had some the other day and it took me much longer to get what I needed in there cuz I had to look. lol

 

[perchie.girl]

I just tested a "sugar free/dairy free" custard recipe. Roasted bananas substituted for the sugar. Coconut milk substituted for the milk. And processed in the blender instead of the kitchenAid. Otherwise everything the same as my favorite recipe.

It is a sad, sad thing to do to custard.

It was gray, for one thing. It has the texture more like pumpkin pie than the silky smoothness that is proper skim milk custard. But if I think "pumpkin pie" while eating it, it is doable.

I'm SO glad I can tolerate dairy!

Hee hee ..... um Hee....

Okay, okay. Here's the thing. Went to town to pick up a bag of pine shavings. My little ladies are 2 1/2 weeks old and thriving! So cute! I have Easter Eggers, Golden Laced Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons and Red Stars. Ken parked the van and told me to run on ahead in and get what I needed. Um, they had chicks. Yup, two brooders full of adorable, sweet, 1 week old chicks. I'm telling you, they were so fluffy and just - just - new looking! Well, I went straight up to that counter and said, "I need big bag of pine shavings, please." He rang it up, told me to pull around back to get it loaded, and believe it or not I left!!! Yes, I did! Oh, I was so proud of me! I resisted, and I did it with class and dignity!

I went out to the car and told Ken we needed to pull around for pick up. And then I said, "Oh, honey, they had two brooders full of new chicks!"

"What kind were they?" Uh oh.

"Well, he had Speckeled Sussex, Cuckoo Marans, Black Copper Marans, and Welsummers." I sat silent as he digested this bit of information. Have I ever mentioned that Ken has a very fast digestive system? "Huh," he said. "I've never seen any of those." Next thing I knew he was unbuckling his seat belt. <gulp>

I was panic stricken! No, NO!! It couldn't be!! Ken wanted to look at more chickens! You'd better believe I hit that door before he did! By the time he reached the feed store door I had 2 Black Copper Marans and 2 Speckeled Sussex in a box. And when he actually came into the store I gave him my best, "Honey, you always have such goooood ideas!" smile and pulled out my credit card.

Somebody help me...................

I am still laughing......

thanks I needed that.

deb

 

[Windy Bay Farm]

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[Beekissed]

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I'm sorry...I'm going to say something about that that just may very well offend other people but it just must be said. When children out there do not have food or clean water to drink, nowhere to lay down their heads or cannot get medicine or medical care for lack of money, those who spend $4500 on a chicken will most likely have to answer to the Lord for that. I wouldn't want to have to have that conversation.

 

[Searsmom]

Does any body here know what a firefly lantern is?

Another vivid summer child hood memory.

Yes! And even firefly paint, which I couldn't bring myself to do much because it involved pinching them into.


It's been snowing for the past few hours now...first it was pouring and now it's snow globe snow...big, drifting flakes. Oh, March, how I love thee!

I grew up with firefly lanterns, but it took my daughter before I found out there was firefly paint. ...she was curious.

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Wow, that's nuts.

 

[Windy Bay Farm]

I'm sorry...I'm going to say something about that that just may very well offend other people but it just must be said.  When children out there do not have food or clean water to drink, nowhere to lay down their heads or cannot get medicine or medical care for lack of money, those who spend $4500 on a chicken will most likely have to answer to the Lord for that.  I wouldn't want to have to have that conversation. 

I couldn't agree with you more, Bee ! Reading about the hen having that many eggs jammed up inside her is incredible, but the fact that over $4000 was spent to save her is mind boggling to me. There are so many other things in life that could desperately use that money. That's the kind of world we live in today... Sad but true.

 

[enola]

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That $4500 could have been put to much better use.......

I won't say anything more because I don't want to stir the pot..... we have had enough of that his week.

 

[enola]

Ok....... I posted before I read all of everybody's opinions. I am glad we see eye to eye on this subject. If one of my hens has that problem I will cull her and eat her. $4500 is a down payment on a piece of land for Pete's sake! And they make life time homes for cows and hogs...... that is good meat completely wasted!!!

Getting off the soap box now.

ps. Boy did that vet see them coming or what?

 

[Blooie]

That $4500.00 would help us get Kendra a new wheelchair. We could update her gait trainer. We could get the ramp built at the kids' house so Jen wouldn't have to carry her up the deck steps. Now just in case anyone is thinking "Gee, why don't they do all that for their granddaughter now instead of buying chickens and building a coop?", all I mean is that it's very hard to imagine spending so much to save a chicken when it could do so much to make a little girl's life better. It's all about priorties, and if the kids came to me tomorrow and said, "Ma, we need help with this stuff because we just can't do it." I'd sell every chicken on the place, and just about everything else I have to make it happen.

Okay, all better now.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Yep...that sound has become to mean more to me than mere frogs in the spring. They are the sound of hope after a long, hard winter, the end of a tough school year, and the sound of new life beginning once again. They herald fresh night air, spring blossoms scenting the night, good talks out on a darkened porch with those you love as you make plans for spring and summer. Spring peepers are a song about everything that is good in life after you've been through a lot of hard times that seemed to last forever.

They bring back memories of playing outside with the neighbor kids until your mom has to shout at you~"If I have to yell at you again, it will be the last time...come in NOW!" Of pick up softball/kickball/football games out in the dust until you are grimy tired but still too excited to go to sleep at night, so you keep talking long after the lights have went out and your parents threaten you to "stop talking!".

It's flashlight tag, king of the hill, the taste of Whistle brand pop, secret centers and fishing until dark and beyond. It's about merthiolate painted on a scraped knee that stings so bad that your mom has to blow on it, of best friends and bicycle rides, school's out and summer stretches like eternity in front of you. It's tents made of old blankets in the side yard and giggles in the dark as each one tries to stay awake the longest on a sleep over. They are poly-wogs in a jar, nightcrawlers in an old coffee can, the very first lightning bugs rising out of the grass and the smell of polecat in the early morning dew.

It's kittens in the hay shed, freshly laid eggs in a nest, little biddies running around and the beginning of a new garden. Everything you can imagine that is good and life affirming, peepers embody it.

They aren't just frogs, they are harbingers of spring and all the goodness you've ever known during those seasons.

When I was a little girl I was standing out by our car one day on a clear, sunny day with blue sky...not a rain cloud in the sky...and spring peepers started raining out of the sky and bouncing off the car, the pavement, my arms and hair. Hundreds upon hundreds of tiny, tiny frogs came showering down out of a clear, blue sky! I'll never forget that!

That sounds like heaven Bee. I remember that stuff... except the firefly paint. Never heard of it. Anyway, peepers raining down from heaven? Wow! Sounds like what the Lord did for my family on a beach. Pretty amazing stuff!

Does any body here know what a firefly lantern is?

Another vivid summer child hood memory.

Yes yes yes! I haven't seen a firefly in at least 14 years! And before that with a space of 4 years, it was 20 years since I'd seen one! I love those things!

Okay, okay. Here's the thing. Went to town to pick up a bag of pine shavings. My little ladies are 2 1/2 weeks old and thriving! So cute! I have Easter Eggers, Golden Laced Wyandottes, Buff Orpingtons and Red Stars. Ken parked the van and told me to run on ahead in and get what I needed. Um, they had chicks. Yup, two brooders full of adorable, sweet, 1 week old chicks. I'm telling you, they were so fluffy and just - just - new looking! Well, I went straight up to that counter and said, "I need big bag of pine shavings, please." He rang it up, told me to pull around back to get it loaded, and believe it or not I left!!! Yes, I did! Oh, I was so proud of me! I resisted, and I did it with class and dignity!

I went out to the car and told Ken we needed to pull around for pick up. And then I said, "Oh, honey, they had two brooders full of new chicks!"

"What kind were they?" Uh oh.

"Well, he had Speckeled Sussex, Cuckoo Marans, Black Copper Marans, and Welsummers." I sat silent as he digested this bit of information. Have I ever mentioned that Ken has a very fast digestive system? "Huh," he said. "I've never seen any of those." Next thing I knew he was unbuckling his seat belt. <gulp>

I was panic stricken! No, NO!! It couldn't be!! Ken wanted to look at more chickens! You'd better believe I hit that door before he did! By the time he reached the feed store door I had 2 Black Copper Marans and 2 Speckeled Sussex in a box. And when he actually came into the store I gave him my best, "Honey, you always have such goooood ideas!" smile and pulled out my credit card.

Somebody help me...................

What a wonderful visual ! Your husband is such an enabler. And you do tell a great story! Thanks, I needed the laugh.

I'm sorry...I'm going to say something about that that just may very well offend other people but it just must be said. When children out there do not have food or clean water to drink, nowhere to lay down their heads or cannot get medicine or medical care for lack of money, those who spend $4500 on a chicken will most likely have to answer to the Lord for that. I wouldn't want to have to have that conversation.

Ooo, isn't that a fact. It's a downright shame. Not only that but its a total waste of money as it won't fix her. She'll keep doing it! Ugh! People!